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 dumb man laugh laughter CLIPPED.wav by bulbastre | License: Attribution
The turning off the tractor sequence was created from the following three sounds:
Button push sound: electronic_buttons_assorted.mp3 by owyheesound | License: Creative Commons 0
Powering down: up-down-thing-1.flac by Timbre | License: Attribution Noncommercial
Red alert: RedAlert_Klaxon_STTOS_recreated.wav by zimbot | License: Attribution
Podcast announcements: The Place Where I’ll Return To (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The engaging warp drive sequence was created from the following three sounds:
Powering up: Warp Speed!.wav by LukeSharples | License: Attribution
Deep blasting into warp sound: silde-up glissando crescendo bang.wav by Timbre | License: Attribution Noncommercial
Higher blasting into warp sound: Hyperdrive1.wav by Assimulation_Gaming | License: Attribution
Outro: Everybody’s Got Problems That Aren’t Mine (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 4.0
