Incantations

Monte Cook published a second design diary, this time focusing on the experience points you can gain in Invisible Sun. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - Design Diary 2 (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) Design Diary 2: Acquiring Different Abilities with Different Experience Points -- linkHamlet's Hit Points, by Robin D. Laws -- linkReview - Hamlet’s Hit Points -- link We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

We're back onto the Path of Suns this episode, and we also discuss how we might make surreal dragons. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - The Blue Sun (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) The Blue Sun -- linkThe Sandman -- linkMidnight Nation -- linkSegment Two - Surreal Dragons (Reflecting a Different Truth) Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

We've got another single topic episode for you this week. We're talking about the Invisible Sun Kickstarter ARG, the puzzles, the solutions, and where things are at now. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - Invisible Sun Kickstarter ARG (A Distant Light Pierces the Mist) Alternate Reality Game (ARG) -- linkPath of Suns website -- linkG+ Invisible Sun community -- linkKickstarter puzzlesClocksOur Kickstarter History -- linkThe Invisible Sun Kickstarter Is Different -- linkDeluxe Games -- linkGroup Purchases -- linkShipping -- linkChanging the Way RPGs Are Played -- linkThe Directed Campaign -- linkThe Active Sun -- linkDetails of the Contents -- linkA Solid DoorThe door was made known with the Green Sun update -- linkSolution #1The first solution was figured out based upon Paladin Revenant’s theory about the clocks -- linkPutting the clocks in hour order and taking the roman numeral the minute hand is pointing at will give you the key: 376298415Door leads to Are You a Spider or an Ant? -- linkSolution #2Clue about the clocks dropped in the Indigo Sun update -- link“There is more than one way for clocks to be keys”Ryan Chaddock and Robert Marino seemed to have figured this one out -- linkPutting the clocks in order of the minute hands and taking the roman numeral the hour hand is pointing at gives you the key: 841793265Door leads to Are You an Ant or a Spider? -- linkSolution #3Memory stick, The Blade, was found in a cache with an image of Wrong Cat and a text file. -- linkThe image had white text on the transparent background which read “If you are looking for lies, use Grey”What Also Opens the Door.txt had the following text: To see that the door is opened by a lie, you may need an extra eye.Another hint was dropped in a Tweet, which I cannot locate. It was an image of a clock, and I thought it was pointing at the fourth hour.Hour four on the clock is incorrect: IIII instead of IVEntering IIII in the door opens itDoor leads to Fartown -- linkSpiders and AntsThe solid door puzzle leads to two different pages about Spiders and Ants.There has been much discussion about what Spiders and Ants are, but no solid conclusions yet.Monte is a Spider -- linkGeocachesSeveral updates included GPS coordinates to geocachesSome of the caches had USB memory sticks that contained files that predicted keyfallsDigital contents of the caches -- linkTwo images were foundChangery image asks about the solid door -- linkWrong Cat pointing to the third Solid Door puzzle -- linkClues were hidden in the background of the imagesLooking through the bytes of the images revealed no further hidden informationCurrent stateShanna stated in the Kickstarter comments that there are two or three puzzles that have not been solved -- linkThis was before the third solution to the Solid Door puzzle was foundNot all of the caches have been recovered, or reported on the G+ groupNothing conclusive was determined about Spiders and Ants Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

We've got some new stuff to talk about on Incantations. Monte Cook published a design diary and we go over the details he included. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - Dev Diary 1 (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) Invisible Sun Design Diary 1: Stats -- link Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

This time on Incantations we wander back down the Path of Suns to the Green sun. After talking about the verdant expanses we talk about secret keeping techniques of alchemists and how they might be useful in our Invisible Sun campaigns. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - The Green Sun (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) The Green Sun -- linkThe Parliament of Trees -- link (wiki), link2 (DC Wikia) Segment Two - Secret Keeping Techniques of the Alchemists (A Distant Light Pierces the Mist) The Secrets of Alchemy -- linkTwelve Keys of Basil Valentine -- linkThe Ninth Gate (movie) -- link Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

This time on Incantations we focus on the first order of the Invisible Church, the Order of the Vance. We also take some time to talk about the classic Argento horror film Suspiria in the lead up to Halloween. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - Vances (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) Vance video overview -- (link)Vances (Kickstarter update) -- (link)Dying Earth, Jack Vance -- (link) Segment Two - Suspiria (A Distant Light Pierces the Mist) Information on the "Three Mothers" trilogy -- (link)A gallery of stills from Suspiria (NSFW) -- (link)A youtube video with a nice sample of the Suspiria soundtrack from Goblin -- (link)Do you dare click the link? I warned you -- (link) Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

This time we start down the Path of Suns by talking about the Silver sun. We also discuss how to take orcs and make them Surreal to fit into the Invisible Sun RPG. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) The Silver Sun Overview of the Suns and the Silver Sun (Kickstarter description) -- link Segment Two - (Reflect a Different Truth) Making Orcs Surreal Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can also be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at Drivethrurpg. Also check out his currently running kickstarter for a Dungeon World compatible RPG setting with fantasy audio tracks (link). Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

This time we talk about the character sentences that we'll be working with in Invisible Sun, then discuss Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol and how it can be used as inspiration for the game. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show NotesSegment One - (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) Character Sentences Some examples of character sentences from the Kickstarter -- linkFoundation -- linkHeart -- linkOrder -- linkForte -- link Segment Two - (A Distant Light Pierces the Mist) Doom Patrol, Book 1: Crawling from the Wreckage. Doom Patrol (wikipedia) -- linkAmazon entry for "Doom Patrol, Book 1: Crawling from the Wreckage" TPB -- link Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can also be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at Drivethrurpg. Also check out his currently running kickstarter for a Dungeon World compatible RPG setting with fantasy audio tracks (link). Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS

It's Incantations, an Invisible Sun Podcast. This is our inaugural episode in which we talk a bit about ourselves then run through an overview of the upcoming Invisible Sun RPG from Monte Cook Games. Welcome to the Incantations Podcast Blog. We will use this blog to post show notes and other material related to Invisible Sun. We expect that most of the interaction will occur through posting to the Invisible Sun G+ community. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - (Salvedictions)  Host introductions Segment Two - (The Careful Gaze of the Grigori) Introducing Invisible Sun Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory -- linkThe components of the Invisible Sun box / the Black Cube -- linkThe Path of Suns -- linkThe sooth deck -- linkThe Unmarked podcast -- linkThree modes of game play -- linkThe Incantations Podcast Blog -- link Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at Drivethrurpg. Also check out his currently running kickstarter for a Dungeon World compatible RPG setting with fantasy audio tracks (link). Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS