Episode 20: Sky Riders and the Silent Outpost – A Venus Chronicles Serial

Summary

This Actual Play session was run as an interlude during our time playing the ‘What Comes Home to Roost‘ campaign as Colonial Marines for Free League’s Alien RPG. It was also around the time that I started putting together the 7-part series of blog posts and podcast episodes on preparation for improvisation that comprise Episodes 13-19 on this site.

This session demonstrates a different example of the use of improvisation toward a specific genre and player-experience goal for atmosphere and context, but unlike our goals for Alien, this is high adventure pulp heroics in an implausible sword and planet setting of super-science and derring-do. Some of the techniques are similar, some are identical, and some are divergent from what we have discussed in the series so far.

This session uses one of our favorite systems (Ubiquity) to support a setting of my own invention. This was our second foray into my version of Venus that never was, but should have been. I hope that you enjoy it~

If you would like to watch this on ⁠YouTube⁠ rather than just listen to it, the link is:

⁠Sky Riders and the Silent Outpost⁠

If you would like the watch the original session:

⁠Sky Riders and the Mist Pirates of Venus⁠

If you would like to listen to the podcast version of the first session, with its commentary on our play, that is Episode 6 of this podcast.

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Episode 6: Sky Riders and the Mist Pirates – A Venus Chronicles Serial

Summary

Have you ever been suddenly contacted in the middle of your night to play a game? My friends have grown to expect such things. What follows in this episode is an Actual Play recording from June of 2019 where I thrust two trusting and clever players into the toxic mists of an alien world in the role of Venusian Lancers – bearers of the Lancers’ Lightning Blades and famed Riders in the Sky! Come with me now to an age of danger, betrayal, and high-flying adventure, in a Venus that never was, but should have been~

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