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Zodiac Hunt Episode 3: Pisces

In this week’s episode of our Greek myth inspired Dungeon World campaign; Aper, Otto, and Xanth attempt to slay Pisces with some troubling results.

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Farewell from the past, I’m Raymond.

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The Crusading Couch Episode 9: Inspiration

This month Wilfred, Kim, and Raymond decided to talk about inspiration; the varied and odd places we find it, the ways in which we apply it, and a bunch of other stuff.

We also asked you to check out two kickstarters for some RPGs.  One called Blue Rose, a game of romantic fantasy, and the other a paranormal police procedural called The Thin Blue Line.

There’s only a few days left for you to finish this months writing challenge, you can find all the details right here!

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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Zodiac Hunt Episode 2: Aquarius

It’s the second episode of our Zodiac Hunt Dungeon World campaign; and the plays have found a patron!

In this episode they take a moment to relax and party, and also take the opportunity to get to know the others on the Zodiac Hunt quest. Though strange happenings start to present themselves as the evenings feast draws near.

If you missed the first episode you can find it by clicking on the line of text!

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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Dungeon World: WHEN TRITONS ATTACK!

This weekend we had a bit of fun playing Dungeon World.
The plot dealt with the invasion of the clockwork turtle city of Corelia by the villainous Tritions. Our party of adventurers sallies forth to combat the threat and destroy the battle hardened Tritons and their queen.
A light hearted role-playing introduction where Raymond did silly voices, there was a fighter named Butthold, and Kim couldn’t handle his spicy nachos. It was quite the fun day.
We had lots of new players and the gaming group was a little on the large side; but all in all in was a good afternoon.

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 [insert quest here] monthly writing challenge for July 2015

[full image might not show up, click view image to solve the problem] Bjorn & Bodil
Our inspiration for this month comes from Artist Jakub Rozalsk, and as far as we can tell it is titled Bjorn & Bodil. you can find more from Jakub on Tumblr or ArtStation.

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 July 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 your creations 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 August 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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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.)

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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.