Your Adventure Begins, Part 1
Twilight Histories
Dark Lord Studios
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
You are a Sky City Maintenance Worker. Your word is safe but incredibly boring. One day, you heard about the Twilight Histories. All your co-workers said it was a scam, but you wanted to risk it. You wanted adventure! You are now in the heart of Urumqi, the most dangerous city on Earth, and the launching point of the Twilight Histories. You're beginning to wonder if your co-workers weren't right.
This short series is an introduction to the role playing game you can find on the website: https://www.twilighthistories.com/rpg
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| 0:00.0 | You wake in a strange room. |
| 0:07.0 | Your clothes are foreign and the walls are covered in objects from a different world. |
| 0:13.0 | You don't know where or when you are, or if you're still dreaming. |
| 0:18.0 | There are footsteps in the hall. |
| 0:23.6 | Jumping up, you race out of the room and into the streets. |
| 0:28.2 | You have just entered The Twilight Histories. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, I'm Jordan Harbor. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you for listening to the Twilight Histories, and thank you for |
| 0:38.4 | joining us on our 10th anniversary. It's incredible to think that the Twilight Histories was |
| 0:43.4 | started 10 years ago, way back in 2011. We've come a long way, and yet I feel strongly that |
| 0:49.8 | the best years are yet to come. One of the projects we're working on is a tabletop role-playing game, |
| 0:56.0 | so you can actually play the Twilight Histories with your friends. |
| 0:59.3 | And that's what today's show is about. |
| 1:01.9 | I was chatting with one of our listeners. |
| 1:03.8 | Captain Nemo is what he goes by on our Discord channel. |
| 1:06.9 | He said he was GMing a Twilight History game for his friends and wanted some help. |
| 1:12.1 | Here's what he said. |
| 1:14.0 | Could you write a show that tours someone through the Twilight Histories and that can be listened to before a person begins playing? |
| 1:21.7 | I think people would be really interested in the infrastructure, security, mechanics, and what it takes to make it all work. |
| 1:29.3 | Well, Captain Nemo, I fully agree. I have been thinking of doing a show like that for a while, |
| 1:34.9 | a show that tours you around the Twilight History's compound, and not only the compound, |
| 1:40.3 | but also the area just outside the Twilight Histories, to give you a sense of the larger world in which it's set. |
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