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

  • 17: Cha-Cha's Gambit

    June 17th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 12 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The team gets a lead on the missing artifact, and things start getting hot for Cha-Cha.

  • 18: Invitations Mandatory

    June 24th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 14 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The gang investigates a realtor with questionable connections and makes plans to crash a fancy party.

  • 19: A Simple Plan

    July 1st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  53 mins 17 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    As Cha-Cha and Nix infiltrate the secret auction, Atalia executes her own strategy. I'm sure Dili will be fine.

  • 20: The "Heist"

    July 8th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 50 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew of explorers must escape the Auction That Went Wrong, and face threats from both the Handlers and the Knyxos in the process. I'm sure there will be no consequences to any decisions made here whatsoever. (NOTE: This is a longer episode than usual, as we are wrapping up a mini-arc.)

  • 21: Auction Aftermath

    July 15th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 25 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our explorers have returned the object that were sent out to seek, but now they must begin to face the consequences of their choices along the way.

  • 22: The One That Left

    July 22nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  59 mins 45 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    The crew ponders the changes in their friend, load up on supplies, and Nix investigates an important piece of family history.

  • 23: Here To Go

    July 29th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 11 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    After a startling medical event for Nix, the explorers find that Charmonde is becoming more unsafe for them by the day.

  • 24: Playing With Fire

    August 5th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 12 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    With a new job from Mamma Jerrun, along with an advance in hand, our crew makes preparations for their departure from Charmonde.

  • 25: Into The Woods

    August 12th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 51 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Unnerved by Cha-Cha's vision of the new residents of Fasten, the group decides to detour around the town through a wild forest. Um, a lot goes wrong. And our explorers try to come to terms with some of the things they've learned about each other on the way.

  • 26: On Jogging and Wildlife Preservation

    August 19th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  52 mins 13 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Having received a message from her strange friend, Cha-Cha insists on the group increase their speed on the way to Shallamas, with some unexpected consequences for half of the team.

  • 27: City of Echoes

    August 26th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 36 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Having reached Shallamas, our crew of explorers seek out contacts to find information on the missing caravan, and discover unsettling truths in the process.

  • 28: The Grove

    September 2nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 21 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our team of explorers begin their search of the Grove for the missing caravan, and the crew grapples with a moral quandary.

  • 29: Not the Bees!

    September 9th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  53 mins 33 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our heroes encounter an apiary enthusiast, with the expected results.

  • 30: Beneath the Hive

    September 16th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 11 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew of explorers attempt to rescue Stannis and escape the Hive Man from within their own lair.

  • 31: Cave Diving

    September 23rd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 14 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Free of the Hive, our explorers must find a way to calm a fearful Stannis and escape the cave systems below without... you know... drowning.

  • 32: Memories and Crab Leg Pangs

    September 30th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 21 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Atalia learns more of her family history, both biological and more, and the crew attempts to make a new friend in the marsh beyond the caverns.