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Opening (2-3 minutes)

Brief introduction of self and game concept
Mention key players and setting
State episode's main focus

Context (3-4 minutes)

Fallout universe overview
Current campaign status
Relevant background information

Main Content (10-15 minutes)

Story recap or new developments
Key decisions and consequences
Player character moments

Community Updates (2-3 minutes)

Upcoming events or sessions
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(00:00:00): Hello everyone,

(00:00:01): my name is Kyle and I want to introduce you to a tabletop game called Tales from Tomorrow.

(00:00:08): It's a Fallout TTRPG story that I'm hosting along with three other comrades of mine.

(00:00:14): This is using Modiphius' 2D20 system.

(00:00:17): And this is built in the universe of Bethesda's Fallout.

(00:00:21): It's been a wonderful time synchronization for me to find this game along with the

(00:00:25): wonderful show that came out on Amazon Prime.

(00:00:28): I myself have been a Fallout 76 player for the past couple years.

(00:00:32): Very on and off.

(00:00:33): Very sporadic.

(00:00:34): But it seems like we've got a lot of great people in and around our community who

(00:00:37): love the Fallout space.

(00:00:39): I think Fallout is a beautiful game.

(00:00:41): It's a beautiful landscape to tell stories,

(00:00:45): especially this late-stage capitalism,

(00:00:48): ultra-decay that people are witnessing in their everyday life is exemplified in the

(00:00:53): Fallout universe.

(00:00:54): And if anything, there's a lot of Fallout players who seem a little unaware of this.

(00:00:58): of the real life parallels where even at the time I'm recording this,

(00:01:02): tensions between the United States and China are at an all time high.

(00:01:06): Nuclear weapons have never been more likely to be used than now.

(00:01:10): And this is me saying this in January of 2025.

(00:01:14): So there's going to be a lot of reality that underpins or intermixes with this game.

(00:01:21): So let's again,

(00:01:23): I'll keep summarizing this throughout because I'm tripping up over my own thoughts.

(00:01:26): I'm a brand new dungeon master or game master.

(00:01:29): In this case, the term is overseer.

(00:01:32): I'm a very new game master, though.

(00:01:34): This is the first game I've ever seen.

(00:01:37): hosted.

(00:01:37): It's the first game that I've actually really played.

(00:01:40): And I once did a D&D session in college about 10 or more years ago.

(00:01:45): It was a good experience, but it was a very small thing.

(00:01:48): And it wasn't with a group of friends that

(00:01:51): were mine.

(00:01:52): And so that was lacking.

(00:01:53): It was a good experience, but it wasn't a really like, I guess, heart touching one.

(00:02:00): I had a very dear friend that hosted that game, but everyone else wasn't a friend of mine.

(00:02:04): So this is a brand new experience for me hosting it with three comrades that I really trust.

(00:02:10): And some of them I've known for many years at this point,

(00:02:13): three to five years hit and miss in there.

(00:02:16): They've been great sports about learning the system.

(00:02:19): Maybe I should start there in saying we've been toying with this Fallout 2D20

(00:02:24): system from Modiphius since approximately March of 2024.

(00:02:30): It's getting close to a year now.

(00:02:32): It's taken us a long time because none of us are tabletop players.

(00:02:36): Everyone has just been going at their own pace.

(00:02:39): We've taken a lot of weekends off.

(00:02:42): But as we're in this new year, we want to get more serious about it.

(00:02:45): At least I do.

(00:02:46): I've expressed to all of them,

(00:02:47): and they share this,

(00:02:49): that we want to bring our passion for this game to the community in the hopes of

(00:02:54): meeting other like-minded players who would want to join us in one-shots or whether

(00:02:59): that's recurring characters in this campaign.

(00:03:02): We want to make a community sort of feeling for people,

(00:03:05): and we're going to play with that idea as time goes on.

(00:03:09): In this episode, I'm going to read a blog post I have.

(00:03:14): It's titled Descent into the Wendigo's Grotto.

(00:03:18): This is a sort of bridge piece.

(00:03:20): They are, my players, at the end, the capstone of their year-long tutorial.

(00:03:27): As we've been learning new systems for the game,

(00:03:29): as we've been plotting along through this very interesting and turn-riddled plot,

(00:03:35): I let my players...

(00:03:37): come up with a lot of the content that we're doing in the game.

(00:03:39): I'm a very reactive DM.

(00:03:42): I like to see their mindset, what they want to do, and then I like to follow them.

(00:03:47): So as a DM or a game master, as an overseer, I like to use these rules to

(00:03:56): amplify the narrative forces we've got and the fallout universe is just so fun for

(00:04:01): that so back to what i'm talking about back to this blog post i just put up our

(00:04:06): very first on the sub stack please go check that out uh it is oh let me get this

(00:04:11): link and let me get it correct uh is it in front of me i'm looking at the page but

(00:04:15): i don't think the link at the top is is the one i want

(00:04:20): It is tftfallout.substack.com.

(00:04:25): It's all linked in the description,

(00:04:26): so go no further than looking there,

(00:04:29): and you should find it easily.

(00:04:30): But that's tftfallout.substack.com.

(00:04:35): It will be a wonderful repository for recaps of episodes, for...

(00:04:42): We're going to try and upload these in video and audio form, our actual play series.

(00:04:48): So look out for that.

(00:04:48): I'll get into more detail as we go on.

(00:04:50): That's going to be hosted live on Twitch.

(00:04:52): It's going to be archived on YouTube.

(00:04:54): But let me stick with this post.

(00:04:56): The Descent into the Wendigo's Grotto is a capstone of their Session Zero,

(00:05:02): this prelude to the real game,

(00:05:06): the broadcast game.

(00:05:08): For us, it has been real.

(00:05:09): But at the same time, it has also been...

(00:05:11): an experiment, a test bed.

(00:05:13): We have loose rules because we want people to have fun.

(00:05:16): We let people respect if they need to.

(00:05:19): So for any rule, try hard, you know, by the book people out there, please

(00:05:27): Cut us some slack here.

(00:05:28): We're just in this for the narrative storytelling.

(00:05:32): I'm a guy that likes to play games and rules as honestly as I can,

(00:05:36): but I'll never let that hinder our experience because no player should ever feel

(00:05:40): frustrated at the table,

(00:05:41): sad at the table,

(00:05:42): you know,

(00:05:43): any sort of left out feeling.

(00:05:46): We want these rules again to work for the people.

(00:05:48): And as such, you're going to get to dive into all of this and hear my thoughts as I go forward.

(00:05:54): If you like this kind of rambly style podcast, I'm sure you're going to get more of them.

(00:05:58): But I want to info dump.

(00:05:59): I want to show people some behind the scenes stuff.

(00:06:02): I've been a video game streamer on Twitch for a couple years.

(00:06:04): I played Fallout 76 on Twitch on and off for a couple years,

(00:06:08): but I've never done anything with tabletops before,

(00:06:11): but I am just in love with it.

(00:06:12): I have been watching tabletops since around

(00:06:16): And only, I mean, it's pretty recently, but let's say December of 2023.

(00:06:21): So now we've just, you know, arched one year of me doing that.

(00:06:25): And it's a whole world that I just didn't get into.

(00:06:28): I mentioned in college,

(00:06:29): I tried it once,

(00:06:30): just wasn't the right fit,

(00:06:31): wasn't the right like ongoing group.

(00:06:33): either probably wasn't even the right universe for me potentially that's a whole

(00:06:37): other aspect is I you know I'm a guy that's watching Critical Role on YouTube and

(00:06:41): I'm really loving that I like a lot of personalities there but honestly I don't

(00:06:45): know that I could set myself in a high fantasy universe as a dungeon master or as a

(00:06:51): game master I think as a player I could really dig that it's actually Baldur's Gate

(00:06:56): 3 that got this this door popped open in my life so it was just a magical

(00:07:01): coincidence of finding

(00:07:04): let's say Baldur's Gate 3,

(00:07:06): which made me want to check out Critical Role,

(00:07:08): which made me want to check out their Candela Obscura stuff.

(00:07:12): I bought a book for that.

(00:07:13): I've got that to try later.

(00:07:15): But before I could even get forward with that,

(00:07:18): I saw this great,

(00:07:19): you know,

(00:07:19): an ad on Instagram from Modiphius that did work.

(00:07:23): It caught my eye, and I said, wow, let's check out this.

(00:07:27): I checked out their game,

(00:07:29): bought myself a copy,

(00:07:31): and friends came together around the virtual table.

(00:07:34): So here we are.

(00:07:35): Without further ado,

(00:07:37): let's actually dive into this post,

(00:07:39): and I will give some thoughts afterwards.

(00:07:41): I'm going to,

(00:07:42): well,

(00:07:42): maybe even pause after some of these paragraphs,

(00:07:44): but this is an introductory episode for folks,

(00:07:47): so I want to keep this as user-friendly as possible,

(00:07:51): but also knowing that we're

(00:07:53): We're going to be doing more breakdowns as time goes on.

(00:07:56): So, Descent into the Wendigo's Grotto.

(00:07:59): In this week's thrilling episode of Tales from Tomorrow,

(00:08:02): Under the Mothman's Embrace,

(00:08:04): our new Fallout 2D20 campaign broadcast live on Twitch,

(00:08:09): our intrepid wasteland survivors found themselves departing from the relative

(00:08:13): safety of Rusty Bones Farm.

(00:08:16): Despite urgent messages from the troubled town of Hope requesting their immediate return,

(00:08:23): our heroes,

(00:08:25): I said that out of order,

(00:08:26): pardon me,

(00:08:26): let me rewind that.

(00:08:27): Despite urgent messages from the troubled town of Hope requesting their immediate return,

(00:08:32): our heroes chose to pursue their missing colleague,

(00:08:35): Hell's Bells,

(00:08:36): luring them to investigate the strange stillness in the hills now punctuated by the

(00:08:42): disorientation of immense radiation.

(00:08:45): Okay, so what's going on here?

(00:08:47): In the very early days of the game,

(00:08:49): the very,

(00:08:49): very start when the players are doing the very basics of learning combat,

(00:08:55): they stumbled upon a Protectron who helped guide them to a nearby town.

(00:09:01): The Protectron had gotten injured.

(00:09:03): It was dispatched by Foundation far in Appalachia South,

(00:09:08): or at least on the Fallout 76 map in the South.

(00:09:10): It was dispatched up north to try to greet the

(00:09:14): wary travelers on the road, just like this.

(00:09:16): However,

(00:09:17): it getting damaged,

(00:09:18): probably not so expected,

(00:09:20): though it was programmed to return to possible settlements that could render aid

(00:09:26): and repair.

(00:09:27): That's what led them to the town of Hope.

(00:09:29): When they got there,

(00:09:30): the town was under attack by Meyerlurks,

(00:09:33): not at the exact moment,

(00:09:34): but at the night before,

(00:09:36): and a new raid was happening that night.

(00:09:39): This led them to team up with a couple different people in the town,

(00:09:44): a robot repairman named Tom Clifton.

(00:09:46): He's been sort of the leader of the town alongside his handy mechanic assistant, Lena.

(00:09:53): There is the Dr. Jacob in the town.

(00:09:58): And who else?

(00:09:59): Terry the Traitor.

(00:10:01): as the general goods salesman in there.

(00:10:03): They've got this cool vibe going on where they've been rebuilding the town.

(00:10:07): They've been helping build barricades.

(00:10:10): They reactivated some dormant protectrons that were in the police department.

(00:10:14): They now repurpose those to serve as defense of the town.

(00:10:18): Um...

(00:10:19): That actually went rather well.

(00:10:21): They were able to fend off a Mirelurk attack that happened in one of their first or

(00:10:25): second nights in this area of hope.

(00:10:28): They met up with another player character at the time, Hells Bells.

(00:10:31): Cool friend, but we've unfortunately sort of lost touch with her over the months.

(00:10:36): Very awesome person, very busy.

(00:10:39): And now her character's sort of in my domain now to do as we will.

(00:10:43): And that comes...

(00:10:45): a question I'll try and loop this together sensibly but just to say shortly

(00:10:49): Hell's Bells is missing it's related to a quest that they get sent on briefly

(00:10:55): So as they're defending this town from Mirelurks, they start exploring.

(00:10:59): They start, you know, again, repurposing police protectrons.

(00:11:03): They go into some other buildings and they loot.

(00:11:06): Our one player,

(00:11:07): Raven,

(00:11:08): managed to grab a mushroom in a house that wound up infecting her with spores,

(00:11:14): like a necrotic type of mushroom.

(00:11:17): It was a bit of an affair.

(00:11:19): It was a two-session sort of incident where she started hallucinating and thought

(00:11:25): she was seeing aliens.

(00:11:27): It was a wonderful vibe,

(00:11:30): and this very much built up our desire to play this game and bring it forward.

(00:11:37): One of the things the town had been pressing them to do while all of this is going

(00:11:41): on in the background,

(00:11:42): all this exploration,

(00:11:43): the town was pressing them to go to a radio tower to reconnect and get signal so

(00:11:51): they could chat from the town of Hope down to Foundation.

(00:11:57): I kind of said looking at the map that with the...

(00:12:01): mountain range that's there with hope being behind it with foundation being on the

(00:12:05): direct opposite side that these radio antennas and transmitters they couldn't go

(00:12:11): that far they had to activate another substation that's nearby that became their

(00:12:16): big mission that became the mission that health bells also departed to do in fact

(00:12:21): Hell's Bells takes a group of soldiers to go and activate this radio station

(00:12:26): because our player characters,

(00:12:28): Sam,

(00:12:29): Raven,

(00:12:29): and Jim,

(00:12:31): all get stuck with this necrotic fungus in town.

(00:12:35): That became, again, quite an affair.

(00:12:39): So they dispatch this other group of NPCs up there to try and get the antenna online.

(00:12:47): This is where Hell's Bells goes missing.

(00:12:49): So our players get their fungus taken care of.

(00:12:53): They're not infected anymore.

(00:12:55): But in the process, they had found a couple other interesting things in the town.

(00:12:59): One was a kind of a Nuka-Cola slash Slocum Joe's cafe bar thing.

(00:13:07): And in there, there was a lot of pink goo.

(00:13:10): You follow out four players might know some of that.

(00:13:13): However, the in-game characters did not know that very well.

(00:13:17): It turns out that the town did start to eat some of this.

(00:13:20): In this pink goo case,

(00:13:22): the way this worked was they have a near,

(00:13:25): the town has a very large supply of pink goo and it's in these sort of insertable containers.

(00:13:33): When you insert it,

(00:13:34): the machine in question turns the pink goo into as close of an approximation of the

(00:13:42): real food.

(00:13:43): That is to say, it almost 3D prints with pink goo.

(00:13:47): So it's now like a step up from the high school experiment to now you can make

(00:13:53): Slocum Joe donuts out of pink goo with the press of a button,

(00:13:57): effectively.

(00:13:58): That was the shtick of the place that they looted.

(00:14:01): And now the townsfolk are sort of eating that pink goo, which may have problems.

(00:14:06): They also determined,

(00:14:08): our players,

(00:14:08): they determined that there was a vault tech facility in town.

(00:14:14): It was very innocuous,

(00:14:17): sort of maybe more of a shell type of thing,

(00:14:21): where they had two different stores running.

(00:14:26): on Main Street purchased out.

(00:14:28): One was a sort of a quack guru health person who was pushing some cream to help

(00:14:36): people open up their chakras and such before the war.

(00:14:40): And what it wound up being was this very highly irradiated cream people were

(00:14:44): putting on them and it was turning them into ghouls.

(00:14:46): Well, this...

(00:14:47): sort of wound up being an experiment from Vault-Tec who was in the shop next door.

(00:14:51): They had rented out the space next to it,

(00:14:54): which I,

(00:14:55): pardon me that off the top of my head,

(00:14:57): I don't remember what we said at the time.

(00:14:58): It was some sort of just very kind of basic sales front.

(00:15:03): It wasn't something that would attract the eye.

(00:15:05): And I believe I remember saying that to the players that like the Vault-Tec

(00:15:10): office was not decked out in vault boy icons but instead very business boring so

(00:15:17): that it's ignored and in that office they were actually watching into the the quack

(00:15:22): guru doctor next door they were seeing through the looking glass there was a um a

(00:15:27): flippable kind of two-way one-way mirror sort of vibe going on two-way mirror

(00:15:32): that's the word for it

(00:15:33): Anyway, they figure this out.

(00:15:35): It gives them some leads to the future.

(00:15:37): Other things they could check out.

(00:15:39): A Fallout, I'm sorry, a Vault-Tec warehouse that could be nearby.

(00:15:42): And as they're beginning their travels,

(00:15:45): or beginning to get ready for their travels,

(00:15:47): they decide to bring Lena with them.

(00:15:49): They're going to go pursue after Hell's Bells, pursue up to this tower.

(00:15:53): The town's in an okay spot.

(00:15:55): It's a little bit worried about the...

(00:15:57): The fungus coming back,

(00:15:59): the townspeople were worried about Mirelurk still coming in,

(00:16:02): but for the time being,

(00:16:03): it's okay,

(00:16:03): and they decide they're going to use this window to go.

(00:16:06): They go on their way, they find some raiders that you see marked on the map.

(00:16:10): The raiders had a weird encounter where they had been attacked by Mothman cultists.

(00:16:15): And the cultists were strong enough to actually kidnap,

(00:16:19): like steal away,

(00:16:20): maybe kill a raider in power armor.

(00:16:23): So that's something of interest.

(00:16:25): The raiders otherwise that are in the road allowed them to pass.

(00:16:29): These were free state raiders.

(00:16:31): Is that the word for it?

(00:16:31): No, no, no, no, no.

(00:16:34): That's not it.

(00:16:35): It's not the free states.

(00:16:37): Kyle, West, Virginia Lumber Mill.

(00:16:40): Let's see.

(00:16:40): What is it?

(00:16:41): I'm drawing a blank on the group that's in there.

(00:16:44): I had it at the time.

(00:16:45): Don't have it now.

(00:16:47): Free radicals!

(00:16:48): Okay, there we go.

(00:16:49): I call them free states.

(00:16:51): That's the other group.

(00:16:52): But these are the free radical raiders.

(00:16:54): So these free radical raiders come from the West Virginia lumber mill.

(00:16:58): And for that reason,

(00:17:00): free radical raiders being a lot of ex-cons,

(00:17:04): I don't consider this faction to be...

(00:17:08): violent or interraiding for the same reason that other raiders are.

(00:17:12): At least that's sort of the way that I'm playing this in my franchise of it.

(00:17:20): We're not playing them up as violent.

(00:17:21): In fact, this is something that the players have gotten

(00:17:25): Sort of invitations to work with them a little bit more.

(00:17:28): They've been reluctant so far, but they met with these free radical raiders.

(00:17:32): They let them pass.

(00:17:34): The free radicals were very worried about their comrades that had been killed the

(00:17:37): night before in this bloody attack by the Mothman cultists.

(00:17:41): But our people travel forward.

(00:17:44): I did forget to mention that one of their adventures in the town netted them a Mr.

(00:17:48): Handy unit who is named Alfred.

(00:17:51): He follows them along as long as they want him.

(00:17:54): And so they went on their adventure with Sam...

(00:17:57): who is a soldier of sorts raven who is our um she's a mothman cultist of her own

(00:18:03): she's using the tribal background um she is very big into using bows uh we got our

(00:18:11): friend jim in there he is the science guy and they decided to take lenna the

(00:18:17): mechanic and alfred the mr handy

(00:18:20): went on their way,

(00:18:20): you know,

(00:18:21): they passed these raiders,

(00:18:22): they wind up finding Rusty Dusty Bones' farm.

(00:18:27): Rusty Dusty Bones,

(00:18:29): maybe mentioned him a little bit earlier,

(00:18:30): he is a ghoul trader who's in on the caravan industry that's popping up all over

(00:18:36): the Fallout 76 map with the expansion of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company.

(00:18:41): He sells both above-board and below-board wares, both high-low.

(00:18:48): And I do apologize for any lore that I might be skipping or leaving out.

(00:18:52): There's quite a lot of it that has been experienced over the time,

(00:18:57): but we're almost up to present at this point.

(00:18:59): So they decide to help Rusty Dusty Bones with a couple things around his farm.

(00:19:03): They level up a couple times off of things like that.

(00:19:06): They wind up going up towards the radio antenna or radio station.

(00:19:12): They get in there,

(00:19:13): and the most interesting takeaway is that when they kick this place online with

(00:19:18): their presence,

(00:19:20): they find...

(00:19:22): that another entity is taking up some residence there now, MODIS.

(00:19:27): For those that know the Fallout 76 universe,

(00:19:30): MODIS has some,

(00:19:32): well,

(00:19:32): sinister connections,

(00:19:34): and I'll leave it a little bit at that without giving too many spoilers.

(00:19:38): They strike a deal with MODIS that they can use this antenna system.

(00:19:43): It's not a problem.

(00:19:44): Hope can now communicate with Foundation.

(00:19:47): But Modus is going to keep a watch over it.

(00:19:50): So now there's this sort of interesting relationship that is about to form and sort

(00:19:57): of be birthed into this game where people from Hope and or Foundation are going to

(00:20:02): go and try to occupy this radio antenna.

(00:20:08): uh and modus is allowing them to do that but that's going to put those soldiers

(00:20:14): those those settlers right into modus's connection uh whether that's a good thing

(00:20:20): or a great thing whether it's a bad thing or a terrible thing all of that will be

(00:20:26): determined on their way to and from the

(00:20:30): tower radio station,

(00:20:31): they came across some disturbing evidence that their friend Hells Bells' crew had

(00:20:38): been knocked off course,

(00:20:40): to put it lightly.

(00:20:41): It seems from a note that they read that they were actually being hunted.

(00:20:45): And...

(00:20:47): now their job is to try and get them back.

(00:20:50): So a long backdrop, but I'll go ahead and reread this.

(00:20:54): So in this week's thrilling episode of Tales from Tomorrow,

(00:20:58): Under the Mothman's Embrace,

(00:21:00): our new Fallout 2D20 campaign broadcasts live on Twitch.

(00:21:04): Our intrepid wasteland survivors find themselves departing the relative safety of

(00:21:08): Rusty Bones' farm despite urgent messages from the troubled town of Hope requesting

(00:21:14): their immediate return to

(00:21:15): Our heroes chose to pursue their missing colleague,

(00:21:18): Howells Bells,

(00:21:19): luring them to investigate the strange stillness of the hills,

(00:21:23): now punctuated by the disorientation of immense radiation.

(00:21:28): I think a lot of that now will make sense that they came from the town of Hope.

(00:21:32): They are now looking for those missing colleagues.

(00:21:34): Hope is in need of help.

(00:21:35): There are people that are starting to depart it.

(00:21:37): There's food shortages, power shortages, water shortages.

(00:21:40): They need to go back and take care of that settlement."

(00:21:42): But Hell's Bells is missing, and they want to figure this out first.

(00:21:46): They noticed some stillness in the area where there were birds that weren't chirping.

(00:21:50): Sort of sound was desolate and gone.

(00:21:52): Maybe the animals had just all scurried off.

(00:21:54): And now we see that that area is a hotbed of radiation.

(00:21:59): It was messing with Alfred's sensors or optical radiation.

(00:22:03): sensors, his eyes, the Mr. Handy.

(00:22:05): And they wound up tracking,

(00:22:07): actually through Raven,

(00:22:09): finding some mushrooms,

(00:22:11): some glowing mushrooms,

(00:22:12): that they were able to find the access to a cave named the Magic Grotto.

(00:22:17): So let's dive into the next paragraph here.

(00:22:20): The team consisting of Raven, the stalwart scout, Sam,

(00:22:24): the resourceful survivor,

(00:22:26): Jim,

(00:22:26): the tech specialist,

(00:22:28): and their Mr.

(00:22:28): Handy companion,

(00:22:30): Alfred,

(00:22:30): ventured forth into the wasteland wilderness.

(00:22:33): With their vault-dwelling comrade,

(00:22:35): Amelia,

(00:22:36): absent,

(00:22:36): they were forced to rely on Alfred's sensors,

(00:22:39): though the high radiation levels in the area caused concerning malfunctions in the

(00:22:43): robot's optical systems.

(00:22:46): Jim's attempted modifications to Alfred's sensors went awry,

(00:22:53): leaving their mechanical companions slightly damaged.

(00:22:55): However,

(00:22:56): fortune,

(00:22:57): or perhaps misfortune,

(00:22:58): smiled upon them when ravens spotted an eerie trail of bioluminescent fungi,

(00:23:04): leading to what locals previously called the magic grotto.

(00:23:08): So they thought that they could,

(00:23:10): or maybe I even sort of pushed them to see if they could get Alfred to be able to

(00:23:15): see this radiation.

(00:23:16): It was affecting his optical systems,

(00:23:19): but I was wondering if their tech specialist,

(00:23:21): Jim,

(00:23:21): could tweak it.

(00:23:23): His dice rolls didn't land it,

(00:23:25): and in fact,

(00:23:25): he kind of,

(00:23:26): it was borderline between giving Alfred a debuff and not.

(00:23:30): It just sort of set him off so he couldn't do as much in combat,

(00:23:34): but it wasn't as firm of a debuff.

(00:23:36): But thanks to Raven's great foraging abilities, she helped find a path to this magic grotto.

(00:23:45): So the note continues here, the blog post.

(00:23:48): It says,

(00:23:58): was ambushed by a pack of feral ghouls rising from their seats and their graves.

(00:24:04): The ensuing battle took a dark turn when one of these irradiated horrors managed to

(00:24:09): capture Raven,

(00:24:11): dragging her into the depths of the cave.

(00:24:14): Following a harrowing pursuit through chambers filled with the grim remains of

(00:24:19): previous explorers,

(00:24:21): our team finally confronted the ghoul,

(00:24:24): only to face something far worse.

(00:24:27): The dreaded wendigo, a creature of pre-war nightmare, emerged from the shadows.

(00:24:33): The beast proved devastating,

(00:24:35): grievously wounding Jim before retreating with semi-fresh prey to feed upon.

(00:24:41): possibly Hell's Bells.

(00:24:44): We leave our heroes at this crucial moment trapped in a radioactive cave facing one

(00:24:49): of Appalachia's deadliest predators.

(00:24:51): Will they survive?

(00:24:53): Can they save their companion?

(00:24:55): And what dire circumstances await them back in hope where the population dwindles

(00:25:00): with each passing day?

(00:25:02): That is the blog post in summary.

(00:25:05): And I just have to say to anyone that's listened to all of this so far,

(00:25:09): Thank you for bearing with me.

(00:25:11): It has been a really fun, off-the-cuff brain dump.

(00:25:14): I sort of thought about putting notes together to read off of,

(00:25:18): but that always feels so bland and a little impersonal to me.

(00:25:22): And I meant notes thicker than what I just read as the blog post.

(00:25:25): I did want to turn that into some sort of audio format so people can listen online.

(00:25:30): Although I'll point out that Substack allows you to press a play button,

(00:25:35): and I do believe it has a robot AI voice that reads it out.

(00:25:38): So this is something I might do in the future is give my own thoughts on these weekly recaps.

(00:25:43): It's something I might want to be a little bit careful of so that I'm not giving my

(00:25:46): players too big of spoilers just in case I want to give the audience a clue,

(00:25:51): but not them.

(00:25:52): So just note to myself.

(00:25:54): But the

(00:25:55): the game has been going on like I said for something near eight approximately

(00:25:58): months it's been so wonderful diving into Fallout lore and my comrades have been

(00:26:03): such great sports about this I'm so excited to bring this to all of you and I want

(00:26:09): to mention again the different ways we're going to do this

(00:26:11): I think the Substack will be the primary hub of it.

(00:26:14): It's going to get these blog posts and it's going to host the podcast.

(00:26:19): The podcasts are going to be multiple things.

(00:26:21): The podcast will be the actual plays without video.

(00:26:24): They will be also just deep dives on...

(00:26:28): lore from my perspective what it's like to build out the game and sort of as I

(00:26:33): tease the bottom other things that are coming soon we'll do some character profiles

(00:26:37): player profiles behind the scenes art things that I kind of make for the game we

(00:26:42): could do some chats about the game development you and I maybe have some of the

(00:26:46): other players come in here and around Robin and join us something like that and as

(00:26:51): I mentioned there there is discord access you can go check

(00:26:54): that out as well the substack though if you go to it tftfallout.substack.com it has

(00:27:01): a link to the podcast the discord the twitch the youtube and more all across the

(00:27:05): top bar hopefully you can see that easily uh but the podcast will again be a mix of

(00:27:12): sort of behind the scenes it will be uh

(00:27:14): live plays or actual plays the discord is a great place for people to go in there

(00:27:19): and share memes to share some ai art to share all kinds of cool things related to

(00:27:24): fallout and also to hopefully meet up and start doing extra games ourselves the

(00:27:30): twitch page i highly recommend you check out usually i'm over there streaming some

(00:27:34): type of politics but uh

(00:27:36): We're going to try and get more going on with Fallout in the universe just between

(00:27:39): Fallout 76 and especially the game.

(00:27:42): We want to stream that live so people can have something to do on Sunday nights to

(00:27:45): get a little relaxation in their mind.

(00:27:47): And then over on YouTube, the actual plays will live and exist.

(00:27:52): And the tag for that page is TFT underscore Fallout.

(00:27:56): So Tales from Tomorrow.

(00:27:58): By the way, it's sort of a spin on...

(00:28:02): Astoundingly Awesome Tales.

(00:28:04): I like this name because Tales from Tomorrow,

(00:28:07): this is sort of us telling a future that's very similar to our own,

(00:28:11): slightly altered to our own,

(00:28:13): but becoming more true every single day.

(00:28:16): So I hope you enjoy this little episode I've put together for you.

(00:28:21): I will upload this to...

(00:28:24): youtube and it will probably go out there in the podcast feed as well uh i hope

(00:28:29): this background has been helpful and i might come in and do these in the future if

(00:28:33): people have ideas let's let's do this as a back and forth i could sit here and

(00:28:38): lament all night and think what did i leave out what did i leave out but i'll leave

(00:28:42): that to you to ask those questions what did i leave out what do you want to know

(00:28:45): more about our players you'll get to know them even more we are uh by the way this

(00:28:50): is a very important note probably should have said this sooner

(00:28:53): Why are we taking it to Twitch now?

(00:28:55): Well,

(00:28:56): not only is it the beginning of 2025,

(00:28:58): which seems like a great time,

(00:29:00): but also that our players are hitting that capstone.

(00:29:03): This, as you probably heard, the Wendigo plot is the end of them going far away from hope.

(00:29:09): They've activated a radio tower and they found the other people that were sent to

(00:29:13): activate this radio tower.

(00:29:15): They found that they are missing, that they are injured.

(00:29:17): They found that it takes them to this cave.

(00:29:19): And so this to them is the conclusion of that plot.

(00:29:23): Once they get back to hope,

(00:29:27): that will sort of be the big part of season one starting for me.

(00:29:32): If this is season zero still, that would be season one.

(00:29:36): And also to our new people that are tuning in or anyone that's just coming around

(00:29:41): because they found this,

(00:29:42): A lot of the reason we didn't do season zero as a live thing was confidence, right?

(00:29:48): Just full admission.

(00:29:49): Again, we're all new to this.

(00:29:50): I'm brand new to DMing it.

(00:29:51): They're new to playing it.

(00:29:53): No one knew anything about this.

(00:29:55): I don't think any...

(00:29:57): Yeah, I don't think any of us have real, like, stage experience.

(00:30:01): I have, like, the most minor amount, but not really.

(00:30:06): Like, you know, this is a new experience for me telling stories like this.

(00:30:11): I've not created or sort of managed my own little mental franchise like that before,

(00:30:18): meaning I'm using Bethesda's lore before.

(00:30:21): But it's my twist on it,

(00:30:23): and I'm building out my own areas for it,

(00:30:25): my own cities,

(00:30:26): and my own narrative to it.

(00:30:29): So it's very, very fun.

(00:30:29): I welcome good feedback from people.

(00:30:33): That's, I guess, another thing to perfectly conclude this episode with.

(00:30:36): is to set some respectful boundaries because that will lead to the best

(00:30:40): relationship between us as the players,

(00:30:44): the GM,

(00:30:45): and everyone else,

(00:30:46): the audience,

(00:30:47): the supporters,

(00:30:48): the people who are making this experience even more fun for us.

(00:30:52): The boundary being that I...

(00:30:54): do have a vision for this game.

(00:30:57): And I love people's feedback.

(00:31:00): But that is a good thing to call out that I ask people to be respectful about my

(00:31:05): decisions for the game.

(00:31:06): I'm asking that in advance.

(00:31:08): I watch a lot of actual plays myself over on YouTube.

(00:31:12): Love the channel Arcane Arcade.

(00:31:14): Shout out to them.

(00:31:16): Shout out to Critical Role.

(00:31:17): I love that sort of stuff.

(00:31:18): And I watch some other great creators like Crab,

(00:31:21): who talks about what a nightmare game master is like.

(00:31:25): So with all that in mind,

(00:31:26): I say I want us to have a really good exchange,

(00:31:30): us,

(00:31:30): the creators of the game and everyone else,

(00:31:32): the audience,

(00:31:33): the participators in it,

(00:31:35): that...

(00:31:35): I've got a vision.

(00:31:37): I like when people give ideas,

(00:31:39): but if someone's idea does not get incorporated,

(00:31:42): don't take that as a slight.

(00:31:44): I'm a guy that's very slow to take people's feedback.

(00:31:46): Like I hear it, I go, I don't know about that.

(00:31:48): And then I think about it for like a day or a week or a month.

(00:31:51): And I usually end up implementing it in some way,

(00:31:54): shape or form because the feedback's mostly good all the time.

(00:31:57): You know, I really like getting people's comments.

(00:32:00): And so if you're someone that...

(00:32:03): likes that boundary too and respects that boundary like i say i just got a

(00:32:06): direction for the game i play it very reflexively so um wherever the players want

(00:32:11): to go i'm happy to write the story for them that's why i welcome all these

(00:32:15): different general ideas if you say something in a suggestion it might get brought

(00:32:19): up and worked into it later but please also be respectful that it might not be

(00:32:24): worked in the exact way as you said it because it needs to fit our

(00:32:28): narrative more than than anything else right where even the rules that modifius has

(00:32:32): set out these are just our guidelines more than they are dictates as to how we

(00:32:39): exactly play i hope this all makes sense to people i am so excited to have your

(00:32:43): input on this journey fallout is best played with friends

(00:32:47): And this game is a great one.

(00:32:49): There's so much ripe soil,

(00:32:52): just so many good fertile soil,

(00:32:54): ripe fruit,

(00:32:54): great opportunities to be planting these wonderful seeds to grow.

(00:32:58): Literally, the foundation system is just awesome.

(00:33:01): And my players are starting to get really into their characters.

(00:33:05): We're really starting to spread our wings with it.

(00:33:08): So 2025, we'll have YouTube videos.

(00:33:11): We'll have the sub stack, which has newsletter and blog posts.

(00:33:13): It's also going to have the podcast podcast.

(00:33:15): which you should soon be able to find on all your favorite podcast players soon to

(00:33:19): be on apple and all the others it'll even be up on youtube that'll that'll put the

(00:33:24): podcasts up there automatically so look out for all of it very fun tales from

(00:33:29): tomorrow and i hope to talk to you very soon with a new little developer update i

(00:33:33): might call these my dev diaries i don't know my dm diaries my overseer logs is that

(00:33:38): what they're called overseer logs is that a cool idea

(00:33:42): Maybe these will be overseer logs.

(00:33:44): I like that.

(00:33:46): Ooh, I think that's what I'll do.

(00:33:48): I was going to post this up there, uh, on the sub stack and rewrite like overwrite.

(00:33:53): I had a little AI voice narrate the blog post originally,

(00:33:57): but I'm going to do this one as a dev diary,

(00:33:59): uh,

(00:34:00): an overseer log,

(00:34:02): and I will post that in addition this week.

(00:34:05): That's very cool.

(00:34:06): So, um,

(00:34:07): Thank you for listening to my rambles.

(00:34:08): I promise I will continue to ramble your ears off as we do this in the future.

(00:34:13): I hope to see you live over on Twitch Sunday nights.

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