Other > One Shot Hi everyone, this is just a quick announcement that PFA will be going on a small hiatus due to our inability to record in person because of COVID-19. We look forward to when we can all meet up again soon!
Fiasco > One Shot It is a hard day in Scotland, a day of working heard and drinking hard. In the spirit of that, our gaming group got together over Discord, had a couple of drinks, and embarked on a sordid tale of accidental murder, quasi-dimensional food, and adventurous sex toys. What follows is a story about what happens when you live too close to one another, and the Fiasco that ensues when you have no idea who your friends are.
3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars > The 5800th Band of Klavas After a lot of seemingly aimless travel through space, the 3rd Expeditionary Fleet has encountered yet another strange anomaly left behind by the 2nd Expeditionary Fleet. Planet Pollok was supposedly nuked into oblivion a few years back. But life sign detectors on board the T.F.S. Glasgow are detecting life remaining on the worthless ball of radioactive dust. There is only one thing left to do: send the 5800th Band of Klavas at it, gu...
Star Frontiers > Seal Team Blob Now that the immediate area is secure, the team assembles to investigate the mysterious house and its black smoke-signal. Unfortunately, locked doors apparently can only be opened one way in Seal Team Blob. Picking through the ruins of their own destruction lead to some clues, but sooner or later all those explosions are going to get noticed by someone.
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy The U.S.S. Aster is in hot pursuit of 2 Klingon Birds-of-Prey. They are suspected of stealing a top-secret weapon right from under the noses of the Federation and the weapon’s creator, Dr. Ja’bren. However, there are just too many unknowns in all of this. Why would the Klingons risk war over something like this? Why are they making a bee-line towards the Romulan Neutral zone? And most worrisome of all, what’s with all this Delta Radiation?...
World of Darkness > Echoes With the issue of the Invictus quest safely done and the items returned to the covenant, the coterie needs to head up a new lead. They decide it is prudent to investigate the one covenant they have yet to look into, the Ordo Dracul. Working with Wurm’s Nests is tricky business, especially for the uninitiated. Fortune is on their side, however, as a casual drive from Point A to Point B leads them by a major plot location.
Eclipse Phase > One Shot It was a cool, dry day on the Lunar Colony of Old Nectar. When she arrived at my door, it was like a tall glass of water. She said her husband had gone missing, a nervous bit of work from before the Fall. She said she needed him back, dead or alive. Didn’t matter to me. I was already buried up to my cortical stack in work. I needed to hire some help, and fast. Fortunately for me, this town has all sorts of people looking for just this type of work.
Fiasco > One Shot Due to the COVID-19 virus that is currently (at the time of this recording) plaguing our world, the PFA team decided to try recording a game entirely over the internet. What resulted is one of our most coherent and streamlined Fiasco games ever! Its 1913 and the Big Apple is a bustle with activity. But when a woman decides to stiff one of the biggest gangsters in town, it sets off a chain of events that result in sex, arson, blackmail, and, of course, the picked head of a mu...
Star Frontiers > Seal Team Blob Upon arriving on Ares, Seal Team Blob is ready to begin their real mission. Someone DID tell them that their main objective is to SECURE and not DESTROY, right? Upon arriving on planet, they begin to encounter lifeforms that are not at all what they expected. Are they the products of Sathar Bio-engineering experiments? Or something much more sinister?
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy After some much needed shore leave, the U.S.S. Aster has been requested by the Takaran government to oversee a live fire test of their new Quantum Torpedo. As an avid starship designer, Captain Toyak is excited. As an avid connoisseur of explosions, Lt. Cortez is ALSO very excited. Things go precisely according to plan and in no way is this episode worth listening to….
World of Darkness > Echoes Upon recovering the item from Motor City Casino, the players begin to investigate what exactly they have bled for. Liberal use of The Spirits Touch reveals that things were not so cheery in the past of the Motor City Kindred. In addition, things might just get out of hand as one of their own succumbs to their baser instincts.
Star Frontiers > Seal Team Blob After the events of our first campaign, the Third Sathar War began in earnest. Fortunately for the UPF, There was already a significant fleet presence and, within days, the UPF were able to fortify the south-eastern galactic region and pen the Sathar fleets in. Theseus was lost, as was Minotaur and the facilities on Creon. However, the bleeding has been stemmed there and, for now, The UPF has the upper hand. Unfortunately, contact was lost 10 hours ago with the...
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy On board the Grif Balata, the players are fighting to find their lost crewmate. Fortunately, she is not far and finding her is easy. However, the crew of the U.S.S. Aster quickly runs face to face with a few dilemmas about what is right and wrong when dealing with alien technology. Will they be able to save themselves and still keep their Starfleet ideals intact?
World of Darkness > Echoes It’s the night of the New Moon and the timing is perfect for the coterie to head to Motor City Casino and execute a rather cryptic request from Chicago’s Invictus. As far as they know, they are just picking up a package. Unfortunately, they failed to consider if anyone ELSE is looking for it.
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory And so, another Penguin Fringed Abyss campaign comes to an end. Running a campaign with only a single player offers unique challenges, as does running a continuation of a previous campaign. Here, Jason and Chris discuss what worked and what didn’t as well as answering some hanging questions from the game.
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory Battered, beaten, and full of holes, Robert Durin has been left for dead (again). But things are not at all what he expected when he wakes up. Travelling through the maze that has been his life for the past few months, he eventually arrives at an all-to-familiar destination. Some might say that this was a forgone conclusion from the start, but we know better. Will Mr. Durin survive where others have failed? Or will his mind be ...
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy The crew of the U.S.S. Aster has stumbled upon a technological marvel. A world-ship seeming to contain an entire biosphere from a dead planet. The only problem being that their chief science officer is missing and they have to find her! (Also convenient as Ann couldn’t make the game session!) Will this be a walk in the park? Or will the away team succumb to the alien biosphere deep within enemy territory?
World of Darkness > Echoes Now that the Vampires have something to work with, its time to start hacking into computers and extracting the sweet, juicy plot information from inside. Unfortunately, it seems that some of the other, more combat oriented characters don’t want to wait around for the info. Will they begin to unravel the secrets of what happened to the Kindred of Detroit? Or will they just make more work for the party to clean up later?
Fiasco > One Shot LA, 1936. The City of Angles is filled to the brim with corruption. The streets run red as murder and sex turn the city inside out. Today, we see a small part of that hideous, gray-scaled time. It’s a sordid tale about confusion, human frailty, and the glass window business. Lets see who REALLY runs LA as the mean streets of Film Noir transform our ability to create a coherent narrative into a Grade A Fiasco!
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy As the heroic crew of the U.S.S. Aster embarks on their covert mission deep into Romulan space, we get to take a step back and learn a bit about who these brave men and women of Starfleet really are. They will need all the help they can get as they make preparations and boldly go into the unknown. Needless to say, what the find is not at all what they expected.
World of Darkness > Echoes It turns out that Jason wasn’t going to just kill the party mid-campaign. So that’s good. Now that the players have learned a thing or two about their enemy, it’s time to do what they do best, go completely off script. But it turns out that even going off of the beaten path will cause them to run into some interesting people.
Invisible Sun > The Melody of Things Lost and Found The player have learned much with their new attainments and with the resolution of the case issue, they have but one item left. Find Verston Card! While thinking up a new plan, they find that their efforts have drawn the attention of a few other individuals. Are they truly as helpful as they are making out to be? Lets find out as The Melody of Things Lost and Found reaches its exciting second verse!
Fiasco > One Shot In the mean streets of London, there is a truly horrid underground full of all sorts of unscrupulous people. These people would probably laugh at us as we try to put together a story about an unsuccessful con, a stalker, and a dude with so many personalities even HE doesn’t know who he is half the time. Sounds like a fiasco to me!
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy After all this time running around the sector chasing subplot after subplot, the players finally get a message from Ambassador Spock. In our exciting returned to the main storyline, we learn some things about our secondary characters, and uncover a secret that could change the fate of the entire quadrant.
World of Darkness > Echoes Licking their wounds after the fight at Holy Sepulcher, the Coterie takes some time off. While some go off to feed, others begin to investigate some odd steps taken by the Detroit Circle of the Crone. It all culminates in the interrogation of their captured neonate friend, and finally coming face to “face” with their enemy.
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory Battered, beaten and left for dead, Robert Durin has had quite an evening. Fortunately, an old friend is coming by to help out! It appears that Mr. Durin has been out for longer than he realizes and the game has…changed somewhat. Will he be able to recover the dossier and set things right? Or will his actions begin to look startlingly familiar from the first campaign?
Invisible Sun > The Melody of Things Lost and Found Since returning from the Pale, our intrepid heroes have learned much and it is time for them to attain their next degrees. This, like most things in the Actuality, involves a lot more than just walking across a stage. Once all of the blood is cleaned up, they meet and old “Friend” to discuss the next steps in their bold adventure.
Star Trek: Adventures > Cowboy Diplomacy Now that the players have captured a Romulan agent and learned more about the Tachyon emissions of that are plaguing Carina VII, it is time for the players to do something about it. Upon reaching the 10th planet in the system, they will stumble upon the secret that the federation has been hiding for more than 100 years. Hopefully they won’t lose any important crew members in the process…
World of Darkness > Echoes Armed with the information retrieved at the National Shrine of the Little Flower, the Coterie, heads off to check on Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. The Cemetery has long been a seat of power for the Circle of the Crown and Mother Rowen of Chicago has asked that they check in to make sure nothing has been disturbed. With the theft at the Shrine clearly on everyone’s minds, anything could happen as the Echoes campaign continues!
Nights Black Agents > The Dracula Dossier 2: Knowledge and Memory Going along with Osprey’s deal, Mr. Durin is tasked with infiltrating the H.M.S. Proserpine to rescue none other than Lucy Westera. (Apparently she isn’t as dead as the Dossier would lead you to believe.) A plan is concocted, equipment is acquired, transportation is arranged and the entire thing goes off without a single hitch…until someone rolls a 1.
