Friends at the Table

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What's Friends at the Table about?

Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. Find us (and a listener guide) @Friends_Table on Twitter.

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Friends at the Table episodes:

04.12.2024
PALISADE 45: Where They Are Pt. 3
As Palisade eases into its new orbit, the people below face a new marker of evening. Yes, the dual moons of Chimera’s Lantern and Travertine remain above them. But now night brings a new absence: Gone are Gift-3 and Seneschal,...
04.06.2024
PALISADE 44: Where They Are Pt. 2
With the initial shock of arriving in the Twilight Mirage starting, slowly, to fade, the people of Palisade and the Quire System leap into action. General Tomorrow Mourning turns to the only person she believes can quickly give...
03.29.2024
PALISADE 43: Where They Are Pt. 1
So, with one loud sob, the galaxy shifted. But as with all widespread changes, this one was unevenly distributed. Few places changed as totally as Palisade, once just beyond the edge of the Twilight Mirage, now brought into orbit around...
03.22.2024
PALISADE 42: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 4
This episode carries content warnings for discussion of death, imprisonment, slavery, medical experimentation, and mind control. In the depths of the Temple of the Threshold, a moment passes, a hero dies, and the world begins to change. But Thisbe, Cori,...
03.15.2024
PALISADE 41: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 3
This episode carries content warnings for discussion of death, imprisonment, and slavery. At the center of the Lone Marble Group's main campus stands a corkscrew-shaped building with no name. A sphere slides down its long external groove, serving as sentry...
03.08.2024
PALISADE 40: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 2
As the tournament to determine the next era of the Altar continues at the Lone Marble Group's headquarters, the Blue Channel's infiltration team finds itself backed into a corner. As they try to push their way forward, their allies in...
03.01.2024
PALISADE 39: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 1
Across Palisade, Millennium Break and its allies launch into action. One after another, the Frontier Syndicate’s egg-like power plants came under direct attack. With enough of them brought offline, the group’s ploy to revive Motion would be halted—at least temporarily....
02.23.2024
No Palisade Announcement (sorry!!!)
Hey everyone, As this short audio announcement explains, there is no new episode of Palisade this week. We apologize for having the show on delay for as long as we've had but a combination of scheduling + story . .....
02.09.2024
COUNTER/Weight 0.5: Thrilled Enough
Aria Joie has a song stuck in her head. She knows all the lyrics. For a long time, whenever she thought of a song, she could hear the guide track too. Her own voice in her earpiece, peppy, encouraging, saying...
02.03.2024
COUNTER/Weight 0.4: New Perspectives
The robot didn’t want to wear the hat: and that’s fine. All you can do is try. All you can do is hack the machine that prints the hats and go skipping through it’s kaleidoscopic innards. It’s a wave of...
01.26.2024
COUNTER/Weight 0.3: Under the Bus
Cass had not brought their big medical bag. There was the box in the ship, of course, with the mint-coloured lid and little trays, but their black bag hung where it always did: on a hook beside the door, back...
01.19.2024
COUNTER/Weight 0.2: Valuable Connections
Sometimes, AuDy had found, people asked them to wait. This was transparently an exercise of power. Sit in there. I’ll be right through. Flat silence as minutes passed. There existed a line of tension between one human and another and...
01.13.2024
COUNTER/Weight 0.1: The First Bell
By two o’clock in the morning, Orth Godlove of the Consolidated Counterweight Technocracy had chosen four names. Cassander Timaeus Berenice: an Apostolosian medic with a cool head and a noble background. They’d be able to use their connections, Orth thought....
01.11.2024
COUNTER/Weight Prequel Debut 8 PM ET 1/12 on twitch.tv/friendsatthetable!
Hello hello hello everyone!! Instead of a new episode of PALISADE, here is YOUR announcement that TOMORROW AT 8 PM ET we are going to be DEBUTING THE COUNTER/Weight PREQUEL OVER ON TWITCH.TV/FRIENDSATTHETABLE!!!! Can't make it to the Twitch stream??...
12.30.2023
PALISADE 38: Reach In / Reach Out Pt. 2
Across the Bontive Valley, hardened members of the Cause join with recent recruits and regular civilians to kick off a region-wide celebration of their new liberation. Because it represents the first chance to publicly commemorate not only the group’s most...
12.22.2023
PALISADE 37: Reach In / Reach Out Pt. 1
The dominos have begun to fall. Across Palisade, the Cause’s efforts have begun to be rewarded. And soon, its members will reward themselves with celebrations across the Bontive Valley. But, at least for the crew of the Blue...
12.22.2023
PALISADE 36: Weapons Ready Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for discussion of civilian casualties. On Palisade, it seems as if possibility has begun to bloom. The Stellar Combustor has been deactivated. The Grav Trains that run through the Diadem and across the planet have...
12.08.2023
PALISADE 35: Weapons Ready Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for civilian casualties, description of the Kent State shooting. With the Divine Filigree recovered by the Blue Channel and transferred to Cause leadership, a choice must be made. Spurred on by Millennium Break’s recent...
12.01.2023
PALISADE 34: Seize the Chance Pt. 5
This episode carries content warnings for death, the description of corpses, false memories, illusions, vomiting, and medical experimentation. Where has the crew of the Blue Channel gone? For Eclectic Opposition, the answer is easy, if dire: In the passenger seat...
11.25.2023
New Merch Alert!
HELLO. I AM HERE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHECK OUT FRIENDSATTHETABLE.SHOP! All of this is covered in the audio but I will also WRITE OUT EVERYTHING HERE~! There's a lot to go over so here's a big list: NEW Twilight...
11.18.2023
PALISADE 33: Seize the Chance Pt. 4
Standing astride the Diadem, the massive Affliction called Dust first sapped sound from the world and then turned its attention to the train car at the center of a multi-factional chase. Now, in the depths of the ruined megacity, those...
11.10.2023
PALISADE 32: Seize the Chance Pt. 3
This episode carries content warnings for state surveillance. The crew of the Blue Channel battles their way towards a train heading east. Inside one of its cars is the Diadem Grav Train control system, a device that could turn the...
11.03.2023
PALISADE 31: Seize the Chance Pt. 2
In the city of Carmathen, the Fabreal Duchy has spread itself too thin. Look only at the entrance to the Diadem Grav Train’s control center: Once guarded by a full detachment of Stel Kesh’s most reliable soldiers. Now, guarded by...
10.27.2023
PALISADE 30: Seize the Chance Pt. 1
There is, apparently, no time for rest. An opportunity emerges: With Kesh in chaos on the planet and Nideo not yet in proper posture, the Grav Trains which run through the Diadem and which vein across Palisade’s continents could be...
10.15.2023
PALISADE 29: Honesty and Integrity Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for imprisonment, withholding medical care, civilian deaths, medical experiments, blood, description of injury, and death, “What sort of shape is it though?” “It is empire.” “Yes, no, I get that, but... Is empire a square?...
10.06.2023
PALISADE 28: Honesty and Integrity Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for imprisonment, withholding medical care, chemical warfare and civilian casualties. The Blue Channel orbits Palisade unhelmed, one of its members sacrificed and two under lock and key in the brig of a ship hiding in...
09.29.2023
PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for hallucinations, death, and brief mention of mind control. Across Palisade, the gears of Kesh’s occupation grind to halt, for however brief a time. Attaches clear the schedules of their client-commanders. Chefs discard the still-fresh...
09.22.2023
PALISADE 26: Resentment and Frustration Pt 1
This episode carries content warnings for discussions of assassinations and death. The star at the center of the Palisade system seemed to release a breath, and all at once across the Bilateral Intercession, the line between “outcome,” “consequence,” and “blowback”...
09.05.2023
PALISADE 25: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 4
This episode carries content warnings for body horror, mass death/genocide, mind control, and extreme heat. For months, even before the sun bulged red, the only way to think about events on Palisade was with large numbers. Troop maneuvers. Logistical networks....
09.04.2023
Hunter x Hunter Show Announcement - What Its Called and How to Get It
Hi everyone! The Hunter x Hunter show exists, it's called Media Club Plus, it's free, it has its own feed. It will eventually be available everywhere you can find podcasts but right now the android apps are lagging behind. You...
09.01.2023
PALISADE 24: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 3
This episode carries content warnings for vomiting, mass death/genocide, mind control, manipulation, body horror, forced body modification, and extreme heat. They arrive in the long rings of the Stellar Combustor to no greeting, and this they are thankful for. The...
08.27.2023
PALISADE 23: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for body horror, discussion of mass destruction/death, small/tight spaces, indentured servants and slavery, torture, forced body modification, and extreme heat. The ball is in the air; water pours from the pitcher; the rope draws taut....
08.18.2023
PALISADE 22: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for body horror, description of teeth, discussion of mass destruction/death, small/tight spaces, indentured servants and slavery, and extreme heat. Behind a twirling ornament of metal, the sun grows—the sun grows. Inside a concrete body, the...
08.11.2023
PALISADE 21: In Their Fear Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for discussion of mass destruction/death, discussion of medical treatment, mind reading and medical coercion, discussion of ethnic cleansing. Across Palisade, fingers rest on triggers, and some triggers are bigger than others. In clammy rooms, sweat...
08.04.2023
PALISADE 20: In Their Fear Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for mention of blood, discussion of mass destruction/death, discussion of medical treatment, mind reading and medical coercion. The wheel turns, for the crew of the Blue Channel, there hasn’t been time for reckoning. Instead: a...
07.21.2023
PALISADE 19: How It Always Looks Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for civilian harm and death. The Bilateral Intercession’s net continues to spread across Palisade in response to (and retribution for) the events on the Isle of the Broken Key. In the east, the Frontier Syndicate...
07.14.2023
PALISADE 18: How It Always Looks Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for distorted and layered vocals, discussion of civilian death and mass destruction, description of being bound, tight spaces, compulsive thoughts and mind control After the calamitous encounter at the Isle of the Broken Key, the...
06.30.2023
PALISADE 17: Upon Our Grace Pt. 4
This episode carries content warnings for blood, civilian harm and death, parental death, conscription, torture and kidnapping. Under the wings of the Kestrel White, war washes ashore the Isle of the Broken Key. Soon after the crew of the Blue...
06.23.2023
PALISADE 16: Upon Our Grace Pt. 3
This episode carries content warnings for civilian harm and death, torture, conscription, and kidnapping. With the list of Bilateral Intelligence Service spies secure and the immediate threat from Fabreal Knight Tenn Alpenglow resolved, the crew of the Blue Channel discusses...
06.16.2023
PALISADE 15: Upon Our Grace Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for civilian harm and death, torture, conscription, hallucination, uncanny visions, body horror, bodily transformation, kidnapping, and medical experimentation. Having disregarded their official mission in an effort to both help the Figure in Bismuth and spurn...
06.09.2023
PALISADE 14: Upon Our Grace Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for discussion of blood loss and medical coercion. The crew of the Blue Channel find themselves at a crossroad. After helping to return the Cause to its feet after a period of over-extension, they discovered...
06.02.2023
PALISADE 13: Worth the Trouble Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for discussion of death. With the Cause stretched thin, it is up to the Blue Channel to rearm, resupply, and restore their allies. It should be a simple operation, but each delivery of supplies comes...
05.26.2023
PALISADE 12: Worth the Trouble Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for mind reading and medical coercion. Though the Cause has made important gains during their most recent efforts, they nevertheless find themselves limping. In the northwest, both Jade Kill and Grey Pond find themselves stretched...
05.19.2023
PALISADE 11: The Wheels Turning Pt. 2
Across Palisade, the Bilateral Intecession continue to respond to the Cause's expansion into the Bontive Valley. For some, like the Swordbearer Ramondre, this means a direct response in defense of one's honor. But for others, like BIS Commander Connadine, it...
05.12.2023
PALISADE 10: The Wheels Turning Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for death and gun violence. While the Cause was executing its daring (and risky) capture of the northern Bontive Valley, Palisade continued to spin. In the south east, a witch considers what she might do...
05.04.2023
PALISADE 09: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 4
This episode carries content warnings for blood, uncanny body horror, and unconsciousness. The Blue Channel’s mission was delivered in simple terms: Prevent their target, codenamed Gem, from reaching her destination in the Fabreal Duchy’s capital city. But as the mission...
04.28.2023
PALISADE 08: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 3
This episode carries content warnings for violence in a public place, uncanny body horror, blood, tight spaces, and discussion of claustrophobia. As Brnine and Phrygian attend to the mysteries (mundane and uncanny) on the Isle of the Broken Key, the...
04.21.2023
PALISADE 07: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 2
The Isle of the Broken Key sits in the northern Whisk Sea, shrouded in mist and mystery both. Tonight, one of its oldest structures, a stately seaside fortress, plays home to a revolutionary masquerade party. Its hosts, informed by both...
04.14.2023
PALISADE 06: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 1
This episode carries content warnings for the discussion of civilian deaths and the discussion of kidnapping. In typical fashion, the mission has a name as ostentatious as its object is mundane. “Operation Midnight Lapidary” is meant to be, in its...
04.06.2023
PALISADE 05: I Would LIke to Help You Pt. 2
This episode carries content warnings for coercion, mind reading, discussion of blood, and uncanny bodily manipulation. With one mission behind them and a new one approaching quickly, the crew of the Blue Channel finds time to relax in the most...

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Friends at the Table episodes:

PALISADE 45: Where They Are Pt. 3

PALISADE 44: Where They Are Pt. 2

PALISADE 43: Where They Are Pt. 1

PALISADE 42: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 4

PALISADE 41: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 3

PALISADE 40: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 2

PALISADE 39: A Mechanical Whine Pt. 1

No Palisade Announcement (sorry!!!)

COUNTER/Weight 0.5: Thrilled Enough

COUNTER/Weight 0.4: New Perspectives

COUNTER/Weight 0.3: Under the Bus

COUNTER/Weight 0.2: Valuable Connections

COUNTER/Weight 0.1: The First Bell

COUNTER/Weight Prequel Debut 8 PM ET 1/12 on twitch.tv/friendsatthetable!

PALISADE 38: Reach In / Reach Out Pt. 2

PALISADE 37: Reach In / Reach Out Pt. 1

PALISADE 36: Weapons Ready Pt. 2

PALISADE 35: Weapons Ready Pt. 1

PALISADE 34: Seize the Chance Pt. 5

New Merch Alert!

PALISADE 33: Seize the Chance Pt. 4

PALISADE 32: Seize the Chance Pt. 3

PALISADE 31: Seize the Chance Pt. 2

PALISADE 30: Seize the Chance Pt. 1

PALISADE 29: Honesty and Integrity Pt. 2

PALISADE 28: Honesty and Integrity Pt. 1

PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2

PALISADE 26: Resentment and Frustration Pt 1

PALISADE 25: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 4

Hunter x Hunter Show Announcement - What Its Called and How to Get It

PALISADE 24: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 3

PALISADE 23: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 2

PALISADE 22: An Impossible Ideal Pt. 1

PALISADE 21: In Their Fear Pt. 2

PALISADE 20: In Their Fear Pt. 1

PALISADE 19: How It Always Looks Pt. 2

PALISADE 18: How It Always Looks Pt. 1

PALISADE 17: Upon Our Grace Pt. 4

PALISADE 16: Upon Our Grace Pt. 3

PALISADE 15: Upon Our Grace Pt. 2

PALISADE 14: Upon Our Grace Pt. 1

PALISADE 13: Worth the Trouble Pt. 2

PALISADE 12: Worth the Trouble Pt. 1

PALISADE 11: The Wheels Turning Pt. 2

PALISADE 10: The Wheels Turning Pt. 1

PALISADE 09: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 4

PALISADE 08: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 3

PALISADE 07: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 2

PALISADE 06: The Canvas of Dreams Pt. 1

PALISADE 05: I Would LIke to Help You Pt. 2

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