COUNTER/Weight 22: The Broken Branch

Friends at the Table

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🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

As our heroes review the past, the Golden Branch Star sector moves forward without them. And it moves towards instability. New corporate initiatives seek to re-establish the status quo. Old heroes come out of retirement, hoping to change things dramatically for the better. Masterminds move chess pieces and pawns contemplate their sacrifices. And above the planet Sage, Grace tightens her fist.

This week COUNTER/Weight: The Broken Branch

On a long enough timeline, every orbit decays.

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Sylvia Clare (@captaintrash) and Andrew Lee Swan (@andrewleeswan)

Produced by Ali Acampora

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot )

Intro Music by Jack de Quidt

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0:00.0	They found each other in the wreckage of optimism, and it took them a decade to decide that hope was not enough to save the golden
0:16.7	branch from itself. It was in a library, not an armory, where the Apostolician became the sword and shield of integrity,
0:26.6	a divine who'd lost its candidate. Some climb into their divines. Others deploy them across the battlefield or fight under the blanket of their shadows.
0:37.0	But integrity demands intimacy. It digs into the flesh of the willing, all metal and promises in Penitralia,
0:46.0	desperate to create an unbreakable unity.
0:49.0	It is afraid and wounded, and it cannot know the power it gives without seeing it first in the reflection of a candidate's eyes.
0:58.0	The loft, the velocity, the violence, and for the first time in centuries,
1:05.0	integrity doesn't fear its candidate.
1:07.0	It moves with confidence, in muscle and ambition.
1:11.0	It believes, and Socrates, Nikon, Artemisios. The Hey everyone welcome to Friends at the Table and
1:37.2	actual Play Podcast focused on critical world building smart
1:39.7	characterization and fun interaction between good friends we We are as always presented by stream
1:43.5	friends. TV and Renbutton.net. I am Austin Walker your host and GM. Joining me
1:49.1	today for a faction game are Andrew Lee Swan.
1:52.8	Hey, how's it going?
1:54.8	And Andy Claire?
1:55.8	Hi.
1:56.8	Where can people find you on the internet?
1:58.8	You can find me on Twitter at swandary 3,000 and at twitch. TV slash Dream Friends.
2:04.0	You can find me on the internet at Twitter.com slash
2:06.4	Captain Trash.
2:07.1	That's where all my stuff is.
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