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

  • 180: Welcome Home, Part 7 (Die RPG)

    June 7th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  59 mins 15 secs
    actual play, die rpg, numenera

    Jericho makes an attempt to reach out to Imogeen and the crew attempts to rob a caravan.

  • 181: Welcome Home, Part 8 (Die RPG)

    June 14th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  59 mins 19 secs
    actual play, die rpg, rpg

    We conclude our Die mini-campaign! With two paragons down, and the world growing ever more unstable, our players find themselves in a race to determine whose votes will count. And more importantly, what they are each prepared to do in order to secure their own.

  • 182: Ilsene Vite: Session Zero

    June 21st, 2023  |  Season 4  |  43 mins 45 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    OMG! It's a new campaign! And we're starting off with a series of character session zeroes! This time, we meet Ilsene as she makes her way into the capital city of Lathe.

  • 183: Magpie: Session Zero

    June 28th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  38 mins 44 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    In this week's character session zero, we follow the elusive Magpie on a job.

  • 184: Ezri Stonebreaker: Session Zero

    July 5th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  37 mins 41 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    This week we follow Ezri Stonebreaker as she grapples with the disturbing realities of living in Lathe.

  • 185: Quick Fingers

    July 12th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 13 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Here we go here we go! Our new crew seeks work in the Warrens of Lathe, and engage in tests of skill.

  • 186: Experiment One

    July 19th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  58 mins 21 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Ilsene and Magpie search for their friend, while Ezri's situation keeps going from bad to worse.

  • 187: Going Down

    July 26th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 5 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew continues their search deeper into the underbelly of the Transit Guild.

  • 188: Surf and Turf

    August 2nd, 2023  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 46 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Uh, are we gonna make it guys?

  • 189: In Circles

    August 9th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 49 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew inches closer to reunion while facing the dangers that lurk beneath the Transit Guild offices.

  • Episode 190: Sightseeing Near The Senate

    August 16th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 1 min
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    On the run from the cops, our crew must seek shelter. But they can't rest for too long, because they have a job to do.

  • Episode 191: Breaking and Entering

    August 23rd, 2023  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 43 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew is being swarmed by the guards at Senator Stip's estate! Can they get away with the goods, or will their usual luck apply?

  • Episode 192: Jobs Within Jobs

    August 30th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 6 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    A heist within a heist! What can go wrong?

  • Episode 193: One Woman's Pest...

    September 6th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  1 hr 4 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our tense crew investigates a pest problem.

  • Episode 194: Path of Sconces

    September 13th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  59 mins 35 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew explore the mysterious passages revealed by sconces.

  • Episode 195: Moist Cells

    September 20th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  57 mins 17 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew explores deeper into the bizarre crawlspace ruins of the enclave.