Ep. 52
This month, Seth and Jon gush about the amazing series on Hulu/FX... ALIEN: Earth. -- WARNING -- There are SPOILERS!!! In addition to ALIEN: Earth, Jon talks about the new Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes, published by Magnetic Press Play. ALIEN: Earth Created for television, and written by, Noah Hawley Staring: Sydney Chandler (Wendy) Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia) Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier) Babou Ceesay (Morrow) Alex Lawther (Joe Hermit) Adarsh Gourav (Slightly) Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh) The series is set two years before the classic 1979 movie, ALIEN, by Ridley Scott Five corporations govern the Earth: Weyland-Yutani (Americas) Prodigy (Oceania, Asia, and South Africa) Lynch (Russia) Dynamic (North Africa, Middle East, and the Moon) Threshold (Europe) Creatures collected by the crew of the Maginot: Xenomorphs Ticks Octo-Eye Flies Plant Pod (ie: Orchid) Xenopedia: https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes Published by Magnetic Press Play: https://www.magnetic-press.com/about-magnetic-press-play/ Game Engine: Modified version of the West End Games D6 D6MV: D6 Magnetic Variant Players may play as: Chimpanzees Orangutans Gorillas Tribal Humans Time-Lost Astro-nauts Mutated Humans The setting is ideally suited for: World exploration, like you might experience with Dungeons & Dragons Investigations, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu or Blade Runner Horror, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow http://www.johnsumrow.com https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/ http://thickets.net/ @darkestthickets.bsky.social
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