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2023-02-131h 48
Working Stiff RadioGimme the Book! (ft. Sasha Reneau)This episode is the pilot for our patreon-exclusive show Gimme the Book! We got the wonderful Sasha Reneau to join us in playing their incredible game Spindlewheel in order to conceptualize and book a tournament that will change the landscape of not just NOAH, but all of Cyberfight! Find Sasha's devblog: @teacabbageFind Spindlewheel on KickstarterFind Sasha's other games on Itch.ioFind the bot we used to play the game: @spindlewheelbotPlease consider supporting us on Patreon, following us on Twitter, find us on Twitch, or email u...
2020-11-041h 48
Party of One Podcast253 - Spindlewheel with Sasha ReneauDeep in space, onboard an abandoned orbital station, there rests a seed capable of birthing an entire world. There was once an entire kingdom raising this seed. Now there is only the remnants of an automated crew... That is, until the crew of scrappers arrived...SPINDLEWHEEL: https://www.teacabbage.com/spindlewheelSPINDLEWHEEL KICKSTARTER: http://bit.ly/spindlestarterSPINDLEWHEEL STORIES: https://spindlepod.simplecast.com/FOLLOW SASHA ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/sasha_reneauFOLLOW TEACABBAGE ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/teacabbageWant to support the show? Support these...
2020-10-151h 37
Spindlewheel StoriesArden vs AnarawdHow is your loyalty earned?
It is of course demanded often, a coveted and valuable thing to many. And it can be lent, or faked, or retracted, a temporary boost or slight in a long line of alliances. But when you offer it for keeps, when its strength outweighs the memory and obligation of any other, what price has been paid for it? Stability, perhaps?
Perhaps it is something you expect in return, tit for tat, giving as good as you get. Perhaps you draw it to you like a light in the darkness, like a blade...
2019-08-1000 minSpindlewheel StoriesNienevé vs Captain GallWhat makes a legend?
The iconic Jolly Roger long outlasts its captain. The history books cherry pick the notorious and the bombastic to remember from a vast trade of mercenary sailors. But the kraken and her sisters still haunt the waters below, still weave their bodies around the edges of the map. The pirates of the golden age inspire story and song, and are kept alive as long as their names are uttered and flags flown. Long after, there will still be creatures feasting among their shipwrecks whose slow heartbeats are unbothered by siren's silence.
Which, then...
2019-07-1900 minSpindlewheel StoriesTruance Schecter vs Double CapraWhere do you place your faith?
When hard numbers err and machine gods falter, when their prophecies speak to the untenable, you might put your trust in the knowable fallacies of the human heart. When legacy and traditions are tried and found oppressive, hegemonic, poisonous down to the roots, you might hesitate to bear any coat of arms but your own hide. But a thin skin can barely protect its owner, much less their friends; and a mortal moral compass won't guide you through the long dark. When a body becomes more than a metaphor; when theory becomes...
2019-07-1200 minSpindlewheel StoriesSaros vs EmberHow is power measured?
If you bring down the moon, can you call yourself stronger than someone who quells a generational fear? If the magic in your heart commands the sea with a gesture, are you worthy of more respect than someone with nothing but luck and guile on their side to pull the tides ashore? Who is the source of influence: the face all eyes watch and the voice all ears hear, or the hands wrangling pullies and favors in the shadow cast by the spotlight?
If all the world is a stage, then whose word...
2019-07-0500 minSpindlewheel StoriesDr. Whenst vs Sluddo QuustWhat has more value: companionship, or clout?
All things being equal, or ceteris paribus as they'd say, far above the worries of hunger and war, when your biggest concern is impressing your contemporaries and grading undergrads, and you find yourself with either the esteem of your institution at your back or the steady presence of a friend at your side, but not both: is it worth throwing away what you have, just for the chance to grasp at what you need?
Perhaps instead, you could merely dismantle that good faith, carving piece by piece until you've fleeced...
2019-06-2800 min
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Tiger is OUT (Part Four)The first snows fall in the valley the Namers have called home, and they face one final question. Should they leave this place, continue their nomadic, overachieving lives? Or should they stay, celebrate what they have built, and face whatever ghosts they have unearthed?
Either way, the Frost Shepherds will be upon them soon enough.
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3d) and also features the voices of Sasha (@sashareneau) and Kai (@alpha3nine). If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at anatlasunknown@gmail.com or tweet at us at...
2019-06-251h 03An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Tiger is OUT (Part Three)Summer turns to autumn, and life among the Namers goes on. Some long-standing questions are answered, but only leave even more unknowns in their wake. Many people feel restless, fueling obsessive projects in religion, in academics, and in moon-wrangling. Tragedy looms on the horizon, and not every leader will live through the year. Will the Namers remain a stable community?
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3d) and also features the voices of Sasha (@sashareneau) and Kai (@alpha3nine). If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at anatlasunknown@gmail.com or tweet...
2019-06-241h 37Spindlewheel StoriesVitriate vs SalviaWhen you die, what hand will guide you from your body?
Let's make the assumption that there is something beyond this flimsy world. Let's assume whatever life or afterlife awaits you, you will meet it fully deserved. Now, the psychopomp who leads you there: what are they owed?
A gold coin for the trip across the river of course, prayers and well-wishes granted to you by whoever saw fit to have you buried with honor and rites. But let's say you weren't buried; that you didn't die with honor; that there is no one to pray for...
2019-05-1900 min
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Tiger is OUT (Part Two)The Namers have settled in a valley of immense history. Tigers wander to and fro, means and ends inscrutable and dangerous. Fungal "Shadow People" venture from their caverns and offer mutual aid, but live in fear of the sun. Strange mechanical beings tumble about, and some claim that they are living beings themselves.
Among all this, the Namers struggle and thrive, working to find safety, power, faith, and food in turn. But their ignorance of the cultures and histories around them could turn things foul all too easily.
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3...
2019-05-111h 37
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Tiger is OUT (Part One)Far away from cities and empires, there is a place where a Moon hangs low in the sky. Ancient ruins hide secrets of peoples long past, tigers wander about powerful and inscrutable, and waterfalls hide yet more forgotten folks.
It is here that the Namers have come, ambitious achievers unafraid of any challenge. Their settlement here may be temporary, but what they find here will could community forever.
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3_d) and also features the voices of Sasha (@sasha_reneau) and Kai (@alpha3nine). If you have any questions or feedback, shoot...
2019-04-271h 35
Spindlewheel StoriesSaint Velarian vs. Sheriff MallickWhat does a town need?
Why raise a mansion no one lives in? Why fit a jail door with a lock that shines? What landed gentry goes to seed that does not rot the roots? Speak as soft as you want, but if you carry a gun, people expect you to use it. The same goes for wealth, and reputation, and fear.
Why push for a future that no one wants? Why fight for a nostalgia that has left you dry? There's enough of both to warrant a stampede and a gut wound. What does...
2019-03-2500 minAn Atlas of the World UnknownThe Second Son (Part Two)Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of war and it's aftermath.
The Empress of Echidna holds unthinkable power, and there is nothing to prevent her from using it. Mildred Pennyweather and the Second Son are trapped, unwilling accomplices to the war to come. But when the dust settles, who will be left to declare a victor? Who can be trusted with the power of the gods?
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3d) and also features the voice of Dane. If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at [anatlasunknown@gmail...
2019-03-1750 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: the Witch, KimaeraDid I know THIS was going to happen? Not in so many words, no. But did I see this coming?
I’ll put it this way: unlike some people, I know where the right place, and when the right time, will be. So, yes, when the two of them found me, I was right where I needed to be. They threw around earnest promises of a brighter day, and there wasn't a single tell, not a note out of place that said Bartholomew Lacks was lying to me. Well, except that their mouth was open.
So...
2019-03-1000 min
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Second Son (Part One)The burgeoning city-state of Echidna holds an ancient secret, recently rediscovered. Other powers sit impatiently at the gates, prepared to take this knowledge by force. The world stands on the brink of war.
Into this unstable situation comes Mildred Pennyweather, an old mage finally returning to do right by her people. But what she brings with her could change the face of the World Unknown forever.
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3_d) and also features the voice of Dane. If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at [anatlasunknown@gmail.com] or...
2019-03-0357 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Osedax and Vindication, Part 2Previously...
Osedax Roseus, pirate-without-a-ship, enlists the help of old friend Somniosidae and sea-witch And the Queen Bore Upon Her Shoulders Thousands of Chittering Insects, Vindictive Servants of Light and Life (or [Vindication]) to free their friend Village Crumbled Under Leviathan's Weight, Serpentine and [Victorious] from the hivemind trance of the prison guards at the edge of the oceanic trench.
Part 2 of 2.
The track "Golden Threads in Mist" is by Michael Boykin. Find him on twitter @MeAndAmpersand.
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2019-03-0100 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Osedax and Vindication, Part 1On a clear day you can see it from the city limits: a silhouette through the sea snow, perched on the very edge of an oceanic trench.
But... that’s all you can see, really. The maelstrom between here and there keeps curious minds from confirming their theories, and there are lots of those to go around. From mer-kind gone feral and acidic to a secret technology kept at safe distance in case it malfunctions and erupts, to the idea that the worst criminals in the ocean thrive in that shadow, far from the sensibilities of society. Th...
2019-02-2200 min
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Duchess of Nightmares (Part Four)The stability of The Web has been shattered. Dangerous people and things seem to lurk around every corner, to the point that even the Duchess herself is pushed to her limit. The time has come to make a choice: do we leave for safer waters, or stay to witness yet another miracle?
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3_d) and also features the voice of Calley. If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at [anatlasunknown@gmail.com].
The Quiet Year is game a by Avery Alder. You can find it...
2019-02-171h 17
Spindlewheel Storiesthe FallenIt's my birthday! Happy birthday, me.
It's also the two-year anniversary of the production of Spindlewheel. This time in 2017, I was crunching through the first two weeks of february to make a twine game for my birthday. I've linked a thread in the description talking more about that if you're interested.
This episode isn't about that, though. See, it's my birthday today. I'm not doing a lot to celebrate, but I am putting this episode out, because this was a treat for me, from start to finish. I hope you enjoy it, and that you...
2019-02-1500 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: the Gilded Lily, Part 2Previously...
Kudzu, Namer and keeper of secrets among the lawless shadow organization the Goose Down, finds herself frustrated and fascinated by her neighbor Justice Jacinthe, a recently divorced cellarer who infests their shared garden with rot and ashen fertilizer. In preparation for the upcoming Festival of the Gilded Lily, where grievances are aired and grudges put to rest, Justice assigns her talented-but-shy apprentice Ferriman to a big project as their first solo gig, and Kudzu applies her Goose Down contacts to mislead and distract the town from allowing the festival to take place at all. Misunderstanding the...
2019-02-0800 min
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Duchess of Nightmares (Part Three)The Duchess of Nightmares has consolidated her power over her pirate crew, but outside forces threaten her schemes. The Honor Guard promise justice, the Cursed Sword offer power, and the ancient Bridge offers passage somewhere. All the while, a trial looms and Bruce faces a terrible metamorphisis.
(Apologies for the tinny audio on this episode, always triple check which microphone your recording software is using!)
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3_d) and also features the voice of Calley. If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at [anatlasunknown@gmail.com].
2019-02-031h 23
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: the Gilded Lily, Part 1First, you will need a fire with which to burn. Then, you will need a garden in which to bury.
List the items as you toss them into the flames. An old watch, returned to you with a new face. Several books, nonfiction, whose margins are filled with notes that alternate handwriting, a conversation orbiting the text until it is irrelevant entirely. A necklace, not a style you would have chosen, but worn nonetheless, the pendant warped and worried beyond recognition. A ring, untarnished. Various receipts. A forgotten coat. A goodbye letter, unread.
When you...
2019-02-0100 min
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Duchess of Nightmares (Part Two)The pirates of the Web have settled in to their new environment, but life is far from stable. A bridge catches fire and does not stop burning. Tensions between the Duchess and her Heiress build to a breaking point. First mate Bruce tries to keep the peace, but finds himself pulled in many directions. And the sinkhole beneath the Web beckons to crew to simply throw all their troubles away.
(Apologies for the tinny audio on this episode, always triple check which microphone your recording software is using!)
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3...
2019-01-201h 28
An Atlas of the World UnknownThe Duchess of Nightmares (Part One)A small band of pirates have settled in a web of stilted boardwalks. The enigmatic Duchess of Nightmares rules them with equal parts respect and terror, working towards inscrutible goals with powerful magic. Others, including her first mate Bruce and her Heiress, work to settle in to their new surroundings and ensure safe harbor. But when a group of tourists arrive on the web, it soon becomes clear that not all here is as it seems.
Today's episode is hosted by Paul (@pauly3_d) and also features the voice of Calley. If you have any questions or...
2019-01-051h 16
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: First Mornings, Part 2Previously...
The Reader has spent their entire life studying among the first fully sapient AI, Deep Sleep, who has opened their arms to Ion, a perfect machine in contention with an errant branch of themself. Jinx, a mischievous diagnostics program turned agent of chaos, is trailed by a former grift named Airlock, in service of the corporate giant known as First Mornings.
Part 2 of 2.
(Content Warning: sexual language)
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2019-01-0400 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: First Mornings, Part 1The singularity occurred within living memory, and my entire career since has been spent talking to an inch of its existence.
Digital sentience was a miracle the way penicillin was a miracle; with the divine guiding hand of evolution throwing every possible combination at the wall and hoping something will stick, a hundred million monkey paws slapping keyboards for a hundred years to finally type: I AM.
My sponsors believe there is a turnkey somewhere here, a clean explanation that will fit in a satisfying soundbyte for the board of directors. It’s among the fe...
2018-12-2100 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Tamarind's Folly, Part 2Previously...
Tamarind, scientist and unwitting leader, creates a new mold from which to make things. Vinnie the Vigor, ghost of a broken and forgotten time; Demerit Delour, pillar of the strange force known only as the Witch; and the many sharp blades of Aledoth at guerrilla fighter Veth's hip, follow Tamarind's developments with bright and frightening interest.
Part 2 of 2.
The track "Golden Threads in Mist" is by Michael Boykin. Find him on twitter @MeAndAmpersand.
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2018-12-0800 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Tamarind's Folly, Part 1They are always watching us, there, behind the veil.
I’ve only met their gaze a few times, only by necessity--a gift of the Witch demands to be used once it’s given--and it’s always me who flinches first. But, I don’t need to see them to feel their gaze upon me. They vibrate in the dark occlusions, thrum in the cold-edged blade, hiss in the burning dross. What they want, doesn’t matter. Who they serve seems to shift from moment to moment. Who they were… they are always begging me, pleading me, to remember.
2018-11-3000 min
Party of One Podcast156 - Spindlewheel (Part 2) with Sasha ReneauThe rituals are only doing so much. The shadowshards approach daily. The ocean is long gone. Drastic action must be taken if we are to survive in the new world that presents itself to us. SPINDLEWHEEL: https://www.teacabbage.com/spindlewheel FOLLOW TEACABBAGE STUDIOS ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/teacabbage FOLLOW SASHA ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/sasha_reneau ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: http://www.allmyfantasychildren.com/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK SUPPORT PARTY OF ONE ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/partyofonepodcast THEM...
2018-11-301h 07
Party of One Podcast155 - Spindlewheel (Part 1) with Sasha ReneauThere once was a seaside community, where life was simple and everything was good. But then, the storm came, and sea became sand, and that which resided under the waves came to stand on land, and stared the community in the face. Many fled, and those who stayed behind did so knowingly, taking on a life of quiet stewardship to ensure those long gone could live peacefully. This is their story. It is not a happy tale. SPINDLEWHEEL: https://www.teacabbage.com/spindlewheel FOLLOW TEACABBAGE STUDIOS ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/teacabbage ...
2018-11-2743 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: the Marlen House, part 2Previously...
Trapped below the Marlen House with antiquities enthusiast Virgil France and actor out of work Terrace Mavelle in a bizarre labyrinth of gothic hallways lined with occultist runes, Reggie Marlen, assistant and understudy of business tychoon Leonid Mavelle, and Solomon Ash, spouse of Leonid's daughter Dr. Q Mavelle, try to make sense of the late Leonid's strange video messages before the Vultures repossess the property. Will they understand Leonid's desires in the shape of a will in time to preserve his estate? Or, indeed, is there anything to his legacy that is worth preserving?
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2018-11-2300 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: the Marlen House, part 1A woman with a broad hat and a dark thin coat stood on my doorstep and told me, with condolences, that a man I'd never met had died.
She told me this, having seen my name written as one of his next-of-kin on a less-important document they had found while looking for a more-important document in the shape of a last will and testament. I'd already known where his house was, and which aisle to find his company's products at my local grocery store, but I'd never visited, or bought, his property, before today. I'd never had...
2018-11-1600 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: the Heights CasinoThere are people at this very bar who remember when the Heights Casino was a half-rate pit stop on the way to the real gambling dens on the coast, but that was back when we had a coast.
Ask any of ‘em and they’ll ramble on about how prepared and sustainable everyone was, until the tide came in and swept away their best-laid plans. Now, the Heights Casino’s saving grace is the hill it was built on. That’s it. The only thing to do here is for the old fogies: sit on a barstools and make...
2018-11-0900 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Starstruck MechanicaThe ship hurtled away from the molten light, leaving me terrified and alone as my chassis cooled and contracted down into a single state for the first time in decades. my optics took their time adjusting to the relative dark of space, scraping together meager reflections of color instead of the torrential starlight I’d become accustomed to. For the first time in decades, I shivered. Coordinates locked, engine humming, I allowed myself one last look at the star.
There it was. Under the solar flares and pressing up beneath the roiling surface, the machine. its coiling bo...
2018-11-0200 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Vampira Automata, Part 2Previously....
Venn, a retired monster hunter and newly adopted parent of several hundred freshly awoken automata, attempts to reckon with the Vampire up in its castle for its heinous crimes against the thieves-town below. Fragile Flesh Dressed In Stone, once the only waking automaton in the town, is delighted by the resurgence of automata, the tonal spaces between words filled once again by their old language; a wide-smiling Fool automaton buys out the town's private libraries; a Scholar automaton stares up at the sky and promises omens to Venn and Fragile Flesh Dressed In Stone. The Vampire...
2018-10-2600 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Vampira Automata, Part 1No one remembers what these structures were for in their heyday; but today, they serve a nobler cause supporting our lean-to’s and clotheslines. The inscriptions that once covered them have been chipped off and now circulate as a kind of currency, traded or pick-pocketed from each other’s coats, as needed. When you’re rich, you can rest easy within that circle of glyphs, breath unstolen and throat unpunctured. But no one here stays rich for long, and soon you’ll be just like the rest of us sorry bastards: ears straining for the comforting sound of automaton whirrs a...
2018-10-1900 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Flower-eyed FaithfulTo Holy Armiger, ey of starfire and sand, defiant captive, root and blossom of all life:
I drank Rowena's potions, as your priests require. It sits heavy on my bones, but the flower of my eye buds without a bloom; a promise I fear won't deliver in my time. There is enough light in the afternoon to make a few moments out of bed worthwhile. Though uncoiling the vines wrapped vicelike around my legs takes some doing. Every day, the distance between desk and bed extends by a small mile.
Today, as every day, I...
2018-10-1200 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Phantom FerryThe belltower of that dreadful church is the first landmark to break the horizon on the return trip across the river. He spends every waking minute straining his ears to hear its bell over the choppy waves, the groaning wood, and the whining passengers. But even that is not a comfort, but the promise of even more dull-eyed figures desperately waiting to rush his boat and shriek if he so much as pauses to stretch his aching back.
Just imagine if he could take a break. That crooked spine pulled straight and tall, those straining muscles at...
2018-10-0500 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Unicorn God Killer, Part 2The final part to the story. Strain of Solstice by Mike.
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2018-09-2100 min
Spindlewheel StoriesFestival: Unicorn God Killer, Part 1I worked the stone in a dull haze, my ears still ringing as I shaped the frieze depicting my grand appointment to divine artisan, following the treachery and swift execution of my predecessor. The tools were still warm from his hands. I remember it rained hard that night, flooding the stone gutters and hissing steam off the bronze pipes that lined the halls of the labyrinth god. His vast face watched us all. Without thinking, I'd carved it into my own figure on the tableau.
And then, a flash of lightning--and by chance I looked up to...
2018-09-1400 min
Spindlewheel StoriesLongform: The WhalerYou look out on the western sea and it's hard to imagine, thousands of years ago, that broad horizon was broken up by mountains and jungle. The library's inscriptions speak of this and more of the old world, full of wonders and technologies that would be pointless in our stilt-legged city. But, for all the floral language about their alien passions and anxieties, we still can't find the words that describe how they kept the sea at bay for so long, or what crack finally split the walls of their great civilization.
The answer, of course, is below...
2018-09-0700 min
Spindlewheel StoriesLongform: The TricasterWhen we talk about magic--and we're not just telling fairy tales or parlor tricks--we don't usually talk about it like puberty. But when it returned to the world, it returned in fits and spurts, horrifying and impulsive and stupid, and there really isn't a word more apt. Alas, some of us are still hoping against hope for a graceful transition, a slow ease of the public into the idea of holding fire in your hands, or negotiating the opinions of a river. We still believe we can instill safety precautions so that fewer homes are demolished by botched cantrips...
2018-09-0500 min