The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast

Extradimensional Horrors Desperately Try To Save Humanity, Hampered By The Fact That Their Devoted Followers Are Evil Idiots A Travelling Caravan For The Relocation & Re-purposing Of Slightly Used Gods Accidental Renaissance It’s actually called ‘Ya Mama’ Christopher Walken Ponzi Scheme H.P. LovecraftCthulhu MythosDagon A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor VingeThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas AdamsKrikkit Warriors Nyaruko: Crawling with LoveHarem Anime A normal reaction to harem anime. (from Nyaruko) Long-time nuclear waste warning messages Euclidian Geometry Great Race Of YithMi-Go Microscope Change ControlCargo Cult Gold Box D&D / Dungeons & Dragons Immortals Rules Restaurant To Another World / Isekai ShokudōFull Metal Alchemist: BrotherhoodThe Melancholy of Haruhi SuzumiyaRanma ½Girls Und PanzerBleachLog HorizonGhost In The Shell: Stand Alone ComplexSoul Eater Shōnen MangaShōjo Manga Fate Of Cthulhu Roman Pantheon Small Gods, by Terry PratchettNeedful Things, by Stephen King House Flipping The Littlest HoboRentaghost Dogs In The Vinyard Quantum LeapSupernatural Apocalypse World Waifu Blades In The DarkBuffy The Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game Episode 137 – Telepathic Murder Ghosts Coming Out Of The Trees Buckfast Tonic Wine Fox MulderKarrin Murphy Kids On Bikes Deathworld Series, by Harry Harrison The Ballad of Halo Jones The Maltese Falcon

Trees Hate Us; They’ve found ways to influence people & get into their thoughts, and now, not even paper is safe The forests are desperately trying to redress an imbalance, but from a human point of view that looks a whole lot like people up and vanishing into the woods. Big Paulie’s crew ended up owning the forest as part of a failed development scam, and when Carmine took over, he used it as a tax dodge and carbon credit scam, with a sideline as a Christmas Tree farm. Turns out that Big Paulie monetised corpse disposal for half the state, and those justifiably pissed-off ghosts have started escaping from their unmarked graves by hitching rides on the Christmas Trees planted over their bodies. Warhammer 40k The University of Auckland Presidential Medal of Freedom Wales Blades In The Dark Edinburgh Shortbread ShadowrunCyberpunkSLA IndustriesTribe 8 Vaster than Empires and More Slow, by Ursula K. Le GuinWar Against The Chtorr, by David Gerrold All Flesh Must Be Eaten Gaia Hypothesis Taniwha Ten Candles Damnation Alley, by Roger Zelazny Dogs In The Vinyard Darkwood Kids On Bikes Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero Money LaunderingCarbon Credit The Mob Freddy Kruger Copland One Corpse Too Many, by Ellis Peters

A group of total strangers who are distresingly familiar to each other attempt to work out what disaster befel their city, why they feel like they had something to do with it, and whether it could happen again. The Universe is broken, the backup is corrupted, and you’re trying to rebuild from your own hazy memories of what it was like.And maybe sneak in some improvements at the same time. The Social Collateral system rewards helpful deeds & improves efficiency by ensuring that nobody can forget a task.And yet it feels like that’s what’s happening, even though the system says it isn’t. The World’s Greatest Genius needs a retinue of people to keep them on track & remind them to wear pants, and to stop anyone finding out that this is the case.That’s where you come in. Auto-Targeting systems mean that if you look human, and are a combatant, you get hit; The only defense is camoflage which obscures the human form.In these dark times, Furries are our only hope for survival. Airship Pirates stage raids on the Politico-Corporate Empire of the Mouse, rebroadcasting IP to anyone with the will to watch it and concealing their identities by wearing the cartoonish heads of the oppressor. Big BenCrowdfunding a Brexit Big Ben Bong The Queens Park Arts CentreThe Cinelli Brothers Procol Harum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA Imagine Dragons Psi*Run Momento MasksPart Time GodsBlades In The Dark The Princess Bride MicroscopeWorld Of Synnibarr Inflationary EpochLepton District Health NurseWellness Check Maneki Neko, by Bruce Sterling Paranoia Dark City Stargate SG1 – Revisions The Thirteenth FloorThe Matrix Axon Episode Five – Bond: Behind The Scenes Lemmings Apocalypse World The Witcher ( game ) Rick and Morty Fiasco The Worst Year Ever Podcast The Walt Disney Company The “Mortal Engines” Quartet Black Mirror – Fifteen Million MeritsTransmetropolitan SLA Industries Bill Hicks

The AI cast members at the theme park became a vital part of the experience; A wild assortment of characters you could talk to who would always remember your name and were always happy to see you. Then things fell apart, and the people stopped coming, and the cast members found themselves without anything to do. So they went out to find out where the guests had gone. Rather than put people in unconvincing suits, the Theme Park uses modified people, but for everyone who is convincing enough to be a star, there are many who just don’t make the grade. They can get some work, but they’ll never break out of the Park Ghetto of the not-quite-right. Now that one of them has gone rogue and is committing unspeakable crimes in their shanty town, it’s up to a “goofy-looking” PI to find them and stop them. “Camp”, by Faraz Shanyar Faraz Shanyar’s Artstation Portfolio Hot blob: vast patch of warm water off New Zealand coast puzzles scientistsPelagic Calypso Music Mulling / Mulled Cider Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics GastonWreck-It Ralph Disneyland Park (originally Disneyland)Walt Disney World Westworld Ellen Ripley Lord HumungusImmortan JoeMad Max Franchise Defunctland (youtube) Abandoned Mister Blobby Amusement ParkFootrot FlatsFootrot Flats: The Dogs Tale Tail( I couldn’t find much of anything on the now-defunct Footrot Flats Leisure Park. Seems it only lasted a few years, got rebranded, and died. Here’s the best thing I could find. ~ T. Jones ) Rainbow’s End Disneyland Paris Avatar: The Last AirbenderAvatar (James Cameron/Giant Smurf) Spirited Away Bats Day Kingdom Hearts Vanellope Von SchweetzCaptain Jack Sparrow Toy Story FranchiseMad Max: Fury Road Little Robots, Big World – The Gutter SkypesThis was a multi-episode game run by Trilobite; Links to the MP3 for the episodes as follows ~ T. Jones190191193195 The Brave Little ToasterThere Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury Zack SnyderJustice League The Snyder Cut Blade RunnerGoofyWho Framed Roger Rabbit? Bill WattersonCalvin & HobbesBerke BreathedBloom County Underground RPG Buck’s Fizz (drink)Bucks Fizz (band) The Witcher (TV) Cool World Blacksad (comic) Donald Duck The Dresden Files French Foreign Legion The CrowDark City Walt Disney Tank Riot (podcast) and their Walt Disney episode. (Regarding the “crude graffiti”, there is a story from Walt’s youth (recounted above at 20:55) which often involves mentions of corporal punishment. The Tank Riot crew briefly infer that it was subject rather than the permanence of the medium that inspired his fathers wrath. And then they repeated it as a running gag for the following decade. They are a true inspiration. ~ T. Jones) Jacinda ArdernJohn Key and “that photo.”

Trapped by the snow, the handful of passengers on a stranded air-liner find themselves retreading a classic story. A Jovian gas extraction platform unexpectedly loses communication with it’s drill-head deep in the atmosphere below. Has the far end met with technical malfunction, a mutiny by the crew (or machinery), or something more sinister? The first summit between the zombie nation and the terrified world that quarantined it is already off to a rocky start, so when a conspiracy is uncovered by a bi-partisan team of organisers they realise they will have to act to preserve the fruits of their work. Inverness Episode Eighty Five – Captain Plantagenet and the Plantageneteers Our Inverness Episode. Conservative leader’s UK Election Climate Debate ice sculpture stand-ins. Official Monster Raving Loony Party Lord Buckethead Naugahyde Naga Peter Greenaway Film – Prospero’s Books (1991) Film – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Play – The Tempest RPG – Apocalypse World by Lumpley Games Boardgame – Airline (1985) As I recall, looking at the box cover is about twice as exciting as playing the game. Boardgame – Poleconomy Auckland Roleplaying Guild Loading Ready Run – Canadian comedy video producers, and the organisers of the Desert Bus For Hope charity. Canadian National Film Board Slow Television RPG – Zombie World – (What Craig was talking about ~ T. Jones) RPG – Zombie Cinema – (What Ben was talking about ~ T. Jones) Film – Jupiter Ascending (2015) TV – V (1984 – 85) and V (2009 – 11) Film – Spaceballs (1987) RPG – Eclipse Phase by Posthuman Studios RPG – Shock by Xenoglyph / Joshua A. C. Newman Scrollable Ocean Map Alienation according to Marx Film – Event Horizon (1997) Film – The Thing (1982) Video Game – Dead Space (2008) RPG – Our Last Best Hope by Magpie Games Film – Alien (1979) Film – Warm Bodies (2013) TV – iZombie (2015 19) TV – Daybreak (2019-) Film – One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) – (ooh, a 1970’s Disney live action film with a Peter Ustinov in a role with an obviously problematic name! Pass? ~T. Jones) The Chronicles of Amber RPG – Microscope – Lame Mage Productions RPG – Maschine Zeit by Machine Age Productions

Ben has a thesis on the role and point of travel in games, and the role and point of the encounters along the way. Deities of the Land deal with a threat to their domain and the people living there; Possibly in between shifts at work. Plucky youngsters save their home by enlisting the aid of the Spirit of the Town itself. Teams of couriers venture through slightly alternate realities to keep their payload safe. Prince Andrew Pizza Express Woking reviews suspended PerennialIBS FlitwickLeicester DraconiansThe Dragonlance Campaign Gamma World Random EncounterRust Monster Gary Gygax Traveller ( Black Book/Classic is what Craig referred to; Many, but not all, editions/versions had the same basic idea of a jump mechanic ~ T. Jones ) Elite ( video game ) Part Time GodsKids On BikesThe Quiet Year Maui Princess MononokeNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind The Spiral Series, by Michael Scott Rohan Nighthawks ( Nighthawks is the painting by Edward Hopper. Nighthawks At The Diner is a Tom Waits album ~ T. Jones ) Shadowrun ( wikipedia link, because there’s so much of Shadowrun it’s difficult to pick something more specific to link to ~ T. Jones ) Hideo KojimaMetal Gear Franchise Guillermo del ToroNorman Reedus Silent Hill ( franchise ) Konami Skyrim ( technically, ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ ~ T. Jones ) The Color Out Of Space (movie) SQL Quantum Conundrum Dark Conspiracy The Dark Tower, by Stephen King (series)The Postman (movie) ARPANET

Couch-Hoppers – A mysterious ‘game’ found in a thrift store couch leads to hours of fun as you try to navigate alternate universes to find your way home. Our Alternate Feed – A podcast discovers episodes they never made, in which people who sound and act just like them discuss events that never happened and things that don’t exist. Remembering Big Red – A year after local surfing legend Greg “Big Red” Couch vanished while night surfing, people gather to remember him, and reflect on the year gone by. Inspired, it seems, by this:https://www.facebook.com/Spi0n/videos/10153125384367171/ The Winterless North Vivaldi’s The Four SeasonsRecomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Cider Episode Eighty Eight – Our Listener, International Man Of Mystery Nieuw Amsterdam Metalocalypse Sliders FateSavage Worlds Stroopwafel Jumanji Rubik’s Cube Yggdrasil The Labyrinth of Time Macintosh LC 575 Ray Tracing Myst Apocalypse World Team Fortress 2 Episode Sixty – Have You Tried Resurrecting It And Killing It Again? Arby’s My Own Worst EnemyWelcome To Night ValeFrequencyFringeCounterpart J.K. Simmons Early Edition Cryptomnesia John Dies At The End, by David Wong Ten Candles A Prarie Home Companion WKRP In Cincinati Phytoplankton Something Is Wrong Here Steven UniverseGreg Universe KapCon, Wellington, NZ Monster of the Week PoutineOur Last Best HopeMasks Sanskrit Toponymy Brexitcast

Taz suggests a solo hex-crawler about exploring & prospecting to supply a newly founded colony. “We have to remake the world in order to save it” isn’t a situation that anyone wanted to get to, but once we found ourselves at that point, it’s understandable that the panicked re-making might not go 100% as planned. Now, hand me that update for equine bio-accumulation & oxygen transport, and we’ll see whether we can get your donkey feeling better. A group of folks transformed into beasts of burden come up with a cunning scheme to get greedy knuckleheads to drag them, braying and kicking, into the locations they’re cursed not to be able to approach. BrexitcastParliament of Northern Ireland Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction M.U.L.E. Opium Wars Torchbearer RPG Man Plus, by Fredrick Pohl Mad Magazine Dead Space Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart Yokohama Shopping Log / Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō Geoengineering Wall-E Orbital Elevator The Peace War & Marooned In Realtime, by Vernor VingeDayworld, by Phillip Jose Farmer Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Pompeii Thundarr The BarbarianThongor of Lemuria, by Lin Carter( Oh Dear God, it’s one of a series. Craig, you are a monster for making me look this up ~ T. Jones ) Whangarei Flatpack: Fix The Future Numenera Log Horizon Red To Green: The Evolution Of A City’s Abandoned Acres( Christchurch Suburbs being reclaimed by nature ~ T. Jones ) Apocalypse WorldMasks Diaspora, by Greg Egan Sayer (podcast) Paranoia (Wikipedia)Paranoia (Mongoose Publishing)Red Markets: A Game Of Economic Horror Boston Dynamics Big Dog( ‘Dynamics’, not ‘Robotics’ ~ T. Jones ) My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Feast Of Legends : Rise From The Deep Freeze( Never thought I’d be show-noting The Wendy’s RPG ~ T. Jones ) Episode Thirteen – The President’s Earth Chakra Is Missing!

Time travellers attempting to blend in run into problems when they don’t know that they’re not using the right language. Cheesy 80’s Kids Shows, where sly end-of-episode comments are a private joke between the protagonists and the audience. Corporate executives combine the powers of their ludicrously expensive watches to form … Captain OfIndustry! Backwards & Ford: Gerald Ford travels through time, possibly with a team of plucky youngsters, righting wrongs & setting history straight. (Possibly battling Evil Nixon in an effort to restore Good Nixon, or maybe subtly influencing the timeline to produce the best possible Nixon ) A group of police officers notice that the weirdness they’re seeing matches elements from their theological or cultural backgrounds. Many different cultural or theological backgrounds. When aliens issue a challenge for dominance, electric cart jousting is the only logical option. Whenuapai Air Base David Cronenberg Cheesehead HatCow Pat Moore’s Law Calculator WatchGame & WatchPocket Watch Hello Fellow Kids TimeWatch Timeless Tales From The LoopKids On Bikes The Goonies The Jank Cast The Kids From OWL Never Say Never AgainThunderballAlbert R. Broccoli Power RangersCaptain Planet and the Planeteers Jimmy Hoffa The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceSkeksis President Gerald Ford Pulsar Calculator Watch Inventing The Digital Watch Again And Again And… The Lost Chapter: A Concise History Of The LED watch Digital Dust: What happened to the digital watch? President Jimmy Carter RPG.netTime Travelling Teddy Roosevelt & His Time Travelling Rough Riders( This link might work, or you might need to be an RPG.net member and be given access to the specific board ~ T. Jones )Emperor NortonEscrima Time CellistYo-Yo Ma Quantum LeapTwin Peaks Misspent YouthSteal Away Jordan Episode One Hundred And Twenty Nine – Aliens have landed at Gen Con and only stalwart games can defeat them! Episode One Hundred And Twenty Eight – Religious Cops Train To Fight Magic The StrangeMonte Cook GamesNumeneraCypher SystemTORG Eternity The Dresden Files Grimm Kung Fu Vampire Killers Dunedin, New Zealand Mister VampireDracula Atomic Robo RPG

Personifications of games emerge when the need is greatest to rally the forces of gamers in battle against an Alien Menace. Alien Invaders arrive, looking for the most loyal representative of Earth to battle for dominance in a symbolic competition. Owing to poor translation skills and the inability to imagine that anyone might do things differently, they’ve found the Gen Con booth of Stalwart Games, who are about to have a very weird day. A Meeple-Shaped spacecraft has crashed in through the roof of LucasOil stadium, and the invading forces are streaming out to take over. The MiBs are responding, but they need time, so it’d up to the Gen Con attendees to divert, confuse, distract, and possibly subvert the alien menace to buy that time. Gen Con( No idea why Craig wanted me to link this – He’s been banging on about the thing for years. At this point my pets know what Gen Con is ~ T. Jones ) DiverticulitisSigmoid ColonSigmund and the Sea MonstersThe Princess Bride Eskenazi HealthSidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital Craig’s Travel Blog Entries;Where Things Diverticulated From The Plan9311 Eskenazi, 1432 SpringHill Dungeons & DragonsPalladium Books / RiftsCall Of Cthulhu RPGGURPSAre You A Werewolf?Two Rooms and a BoomSecret HitlerQAGSWhite Wolf PublishingApocalypse WorldFate Accelerated MechWarriorBattleTech( MechWarrior is the video game, BattleTech is the wargame it’s based on ~ T. Jones ) Indiana Convention Center PathfinderStarfinder Python (code) Galaxy Quest The Player Of Games, by Iain M. Banks Terran Trade Authority Meeple RoboRallyFiascoZombie Cinema Chris FossDouglas Adams Oscar (movie) Zucker-Abrams-Zucker H.R. GigerSwatchGiger’s Watch Exhibition David Cronenberg

The woefully underfunded members of the TZMP (Tserkovnyye Zashchitniki Moskovskogo Patriarkhata) must walk a line between keeping a low profile, maintaining interdepartmental peace with the uncanny Night Watch, and the disapproval of the authorities, while still managing to thwart the forces of Hell. Your multi-denominational precinct of peace officers work diligently to maintain law and order, though your task may find you crossing into “differently-Holy” ground. Odd-couple detective partnerships are a classic trope, but when one of the pair is a literal angel the cases they handle tend to involve obscure prophesy and dire omens. Ably assisted this week by John H Reiher Jr – unlike us layabouts, he actually makes games! Check them out! GenCon 2019 I couldn’t find an image of timezone calculator wheel, but here’s a currency converter from the same error. The timezone is still probably mostly accurate. Original Link Animation – The Real Ghost Busters Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic Tri Tac Games Animation – Goober and the Ghost Chasers The Alexandria RPG Library Eastern Orthodox Church Film and Books – The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko Television – Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Da Vinci Code – Rex Deus Anime – Midnight Occult Civil Service Anime – Mob Psycho 100 Anime – Ga-Rei Zero Anime – Witch Hunter Robin TV – Chernobyl TV – Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV – Special Unit 2 TV – Fringe TV – Millennium TV – Warehouse 13 TV – Eleventh Hour which also reminded that the BBC made a version with a rather chilly Patrick Stewart a few years before. TV – Grim TV – The X Files TV – Supernatural RPG – InSpectres Netflix – Bright Film – Thor: Raganarok TV – Good Omens RPG – In Nomine RPG – Better Angels RPG – Atomic Robo and the SRD Webcomic – Darth and Droids Webcomics – DM of the Rings by Shamus Young

In the post-Brexit dystopia, where any mention of the world outside of the Commonwealth is strictly forbidden, a shadowy folk hero emerged … Cheeky Nando. Working the grill at Nando’s confers awesome martial arts powers via the precise repetition of cunningly-disguised spatula and tong based fighting moves. Cheeky Nando is friendly, charming, helpful, and the local Necromancer. The Cheeky Nano-Dose – Pervasive nanotech means, more or less, that you’re being watched from the inside. When a group holiday goes terribly, terribly wrong. What if someone out there managed to franchise & weaponise football in order to destabilise cultures in other dimensions? Inspired, we assume, by this internet gem; Nandos Lime (scooters) Ezell’s Famous Chicken, Seattle Piri-Piri Captain SwingNed Ludd 1984, by George OrwellV For Vendetta (movie) Not Tonight Papers, Please Colin Furze Cyberpunk Grey RanksMisspent Youth Essex Man From The Guaridan – “The Invention Of Essex – How a county became a caricature” Spitting Image Qi The Karate KidThe God Of CookeryStephen ChowShaolin MonasteryWest Side StoryShaolin Soccer Food Court Wars ( Big Red Couch episode ) The Hound, by H. P. Lovecraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaTDqu7-SDo Stargate SG-1Revolution Doom (game) Lazarus Churchyard Torchwood: Miracle Day Blood Music, by Greg Bear Fear The Boot George R. R. Martin Kids On BikesZombie WorldThe StrangePart Time GodsMasksBulldogs!TimeWatchQAGS Fiasco Mods & Rockers Misfits (tv)ASBO Brighton Pier Millwall FC Berserker, by Fred Saberhagen Black Books

In which Ben goes back to a Big Red Couch standard notion of “something on a spaceship”, despite Craig having taken the approach of deliberately NOT doing something set on a spaceship. Not only is the ship fractured, but so is the crew, so turned against each other that they can’t save themselves. If you can just get these knuckleheads to work together, or even just get the hell out of your way, they’ll be rescued, the salvage prize is yours, and you’ll be set for life. The crew are glad that help has shown up, and are keen to be rescued, but for some reason they’re not keen on doing the very things that would make that happen; Why? An arcade lined with shops is fine to walk through, or even to hang out in and enjoy a cup of coffee; What if you found that you couldn’t leave? Maybe you fell through the cracks and can see the monsters lurking outside. Maybe you shouldn’t have belligerently declared that you’ll never leave while arguing with the Fae Lord of the Strand. Or maybe breaking in at night to steal the fantastic items in the shops was just a really bad idea. People trapped in a dimension-hopping shopping arcade, trying to trade with the folks outside for the things they need, hoping to one day make it home. In The City, you can have every basic need taken care of … So long as you have the chip installed in your head. Somewhere outside the city is a place where the unchipped can live freely, however they want, and all you have to do is get there. Somehow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0s0KUUpxo https://xkcd.com/731/ Elmo (Sesame Street)Elmo Putney (Brush Strokes) Robinson Crusoe Cast Away (Movie) Bottle Episode Doom Patrol (TV)Doom Patrol (Comic) Law of Salvage Generation ship System ShockBioShock Waiting For Godot Mythopoeic The Thing Flotsam RPG ( Kickstarter link, because there’s a bunch of information there. Also a preorder link ~ T. Jones )Apocalypse World (RPG) Chris Grayling NeverwhereMidnight Nation Queen Street, Auckland GURPS Goblins (RPG) The Fades (TV) Changeling: The Dreaming The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher Walmart Doctor WhoAre You Being Served? Tales of the Floating VagabondWraith: The Oblivion The SimpsonsThe Tracey Ullman Show Karl Marx Black Mirror Late-Stage Capitalism Joseph StalinStalinism Chernobyl (TV) Invader ZimFoodcourtia Urchin (RPG) TrantorCoruscant The Tripods, by John ChristopherThe War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells Augmented RealityHostile Architecture Logan’s Run Hobo Caste Structures Stargate SG-1 Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus!Infinity Train Fringeworthy ( Tri Tac Games ) Sydney, Australia Jacob’s Ladder Birmingham New Street Station ( Yeah, Craig got the name wrong. It’s amazing he doesn’t get lost more often. ~ T. Jones ) P-Zombie Iain M. Banks Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri AOLEndless September Shaper/Mechanist Universe, by Bruce Sterling Pokémon Winston Churchill Isaac AsimovPsychohistory Shadowrun ( Catalyst Game Labs )Shadowrun ( Wikipedia ) RPGnet ForumsBlack Bug Room ( WARNING: TV Tropes Link – It may consume hours of your life ~ T. Jones ) My Little Pony: Friendship Is MagicCutie Mark Crusaders Annette Funicello The Melancholy of Haruhi SuzumiyaLittle Witch Academia The AuthorityStormwatchJack Hawksmoor Neon Genesis Evangelion Van Allen BeltVan Halen

You don’t call a place the “Witch Planet” because you like it, or the people who live on it, and you don’t do so without a cause. And you don’t go to live on the “Witch Planet” without a reason.And while the original settlers of a place may be content with the ignore & be ignored status quo, their children may not feel the same way. And that’s when the ugly secret history of the Witch Planet starts to come into the light. Actual witches rebel against their parents by attempting to play this strange non-magical sport called … soccer? In an extremely magical world, having an entirely mundane football game is challenging. Each team has a squad who are constantly on the lookout for magical interference by their opponents. And maybe also on the lookout for opportunities to do some interfering of their own. When what’s up for grabs is your teams chance to make it into the professional leagues of Galactic Witch Soccer, there’s plenty of room for skulduggery, match-fixing, and good old-fashioned shenanigans.And that’s just the trouble that happens on purpose. OK, Baba Yaga’s Hut can play in goal provided that it keeps its doors and windows open. When magic left the world, it did so literally.The fairy creatures and the trolls under bridges and the enchanted groves got together and went traveling among the stars. What sort of person invents dimensional travel, and decides to use it to make money through sports franchising? Dimension-hopping sports fans seek the universe where their favourite team didn’t get booted from the league. The King’s Head Shotgun shells left on the ground after attack on Mt Eden barber shop Picture by the BRC Roving Cub Reporter Questionable Content Episode Fifty Five – The Thirteenth Interplanetary Curling Competition Cabal, by Clive BarkerNightbreed The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins Archer (tv) ZardozNemesis the Warlock Hayao MiyazakiTaishō Baseball Girls What is a season in Anime? Haikyu!! ( volleyball anime )Girls und Panzer America’s Cup The World Wide Wrestling RPG Revenge of the Nerds OVA: The Anime Role-Playing GameTeenagers from Outer Space Galactic Football League ( series of novels by Scott Sigler ) Blood Bowl QAGS Willo the Wisp (tv) Voyager (probe) Super Dimension Fortress Macross Dark Age of CamelotBattlefield 1942World of WarcraftLeague of LegendsFortnite Changeling: The DreamingChangeling: The Lost Fae / Faery Star Trek (franchise) FIFA FringeSliders The Merchant Princes, by Charles Stross Shippea Hill

Programmable biological workers make it so much easier to set up a colony world, because you can reconfigure them as your colony develops. Of course, if something goes wrong on the way there, the ship’s systems might find themselves trying to repair a starship with a worker build who think the telegraph is a pretty neat idea, … When the colony ship fell out of orbit, it set the bio-workers to “Mental Evolution” mode, in the hope that this would compensate for the lack of central guidance. Years later, the remains of the ship are found, and the walls start taking to them … Using bio-workers to raise the first generation of humans from the gene-banks is a fine solution to the problem of long spaceflights, but there will come a moment when the kids find out that their guardians really ARE robots … Calling it an organic starship is over-simplifying things; It’s more of a space going coral reef, an ecosystem with a community on board, some of whom may be an integral part of the internal process. How does the community react when the ‘ship’ suddenly changes course? Or when the ship scoops up an entirely non-organic spacecraft, determines that it’s not edible, and dumps it out into the habitable areas? If someone’s built a tomb which doesn’t rely on clever traps, and instead just flat-out tries to kill you, is it maybe worth considering that they had a really good reason to do so? Episode One Hundred And Twenty Three – Tomb Temperature Proxima Centauri 50 Nautical Terms and Sailing Phrases That Have Enriched Our Language (Owlcation) A Canticle For Liebowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr.) PrednisoloneAmoxicillin Killjoys in the care of LucyPassengers – aboard the AvalonHeart Of Gold – (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy)Starship Titanic Grim Fandango WALL·E with the ship, Axiom Executor-class Star DreadnoughtStargate Universe System Shock 2 with the Von Braun and the Rickenbacker Vincent Price Star Trek: Voyager Westworld BluetoothNFC Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Sid Meier’s Civilization (game series) Ascension (tv miniseries) Goosebumps (R. L. Stine book series)The Twilight Zone Kids On Bikes (rpg) The Midwich Cuckoos (John Wyndham)The Famous Five (Enid Blyton book series) Expedition To The Barrier Peaks (D&D Module) Moya – FarscapeLexxBabylon 5 Saga (Brian K. Vaughan comic) Event Horizon (movie)28 Days Later Flotsam: Adrift Among The Stars (rpg kickstart) Pitch Drop Experiment Standard Diving Dress Nile Red (youtube channel) Torg Eternity Taishō Baseball Girls Questionable Content (webcomic) The Maltese Falcon Gen Con

The Imperial Tomb is a model of the afterlife, and holds the remains of Emperors, Governors, and Important People; It is, quite literally, the Tomb of the Empire. And when the conditions are just right, the model becomes real, and the Tomb becomes a gateway to the afterlife. That’s when the gravediggers have to put back whatever leaks out. How do you even make a Zombie Medical Drama RPG? The Necropolis has been frozen for aeons, but it’s now starting to thaw out, and the residents are starting to thaw. Somewhere in there are the secrets needed to freeze it again, but getting to them take a lot of planning, a lot of care, and will be a serious undertaking. When Will Dynamic Ad Insertion Take Over Podcasting? – Backyard Media( Covers Dynamic Insertion without being too much of an ad in itself or having many many annoying pop-ups ~ T. Jones ) Welcome To Night ValeThe Daily ZeitgeistBlack Tape Podcast Venom (movie) Chernobyl Sarcophagus Stalker (game)The Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Mr. Vampire Terracotta ArmyMausoleum of the First Qin Emperor Necropolis Cremains GhostbustersCocoDay Of The Dead Wraith Technical Debt Terry Pratchett St. ElsewhereShortland Street Episode Fifty – Ghostwatch Ghostwatch (tv) Matter, by Iain M Banks The Mummy HVAC The Man In The Maze, by Robert Silverberg Old School Renaissance Gronan’s Guide To Gaming A Game of Thrones riff on the White Stripes Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG Episode Sixty One – I Am Now The Proud Possessor Of A Haunted Demon Amplifier Iron Maiden H.P LovecraftCthulhu Mythos Spinal Tap Bureau 13: Stalking The Night Fantastic Fate of Cthulhu Kickstart Grunge Bill Hicks Airheads KEXP-FMDoomtree Marcel Proust Conlon Nancarow Kung Fu Vampire KillersDraculaBloodgasm( The only references I could find to this relate to a Horror Anthology called either “Hi-8” or “Horror Independent 8”, where Bloodgasm is a movie within a movie. ~ T. Jones ) ( from The Gratuitous B-Movie Column )The third story, by Tom Masiello, is called “The Tape” and involves Tim (Travis Hoecker), a video store employee who becomes infatuated with a weird as hell shot-on-video horror movie called “Bloodgasm.” As far as the employee can tell, “Bloodgasm” was never released to the public and the creator of it is a recluse of some sort. Tim is so obsessed with “Bloodgasm,” both watching it and researching it, he ignores his hot girlfriend Phoebe (Bobbi Beach). When Tim finally finds the director of “Bloodgasm” and goes to meet him, the encounter changes his life forever. In general, I liked the way this short builds to finding the “Bloodgasm” creator, but the way it ends is unsatisfying. Personally, I don’t think the ending makes any sense. With a different ending, “The Tape” would be a classic horror short. As it exists now, it’s a fun disappointment. Still worth watching. ~ my bad! – I meant Deathgasm (2015) Alien Weaponry (band) Six Feet Under (tv)

Craig keeps thinking of ideas he really doesn’t want to make a game of. What happens when the worship band for a Cthulhu Cult get noticed by a producer & start to make it big?What about when the band start to see that there’s a much bigger world out there, and want to move away from the cult that’s literally in their DNA? What happens when your quaint & folksy chant to Dagon goes Platinum.And they left off the portal-closing hymn because it didn’t fit the back-beat. Nobody know who the band Song Of The Old Gods were, nor why they chose to release so few pressings of their Colour Out Of Space album. What we do know is that odd things happen when you play more than one copy at once, and someone out there is trying to collect them all. The Color Out Of Space, by H.P. Lovecraft Headless Body in Topless Bar (movie)Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time, by Adam-Troy Castro Glampire Episode Twelve – Starbutt Magic-Horse And The Existential Vacuum Of Modern Acquaintance Christchurch Mosque Attack YouTube Video from NonCompete describing the idea of “the pyramid of violence” and “stochastic terrorism”. ParihakaNew Zealand Wars Featherston Prisoner of War Camp Battle of Gate Pā Worship Band / Church Band EDM (Electronic Dance Music) Guy Ritchie Black Panther (movie) Tomorrowland (festival) The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H.P. Lovecraft The Shape Of Water Walk Hard: The Dewy Cox Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lOW2IjpM-4 Soth (a long-form example of play) The Fortune Cookie Incident – how to accidentally be huge racist. Gloriavale Christian Community Dogs In The Vinyard Paul SimonCocteau TwinsPeter Gabriel GremlinsMr. VampireGremlins 2Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?Cast A Deadly Spell La Monte YoungJohn Cage The Beatles (The White Album) Weezer Octarine Klaatu (band) King Gizzard & The Lizard WizardThe Blood Drained Cows (apparently the “Gregg Turner And” part is descriptive, not the band name ~ T. Jones)When People Were Shorter And Lived By The WaterDearly Beheaded (the only thing I can find about this group from Manchester is in German. good luck. ~ T. Jones) Cyber Way, by Alan Dean Foster The Black Tapes (podcast)The Black Tapes (wikipedia) Episode One Hundred And Twenty One – It’s promotion time for the Royal Gardeners of the Emperor. Only one will advance. Phil TippetJurassic Park The Trouble With Rose

Becoming the Imperial Gardener is a huge honour, but maybe not a welcome one when all you really want to do is work alongside your colleagues to tend plants and create a beautiful space. The Royal Gardeners don’t prune plants, but people, working in secret to weed out disloyalty. To stop them from getting too powerful, they’re sometimes ordered to find and eliminate another gardener. Garden Royale: A team of intrepid gardener-adventurers seek to make THEIR garden the best, even if it means going to dangerous places to bring back exotic & predatory botany. Garden Royale Fiasco: A game of lofty horticultural ambition and (probably) terrible outcomes. The Emperor’s New Grove: Teams of Royal Gardeners have been out there terraforming worlds, creating new habitable planets for the Empire. It’s promotion time, and the Court is touring the new worlds, deciding which one will be the new Imperial Capital. The Royal Gardeners are responsible for directly interfering with the time line to ensure the future of the Emperor, pruning timelines which could bring the Empire down. Promotion time is the moment where the Emperor needs to choose which future to pursue. Barrage Balloon London DocklandsIsland Gardens DLR StationShoreditchGreenwich Scotland Yard (board game) Astronauts In Trouble Yamara comics in Dragon Magazineyamara.com Tetris 99 Shadows over CamelotHarry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Alhambra – Gardening Board Game Mondo Marie Kondo Chelsea Flower Show The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi Neutronium Alchemist, by Peter F. Hamilton Second Life KAOS – Killing As Organised Sport Paranoia Tonya’s Noir! game idea was discussed in Episode Twelve – Starbutt Magic-Horse And The Existential Vacuum Of Modern Acquaintance Questlandia Alan Titchmarsh Dungeon World Fiasco Shaper / Mechanist Universe , by Bruce Sterling Classic Traveller (little black book edition) Master of Paxwax, by Phillip Mann PsychohistoryFoundation Series, by Isaac Asimov Rewind: Temporal TalesTimeWatch The Burning Wheel StoreThe Burning Wheel (wikipedia) The Podge CastSadly, podfaded; There’s a completely different podcast with that name, but that doesn’t really help us, does it?What would help is if Craig could reference something that had been around in the last seven years, but I’m not holding my breath on that one ~ T. Jones The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold Microscope Through The Alimentary Canal With Gun And Camera, by George S. Chappell ShadowrunReign Doctor Who Christmas Special – A Christmas CarolThe Doctor Who Roleplaying GameDoctor Who Big Red Couch Episode 120 – Levitating Blue Whale Ryuutama Hayao Miyazaki Everyone Is JohnPenny For My ThoughtsMonsters and Other Childish Things Steven Universe

Behind The Screens At An Ageing Arcade, Videogame Characters Try To Keep The Machines Running & Cover Up Glitches Before Anyone Notices. In Desperate Times, A Psychic Blue Whale & A Team Of Sea Creatures Take To The Skies. A Group Of Strangers Awaken, With No Memory Of How They Got There & Plenty Of Supplies, In A Tranquil & Cozy Environment Named Alitulo Ambergris Sperm WhaleBlue WhaleGiant Squid Dragon Magazine Gamma WorldSuper Squadron (rpg) Ralph Breaks The Internet Dreamcast The Bromeliad, by Terry Pratchett Ryutama (rpg) Underground (rpg) Field Of Dreams Polybius (game) Reboot (tv) The Lego Movie Fraggle Rock (tv) Fate AcceleratedInspectres Flying WitchYogscast – Whale Lords John H. Reiher Jr. Games Minecraft Reign (rpg) Episode One Hundred And Nineteen – Ghostbusting/Home Improvement TV Show Beetlejuice The Laundry Files, by Charles Stross House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski RPG.Net Thread about who to contact in a “House of Leaves” situation. How to Mutate and Take Over the World, by R.U. Sirius & St, Jude( Best I could find was a review from 20+ years ago ~ T. Jones ) HOL (rpg) Werner Herzog The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, by Penelope Lively Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism Martha Washington (comics) Are You A Werewolf Marmite Leverage: The Roleplaying Game PonyoAquaman Mantis Shrimp Far CryHalf-Life 2 World Maps Without New Zealand

Audient Contribution! InSpectres hacked into a renovation contest show. Will you race to repair and exorcise a spooky fixer-upper to sell it on, or… …rejuvenate a legitimately haunted dwelling, taking both the needs of the living and the dead into account? In a fusion of a reality TV shared house and an escape room, the contestants must work together to succeed. But there seems to be one more contestant than expected and more questions than answers. Tune in to a local cable TV show about enthusiastic amateur exorcists. Is it comedy parody or a stealthy spiritual defense outreach program? Battle Junky Vampires on the Mean Streets of Monstertown! New Social Media Stream Announcements MeWe – A candidate to replace G+, this platform is trying to focus on user privacy controls.https://mewe.com/join/bigredcouchrpgpodcast New Twitter Feed – This feed just has episodes and other announcements to allow listeners to keep up to date with the podcast.https://twitter.com/BigredcouchE Update: Also, a shout-out to James David Nicoll for coming up with the prompt (check out his book review site) and our tireless contributor, John H. Reiher Jr. for passing it on. https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ John’s InSpectres Hack from MeWe ” This Old Haunted House!Using InSpectres from Memento Mori Theatricks, I’d hack their setup and turn it into a reality TV show setup. Character setup is the same as in the normal game, as is the Franchise setup, though in this case it would be “Production.” And instead of getting franchise dice, you get Ratings Dice. Characters can range from The Talent to Crew. And the show, This Old Haunted House, is a home improvement show, that includes exorcising any spirits haunting said house. So that does mean that the Talent has to talk to the camera/audience from time to time. They are doing a show. Since this is sort of show is driven by both the GM and players, it’s going to be a bit hard to figure out when it ends. If does follow the structure of an InSpectres game somewhat: The Audition: Each PC goes through their audition interview. This is where you find out about what skeletons are in their closet, and potential plot threads for the different shows. Finding the Property: Everyone decides where and what property they are going to work on, and who owns it, or if they are going to buy it and flip it. Research & Investigation: Researching the problem and coming up with an explanation/solution. This includes what’s wrong with the property besides being haunted. It is a home improvement show. Assemble the Crew: Put together not only the ghost busting gear, but the contractors who are going to work on the house as well. Doing the Shoot: Filming the episode and dealing with all the problems in the house. The Reveal: Showing off the house and renovations, returning it to the home owners, or selling it on the market. Transfer your Rating Dice to the Bank and Cards. Between Jobs; Time to take a break and get ready for the next renovation. Instead of confessionals, this being a reality TV show, you have Outtakes. In these one or two of the PCs perform an outtake where something goes wrong and reveals an aspect about one of the PCs that no one knew about. Because this is a home improvement/ghost busting show, scenes will have elements of both: Mike: “Joe, take a look at this.”Joe: “Geez, that looks like ichor.”Mike: Tapping the wall, “No, not that, look at the wall. The foundation is cracked.” To: Mike: “Bill, what did you find behind that walled up door.”Bill: “What we have here is what you call a dimensional portal.”Mike: Looking through the doorway at the jungle on the other side. “Going to take a bit more than mortar and brick to clean that up.” Given enough time, and I probably could come up with a decent enough hack of the system.” – come and give us a hand on MeWe. Show Notes TV – Home Improvement (1991 – 1999) TV – Holmes on Homes (2001 – 2009) TV – The Block NZ (2012 – 2018) Film – “House” (1985) Film – “House II : The Second Story” (1987) John Ratzenberger in “House II : The Second Story” (1987) Podcast + Forum – Fear the Boot Podcast + Forum – Happy Jacks RPG BG – Mansions of Madness BG – Munchkin BG – Illuminati BG – Zombies!!! BG – Villainous BG – Battlestar Galatica BG – Dominion BG – RoboRally (1994) & RoboRally (2016) Tim Allen Film – Beetlejuice (1988) Philosophy Tube – NB – The very obnoxious character in the don’t-look-too-closely shirt is not in the vast majority of the video. TV – Grand Designs (1999-) Novel – Dead Famous by Ben Elton Film – The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Film – Sixth Sense (1999) TV – Dead Set (2

Genre-themed Librarians battle the forces of evil. Quietly. A venue shared between the Summer & Winter Courts of Faerie transitions from a generations-long reign of summer into an unexpected winter primacy. A nightclub which serves as a refuge from the dark. Plucky clubbers work together to save their beloved nightclub, without 100% understanding the backstory as to why it’s being sold. Strange happenings at the all-ages venue need to be investigated, even though that place is totally lame. Also, that super-hot new kid might be there. Is there a space for a Meddling Kids vs. Criminals game where harming the kids is simply not done, and the surprisingly ethical mobsters instead use social pressures to keep the little brats in line? Richard III in the 70’s Auckland ZooHadrian’s Wall Discotheque Episode 117 – Sailor Noir TakapunaWellington The Walking Dead (comic)Crossed (comic) Read Or DieMagic ex Libris series, by Jim C. HinesL-Space ReBoot (tv) Changeling: The DreamingThe Dresden Files RPG Game of Thrones Detroit Ray Bradbury The Terminator Apocalypse World Farnham’s Freehold, by Robert Heinlein Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Jimmy Hoffa Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man The GooniesElvira: Mistress of the DarkJoe’s Apartment Kids On Bikes Secret Valley Richard III (Ian McKellen movie) Richard IIIRichard NixonKinky Friedman QAGSFunkadelic Frankenstein on the Mean Streets of Monstertown Arlo Guthrie Episode 114 – Die Farben The Xi Effect

With a special guest appearance by every damn bird in the area You are the ultra powerful, “last resort” of your super hero team. You are capable of so much, but can you restrain your abilities well enough?Sailor scouts from multiple dimensions converge to confront a terrible threat. And their own bizarre counterparts. Travelling between remote communities, an amateur detective attempts to solve mysteries in bleak and harsh environment without completely disrupting the finely poised community. An isolated space station is stranded by the changing fortunes of trade and technology. Can the inhabitants work together to keep the lights on and everyone alive, or is it too late for that? Turf war between renegade Magical Girl gangs is ugly, ugly thing. Artist’s impression of Ben during this recording of this episode. Kalashnikov “Tacticool” Apparently “Gun Furniture” now means “basically a fold-out couch, but for your personal arsenal”.  ~ T. Jones Sailor Moon Legend of the Overfiend pronunciation. Shriekback – Nemesis  Film Noir Planet X AKA Niberu AKA Nemesis  Oort Cloud Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – “Space is big…” Big Red Couch Episode 5:  Bond,  behind the scenes. RPG – Masks Webcomics – Order Of The Stick Webcomics – Goblins Film – Into the Spiderverse (2018) Film – Avatar (2009) ErynCerise – History of Magical Girls Anime – Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011) Novel Series – The Cadfael Chronicles Wilfred Grenfell Newfoundland You Tube Channel – Rare Earth RPG – Dogs in the Vineyard Film – Last Man Standing (1996) Novel – Rimrunners by C.J. Cherryh Novel – Glory by Alfred Coppel Anime – Gunbuster (1988-89) RPG – Flotsam: Adrift Among the Stars Aime – Bleach Film – The Warriors (1979) Webcomic – Shattered Starlight Webcomic – Sleepless Domain

  When your team’s quarry suddenly takes up holy orders, you have to reassess. Is their sudden repentance genuine? Even if it isn’t, acquiring your target becomes much harder when they’re living in an environment where you can’t blend in because everybody knows what everyone looks like. …and maybe they have chosen that particular place because they know something you don’t? A meta-curse has a party member working their way through the classes in the player’s handbook in order. That’s ridiculous enough, but what does it mean when they suddenly skip a few? Magic didn’t enter the world gradually; Nope, people went to bed as utterly mundane medieval folks, and woke up with class abilities as a brand-new race. How do you get your golem repaired? Edinburgh Adagio Aparthotel Edinburgh Caledonian Sleeper The Blue Streak NZ Labour Party Episode 115 – The Haunted World of El Superbeasto AD&D 2nd Edition Urotsukidōji ( wikipedia link, but. maybe not safe for work. here be tentacles. ~ T. Jones ) ( I couldn’t find an EMF track called Right Here Right Now, so here’s another one of theirs ~ T. Jones ) Religious Vows The Da Vinci Code The Sin Eater ( also known as “The Order” ~ T. Jones ) Citizen Kane Augustinians Lindisfarne Neverwhere Blackfriars, London The Cadfael Chronicles D&D 5th Ed ( it’s a fandom site link, but it seemed better organised than the official site for that one listener who has no clue what D&D 5th edition is ~ T. Jones ) D&D Beyond ( a digital toolset for D&D ~ T. Jones ) Dave Barry KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Log Horizon Sword Art Online Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody The Head of Vecna Tarrasque Dragon Quest State of Decay Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart M Night Shyamalan Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV Series) Tekken Cherry 2000 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power The Brother From Another Planet

  Masked grapplers travel between isolated settlements, their performance thrilling the crowds and providing a sense of safety and justice. In the wastes between, they live the battles in truth. The monsters hide their faces to pass among us. Are their intentions ill, or have the evils they have fought warped them in turn? The subjects of unsanctioned experiments escape with the aid of newly expanded senses. But their pursuer has access to the same treatments they have, and no fear of using them. A monster hunts the citizens of an isolated town – but is very particular about how it strikes. What does it know that the town doesn’t? Riding the rails for free always has it’s risks, but one railway bull is feared beyond all others.     Guy Fawkes Film(ish) – The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)   TV – The Simpsons – The Worker and Parasite Show TV – Steven Universe TV – Star Vs the Forces of Evil Ralph Bakshi Film – Coonskin (1975) Film – The Lord of the Rings (1978) TV – Bojack Horseman TV – Ren and Stimpy (the original 1991 series) – Though it’s more akin to Ren and Stimpy ‘Adult Party Cartoon’ from 2003 – Carbunkle Cartoons worked on both this and THWoES ~ T.Jones TV – South Park Lucha Libre Film – Reign of Fire (2002) RPG – Dogs in the Vineyard RPG – Deadlands Comics – Love and Rockets El Santo Film – The Seven Samurai (1954) RPG – Vampire the Masquerade – Unfortunately some of the writers of 5th edition seem to have read “Monsters we are, lest monsters we become.” as “Let’s be shitbags!” ~ T.Jones See regarding – Ethics in Game Mastering by Dorian Dawes RPG – Kids on Bikes Novel – Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury TV – Stranger Things TV – Carnivàle Novel – The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker RPG – Nightlife from Stellar Games – Film – Nightbreed (1990) (based on… ) Novella – Cabal – by Clive Barker Anime – Vampire Hunter D RPG – Peter and the Monsters setting for D6XD6 system Kayfabe Taz’s Idea – Psi*Run with a “chaser” ‘The first thing that popped into my mind was using Psi*Run where our PCs are lab rats that have been experimented on. Due to mad science, they can see one color each that don’t exist; magnetic fields, truth, lust, luck, etc. As the game progresses they go from just seeing their chosen color to being able to manipulate it. I’d also include a crazed German hunter that is chasing them. At some point he has to inject ALL THE DRUGS so that he can be more powerful than the PCs, and he will (of course) scream, “DIE FARBEN!”‘ RPG – Psi*Run Film – Deadpool 2 TV – Alphas Movie – The Village (2004) Movie – The Last Airbender (2010) Movie – Unbreakable (2000) Webcomic – Oglaf “Kingshaped” – ~ Caution – most other strips on this site are remarkably NSFW ~ T. Jones Film – Fitz the Cat (1972) RPG – Ghostlines John Kricfalusi – Allegations and Non-denial / non-apology Film – House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

People and objects changing from greyscale to colour is a wonderful way to depict change, be it in aspects of the world, or in the world you inhabit. But from the point of view of someone who’s accustomed to a greyscale world, it’d look uncannily, possibly horrifically, wrong. Colour has been leeched from the world by Our Oppressive Grey Overlords, but a few members of the resistance hold objects which have retained their colour, and wield powers based upon that colour. Of course, once they’ve wielded their powers, the colour sticks around, so it’s pretty hard to be stealthy about it. Dwarf Fortress Kruggsmash plays Dwarf Fortress Nethack Esri Developer Summit Europe RPG – Paranoia RPG – Chromatic Dragons (D&D) RPG –Gamma World Dragon Quest Jimmy Urine Power Rangers Mall Dojo / McDojo Tiamat (D&D) Tiamat (Babylon) Welcome To Night Vale The Xi Effect, by Robert S. Richardson as Philip Latham Our Last Best Hope Absolute Zero Planck Length (It should be noted that “The Planck length is sometimes misconceived as the minimum length of spacetime, but this is not accepted by conventional physics, as this would require violation or modification of Lorentz symmetry.”, which makes Craig’s point largely irrelevant. I’m sure we’re all shocked. ~ T. Jones) Memory Leak Apocalypse Now Sin City That Yellow Bastard A Dame To Kill For The Big Fat Kill Frank Miller Steven Spielberg Film – Schindler’s List Film – The Wizard Of Oz Film – Pleasantville H. P. Lovecraft Film – Die Farbe (movie) The Colour Out Of Space Spider Ham Spider Gwen RPG – Unknown Armies RPG – Trail Of Cthulhu RPG – Call Of Cthulhu RPG – Fate Film – The Mouth Of Madness TV- Fringe Monty Python Dazzle Camouflage RPG – Apocalypse World Episode One Hundred And Thirteen – Never Go Full-Force On An Éclair, Son Death Wish (movie series) Charles Bronson –All You Zombies–, by Robert A. Heinlein By His Bootstraps, by Robert A. Heinlein Alan Moore Bill Hicks Dennis Leary Rewind: Temporal Tales (Taz’s game, on Drivethru RPG ~ T. Jones) The Daily Zeitgeist Film – Pacific Rim Theresa May Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music For Airports William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops Jóhann Jóhannsson – IBM 1401, A User’s Manual Film – Donnie Darko Film – The Abyss Film(?) – The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

A rowdy bunch of biker mice, looking to make their bones pulling off a big score, are about to learn a lesson about hubris. The mentor of an impetuous adventure attempts to tease out the story of how their student has most recently misapplied their patient instruction. Further ruminations of why pillaging the people of the past for “good stock” is morally, and existentially, perilous. Trapped in time-loop that resets upon death, formerly cautious chrononauts resort to more and more desperate strategies, trying to dodge their own previous iterations.     Éclair Film – Jean de Florette (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6qRvZe8kLQ I can find no reliable connection between “idiot” and “speaking the one language”, though it original came from a Greek referring to a private citizen, but would reassure Ben that if you manage to screw up calling yourself an idiot that badly, you haven’t. ~ T. Jones Film – The Thing (1982) The Mandela Effect RPG – Heavy Metal Biker Mice Film – The Secret of NIMH (1982) with “Mrs Brisby” Book – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Film – Turner and Hooch (1989) Film – Van Wilder (2002) AKA Van Wilder: Party Liaison RPG – DragonQuest TV movie – Chrome Soldiers (1992) Film – Battlefield Earth (2000) Captain Disillusion – a YouTube hoax video debunker and “The Mandaellah Effekt” Film – Wild Hogs (2007) Film – Dirty Harry (1971) Film – Death Wish (1974) Children’s Books and TV – Munch Bunch ~ Fascinatingly, there were New Zealand specific characters? ~ T. Jones Comics – Strontium Dog Poe’s Law Rule 34 The First Rule of The Big Red Couch – “Always consider the minimum use case of any rule or attribute you add to a game.” ( If it’s vore, you’ve had a wrong turn somewhere. Trust me. ~ T. Jones ) Novel – Through the the Alimentary Canal With Gun and Camera by George S. Chappell Film – Tropic Thunder (2008) The Original Speight’s Advert Eden Park The Origins of the Phrase “OK” RPG – Baron von Munchhausen “The Game” ~ Memetic Stupidity. Perfect. ~ T. Jones RPG – Zombie Cinema RPG – Grey Ranks RPG – Steal Away Jordan RPG – Misspent Youth Episode One Hundred and Twelve – Volcano Day TV- Travelers Novel – The Great Train Robbery Film – Westworld (1973) Film – Runaway (1984) Novel – Eaters of the Dead Novel – The Terminal Man (That is one fuggly cover. Admittedly memorable, but not in a good way. ~ T. Jones ) Film – Groundhog Day RPG Accessory – Grimtooth’s Traps SGU – Stargate Universe – S01E08 “Time” Happy Death Day (2017) 2000AD Time Twister “Chronocops” written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons (~ Also with characters inspired by Dragnet and a Mad magazine spoof from the 1950’s ~ T. Jones) RPG – Timewatch  

The tiny band of survivors are all that’s left of Humanity. They don’t have the right skills, or enough people, to rebuild, but they do have a time machine and the ability to pluck people out of history who’d otherwise have died in various disasters, and those people would have the skills. Everyone in the past knew this sort of stuff, right? And they’d be really grateful, and be happy to do what we said, wouldn’t they? Volcanic activity caused by the gravity of a nearby body moves across the planet in a regular and predictable way, so a sufficiently daring crew could take advantage of that to run their heist when they know that everyone will have cleared out. Of course, that does mean dealing with the eruption. It’s one thing to find that you’re living in a simulation & try to step outside of it, to meet the entities who created you. What happens when you get access to the controls? Explorers find the under-construction robotic invasion fleet which someday soon will wipe out Humanity. Right now, it has no idea they’re there, but that’s going to change if they’re not very careful indeed. The reason we’ve never found aliens is that humanity from an alternate timeline has been wiping them out to ‘protect’ us, whether we want them to or not. The trail of genocide is, apparently, for our own good. Without money, the orphanage will close. The folks who should have solved the problem are in jail or on the run, so it’s up to a strange time-traveller and their companions to set things right. Volcano Polydactyl Cats Helensville Masks: A New Generation Buffy The Vampire Slayer (rpg) London is still sinking as it recovers from the Ice Age – Post-Glacial Rebound Millennium, by John Varley Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Taking of Beverly Hills Ken Wahl Matt Frewer Pompeii Poor Knights Islands Timeline, by Michael Crichton Lemmings (game) Krakatoa Taupo Volcano Elon Musk Robert Heinlein Auckland Volcanic Field Rangitoto Joe Versus the Volcano Monkey Island (game series) Kanamara Matsuri (“Festival of the Steel Phallus”) ( and now “Japanese Penis Festival” is in my search history ~ T. Jones ) Dragon Head (manga) Cryovolcano Enceladus Titan The Chronicles of Riddick The Mummy Returns Plan 9 from Outer Space The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison The “To The Stars” Trilogy, by Harry Harrison – Wheelworld is the second book Fiasco (rpg) Hard Rain Twister Dante’s Peak Volcano Morgan Freeman Christian Slater Pierce Brosnan Tommy Lee Jones La Brea Tar Pits Big Red Couch Episode 110 – Good news, I have solved the Fermi Paradox. Bad news, I have solved the Fermi Paradox Dark Conspiracy Lester Smith The Appendix The Gutterskypes – Little Robots, Big World – “Magnificent Constructs” ( episodes 191, 192, 193, & 195 of The Gutter Skypes ~ T. Jones ) The Brave Little Toaster The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars ( there was also The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue ~ T. Jones ) There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury WALL-E Kuiper Belt Von Neumann Machines Astrochicken Spider Robinson Spider Jerusalem Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson Cepheus Engine (rpg) Traveller (rpg) Aftermath! (rpg) 3:16 – Carnage Among The Stars Warhammer 40k (wikipedia link, because it’s kind of complicated) “The Curse of Chalion” & “The Paladin of Souls“, by Lois McMaster Bujold ( Craig had the book wrong – the reference he was thinking of was in Paladin of Souls, not Curse of Chalion ~ T. Jones ) Paranoia (wikipedia link) Genestealer Star Trek (TOS) – Mirror, Mirror Nelson Muntz Chicxulub Crater Big Red Couch Episode 111 – “We’re wearing fezzes, sunglasses, and it’s dark out. Hit It!” It’s My Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To – Lesley Gore The Blues Brothers The 11th Doctor Doctor Who Roleplaying Game Fate Accelerated Dan Ackroyd Cinema Supercollider Episode 126: The Blues Brothers (1/2) Cinema Supercollider Episode 127: The Blues Brothers (2/2) Motown Blues Brothers 2000 The 12th Doctor Gen Con The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T Mr. T Éclair Choux Pastry Gary Gygax

  A quirky fraternal order is stranded far from home and their charitable objective. Can trans-dimensional bar-flies help them fulfill their task? The lodges of the Shriners protect arcane secrets as it’s members protect our sleeping world from nameless horrors. The drifts of nigh-invisible infra-red laser lensing creatures lie between you and your objective. But as you forge ahead, they start changing their behaviour in unsettling ways. Your parent’s fantasy gaming junk is weirdly authentic and the journal of their “games” entirely too detailed. Did they actually save a world long ago? & Craig’s GenCon 2018 Ramblings! Gencon 2018 Fez (Head Gear) Shriners Tommy Cooper Mustafa Kemal Atatürk – 1st President of Turkey and proponent of the Hat Law of 1925. Film – The Blues Brothers (1980) The Magic Circle RPG – Tales from the Floating Vagabond Film – It’s a Mad (x4) World (1963) Previous Episodes – Space Kansas? Space Canada? TV – Father Murphy TV – Luna – Here’s a fansite and sample of the show’s argot. Diminibeing (n) – A child. Sometimes shortened to just “dimini”. Egothenticity Card (n) – The universal identity card which must be kept at all times by citizens of the Efficiecity. Habiviron (n) – An apartment for a unit group. Sunstart (n) – Morning. Often used as a shortened form of the standard morning greeting “efficient sunstart”. TV – Max Headroom RPG – Unknown Armies Film – Daywatch aka Dnevnoy dozor (2006) RPG – Leverage TV – Gravity Falls RPG – Mage the grumblemumble Film – The Island of Dr Moreau (1996) Film – A Quiet Place (2018) Green laser pointer safety – Channel Brainiac75     Triffids Anime – Read or Die The Gold Leaf Electroscope (radiation detector) RPG – Kids on Bikes RPG – Masks RPG – Zombie World kickstart RPG – Torg Eternity RPG – Heavy Metal Thunder Mice RPG – Our Last Best Hope Angler Fish    

We are living in a detailed and exacting simulation of the most boring possible universe. Once you know that, can you reach outside the simulated environment to other environments? Or maybe to the people who are doing the simulations? Alternatively, can you hack your own simulation? The reason that our part of the universe looks like it does is that we live in a heritage cluster with a strong & boring Galactic Home Owners Association, who really aren’t prepared for what Humanity is going to be like as a neighbor. Dinosaurs, as a species, guarantee their own discontinuous existence by being constantly recreated by races who come along after they die out. Episode 50 – Ghostwatch Gen Con Brexit Scotland Independence Changi Airport, Singapore Auckland City Rail Link Auckland Harbour Bridge Taumarunui Fermi Paradox Team Fortress 2 Propositional Logic The Matrix Doctor Who – Extremis Invader Zim Redshirts, by John Scalzi The 13th Floor (movie) Rick and Morty – The Ricks Must Be Crazy Flatpack: Fix The Future Apocalypse World The X-Files – Arcadia David Brin’s Uplift Universe Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series Bulldogs Animal House Teenagers From Outer Space Tabby’s Star The Wow! Signal Episode 108 – The Boy was the spouse of Justice and a slave to Science Paranoia Tales from the Floating Vagabond Jupiter Ascending Credo Nicene Creed Weeaboo The Perry Bible Fellowship Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Jeff Goldblum Star Trek Rampage CRISPR Alfred Hitchcock Watson and Crick Sue the T-Rex LucasOil Stadium Lorenzo’s Oil Paul

  The Temporal Survey team SHOULD have reported back by now. They SHOULD have been back a moment after they left. But they’re not, and while the standard dead-drop messages they left prove that they made it, they also give no sign that they ran into trouble. Which means you need to send ANOTHER team back to see what happened to them, haul them out of trouble, and not screw up the timeline. Xenoarchaeologists digging through alien trash find a still-working device from an ancient culture. It wants to serve its new masters, but there’s the little question of what that might mean in practice. Ben rants about how difficult it is to build a trap that’ll last long enough to endanger someone exploring the ruins of your civilization, to the extent that it’s almost like everyone is working towards the same goal. Humanity goes out there, finds horrifying stuff, and makes use of it; It’s just what they do. The dread that comes along with it is really just a by-product. When your best option is to miniaturise the rest of your team and inject them into your own body to keep them safe, you’ve got problems. When you’re trying not to dies from your injuries, while your miniature team-mates battle the equally miniature causes of those injuries, you’ve all got problems. The Antarctic survey team are on their way back, working along the chain of supply drops. They’re making suspiciously good time for people on foot in a blizzard, and their reports are … kind of creepy. Mapping out ruins is very much a part of archaeology, but according to the survey, those two rooms overlap, … Doctor Who – The Beast Below Alien Aliens Event Horizon Dead Space (game) Dead Space (comic) Ben Templesmith Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse Fell 30 Days Of Night (comic) Warren Ellis Ralph Steadman Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson Xenomorph Eclipse Phase Traveller Timewatch Serenity Star Trek – The Doomsday Machine Star Trek: The Motion Picture Coprolite Fred Saberhagen’s Beserkers The Tri Tac Games Podcast / Gaming on the Frontier Xenoarchaeology In FTL-2448 Series Part One Part Two Part Three Everybody Poops R.E.M. Microscope Questlandia Kingdom Beyond H.P. Lovecraft Fermi Paradox Prometheus Alien Resurrection City of Lost Children A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Cyberway, by Alan Dean Foster Babylon 5: Thirdspace Shoggoth Cthulhu Warhammer 40k The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkein Innerspace Fantastic Voyage ( I couldn’t resist ~ T. Jones ) (( you didn’t try ~ Craig )) The Middleman – The Flying Fish Zombification GenCon Questionable Content Harlan Ellison Dread   (Craig’s choice of filename “ElationAndDread” reminded me of this tripping little and even trippier video by The Correspondents ~ Ben)

Quarreling Gods look for arbitrators among the very mortals they are supposed to guide. In a society that worships rational concepts as if they were competing supernatural powers, a disruptive and mercenary acolyte is tampering with a delicate balance. Justice can be automated. And now he’s got the tools to do it, that’s just what the Son of Justice plans to do. Between the machinery that keeps him alive and mentor that is erring on the side of vengeance, this side-kick has a lot to deal with. The latest celebrity super-power-couple are from across the divide between hero and villain. City-wide peace requires that they get along, but their friends are left to mange the fallout.   Word salad Purple monkey dishwasher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMF3zcQw27g TISM River Phoenix Tent Revival – maybe camp, maybe not ~ T. Jones Films – The Carry On franchise Author – Gene Wolfe RPG – Sea Dracula Dick and Jane Books RPG – All Hail Bugtopia (pdf)- A 12-page game of insect justice made Hannah Shaffer, presently of Make Big Things for Game Chef 2015 – Reviewed on The Tabletop Superhighway Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney Murder on the Dance Floor – Sophie Ellis-Bextor Shure SM58 Microphone – the reason other microphones die.   RPG – Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Games Rashomon effect TV- Matlock Film – Divergent Novels and Films – Harry Potter franchise Archie Comics TV – Happy Days Film – Equilibrium Pre-crime RPG – Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions Kick Ass Zircher’s (Taz) Pitch TV – Star trek RPG – Masks by Magpie Games Novel and Movie Series – Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko TV – Gotham RPG – Is it a plane!? – Kickstarter page RPG – D&D 5th Edition Happy Jacks RPG Podcast The Old Millwright’s Arms Domesday Book The Mistress of Jersey – A Tribute to the Sisters of Mercy – They have a Facebook page. The Cure and Robert Smith The Smiths and Morrissey Black Books – “…all that dancing!”  

In a transhumanist post-mortality world, it makes sense to store memories and knowledge in a secure cloud, bringing them into local storage only when needed. And that works fine until something goes wrong, the cloud is rendered inaccessible, and neither you nor the vaguely-familiar folks you’re stuck with remember how to get your memories back. Post-Mortality doesn’t mean post-scarcity, so not everyone is alive at one time. Which becomes a problem when the information you need is locked up in the memories of one person who’s currently dead, and isn’t due for instantiation for another 50 years. Every time you ‘access’ your memory, you change it, so to preserve those precious moments, you need to remove them & put them somewhere safe. Which leaves the question of what fills the hole left behind. A group of people wake up in a beautifully appointed memory treatment spa, feeling refreshed, and with absolutely no idea why they’re there. Or where the staff are. And then they find the bloody handprint. It was only by pure fluke that the storm disrupted the Signal enough for you to realise that your memories were false, being beamed out to overwrite the whole history of the world. Now, with the Storm of the Century bearing down, you’re planning to find out what’s being kept from you. And why. Southland, NZ Gore Al Gore Amazon Web Services Ouija Board Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Transhumanism Eclipse Phase (RPG) The Matrix Psi*Run Dark Matter Overdrawn At The Memory Bank Inception Raul Julia Rick and Morty Futurama Elder Gods Dollhouse System Shock PTSD Golden Hour Doctor Who Delta Green Ocean, by Warren Ellis Thanos Episode 105 – Fantasy + Post-Apocalypse = ? IPA Dark Conspiracy TORG: Eternity Gen Con

  A handful of children explore the crumbling, deserted ruins of a world torn asunder by conflict. Returning to an evacuated orbiting O’Neill colony after the “hot” war finally cools, it’s original inhabitants find it overgrown… …and overrun? Would-be diplomats from space recount their escape from the doomed planet below, and the sacrifices of the people that helped them return home. In an ash-smothered nightmare world, those preparing to survive on other planets have the best chance of saving this one.     O’Neill Cylider TV – Stargate SG1 and Colonel Jack O’Neill Carter J Burke from Aliens (1986) The definition of colony International Space Station Scott Base and McMurdo Station Whittier, Alaska – a town in a single building – John’s pitch RPG – Kid’s Last Tour by John H Reiher Jr Anime – Girls’s Last Tour Warhammer 40k Hive Worlds Kettenkrad “Suspent” – Craig’s Pitch TV – Lost Novellette – “A Colder War” – Charles Stross – Read It Here Project Pluto – section of “Mors Ab Alto” by Rodford Edmiston “Interestingly, the exhaust turned out to be not particularly radioactive. In fact, chemical poisoning from erosion in the exhaust of the beryllium oxide ceramic used would have been about as toxic as the radiation. Of course, the exhaust didn’t need to be particularly dangerous, since the vehicle had an essentially unshielded half-Gigawatt reactor as the power source. The flight plan was to launch with solid rocket boosters to ramjet speed then start the reactor to climb and accelerate to cruise conditions. It would move to a Go/No Go position and wait to be sent into battle, or to the bottom of the deep ocean. If it did go on the attack, as SLAM approached the enemy’s border it would dive to barely above treetop height to avoid radar, while flying to its targets at about Mach 3. The sonic boom alone would have pulped most living things under its path, while the radiation and heat from the reactor would sterilize everything.” Video Game – Kerbal Space Program YouTube Channel – Scott Manley – KSP SLAM Build Novel – What Niall Saw by Brian Cullen (though the author might be being mis-attributed around the internet) 1950’s Sci-fi Style Seasteading Bioshock – Ben’s Pitch VG – Battletech Scott Manley’s Battletech LP RPG – Zombie Cinema by Arkenstone Publishing The Ship of Theseus or Theseus’s Paradox RPG – Questlandia by Make Big Things Novel – Ben Bova’s Grand Tour series – featuring Moonrise and Moonwar Novel – Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn – Craig’s Second Pitch HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) -NASA’s 8 month simulated mission on Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii Venusian floating bubble (Aerostat if you’re fancy) colonies RPG Kickstarter – Journey Away Venusian probes RPG – 10 Candles – General rambling Milton Keynes Comic Strontium Dog – 2000 AD RPG – QUAGS Podcast – The Gutter Skypes – search the page for “Session 136” or “Funky” RPG – Red Markets Poe’s Law VG – Monkey Island series Spike Milligan – The Bed Sitting Room – Play and Film Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AVBEwTIfDM Regex or Regular Expression

When someone on the ‘mad’ side of the Alchemist spectrum releases a self-replicating magic-consuming substance across the land, the high-magic realm swiftly grinds to a halt as Dragons stop flying & floating cloud cities crash into the ground. On the plus side, the undead menace is gone. On the minus, those beautiful crystal bridges probably can’t support their own weight. The utterly generic Kingdom of Niceness has been at war with the entirely derivative Lands of the Dread Lord for centuries. It’s always been a low-key thing, with skirmishes and raids and very little change. Until now. Nobody backed down, nobody withdrew, they’ve used more & more powerful magics, it became increasingly difficult to tell the sides apart any more, and they’ve reduced themselves and everything in between to rubble. As dawn breaks, the remnants of the garrisons on both sides of a minor mountain pass emerge from the cave they’ve been sheltering in, and wonder what to do next. When a solar flare, or alien invasion, or assault be extraplanar entities makes the surface un-survivable, the denizens of a fantasy realm retreat to the only place left – The dungeons. The world tore itself apart, and your small band of survivors from all sides of the conflict are trying to make their way in a world gone mad. Or maybe you’re the ones who’ve gone mad. Or maybe the world really has become this psychedelic fantasy-land? A patch of primordial forest, with primordial creatures, is growing rapidly, shutting down any technology it encounters. Right now it’s in the middle of the desert, but if it keep growing it’s going to hit towns and cities. Can it be stopped? Can it be turned back? And, without planes or jeeps, can you even reach the centre of the thing in time? When a Fantasy Realm started to expand into the modern world, we turned to LARPers & the SCA to find a solution. The Postman, by David Brin Postman Pat Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs Transformers Lindsay Ellis deconstruction of the Transformers movies And Hobbit movies Apocalypse World Earthdawn (FASA) Thor: Ragnarok Taika Waititi Grimtooth’s Traps The Road, by Cormac McCarthy Doom (1993 PC Game) Mad Max (movies) Yojimbo The Man With No Name Into the Badlands Nick Frost Black Mirror The Incredibles The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham Fief Manorialism Log Horizon Akihabara Fifth Millennium Series, by S.M. Stirling Pugmire Monarchies of Mau (Geek and Sundry link) Numenera Reign of Fire Tribe 8 (RPG) Tribe 8 (band) Grunts!, by Mary Gentle Shadowrun Dark Sun Adventure Time Archer Twilight 2000 Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks The Shannara Chronicles (TV) GeoGuessr Wellington, NZ Devonport, NZ Skyline Slipstream Apocalypse Now Microscope (RPG) The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway Dungeons & Dragons Chaga / Evolution’s Shore, by Ian McDonald Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer Torg Torg Eternity (Ulisses Spiele Edition) Hothouse, by Brian Aldiss Fringeworthy Emberverse, by S.M. Stirling DC-3 Planetes Stargate SG-1

  Garbled prophesies of the modern social media world prompt a confused destructive intervention. London is torn down the middle, with a modern city driven by electricity & electronics facing a parallel evolution, based on steam & clockwork, across the Thames. A deep sea encounter with a sentient creature spurs a contest to contact the new life form, be they ally or enemy. Infiltrators from the world beneath waves have perfectly been engineered to blend in… …as conscientious and painfully polite youngsters with feelings completely at odds with their mission.     New Zealand’s relative location in the Northern Hemisphere. Having the open Pacific to the north and less in the way of warm trade winds means the climate is quite a bit different though. from www.enz.org Alleged Bonus Episode Episode One – Alcatraz Episode Eighty Seven – Canadian Mind Beams Beige Futurama – Bleak Neutrality Steve Buscemi – “How do you do, fellow kids?” The colour of computing in the Eighties. Luddite and Rifkinites ( The second appears to a just be an fictional group from Steve Jackon’s Illuminati New World Order game. Maybe related to Jeremy Rifkin, but possibly only in jest. ~ T. Jones) Mechanical Turk – not be confused with the Google “Human Intelligence Marketplace” RPG –Paranoia Blessed by the algo… https://twitter.com/kcoleman/status/974495158841499648 rnJesus – (Caution: Urban Dictionary link. ~ T. Jones) Poem – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Novel – Stand On Zanzibar – John Brunner RPG – Teenagers from Outer Space (One Mike Pondsmith’s many contribution to RPGs, though I like the art in the earlier incarnation better. It’s still available via PDF, but in a strange anime / early ’00s web-comic look, which I feel unnecessarily prescriptive in regard to the tone and tropes when PROJECT Ako and BESM already exist. ~ Ben ) ( Not that either of those are that easy to get hold of these days. Also please note, Ben is an old fart. ~ T. Jones) Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker films A Peter Gabriel Stop Motion Video Film – Captain Underpants RPG – Rifts from Palladium Books An article and a Kickstarter update about the recent bad news in the Palladium world, relating to perennial briar-patch of the Robotech franchise RPG – Savage Rifts Happy Jack Live-stream recordings – The Tomorrow Legion shows are down in the Savage Worlds section. (That particular kind of crazy super-soldiers in Rifts are, in a twist of confusing straight-forwardness, called Crazies. ~ T. Jones) RPG – Torg – (The “big bads” running the invading realities are the “High Lords”. ~ T. Jones) TV – Counterpart Video Game – Dishonoured RPG – Blades in the Dark Thames tidal barrier Novel – Brothers in Arms – Lois McMaster Bujold – from the Vorkosigan Saga TV – Fringe Comic – Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew vs. Frogzilla Audient Ideas from the Episode One Hundred and Two – The Day The Squid Said Hello Kedamono’s pitch Newtsuits (Thanks for putting this noise back into my head, TriggerHappy ~ T. Jones) Film – The Abyss (1989) Burning’s Idea – excitement about playing The DUMAND project Short Story – Does a Bee Care? by Issac Asimov The Great Martian War trailer Taz’s contribution RPG – Shock : Social Science Fiction by Joshua A.C. Newman Anime – Squid Girl RPG – Lasers and Feelings by One Seven Design RPG – Invaderz (Postmortem Studios) RPG – Golden Sky Stories (Star Line Publishing.) Anime – Assassination Classroom         https://youtu.be/tQ3Eqbhaq3o?t=30s

Hello Long-Suffering Audient! Ben & Craig had some real-world events rear up and bite them in their collective asses this month, but rather than taking the merciful option and just staying quiet, they’ve instead chosen to present an artifact from the distant past, when Ben & Tonya & Craig attempted to make characters for “My Little Pony: Roleplaying Is Magic”. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (TV) Roleplaying Is Magic (Fanmade RPG) The version they were using was probably the Season 2 Edition ~ T. Jones   Samples drawn from the following works: “Night Break” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Audio from “my little aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” by Ashie

Troubleshooters in the Bosky Groves Living Deliberately while being hunted by shadowy agencies ‘Thoreau’s Angels’ or ‘Pre-Industrial Shadowrun’? A Parlor Game with Time-chewing horrors     Dunedin’s Recent (January 2018) Fire Henry David Thoreau – The post on Language Log that inspired Burning’s prompt. Diogenes Album – Nothing like the Sun – Sting Highgate Hill Novel – Walden or Life in the Wood Herman Melville Film – Terminator (1984) Video Games – Fallout 4 Video Games – Walden, a Game RPG – Paranoia Banana Pancake Trail Rare Earth video – The Town Where Gap Year Kids Went To Die RPG – Eclipse Phase TV – Altered Carbon TV – 12 Monkeys RPG – Psi*Run RPG – Steal Away Jordan Film – Short Circuit Film – Starman RPG – Teenagers from Outer Space Novel – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy RPG – FATE Core Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding – Lyndsay Ellis Critique Film – Bright Film – Wild Wild West RPG – Deadlands Parlor game – Botticelli TV – Sapphire and Steel RPG – Time Cellist TV & YA Novel – Under The Mountain

A message is passed up from the bottom of the ocean, species to species, until it reaches those weird creatures which live right on the edge of vacuum, above the point where liquid water can exist. Explorers from the deep clumsily jet onto land to investigate this strange dry part of the world, and maybe don’t understand that the tiny bipeds have views on the matter. Down in the inky depths, that Neutrino issue is perfectly obvious. The critters out on the edge of vacuum don’t seem to be aware of it, so a mission sets off to deal with the problem. Once the vacuum’s-edge folk work out what’s going on, they’ll maybe want to help. A well-trained human and their childhood friend battle the corruption of the city. Oh, and the friend is an intelligent amphibious squid. Don’t make this weird. In the midst of a war between humanity and squidlike aliens, two groups of stranded enemies discover that they have far more in common than they’d thought possible. NaNoWriMo BitCoin Blockchain IPv6 William Gibson The Day The Earth Stood Still One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing Bigfin Squid The Kraken Wakes, by John Wyndham Vampire Squid War Of The Worlds, by H. G. Wells Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Prog Rock Cuttlefish The Core Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Star Trek V: The Final Frontier The Chanur Novels, by C. J. Cherryh The Uplift Universe, by David Brin Battleship (the movie) Re:Creators Apocalypse World Arrival Fate Core System Diaspora (I’m not able to find a good descriptive link, though it’s purchaseable here ~ T. Jones) Sign – A Game About Being Understood Edge Of Tomorrow Kerberos Club (again, trouble finding a good descriptive link that’s not a review – this is the ‘purchase the pdf’ page ~ T. Jones) Tarzan Hawkeye Black Widow Badger Enemy Mine Moon (movie) Oblivion Jóhann Jóhannsson Doctor Who The Doctor’s Daughter Eureka Lasers & Feelings

Ben comes up with a game about creating that “Walking Away From The Explosion” shot, and Craig pitches a furry/anthro game without realising it. Here’s that other image, Also, you should all know that the entire time Ben was talking about the McElroy Brothers, Craig was imagining this. Even though he knew it wasn’t the same person(s). – T. Jones Doomtree – Grey Duck video In Media Res Television – SGU Stargate Universe Robert Carlyle Film – Trainspotting (1996) – Trailer RPG – Questlandia Television – Leverage Scum Poker AKA Planning Poker Powerwalk TV tropes page Television – The A-Team Film – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) The McElroy Brothers podcasts Monster Factory YouTube Channel Mike Rugnetta’s – “HALF-BAKED: The Ontology of ‘Boys’ in the McElroy Realm – Pt. 1” Film – Pontypool (2008) The Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London The March of the Sinister Ducks Television – Bojack Horseman Comics – Omaha the Cat Dancer Film(?) – Bright (2017) (The question mark is not reference to it’s quality, rather that’s it’s either a long, single episode show on NetFlix or a film that’s not in cinemas. (And never will be.) ~T. Jones) Television – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency RPG – Eclipse Phase RPG – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness and After the Bomb Comic – Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters – (It’s satire, you simpletons. And it ran to nine episodes, I’ll have you know. ~ T. Jones) Novel – David Brin’s Uplift stories Comic – Girl Genius – Jäger Monsters Comic – Blacksad Comic – Transmetropolitan Film – Zootopia – (It’s called Zootropolis in England and many other nations. Hopefully not for the reason Craig fears. ~T. Jones) Film – The Lion King (1994) Television – Jericho  

Who blew up Planet Zircon? Heavily-Stereotyped Interdimensional Dragons attempt to determine the perpetrator of a terrible crime. Monomaniac Alien Dragons come to Earth in order to be detectives as a lifestyle choice, despite having little grasp of culture, genre conventions, and indeed what constitutes a crime. FireForce! The 80’s Cartoon of Exiled Law Enforcement Dragons having adventures and solving crimes while tracking down their Criminal Foe on Earth. A game of suave people, involved in international criminal investigations, with no abnormal abilities or attributes whatsoever, save for the occasional odd reference to draconic powers or alien worlds. The trouble with finding your hidden agents on a backwards planet which doesn’t even know about shapeshifting reptilian infiltrators is that … Well, they’re really good at hiding. International Detective: Dragons From Outer Space – The podcasters are just trying to put on a show, and have no idea that one of their number is secretly a Dragon attempting to communicate with offworld forces through the show. Or that another is a member of a Mysterious Force, trying to prevent that from happening. Or that the forums are full of other Dragons and agents of the Mysterious Force. A forum game in which the players try to figure out which of them is a Dragon, and which is not. A ship travels through the void of space, groups of passengers periodically awoken to be the audience for the most awesome stadium metal band of all time. Once they’re done with the entertaining, the band fights crime. Mythological Creatures from Outer Space solve Impossibly Outlandish Crimes. A wholesome Milk and Cookies game about a grandiosely-named group of Kids on Bikes solving Mysteries. The group’s always been called the International Detective Dragons From Outer Space, since long before any of the current members were even born; Why it’s called that isn’t important. Until suddenly it is. An intergenerational game where the mythology is developed and handed down through the years, possibly leading to an all-star-cast from the whole campaign for the finale. There was one more notion for this prompt, but I’m not going to be summarising it, nor taking notes on it. Because of reasons. Awesome reasons. When you listen, you’ll understand. ~ T. Jones The Gutter Skypes International Detective Dragons From Outer Space Monkeys Took My Jetpack All Games Considered Big Red Couch Episode 50 – Ghostwatch El Nino Billabong Wombat Sugar Glider Ben Vereen I don’t really understand how this relates to salad dressing ~ T. Jones MacGyver Devo Clue (or Cluedo) Sweet Agatha (rpg) Film Noir Miss Kobiyashi’s Dragon Maid Hercule Poirot Batman Columbo Sam Spade Detective Conan / Case Closed Sherlock Holmes Frank Ironwine Craig neglected to mention Frank Ironwine, despite being aware of the (single issue) comic. I attribute this omission to his stunning lack of professionalism. ~ T. Jones Atomic Robo Fate Accelerated Edition Without A Clue Warlock Holmes: A Study In Brimstome, by G.S. Denning Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century Hobomancer Done and Been: Steel Rail Chronicles of American Hobos by Gypsy Moon Cartoon Action Hour Reptoid UFO Lore The Incredible Hulk Alias Smith and Jones Paranoia (wikipedia link, because there are a lot of editions of Paranoia) Delta Green Fiasco The Dresden Files series of novels by Jim Butcher Are You Are Werewolf? Mafia Battlestar Galactica (boardgame) Saint George Butt Rock This was a new one on me. Also Ben is apparently attempting to fuse 70’s stadium rock, 90’s Creedleback music, and whatever GWAR is. It should be noted that entire timelines have been condemned for less. ~ T. Jones Taniwha GWAR Metalocalypse Neo Yokio (This tweet is Neo Yokio in a dazzling, Swiss chocolate, nutshell. ) Power Rangers (franchise) After Earth GURPS QAGS Leopard Women Of Venus Funkadelic Frankenstein on the Mean Streets of Monstertown Edison Force Hex Games Gen Con Blades In The Dark Zombie Cinema Inspectres Roleplaying Game Designate: Robots (rpg) The Three Investigators The Famous Five and The Secret Seven series’ of novels by Enid Blyton Choose Your Own Adventures Peter And The Monsters (rpg) The Peter And The Monsters series is by Darren Pillsbury, whose website you’ve just read past a link to. ~ T. Jones Gravity Falls It I checked with Craig, and he meant the recent movie of It, not the miniseries, which he’s never seen because he’s a terrible person ~ T. Jones Scooby Doo Hellas Stranger Things Ars Magica GI Joe The Dragonlance Modules/Campaign for AD&D 1st Edition (wikipedia) Why First Edition? Because Craig made me. There’s also this enormous wiki page mentioning all of the editions. ~ T. Jones Red Box D&D Leo Moracchioli / Frog Leap Studios Cassette Boy (YouTube Channel) Pogo

A behemoth interstellar freighter hauls its dangerous cargo, as well as it’s crew and their baggage. The day “The Excerebrators” arrived and put your brain in a forklift was pretty traumatic. But even after they are overthrown, can you go home? The phase “Untouchably Sexy Maglev Trains.” Hench-men placement services and work place negotiation with super villains.     Episode Sixty Three – Donut Tax Outrage! Chef Boyardee RPG – Paranoia (the 6th edition from Mongoose Publishing) Film Director – Mike Leigh Dawili Bonfire Night Light Party Broken Windows Theory The Trader’s Tales Series, by Nathan Lowell RPG – Hobomancer Hobo Signs Hobo Nickels RPG – Bulldogs Film – Cargo (2009) Film – Pandorum (2009) Card Game – Once Upon a Time RPG – The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen Glory, Book One of The Goldenwing Cycle, by Alfred Coppel (Oddly, there is almost no coherent information out there about Alfred Coppel’s works ~ T. Jones) TV – Steven Universe TV – Buffy RPG – Pilgrims of the Flying Temple Counting To Infinity (rpg.net setting riff) Video Game – Starship Titanic Bog cycling Snorkling RPG – Eclipse Phase Bill English’s Pizza Crimes Both the The Great Race of Yith and the Fungi from Yuggoth indulged in non-standard abductions, the first using temporal body swapping from the distant past and the second employing the “brains in jars” principle to get fragile humans to their home on Pluto. Fun times. Film – Skyline (2010) Film – The Matrix (1999) RPG – Dark Conspiracy Film – Tron (1982) Book – The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey Thomas the Tank Engine – and “The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” Film – Blade Runner (1982) Untouchabley sexy maglev trains. Film – Despicable Me (2010) Book – Asterix in Britain Flat Earthers from all around the world…  

Henchmen On A Train Evil sidekicks plot to kill off each other’s Villains. Sticking it to the Übermensch Heroes are assigned sidekicks, even if they don’t really want them, and having seen behind the cape, as it were, the teen protege’s are underwhelmed & disaffected, and turn to villainy. Trouble is, they’re still a bit crap. The Supermanchurian Candidate Sidekick usually means ‘hero’, so why are there evil sidekicks? Why are they hanging out? What are they up to? The Sidekicks Who Knew Too Much Wholesome & hopelessly naïve sidekicks go slumming it on a night out, and choose … Poorly New Zealand’s New Government Sad Mike Hosking I’m linking to the NZ Broadcaster Paul Henry solely to clarify that he is a different person to the British Actor Paul Henry ~ T. Jones Eva Allen had this explanation of the NZ Electoral System Allow me to explain MMP There’s one mince and cheese pie left in the shop; it costs $5 Bill has $4.50 Jacinda has $3.70 Winston has 70c James has 60c and David has 5c No one has enough money to buy the pie by themselves but Jacinda, Winston and James put their money together and buy the pie. Bill gets no pie because he needed 50c but didn’t have any friends to help him pay for the pie. I hope this helps explain things.   Throw Momma From The Train Danny DeVito Strangers On A Train Jared Leto Starscream Leverage (RPG) Blades In The Dark Riddler Joker Penguin Two Face Harley Quinn Leverage (TV) Mission: Impossible (TV) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Champions Hero System GURPS Supers The Venture Brothers Runaways (Comic) The Boys Brat Pack (NSFW) Rick Veitch Masks Doc Savage Indiana Jones Cerebus the Aardvark The Americans The Lego Ninjago Movie David Xanatos Gargoyles Apocalypse World Juan Bobo: Plot Monkey starts here on the Fear The Boot forums Fear The Boot The Jank Cast Mystery Science Theater 3000 Buttons and Mindy Doctor Who RPG The Warriors Judgement Night This song is the only reason I know about Judgement Night ~ T. Jones SCSI The Gutter Skypes

  One player, multiple GMs? What chance does that protagonist have, unless they are the very stuff of fable? Craig Destroys Democracy (at least according to Ben) An inspiring yet incompetent captain and a resourceful and long-suffering crew. Shenanigans ahoy! Heroes don the mantle of the gods, attempting to change the very fabric of reality.     NASA Astronauts Provide A Perfect Response To B.o.B’s GoFundMe To Prove The Earth Is Flat How to Care For Your Introvert by YouTuber “exurb1a” Juan Bobo Aesop’s Fables 2017 Hurricane Atlantic Season – Hurricane Maria John Oliver – Puerto Rico’s Debt Issue from April 2016 Media Coverage Stats for Puerto Rico Fireside Fiction’s Hurricane Relief Bookstore Amelia Bedelia The rules of 500 (the card game) The Māui of Māori mythology – a name held common with several Polynesian cultural heroes (and of a recent Disney film). The Māori incarnation was last of the original people created to be born, performed a plethora of amazing feats (largely for the good of those people), and died attempting defeat death in a rather alarming way. Kagematsu Agile Development 99% Invisible Podcast NZ Election 2017 – still not over at time of release – please let it end! MMP or Mixed-member proportional representation Rt. Hon. Winston Peters, MP Hon. Maggie Barry, MP 1080 Poison Cenobite Scooby – BRC Episode 57 Monkeys Took My JetPack Podcast RPG – The Zantabulous Zorcerer of Zo Washington Park in Washington (the state) – I think this is the right one. You Americanites have rather a lot of things with the name “Washington” ~ T. Jones Film – Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) Curious George Film – “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!” (2012) AKA “The Pirates! Band of Misfits ” in the US – featuring Mister Bobo, Charles Darwin’s Bulter / “man-panzee”. Baron Munchausen RPG – The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen – a new version release by Fantasy Flight late last year Mister Magoo Captain Jack Sparrow RPG – Lady Blackbird RPG – GURPS RPG – Fate RPG – Dresden Files RPG – Buffy the Vampire Slayer + Angel RPG – Doctor Who, Adventures in Space and Time RPG – Tales the Loop Bond Behind the Scenes – BRC Epsiode 5 TV – Archer RPG – Millennium’s End RPG – Legend from Mongoose – based on Runequest II rules Sumo Wrestling and it’s Shinto origins TV – American Gods Film – Howard the Duck TV – Duck Tales (Reboot)  

Every Person, or Group, or even Empire is made up of stories, those they’re told, and those they tell themselves; Change the story, and you change THEM. What Terrible Secret Lurks In The Heart Of The Canadian Wilderness? And Possibly In The Heart Of Every Canadian? A group of friends journey through a crumbling MMORPG to fulfill one last Quest. There’s no risk here, but your boss isn’t going to be happy about all the work you’re missing, and Mom’s basement just isn’t as cosy as it used to be. If your lives, actions, and very thoughts are being controlled by a bunch of ‘Players’ of an ‘RPG’, the very least they could do is PAY ATTENTION!! Baker Street Irregulars “Please sir, I want some more” ESL/ESOL Jhonen Vasquez Auckland Hospital Shadowrun (wikipedia) Shadowrun – Catalyst Game Labs Doctor Who A Christmas Carol – This is the “Flying Shark Christmas Special” Craig ruined for you all ~ T. Jones Read Or Die Deep Space 9 Garrak (DS9 Character) Log Horizon Timewatch – Pelgrane Press The Doctor Who Roleplaying Game – Cubicle 7 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure + Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey Jim C Hines Craig had the author right, and … not much else. The series is Magic Ex Libris, and the first book is Libriomancer Sapphire & Steel The Tick Dewey Decimal System TORG (wikipedia) Torg Eternity – Ulisses Spiele Stargate SG1 Aesop’s Fables Epicurus the Sage Canadian Mind Beams Masks – Magpie Games Overdrive Factor Nickelback I’ll link to Nickelback, under protest. No damn way I’m linking to The Beiber ~ T. Jones Hollow Earth Expedition – Exile Game Studio Steven Universe Polybius Videogame Myth Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Ahoy Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline Headspace – Green Hat Designs Night Witches – Bully Pulpit Games Masquerade, by Kit Williams Digimon The show Craig was rambling on about was probably Digimon Adventure 02 ~ T. Jones IT, by Stephen King Dreamcatcher (movie) Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple – Evil Hat Productions Tailor Tinker Soldier Barista Mogworld and Jam, by Yahtzee Croshaw GURPS – Steve Jackson Games Pathfinder – Paizo Dungeon World – Sage Kobold Savage Worlds – Pinnacle Entertainment Group Redshirts, by John Scalzi Better Angels – Arc Dream Publishing “Big Red Couch at Gen Con 2018” posts on the Fear The Boot forum Fear The Boot, Episode 457 – Gen Con 2017

The minimally-edited Big Red Couch Gen Con Report. Or, more accurately, what Craig did on his holidays. Gen Con (the event) Gen Con (wikipedia) QAGS (Hex Games) Monarchies of Mau, from Onyx Path Publishing (early access edition) Pugmire, also from Onyx Path Publishing Cypher System, from Monte Cook Games Masks, from Magpie Games Trail of Cthulhu, from Pelgrane Press Cthulhu City, also from Pelgrane Press Eclipse Phase, from Posthuman Studios Eclipse Phase: Transhumanity’s Fate, also from Posthuman Studios Transhumanity’s Fate is more or less the ‘Fate Edition’ of Eclipse Phase, at least as far as Craig understands it. It requires Fate Core to run ~ T. Jones Fate Core, from Evil Hat Productions They Might Be Giants Norse Foundry Craig badgered me until I put in a link to the folks who made the metal D20 & Fate dice he bought ~ T. Jones IGDN – Indie Game Developer Network

  Due to dwindling pool of traditional recruits, the job of reaping souls is given to mechanical replicas. Results are… ….mixed. A relic of the before-fore times, a metal Goliath hunts those trapped in its deadly arena. Is it a scourge to flee or the biggest score of a lifetime? An aging mad scientist and a grizzled hero face each other for what seems like the millionth occasion. Is it time for a truce… …or the DEATH ROBOT once more. The tireless machines re-terraforming the battered Old Earth are a daily hazard to those humans that remain. Worse yet, they are smart enough they starting to get bored. Roombas mapping homes A rather fascinating BuzzFeed article (~I know! T. Jones) about the coming wave of “Lethal Autonomous Weapons”. Doomba – version 1.0 was knife enabled Questionable Content Nordic LARP PodCast – Monkey’s Took My JetPack Funkadelic Frankenstein on the Mean Streets of Monstertown Old Harry’s Game Film – Big Hero Six Asimov’s Three Laws of Robots TV – Futurama’s Deadly Santa-bot TV – Reaper TV – Dead Like Me Judge Death from 2000 AD   Muscle March on the Wii Episode Eighty Nine – The Rampant A.I. Was Surprisingly Helpful Episode Eighty Eight – Our Listener, International Human of Mystery Episode Fifty Four – Is There A Market For Soylent Bubba? Film – Running Man Damon Killian Film – Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) TV – American Gladiators (1989–1997) Escape or Die! – Podcast recording of a playtest, nearly a decade ago. RPG – Zombie Cinema Video Game – Wasted ~ It’s actually Syndicate of BuzzKills, but “Sanctimonious Order of X” seems to covers both them and the Brotherhood of Steel from the FallOut franchise pretty well. Film – The Hunger Games (2012) Film – Battle Royale (2000) Film – Megamind (2010) Film – WALL·E (2008) Comics – Metalzoic from 2000 AD RPG – Deadlands RPG – Reign GenCon50 Total Solar Eclipse 2017

A specialised but oddly thematic team operates on the edges of a semi-collapsed future. Extraterrestrial battle fleets we can deal with. Rogue dimension-shifting monstrosities can be contained. We’re not sure what to do about George the coffee guy. What are the different approaches to Secret Agenting? “Well, yes, our scheme IS underhanded, but we never expected it to get out of hand in this manner.” The Supervillain approach to removing young Superheroes from danger is meant well, but isn’t always that nice. Penny Arcade – Football is a game America’s Cup Kings Head Craig got the name wrong. I’m sure that’s totally coincidental, and not at all related to the fact that it’s a pub ~ T. Jones Aylesbury Movies Meetup Waddesdon Thame Bicester Village Chiltern Railways link, as I found the official Bicester Village website to be highly uninformative ~ T. Jones Coombe Hill North Berwick Buckinghamshire Northland Auckland Venice Cosy Catastrophe Kowloon Walled City Split Second (movie) Leverage (tv) Leverage (rpg) Eclipse Phase Freeport Yeah, this definitely isn’t what Craig was thinking of ~ T. Jones Apocalypse World Land of the Dead From Dusk Till Dawn Snowpiercer Elysium The Naked Lunch Dark Matter Hemp The X-Files X-Files S01E10 – “Fallen Angel” K-Pax Men In Black Deadlands Monkeys Took My Jetpack “If you like Actual Play podcasts, you should be listening to MTMJ. This is known.” Craig made me put that in ~ T. Jones Kingsmen xXx Episode Ninety Two – “Can We At Least Get Through This Without It Being In All The Papers?” Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Garak the tailor Deadshot Teen Titans Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold Episode Ninety Three – Do Not Miss A Visit To The Muse Princess Tutu Invader Zim George R.R. Martin

A writer’s villain appears to have escaped into the real world, and is running for office. Is it a direct consequence of their visit to a mysterious source of inspiration? A powerful artist’s muse has been stolen. Or have they actually been extracted and freed?   United Kingdom General Election 2017 Proportional Representation MMP – The flavour of crazy voting New Zealand has used since 1993 Jonathan Pie – Ranting At It’s Finest Mews – a very narrow street Diagon Alley – From J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books Edinburgh Novel – Needful Things by Stephen King TV – Ricky and Morty – Something Ricked This Way Comes – And almost entirely absent of context, the catchy end of that episode “Don’t blame me! I Voted for Voldemort.” bumper stickers RPG – Whispering Vault TV – Supernatural‘s – The French Mistake – A very meta episode in a very meta show. TV – The X Files Comics – The Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman the story “Calliope” Comics – Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley TV – Deadwood The Muses of the ancient Greek world Dionysus – the God of the vine, grape harvest, winemaking, wine, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. Author – Charles de Lint – Someplace to be Flying Oglaf’s Muse Problems – Caution! Almost Transcendentally Unsafe for Work ~ T. Jones  

Years ago, a group of apocalyptically powerful super-heroes & super-villains decided that all they were doing was making things worse for themselves & the world in general, so they went into hiding. When a great threat emerges, they reluctantly team up to deal with it, but are trying to do it on the down-low, so that nobody knows that they’re back. When you’ve spent your time writing stories about fantastical terrifying things to drum up sales for your newspaper, how do you get people to believe you when there really is a threat? Also, given that the threat in question IS the newspaper, how do you even get the word out? Can We At Least Get Through This Without It Being In All The Papers? : The game of ever diminishing expectations. A heist game where crime doesn’t pay. A supervillain tries to get someone, anyone, to intervene & stop a pre-teen superhero before they get themselves killed. Pictsies making their home in a roadside diner in the desert scurry into action when criminals on the run take hostages and settle in for a stand-off with the Law Investigating foul play in the crushing depths of the Jovian atmosphere requires a purpose-built body to protect you. But it’ll only protect you from the physical environment; The factional backstabbing can be just as fatal. Manchester Bombing Love Actually Megamind X-Men Silver Age Comics Spirit of the Century Dresden Files RPG Masks Fate Core Rick Veich Brat Pack Watchmen (comic) The Flash (1990) Craig is probably remembering the “Ghost in the Machine” episode involving the vigilante Nightshade ~ T. Jones Fate Accelerated Edition Leverage RPG Better Angels Tabloid Yellow Journalism Fu Manchu The Authority Penny Dreadful Deadlands Fiasco Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple Came A Hot Friday The Young Protectors (NSFW) The Boys The Great British Bake-Off The Middleman Wee Free Men From Dusk Till Dawn QAGS Eclipse Phase

  A group find themselves unexpectedly deified, long before hitting the level when that’s supposed to occur. What did they do to deserve this accolade, and can they live with their future selves? The quarry of determined pan-dimensional agent tries to throw them off the scent by making them the focus of this reality’s premier religion. A gaggle of cultists attempt to get their unwilling messiah to accept the mantle of “Eldritch Chosen One”. Everyone knows the name of the savior of the world, but no-one knows what they did or how they accomplished it. Dare you find out? Has the world saving actually happened yet? In the wasteland left behind after the collapse of civilisation, one deranged cult based upon a niche podcast thrives due a single important point of difference; Not being arseholes.     Podcast – The Gutter Skypes Jesus and Buddha manga – Saint☆Oniisan Happy God or Wrathful God – Simpsons We have a FaceBook! Television – Red Dwarf – Back To Reality AKA “The Despair Squid episode.” Trope – “It was all just a dream…” Television – Sliders Television – Doctor Who Mandelbrot Set Film – Time After Time (1979) Curse of Fatal Death – Full Episode on the Red Nose Day Charity Youtube channel “Brogramming” RPG – TimeWatch by Pelgrane Press RPG – Fiasco RPG – Invaderz: Pocket Edition – by Postmortem Studios – Review by 6d6RPGs ( I’ve got mixed feeling about this one guys. Postmortem also does (quite a number of ) Gorean supplements. If you don’t know what that is, please tread carefully, in the name of all that is Craig-ly ~ T. Jones ) Television – The Stonecutters RPG – Pugmire Puppers and Doggos TV – Monkey – Theme Tunes A Canticle for Leibowitz Legend of Monkey remake made in NZ Running out of names – VSauce Novel – Jennifer Government by Max Barry False Memories and the Mandela Effect – A website created by Fiona Broome who coined the term in 2010 ( Weird, I’m sure I’d heard it before then? ~ T. Jones ) TV – Angel (It actually finished in 2004, but that’s still too close a guess for Ben to be trusted. You will know the Anti-Craig by his signs! ~ T. Jones ) TV – The Expanse RPG – Everyone is John John 3:16 Trope – Cosy Catastrophe Music Video – Men Without Hats – Safety Dance ( “Sadly” the literal lyrics version appears to have been purged from the YouTube and other versions have been degraded to the point of the Lost Scriptures Of Man – again, please tread carefully, there are some things you cannot unsee. ~ T. Jones ) https://vimeo.com/133507501