Perpetua 00 - Character Select

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

The gale of history rattles across vast Perpetua today. Skyfairing armadas glide towards battle on warm winds. Lines of succession are cynically drawn in breezy, courtly halls, while an ill, stagnant air settles onto once vibrant arcanic academies.

It is the year 401 BE, just over four centuries BEFORE the END.

But the skies remain blue above Perpetua, and today’s wind also carries new heroes into history’s current. Heroes drawn up from across the wide world, bringing their unique knowledge, skill, experience, curiosity, passion, strength, and spirit with them. Heroes who carry the best qualities of their people—and in some cases, their most desperate hopes!

After all, regardless of what the wind carries, it flows in one direction, as it always has, as—it is said—it always will..

Despair. Authority. Hunger. Grief. Violence. Inevitability. Malevolence. Doom

It is in the face of these that our heroes yet rise on the air. In fact, it is towards them which they fly, riding Perpetua’s cyclonic winds! Lifting up from Grand Sonnerie, from the Hundred Burroughs, from ancient Rilspur and blustery Bilough, from the simple seaside town of Salaan… and even from the dark underbelly of Calstega Bay. Drawn together by something not yet clear—freedom or fate or intervention into either—but held together by their own bonds, growing ever deeper, even as the clock ticks towards a final confrontation.

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart) Sylvi Bullet (@sylvibullet), Ali Acampora (@ali_west), Art Martinez-Tebbel (@atebbel), Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal), Keith J Carberry (@keithjcarberry) and Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000)

Produced by Ali Acampora

Music by Jack de Quidt (available on bandcamp)

Cover Art by Ben McEntee (https://linktr.ee/benmce.art)

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0:00.0	The gale of history rattles across vast perpetua today.
0:16.8	Sky-faring armadas glide towards battle on warm winds.
0:21.6	Lines of succession are cynically drawn in breezy, courtly halls, while an ill-stagnant air settles onto once-vibrant
0:31.6	academies.
0:33.6	It is the year 401B.E.
0:36.6	Just four centuries before the end.
0:40.3	But the skies remain blue above Perpetua, and today's wind also carries new heroes into history's current.
0:50.3	Heroes drawn up from across the wide world, bringing their unique knowledge, skill,
0:58.4	experience, curiosity, passion, strength, and spirit with them, heroes who carry the best
1:06.3	qualities of their people, and in some cases, their most desperate most desperate hopes after all regardless of what the wind carries it flows in one direction as it always has and it is said always will
1:23.6	despair authority despair, authority, hunger,
1:28.3	hunger, Inevalence, inevitability, malevolence, doom.
1:52.0	It is in the face of these that are heroes yet rise on the air.
1:57.0	In fact, it is towards them which they fly, riding perpetuous cyclonic winds, lifting up from
2:05.2	grand sonnery, from the hundred burrows, from ancient rillspur and blustery billow,
2:13.2	from the simple seaside town of Salon, and even from the dark underbelly of Calstega Bay.
2:20.8	Drawn together by something not yet clear, freedom or fate or intervention into either,
2:27.5	but held together by their own bonds, growing ever deeper, even as the clock kicks towards final confrontation.
2:38.7	Welcome to Friends of the Table, an actual play podcast, focus on critical world-building, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends.
2:45.5	I am Austin Walker, and I'm joined today by Jack DeKee.
2:49.8	Hello, I'm Jack.
2:53.7	You can get any of the music featured on the show at not quite real.
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