A group of desperate and ambitious criminals on Mars plan to start their own gang. Named the Eighth Sea, after the restaurant serving as their front, the crew realizes they need to learn how to work with and trust each other. To that end, they have set up a time-accelerated simulated reality, where each member of the cartel can share some of their own memories and put the group through their own training exercise. Meet the crew:

Renee as Cadence, an illegal fork of an academic psychosurgeon
Jay B as Eleazar, a  Shugyosha warrior and ego hunter
David as Zemo an hyperelite dilettante thief
Aaron as Simon, an illegal SAIRC fork
Tom as Lawrence a human pretending to be an uplift octomorph
Greg as Nil, a forked AGI hacker and drone specialist
Ross as the GM

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Synopsis: A group of weary travelers find themselves trapped in a labyrinth beyond their imagination. This version of Ruin contains two new game mechanics that we try out for the first time. We also have a special guest player, Nathan Shelton. Check out Frightmare Theater, his new horror anthology podcast.

Cast

Shaun as Herbert
Aaron as Geoff
Nathan as Quenten
Tom as Trevor

Laser Chainsaw, a notorious criminal, is gunning for the Oddballs! It turns out that the Oddballs have inadvertently framed him for their many space crimes, so he has come to seek vengeance on them. Outwitting the deadly (and aptly named) criminal will take all their cunning and a bit of luck.

The stranded crew of the Montero struggles to survive against deadly aliens and other threats. Repairing the Chronus and dealing with its possibly infected crew poses its own challenges. As people begin to disappear in the corridors of the ship, the desperate few remaining will try anything but the secrets they hold may doom them.

Cast
Tom as Davis
Aaron as Miller
David as Wilson
Greg as Cham
Ross as the GM

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The Oddballs need to retrieve an artifact from a dangerous cult of mutants. After finding the cult’s lair, they’ll need to navigate a dark underground maze without lights because the mutants don’t need light. Simple enough right? Too bad their other enemies are starting to catch up with the Oddballs…