Unfamiliar Heroes 9 – The Renegade Starship Part 2

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 9 Summary

In the ninth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes Malena, Adre, and Mariah have been captured by rebels. Join them as they meet the rebel captain and implement their desperate escape plan.

Malena the intellectual scientist, Adre the hot-shot engineer, and Mariah the alien doctor are all officers from the Consortium starship the Raptor. These three surprisingly senior officers were all participating in a test flight of Z-crystals, a revolutionary new type of propulsion crystal, when their shuttle was intercepted by the rebel ship Sojourner. Join them for this improvised, tabletop adventure that was created with the Lasers & Feelings role-playing system!

Unfamiliar Heroes is a new podcast series where people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or diverse minds use tabletop role-playing games to together create stories that center disabled, sick, and mentally diverse characters. In its core values this project centers the experiences of people living at the intersections of oppression. Unfamiliar Heroes is part of the Writing Alchemy Podcast.

Game System: Lasers & Feelings

Storyteller: Jordan Green

Players: Fay Onyx, Meghan Dornbrock, Erin Hawley

This illustration depicts three characters, each from a different genre of story, and each with a disability. On the left is a black gnome archer riding in a chariot pulled by a large brown dog. The chariot has a chair in it so that they can sit instead of stand. In the middle is a Latina woman manipulating a tech device on her wrist as she begins to go invisible. She is wearing an air filtering mask of the type that people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sometimes wear. On the right is a white muscular superhero wearing a very gay, blue superhero outfit. He has lightning crackling between his two hands, which are shaped atypically. This beautiful work of art was created the amazing Rose Adare!

Show Notes:

Game System

Lasers & Feelings: http://www.onesevendesign.com/laserfeelings/

Fay’s Links

You can become my patron on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/WritingAlchemy

The RSS feed of this podcast is: https://writing-alchemy.net/feed/podcast

Unfamiliar Heroes: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/unfamiliar-heroes/

Meghan’s Links

One Shot Podcast Network: http://oneshotpodcast.com

Modifier (podcast): http://oneshotpodcast.com/category/podcasts/modifier/

Tales from Thedas (podcast): coming soon to the One Shot Network

Dragon Age Role-Playing Game: http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_(tabletop_RPG)

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/meglish

Trill (Star Trek species): http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Trill

Erin‘s Links

Blog: http://geekygimp.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/geekygimp

Idobi Radio show Geek Girl Riot: http://idobi.com/podcast-show/geek-girl-riot/

Jordan‘s Links

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jokuge

Music and Sound Credits

Intro: Kickin’ in the Turbo (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Game theme: Burners by ICUH8N is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

The release of the xzeenon gas was created from the following two sounds:

Replicator sound: Laser/Machine humming by Shredster7 | License: Creative Commons 0

Gas being released: file0571_air_hiss_strongest.wav by beerbelly38 | License: Attribution Noncommercial

Podcast announcements: The Place Where I’ll Return To (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The firing on the dilithium crystals effect was created from the following three sounds:

Initial firing sound: Arcade Laser 014.wav by debsound | License: Attribution Noncommercial

Phaser fire: Beam 4.wav by SieuAmThanh | License: Creative Commons 0

Oscillating field: Beam.wav by Deatlev | License: Attribution

The damaged terminal effect was created from the following four sounds:

Initial damage sound: electric_sparks.mp3 by Connum | License: Attribution Noncommercial

Electrical arcing: sparks.wav by Marregheriti | License: Creative Commons 0

Electrici