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We pick up from our last horrifying cliffhanger to find the Resurrectionists in one of their tensest and most mysterious situations to date! Trapped in a fineries shop with a corpse, at least one killer, and some strangely cagey employees, their goals quickly shift from revenge and profit to survival and escape! Ira tries to keep the peace, Arden and Blondie go hunting, and Flint pulls some tactical slight-of-hand. Content warning: some gore, a hostage situation.

Last time, the Resurrectionists discovered that they had been double-crossed by their oldest ally! Now they're out to take revenge the only way they know: robbing the upper-middle-class quasi-Victorian equivalent of a Burlington Coat Factory. Things start off smooth, with thorough information gathering and the return of Arden "the Pebble", the gang's long-incapacitated Lurk! However, there might be more sinister going on here... Content warning: depiction of an elderly person exhibiting memory loss and delirium, brief gore.

After defending their turf, the Resurrectionists are left with bolstered resources, a mysterious hostage, and, in one case, lasting psychological damage! It's time for them to lick their wounds and take stock of what's on their plates; in other words, classic downtime activities! Content warning: Interrogation of a captive.

It's April 1st, and while everyone else is joking around, we've been stuck with a very serious scheduling conflict. There's only one thing to do: another Talky Episode. Waiting for Godot, the Role-Playing Game, and many other RPGs by Jared Sinclair can be found here: https://s-jared.itch.io/

The Resurrectionists are back from the dead in a big way: one extra-long episode featuring a score so exciting we could only stand to do it all in one go! We left our antiheroes with a cliffhanger: their sewer-travelling rivals, the Capillariat, have finally declared open war after a long history of violent exchanges! With the gang's gambling den overrun, they'll have to mount a counterattack quickly or lose a valuable resource! Can they do it without spilling enough blood to make the law's retribution even worse? Can the rookie Ira talk their way through a deadly situation? Can Thalia finally put her magical research to full use? Can Blondie solve problems without creating ghosts? Can Flint keep himself unexploded? Find out all that and more in this spectacular return to Blades in the Dark!

In this episode... oooh, I don't want to spoil it! But rest assured you'll see some fierce cyborg wrestling rivalries, romance with varying degrees of requital, surprise arrivals galore, and one huge celebrity cameo! So don't delay, act now, supplies are running out...

After last episode's little ultraviolent intermission, it's time to step back and get a feel for who these underground cyborg wrestlers REALLY are. For example, did you know that Krunk the Barbarian is more comfortable in graphic tees than armor made out of car tires? Or that Wage Slave has a real estate business? Or that Clout Strife's real name is... Clout Strife? And what about all those other wrestlers on the card? Listen on to learn more about these unique individuals, and then hear them beat each other up.

In the futuristic dystopia of 1999, while the masses are placated by the spectacle of professional wrestling, there exists a turbulent underground of freelance operatives who break the law and risk their necks in search of fortune. Tonight, a fresh team of these "runners" will take on the forces of... well, professional wrestling. It's Saturn running a variant of our favorite one-stat system, and it's up to us to save their own WWW character! Content warning: This turns into kind of a bloodbath, though most of it isn't graphic. CYBER//PUNK was written by David Brunell-Brutman and can be found here: https://dbb-8.itch.io/cyberpunk Our outro music is sampled from Aesop Rock's The Blob https://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/aesop-rock-the-blob

Alright chummers, flick on your holo-vids (or, if you're a Premium subscriber, wink your left eye to activate your implanted display) for the latest episode of Underground Cyborg Wrestling! We've got a flashbang show for you tonight, because some of our best talent--Wage Slave, Fashbasher, Krunk the Barbarian, and Clout Strife--are in the squared circle, and almost all of them have bad blood with each other!

We're going back to the future in more ways than one! The year is 1999, and our technologically-advanced society is plagued by injustice and corruption. The masses need a distraction from their lives of corporate-mandated drudgery... and there's no better solution than watching a bunch of beefed-up caricatures pretend to hurt each other! With Levi guiding the way, Owen, Saturn, Snapper, and Fern will assemble a roster of cyberpunk combatants with enough gimmicks, grudges, and deeply silly names to get the whole audience chanting. WWW can be found here: https://ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg

Our first adventure in a galaxy far, far away comes to a head in the shadowy slave-pits of Hell, where our heroes are closer than ever to freeing themselves... and to being captured by the Baron's security! Everyone will need to contribute their unique skills--Manwe Ba's smooth salesmanship, Jaci's flashy heroism, and Jay's brutal cunning--to come out ahead!

Having ditched their tour guide and made contact with other would-be escapees, our rough-and-tumble heroes are out to break the literal grip that Hell has on its people and, more importantly, our heroes' ship. Can they make their way to Transit without drawing undue attention to themselves? Of course not, but hopefully they can still get what they're after. Jaci does some drifting, Jay runs into a colleague, and Manwe Ba makes an important detour.

Our ragtag band of space explorers have discovered a highly developed, prosperous world with extremely welcoming inhabitants, but something feels a little off... could it be that there's something BAD about the planet Hell? Well, no matter what secrets this big red tourist trap holds, we'll unearth them and find some way to turn it all into profit.

Our adventure in a wild corner of a galaxy far, far away begins! As dozens of ships gather in search of untold treasures, will the Darter and its ragtag crew of outlaws be able to pull ahead? They will if all these funky multicolored dice come up with the right weird symbols. Join Jay Faytonni, Jaci Argona, and Manwe Ba as they're thrown directly into some high-stakes space action!

Today we're dipping our toes into an esoteric little property known as "Star Wars." It's this whole sci-fi setting with aliens and robots but there's actually some fantasy elements if you dig into the lore. It might not have the most mainstream popularity, but we like to bring niche projects like this into the spotlight now and then. Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is published by Fantasy Flight Games https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/star-wars-edge-of-the-empire/ Intro/outro music sampled from The Blob by Aesop Rock https://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/aesop-rock-the-blob

Last episode ended with our brave monster-hunters stuffing their half-dead quarry in the trunk of their car and taking off before the cops arrived. Now, all they have to do is figure out where it took its teenage victim and how to free them. Will this fairy tale have a happy ending, or is it one of those dark ones? It's all in the hands of this ragtag gang and their esoteric arsenal!

Things really kick off in this session. Oh, it starts tame enough with clandestine pocket-watch communication, a decorative horseshoe heist, and first aid through dark magic, but then things get weird. Inhuman music gets in your head, innocent bystanders are threatened (but not by the monster), and a whole lot of ass gets kicked. In a fight between an unearthly abductor and four mismatched vigilantes, who comes out on top? Find out!

Alright gang, it's time to solve a mystery! A teenager has gone missing in upstate New York, and their neighbor says that a strange flying light is to blame. Is this the work of extraterrestrials, or something even stranger? In order to properly hunt this monster (or monsters), our heroes will have to intimidate a newspaper reporter, bluff their way past a stern mother, roll dice (in and out of character), and chat up some drunks. Standard monster-hunting protocol.

It's time to gear up and investigate a new system: Monster of the Week! It's a PbtA game about modern-day slayers and the abominations they fight, and Levi, Pixie, Snapper, and Jonix are ready to whip up some colorful characters, What unique monster-fighting skills will they bring to the table, how will their dark pasts complicate the mission, and which (if not all) of them are related to each other? Listen to find out! Monster of the Week can be found here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/monster-of-the-week/ Our intro/outro music is by Aesop Rock: https://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/aesop-rock-the-blob

The situation at Pigsmoke comes to a head when the newest professor's ambitious-but-amoral plan begins to draw his peers in. When the chips are down, who will take the route that's best for their careers and who will try to just be a decent human being? It's a clash of teaching styles backed up by big egos and magical power, so you won't want to miss it!