The Unexplored Places

Fifteen years after saving the world, four former teen superheroes reunite at the funeral of their friend Slipstitch, only to find out their work isn't done. Will they find a way to work together again, or will the ghosts of their past tear them apart all over again? Find out in ISSUE #02: DEAD FRIEND.   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://une...

Welcome back to East Haven, home of the modern superhero! Heroics in the city weren't always as straightforward as they are today, and our heroes have the scars to prove it. But an apocalypse once buried is starting to slip free, and they'll have to set aside their differences to stop it in ISSUE #01: A CRACK IN THE WORLD.   Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us...

East Haven Heights Volume 2 begins July 1, 2025.    Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr:  https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew:  https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Transcripts:  https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts Molotov College by W. H. Arthur: https://aryl-ether.itch.io/molotov-college

We're back with another FIASCO! This time, prepare yourselves for multiple attempted murders, white collar crime, a big pile of divorce papers, and— The Sticc?!   Fiasco  is by Jason Morningstar and Bully Pulpit Games. The "Road Kill" playset is by Christine Roth.  Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/c/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr:  https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/

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When the first settlers left Earth for Antarras, they did so with the understanding that they would never see Earth again. Either their mission would be a grand success, and they'd make a new life for themselves on those distant shores, or the trip—and the attempt to establish a new home in alien lands—would kill them. An equal mix of refugees and dreamers, none of them even bothered to imagine th...

Hellstone weaponry was always destined to be a matter of convergent evolution: with so powerful an energy source at their fingertips, and in such a volatile set of situations, the eventuality that someone tried to create a more powerful weapon was certain. The mystery was only a matter of who would get there first—and, of course, who would get to wield them. For the Company, Antarras was not only...

CONTENT WARNINGS: discussions of body horror (1:15:00-1:17:00)   While there was a contingent of separatists, among the first settlers of Antarras, the original missions to Antarras weren't launched with the idea of ever becoming fully independent from Earth. Enough uncertainties plagued the early missions that finding native alternatives to every single need could never have been high on the list...

Those first three months were, in some ways, the easiest. Even if it seemed like the world had fallen apart around us, at least the path was clear: to get through, at all costs. Pure survival. A straightforward goal with straightforward steps. Ensure the farms were undamaged, replant what seeds had been destroyed. Check the stability of the town and its buildings, rebuild anything that needed shor...

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Three major events anchor the history of human life on Antarras. The first, of course, is the discovery of hellstone by the original settlers. The second is the signing of the Ostenberg agreement, after the Battle of Swallow's Pass, when terms between those same settlers and the Company were negotiated into an unsteady but even, temporary peace. The final, almost four decades later, would be the e...

Covenant is a game that, by design, is about making the best of the hand you've been dealt—making smart bets even in unlucky circumstances. As such, the game resonates with the spirit of the original settlers on Antarras who invented it: none of them had been dealt a very good hand at all in life, but the promise of the hard journey out here was that they might make something of themselves neverth...

One day, a fellow reporter and I were sitting in our office at the end of a long day, passing a flask of whiskey back and forth, and she asked me a question I'd never asked before, but I've never since forgotten: What, she asked, after a long swig, do you think was actually here before us? After a moment, she went on: there's water, here, and plants, and animals. Shelter's easy enough to find, and...

CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (1:28:00), coercion (1:39:30) The… unfriendliness, shall we say, of hellstone's predisposition to spontaneously combusting upon transport in the early days of hellstone mining precipitated a whole host of research from all kinds. The second question—after, of course, how to safely mine the stuff—was how to safely move it, first to move it from the mines to the towns,...

There had always been those who naively believed that hellstone could, in some way, in some novel form, actually be tamed—could be brought under control, made safer or more convenient, be "domesticated," as the case may be. And there have always been opponents to that idea. When Eleanor Greer invented the process that would later go on to be cemented as the standard process for refining hellstone...

CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (eyes) [00:05:09, 00:26:00], references to cannibalism [1:54:50]  Now, what's deceptive about a sleepy little town — which, though I've argued before that Ruin's Gate was far from, but for the sake of poetry, let's say the sentiment stands — is that, sleepy as they might seem, that doesn't mean there isn't always something going on under the surface. Trouble brewing o...

CONTENT WARNINGS:  body horror (eyes) [2:01:00] Meanwhile, in the writings of Confessor Leviticus to her final congregants, this pilgrimage is characterized somewhat differently. She speaks of the pilgrimage not as a promise, or even as a journey, but as a kind of fortification, a taking up of arms. This should hardly be surprising: the visions granted to Leviticus by God were filled with this kin...