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Timon and Corille travel through the underground. Scene 18 Notes In the audio for this episode, we mention other PCs who, like Timon, have Ignorance as their flaw. Imogen is from our StarCraft: FRAWD Investigators campaign and Heppa is from Wesnoth: Echoes of Invasion. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille get the cat claws… again. Scene 17 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Imperial psyker Arquo Waludius interrogates Corille. Scene 14 Scene 15 Scene 16 Notes The JT referred to in this episode is from (once again) our Star Wars: Cruise Control campaign. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille try to get away with the cat claws. Scene 12 Scene 13 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille acquire the cat claws. Scene 11 Notes In this episode, Danielle describes the clock for triggering the Perils of the Warp as "a perilous game of nim." If you're not familiar with it, nim is a game where you and an opponent alternate taking objects from a pile in an effort to be the last one standing. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille gain entrance to the secret Ryjotech research lab. Scene 10 Notes The Kerr-Lonn-Ny mentioned in the audio of this episode comes from our Star Wars: Cruise Control campaign. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Some quiet time aboard a subway car. Scene 9 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
An Imperial psyker chases the team through the subway system. Scene 8 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon finds his way back to Corille. Scene 7 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Corille and Morelyn Haig argue. Scene 6 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille get their first experience of the Imperial Guard. Scene 5 Notes We make reference in this episode to characters and events from a previous campaign, Star Wars: Cruise Control. You can find that here: https://diceystories.com/star-wars-cruise-control/ Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille acquire additional support to fulfill Jan’s request. Scene 3 Scene 4 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Timon and Corille slip away from their posts in search of off-worlders. Scene 1 Scene 2 Notes If the names in this episode sound familiar, it's because a lot of them are pulled off the convenient names list from Blades in the Dark. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
The planet Nullia has persisted for generations with little outside influence. Whispers of an "Imperium" are just rumors. When an off-worlder styling herself as a "Rogue Trader" arrives, however, the chance to leave escape forget venture beyond Nullia presents itself. If you can meet her price in time, that is. session advertisement for the 2025 RinCon Tabletop Gaming Convention Setup Welcome to the newest campaign by Dicey Stories! Rogue Trader: Escape from Nullia is a tabletop roleplaying campaign set in the universe of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40K. It takes its inspiration from the WH40K
A Year in Monsoon Jungle brings together two Dicey Stories series, Alpha Centauri: Chronicles of Chiron and Cozy Farming. Today we have the second half of our sixth and final season, monsoon. Friends old and new gather for Fritz and Mariah’s wedding. Waning Monsoon Late Monsoon Note: Thank you for joining us for A Year in Monsoon Jungle and accompanying us for all the time we’ve spent on Alpha Centauri. This story is well and truly wrapped up now, and the Dicey Stories podcast will be taking a bit of a hiatus. Look for us to return to your feed later this spring with Rogue Trader: Escape from
Spend a weekend relaxing at Nwabudike Morgan’s private dome in the remote Chiron wilderness with fellow members of the board of directors. Until… a murderer strikes! Session Report GM Notes For those of you who listened to our previous couple episodes, Hackathon, today’s story chronologically takes place after that arc—although we played this murder mystery before we played the network encounters. If you’re as reluctant to leave our Chronicles of Chiron story setting as we were, please join us next episode as we begin playing our exploration of Fritz’s happily ever after with Mariah in A Year
Corazon “Hypercor” Santiago uses the new network node connection between Data Haven and the Domes to uncover some of what Nwabudike Morgan has been up to since his fall from power. Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Scene 8 GM Notes In today’s session, we work through a network encounter using the rules from the Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk Genesys setting book. We played this Hackathon after we played Fritz’s investigations at Morgan’s secret dome, so we both knew what Corazon would uncover here. If you’re interested in what Fritz does with that information, join us next episode as we use a differen
When Fritz commissions Corazon “Hypercor” Santiago for some corporate espionage, she first warms up against the most experienced hacker in Data Haven, Roze. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 GM Notes In today’s session, we work through a network encounter using the rules from the Genesys Core Rulebook. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Mariah and Cleve experience planetfall for themselves. Scene 6 Scene 7 GM Notes Thank you so much for joining us on the journey across Alpha Centauri! I’d also like to thank our amazing players, whose calm and reasonable characters foiled many a plot. As a GM, it’s been a delight to be part of such a character-driven narrative. Although this marks the end of our Chronicles of Chiron Genesys campaign, over the next several weeks we’ll be sharing some additional adventures from this setting that we played after Cleve’s and Mariah’s ended, some using other RPG systems. So if you want to join Cora
Cleve and Mariah restore Engineering to working order. Scene 4 Scene 5 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
The situation aboard the incoming colony ship turns out to already be deteriorating when Exocraft I arrives. Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Note: In this episode, we reminisce a bit about the graffiti aboard James Raynor's flagship in our Starcraft: FRAWD Investigators campaign. That was way back in Episode 22 during Part 1 of One Quiet Night about 16 minutes in. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Mariah gets Avery Tex’s side of his story. Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 Player (!) Notes I learned the term Umwelt from the book An Immense World by Ed Yong. If you have any interest at all in how creatures perceive their world (including humans), I heartily recommend it. There are chapters on the five senses you already know about, but also ones on heat, vibrations, pain, magnetic fields, electric fields, and more. Did you know humans can learn echolocation? It’s a brilliant book. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Cleve listens to the University’s perspective on the stowaway. Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
A newcomer unexpectedly lends a hand stabilizing Exocraft I. Scene 3 GM Notes The voice for Avery is directly inspired by comedian Melissa Villaseñor’s impression of actor Owen Wilson. Her voice is amazingly broad, and while I strive to emulate it, I don’t think I’ll be doing a Lady Gaga impression anytime soon. If you’d like to see what Melissa’s capable of, check out this link for her talk on finding her own voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFjv971_NZM. Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
Damage from the assault on the launch causes problems once Exocraft I reaches orbit. Scene 1 Scene 2 Our music is from Purple Planet Music. Visit them at purple-planet.com. Need context? Jump to the start of the series!
