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Things that we dive into this episode: the Facility, different units of pressure, HR practices, Pirates of the Caribbean, and whether Carl could mind control someone. Things that were actually part of the plot: mostly just the first one.

Content Warnings

Heights/falling

Illness

Bodily fluids

Feet

Death

Vomiting/emetophobia

use of the word 'moist'

Cover art by Pocket Dragon Art

Theme song by Nick Spurrier

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Interesting things are going down. It's us, we're the interesting things. Let's go spelunking!

Content Warnings

Heights/falling

Brief bondage reference

Bodily fluids

Discussion of crushing

Fire

Inability to come up with a joke content warning

Meta-humor

Cover art by Pocket Dragon Art

Theme song by Nick Spurrier

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We emerge from The Facility to find the world changed (again). It's time to get existential... and distracted... and hungry.

Content Warnings

Death/afterlife discussion

Hunting

Discussion of butchering

Overextended metaphors

Cover art by Pocket Dragon Art

Theme song by Nick Spurrier

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Everything is coming down around our ears (at least, for those of us who have ears), but that doesn't mean we don't have time for both hijinks and musings on the way out, right? We definitely have enough time?

Content Warnings

Overwhelming emotion Discussion of being crushed Description of animal death - timestamp 24:52-25:27 to skip Immigration bureaucracy Violent death Distress / moral injury Sonic the Hedgehog

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Michigan just gave us the rhetorical weapon that could push Biden and the DNC to turn their backs on Israel.

Okay so this is amazing news. Michigan was going to be a key state in the push to get Biden, and the DNC as a whole, to start pressuring Israel, and they have just proven that they have that power.

Background: Michigan is a swing state, and it has 16 votes in the electoral college. Winning Michigan was a major factor in Biden's win back in 2020, and much of that rested on the Arab-American vote. It was also a major factor in Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in 2016. She lost the state by ten thousand, seven hundred votes.

Praxis: For obvious reasons, Arab-Americans are incredibly upset with Biden's support for Israel, and support in that demographic has gone from 59% in the 2020 election to less than 17% now. As a form of protest, Arab-Americans in Michigan started a campaign to get voters to check "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary. This is an actual box that can be checked, though some less-organized pushes also suggested writing in 'ceasefire' like New Hampshire primary voters did.

The goal was to get at least 10,000 'uncommitted' votes, as that is how many Hillary lost by.

As Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, the first Arab mayor of this majority-Arab city, said:

"We're not sizable enough to make a candidate win, but we're sizable enough to make a candidate lose."

(Source: NPR, 2/25/24)

Result:

As of 10:49 PM EST, 2/27, there are thirty-nine thousand uncommitted votes, according to CNN, which is doing live coverage.

NPR was reporting 30k at 10:14.

As a caveat, New York Times is saying that each of the last three Michigan Dem Primaries had about 20k uncommitted votes, so the 35k isn't all the push for pro-Palestine stances in Congress, but that's still a jump of almost 20k, which is way, way more than the goal.

And they aren't done counting the votes yet. Barely 30% of votes are in. The goal has been blown out of the water.

Other states are reaching out for advice on how to replicate the results.

This is big news.

So can we relax?

Fuck no.

Do what Michigan did. Vote in the Dem primary, and vote uncommitted or write in "ceasefire."

But on a more daily basis, if you have a Democratic candidate, lean on this.

Tell them it will be repeated elsewhere.

This could very well lose the election for Biden and more. The Democrats can't afford another four years of Trump, and they know it. The loss of Michigan can and will tank this election for them, especially since other states that helped Biden win, like Georgia, were also won on demographics that are growing increasingly upset by the situation in Gaza.

Go to the Michigan section of this post and use that in your calls and emails.

But remember. Call your reps. Call your senators. Call your governor, if you'd like. And if they're a Democrat, you bring this up. Be polite, the staffer isn't making these decisions. They might just be an intern. But bring it up and tell them that we are going to lose the presidency if we do not sanction Israel and actually pressure them into not only pulling out of Gaza and the West Bank, but paying reparations.

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Our characters improve, but the madness stays the same. Join us as we answer the important questions like: "What happened to Maurice?", "Who is the party rogue?", and "How close are we to the long-awaited Carl Reunion?"

Content Warnings Discussion of being crushed Death Insects  Zombie sounds Pee Overwhelming emotion People who talk by singing

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This episode goes from barbershop to rescue mission in 45 minutes flat as we continue our search for the other half of Carl and begin our flight from the consequences of our actions.

Content Warnings

Insects

Suggestive tentacle jokes

Threats of cannibalism

Fatal building collapse

Use of the word "thrusties"

Cover art by Pocket Dragon Art

Theme song by Nick Spurrier

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Carl is taking "finding himself" very literally, and dragging everyone else along with him. It's time to explore the Facility, and start seeing how deep this bucket hole goes.

Content Warnings Discussion of cannibalism Immigration bureaucracy Anxiety High speed collision Not getting to use the cool idea you had because someone else thought of it first

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This swamp is deeper than any of us thought--both literally and in terms of the number of plot hooks it contains. Also, Carl is NOT made of pee. (he just looks like it.)

Content Warnings: Pee Leeches Kidnapping Threats of cannibalism Dismemberment Poor understanding of fluid dynamics

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There's nothing better than a session where you only roll well. This is not that session.

Content Warnings: Discussion of death and decay Threats of cannibalism Kidnapping Vehicle chase Combat including knives and acid Probably getting that Narwhals song stuck in your head

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We may have just survived our second apocalypse... The only thing we can be sure of is that Corrin doesn't know what "omen" means.

Content Warnings:

Death

Fire/immolation

Large insects

Mucus

Lawyers

Cover art by Pocket Dragon Art

Theme song by Nick Spurrier

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my new thing whenever an embarrassing memory jumps up out of some backwater neuron to t-bone my present-day thought process is to declare a statute of limitations. like i can burn down an entire building in the state where i live and the law deems it both unfair and illegal to prosecute me after six years have passed, i think that thing i said in high school can be expunged from my record.

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Sometimes in life you have important questions to answer. And sometimes you have questions like: what happens when I try to talk to an incorporeal carrot?

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It's here folks! Episode 1 is available. Check out our feed for a brief bonus episode about the background of the campaign and some basics from the game system we use. If you enjoy it, subscribe and tell your friends!

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Hi folks! Our premiere drops tomorrow morning! Check it out, and if you like what you hear, tell your friends!

Today we dropped our second trailer, offering a glimpse at the player characters in our game. We also have an official release date!

Episode 1 is dropping next week, November 10!

Because our campaign began a few sessions before we decided to begin recording, episode 1 will include a brief prologue to set the scene, and we will be dropping an additional bonus episode where our GM, Kessie, talks a little bit about the game system we use (Cornerstone Universal RPG) and the way we play.

After episode 1, we will be releasing new episodes every other Friday!

We've been working on this for a long time and we are delighted to finally get to share our chaos with you.