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Michael Collins, Leon Barnes, Liam Higgins, Laura Coe

Play By Podcast is a bi-weekly actual play podcast focusing on storytelling through the medium of tabletop role-playing games. Join hosts Michael, Leon, Liam, and Laura every fortnight as we gather around a table full of microphones to build worlds, forge relationships, and learn just how the hell Dungeon World works, anyway. It"s not just another D&D podcast, it"s Play By Podcast.

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Territory Nouveau 23: Battleplan

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2020/10/22

Cast-offs, discardeds, discharges, and deserters.People Terra Cassavander believed the Jovian Lunar Commonwealth had done a disservice. Treating them like nothing more than more meat for the grinder. People the Commonwealth had abandoned. Some more literally than others. Cassavander had been the leader of the Commonwealth’s 5th Rifle Division before his desertion. The 5th were a decorated and accoladed unit, a feather in the Commonwealth’s cap, until he and a close group of confidantes had taken the

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Territory Nouveau 22: Pieces Fall Together

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2020/10/01

Recall Pumpkinfein had never wanted to waste away in a boardroom. As the fifth child in the line of succession however, little else was expected of him. By the circumstances of his birth, his role in his family’s tapestry was to be minimal. Even with those lowered expectations, Recall’s aspirations, his youthful ambition, pressed him into the service of the Rectified Solar Union’s military. Four years at the academy, and a generous donation from his family, put the young man on the fast track to

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Territory Nouveau 21: The Coronation of Otto von...

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2020/09/15

Prominence, it’s been quite a while.I was skeptical when Lord Torvald contacted us. Can you blame me? How often do you get a direct line from the head of a Gentry household instead of some MAB representative?But when your name came up -- when I saw the Vanguard Arm was onboard, the risk of taking a job from a...private contractor seemed trivial. Eyed the rest of the roster and it looks like a few more friendly faces will be joining us. Crew from the Vehement. Good, steady mercs they are. Soft

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Territory Nouveau 20: The Prodigal

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2020/09/01

Torvald von Furstenberg had achieved the impossible. He had accomplished something no other member of the family would have ever entertained, let alone attempted.Torvald had managed, against all odds, to bring the black sheep of House von Furstenberg; rebellious, headstrong Otto, back into the fold.The von Furstenbergs had all but abandoned the boy out in the Territory. Otto had become anathema to them. To consider him was to acknowledge the blemishing disgrace on their House.But Torvald knew, if

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Territory Nouveau 19: Circumstances of Departure

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2020/08/02

Six hundred and eighty. Six hundred and eighty years. That’s how long it would take you to get from Earth to Pluto in the 21st Century.In the 28th, moving at near-light speed with a nice boot drive, it wouldn’t even take two weeks. It’d be a fucking pleasure cruise. Smoothest tenday of your life, with the right crew.Of course that’s what it always comes down to, isn’t it? You can have the shiniest ship in the Territory; best in the RSU, Commonwealth, or the Freeholds, fresh off the shipyards

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Territory Nouveau 18: Out in the Cold

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2020/07/16

Had they all feared for their lives when the rounds started flying? Of course, but freeholders would proudly tell you they are stronger than that.Freeholders don’t panic under fire. They find cover and assess. Freeholders are ready for anything, anytime. They think on their feet and they execute. When the gunfire started downtown, they’d known what to do almost on instinct. All of them had managed to live through at least one large-scale assault by now, for most that number was higher. This was just

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Territory Nouveau 17: Disarmed

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2020/07/02

They’d seen to her in one of the clinics near the shuttle hub, under a full complement of armed freeholders. Mended up her broken and bruised wrists in freshly printed casts. Taken her knives, for what good that would do them. But she had not allowed anyone to tamper with the TrackingSoft chip inserted at the base of her neck. The golden tether connecting her to her quarry, who she’d been keeping tabs on since their engagement. Casperov would be damned if she let that miserable scrapheap get

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Territory Nouveau 16: Houndstooth and Casperov

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2020/06/16

Suspicion, a cautious distrust. If anyone knows how to foster suspicion, it’s Alistair Hounsdstooth. In this business, cautious distrust is what gets you in the door. Their expectation for you to overperform, overdeliver. Everybody loves an underdog, so why not play a little below the table?The trick is to make whatever story you’re selling half believable, even if none of it’s true. Create the narrative. Create suspicion. Create an opening.It all went to plan, the Vehement. A little bloviating, a

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Territory Nouveau 15: Back to the Vehement

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2020/06/01

The crew save for Chief O’Donnell and Doctor Peryton had offloaded from the Vehement for shore leave on the Freeholds. With Bete, Otto, and Scarlett gone as well, Ambrose was finally beginning to enjoy his time alone.He had just capped off a long 18-hour nap when the airlock comms buzzed his quarters.“Houndstooth and Casperov: Finders, Keepers” gold print emblazoned across a business card, vague enough to be enticing but direct enough to tell Ambrose the kind of thing these two were sniffing around

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Territory Nouveau 14: Float Along

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2020/05/15

The Jovian military wouldn’t make any moves without solid information to go on, of that Virgo was certain. They wouldn’t waste resources to recover an asset as vital to Aspirant Kennet’s grand design as Doctor Xade without proper intel. They needed something verifiable. Something concrete.He was certain he had gummed up the works considerably in this regard.Jewels Carcanet and his cabal of enforcers from Jovian Intelligence had come knocking not long after the doctor had left Mirandan atmo. They’d

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Territory Nouveau 13: In the Clear

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2020/05/01

Two years. Two years since Trilly had dared to set down on Miranda. When she was a little girl, running errands for the Vory on Titan, she’d heard the rumors about this place even then. She’d come up substantially in the trade since, but the rumors remained. If there was ever a place that gave Trilly the shivers, it was Miranda.And yet here she was.When one spoke of Miranda within the Commonwealth, it was with eyes that were fixed to the wall ahead, in words drawn out from the corner of one's mouth

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Territory Nouveau 12: Xade and Rigel

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2020/04/15

From the moment he was brought back online aboard the C.C.V. Shining Sky Rigel had known something had gone wrong. The whole trip home he had worried that he was to blame. Now back on Miranda he was sure of it.Doctor Xade had been confined to their lab, patched into Rigel’s home network. He knew the toll that interfacing with him long-term would take on them, but Comandante Carcanet had assured Rigel that the Doctor needed more time to “acclimate” to interfacing.Rigel was fairly sure that was not

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Territory Nouveau 11: Face Adversity

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2020/04/01

Vettel had drawn sentry duty again. He always hated guard details. He would just end up standing there for four hours, boring himself half to death. At least the rotating patrols got to move around a little. Got to pilot an anchor, like he’d signed up to. Got to see the sights, if in fact there were any sights to see on this godforsaken rock.Miranda was always so damn bleak. Year round it was always the same grey flatland, the same blue-grey sky, surrounded by the same awful, choking fog. Even on

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Territory Nouveau 10: Welcome to Miranda

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2020/03/16

There was this saying in the old world, a long time ago: “the guilty always return to the scene of the crime” they said.For folks like me, who do the illegal well and do it often, we’ve taken this old adage and made our own use of it. In a backwards kind of way, anyway. In the circles of smugglers, runners, spys, and info brokers, the sentiment is a little different.The guilty should never return. Never hit the same spot, attack the same target, never be in the same place, never work with the same

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Territory Nouveau 09: Good Friends

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2020/03/01

After the dust up with that ship of freelancers and that Gentryman from the Union, Commandant Carcanet was happy to turn his attention to more important matters. The expeditionaries from Charon would be returning soon, and the data they had transmitted ahead needed assessment.All the combat data from each anchor in the lance was in the process of being poured over by Jovian intelligence, but Carcanet had managed to save the very best for himself. The new anchor. The experimental one. He’d even

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Territory Nouveau 08: Freeholds Attack!

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2020/02/15

They left us here to die, way back when.The Solar Union. The moons that would become the Commonwealth.In the beginning they’d taken anyone, the destitute, the hungry, the desperate. Anyone willing to sign their life away, contract themselves to a life of servitude, and take a one-way flight to the edge of the Territory.A life of hard work for a percentage shaved off interest on their relocation fees. Remainder passed to the next generation. Company scrip for the company store. Things only got worse

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Territory Nouveau 07: Moments and Macaws

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2020/02/02

Linwood was getting on in years, surely. He had seen generations of folks come and go from the Freeholds in his time as a Dockmaster. Whether they came in from the Venusian plains, or the atolls of Ganymede, or were born and raised in the Freeholds, he never forgot a one of them.He took a certain pride in that. It gave him an impetus, a drive, a fierceness to protect the folks attached to those names.Young Ambrose had not been home to Charon in a long, long while. Linwood was beginning to think he

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Territory Nouveau 06: Thorn in an Elephant's Side

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2020/01/15

Miranda, the fog-shrouded moon of Uranus, in the heart of the Jovian Lunar Commonwealth. A strange and enigmatic planetoid where, it is said, the machinations of the Commonwealth’s war machine are brought to life.Since the outset of the First Jovian War, it has been rumored and propagandized within the Rectified Solar Union that Miranda was home to the Jovian miltary’s intelligence and scientific initiatives. The stories of cloak-and-dagger operations and horrific experiments taking place on the the

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Territory Nouveau 05: Cramped Quarters

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2020/01/01

Just outside of Jupiter’s gravitational pull, beyond the boundaries of Europa, Ganymede, Callista, and Io sits a massive ship graveyard. A vast field of decommissioned and destroyed debris placed there specifically as to not be an eyesore upon House Kennet’s glorious Commonwealth. The ships moored there passed on their names and salvagable parts to more worthy vessels long ago, and the graveyard is unknown to most folk in the Commonwealth, but some life does still lurk within the oft overlooked

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Territory Nouveau 04: What I Think is Best

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2019/12/15

In the face of Cydonia’s looming destruction the old worries of Weldon Woldt seemed far away and altogether insignificant. Money, work, comfort, all that mattered now was that next, forward step. Never quite escaping the shadow of the Amano capital ship that loomed large overhead, never quite out of earshot of the thumping boom of artillery, or the mechanical whirring of distant anchors.He’d run, and run, and run until he’d entered the Halation square, the shelter a generous sprint across the

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