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telomirage · 5 months ago

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What is palisade? :)

oh hello! palisade is the eighth full season of an actual play podcast called friends at the table. it's a group of friends playing some tabletop roleplaying games together to "play to find out what happens." it's also the fourth full season of the sci-fi series they have named the divine cycle, which includes counter/weight, twilight mirage, and partizan. the divines are powerful robotic machine gods in many shapes and forms, and which have titles and attributes like rigour, loyalty, integrity, gumption, arbit, empyrean/imperium, perennial, motion, etc. palisade opens five years after the end of partizan and is mostly focused on the planet palisade, an ongoing war, and resistance efforts. it's wildly funny at times and intensely serious, deeply distressing, tense, and dangerous at others.

I hope this helped! I'm currently 24 episodes into palisade and boy howdy is a lot happening all of the time 😂

(also, here's an intro episode, which you could listen to or read the description for to get an idea of what the previous seasons are about! I personally think friends at the table in general is great, but I know it can look daunting with so many episodes that are sometimes so, so very long lol)

#asks #I cannot recommend the friends at the table OSTs by notquitereal jack de quidt enough #also…I'm over here like 'am I going to get a good grade in 'explaining a thing I like a lot'' 😂#anyway. get you a diverse cast of characters with complex motivations and who sometimes make good decisions and sometimes make ABSOLUTELY #TERRIBLE ONES. sometimes because there's no other options and sometimes just because they want to #palisade spoils all previous seasons of the divine cycle so if you're thinking about listening you SHOULD NOT START WITH PALISADE lol #but austin (the gm) and the rest of the friends at the table say you could start with partizan if you aren't determined to listen #to everything in release order #I love this show :') and I love how they have fun with each other whether their characters are literally at each other's throats #or have one another's backs #or both!#oh also. to quote the intro of every episode of palisade: 'palisade is a show about empire + revolution + settler colonialism + politics +#religion + war and the many consequences thereof'

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