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Verdant Mountains Episode 1: Night Falls

The first episode of a our new online campaign of Apocalypse World!
This campaign takes place in an overgrown world. Powerful, wild plants choke the sprawl of lost cities, as people try to survive beneath the canopy.
Our game takes place in the Verdant Mountains, an area of the Reclaimed Earth that surrounds an old hydro dam.

In our first episode Ryan, Alex, and Brandon introduce us to their characters. We also define the relationships they have with each other, as well as the community at large.

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Farewell from the past.

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The Crusading Couch Episode 18: Challenges!

Wilfred, Raymond, and Kim discuss challenge in Role Playing and how to include it in your story telling.
We discuss the types of challenges you might employ, and when to use them.
How older challenge styles can be made fun and more involved.
How they can be used to tell the story of characters.
And bring to mind some things that you may not have thought of as challenges before.

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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.

 

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Raymond’s Entry In March’s Writing Challenge!

Managed to smash this one out before the start of 3BIAB. I think it’s pretty solid, a little short than what I usually write.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. And hope it inspires you to write something of your own.

 

Matrix Garden

The silent pulsing yellow and red light was all that illuminated the surrounds. A black concrete room lined with server banks. The frozen air and ceramic dust float through the breached hole in the roof. Crop-sec had figured that the gang of intruders had been trying to loot the vault for cash. That was simply payment. Peering down into the server room from the vault above was ring of five heavily armed and well equipped thieves. The server data was the mark.

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Three Boys In A Barina 2: Boys Go West!

It’s the return of a special event. Bigger, better, and broker.

Over the next 10 8 days the hosts of the Crusading Couch, and the fine managers of [insert quest here] will be venturing into the Australian outback.

Wilfred, Kim, and Raymond will be driving, walking, riding, and swimming their way to Broken Hill the outback. Along the way we’ll be trying to complete a scavenger hunt, an Easter egg hunt, a wombat hunt, and probably some other kind of hunt as well. We’ll be making daily posts to our facebook page, and to twitter; and you can follow our journey there.

Now this unfortunately means there will be no new podcast on Monday(the 29th of March.) However, when we return we’ll have daily travel logs, and a massive haul of photos to share with you all.

We hope you’re all as keen as we are.
Farewell from the past; Raymond, Wilfred, and Kim.

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The Crusading Couch Episode 17: What Does Your Gear Say About You?

This month on the Crusading Couch we discuss the intricate interplay between equipment and characters. From your character’s favourite weapon to the handyman’s tool that they can’t be without, we discuss the meaning of the gear that your character has, and what that says about how they behave.
We approached this topic from the perspective of the character in the heat of the moment, as well as the thought that you the player put into those choices; whether that was consciously or sub-conciously.

If you enjoyed this please share it with others, sharing is the best thing you can do to help grow the podcast!
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Farewell from the past.

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Ecopse Phase: Ghoul Hunt

Gang war in the streets of Elysium! The Les Ghouls morph cartel seeks retribution for the Sun Yee On triad infringing on their business. A Les Ghouls assassin is taking out high profile Triad clients. Two Martian Rangers are on the case, but they aren’t the Rangers you know.

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Farewell from the past.

 

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Raymond’s Attempt At The Febuary Writing Challenge!

I’m extremely happy with how this months story turned out. I had a lot of fun writing it. I tend not to enjoy first person perspective, but this worked out really well. I hope you enjoy it. If you like to know what the stimulus was, check it out here.

Saffron

 

A loud bang, a clatter of steel balls on plate and brick, a roaring cheer from half the cities uppers. Someone dies, a hero is celebrated. Soon two more performers will take the stage. I’m not in this to perform. I like the killing. I’m chasing the skill mastery. Swift, knee jerk precision; that’s what I’m after. I’m not flashy, I don’t toy with my prey. I just kill ‘em. As quick, and as clean as I can.

Strangely my style has been well received. It’s not what most others bring to the field. Although, let’s be real, people just get off on seeing a cute brunette dispassionately dropping fools.

They’ll be done resetting the arena soon, time to get dressed. My armour case looks like worn shit, but my shell is good. Solid grey plates of modular armour bits. I pull on the under clothes, black nano-adhesive cloth. Black elbow gloves, black thigh high socks, black top. The armour bits just cling to the fabric, like magnets on a fridge. The armours for shit really. The gauntlets and boots cover me a little, and the chest piece covers some of my organs; but there is still plenty of skin. Midriff puts butts in seats though, and it’s not like anyone ever sucks breath long enough to hit me. Continue reading “Raymond’s Attempt At The Febuary Writing Challenge!”

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The Crusading Couch Episode 16: Players And Pregens

This month on the Crusading Couch, we take a look at pregens. We talked about some of the different ways you can set them up, as well as what you can use them for, such as demonstrating a new mechanic or character build. This months recording is little bit shorter than normal, but we hope you enjoyed it anyway.

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.
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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.

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The Crusading Couch Episode 15: Philosophy and Truth

This month on Crusading Couch we had our friend Dylan (from the Zodiac Hunt Campaign) on to talk with us about Philosophy and Truth. Dylan has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Philosophy with Honours and provided some useful insight into subjective truths, as well as the Truth (with a capital T).

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.