Unfamiliar Heroes 10 – The Renegade Starship Part 3

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 10 Summary

Captured by rebels, our three heroes are fighting back. Malena, Adre, and Mariah have incapacitated the rebel captain and four guards. Now they are taking the fight into the shuttle bay, where they are causing havoc. Join them in the tenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes as Malena, Adre, and Mariah attempt to escape the rebel ship!

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/

List of Lasers & Feelings Hacks: https://writing-alchemy.net/resources/lasers-and-feelings-hacks/

Mythbusters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters

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

Pearl from Steven Universe: http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Pearl

Context for naming the planet “Tanagra” comes from the Star Trek episode Darmok: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)

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.

Forcefield: Sci Fi Generator or Motor or Forcefield Loop by Euphrosyyn | License: Creative Commons 0

The Vulcan Laughing Gas sequence was created from the following three sounds:

Gas being released: file0571_air_hiss_weak.wav by beerbelly38 | License: Attribution Noncommercial

Chuckles: evil laughter coughing joker.wav by bulbastre | License: Attribution

Laughter: maniac joker evil crazy stupid