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Nero is welcomed back as a hero of Team Galactic. Living the life of luxury and near worship in Gravito is not Nero's style so he volunteers for a diplomatic quest to Stellarus. With a hand picked team to back him up it should be an easy mission.

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A recap of last season and a little hit of what's to come. We are excited to be back and hopefully you enjoy it.

Sponsored by time loops, I give you one more chance!

Our group reminisces about the last two seasons of the game. We talk Chuubos. Steph is back, which means we have to explain what happened and how the timeline is rectified. We shoot some ideas about what a proper Exocolonist TTRPG release might look like.

But the game is not over yet, we still have 9 years to go!

Sponsored by the Neopets TTRPG Kickstarter, such a wild ride!

Our Exocolonists enjoy the nice and quiet Glow season where nothing bad will happen. They celebrate a birthday with some alcohol and weed. Ren relaxes and accepts her feelings. They shop at Sol’s MP store. Everything is fine… But you know what happens next, don’t you?

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Our Exocolonists stage an intervention. Digi gives Sol and Tammy therapy. Ren meets someone she hasn’t seen in her life, or has she? Sol shows off her knowledge of alien technology. Everything is totally normal guys, don’t worry about it!

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Our Exocolonists have a close combat training. Then Ren decides to turn an accident into a learning opportunity to traumatise the young kids further…

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Our Exocolonists eat a worm, get in trouble for sneaking out, and scheme to have a nice family dinner together that totally doesn’t end up being a setup for our local tsundere…

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Our Exocolonists run for their lives as they are being stalked by a manticore with sapient level intelligence and malevolence. Ren wishes she was gun certified…

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Our Exocolonists celebrate Vertumnalia with their geothermal power experiment! Trig enters a science experiment against kids 5 years her juniors. Digi has a bad dream and decides to look for trouble on an expedition. He finds it…

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Our Exocolonists realise enjoying hot springs that are mildly acidic for too long have consequences. Ren decides to traumatise a bunch of children with OSHA industrial accident videos…

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CW: Suicidal ideation

Our Exocolonists have some deep philosophical discussion with Sol after her second coma of the year. Trig presents her finding about the metal dust sprites. Digi enjoys a hot spring. Ren goes for a walk she doesn’t expect to walk back from…

Sponsored by Bugsnax, such a cute game, don’t look too deep!

Our Exocolonists deal with the top of the allergy season. Digi picks a new career path. Trig solves a mystery years before Sol would with the power of being an older teenager.

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Our Exocolonists try solving all of life’s problems with sportsball, and it goes great. Trig helps to improve a cotton candy maker for Auntie Seedent, and since cotton candy is mentioned, it’s time for a small child to get fried as is tradition…

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Our Exocolonists deal with early onset allergies. Digi gets inspired to rework how colony walls are printed. Then an expedition goes south really fast and kids get to see a dead body...

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Our Exocolonists discuss the great ship bulkhead theory. They go out on an expedition where Ren vents, while Kom and Digi worry about her…

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Our Exocolonists land on planet Vertumna and establish themselves. Ren treats some first injuries on Korg. Sol as per usual is in a coma…

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We are back with our game of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist in the Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine system! Back to the start! It’s another loop!

We learned a lot from the last season of the game, plus Steph couldn’t play with us for the time being, so we decided to start over with G joining the crew. But it’s a time loop game, so everything is fine, it’s on brand! But the previous loop doesn’t just disappear you know…

Digi and Trig have received slight mechanical reworks, but they are still the same characters.

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Our Exocolonists negotiate with a terrorist 3 year old and work to take down the colony’s drone network. Surely everything will work out great!

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Our Exocolonists track down some equipment that has gone missing from expeditions and discover a secret…

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Our Exocolonists go over their bleptea thesis project and how things are going to work in the future, that the teens will need to act more responsibly. Then Trig gets an idea to make hallucinogens… Responsibility!

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Our Exocolonists celebrate Vertumnalia with their bleptea stand! Trig enters a science experiment against kids 5 years her juniors. Digi tries convincing the adults that the teen’s secret project was totally worth breaking the rules for and breaking the trust makes them so trustworthy!

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Our Exocolonists learn how to take care of Bristleslugs and how to play the Card Game. They also get their totally not moonshine equipment for the bleptea…

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Our Exocolonists deal with a traumatic event and also with the fallout of their off the book expedition work. A plan to brew a brew is brewing…

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Our Exocolonists decide to brew some blepgrass tea. It gives you energy and is only slightly psychedelic. If only there was a better way to grow it…

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Our Exocolonists decide to stalk Sol and realise how busy she is all day every day. Something is up with that kid, and it can’t just be the blepgrass tea…

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Our Exocolonists go on more expeditions to gather samples and capture some animals. They also discover a forbidden pond…

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Our Exocolonists hatch a plan with the help of a very resourceful 10 year old to hack some satellites. What could go wrong?

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Our Exocolonists land on planet Vertumna and establish themselves. They go on their first expedition and find something crazy! Who knows what the planet could be hiding!

Sponsored by time loops, here we go again!

Welcome to our new game of I Was A Teenage Exocolonist in the Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine system (we almost called this game “I Was A Teenage Wish Granting Engine”...). We start the game off in person before transitioning to online play, with faces new and old.

The players play a group of 15 year old teen Exocolonists that just landed on planet Vertumna. They form a rookie expedition team to gather resources from outside of the colony and live their dramatic lives on this strange alien planet.

While we recommend playing the Exocolonist game for yourself (it’s really good!) you don’t need to have played it nor know Chuubo’s to enjoy this game (but it will help!).

Our cast for this series includes:

- Devon as the host, aka the Hollyhock God

- Peter as Digitigrade, aka Digi, a troublesome monkey boy

- Steph as Taxonomy, aka Tax, an animal lover

- Natalie as Trigonometry, aka Trig, a passionate inventor

- G as Serendipity, aka Ren, a worrisome medic

Content warning from the original game ( https://exocolonist.com/content_warnings.php ) still applies to this series, as well as that we have themes of suicidal ideation as of season 2.

Sponsored by Bea, who stayed here and got older, while you went off and stayed the same

This is our post-game wrap of our 3.5 year game of Exalted in Fellowship. We talk about the game, the system, what people enjoyed, what could’ve been done better. Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!

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The smell of fall and windchimes fills the air. Our Lunar Circle face off against Prince Balor of the Dreadful Gaze. Will his crusade against the tyranny of shape end? Or will the heroes fail on their quest against the inevitable that has been heralded over and over?

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We hope you have enjoyed our game of Ashes Without Number: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game. In this episode we discuss the thoughts we have after playing the system over the last few weeks, as well as delve deep into a strange conversation about the Nuclear Boy Scout that popped up around AWN’s crafting system.

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Our fallout boys assault the Armory in full force. But will all their dakka be enough to take down multiple security robots, an augmented troll Operator, and an old-timey Decker? Or will Korg and Zet have the last laugh? Let’s find out!

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Our fallout boys scout out a great location for setting up a permanent camp - an old military airbase. The only problem is that a bunch of someones have already squatted the area. They will have to infiltrate the group and report back a good plan of attack. Will anyone recognise they don’t belong here, or is that the least of their worries? Let’s find out!

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Our fallout boys decide to open up about their feelings and trauma. Unfortunately Runt talks with Aseron, the person least likely to feel sorry for him. As the caravan makes its way towards Milwaukee the group has weird run-in with a mysterious man in black and face off against weirdness during the night. Will the players look a gifted horse in the mouth, or accept that sometimes horses have omnivorous teeth and that’s okay. Let’s find out!

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While the caravan scavenges the old entertainment complex, our fallout boys decide to scout ahead with the help of Docent, a homunculus in power armour. They run into a site of an old massacre, but it’s a police station so that’s expected. Despite the place being trapped to hell and back, they take their chances looting it. Will anyone take the shotgun to the chest? Let’s find out!

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Our fallout boys are on the road to Milwaukee when they run into a strange radio signal in the distance. They decide to see what could be sending it, and how much they could scavenge the place. Ominous signs greet them everywhere as they decide to delve into the dungeon that is a pre-war entertainment complex. Will all of them survive this much fun? Let’s find out!

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Welcome to our new game of Ashes Without Number! Our team backed the kickstarter and decided to run a small game of it while it was still in development.

The game takes place in an alternative timeline Earth where the Babylonians started experimenting with nuclear materials, dogs achieved sapience, and a strange living planet Thaa has awaken people’s psychic powers. The world has been devastated by superhuman AI, Eugenics Wars and Judgement Day.

The game takes place in the Great Lakes area. The PCs are in a caravan tasked with reaching Milwaukee, a largely undisturbed pre-war city, and establishing an outpost there. Our cast includes:

- Peter as Runt, a Riant assassin

- Zanes as “Sergeant” Ricardo “Rick” Shepherd, a veteran soldier

- Will as Mossback, the greasemonkey driver

- Will as Rugged Man, a gunslinger

- WeirdnessMagnet as Harald, the old Rianth soldier

A small channel update to let you all know what’s going on. Unfortunately our episode uploads will get a little bit more spotty from now on. Last year we had a drought of games, plus a few games we did run ended up fizzling out.

We will upload new series as we complete them. Universal Crusade has about one more episode to go, and after that we should be able to post some Ashes Without Number.

We may at some point post some of our unfinished games since they were still fun, but we don’t have concrete plans for that yet.

So yeah, we just wanted to let you all know what’s going on and that we will be a bit less consistent with our output for the time being.

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After the battle against the True Heroes, the Dragonblooded Power Rangers, Our Lunar Circle gets ready to face off against Ligier, the Green Sun King. Swan Dragon offers an unconventional ally they can call to their aid. Then, the showdown inside the World Whale begins!

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The Green Sun King has returned to Creation, and the perfect green sun shines above all with no night nor shadow. Our Lunar Circle, having squared off against Mask of Winters, now sets out to intercept Ligier as he makes his way to the Lap, but someone awaits them at Port Rawar…

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After rescuing… Some Dragon Kings our Lunar Circle makes their way to Nexus for some Calibration Celebration. It’s time to rest and recuperate after a fight with an Ishvara. The Day of Endings brings with it a contest like no other - a dance battle!

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Our Lunar Circle makes their way to Rathess, the First City, where they are welcomed as saviours by the Dragon Kings. The gods have abandoned them despite their many human sacrifices. Rathess will fall tonight, the stars have deemed it so. But the question remains - will it be filled with corpses of the once great lizard race, or will the heroes be able to save them from the upcoming doom? The smell of fall and windchimes fills the air…

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Our Lunar Circle finds themselves on a sand barge coming in from raiding some tomb in the deep South. Everything would be great if reality didn’t decide to collapse around them. Now they have to ride the wave of unfurling Creation back while dealing with some fairfolk that got caught up in the roiling reality tsunami.

Sponsored by the Great Contagion, so deadly the god in charge of reporting on it died by proxy

Welcome to our new game of Exalted (in Fellowship)! We had some IRL friends wanting to get into TTRPGs, so we hosted them a game of Fellowship set in the Exalted universe. The players are new to the hobby, the game and the setting.

The pitch for the game is that it’s a full circle Lunar campaign set at the late Shogunate era / onset of the Balorian Crusade. The tone is goofy gonzo, and we play fast and loose with the setting, wrecking things as we go. Initially the players wanted to play something with mechas / warstriders, but we ditched that idea without scaling down the threats they are facing, since hey, it’s Fellowship, it’s rather forgiving for that ;).

Our cast for this series includes:

- Peter as the Overlord Framework, Prince Balor of the Dreadful Gaze

- Vanessa as Anastasia Volkova, a No Moon Lunar, the Collector Playbook

- Galaxy as Lofar the Greedy, a Full Moon Lunar, the Dwarf Playbook

- Jeff as Siegfried, a Full Moon Lunar, the Elf Playbook

- Scott as Cat of the Endless Void, Puddle of Unknown Liquid, a Changing Moon Lunar, the Rain Playbook

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The trainers explore a few parts of the map they had not seen yet and then start the long climb up the volcano. Along the way they make some mistakes. Chameleon does a dance and evolves. The trainers finish their mountain crossing and end in a swamp where Toxel has an accident. A lot happens and the season ends with shock and awe!

Sponsored by Traitors, they have know idea

The trainers quickly agree with Axel that it is nice to be pampered and stay for a bit. Axel makes the coolest pokeball ever and decides to show it off to the king. The trainers leave naked and cold.

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The trainers wake up and find Axel missing. Obviously they are distraught but choose to hope he has just ventured ahead a bit on his own. When they are unable to find him in town they gather intel and plan a rescue.

Sponsored by singles, the cool guys

Axel is taken to Gravito by surprise, where he meets the king and has a long talk that goes very well. Soon he is enjoying the life of luxury and nobility; a mansion, private chefs, pools, baths, and everything else his heart desires.

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A challenge was started and hardships were overcome. The trainers battle nature itself to see if they are worthy. Some trading occurs and people will take notice.