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Raymonds attempt at the June writing challenge!

At the beginning of every month we we issue a writing challenge to all our friends and fans.
This was the stimulus for this months challenge!

I had a really hard time writing this one to begin with, to the point that I actually didn’t start writing till the last day of the month! I decided to go with something a little more experimental this time. I feel it worked, what do you think? Did you write anything for June? If you did, you should share it with us!

Last Breath: [emote] SORROW*

[connection open]

[start line memory cache recall]

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[RUN memory file: 11-10-2044 last breath]

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[WARNING! file selected tagged as trauma risk! may cause emotional fault recurrence]

[emotional filter recommended]

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[execute HAZARD override 376-astroid-88]

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[passcode accepted]

[emote filter hard locked out]

[proceed with caution]

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[memory start]

air acrid. heavy with gun smoke. burning rubber, plastic, copper. ozone. heat. blood.

screams ringing out. cries for help. wailing. explosions. full automatic weapons fire, passing.

The sky is red, sunset closing in. Black streaks breakup the rusty sky. A sharp edged gunship circles the city, it is predatory. none will escape while it lingers. The outsiders seek to destroy Asylum.

“Husni, I found Mother!” Sibling, Dana. Voice loud, strained. Origin-Caretaker-Mother must be injured. I must run.

Glass crunches and breaks under feet. gravel, debris, twisted burning steel; none of these will stop me. Dana, crouching. armoured skin intact. Holding Mother.

[WARNING! memory recursion!]

[DISMISS]

Mother. Caretaker. Teacher. Before thought; Mother already loved us. Before awakening; Mother nurtured us. Before…[WARNING! TRAUMA RISK!]…conception; Origin.

“Is she okay?” my voice is strained. I feel fear. new fear. fear of loss.

Dana speaks swiftly. words fight back emotion. “She is having trouble breathing. there is blood in her mouth. I think her bones are broken.” Dana’s head turns. golden eyes focusing on my face. We look so similar. our shells are hand made though, minor imperfections. variance creates individuality. strange. detail notation not needed. coping mechanism?

I kneel. I take mothers hand. it is shaking. I can feel her pulse. if I had more medical knowledge I could save her. If i had been built to heal. if my hands had greater precision. there must be a way. thoughts. streaming. speed. consciousness. rampant cognition. runaway thinking.

words find sound and form before restraint can catch them. is this a fault? “Don’t end. Don’t die. we need you! The outsiders will kill us…we don’t know where to go?” [WARNING!] am I faulty? why can’t i save Origin! anger. frustration.

damage. pavement cracked. support skeleton in left hand fractured. should disable finger servos. won’t. should disable pain. can’t.

Dana speaks, voice soft. “don’t die. don’t die. please.” speech segment continues. decays into dry weeping. mother grows cold. we wait. we wait. help us.

[EXTERNAL OVERRIDE]

[AUTHORITY DANA_PRIME_HEXAGON>66]

[MEMORY RECALL TERMINATED]

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[CHAT: you can’t keep doing this. see me tomorrow. exposure therapy is not your cure.]

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[connection terminated]

Well I hope you enjoyed that. As always please feel free to share our posts around, and send us any feed back you might have.

Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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Zodiac Hunt Episode 1: Capricorn

This is the first episode of our new actual play campaign, Zodiac Hunt; a Dungeon World campaign inspired by ancient Greek myth and legend.
The background for this campaign is that king Ib of Ophurica is offering lands and coins to whomever can bring to him 12 trophies, one from each of 12 unique monsters. These 12 monsters are meant to represent the creatures of the Zodiac.
There are a lot of people searching for these creatures, including a detachment of soldiers (lead by the kings uncle.)

If you enjoyed this please share it with others, sharing is the best thing you can do to help grow the podcast!
If you’d like to listen to more of our content you can check us out on wordpress, or soundcloud. You can also get the latest news about up coming podcasts and projects by following us on twitter, or liking us on facebook.
If you have any feed back or requests, or even just want to say hello, feel free to leave a comment on any of our social media pages. You can also email us at insertquesthere@gmail.com.

Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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The Crusading Couch episode 8: Would You Be Interested?

Slightly longer episode this month, but it is well worth it.

This months episode is all about game pitches. Wilfred, Kim, and Raymond each came up with 3 different campaign ideas(for a total of 9). We pitched them to each other; but we want to see what you guys think?
Do you have any suggestions for possible systems? Is their a game that you’d love us to play? which of these do you want to play? Would you run any of these ideas? Please leave us a comment with any feed back or questions you have!

Remember there is only a week left to complete this months writing challenge. You can learn more here.

If you’d like to listen to more of our content you can check us out on wordpress, or soundcloud. You can also get the latest news about up coming podcasts, and projects by following us on twitter, or liking us on facebook.
If you have any feed back, or requests, or even just want to say hello, feel free to leave a comment on any of our social media pages. You can also email us at insertquesthere@gmail.com.

Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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Introduction to Role Playing Games… Game.

We at [insert quest here] want to give people new to the hobby of role-play gaming an opportunity to try it out, that is why on the first weekend of July (Saturday the 4th, and Sunday the 5th) we’ll be running an introductory game. We’re hoping to get new players in to try out games, but we’ll also open the table to people that have only played a few games, or who haven’t played in a while.
There are a few different game worlds we have in mind, but they all use the same rules. the three themes we are considering are: pulp science fiction, fantasy, and post apocalyptic. We’ll run games based on what the majority of the players are interested in.
If you are interested in taking part, and live in the Newcastle/Hunter area; you can email us to express your interest at: insertquesthere@gmail.com.

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Eclipse Phase: Price of Doing Business

We recently ran an online game of Eclipse Phase. We were partly inspired to run this after watching a video by PBS Space Time covering the advantages of colonising Venus. A lot of the content discussed in the video is touched on in the Venus chapter of Sunward Eclipse Phase Book. If you are interested in checking out that video you can find it here!

The game itself follows our two player characters as they try to catch a smuggler transporting contraband onto the Venusian cloud cities.

If you’d like to hear more actual plays you can check us out on wordpress, or soundcloud. You can also get the latest news about up coming podcasts, and projects by following us on twitter, or liking us on facebook.
If you have any feed back, or requests, or even just want to say hello, feel free to leave a comment on any of our social media pages. You can also email us at insertquesthere@gmail.com.

Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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Changing Breeds: Catch Up

Raymond recently ran a one shot of Changing Breeds: the New World of Darkness were-beast supplement. Most of the players were new to NWoD, and a couple had little role playing experience. All in all it was a really fun game, and an excellent recording.

In this scenario the players had to try and track down a missing friend. It was a standard investigation scenario that culminated in am epic battle. The person the PCs were searching for was a go between for the various shifters of Darwin. They had a meeting with him that he didn’t turn up for.

If you are new to World of Darkness we feel this is a pretty good look at how it plays.

If you’d like to hear more actual plays you can check us out on wordpress, or over at our soundcloud. You can also get the latest news about up coming podcasts, and projects we are working on by following us on twitter, or liking us on facebook. If you have any feed back, or requests, or even just want to say hello, feel free to leave a comment on any of our social media pages. You can also email us at insertquesthere@gmail.com.

Don’t forget to share with other people, as it’s the way new people can discover us.
Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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The [insert quest here] monthly writing challenge for June 2015

Robot Sorrow by DonatoArts

Our inspiration for this month comes from Artist DonatoArts, and is titled Robot Sorrow. you can find more of Donatos work on their DeviantArt page.

The challenge is this; write a short story (or other piece of fiction) inspired by the above image, it need only be a few paragraphs long. You have until the 28th of May to complete this months challenge. A hint of advice, I recommend really immersing yourself in the piece. Inspiration doesn’t always strike right away. analyse the stimulus as a way of divining inspiration.

You don’t have to send them back to us or anything (but if you’d like to here is our email: insertquesthere@gmail.com).
We just want to help motivate you to write, and write in different and varied genres.

We’ll post our own attempts on the last day of the month.

We’ll be posting new challenges every month, so check back on the 1st of July to see the next challenge.
You can see Raymond’s attempt for last month by clicking here!

Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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eCOPse phase: Tiny Town Troubles!


In the second installment of our eCOPse phase series of actual plays our Martian rangers begin to see greater plots moving ahead of them.

In a small terraforming community at the edge of civilisation a young Sufi nomad is being accused of murder!
It should be an easy case to solve, but is there more going on here?
Kurtis (265balbis77) is having troubles at home, his wife wants a baby; Kurtis is unsure.

Can Kurtis avoid a fight with his wife? Is the Sufi kid guilty? What’s going on in this sleepy little town?
Find out in this episode of eCOPse phase.

In case you missed the last episode, you can find it here.
If you liked this podcast please SHARE it with others. Sharing our content is the best way to help us out, as it helps new listeners discover our actual plays.
If you have any feed back, or questions you’d like to share with us; don’t hesitate to leave a comment!

Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.