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Roll to Breathe
by Roll to Breathe
Roll to Breathe is an actual play podcast focusing on story games. We play various long-form campaigns using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine, sticking to our tagline as best we can.
Episodes
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Final Hazard: Corruption 28: Awake
The only thing between the Final Hazard and freedom are the four fighting members of Kurozakura. It's time to fight for their lives. NOTE: For our players' well-being, we're going to be taking a short hiatus after this episode's publication. For up-to-date details on when we will be back, please...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 27: Lucid
Yoshiko walks in on Celeste holding a bloody sword and Davey doubled over in pain. She takes action, then teams up with others to search the house. Unbeknownst to them, they are running out of time as Souko makes plans to leave the dream as soon as possible... Episode art by Bee. Sound editing by...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 26: Forgiven
Shibuya is AEGIS' star pupil, a ruthless and relentless soldier who will do anything to protect Halcyon City, no matter who she hurts. Reversal, conversely, is a poor superhero and leader; everyone he cares about is dead, and he failed to protect them. There is nothing they can do to change this....
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Final Hazard: Corruption 25: Shatter
Takehiro confronts Mayor Souko and learns the horrible truth. He leaves the office to find his friends, but promises to return—alone. Kim finds himself comforting a panicked Davey, but they steel their resolve to confront Pilgrim. Celeste tries to take Yoshiko out of AEGIS so they can help their...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 24: Lullaby
Teen heroes Emerald Strike, Diamond Punch, and Papillon help Red Rogue suppress a monster downtown and discuss their next course of action. They realize they have to go to city hall to solve this once and for all, but before anything else happens, Celeste has a dinner date. Davey has a strange...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 23: Dread
Increasingly frustrated by the day's events, Celeste seeks out the only other person who's insisting everything is wrong. While they come to grips with startling revelations, Kim's mood only continues to sour in debate club as he has a heated and violent encounter with the teacher leading it....
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Final Hazard: Corruption 22: Schism
Lunchtime rolls around at Halcyon's elaborate high school and some of the students experience cracks in their daily routine—and for others, those cracks get worse. Takehiro wants to fight back, and tries to recruit others to his cause. Kim has freakout and lashes out at Celeste, and Yoshiko is...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 21: Halcyon
The sun rises on another perfect day in Halcyon and five teenagers greet the morning. Celeste Blake wakes up to her sister congratulating her on a good stream, as always. Red Rogue's two proteges, Yoshiko Yamaguchi and Takehiro Wakamoto, deal with their respective fussy, overly caring parents.…
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Final Hazard: Corruption 20: Mind Games
Doomzone faces down two Kurozakura agents; eliminating one from the fight, he and Papillon begin a pitched battle with the other. Making the best of a bad situation, Reversal finally makes some calls for backup. Black Cavalier and Logan reunite with their friends, and Giger finally meets…
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Final Hazard: Corruption 19: Psychic Feedback
The rest of the Final Hazard arrives at the abandoned hospital where Kim is being kept. Using Giger's powers, they're able to track Kim's whereabouts accurately, but the full power of Kurozakura is out to stop the team. They split up to improve their chances; Davey fights both people and himself,...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 18: Stemming the Tide
Celeste meets Gacha!PON so she can tell her to stop lying on social media. While those two struggle through miscommunication, Black Cavalier and Giger begin to worry about Kim's lack of communication and start to organize a search party. What they couldn't possibly imagine is the truth: that Kim…
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Final Hazard: Corruption 17: In an Ideal World...
Kim finds himself alone in a rotting building with no outgoing cell reception. His attempt to escape, however, starts off going well—almost suspiciously well. As he reaches his first stumbling block, Celeste is dealing with a problem of her own: setting up a meeting with Gacha!PON, who has been...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 16: Reversal of Fortunes
Black Cavalier heads to AEGIS headquarters to return Andi's notebook. On the way, she passes by the Memorial Part and a certain team member, facing an inevitable, difficult conversation. Meanwhile, Reversal begins his investigation into Oscar's framing in earnest, visiting the jewelry store and a...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 15: Trust and Trauma
Davey and Celeste both get in contact with Yoshiko, and the three head to the Cape 'n' Shake to get her side of the story. They comfort her and give her advice, though maybe not precisely what she wants to hear. Outside AEGIS headquarters, Kim asks Giger for his side of the story, and a frienzied...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 14: Darkness of the Past
Black Cavalier pulls Giger aside, her suspicisions about his relationship to Kurozakura too strong not to broach. Unfortunately, she doesn't get the results she wants, and Giger's mood suffers as well. There's no time for the team to comfort either of them, however, as Kim recieves a call from...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 13: Light the Way Forward
After the heroes rest and recouperate from the attack on Columbia, it's time to start asking questions. Black Cavalier and Giger call Logan and Red Rogue to decide what to do with the strange, destructive lamp. Reversal and Papillon meet with the now-conscious culprit and deploy their unique,...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 12: Illumination
Following Davey's premonition of doom, the Final Hazard heads to Columbia to face a mysterious new foe. As they go about creating an evacuation plan for the civilians at the laboratory, Black Cavalier and Giger arrive, ready to fight as a full team once more. First order of business: separate the...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 11: Chasing Ideals
At the party, Papillon and Doomzone find themselves uncomfortably cornered by adult heroes who think they know best. Fortunately, they have friends willing to throw themselves into the line of fire; unfortunately, that means Black Cavalier and Reversal navigate their own awkward conversations. At...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 10: Smalltalk & Big Plans
The party celebrating Golden Boy's five years of service draws ever closer, and final plans are put into place. Celeste helps Giger find something suitable to wear to a formal gathering, and along the way meet starstruck strangers and old friends. Meanwhile, Kim and Yoshiko case city hall to find…
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Final Hazard: Corruption 09: Social Functions
As the Final Hazard slowly settles back into the routine of school, they're thankful for the weekend to come. Celeste has a hot date with Phase, but first she has to face a great peril alone: meeting the parents of her sweetheart. Over at the Power Punch, Kim forces Davey to have nice, normal...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 08: Intensive Care
After the one-sided loss against the signage-wielding metahuman, the Final Hazard heads to Halcyon University's medical facilities to regroup and recover. Giger returns to the team as they discuss the plan of attack. As Doomzone comes to, he struggles with not only the metahuman's words but also...
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AUpril Fools 2020: The Space Between Us, Part II
The motley crew of heroes, with Jeb's help, breaks into the forbidden sections of Occultar Academy's library. There, they find a suspiciously normal book and a terrifyingly familiar foe. These events lead them ever deeper into the mystery, and as they interview more students the pieces fall into...
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AUpril Fools 2020: The Space Between Us Part I
A school for magically-gifted students finds itself in peril, and the headmaster makes contact with a powerful sorceress from another dimension. The sorceress does not wish to intervene directly, but she puts out a call across every universe for aid. Heroes rise to answer, whether they know where...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 07: Signs of a Struggle
It's a normal afternoon: Kim plays a game with his boyfriend, Celeste checks her professional evil, and Giger visits his quasi-guardian Logan to talk about Kurozakura. Yoshiko gets a visit from her parole officer, who takes her out to do hero work, where they find something terrible in progress:...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 06: Fumbling Forward
Football tryouts begin in earnest, where Davey tries to prove himself and Yoshiko tries to protect Davey. Celeste looks on from the bleachers, offering support and working through messy old feelings. Across town, Giger and Kim recover from their disastrous encounter with Kurozakura and discuss...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 05: School Daze
The members of the Final Hazard attend to their daily lives as things return to as close to normal as life gets in Halcyon City. Celeste gets a date, hosts a stream, and helps one of her mundane friends with her problems. Kim turns in a history presentation and gets ready for a big day after...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 04: Thinking with Portals
Kim and Papillon sit down with the brain behind f-no-reversal, Oscar, and learn his strange, sad story. Once Papillon ensures her fanbase will not be disappointed, life returns to normalcy for a while. Then, Final Hazard gets called to a real disturbance in action: a strange portal has opened up...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 03: Burning Bridges
Davey struggles with his internal antagonist at home, and Giger moves into Final Hazard's base. Team leader Reversal has some questions for the new member, who divulges the details of his past. Later that day, they are interrupted by a visitor to the base. She seems friendly enough, but the team…
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Final Hazard: Corruption 02: New Faces, New Places
The mysterious interloper in Final Hazard's first reunited battle introduces himself and asks to join the team. They agree to drag him back to base and discuss a trial period, but not before the hopeful newcomer lashes out at one particular teammate. Kim and Celeste ensure that Gacha!PON stops...
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Final Hazard: Corruption 01: Summer Special
The breakout superhero team Final Hazard, after spending most of their summer apart, has gathered together for fun on the beach. But leader Kim "Reversal" Nguyen (Holly), Davey "Doomzone" Domingos (Jovian), and Yoshiko "Black Cavalier" Yamaguchi (Bee) find their quiet afternoon rudely interrupted...
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Final Hazard S2 00: Signal Light
Before we dive back into the world of our troubled teen superheroes, we take time to flesh out our version of Halcyon City. Who is Maggie McIntyre, and who did she fight? Who is the ex-hero that killed Hal Monroe's team, and what is his history? How many aliens have passed through Halcyon? Why…
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Junkyard Elysium 18: All In
A debt is paid to bring a family together. This is the last episode of our Junyard Elysium miniseries. As always, we would like to thank our listeners for their support, and Stras Acimovic and John Leboeuf-Little for writing Scum and Villainy. We will be on break until our next anniversary,...
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Junkyard Elysium 17: Come to Collect
The crew begins their next job smuggling a radical out of the watchful gaze of the debt collectors, but both ships encounter a single officer to check their cargo. The Edge 7 finds themselves facing a violent and all-too-familiar foe who threatens to pull their ship apart. The decoy vessel, on…
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Junkyard Elysium 16: Happy Birthday
The crew takes time before their next big job to relax and enjoy each other's company, but trouble is afoot. Kellen shares his anxieties with Korvavev as they cook, and Amy nowhere to be found with decorations. What's more, someone from Amy's past shows up to demand her back, and finds that they...
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Junkyard Elysium 15: Deprogramming
Reeling from the strain of the last job, where almost everything went wrong, the crew finds time to recover. Korvavev, Kellen and Amy discuss the next job and make plans to throw a party for their friends. Doc goes to Crux to repair his arm and ask some uncomfortable questions. And the newest...
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Acre: Body and the Tram
We weren't able to record this week, so here's another episode from our Patreon vault. This one is a oneshot taking place in the same universe (though not the same sector of space) as Junkyard Elysium. Regular programming will resume next week; enjoy! A man named Keno Murphey is found dead in his...
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Junkyard Elysium 14: Running from the Past
As Amy's miniature rescue mission goes south, Doc and Crux are left cornered and scared. There's still lots of ground to cover between their position and the safety of the ship. Kellen and Korv are still on their way to meet back up, and Doc starts advocating for violence. With everything going…
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Junkyard Elysium 13: A Series of Unfortunate Vents
The crew of the Edge 7 begins their next job, an extraction mission for a black market intelligence operative. Things get off to a rocky start almost immediately, however, and the crew is left scrambling for a solution in the shipping satellite of the Delta Star cult. When people start getting...
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Junkyard Elysium 12: Outpatient Procedures
Amy exerts some effort to go to Korvavev, and the two idly chat away. Crux has the results of their Strigan parasite screenings and goes to deliver them to the anxious Doctor Tetsuo. As the crew gets a lead on a new job, Kellen goes to prepare the traditional "big job" dinner, but even callous...
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Junkyard Elysium 11: Faith and Medicine
Following a successful job and a victory at the races, the crew finds themselves with a little free time before the next job comes in. Doc cloisters himself in his room, unable to trust that the rest of the crew are not replaced with alien zombies. While Crux enacts a plan to regain Doc's trust,...
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Junkyard Elysium 10: The Long Road to Victory
As the racers pass the halfway point, the Korv seems to be comfortably in the lead. With Crux and the pit crew working overtime to create swappable components for their antigrav car and Kellen calling in favors with space pirates, all that's left is to capture Kuroneko before he can finish the...
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Junkyard Elysium 09: Ready, Set, Go
Race day comes, and the eight participants of the Event Horizon line up and set off. Though Korv gets off to a bad start, Amy is around to help them while Doc and Kellen set up some devious traps. Meanwhile, as Korv's pit crew, Crux devises on-the-fly mechanisms to give Korv a boost in the race....
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Junkyard Elysium 08: The Starting Line
As the crew gets to know each other a little better, they eventually reach their destination: Acheron, the system of Tartarus best known as a home to strange and sometime dangerous planets. Though one crew member is eager to leave, Korvavev learns that one of the most intense races in the…
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Junkyard Elysium 07: Cruise Control
The Izaliad Embassy agree to smuggle the crew of Korvavev's Firedrake to a new sector where they won't be hunted, and until they arrive, they take some time to unwind. Doc patches up Korv and Crux, checking in on their mental states after the previous taxing mission and disclosing some…
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Epyllion Opal 1: Cloak and Talon
(Note: This week we weren't able to record a new episode, so we're pulling a Patreon episode out of the vault to share with you. Regular programming should resume next week. Enjoy!) With the Vigil of Light fast approaching, the Opal pilgrimage clutch is busy helping out with menial labor. Having...
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Junkyard Elysium 06: Imperfect Recollections
Kellen and Amy find themselves transported to a strange world, equally familiar and alien. As they meet some surprising faces and try to discern what's going on, Doc and Crux tear through an adjacent warehouse for valuables. Their reckless behavior, however, does not go unnoticed... Episode art…
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Junkyard Elysium 05: Good Omens
The fledgling crew sets their first actual job in motion: while Crux, Doc and Sai create a distraction and disable the power, Kellen, carrying Amy, drops into Nihil Est's warehouses—a hoard of objects and creatures too monstrous to have protections under hegemonic law. With the power cut, their...
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Junkyard Elysium 04: Out of Nothingness
As Doc pays off his debt to the Church of the Last Light, Crux leads the rest of the crew to seminars and recruitment campaigns for the many churches, cults, and minor organizations hosted within Ophanim. After a particularly disturbing first show, Korvavev finds a note in his pocket asking for a...
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Junkyard Elysium 03: Meals Within Wheels
Having escaped the Tartarus prison, the convicts of the ship Edge 7 find themselves stuck in the derelict Lethe system. They spend some time learning about each other as Doc asks questions of the strange psychic gem and Kellen shows Crux how to prepare a nice, warm meal in their high-quality...
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Junkyard Elysium 02: Tartarus Break
As Kellen and Korvavev rendezvous with their waylaid allies, one of the shiny gems that Kellen pocketed (Chris) suddenly speaks up. She halfheartedly identifies herself as an acolyte of the Way, a mysterious psychic force that reacts to and the known universe, and provides vague directions to the...
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