The Cluster: Session 6 - New Horizons

An episode of the Playing at the Hearth podcast, hosted by The Open Hearth Gaming Community, titled "The Cluster: Session 6 - New Horizons" was published on February 9, 2025 and runs 117 minutes.

February 9, 2025 ·117m · Playing at the Hearth

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Summary

Alun R facilitates another session of 'The Cluster', his game-in-development bringing together aspects of Uncharted Worlds (by Sean Gomes), Starforged (by Shawn Tomkin), Rust Hulks (by Sam Sorensen), and Diaspora (by Murray, Marshall, Dyke & Kerr).... This session was organised as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhearthgam...).Believing they will need the help of the fixers and smugglers of The Horizon, the Fortitude makes the transit to the Iron Wreath system. There, Chris McPatrick finds his Horizon contact ... who is not happy. Dr Rillisk's naive sincere approaches mends some bridges, but they find themselves in the difficult situation of having to substantiate the lie McPatrick told.There's a tense meeting which sees one of the crew being threatened with the death of another, all the cards being laid on the table, and agreement to an impossible job. Then, a long lost deep space habitat, unfamiliar tech, and success of a kind but empty coffers ...Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnpB0URocnM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode Description

Alun R facilitates another session of 'The Cluster', his game-in-development bringing together aspects of Uncharted Worlds (by Sean Gomes), Starforged (by Shawn Tomkin), Rust Hulks (by Sam Sorensen), and Diaspora (by Murray, Marshall, Dyke & Kerr)....
This session was organised as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...). Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhearthgam...).
Believing they will need the help of the fixers and smugglers of The Horizon, the Fortitude makes the transit to the Iron Wreath system. There, Chris McPatrick finds his Horizon contact ... who is not happy. Dr Rillisk's naive sincere approaches mends some bridges, but they find themselves in the difficult situation of having to substantiate the lie McPatrick told.
There's a tense meeting which sees one of the crew being threatened with the death of another, all the cards being laid on the table, and agreement to an impossible job. Then, a long lost deep space habitat, unfamiliar tech, and success of a kind but empty coffers ...

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnpB0URocnM ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★