The Drunk and The Ugly

The crew of the Fantoma Reine has seen a lot in their journeys, and finally they have a moment to rest and recover from the perils of a few months on the high seas.  Declan’s family has been relocated to the empty manor house in Canguin, the Fey have thoroughly dissected Captain Valentin and uncovered a source for his Black Strands: his heart is freezing as a result of his hatred.  Before he...

Getting a planet back has turned out to be much more difficult than Faydra Ramirez expected.  In their search of a distant planet, the captain and crew of the Brilliant Resolve are finding themselves deep in ruins surrounded by odd mechanical beetles.  They appear to be odd carrion feeders of both flesh and cybernetics.  Mysteries of the ancient ruins deepen. MUSIC CREDITS Phantom from Space Kevin...

After a harrowing battle with Kheired-Din and ,  the crew of the Fantoma Reine has to take time taking aboard the survivors of the Strange Skies  and slaves who kept it moving.  Among the captured are highly valued members of the Corsairs, which Captain Valentin realizes can be used as bargaining chips in negotiating for others captured by vicious pirate group. Additionally, Declan makes arrangeme...

A group of perfectly normal kids is on a trip to the local theater to see a showing of their newest production.  They discover the performance to be highly engrossing and immersive.  The show comes to life and leaps off the stage, leaving them free to walk on and into it. Side Chatter PLAYERS Axe – Eric Windholm.  Creepy looking kid of 15.  Wears an eyepatch because he threw one eye away for...

In the year 40,000, all is war.  The Koronus Expanse is under attack from all angles by beings that want to destroy all organic matter from the system out of a need for sustenance or merely from spite.  Under such assault, the Imperium of Man cannot adequately meet all threats and thus contracts work out to Rogue Traders.  In the inside edge of the Expanse, we find one such trader, Faydra Ramirez,...

The crew of the Fantoma Reine is finally reunited with their precious ship, and Jeremiah Berek, the self-proclaimed pirate king, who has come to them asking for a temporary formal alliance against a greater threat.  Corsair captain Kheired-Din has dealt his ship a heavy blow and has been eliminating other pirates to establish himself as the one true pirate king.  This comes as a shock to the entir...

As it turns out, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.  The magistrate’s investigation into Battle’s Respite has uncovered some dark sinister blood magic that has brought back the village samurai as a terrible tainted puppet controlled by blood magic.  The village must be purified.  Or maybe Kituski should just use his sword. Our apologies for this week’s episode as reco...

After a long fight with Ussuran nobility Captain Valentin le Evariste has discovered the potential solution to the mysterious black strand that threatens his life.  He has, however, also discovered that to actually take and use it would bring about consequences that he could not live with.   A choice awaits him, just as a mysterious Avalonian man awaits Declan in the local tavern.  Fights on all f...

Aftr clearing the road and facing hard resistance from a group of motorized raiders known as the Dead Riders, the Rum Runners continue to make their way towards the job site and blaze a trail for Schumacher’s crew to roll in and get their precious Nitrous.  As can be expected, however, a warehouse full of volatile gases is considerably less stable than it was 5 years ago, and the roving dron...

The magistrates have managed the rescue of the young Otomo and broken up a local poppy operation.  However justice calls, and they now head to the small town of Battle’s Respite, greeted by large plumes of smoke.  Just another day in the life. PLAYERS Josh: Shosuro Shizuko , an upstanding Scorpion Bushi who is in no way a ninja or ninja-like entity. Honest. Distrusted even by other Scorpion...

Fresh off their initial success at Whaleland Yutuna, the Rum Runners are back to the pavement looking for another quick buck.  The crew gets tell of a truck stop that’s in need of high quality fuel to make quick runs along the coast. Time to strap in and feel the Gs. Side Chatter PLAYERS Kevin – Gnarly.   Immune 30-year-old, 6’3 former surfer, beach bum, freegan. lean, goatee-hav...

The crew of the Fantoma Reine has escaped from the palace of L’Empereur in a highly rated and intensely memorable performance.  Aboard one of many wagons in a fleet, they learn that the secrets to the Captain’s black strand lies in Ussura, where they must seek a magician with particular needs while avoiding royalty they may have shot at some point. Side Chatter Music Credits: “Ac...

A group of magistrates are called to The Gentle Blossom by nobleman Otomo Soujin, whose son Kokari has been kidnapped by the local Yakuza thugs for a huge ransom.  With no way to bring the police in on this issue, he called in enforcers that the criminals will not immediately recognize. Note: The first twenty minutes of this recording were lost as a result of issues in our first attempts to use Go...

After a harrowing crawl through ancient Syrneth ruins punctuated by modern Montaigne sewer systems and various interactions with gems that may or may not steal souls, the crew of the Fantoma Reine now finds themselves face to face with personal Fate Witches of L’Emperor and their only way out of this nightmare to head through his palace, where discovery can lead to beheading.  Furthermore, t...

The inquisition and investigation of the inquisitor is underway.  After encountering the Sororitas in the Library, the inquisitors learn that the saint in the catacombs was actually possessed by a demon and is being contained, not stored. An exorcism is in order.  Can the Inquisition cleanse this unholy realm? Side Chatter

When you work as a magician, every detail of your life must remain a mystery.  It makes things complicated in the day-to-day, and further complicates things when you’re implicated in stealing a seventy-carat diamond from a local museum. Fortunately, strange victims will have strange connections, and in a pinch you may want those people who can see through your every illusion. Music Credits:...

The crew of the Fanoma Reine has, for now at least, evaded the Inquisition forces.  It was not without considerable loss:  The crew is bearing a great many injuries from the fight in the palace and the subsequent fight and chase with the inquisition death squad, which left a few members subject to a hailstorm of gunfire. Tired and bedraggled, the crew stumbled into the underground city of Petit Ch...

The Inquisitors have been held in a month-long quarantine after their last mission led them into a Chaos Ritual.  Upon their emergence and rigorous interrogation, they have been informed that their new assignment is on Assuar to investigate the death of a fellow inquisitor. Their only lead, a video sent from the inquisitor as he died asking “Do they know what will happen when he gets out?&#8...

Back in mid-October when the Cubs and Indians were head-to-head in the World Series, Matt made a bet with Greg Bennett of Technical Difficulties:  If the Indians won, Matt would run a game of deadEarth, and if the Cubs won, then Greg would run deadEarth.  In reading through the books fully expecting the Cubs to lose, Matt also shared the books with the rest of the Drunk and Ugly and they wanted to...

After the crew discovered that the Pirate’s Ball was much more. . . festive than they expected, they quickly found themselves fighting for their lives against assassin squads from rival pirate kings looking to make themselves the strongest on the seven seas.  With some quick thinking, they were able to avoid death with grappling hooks and a few barrels of black powder.  As the dust settles,...

Fresh from a Xenos artifact find and an encounter with a heretic who had been raising the dead, the Inquisitors head to the cult safehouse and find that the mysterious illness and this heretical cult may have more in common than they thought. Side Chatter

The crew of the Fantoma Reine all too eagerly found a way into the Grand Pirate Ball after they found out their invitations were. . . lost.  Following some time shopping in Montaigne for goods and fine clothes to hide some weapons, they managed to bluff their way into the party past a very familiar and ungrateful bouncer.  The company was found to be supreme, the food delicious, and all of the wea...

The investigation of the mysterious unknown bodies on Desoleum has lead our Inquisitors to an even more mysterious doctor.  While attempting to again purge the heresy from another world, their investigation into this healer reveals more ancient secrets.

Following the installation of a new High King to the throne, epic battle between two tense factions of Vendel and Vesten, an encounter with the berserker armies of hatred, Captain Valentin le Evariste finds himself finally flustered to find that the Pirate’s Ball is being held in the Montaigne emperor’s palace, and they forgot his invitation.  It’s time for the crew to get togeth...

It’s an average day on the International Space Station.  Daily experiments have concluded and the crew is busy working on cleaning the station, carrying out their mandatory 2 hours of exercise, or watching the Earth pass beneath them.  A call from Mission Control is about to give them more work than they could have ever expected. Side Chatter PLAYERS Ross – Naoto Edogawa.  Station comm...