Starwhal: Odyssey James D'Amato
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Residents of the humble Cauldera tenement building above the Lucky Fin restaurant suddenly find themselves hurled into the interdimensional web of space when their building reveals itself to be a ship. It's up to former Gilded Compass adventurers Ty (Mel D'Amato) and Petranella (Aly Grauer), Lucky Fin head chef Harker (Drew Mierzejewski), and building handyman Sacch (James D'Amato) to figure out what to do now. Join us for a space fantasy actual play romp through imagination using a playtest build of the No Kings RPG system. This game is co-GMed and fully collaborative.
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Act Like You're Supposed to be Here
The chefs of The Lucky Fin start planning their menu despite being short on supplies. They stick to the code of all wandering chefs and opt to steal supplies that they don't have. Although this is a standard practice, it's also extremely dangerous. Saach, Ty, and Petranella try to repair or at least move the ship.
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CAST
James D'Amato as GM and Saach, Markozian, Sarge, Jessica, Sebastian, Heero, Roz
Mel D'Amato as Ty, Salvitore
Aly Grauer as Petranella, Hopscotch, and Wedge
Drew Mierzejewski as GM and Harker, Andrithel Cloudfallen, Roxy (the Imp)
EDITING
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Cloud Crash
The lucky fin makes an emergency crash landing in the parking lot of Intercloud– the orbnet empire built by magical prodigy and former adventuring partner of Ty and Petranella: Andrithael Cloudfallen. As luck would have it they arrive just in time to get swept into business as usual for Intercloud instead of escorted off the premises.
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CAST
James D'Amato as GM and Saach, Markozian, Sarge, Jessica, Sebastian, Heero, Roz
Mel D'Amato as Ty, Salvitore
Aly Grauer as Petranella, Hopscotch, and Wedge
Drew Mierzejewski as GM and Harker, Andrithel Cloudfallen, Roxy (the Imp)
EDITING
Ryan Boelter -
Boss Battle
Caught in gamer space between universes, the occupants of the Lucky Fin tenement struggle to survive long enough for Saach to regain control of their apartment-turned-ship.
CONTENT NOTE
This is the last episode with weird audio.
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CAST
James D'Amato as GM and Saach
Mel D'Amato as Ty
Aly Grauer as Petranella
Drew Mierzejewski as GM and Harker
EDITING
Ryan Boelter -
Gamer Space!
The Lucky Fin Tenement suddenly finds itself launched far outside the caldera system in GAMER SPACE. They struggle to survive as they process the fact that their home is a ship.
CONTENT NOTE
Our new system is officially a playtest for the Skyjacks RPG! Also, there was a technical error in recording this episode. It will clear up after the next episode.
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CAST
James D'Amato as GM and Saach
Mel D'Amato as as Ty
Aly Grauer as Petranella
Drew Mierzejewski GM and Harker
EDITING
Ryan Boelter -
Caldera City of Dreams!
On the free-floating comet of Caldera people from all across the many spaces live together in a strange and wonderful metropolis. None stranger than the occupants of the tenement above the Lucky Fin Diner– aspiring gourmet chef Harker and his crew of sous chefs, former adventurers Ty and Petranella, and the gleefully irresponsible pact-bound hell-streamer Saach. But today, everything is about to change.
CONTENT NOTE
This series was originally going to be run as a D&D game for our household. We swapped over to a playtest of the No Kings system after getting frustrated with Wizards of the Coast. We planned this game before Spelljammer was published and the news about the depiction of Hadozee hit the day we sat down to play.
Body horror, in many ways the horrors of capitalism.
CAST
James D'Amato as GM and Saach
Mel D'Amato as GM and Harker
Aly Grauer as Petranella
Drew Mierzejewski as Ty
EDITING
Ryan Boelter -
Zero: Making Space
What happens when you sit down to play your first session of a new campaign and decide you want to switch systems and use an original setting? You do another session Zero of course!
In this session, we figure out the aesthetic and time period of our setting, decide how space and our ship work, and create some of the world history! Then we move on to expand on our character's backstories and explore the cultures they came from. Mel tells us about Vibe Keepers, Aly tells us about the Pottimus Homeworld, Drew explains the Usagon and Bladesworn, and James riffs on dragonlings before deciding to change how they work literally the next episode. Plenty of good stuff!
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CAST
James D'Amato
Mel D'Amato
Aly Grauer
Drew Mierzejewski
EDITING
Ryan Boelter