Winter In Hieron: Holiday Special 01: Homes and Promises
Friends at the Table
Friends at the Table
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🗓️ 1 January 2017
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
There, in hidden village of Old Man's Chin, the mothkin gather around the dry well at the center of town, look to the stars of the southern sky, and begin the midnight sermon. They praise those distant, flickering speckles of white for the light they provide—distant, and safe, yet bright enough to bring the world into focus. They praise, too, the messages written in the sky: Each star a word, each constellation a parable.
Red Jack finds his parables elsewhere: In his own history. And now, on this holy night of possibility, he gathers together the visitors from Velas so that he may tell them one.
Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
Episode description by Austin Walker
Music by Jack de Quidt
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| 0:00.0 | This is the longest I've stayed in any one place. |
| 0:07.0 | I suppose I'm not very good at what you might call laying roots. |
| 0:12.0 | And yet, now, I... |
| 0:17.4 | The soft buzz of the mothkin as they flitter from task to task. |
| 0:23.0 | The switchlings rumbling soil and snow as they move underneath. |
| 0:30.0 | My children, running with a laugh not yet called to face their nature and that tangled heart of flesh and bark. I look at it. I look out on all of this place |
| 0:50.1 | here in the shadow of Twin Brook in the shadow of Twin Brook, in the shadow of Hyraur, |
| 0:55.0 | our woods, the rice fields, even the snow which stings my feet. |
| 1:02.0 | And I think it home and that friends leaves me shaking. Homes are built not on wood and plaster, but on aspiration. Each utterance, each thought that links you to a place and its people is of promise. |
| 1:30.0 | And there, years ago, the last time I had a home, I learned all about promise. |
| 1:40.0 | There, in Red House, there, and the hopeful commons and the broiling streets of Mary Elder, |
| 1:53.3 | Elder, mourning. Oh, Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, The The Oh, Welcome to Friends at the Table and Actual Play Podcast focused on Critical World Building Smart |
| 3:24.8 | Characterization and Fun Interaction Between Good Friends. Today we are playing |
| 3:29.3 | Follow by Ben Robbins, who's the creator of Microscope and Kingdom, two games you've heard on the show before. |
| 3:35.0 | I am Austin Walker. You can find me on Twitter at Austin underscore Walker. |
| 3:40.0 | How about you, Janine Hawkins? |
| 3:42.0 | I'm Janine Hawkins. You can find me at... about you can |
| 3:47.0 | jean hawkins you can find me at bleating hearts on twitter |
| 3:47.4 | uh... jack i'm jak to keep you can find me on twitter at not quite real and by any of the music featured on the show at not quite real dot band camp.com. |
| 3:56.4 | Keith |
| 3:58.0 | My name is Keith Carberry you can find me on YouTube at YouTube. YouTube. Run button you find me on Twitter, YouTube. |
| 4:03.0 | Run button. |
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