We here at the Cult always love to draw attention to nifty looking projects, and if ‘cyberpunk fantasy gang fight wargame’ doesn’t sound nifty to you than I’m moderately confused as to why you are on this website. Currently entering its last week on Kickstarter, Gangs of the Undercity is a new IP tabletop wargame from the lovely people at Fragging Unicorn Games (full disclosure: the Cult’s own Allegory does freelance work for them), putting you in charge of either a pregenerated or custom built gang battling to survive and thrive in the crumbling undercity of Neo-Babylon. Think that sounds cool? Don’t just take my word for it, hope over to their Kickstarter page and look at the pitch video, as well as the preview pics of the beautifully sculpted models you’d be using. Go on, I’ll wait…
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Looks cool, doesn’t it? Even cooler, the project funded on day one, so this is definitely going ahead, and stretch goals are adding all sorts of goodies for everyone, from new models and gangs, to a short story collection building on the setting (full disclosure again: Allegory has written one of the stories in the collection, and has a small roll in the Undercity audio drama that you can listen to here). Plus, with everything so far along, delivery is estimated for end of the year, so you won’t have to wait too long to get your hands on those awesome models and snazzy terrain. We here at the Cult are certainly looking forward to getting to play this beauty, and you can bet we’ll give you our thoughts when we do. In the mean time, you’ve got until 5:59am BST Sunday 16th of August to make your pledge and secure your slot in the battle for undercity supremacy.
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Gangs of the Undercity
Posted in Kickstarter, The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Cyberpunk, Fragging Unicorns Games, Gangs of the Undercity, Kickstarter, Undercity, Wargaming on 9 August 2020 by bloodiedBloodied Plays Disco Elysium: Part 4
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Disco Elysium, Let's Play, Video games on 5 June 2020 by bloodied
What a load of balls!
Bloodied Plays Disco Elysium: Part 3
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Disco Elysium, Let's Play, Video games on 25 May 2020 by bloodied
‘Firewalker’ is the name of my Twin Peaks soundtrack cover band
Bloodied Plays Disco Elysium: Part 2
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Disco Elysium, Let's Play, Video games on 20 May 2020 by bloodied
“~HUAGH!!! HUAGH!!!~ That’s the sound of the police!!!”
Bloodied Plays Disco Elysium: Part 1
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Disco Elysium, Let's Play, Video games on 17 May 2020 by bloodied
Booze fought the law, and the booze won…
Bloodied Plays Silent Hill 2: Part 2
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, Silent Hill, Video games on 19 March 2020 by bloodied
James used Bullets!!!
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It’s not very effective…
Bloodied Plays Silent Hill 2: Part 1
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, Silent Hill, Video games on 11 March 2020 by bloodied
There was a hole in Bloodied’s gaming knowledge. It’s gone now.
Bloodied and FinalGamer (sorta) play Clock Tower: part 2
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Clock Tower, Let's Play, Video games on 9 March 2020 by bloodied
This is the chase scene that never ends; it just goes on and on, my friend…
Bloodied and FinalGamer (sorta) play Clock Tower: part 1
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Clock Tower, Let's Play, Video games on 7 March 2020 by bloodied
Running with scissors is the least of our problems…
Bloodied Play 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 13
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 24 December 2019 by bloodied
“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!!!”
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 12
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 23 December 2019 by bloodied
Because nothing says Christmas like birthing worldwide robo-sapience!
Bloodied Play 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 11
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 20 December 2019 by bloodied
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 10
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 18 December 2019 by bloodied
“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!”
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 9
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 10 December 2019 by bloodied
Well this just shits all over GDPR…
Charity Live Stream 07/12/19
Posted in Charity, The Witterings of Bloodied on 6 December 2019 by bloodiedWe 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 😉
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 8
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 3 December 2019 by bloodied
It’s a crime spree, yes it is!
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 7
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 30 November 2019 by bloodied
Move over Baby Yoda, Pat is the true adorable side character!
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 6
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 23 November 2019 by bloodied
Less Eminem, more Vanilla Ice…
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 5
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 21 November 2019 by bloodied
He did WHAT to a kitten?!
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 4
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 20 November 2019 by bloodied
Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight the part of Fat Elvis will be played by Jim Sterling
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 3
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 12 November 2019 by bloodied
Well this guy is clearly not a villain!
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 2
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 10 November 2019 by bloodied
Clubbing isn’t quite how I remember it…
Bloodied Plays 2064 Read Only Memories: Part 1
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags 2064 Read Only Memories, Let's Play, Video games on 9 November 2019 by bloodied
It’s cyberpunk, but… adorable?
Bloodied and FinalGamer (sorta) play Toonstruck – Part 4
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, Toonstruck, Video games on 10 April 2019 by bloodiedThe game’s nearly finished, but not before the budget was…
Bloodied and FinalGamer (sorta) play Toonstruck: Part 3
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, Toonstruck, Video games on 28 March 2019 by bloodiedA 14 MINUTE CUTSCENE???!!! Who let Hideo Kojima into the dev studio?!
Bloodied and FinalGamer (sorta) play Toonstruck: part 2
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, Toonstruck, Video games on 24 March 2019 by bloodiedThe 90s were a problematic time…
Bloodied and FinalGamer (sorta) Play Toonstruck: Part 1
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, Toonstruck, Video games on 11 March 2019 by bloodiedBloodied plays once more, and this time he’s brought a friend…
Bloodied Play The Last Door: Episode 4 – Ancient Shadows (+ Extras!)
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Last Door, Video games on 14 October 2018 by bloodiedIt’s season 1 finale time, and Devitt’s found yet another spooky house to investigate. Now if he’d just stop playing around with drugs…
Bloodied Plays The Last Door: Episode 3 – The Four Witnesses
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Last Door, Video games on 6 October 2018 by bloodiedDevitt’s a witness, but all this fog has Bloodied witless…
Bloodied Plays The Last Door: Episode 2 – Memories
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Last Door, Video games on 26 September 2018 by bloodiedThink going back to school couldn’t get any worse? Now imagine there’s nuns there!
Bloodied Plays The Last Door: Episode 1 – The Letter
Posted in Let's Play, The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Last Door, Video games on 24 September 2018 by bloodiedBloodied returns with another Let’s Play. What mysteries lie on the other side of a very pixelly Last Door?
Bloodied Plays The Charnel House Trilogy – Exhale
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Charnel House Trilogy, Video games on 30 August 2018 by bloodiedBloodied completes the trilogy, but is it a Return of the King, or more of a Matrix: Revolutions?
Bloodied Plays The Charnel House Trilogy – Sepulchre
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Charnel House Trilogy, Video games on 26 August 2018 by bloodiedIf only he’d checked the pronunciation for this one too…
Bloodied Plays The Charnel House Trilogy – Inhale
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied, Videos with tags Let's Play, The Charnel House Trilogy on 25 August 2018 by bloodiedThe Cult’s gone visual! Nothing will ever be the same again… apart from all the stuff that is.
Re-Dragon Age: Haven holidays (all dragons inclusive)
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Computer Game, Dragon Age on 7 July 2014 by bloodiedTea: Just water
Demons defeated and mages enlisted, it was time for our heroes to do an Indiana Jones and find Dragon Age’s equivalent of the holy grail, Andraste’s ashes. Many of Arl Eamon’s knights had apparently been attempting this but had come back empty-handed. Could we succeed where they’d failed? Well, it’d be a short game if we couldn’t…
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Re-Dragon Age: Fade Away
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Computer Game, Dragon Age on 22 June 2014 by bloodiedTea: Still hot; still water
Every game, no matter how great, has that one segment. You know the kind; that moment all momentum screeches to a halt and tedium envelops the player in an all encompassing malaise. Bored, you grit your teeth and wade forward, hoping your patience can last until you’re back to the fun stuff. Half Life had Xen. Mass Effect 2 had the planet scanning. Skyrim had the Soul Cairn. Dragon Age: Origins has the Fade.
But I pre-empt myself.
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Re-Dragon Age: There’ll be skeletons over the red cliffs of Redcliffe
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Computer Game, Dragon Age on 11 June 2014 by bloodiedTea: It’s hot, so no tea, just water.
When we’d left our heroes, they were setting out on their epic quest. This was immediately interrupted by plot development, as we were shown the capital, where Teryn Loghain (he of the obvious villainy) had rocked up and was declaring himself regent, on the grounds that King Pillock the first was dead and his widow just so happened to be his daughter. This annoyed some of the Banns (the nobles who aren’t quite Arls, apparently), with a chap called Tegan being especially arsey and making insinuations about the King’s death. Personally, I was just trying to figure out how Loghain had gotten all the way across the country in a matter of hours. Clearly he moves at the speed of plot.
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Re-Dragon Age: Origins (of a Replay)
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Computer Game, Dragon Age on 26 May 2014 by bloodiedTea: Créme Caramel tea from the Cult’s home away from home, The Tea Shop in Covent Garden, London. I may also have had a couple of pints with Omarscen at the pub shortly before this, but I’d like to think that’s not relevant. I’d also like to think my beard makes me look stylish rather than demented, so that shows you how effective mind over matter really is.
Reading Mawdrigen’s excellent posts on learning to tank in FFXIV, I wondered what I could contribute to the Cult by the way of blogging about computer gaming. Not being much of an MMO player, beyond a stint on Planetside 2 that was scuppered by changing work shifts and a couple of months on WoW that began to help Loka get a zebracorn, there wasn’t much I could contribute from that angle. Then I remembered that just yesterday I began another runthrough of one of my favourite games, Dragon Age: Origins. Mightn’t it be interesting for me to share my thoughts as I start the 40 to 50 hour trip down Ferelden’s memory lane?
Well, that’ll be your personal opinion, frankly, but I’m going to write about it regardless.
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Dresden Files: Virtual Insanity (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GMing)
Posted in The Witterings of Bloodied with tags Dresden Files on 16 March 2013 by bloodiedTea: Twinnings English Breakfast
Anyone who knows me well can tell you that I excel at procrastination. It’s just a natural talent I have, alongside possessing excellent facial hair and a knack using 10 words when 2 will do. There’s a stack of unfinished or flat out never-begun film scripts, novels and webcomics to bear testament to this, and tabletop gaming does not escape either. Despite having known Mawdrigen and benefited from his fine GMing skills for some 10+ years, I had never worked up the gumption to run a game myself. Was it a fear of failure? Was it sheer laziness? Probably a mix of both. That changed in the past few weeks, and the culprit was none other than that old rogue the power of love (tm Huey Lewis).