COUNTER/Weight 10: Drawing Clocks

Friends at the Table

Games, Leisure, Fiction

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2015

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

After 10 or so episodes of using Jeremy Keller's excellent MechNoir, we're switching our game of giant robots, neon hair, and gig economies over to Hamish Cameron's upcoming game The Sprawl. This week, we transfer Aria, AuDy, Cass, and Mako to the new system, but it's also a lot more than just shifting stats around!

After the food crisis that struck Counterweight, tensions between OriCon, the Diaspora, and the remnants of Apostolos are high. The Chime has gone to ground, giving them a chance to reminisce about their pasts and reveal a little bit more about who they are and what they really want in life. But while they'd would love to wait for things to cool off, you need to run missions to eat, and each mission brings change. Cass reveals that the September Institute played a horrific role in the defeat of Apostolos during the Golden War, AuDy begins to doubt their free will, and Mako determines that he will be the funniest person in the room, even if it costs everyone else their lives. Meanwhile, on a beautiful blue and green planet in the sky, Aria Joie finds something to believe in...

This week on COUNTER/Weight: "Drawing Clocks"

What's past is prologue...

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Keith J Carberry (@KeithJCarberry), Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal), Ali Acampora (@ali_west), and Art Tebbel (@atebbel)

Produced by Ali Acampora

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

Intro Music by Jack de Quidt

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Ali, your current producer, and one of the friends at the table.
0:06.1	I just wanted to open this episode by saying that we are switching from Meck Noir to the Sprawl,
0:12.3	which means that this is a character generation episode, which means that it is a lot longer than usual and a lot of discussion of mechanics and skill points and some other things that might not be the most
0:26.2	interesting to all of our listeners which is totally understandable so this is a bit of a disclaimer for people who are more
0:35.7	interested in the members of the chime as characters and less about the gamey aspect of
0:42.4	our show that you may want to skip to about two hours and
0:47.0	ten minutes into the episode where we start talking about character directives and
0:51.4	then from there discuss some missions that our characters went on but that aren't
0:57.1	going to be played out on screen. Don't get me wrong, the full episode is great. We're hilarious, but I understand The character sheets that were created in this episode will be available on friends of the
1:13.7	table dot net sometime between the release of this episode and the release of
1:18.0	next episode you can keep an eye on alley under star west I'll let you know when it's updated and then while I have you here. Thank you so
1:28.8	much for listening. It means so much to all of us and without further ado the episode should be launching now The You're not going to be here. The You're going to be here. Oh, I'm going to be here.
2:33.0	I was not so
2:35.0	I was a
2:36.0	and I was I was I'm going to be right
2:45.0	I'm going to be right Welcome to Friends at the Table and Actual Play Podcast focused on Critical World Building,
2:59.0	Smart Characterization and Fun Interaction between Good Friends.
3:02.0	We are as always presented by Stream Friends. TV and Runbutton.net.
3:05.8	This is the first episode where we are not playing
3:08.6	a meck noir during this current campaign.
3:10.7	We are switching.
3:11.6	This is the thing I announced in the faction game from last week, we're
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