Episode 324
With a Tardis full of exceedingly disturbed Archaeologists the fugitives go looking for the best Mental Health facility in all time and space, and settle on The Wayne Facility For Mental Health. Taking precautions and making sure that everyone (including Horizon Beyond) knows the plan they set off and hope to get everyone well again in short order.
It seems likely that there may actually be more going on here than expected.
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Episode 323
They have finally reached the point of no return. The food supply for the Gluttony Demons has been cut off so now they are looking to fill up on Vampire bites. Meanwhile the Neonates need to lead them on their merry way to Grannies house and to the Demon traps set up behind it.
The Question is, with the hosts looking so “ripe” will they manage it before they hatch?
Episode 322
CONTENT WARNING – Spire is a game about facing up to privilege and power, and doing what you can to pull it down. This Session specifically has a scene of the Weak standing up to the strong and suffering for it horrifically. We will understand if you wish to leave this one until calmer times.
With a name for the Midwife, Niadis Sulham, the Ministries Eyes now have to work out where in Spire she is and more importantly where the eggs she has taken are. It won’t be easy with a building a mile high and thousands of buildings crammed into it, but they have to try. Step one, find out about this renegade, and what she is up to.
Episode 321
CONTENT WARNING – Spire is a game about facing up to privilege and power, and doing what you can to pull it down. Given the current real world situation this might be a little on the nose for some people, and we are more than happy for you to skip this one until a calmer time if you feel its too much right now.
The Ministries Eyes know how the eggs were taken and have a lead in Cobasas the Gnoll loanshark, but it doesn’t seem likely that he is the culprit; rather he is a catspaw for someone else. Can they get him to spill the beans on who requested his help? If they do, dare they hunt them down?
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Episode 320
Audio: There was a drip… and incessant drip as the British weather decided to go from trying to cook us to trying to drown us. I have removed as much as possible but sadly some signs remain.
With Granny hit with the Whammy, its time to Tidy up the knick knacks and set some demon traps up. The plans neonates come up with!
With the Gluttony demons devouring their way through half of Readings Takeaway, and most of the Homeless population having left they are getting desperate. How will the Neonates capitalise on this.
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Episode 319
CONTENT WARNING – Spire is a game about facing up to privilege and power, and doing what you can to pull it down. Given the current real world situation this might be a little on the nose for some people, and we are more than happy for you to skip this one until a calmer time if you feel its too much right now.
The Ministries Eyes have seen that eggs have gone missing, and now they are beginning to try and find out exactly what has happened to them. Someone must know where they have been taken to, but navigating the underbelly of Spire is difficult in the best of times.
Episode 318
Sent to a terrible place under the sea and faced with a Door that probably should be left alone, and a large number of possibly insane Archaeologists, the Fugitives must try and find a way to make a profit and pay off Madden’s debt.
Preferably without dooming the world.
Episode 317
The Spire fell to the Aelfir over two centuries ago, but even now there is a resistance. Join us now as the Ministry unleashes it’s … most expendable assets upon the scene to disrupt the rule of their overlords. The Inksmith Winnie Suz, with the Vermissian Sage Anson Lostlight, a drow priest the Lahjan Iolath Norfir , and the Midwife Mabel Vrinn must try and find out why Drow Eggs are being removed from their Creche and what shadowy forces are causing it to happen.
Episode 316
What do you do when you find a non-Euclidean building at the bottom of the sea? Well obviously you go and investigate. Wait, No, you run away!
Join us as the Fugitives once again try and do their best to solve everyone’s problems but their own.
What a load of balls!
Episode 315
Surveillance and scouting is the name of the game today, as they attempt to work out the best way to lure the Gluttony Demons into traps or otherwise capture them. The options of the night include drugs, murder, or even drugging a little old lady.
The things that happen in games!
We miss numbered this one, it gets hard after we hit 10 sessions!
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‘Firewalker’ is the name of my Twin Peaks soundtrack cover band
Episode 314
Before they had no plans, now they have too many plans and deciding between them is the issue of the day. Will they use demonroot and go down the dark path, or get Madame Cinder to trap the demons. Is there another path? Also how is the house purchase going? It’s a hard life being a Neonate.
“~HUAGH!!! HUAGH!!!~ That’s the sound of the police!!!”
Booze fought the law, and the booze won…
Episode 313
Today we celebrate the Podcast’s 7th Birthday, and we Celebrate in style with a bit of SLA Industries (using FATE because Mawdrigen didn’t have time to relearn the system!)
Join us in the World of Progress as 3 313 Stormers get to grips with a RED BPN deep in Cannibal sector three.
Episode 312
We finally get chance to get back to the Vampires of Reading, and find them with a sticky demon problem and a lot of vague ideas of how to deal with it. so they go and visit yet another dodgy contact, in the form of the mysterious Madame Cinder…
This will end well…
Episode 311
It’s all gone wrong in the Indonesian Archipelago as the naturalists continue trying to survive until the boat comes back, without water (other than the islands) and with Very little food. Can they manage to stave off the strange island creatures, and prevent thmselves from going mad with the influence of whatever is in the water?
No.
No they cannot.
Episode 310
The Dindroff-Menscher – Bakersfield expedition is continueing in the Indonesian Archipelago, but it seems as if it is being plagued by problems. Giant boars and people turning to dust are not normal to most expeditions, but it seems like they are for this one!
Can they survive the flora, the fauna, and each other?
Episode 309
When Mawdrigen Finally works out what session it is this is Episode 309, wherein we play Cthulhu Dark, and join our two Theatrical Workers on the set of the Latest Pendelbury production.
Having lost his previous cast to some kind of rumoured accident, the avante garde playwright still seems determined to put his esoteric and convoluted play on. Is there more at stake here though?
Episode 308
The year is 1972 and Dr Sandy Bakersfield has put together an expedition to a remote Indonesian island to look into rumours of strange beasts and verdant growth. Backed by the shadowy Geneveive Dindroff-Menscher of Arkham, and with Dr Nuess, Dr Minkie, and the slightly nervous Dr Salchesse they are heading into the wild unknown with 3 interns and Irfan Rhampattang their Malay guide.
It should just be a case of getting dropped off and collecting samples.
At Least that’s what Bakersfield has told them, glossing over the stories of Ghosts and Headhunters!
Episode 307
The TARDIS seems to have decided where the fugitives are going next, and it turns out it’s… well kinda dank, drippy, and a bit industrial. How long before they get into trouble, oh wait, they already have… That was quick.
Episode 306
After a little more research the squad heads home to wait for their forensics results. However when they start to come in they are not pleased to see what they contain.
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Episode 305
The squad has their crime scene, but they also have a bunch of Dirty Cops seemingly obsessed with getting into the same room and destroying any evidence that might be there.
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James used Bullets!!!
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It’s not very effective…
Episode 304
While all of our games are tagged as explicit, this game will be dealing with the Seedy underbelly of the privileged and the sex workers who they frequent. Themes of violence against women and corruption will be prevalent, if these themes make you uncomfortable then please feel free to skip this game, we will no doubt be back with something lighter very soon.
In the dark streets of Night City the Police are overrun and underpaid, Corporate interests are always trying to get their claws into them. Sometimes it is better to choose the lesser evil, accept money as “charity” rather than run the risk of privatisation or replacement.
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In this special episode, Mawdrigen sits down with Matt Madigan to discuss The Grand Tower Hotel, a 1920’s source book containing 300 pages of NPC’s, maps, and information on the world of American Luxury hotels in the roaring prohibition years.
There was a hole in Bloodied’s gaming knowledge. It’s gone now.
This is the chase scene that never ends; it just goes on and on, my friend…
Episode 303
Having finally remembered what it was they were supposed to be doing, the Coeterie decide to surveil the issue. It turns out that the gang is much more difficult to deal with now, and definitely count as “issues we should have dealt with”. Now they have to turn to their allies in the hopes that they can help…
Running with scissors is the least of our problems…
Episode 302
So they found a financial adviser, and organised to get their finances in order and their Haven Safe. Now they just need to go to a meeting and his interestingly named associate Dr Thermopylae and everything will be back to normal.
Hang on… aren’t we forgetting something.
Episode 301
So our Fugitives have worked their way into the heart of the Tardis trying to release June from her incarceration. However, they have no idea what they are doing and neither does the man from Sheppey. Oh dear.
Episode 300
We made it people! We now have 300 Episodes (Plus a few specials) and so as is our custom, we all drank a great deal of alcohol and played a game.
In this case, Goatcrashers, a game where we take on the roles of Goats trying to get into a Human Party.
So this is how we ended up playing Goats trying to sneak into a human wedding party in a manor house, where something more than just a wedding is going on.
Thank you all for keeping up with us, here’s to 300 more episodes.
PS There seems to have been some problem with Archive’s mic, sadly I can’t isolate the hiss, without actually just removing Archive, which given she was running the game would be problematic!
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Episode 299
As three Goblins there is only one choice when you hear that the magical college of Wan-Taage is having a fantastic Meat feast… go and nick it. But can our intrepid gobbos pull it off facing Archmages, Magical canape’s and necromancers.
Plus their most dangerous foe, a cart driver in a trenchcoat…
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Episode 298
It all started with a for sale sign where there was no for sale sign before. This spells potential disaster for the Neonates, but who is behind it, and can they find some way of escaping from the clutches of late stage capitalism!
Episode 297
So with Torchwoods offer of help getting June out of the Tardis and under their control the fugitives prepare for their most dangerous mission. Trying to map the inside of an infinite Tardis.
What could possible be scary in there?
Episode 296
It’s 17-whatever and the Thirteen Colonies are having a witter about the tea tax or some such thing and are getting in a right strop about it. Luckily one of the American Generals has swapped sides and is now holed up in Fort Summoner, with his wooden leg and a lot of British Troops. Ok they are surrounded by American’s but that’s fine.
Then we add in three goblins in a stolen British Coat, with a pressing need to nick his leg.
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Episode 295
So Princess Celestia’s habit of throwing all of her problems at the moon have finally come home to roost as President Grump is now sending hateful podcasts from the moon back to the world.
So what will she do?
Chuck more stuff at the Moon obviously.
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Episode 294
It all started with a for sale sign where there was no for sale sign before. This spells potential disaster for the Neonates, but who is behind it, and can they find some way of escaping from the clutches of late stage capitalism!
Episode 293
Having met with Archarya and Bailey the Neonates were headed for home, but instead they have been lured into a night of Drinking with Lukas…
Which as everyone is Vampires, means there’s going to be creepy weirdness going on, but maybe they will also be able to get some useful information out of him while they do.
“Bloodied, you’ve just helped defeat an evil megacorp and a nefarious oligarch, as well as midwifed the birth of worldwide robo-sapience on the most thematically appropriate day of the year! What are you going to do next?”
“I’M GETTING LAID!!!”
Because nothing says Christmas like birthing worldwide robo-sapience!
Episode 292
All through the skyscraper, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, apart from all the people partying on the 30th floor, and the Terrorists breaking in to steal 4 litres of Canadian Black, the worlds rarest Maple syrup.
However all is not well, there is a fly in the ointment of Hanz Deutschman’s plan, and soon the terrorists will be on the receiving end of terror.
Ho-Ho-Ho now I have a machinegun… Buddy.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
“Greeting, Grumpy Cat Person! Let us not forget to form a team up and inflict the pain of our non-conformity on the ass of some gigantic corporation!”
Episode 291
Torchwood, those staunch defenders of Earth have decided that the fugitives are exactly the sort of people (and aliens) who they need to deal with the whole “glowing rats” issue they have. Of course there is a bit of quid pro teach us how to fly a sodding Tardis and get June out of it please! So obviously the fugitives are 100% in.
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Well this just shits all over GDPR…
Episode 290
So the Tardis has landed and the doors have opened onto a new world, well a new world for some of the Fugitives while others find themselves home but not in the right time. Not that they get much chance to think about that as they soon find themselves pursued through the fog by glowing… things.
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We here at the Cult are always happy to promote a good cause, especially if it’s one close to home. My brother Greedo XP is doing a 24 hour livestream on his Twitch channel, running from 7am (GMT) Saturday 7th December through to 7am (GMT) Sunday 8th December to raise money for Cleft Lip and Palate Association. CLAPA were a huge help to my brother and his wife when their son was born with a cleft palate, and since the little dude has enriched my life (mainly by getting me to watch a whole bunch of Hey Duggee), I’m honour bound to plug the hell out of this, even though I won’t be around for it myself. Give it a watch, and fling some cash over at his donation page. Heck, even if it’s not your cup of tea, chuck some change in anyway if you can spare it. Tis the season of giving, after all 😉