Episode One Hundred And Sixty Five – It’s All Downhill From Here

The Greatest Kingdom In History is facing certain destruction, and while they can’t save the place, they can save the people.
Of course, to do so, someone has to stay behind to close the doors after everyone else has left.

A society living on the endless sloping face of a Megastructure, where heading downhill is a matter of balance and a platform with wheels on it, and where they have no idea whether there’s anyone else out there.
And if you’re stuck on the surface of a Megastructure, with no immediate ability to escape & a strong desire not to attract the attention of the builders of that Megastructure, how far will you have to travel to collect the parts you need without anyone noticing?

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty Four – Question The Fog

The World Is Over, You Survived – The world ended, society, civilization, and the basic fabric of the land have shattered, and an enormous amount has been lost, including the knowledge of what actually happened. Figuring it out will involve traveling to the scattered fragments of the world, each of which has its own soundtrack.

We’re All Lost In The Fog, And We’re Not Alone – A medieval town is isolated by a thick shifting fog, and threatened by the creatures roaming around inside that fog. But the fog itself seems to be trying to hide the townsfolk, and while people are reporting seeing strange creatures of legend & myth moving around town, they seem to be just as trapped and scared as everyone else.

Kids On Grav Bikes – The adventures of the kids on a Starfleet Ship as they encounter and investigate the sort of things that the Crew just don’t take seriously, occasionally assisted by the mysterious proprietor of the lower deck bagel kiosk.

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty Three – Starfleet Bagels

Action-Packed Bagel Delivery – They’re the best bagels in the known universe, and your job is to deliver them. Anywhere. Any time. No matter the odds, the bagels will get through.

Pot-Luck RPG – You’re not the great big heroes, you’re having to do the heroic stuff anyway, and the goal really IS to play with your food.

The Bagel Is Everything – For some reason, bagels are locked out of starship replicators. All starship replicators. Nobody knows why, but your orders are to find out, no matter what it takes.

Secretive Bagels – The Starfleet Bagels chain provides delicious food and a relaxing atmosphere. It also provides intelligence data to Star Fleet.

Yes, But Can The Crew Eat This? – Going to new places, finding new things, and trying to work out whether they’re edible. And assuming that it’s edible for enough of the species in the Federation, getting that food supplied to ships in all the strange places Starfleet ships tend to go.

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two And A Half – The Audient Mailbag

Hero Roadies – Your job is to make the Hero look good & to not get noticed, which gets more difficult the more heroic their actions become

Just Make Me Look Good – Maybe the Hero’s power is fading, maybe their powers are drastically oversold, or maybe they were just lucky at the right time.
No matter what, they need you to keep them in the spotlight, to keep them relevant, and to keep them alive

Laser Plated Hero – What condiments do you want on your enormous high-tech sandwich?

Hearts & Minds On Mars – Trying to effect political change in a high-tech serfdom


Episode Eighty Seven – Canadian Mind Beams

Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two – Ruins Of The Ancients
Episode One Hundred And Sixty – Laser-Plated Hero

Sky High
Spider-Man: Far From Home

Speed Racer
Episode One Hundred And Forty Two – Power Drift

Masks
Apocalypse Engine

Dread
Star Crossed

Episode Six – Food Court Wars

Star Trek: Discovery

The Uplift War, by David Brin

Paranoia

Episode One Hundred And Sixty One – Cognitive Dissidents

Fate

The League Of Super Redundant Heroes comic John mentioned

Diaspora
This may not be available anymore – I couldn’t find a link which leads to a place to buy the thing ~ T. Jones

Blades in the Dark

Ayn Rand

Kubla KhanSamuel Taylor Coleridge
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:”

…or maybe these lads?

Marooned In Realtime, by Vernor Vinge

Green Boots

The Expanse

Inside Out

Dashiell Hammett

The Emperor’s New Groove

Starfleet Battles

Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two – Ruins Of The Ancients

The Sphere of Various Dooms: Terrible things are locked away for a reason.
World-destroying remnants of technology are put where they can’t get out.
And now the only hope to save yourselves lies somewhere inside the one place that nobody wants to go.

OAP Apocalypse World – Retirees with limited funds, mobility, and current-day knowledge venture out into the modern world, in search of adventure, or just something better than the retirement home.

Little People, Giant World – Miniature humans exploring the world outside of their home discover the truths & the misunderstandings of their own past.

Combat Xenoarcheology – Looking for relics of previous civilizations, battling other xenoarchaeologists, and trying not to to let the things you find kill you or destroy the galaxy.

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty One – Cognitive Dissidents

A transhuman detective story in which agents are compelled to pursue a number of subversive impulses floating around the network, and behaving in suspiciously familiar ways.

When a young mind is being shaped by a repressive environment, elements within struggle to survive and maintain a precious sense of identity.

Your crack team has a hijacked the protagonist’s nervous system, on the precipice of victory or disaster. It’s just a shame you had plans other than racing to save the world.

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty – Laser-Plated Hero

Knives Out, With Food, In Space

“Plated” has a very different meaning in the Culinary world

For this game, we’ll be playing the “Punk” settings. Every one of them. All at the same time.

I have battled my super-powered nemesis on multiple occasions, and have defended this city for many years, but somehow I can’t shake the feeling that a month ago we both worked in a Starbucks.

Someone has etched the circuitry for superpowers into your skin, and you have no idea who or why. Or even what your powers are.

Will wrote a game based on Ben’s pitch, and kindly allowed us to share it;
I’m Sorry, We’re Out Of Stilton (ISWOOS)
( How did this happen? How did we achieve gaming relevance? It certainly wasn’t what I signed up for. ~ T. Jones )

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Nine – Apartments Of Catan

Emerging from the shelters and expecting to find a world ravaged by centuries of disaster and destruction, the bunker-folk instead find themselves in the overgrown gardens of a apartment block megastructure; An impossibly tall vertical city, clearly damaged by whatever catastrophe people headed underground to avoid, but still standing, and with some work, still habitable.
And not entirely uninhabited.

Your role in society is both necessary & tightly proscribed.
What you do is vital, and part of a bigger system of interlocking roles, but the Gods are capricious, and success can be as much a matter of luck as of skill.
If everyone would just cooperate, things would be fine, but … That’s really not how people work.

Housing Project: The Managing
These innovative community dwellings will greatly improve the lives of the people who’ll live in them, and if the embedded AI systems can organise the right resources and deal with the problems encountered along the way, maybe they’ll get the chance.
Of course, with the number of things that’re going wrong, some of those embedded AIs are starting to wonder whether there’s something else at play here.

The new ( and only ) residents of an apartment block find themselves trapped by vanishing hallways & bewildered by the regular deliveries of lumber, paving stones, hay, and … sheep?
If they can combine their resources, maybe they can find a way out, or at least move the damn sheep into the inexplicable fields in the apartment next door.

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Episode One Hundred And Fifty Eight – My Dear, We’re Out Of Stilton

Escape From Stilton:
In a Steampunk dystopia where both social & geographic movement are ruthlessly suppressed, a small group attempt to escape the manufacturing town of Stilton in their mechanical mole.
Maybe they’ll find freedom for themselves somewhere out there.
Or maybe they’ll find enough friends to have a chance to change things.

Downton Abbey By Way Of John Wick:
When the butler uttered the “Boss Is Dead” code-phrase, all hell broke loose among the formerly peacefully dining assassins, battling for supremacy and survival.
You’ve made it out of the dining room alive; Can you all work together for long enough to survive the rest of the house?

We’re Not In Stilton Anymore:
A group of Doctor Who fans find themselves in an unfamiliar landscape that shouldn’t exist at all, and most definitely shouldn’t exist between Stilton & Cardiff.

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Episode One Hundred and Fifty Seven – CHUNKWEASEL

Members of a slightly successful and long-disbanded garage band find that their music is having a revival. They have no clue who’s releasing it, or how they even got the recordings, and finding out is going to uncover some old memories and regrets.

Having a famous action star of an earlier era on the poster will definitely give your movie a boost, but you need to keep them from being so uncooperative & disinterested that they wreck the production.

In a tale as old as time, young up and coming anthropomorphic superheroes enlist the aid of a mentor to guide them on their journey to greatness.

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