Explorers Wanted

A weekly Numenera Actual Play podcast about exploration, intrigue, and friendship.

About the show

We are a weekly actual play podcast using the Numenera Discovery and Destiny rules. Set one billion years in the future, we journey across the Ninth World. There have been eight worlds before this, where civilizations rose to intergalactic heights only to fall into ashes, leaving a world of strange relics behind them. Join our ragtag crew of messy adventurers as they navigate weird ruins, contend with criminal intrigue, and ignore their own better judgment... Repeatedly.

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Campaign Two: Hearts in Orbit

Three figures, from left: Ezri stands stolidly in armor with brown hair covering half of her face (the unscarred part) holding a large clawed sledgehammer. Ilsene in joyous motion with billowing cloak and thieve's gear. Her hair poking out of her hood above her face which highlights the her green eyes and matching vitiligo against her dark skin. Magpie looking playful in earthtones that align with her light brown hair, pulled back and curled tresses falling on either side of her face, wearing a sisk at her side. All three carry gas masks at their belts.

Campaign One: Night's Hope

Our cast of three explorers from campaign one walking towards camera.. From left to right: Nix - a warrior woman with green hair and serpent fangs cracks her knuckles and smiles. Her left leg is a metal prosthetic with jade green seams. Dili - a short dark haired man with dark green eyes looks distractedly past his pushed up goggles at multi-colored shapes floating above his head. ChaCha - An even shorter fair-skinned woman with blonde hair stares strangely forward with blue eyes. She has extended her left arm flourishing out her bright red hooded cloak to reveal the short-legged lime-green romper she wears beneath.

Character art by @kisunuki.

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Episodes

  • 52: What Has Come Before (Trailer)

    February 1st, 2021  |  Season 2  |  15 mins 9 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Need a refresher for the start of Season Two? Our crew of explorers do their best to jog your memory (and theirs) on what's gone down so far!

  • 53: Where To Go

    February 3rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 16 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Reunited, our crew must make difficult decisions regarding the future of Nix's family, and make unsettling discoveries.

  • 55: Fathers and Sons

    February 10th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 12 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Dili makes contact with his automaton, but at a terrible cost. Things escalate quickly, and a familiar foe reappears to wreck havoc.

  • 57: Collateral Damage

    February 17th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 1 min
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew revisit old haunts in search of clues, and attempt to regain control of their situation.

  • 59: Interview With The Nano

    February 24th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 10 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew finally has Doc Taraz where they want her, and are ready to demand answers.

  • 60: Dinner and a Show

    March 3rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 8 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Armed with new information from their interrogation of Doc Taraz, the crew is ready to make their next moves, but Cha-Cha has a caller to deal with first.

  • 61: Stalking Salianna

    March 10th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 2 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew have spotted Salianna in the flesh, and Atalia is determined to follow her. From a safe distance. It will be fine.

  • 62: A Promised Reunion

    March 17th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  54 mins 21 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Atalia and Dili have been cornered by Salianna, and it's time for a heart to heart conversation.

  • 63: Meeting Minos

    March 24th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 2 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Nix has been apprehended by the Knyxos, whose leader insists on a face-to-face meeting regarding the bounty he's placed on her head. With the crew split up, will they be able to save their snek friend?

  • 64: Knocking Around With The Knyxos

    March 31st, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 22 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    It's time to make a move against the Knyxos to protect Nix and Atalia. Gma and Cha-Cha are here for blood, and Dili would very much like to get through this alive.

  • 65: Licking Wounds

    April 7th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 4 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew has escaped the chaos of the Knyxos assault, but were separated in the process. With the looming threat of Minos' revenge and Salianna's plots where can they find refuge to recover?

  • 66: Cutting the Cord

    April 14th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 28 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The time has come to take steps to free Atalia from the Handler's influence once and for all, and our crew reunites with G-ma to do so. But the costs will be great, and things may never be the same again.

  • 67: Green Lightning

    April 21st, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 33 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew tries to come to grips with Atalia's departure, but the consequences of their own actions continue to up the stakes for the whole city.

  • 68: The Butler Didn't Do It

    April 28th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 2 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Having found the body of Doc Taraz's murdered butler, the crew presses forward into the labyrinth in search of a powerful artifact.

  • 69: A Dance With Deuces

    May 5th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 9 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew has found there way to the center of the labyrinth, but must now contend with a deadly Kynxos exploratory team led by none other than Deuces!

  • 70: A Quick Ascent

    May 12th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 2 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    After a deadly encounter beneath the city, the crew must return to the surface before the labyrinth lets loose with its own immune response.