COUNTER/Weight 37: Visions from Windows, Or: The Last Time the Bomb Dropped
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🗓️ 28 April 2016
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Summary
20,000 years before The Chime met on Counterweight, long before the Golden War against Apostolos, the Automated Diaspora devised a plan to stop Rigor once and for all, and at great cost...
This week on COUNTER/Weight: Visions from Windows, Or: The Last Time the Bomb Dropped
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| 0:00.0 | The first stellar combustors were activated just decades after the death of Chitalle, final |
| 0:07.2 | candidate of liberty and discovery. They were lit by a desperate fleet, dropped behind them as they fled at super high speeds through a carefully calculated escape route. |
| 0:19.0 | The explosions propelled the fleet further, and though some were were lost the bulk of the automated |
| 0:24.4 | diaspora survived never stopping to look back at the destruction they'd left in |
| 0:29.2 | their wake. But over 60,000 years later, the second time that the bomb dropped, it was impossible not to watch. You're going to be here. |
| 0:43.0 | You know? You know? You're going to be here. I'm going to be. Oh, well, it's a great, well, |
| 1:33.0 | it's a... |
| 1:35.0 | What... |
| 1:37.0 | ... ... ... ... ... |
| 1:41.0 | ... ... ... |
| 1:42.0 | ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Hey everybody. Welcome to Friends of the Table and Actual Play Podcast, |
| 1:50.5 | focus on Critical World Building, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends I am |
| 1:54.7 | Austin Walker unfortunately I am alone today we have not had for because of unavoidable reasons like some medical concerns and |
| 2:04.7 | packs east and some other stuff. |
| 2:06.6 | We haven't been able to record another session since last week's faction game. |
| 2:11.0 | It's not a big deal. |
| 2:11.6 | Art had an unavoidable surgery, but he is okay, he's recovering, he's totally okay. |
| 2:17.0 | So, this week, I'm going to do something special because I'm very weird about making sure we don't leave this podcast feed |
| 2:27.8 | without something in it for too long. So I've prepared a little look back for the world of counterweight, back to the last time that the |
| 2:39.6 | bomb dropped. |
| 2:44.0 | Vision number one, defective appendages. |
| 2:49.0 | 2-A-U from the explosion of the first stellar combustor. |
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