When the path of the apocalypse leads them straight back to their old school, our heroes must face the ghosts of their youth—and some more literal ghosts haunting the space where they once fought side by side, in ISSUE #04: THE KIDS FROM YESTERDAY. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts M...
Aug 12, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Our heroes' apocalyptic investigation begins with a break-in in the Docks and a conversation with the mayor. But they'll have to find a way to stop accidentally hurting one another if they're going to get to the bottom of things in ISSUE #03: HERE WE GO AGAIN. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/t...
Jul 29, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Fifteen years after saving the world, four former teen superheroes reunite at the funeral of their friend Slipstitch, only to find out their work isn’t done. Will they find a way to work together again, or will the ghosts of their past tear them apart all over again? Find out in ISSUE #02: DEAD FRIEND. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Trans...
Jul 15, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Welcome back to East Haven, home of the modern superhero! Heroics in the city weren’t always as straightforward as they are today, and our heroes have the scars to prove it. But an apocalypse once buried is starting to slip free, and they’ll have to set aside their differences to stop it in ISSUE #01: A CRACK IN THE WORLD. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricon...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Season 5Ep. 1
East Haven Heights Volume 2 begins July 1, 2025. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts Molotov College by W. H. Arthur: https://aryl-ether.itch.io/molotov-college...
Jun 24, 2025•1 min
We're back with another FIASCO! This time, prepare yourselves for multiple attempted murders, white collar crime, a big pile of divorce papers, and— The Sticc?! Fiasco is by Jason Morningstar and Bully Pulpit Games. The "Road Kill" playset is by Christine Roth. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/...
Jun 10, 2025•2 hr 29 min
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May 27, 2025•1 hr 48 min
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May 13, 2025•1 hr 54 min
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May 08, 2025•28 min
GET COVENANT HERE: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/covenant GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" MAGNET HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/magnet/45709338-say-ok-to-the-clock?store_id=2653784 READ THE SONG OF SONGS BACKSTORY HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/microfiction-of-114816354 SUPPORT US ON PATREON HERE: https://www.patreon.com/c/unexploredcast...
Apr 29, 2025•3 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 62
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Apr 17, 2025•7 min
When the first settlers left Earth for Antarras, they did so with the understanding that they would never see Earth again. Either their mission would be a grand success, and they’d make a new life for themselves on those distant shores, or the trip—and the attempt to establish a new home in alien lands—would kill them. An equal mix of refugees and dreamers, none of them even bothered to imagine that their children, or their grandchildren, would see Earth again: they were, after all, fleeing a pl...
Apr 15, 2025•2 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Hellstone weaponry was always destined to be a matter of convergent evolution: with so powerful an energy source at their fingertips, and in such a volatile set of situations, the eventuality that someone tried to create a more powerful weapon was certain. The mystery was only a matter of who would get there first—and, of course, who would get to wield them. For the Company, Antarras was not only a source for hellstone, but it was also a testing ground, a safe place far from Earth to see just wh...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Season 4Ep. 60
CONTENT WARNINGS: discussions of body horror (1:15:00-1:17:00) While there was a contingent of separatists, among the first settlers of Antarras, the original missions to Antarras weren’t launched with the idea of ever becoming fully independent from Earth. Enough uncertainties plagued the early missions that finding native alternatives to every single need could never have been high on the list of priorities: early efforts towards practical sustainability went into determining what familiar cro...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Season 4Ep. 59
Those first three months were, in some ways, the easiest. Even if it seemed like the world had fallen apart around us, at least the path was clear: to get through, at all costs. Pure survival. A straightforward goal with straightforward steps. Ensure the farms were undamaged, replant what seeds had been destroyed. Check the stability of the town and its buildings, rebuild anything that needed shoring up. Tend to the wounded. Bury the dead. One foot in front of the other, heads down all the way. ...
Mar 04, 2025•2 hr 38 min•Season 4Ep. 58
This week, on Ruin’s Gate: A choice of some consequence. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts...
Feb 18, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 57
This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Crossing bridges. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts...
Feb 11, 2025•24 min•Season 4Ep. 56
This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Religious reform. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts...
Feb 04, 2025•45 min•Season 4Ep. 55
This week, on Ruin’s Gate: A symbolic gesture. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts...
Jan 28, 2025•40 min•Season 4Ep. 54
This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Rebuilding and building anew. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts...
Jan 21, 2025•49 min•Season 4Ep. 53
Three major events anchor the history of human life on Antarras. The first, of course, is the discovery of hellstone by the original settlers. The second is the signing of the Ostenberg agreement, after the Battle of Swallow’s Pass, when terms between those same settlers and the Company were negotiated into an unsteady but even, temporary peace. The final, almost four decades later, would be the events of that day in Bell’s Landing—a day that changed everything we thought Antarras could, or coul...
Jan 07, 2025•2 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 52
Covenant is a game that, by design, is about making the best of the hand you’ve been dealt—making smart bets even in unlucky circumstances. As such, the game resonates with the spirit of the original settlers on Antarras who invented it: none of them had been dealt a very good hand at all in life, but the promise of the hard journey out here was that they might make something of themselves nevertheless. To this day, not only is Covenant the most popular card game on Antarras, but it's also, to m...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Season 4Ep. 51
One day, a fellow reporter and I were sitting in our office at the end of a long day, passing a flask of whiskey back and forth, and she asked me a question I’d never asked before, but I’ve never since forgotten: What, she asked, after a long swig, do you think was actually here before us? After a moment, she went on: there’s water, here, and plants, and animals. Shelter’s easy enough to find, and there’s no shortage of oxygen. Seems silly to think we’re the first people ever set foot on this bi...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 4Ep. 50
CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (1:28:00), coercion (1:39:30) The… unfriendliness, shall we say, of hellstone’s predisposition to spontaneously combusting upon transport in the early days of hellstone mining precipitated a whole host of research from all kinds. The second question—after, of course, how to safely mine the stuff—was how to safely move it, first to move it from the mines to the towns, and then how to move it from Antarras back to Earth where it could be traded and sold. Before the cu...
Nov 26, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 49
There had always been those who naively believed that hellstone could, in some way, in some novel form, actually be tamed—could be brought under control, made safer or more convenient, be “domesticated,” as the case may be. And there have always been opponents to that idea. When Eleanor Greer invented the process that would later go on to be cemented as the standard process for refining hellstone for safe use and safe shipment, the President of the Mining Guild at the time, a man by the name of ...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Season 4Ep. 48
CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (eyes) [00:05:09, 00:26:00], references to cannibalism [1:54:50] Now, what’s deceptive about a sleepy little town — which, though I’ve argued before that Ruin’s Gate was far from, but for the sake of poetry, let’s say the sentiment stands — is that, sleepy as they might seem, that doesn’t mean there isn’t always something going on under the surface. Trouble brewing out of sight. Pieces moving on chess boards in back rooms. Plans hatching, plots thickening, deals bei...
Oct 29, 2024•2 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 47
CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (eyes) [2:01:00] Meanwhile, in the writings of Confessor Leviticus to her final congregants, this pilgrimage is characterized somewhat differently. She speaks of the pilgrimage not as a promise, or even as a journey, but as a kind of fortification, a taking up of arms. This should hardly be surprising: the visions granted to Leviticus by God were filled with this kind of martial imagery, and she seems to have seen herself as a kind of warrior or soldier, rather than...
Oct 15, 2024•2 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 46
In The Early Saints of Antarras, Apostle Celéne Osgood—who would go on to later undertake her own pilgrimage and become Confessor Psalms, the noted Evangelist—writes of the sermon given by Confessor Joshua upon returning from their pilgrimage. The pathway, Confessor Joshua is said to have declaimed, is not holy because it is the precise pathway Confessor Genesis once took, but because of the footsteps of those who followed him. The act of commitment undertaken when an Apostle sets out on that pa...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Season 4Ep. 45
The origin of what have come to be known as hellbeasts—distinct from the native animals found on the planet—has also been debated by historians of Antarras. Where the line between animal and hellbeast falls is not arbitrary, but neither is it universally agreed upon. Are the hellbeasts endemic to the planet, or are they, like us, invasive, coming to Antarras from somewhere else, like that unknown place the church calls the Burning Beyond? Do they evolve, the way fauna does, or change at all acco...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 55 min•Season 4Ep. 44
The first hellstone mutations that appeared, in the earliest groups of settlers, were in fact less likely to appear on the miners and more likely to appear on those who handled the pure, unrefined hellstone after its removal from the mines—couriers, bankers, or those scientists who first worked to develop the refining process that would come to be standard. The image of the mutated specter, a potent and lingering phantasm of anxiety in the mind of the Antarran settler, didn’t become the norm unt...
Sep 03, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 43
