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by Chris Zhang and Aaron Braegen
Mythtakes Happen is a worldbuilding podcast where two good friends - Aaron and Chris - create fictional settings for YOU to game in, live in and explore.Each episode, the hosts develop setting aspects in isolation and hear one another's additions for the very first time during the episode. They collaborate to fit these sometimes contradictory ideas into a cohesive whole, sometimes altering fundamental parts of each other's contributions.Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose. Join us, won't you?
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Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the Deep we bring you a plague that is a fish; the Icthysella Pestis - The Scaly Plague. Chris' description of this flesh-burrowing nightmare is sure to get under your skin! Just when you thought it was safe to, uh, get close to a crevice in the Deep we bring the Vomitory Pukespinner to life - a cephalapod with a curious attack strategy - bringing your lunch back up before it makes you its lunch!Warning! This episode may cause the following symptoms; scaly skin, vomiting, rolling eyes and deep sighs of disgust at Aaron's 'jokes'.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenTrigger Warnings: death, monstersTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #TTRPG #creativity #collaboration #monsters #leviathans #deepsea #sharks #snails #bastards #monuments, #fish #plague, #octopi, #sessile
Aaron wouldn't let me name this one Leo's Lumpy Load, and that hurts. A special guest today, our good and handsome friend Leo makes an absolute mockery of the work we have done so far in worldbuilding by bringing science into the mix. Which just isn't fair. Leo takes us through the Birth of the Celestioal Deep, involving more Ants and Black Holes (no revelations). He also has ideas about the Leviathans. We add to the deep canon of the Deep.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenTrigger Warnings: sucking, blowingTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #fantasy #scifi #cosmic #leviathans #kaiju #submarines #underwater #imperial #podcast #creativity #collaboration #ttrpg #weapons #comedy #specialguest
Today's episode is mostly about scratching too hard, the Australian Census and Halo: Campaign Evolved. While you are mesmerised by these topics we imagineer two real Personal Mythtakes in the form of Science Magister Beladette Perusi, who beat a man to death with a Leviathan as well as the inimitable and uncatchable Cocharello, the Interplanetoid Thief of Masks.But a lot of is it about Halo, and I'm sorry. For more of my opinions about Halo, please subscribe to my other podcast Halo There.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenTrigger Warnings: religion, imperialism, opportunistic murderTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #TTRPG #creativity #collaboration #monsters #leviathans #deepsea #sharks #snails #bastards #monuments #fish #krill #items #artifacts #personalities #NPCs
It turns out, podcasting is too hard, and we are going into the privateering business. Aaron and Chris discuss the many difficulties we have had with this season conceptually, and why it is explicitly and unreservedly someone else's fault. Eventually we talk about the Brineblades and Deepwardens, two sides of one mercenary coin. We explore the old, decaying Waystations which serve as their professional ports of call, as well as a brief history of the Orcadian Protectorate and their interesting and not terrifying benefactor Never You Mind.We also explore a day in the life of a Marinaut with Coming and Going into the Deep.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenTrigger Warnings: death, war, bad worldbuildingTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #fantasy #scifi #cosmic #leviathans #kaiju #submarines #underwater #imperial #podcast #creativity #collaboration #ttrpg #weapons #comedy #frontiers #dryness #badworldbuilding #privateers
Here we define some important NPC for our wet TTRPG setting of the Celestial Deep. Chris struggles with Soorunoo the Lord of the Dancing Fish, Saviour of Orcadia, an individual who apparently danced with fish and saved Orcadia. Aaron on the other hand wrestles with one Triffany Belkins, who became a central religious figure by sheer chance, and isn't happy about it.In today's Bonus Episode, we fill in more blanks in our setting, giving players several avenues of approaching the space opera beneath the churning seas that we have created for you.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenTrigger Warnings: religion, imperialism, opportunistic murderTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #TTRPG #creativity #collaboration #monsters #leviathans #deepsea #sharks #snails #bastards #monuments #fish #krill #items #artifacts #personalities #NPCs
What does it mean to be a Marinaut? Would it help if you visited the saucy Pearlescent Pleasure Planetoid of Nakreon? Or will it all come tumbling down with the return of the Far Outlier Stations, heralded by the mysterious Brother of Your Enemy? Find out here, unless your weak genetics have long ago been re-written to host an insidious Sleeper Brother. More places for your games inside the Celestial Deep. More spanners to literally throw at your players.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenTrigger Warnings: death, war, personality death, schizophrenia, pleasures of the fleshTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #fantasy #scifi #cosmic #leviathans #kaiju #submarines #underwater #imperial #podcast #creativity #collaboration #ttrpg #weapons #comedy #frontiers #dryness, #pleasureplanets
SORRY! My bad. Fixed it. - AaronNot content to create new content for our worlds (get it?), we have also crafted a new kind of bonus episode; Mechanical Mythtakes. Here, we challenge one another to flesh out an item or technology within the setting with only a name to start from. Chris nearly stumps Aaron with a real humdinger. Can you guess what Pocket Acid could possibly be? Can you go back in time and give Aaron a hand? He needs it, the hairy fool. Chris expertly, sexily defines the terrifying Krill Mask, giving it a visage and place in history.Join us, won’t you? Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose.Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappenCredits: Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-boyle/how-delightfulLicense code: VRWGK1GP1OS7USJGTrigger Warnings: death, monstersTags: #worldbuilding #bladesinthedark #gaming #roleplaying #rpg #settings #creatures #TTRPG #creativity #collaboration #monsters #leviathans #deepsea #sharks #snails #bastards #monuments #fish #krill #items #artifacts
Part of our limited, open-ended series Letters to Space Caesar, which we will add to at our own pace.As always, please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW.If you were a PATREON, you could have listened to this a full month ahead. Consider supporting us: patreon.com/MythtakesHappenPodcastLooking for a Game Master in Adelaide? Check out: https://metalphoenixstudio.comFind us on these dystopian socials:Bluesky:mythtakeshappen.bsky.socialThreads and Insta:@mythtakeshappen
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Mythtakes Happen is a worldbuilding podcast where two good friends - Aaron and Chris - create fictional settings for YOU to game in, live in and explore.Each episode, the hosts develop setting aspects in isolation and hear one another's additions for the very first time during the episode. They collaborate to fit these sometimes contradictory ideas into a cohesive whole, sometimes altering fundamental parts of each other's contributions.Some Mythtakes Happen, but these ones are on purpose. Join us, won't you?
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