The Coffin Club

Tonight on The Coffin Club: session zero, character creation and world-building for Death In Space. Grint forgets everything and leaves the past behind. Bea follows a light from the future. Sophie finds hope in dreams. Lavender should probably dig more than two graves before setting off on revenge. Everyone learns a very important lesson about putting your name on a lease for a shitty house. https://thecoffin.club

Ever go on a cruise and wish you could live there? Yegg Battallion gets to live the experience, for better or worse. Sixty-Nine goes off the deep end into religion. Deck embraces tradition. Pleather shoots down possible suitors. Sparky takes another crack at team-building exercises. Everyone gets to play dress up. https://thecoffin.club

Excerpt of Interview With Marisol Chapman 19/32/06
Q: So you shut down Galatea.
"We did."
Q: Controversial decision, a lot of your support base didn't approve.
"[laughs] I don't care now and I didn't care then. It was time. Galatea served its purpose. It was an open air lab, our testing grounds; when it became a theme park, that's when I saw the writing was on the wall."
Q: Better to cash out while you're ahead?
"Absolutely. If not, the House takes everything. I mean what do you want me to say, we didn't make miracles? We did. We're going to change the world, and that starts with everyone living forever. That's not the end of it. Isn't that wild? That's not the end."
Q: So what's next?
"I don't know. That's the funny thing about having enough time and everything you need to learn more and do more. I don't have to think about what's next. There will be something; new wonders, strange revelations. And we'll live to see them if we want to. I think that's more than enough."

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Bea, Jess, Lavender and Sophie play a one-shot of Marie Enger's Casket Land. We give it a fair shake but ultimately end up stopping the game to talk about our problems with the system and the ups and downs of using PBTA as a mechanical framework. Our apologies for the slips and assumptions of pronouns. https://thecoffin.club

With another victory obtained, the legend of Yegg Battalion cements itself in earnest. Sixty-Nine gathers the faithful. Deck sells out but in a cool way. Sparky appeals to a higher power. Pleather asserts her own authority and punishments. Everyone's problems are solved forever! https://thecoffin.club

Bea, Jess, Lavender and Sophie play For The Queen second edition. For The Queen is story-telling game about loyalty, honor, royalty and projecting what you think other people are onto them. That's why we made a perfectly normal Queen who is undoubtably human and definitely beholden to death, inertia and other human things. https://thecoffin.club

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what's GOOD you fucking SCRUB welcome to BITCH CITY population YOU! YEAH! Fucking get some you weak-ass chinless FUCK. How the fuck did they let you in if your scrub ass can't land a fucking headshot, did you join the TEF so you can just fondle a gun and pretend it's your big fucking boner? Fucking idiot. Dominated your ass like we're back on fucking Spielberg, how the fuck do you keep losing so fucking much. Lucky fucking you, they're transferring me over to Y so I gotta stop whipping your ass for the glory of Terra and go do some REAL fucking work. They're gonna promote me and make a fucking statue of me dry-humping you while you struggle to jungle. Idiot. It's been real fun but let me give you some advice: fuck yourself and die, Paintball. Caveman OUT! [audio of Trooper playing guitar, song unknown]

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The chosen saviors of Okamura receive their just rewards. Pleather denies centrism. Deck abuses her authority. Sixty-Nine entertains a proposal. Sparky's just going through it, man. Everyone gets to see the rigorous and thorough process of mission planning. https://thecoffin.club

Why was the sky promised to me?

Why is it so far away?

I sang as a child. I don't now.

The flight of words upon the air,

wet emotion pouring from my breath,

I always pretend it meant something.

Childhood forever. Young forever.

A scream preserved in clearest amber.

Hands around my throat and I'm not a child.

I pray to dream that I am an animal.

My deepest wish is to be a bird.

But I was a beast of earth and dust,

A horse lead astray by wandering eyes,

On the edge of yet another drop.

And the Captain begged that I fly.

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What's a great way to center yourselves after massive troop losses and horrors beneath the ice of an alien planet? Team-building! Wild Filibuster, Perfect Smoke, My Favorite Hope and Handsome Tropic have a lovely day of frolic, athletics, leisure and mandatory attendance with Yegg Batallion's First Inaugural Horse Race & Athletics Competition. Horses do their best now and are preparing. Everybody, please listen warmly until it is ready. https://thecoffin.club