Worlds Beyond

== Background ==
Worlds Beyond is an RPG show GM'ed by Lauren airing on Wednesdays at 7PM. It premiered on October 17, 2018. 
It is set in the world of The Strange, an RPG by Seattle-based MonteCook GamesMore precisely: by Monte Cook and Bruce R. Cordell.. The Strange uses the Cypher System. 
A small preview of what the characters are getting into: 
Jade: Alright, let's get to that gate! Oh, you're gonna be fine, most agents make it back first time around.Oz: You said most.Jade: I usually don't lose anyone.Oz: You just said usually.
== Cast ==
GM: 
* Lauren
Also starring:
* Jeannine, as veteran Estate operative Jade Atwood;
* Nathaniel, as Nebraska native Oswald "Oz" Dukes;
* Claudia, as Pine Night, a native of the recursion known as the Republic of SanzutNftE: Spelling now confirmed, see here., on Earth by accident;
* Banzai, as secretive hacker Dale Fink;
* Sarah, as Inan Nissi, a native of the recursion known as Atom Nocturne, on a mission.
== Story ==
The Estate is a secret organization based in Seattle, whose human and alien operatives protect Earth against monsters from other dimensions.
The story starts with The Estate successfully recruiting most of the characters. Jade Atwood is the Estate veteran chosen to lead them into their first mission in the world of The StrangeCapital T, Capital S..
== List of Worlds Beyond episodes ==
=== Worlds Beyond Season 1 ===
Num 	Title 	Air Date 	Summary 	Link
1 	The Strange Case of Quinn Sharp 	Oct 17, 2018	See here.	YouTube
2 	That was something! 	Oct 24, 2018	 	YouTube
3NftE: This Halloween episode is not only 100% canon, it also contains important elements of backstory for each character.	Biting Memories 	Oct 31, 2018	See here.	YouTube
4 	Sailing to Shalmarn 	Nov 7, 2018 	 	YouTube
5 	I lost meNftE: Thanks to Jeannine for this week's title. 	Nov 14, 2018	 	YouTubeFeaturing the new intro.
6 	Fury Road 	Nov 28, 2018	 	YouTube
7 	Escape from New RomaSee . 	Dec 5, 2018 	 	YouTube
8 	Hades 	Dec 12, 2018	 	YouTube
9 	Who can sail when the wind is still?NftE: Thanks to Banzai for this beautiful song. This is, as far as I could find, originally a Swedish folk song (See, for instance, here).	Dec 19, 2018	 	YouTube
=== Worlds Beyond Season 2 ===
Num 	Title 	Air Date 	Summary 	Link
10Both Jeannine and Banzai were absent. /1 	Beware the Bookworms 	Jan 2, 2019 	Penelope translates back to Hades, and Quake stays. The group, minus Jade, who has disappeared, and Dale, whom the Estate doesn't trust enough, translate to the Library of Alexandria recursions. This vast repository of knowledge about every world is inhabited by peaceful drones from various recursions who just do their job of tending the books, and by terrible librarians who are not known well because returning recursors rarely remember or even retrieve anything much. Riley wants information about Fall's Harbinger.
Once in the Library, and after they figure out how to make use of the Library's catalogue and navigate the premises, the group make much use of the licence they were given to look for personal information as well: Inan finds information about the Strange and ways to save Jade and compromising information she'll be able to use back on Atome Nocturne; Oz finds, but does not quite believe, that his Laura is actually the Wicked Witch of the West; Pine can't read, and is not completely made aware, of the information his companions find about the Sage — just an impostor, an agent from the Estate who left his followers after being their guide for a while.
The group's rude behavior attracts the attention from a Librarian, and Oz almost loses his life in the ensuing fight. His insight that remaining quiet and distracting the blind Librarian with distant noise are key to his escape ultimately saves him.
Later, a one-foot-tall tender with little wings advises that they check out books before leaving. Pine objects that You can't make a deal with a dragon, that's how you get bad princessesNftE: Thanks Claudia, thank you so much..
They start translating out but a Librarian intervenes, and warns with a deep, guttural voice that Nothing leaves the Library. Nothing. With a natural 20 on a Persuasion roll, Oz gets a deal: they will all be allowed to leave and they will return someday with knowledge about the Space In Between, the place the Librarians have no information about.	YouTube
11 /2 	Looking for Laura 	Jan 9, 2019 	Oz gets a recursion key from Laura in a dream. He leaves the Estate for Nebraska, where the rest of the group join him. They translate to Transylvania, a place as dark and ominous as the Transylvania of vampires, where Dale, who looks much taller and heroic in this world, becomes an actual hero in the eyes of the populace when he states his mission — He, Antonio, has come to rid the world of Dracula and other evil creatures.
The group soon fight a group of werewolves that have attacked a woman. As a moonbeam strikes her, Inan, who has had a ravenous appetite in this recursion, herself becomes a wolf.
Laura intervenes, and ends the fight with a burst of electricity. She leads the group to her castle in her carriage, except Inan, who is still a wolf and has to follow on foot.	YouTube
12 /3 	The Witch and the Vampires 	Jan 16, 2019	 	YouTube
Special 	The Hunt for September ProjectThis special episode took place because Nathan could not be there. 	Jan 23, 2019	Light HarvestNftE: Sarah kindly confirmed Light's last name and added that their birth name is Rebecca Harvest., Lily "Divine" Trunell and their leader, Carmin "That Bitch Just Stole my Look" Santiago are sent, alongside Quake, on a mission to capture or interrogate a member of The Estate’s rival group known as the September Project. The recursion to which they go in the hope of luring September Project agents is based on classics such as Indiana Jones and Lara Croft; if nothing else, the group will have plenty of cyphers to find and use as they see fit.
The group find their way through the jungle to a pyramid. There, they make their way through corridors and rooms full of challenging puzzles and deadly traps until they find themselves face to face with a group of five September Project agents led by the lady whom the characters don't know fled Jade Atwood's group in Ardeyn and was defeated by the same in Hades.
We leave our heroes as the enemy leader has used a cypher to fly above the scene and activate a statue, with the intent of making a tough fight even harder for Lily, Carmin, Light and Quake.	YouTube
13 /4 	Fixing mistakes 	Jan 30, 2019	Oz uses water from the Styx to survive a one-minute assault. Laura gets her stone back and can fix several mistakes: she revives Frank's sister, Ella, who was stillborn; gives Oz his memories back, and doesn't seem to erase any of his recent memories in the process; and transports Lexenberg back to Oz where it belongs.	YouTube
14 /5 	Back to Oqaineya 	Feb 13, 2019	Back on Earth, Inan checks her messages. Riley just left one about Quake, who has gone missing in a mission.
Riley puts Lily through; she is the only one who returned. Carmin and Light were killed, died in each other's arms; Quake just vanished.
Riley suspects there may be a mole, won't name them.
The group use the facts Riley sends them to translate to the Jungle of Oqaineya. They arrive, dizzy, in the hot, moist jungle and make their way to the temple.
They follow a trail leading away from it and catch up with snake-people who attack them. Dale, who himself has been molting into a reptile, defuses the situation in another oracle performance and makes new allies. It turns out that these people know Dale's them. The snakes lead the group to a river beyond which they'll find their friend and her captors. They use a rope to cross the wide river, with Inan just walking on it.
Oz deceives the September Project baddies for a while ... until their old nemesis Kaylin Ophor sees through it, recognizes him, and starts a battle that ends with the annihilation of her group and the liberation of Quake. Had Oz not intervened, Ophor would have collapsed the recursion to end the fight.
Dale collects all the data he can and cyphers are found in this place that teems with them. Inan resumes her role as captain and has Dale initiate the translation that successfully sends them to the next leg in their journey: Ardeyn.	YouTube
15Claudia was absent. /6 	An Inkling of the Strange 	Feb 20, 2019	Riley, who leads the group into Ardeyn, makes arrangements for captain Adwani to take them to Port Jyeed, at the edge of the Strange. Adwani and Inan reconnect during the flight.
Starting in Ardeyn, Dale changes into some sort of stone golem.
Meanwhile, Riley gives the group the full picture about Jade: she was attacked by an Inkling, that one time in the Strange. He himself was hit by another. The Inkling has kept taking bites at her, and now this powerful creature of The Strange is holding her in a structure in The Strange called the Sinking Dark. They are going after her in a chaos skiff that will protect them from the worst effects of Strange Alienation until they have to step out.
A submarine-like skiff with sails and an observation deck takes the group to their objective. They split, Riley and Pine going one wayWhich took care of Claudia not being there., Inan, Oz and Dale another way.
Jade, or someone with Jade's voice, helps Inan's group open a metal or stone hatch into the structure. Everything is dark and quiet; Oz generates light with his hands, Dale has a sneaky lamp: both sources are dimmed by the structure's light-draining and extend only to a short distance.
A shadowy tendril injures Inan, leaving her with a curl of necrotic skin. Meanwhile, Oz shoots an Inkling trying to pass as KiaraNftE: Spelling confirmed by Lauren. Spencer — a member of Jade's team who hasn't translated since she was caught in the same incident as Jade — with burning arrows, until it explodes.
Dale eventually leads the group to a large doorway, which Riley and Pine have also reached.	YouTube
16 /7 	Shadows 	Feb 27, 2019	The group finds Jade. She is whole again, and looks harmless, until the Inkling that’s possessed her attacks.
Oz gets hurt on the face, and the same kind of necrosis as seen on Jade sets in. Inan saves her friends several times, and with much help from Riley, they end up getting the Shadow off Jade, who loses her right arm again.
The Inkling, whose appearance of sentience came only from Jade, scatters and disappears in the dark, now only driven by fear and hunger.
Inan offers Jade a cigar.
More shadows attack the group on the way back: one that looks like Riley, another like Inan, and the fake Jade — all cheap knockoffs, in Inan’s words.
Once they are dispatched, the group makes it safely back to the chaos skiff. The tension and unease caused by The Strange wear off; scotch gets knocked back while Jade – whose last memories are from the bar where she disappeared — starts catching up on the events of the last few weeks: Oz's reunion with his family, the assaults of the September Project on Estate agents.
Inan summons the courage to tell Pine his Sage is a skilled fraud. Pine doesn’t take it well; he's sorry that, of all the books in the Library, Inan found the incorrect one. Inan fails to convince him it is now up to him to choose his own path; he stands up and leaves, with a cold threat of consequences if Inan reiterates her ignominious insinuations.	YouTube
17 /8 	Out of Paradiso 	Mar 6, 2019 	See the recap here. 	YouTube
18 /9NftE: I watched this episode in the GSTV studio (thanks for having me), the night before ECCC started. I took less notes than usual and I have had less time to write a recap too, but it was all 200% worth it.	The Princess and the Dragon 	Mar 13, 2019	See the recap here. 	YouTube
19 /10There was no episode on March 20, 2019 because Lauren was sick for several days after ECCC. 	A Puppet by the Gift of a LiarNftE: Thanks, Oz. It's the best summary of the situation in this world.	Mar 27, 2019	The group make their way through a land of fairy tales where they save Little Red Riding Hood from her grandma who ate her after turning into a wolf — as grandmas do —, where pixies abduct Dale to a land of sleep and fun after he steps into their magic circle, and where other mysteries are better not investigated.
Rowan Wise follows orders to open Pine's eyes about himself, with limited success. Then he leads the way to the dragon's cave, but only after Oz foils his plan to discreetly translate his way out of his responsibilities toward Astoria.
It turns out that the Princess, far from being in distress, is in charge: with her pleading tone and cute looks, she has turned the fearsome dragon into a puppet by the gift of a liar. She is pissed at the king and queen whose parenting leaves to desire and wants to depose them.
Jade has bad news for her: her son Harper is actually first in line. Inan is the one who actually convinces the princess to give her parents a second chance,
iIt takes Jade’s best efforts to keep her promise and save Wise — still intent on going his merry way —, from Inan's wrath. Inan may not be that different from him after all.
Before being taken back to the Estate, tied and gagged, Wise unwittingly released Pine from his vow, by calling him and the people of Sanzut stupid in his last act of defiance.
All is well that ends well in the land of The Estate.	YouTube
20 	When Two Diplomats Love Each Other Very MuchNftE: Thanks, Sarah. 	Apr 3, 2019 	On Atom Nocturne Inan introduces her friends to Rigel Darth and gives them a glimpse of local politics ... or diplomacy, as they say.
Darth says he want to end the feuding between their family, hand her the dossier he stole from her two years ago.
Meanwhile, Jade finds out she has a functional phantom arm. 	YouTube
21 	Night Clubbing in Atom Nocturne 	Apr 10, 2019	See the recap here. 	YouTube
== Strange Glossary ==
Moved to Worlds Beyond Glossary.
== About the characters ==
=== Jade Atwood ===
Moved to Jade Atwood.
=== Oswald "Oz" Dukes ===
Moved to Oswald "Oz" Dukes.
=== Dale Fink ===
Moved to Dale Fink.
=== Pine Night ===
Moved to Pine Night.
=== Inan Nissi ===
Moved to Inan Nissi.
== Canon recursions ==
=== Ardeyn ===
This video-game-ancient-fantasy recursion is the first one the group goes to. It also returns there later.
=== Bad Baby Planet ===
First evoked by Oz, this nightmarish world of darkness is haunted by evil puppets from #NotAHorror movies.See .
=== Jethro's recursion ===
In the Library, Inan reads an index card written in a language she recognizes from Jethro's recursionSee .. Inan named the recursion after a lover she had thereNftE: as Sarah told me..
=== President World ===
This world is inhabited by all the fictional American presidents and vice-presidents from movies and literature, as well as all the fictional versions of real presidentsThe latter meaning that every actor who portrayed JFK can be found there.. Our characters would have to go there—they won't, obviously—to find out if there are presidents from other countries.
=== Queen Land ===
A British equivalent of President WorldThis one is better suited to Lauren.. Our characters would have to go there—they will, obviously—to find out if there are kings, or queens from other countries.
=== Spiders' Mansion ===
The tiny recursion where the group had a great supper / dinner then almost became spider dinner while having nice, but slightly odd, flashback-like dreams.See . NftE: Name is mine. Not sure how Lauren called it.
=== The Wasteland ===
This sandy desert plagued by drought is prowled both by allies – Terra's Libera Forte Motorcycle gang – and enemies – the Howling Hunters of iron-fisted Agusta Lupe. Power in this post-apocalyptic world belongs to those who control vital resources such as water and oil. The only known city is Lupe's slummy capital, New Roma. 
Also, no one in the Apocalypse can spellNftE: No spelling? Cough, gasp, this is the end of me., because no one gets an education: there is no public school. There is a ColosseumNftE: Or Coliseum. I'm not sure which of these two words Lauren uses ... maybe both. though, with gladiator fights, and stands immediately surrounding it that sell "merchandise" such as a bit of disembodied limb. There are also "government" buildings. The Colosseum eventually becomes the place where the Might fall and the salves take their freedom.See and .
=== Hades ===
Our heroes are always just a failed translation away from death ... or at least the Greek Underworld. Charon; the Styx river; the judges: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus; Cerberus, the cute and ferocious three-headed dog; Persephone and Hades himself, they are all there, to help or hinder, to feed or to bite, to guide them in, and hopefully out. This is also the place where it becomes apparent that the Strange has a bigger claim on Captain Atwood than a mere arm, and the mystery of her long stay in the Strange thickens. Things only start looking up when Jay Ling, a coworker of Jade's at The Estate who has been stuck for some time leads to another famous denizen of this place: Eurydice. See and .
=== The Library ===
This recursion is a basically infinite repository of knowledge about every existing recursion. The Estate only sends agents there when necessary because of the dangers that lie within. The group is sent there, without Jade — still missing — and Dale — who cannot be trusted with such an access to information — to find information about Fall's Harbinger. While there, they are told, they are free to also seek information that would help bring Jade back.See .
=== Transylvania ===
The group, minus Jade, reach this recursion after Laura Wilson gives Oz a translation key to it in a dream. Laura lives in a castle there, as does Dracula, whose fame has even reached the Republic of Sanzut. As the night falls and a full moon rises, werewolves go on the hunt.See , and .
=== Oz ===
This is Laura Wilson's homeworld. Her boyfriend Oswald "Oz" Dukes and the rest of the group deceive Dracula into returning the stone she needed to move her castle / Lexenberg back there from the Transylvania recursion.See .
=== The Jungle of Oqaineya ===
This small recursion draws on adventure movies à la Indiana Jones, Tombraider and suchlike. A temple inspired by every kind of pyramid on Earth stands in the middle of a jungle inhabited by snake-like sentient people. The team led by Carmin Santiago is defeated by Kaylin Ophor, the spiteful September Project operative, in the temple.See and .
=== The Strange ===
It is not really a recursion, but gets a mention here because a big chunk of takes place in that medium that feels a little like the vacuum of space. Riley also drops a lot of Strange knowledge on the group in this episode. Jade is held in a structure known as the Sinking DarkSee and ..
=== Paradiso ===
On Inan's request, Riley finds that Rowan Wise, aka The Sage, was seen in this beach resort recursionSee .. Riley gives Inan a set of fact about this one big, beautiful, meandering island:
* piña coladas are actually bottomlessSuggested by Claudia.;
* everyone, recursors as well as locals, has gold eyesSuggested by Sarah.;
* they have military dolphins that they use for every water thing; there is also a system of tubes to extend their reach onto landSuggested by Jeannine and Banzai (the tubes);
* everybody has perfect rhythm and there are flashmob beach partiesSuggested by Banzai and Jeannine.;
* everybody has their own porta-potty portal or there are goggles that allow to get high without consequencesSuggested by Nathan.. 
It's a nice place, a place for happiness, relaxation and fun times; people stay until they're booted out. You can feel emotional discomfort here, but you recover faster. It really sucks when you go back home.
=== Astoria ===
In Astoria, Ronan Wise is seen as a traitor, whose deceit has caused destruction. The Royal Huntsman of Astoria catches up with Wise in Paradiso. After his capture, Wise is taken back to Astoria to be tried. Jade and her group also translate to Astoria to serve as witnesses both for the tribunal and The Estate.See .
=== All the worlds from Geek Space ===
... have their own recursions.
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