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

  • 84: Getting Wired

    August 18th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  57 mins 4 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    After saving some stranded prospectors our crew of explorers must attempt to find a way out of the ruins, hopefully before Race does anything stupid (again).

  • 85: Network Effect

    August 25th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  58 mins 52 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Dili got wired up last episode. I’m sure there won’t be any consequences to deal with.

  • 86: Ties That Bind

    September 1st, 2021  |  Season 2  |  48 mins 57 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Having escaped the ruins to the snowy mountain tops of the Black Riage, the crew must face all the invisible strings that hold their family together.

  • 87: Detour Above The Clouds

    September 8th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 19 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Their way blocked by dangerous inclement weather, the crew takes a detour and meet a strange traveler, played by special guest LaTia Jacquise.

  • 88: Reunions

    September 15th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 32 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Battle in the dark, strange villages, and reunions with old friends and family.

  • 89: The Importance of Infrastructure

    September 22nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  59 mins 16 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Having boarded a prior world subway provided by Osmus, the crew discovers that anything can happen if you don't invest in maintaining your infrastructure.

  • 90: The Attar Path

    September 29th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  56 mins 5 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Beneath the mountains, our crew must contend with a horde of strange creatures that have some jelly they would like to share with them.

  • 91: Zacc Attack

    October 6th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 20 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Amidst a brewing conflict with villagers, the crew encounters an unexpected ally. (Played by special guest Dan Rodriguez.)

  • 92: Among the Angels

    October 13th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 22 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Determined to help the people of Willem's Foe, the crew journey an abandoned village in the woods with their new ally, Zacc. (Played by special guest Dan Rodriguez).

  • 93: The Tunnel Beyond

    October 20th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  59 mins 50 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    After townsfolk are brutally abducted during an excavation, the crew journeys into the dark beyond and meets a most unpleasant lab assistant.

  • 94: Assisted Fit

    October 27th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 46 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Can the crew engineer an escape from the lab of a remorseless entity?

  • 95: Snakes and Stairways

    November 3rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 1 min
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    So many sneks, so many stairs.

  • 96: The Strangest Guardian

    November 10th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  53 mins 42 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew of explorers ponders the eternal question: "Hey, what if we use this cypher we've had for a while?"

  • 97: Hunter and Hunted

    November 17th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  56 mins 33 secs
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    Our crew attempts to avoid a looming threat while doing some surveillance of their own.

  • 98: The Proving Grounds

    November 24th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 39 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    A split party must grapple with decisions that can no longer be put off.

  • 99: How To Steal a Body, Part 1 (Spire: The City Must Fall)

    December 1st, 2021  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 6 mins
    actual play, numenera, rpg

    A group of revolutionaries have been dispatched to move a body, but things start going wrong almost immediately.