Episode One Hundred And Twenty Six – Stranded

In which Ben goes back to a Big Red Couch standard notion of “something on a spaceship”, despite Craig having taken the approach of deliberately NOT doing something set on a spaceship. Not only is the ship fractured, but so is the crew, so turned against each other that they can’t save themselves. If you can just get these knuckleheads to work together, or even just get the hell out of your way, they’ll be rescued, the salvage prize is yours, and you’ll be set for life. The crew are glad that help has shown up, and are keen to be rescued, but for some reason they’re not keen on doing the very things that would make that happen; Why? An arcade lined with shops is fine to walk through, or even to hang out in and enjoy a cup of coffee; What if you found that you couldn’t leave? Maybe you fell through the cracks and can see the monsters lurking outside. Maybe you shouldn’t have belligerently declared that you’ll never leave while arguing with the Fae Lord of the Strand. Or maybe breaking in at night to steal the fantastic items in the shops was just a really bad idea. People trapped in a dimension-hopping shopping arcade, trying to trade with the folks outside for the things they need, hoping to one day make it home. In The City, you can have every basic need taken care of … So long as you have the chip installed in your head. Somewhere outside the city is a place where the unchipped can live freely, however they want, and all you have to do is get there. Somehow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0s0KUUpxo https://xkcd.com/731/ Elmo (Sesame Street) Elmo Putney (Brush Strokes) Robinson Crusoe Cast Away (Movie) Bottle Episode Doom Patrol (TV) Doom Patrol (Comic) Law of Salvage Generation ship System Shock BioShock Waiting For Godot Mythopoeic The Thing Flotsam RPG ( Kickstarter link, because there’s a bunch of information there. Also a preorder link ~ T. Jones ) Apocalypse World (RPG) Chris Grayling Neverwhere Midnight Nation Queen Street, Auckland GURPS Goblins (RPG) The Fades (TV) Changeling: The Dreaming The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher Walmart Doctor Who Are You Being Served? Tales of the Floating Vagabond Wraith: The Oblivion The Simpsons The Tracey Ullman Show Karl Marx Black Mirror Late-Stage Capitalism Joseph Stalin Stalinism Chernobyl (TV) Invader Zim Foodcourtia Urchin (RPG) Trantor Coruscant The Tripods, by John Christopher The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells Augmented Reality Hostile Architecture Logan’s Run Hobo Caste Structures Stargate SG-1 Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus! Infinity Train Fringeworthy ( Tri Tac Games ) Sydney, Australia Jacob’s Ladder Birmingham New Street Station ( Yeah, Craig got the name wrong. It’s amazing he doesn’t get lost more often. ~ T. Jones ) P-Zombie Iain M. Banks Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri AOL Endless September Shaper/Mechanist Universe, by Bruce Sterling Pokémon Winston Churchill Isaac Asimov Psychohistory Shadowrun ( Catalyst Game Labs ) Shadowrun ( Wikipedia ) RPGnet Forums Black Bug Room ( WARNING: TV Tropes Link – It may consume hours of your life ~ T. Jones ) My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Cutie Mark Crusaders Annette Funicello The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Little Witch Academia The Authority Stormwatch Jack Hawksmoor Neon Genesis Evangelion Van Allen Belt Van Halen