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General Category => Role Playing Public Radio Podcast => : TheStrangerInTheFog January 14, 2014, 11:25:44 AM
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I download the Actual Plays onto my iPod, which I generally take with me when I go hiking. So basically; at the top of Hay Bluff, during the hike up Snowdon, and whilst scrambling along the Clevedon coastline. Also, when I had a pretty miserable job as a marshal at a paintball centre, last Summer, RPPR kept me entertained during the tedium of kit-cleaning and gun-maintenance.
How about the rest of you?
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The Venezuelan-Colombian border.
No, seriously.
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We had a thread like this way back. Glad to see a new one.
My go to is that I used to listen to RPPR on my MP3 player in the back of my church and sometimes had to stifle laugher during sermons.
I also walk rather than drive most of the time so sometimes I've been outside during the dark of winter, close to midnight, crossing a bridge over a swamp with an RPPR Call of Cthulhu game to keep me company.
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The Venezuelan-Colombian border.
No, seriously.
I...
...wow.
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The Venezuelan-Colombian border.
No, seriously.
Now was this while on the run from the cartels?
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The Venezuelan-Colombian border.
No, seriously.
Now was this while on the run from the cartels?
And were you listening to "Rifts-The Eliminators" AP? XD
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Now was this while on the run from the cartels?
Nah, nothing that glamorous.
I live in Venezuela, and I went on bus to Colombia. This was quite a few years ago, maybe 2010? I remember that I listened to U-Boote Herause Parts 1 & 2 almost front to back during the trip, and that Adam Scott Glancy's dulcet tones was all that made the 9 hour bus ride close to bearable.
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I actually listened to my first RPPR games while on a small bus (really a glorified van) crammed with people in Costa Rica going from the airport in San Jose down to the far south pacific coast line.
After that it has been a lot less interesting, I listen on planes while I travel for work and such but mostly I got a fitbit a year or so ago and listen to RPPR as well as other podcasts while getting my steps in.
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I'm willing to bet that I'm both RPPRs most northern listener and it's most southern listener.
I have regularly listened to RPPR right up at the Arctic circle at 65°41' North and also regularly (thou understandably not at the same time) at 42°53' South.
I'd love to see if anyone can proof me wrong.
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I usually have earphones in when I travel and often walk around the cities I am in. The strangest places might have been a medival castle, a radio station and a few occupied buildings. All of them in Germany, which probably isn't a very exotic locale.
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A bit off topic, but the activities I'm involved on are usually stranger than the actual location. That is, unless you count Eastern Kentucky as strange. So far this past year I have listened to rppr actual play sessions while operating a chainsaw and deer hunting. Infact, I was listening to the No Evil series when I shot a buck this past November. I think it was the episode when the group apprehended Killie.
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Walmart. At 3:00 A.M.
RPPR gave me courage. RPPR gave me strength.
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I listened to a few episodes the Eclipse Phase campaign while drinking moonshine in the Galapagos foothills. Then I went to see tortoises!
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Sitting on metal stairs just above fifteen feet of water, four stories underground at a concrete plant. The sump pumps had failed and I had to repair them.
It was dark, wet, cold and I was listening to Iron Devil.
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While investigating identity theft.
Literally on the beach.
While driving through hill towns with fog so thick you couldn't see five feet ahead.
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I've listened to RPPR:
-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.
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I've listened to RPPR:
-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.
please say that last one was unrelated to the first three tasks
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I've listened to RPPR:
-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.
please say that last one was unrelated to the first three tasks
Please tell us you told someone about RPPR while at the leather bar ;D
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I've listened to RPPR:
-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.
There's a plot hook in here somewhere, I know it!
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I've listened to RPPR:
-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.
please say that last one was unrelated to the first three tasks
Please tell us you told someone about RPPR while at the leather bar ;D
Actually all of them were unrelated.
The ethanol story was when I first started listening to RPPR in undregrad when working long hours on an ecological assessment, essentially "Does the insect community reflect a what we would expect to see in a polluted river system?"
The horseshoe crab incident was when I was volunteering for the Audobon Society in Wellfleet MA during the summer. You have no idea how beautiful Cape Cod is when it's early evening and the crabs are coming out like ancient, buried, living, hubcaps.
The vaccination thing is what I'm doing now in grad school. I've often wondered about what it would be like to do a CoCt game or DG game where you play as human beings used as lab specimens. I guess that concept could work for EP too...
The leather bar thing was uh... interesting. I went because I'm a kinky son of a bitch but unfortunately the scene where I live is so insular that it was nearly impossible to make any headway or friends. After I left, still sober and still dressed in "Goodwill's Finest Biker Ensemble" I slipped the buds into my ears and made the 1.5 mile trek back home through the city in the wee hours of the morning, Know Evil blaring in my ears. The autumn sky was cloudy and the city's sodium lights made everything an orange twilight.
I never did tell anybody at the bar about RPPR but my current boyfriend knows about you in some capacity. He wandered into the kitchen while I was covered in dish suds. The stereo erupted in screaming laughter as Chan made a terrible decision. My boyfriend is also a kinky bastard so... you know... eventually somebody leather related will find out about you guys.
It's strange to say that parts of my life can be divided into different campaigns that you guys ran. I actually started recording games too but my campaigns were dashed on the rocks of grad school and conflicting work schedules. Instead I've taken to running one-shots. Right now I'm worming my way through No Security.
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My boyfriend is also a kinky bastard so... you know... eventually somebody leather related will find out about you guys.
I find that oddly comforting. Someday somewhere some kinky bastard will turn to another kinky bastard and say "Dude... that's fucked up" on our account.
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My boyfriend is also a kinky bastard so... you know... eventually somebody leather related will find out about you guys.
I find that oddly comforting. Someday somewhere some kinky bastard will turn to another kinky bastard and say "Dude... that's fucked up" on our account.
I was listening to the Wives of March yesterday while I washed dishes. He was half-asleep in the other room. Who knows what sort of dreams he forgot.
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Thanks to this thread, the next scenario I am writing is centralized around a leather bar. Right now I am trying to decide if it should be run using A Dirty World or as an additional playtest for CORE.
I love you all.
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Thanks to this thread, the next scenario I am writing is centralized around a leather bar. Right now I am trying to decide if it should be run using A Dirty World or as an additional playtest for CORE.
I love you all.
I recommend one of these three systems.
Fiasco
Toons
Rolemaster
But only one of them.
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Fiasco might be a bit on the nose.
Dread might work. Or I could be an evil ass and force the players to do it American Freeform-style. . . with chaps. oh god what is happening to me #rpprruinedmymarriage
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Thanks to this thread, the next scenario I am writing is centralized around a leather bar. Right now I am trying to decide if it should be run using A Dirty World or as an additional playtest for CORE.
I love you all.
I recommend A Dirty World. Also if you need to discuss the particulars of the leather bar scene you now have a reputable source.
Today I was listening to the Devotees while washing dishes and he came wandering through and asked me why Kermit the Frog was describing torture. Jokes on him through. I'm running the Wives of March tomorrow and he's playing in it.
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Listening to The Iron Devil on am Amtrak at night, somewhere in southern Oregon.
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Listening to The Iron Devil on am Amtrak at night, somewhere in southern Oregon.
That's quite cool and probably the most appropriate place to listen to that scenario.
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I mostly listen to RPPR in transit, spent a lot of time in Korea listening to Know Evil to teach myself EP. I got into the others as well. I remember listening to The Iron Devil on the Incheon subway, or the Esoterrorists game in Itaewon. Better Angels was an interesting one considering I was working in a private school out there - I could definitely recognize some of the, uh, 'interesting characters' portrayed as universal.
I listened to Tribes of Tokyo IN Tokyo, which was cool - though Akihabara's weird. Wasn't brave enough to try a host/hostess club, in case of vampires.
Rural Yorkshire was another one, for Base Raiders: The Vault. Good places to hide bases around there - Derwent, the drowned village under Ladybower lake, or Fountains Abbey. I wasn't listening to an AP at this point, but I did run a game set in rural Yorkshire, while I was in Korea, and my players were Americans. Multiculturalism!
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What system were you using for your yorkshire game?
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Changeling: The Lost.
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Hi,
This is necro thread, but I was listening Bayou Beatdown yesterday, with Sparkles the Unicorn. And I was in Nairobi, Kenya, taking a different route home to avoid a riot. Sparkles seemed very appropriate, a mix of violence and silliness.
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Hi,
This is necro thread, but I was listening Bayou Beatdown yesterday, with Sparkles the Unicorn. And I was in Nairobi, Kenya, taking a different route home to avoid a riot. Sparkles seemed very appropriate, a mix of violence and silliness.
holy shit dude
These riots? http://www.voanews.com/content/kenyan-police-break-up-protests-against-election-body/3341934.html (http://www.voanews.com/content/kenyan-police-break-up-protests-against-election-body/3341934.html)
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I'm an avid hiker, so both on the Appalachian Trail and the John Muir Trail. Duck Pass in Mammoth Lakes, CA was my highest at over 10,800 feet above sea level from around 9100 5.5 miles earlier as I started before the trail head. Plants refuse to grow at some point and its all rock. Descend a few hundred feet and you have gorgeous lakes and tree, grass and shrubs. I also live at sea level so being up there was this amazing slog because even after I got acclimated I wasn't acclimated. The air was just too thin.
http://www.hikingwalking.com/files/US/CA/duck_pass/lrg_ca_P1330833.jpg (http://www.hikingwalking.com/files/US/CA/duck_pass/lrg_ca_P1330833.jpg)
Picture for reference. See all of those mountains in the distance? About on par for height with a few of those.
Also I went to Yosemite afterward but it's ridiculously full of tourists and boring now because the drought has made the lakes and waterfalls into trickles back when I went.
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Wow! I just got into hiking and that looks very cool. I am not nearly at that level yet though.
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I've listened to the podcast while stuck in traffic in the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnel with thousands of metric tonnes of rock over my head, trying not to have a panic attack. Also, while skiing and snowshoeing in Summit County, Colorado when I lived there.
Lately, I've been running down the backlog of AP's and recent the Red Markets stuff. I was at the dentist getting my teeth cleaned while listening to the Brutalists drown out the noise of the ultrasonic teeth scraping device.
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Never thought to listen to podcasts at the dentist. Might have made my wisdom teeth extraction more bearable.
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Never thought to listen to podcasts at the dentist. Might have made my wisdom teeth extraction more bearable.
It would beat the shitty daytime television they always have on at mine. I'll try it next time. Fortunately back when I had my own wisdom teeth pulled ten years or so ago, they knocked my ass out cold.
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My most unique place has to be listening to it at the bar of a slot machine place, watching the suckers lose their money while listening to Know Evil.
And while I had the chance to listen at the dentist, in the end I chickened out, mostly because I didn't want to associate RPPR with having 17 teeth extracted on local anasthesia.
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It was hard not to laugh while listening to Caleb sigh disgustedly as everyone devolves into petty bickering and a little wackety-schmackety-doo. Because laughing while there is a scrapy thing in your mouth can cause....problems.
I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled like 20 years ago. Didn't have podcasts then, but I did get a lovely dose of local that knocked me out cold.
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Caleb has a low tolerance for petty bickering but sometimes the bickering is the best part of role playing.
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Never thought to listen to podcasts at the dentist. Might have made my wisdom teeth extraction more bearable.
I listened to the Caleb ran New Arcadia session with the super max prison while having a root canal done a few years back.
It passed the time quite well.
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Let's see, some other places I've listened to RPPR during the years include:
Watching the sunset on a beach in Cancun, Mexico. - Know Evil.
At the entrance of Chichen Itza. -Know Evil again.
During a roadtrip that brought me inside the Amazon rainforest. - D&D The New World
Outside the Vatican in Rome. - I want to say The Quiet Year, but honestly I don't remember exactly.
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I just finished Fallen Flag Episode 4 at the Red Cross Clinic -- so I got to listen to Cutty almost bleed out while giving blood myself!
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Definitely the strangest experience I've had listening to RPPR was during my night shift at my security job. I was wandering the hallways at the condo I work at listening to "The Night Clerk" and shitting myself every time I rounded a corner, expecting the KiY to come popping out of a door.
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Definitely the strangest experience I've had listening to RPPR was during my night shift at my security job. I was wandering the hallways at the condo I work at listening to "The Night Clerk" and shitting myself every time I rounded a corner, expecting the KiY to come popping out of a door.
this pleases me