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As surely the sun rises, the night follows. We can fight it all we like, we can try to extend that precious moment in time, but all fade to darkness. If we are blessed, we may see the light of the moon for one last fleeting, beautiful moment, and pray the passing will be peaceful. For a warrior, however, that peace only comes when it is too late.

On the trail of the Eternal, our heroes grit their teeth and do everything they can to put down this monster. What will it take, and what must be given up to achieve their goals?

This episode concludes the first story arc of Embers of War; Chrysalis Split! Running this game over the past year has been challenging and exhilarating, but don't think the story is over! Stay tuned for the next story arc, The Ghosts of Amegawa. As always, we thank you for your support, and enjoy the episode!

CREDITS

GM and Lady Kagami, The Storyteller – Kyrie Page

Kanegara, The Passerby – Allen Ibrahim

Nadeshiko Tendou- Six Dettmar

Wandering Rain – June Baker

Rising Phoenix – Jennifer Unkle

Music, Additional Sound Effects, and Opening/Ending – Koichi Maou

Sound effects provided by Mixkit and FreeSound

Tenra Bansho Zero – Written by Junichi Inoue, translated by Andy Kitkowski

Our story of two Doskvol ghost hunters continues. They get arrested. They are released. They negotiate with an insurance claim adjuster. Ghosts are summoned, demons are chatted up, the floor collapses, shots are fired. Just another day, I suppose.

 We're playing Blades in the Dark by John Harper! It can be found most places online that pen and paper RPGs are sold, but most notably it's included in the recent itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice. Six is @sixdettmar, Jen is @jbu3, and Kyrie is @KyrieAPage.

Our intro music is Piano 39 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site. 

Welcome to the city of Doskvol. Yo, it sucks in here. The rich trample the poor, crime is out of control, ghosts haunt the shadows of buildings and alleyways, and the government couldn't care less. It is in this town, the base setting of Blades in the Dark, that we start the story of Myre Skora and Scully Booker, two smalltime ghost hunters about to get in way over their heads.

We're playing Blades in the Dark by John Harper! It can be found most places online that pen and paper RPGs are sold, but most notably it's included in the recent itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice. Six is @sixdettmar, Jen is @jbu3, and Kyrie is @KyrieAPage.

Our intro music is Piano 39 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site. 

After a false flag attack with a biological weapon works a little too well, the Andric Alliance scrambles to address an overdue issue- a government that borders on junta. Military leaders like Admiral Duke Brand Tierson of Sulfur and Night Minister Angelica Ainsford brace their various schemes to weather a possible influence of civilian interests, while Mayor Side Dorsum Sardailles coaxes Professor Saya Fryll to step up and push back hawk interests. A chatty robot's permission slip gets a councilmember's approval, and alone in a conference room, a Briefcase protests the end.

We're playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins! You can find our players on Twitter: Six is @sixdettmar, Kyrie is @KyrieAPage, and Dylan is @lowpolyrobot. If you prefer Cohost, try @sixdettmar, @KyriePage, and @lowpolyrobot respectively.

Our intro music is Ultra by Saverio "Savfk" Blasi, whom you can find on Twitter here, Facebook here, and Soundcloud here.

We weren't satisfied with the ending we had. It was fine, but... there were still some issues to be resolved. And so Six and Kyrie sit down as Signal Static and Robin Aquila to bring Starsung Distance's biggest rivalry to a close.

We're playing Last Shooting! You can find its creator on Twitter at @Gen_Ironicus. Six is @sixdettmar, Jen is @jbu3, Kyrie is @KyrieAPage, and Kat is comfortably free of Twitter's oppressive grasp.

Our intro music is Cyber 12 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site.

Dziban took off their headphones, and sighed. It was fun watching the crew of The Cullet implode via the camera they'd hidden on the bridge, but now it made it pretty hard to imagine they'd come find Dziban and tell them the secret to getting back to the Cillara Sector quickly. Still, the mercenary had heard some pretty interesting things through that bug. Perhaps the road trip was just enough time for that intel to age a little bit, and give potential clients time to realize what it might be worth.

They prepped the launch protocol, and calculated an autopilot back to the Sector. ...WOW that was a long ETA. Ah well. That's what cryo sleep's for, right?

We're playing Beam Saber! Its creator, Austin Ramsay, can be found on Twitter at @notaninn. Six is @sixdettmar, Jen is @jbu3, Kyrie is @KyrieAPage, and Kat is comfortably free of Twitter's oppressive grasp.

Our intro music is Cyber 12 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site.

Welcome, friend, as we begin a new journey. This is our new sci-fi campaign, called The Wayward Line. We're starting out with a pair of worldbuilding episodes played in Kingdom, our GM of the game to follow (Six) joined by Dylan and Kyrie to start building. The Andric Alliance is at a crossroads. Their civil war with the Andric Union is beginning to cool, just as tensions with their millennia-old enemy the Federated States of Irrim threatens to heat up. How will the Alliance survive the trials to come? Let's figure it out.

We're playing Kingdom by Ben Robbins! You can find our players on Twitter: Six is @sixdettmar, Kyrie is @KyrieAPage, and Dylan is @lowpolyrobot. If you prefer Cohost, try @sixdettmar, @KyriePage, and @lowpolyrobot respectively.

Our intro music is Ultra, and later in the episode we feature Release over some narration- both are by Saverio "Savfk" Blasi, whom you can find on Twitter here, Facebook here, and Soundcloud here.

When it came time to leave Earth, no one was left behind, unless they insisted. Some did, of course. But most people weren't willing to die instead of leave the planet. And though most groups got the relatively well-built colony ships, some people were considered less desirable by society, and thus were given inferior resources. In particular, those who were incarcerated at the time of the evacuation of Earth were given especially useless ships and equipment to survive with.

Naturally, there were deaths. But on the whole, the former prisoners pulled together, and survived. They built their own home, far in uncharted space. Vestis Station. And for the people who had kept them in cages for offensives grave, insignificant, or imaginary... they just decided to never speak with them again.

Life had other plans, and sometimes the descendants of those bastards showed up on their doorstep. This is the story of one such incident.

We're playing Beam Saber! Its creator, Austin Ramsay, can be found on Twitter at @notaninn. Six is @sixdettmar, Jen is @jbu3, Kyrie is @KyrieAPage, and Kat is comfortably free of Twitter's oppressive grasp.

Our intro music is Cyber 12 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site.

It does not take much for slivers of fractures to become chasms. When words and actions fail, the gap can only grow larger. How far of a bridge can you make to regain the connection? And can the connection ever be quite as strong?

The Eternal appears, with only one deadly goal; secure another Lotus Petal. As an engine of immense cruelty and power, he challenges our heroes and pushes them to their limits. His blade may rend flesh, but sharp words and boiling emotions may push our heroes to their limits.

Special Thanks: Nick Seese as "The Worker"

CREDITS

GM and Lady Kagami, The Storyteller – Kyrie Page

Kanegara, The Passerby – Allen Ibrahim

Nadeshiko Tendou- Six Dettmar

Wandering Rain – June Baker

Rising Phoenix – Jennifer Unkle

Music, Additional Sound Effects, and Opening/Ending – Koichi Maou

Sound effects provided by Mixkit and FreeSound

Tenra Bansho Zero – Written by Junichi Inoue, translated by Andy Kitkowski

It was uncommon for Davis Deadwater to be at a loss for words, but this was a very special circumstance. He tilted his head this way and that, staring at the report on his desk. In front of him, a Meridian intelligence officer squirmed in anxious discomfort. Finally, he looked up at the officer. "So they got ate by a... a black hole?"

"It seems that way, sir... the Anti-Entropists managed to generate one with that massive robot of theirs, and as the document says, they attempted to go into hyperspace, but then we lost them."

Deadwater frowned. "And it couldn't just be that you lost track of them?"

The officer shook their head. "We checked their heading, where hyperspace would have taken them. Nothing. No trail, they never arrived."

Deadwater signed. "I was starting to like Robbie, you know. Good kid. Could sense the way the wind was blowing. Which is hard to do, in space." He drummed a finger on his knee. "Well. Guess it's plan B, then."

We're playing Beam Saber! Its creator, Austin Ramsay, can be found on Twitter at @notaninn. Six is @sixdettmar, Jen is @jbu3, Kyrie is @KyrieAPage, and Kat is comfortably free of Twitter's oppressive grasp.

Our intro music is Cyber 12 from Demon Souls, a Japanese royalty free music site.