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A Seskii By Any Other Name

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Marietta's summary at the beginning of Episode 14.

The party went to stake out the location of Atalia'smeeting. Atalia brought her seskii, now named Jeskii and left her with the rest of the party while at the meeting (it was kind of sketchy and a little culty). Atalia was asked to join the Handlers; she refused, James was killed and Atalia was assigned a new handler who will meet her tomorrow.

## Player Intrusion

Sampson offers an XP to check out the webcomic Lore Olympus, it's a modern retelling of the story of Persephone and Hades that really takes advantage of the digital format.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/14 (58m 29s)
Gijs Hartveld

**Gijs Hartveld** is a recurring character in the first season of ***Skam NL,*** and a minor character in the second. He attended St-Gregorius College. Gijs is based on Cristoffer Schistad from the original *Skam* series.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

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## See Also

 Engel Beekman • Janna Martens • Imaan Elami • Esra Aydın
 Anna • Micha • Tess
Salianna Stone

Salianna Stone is the daughter of Amaranth Stone, and mother to Atalia. She has been involved with the Handlers since a young age, and at one point abandoned her daughter to pursue her career within its hierarchy. She has spent an unspecified amount of time operating out of Shallamas, but has since returned to Charmonde to take over management of the Handlers there after the death of Murric.
Things in the Dark

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Alex's summary at the beginning of Episode 7.

They found the dead bodies, the Cypher was missing oh no! Then Dili heard a noise (oh no!) so the party all cuddled together under an illusion to hide from the noise, which turned out to be some arcane horror bullshit. Nix tried to steal its stick, but that did not happen so they fought it and tried not to go crazy looking at the ugly horror. Eventually Nix killed it by punching it so good, after it exploded they got some Cyphers from his possessions.

Then ChaCha saw a ripple and ran away. Everyone followed the ripple outside the dungeon, and found they were not where the thought they should be. The party was in a forest near the main road with zombies. Time had passed faster than it should, the ripple was gone but there were footprints into the forest so they headed that way. As they were going through the forest, as night approached, they saw a pretty tree. The tree was super pretty and Atalia thought it would be a good idea to sleep underneath the pretty, pretty tree. We ended with Atalia sleeping under the tree, Dili getting ready to bed down and ChaCha seeing dead, decomposing bodies under the tree.
War of Woes

### Overview

The War of Woes, or as it is known in Corpus, "Liberation of the Peaks", was the last great conflict between Margethy and Corpus. It resulted in the annexation of Margethy's mineral rich peaks, as well as the surrounding woodlands. Fearing that Corpus would push deeper into their lands, Margethy's then-queen, Mala Yonni, sent a massive force to attempt to reclaim the territory, and halt any future expansion. This resulted in a grueling three year war, and while it did prevent Corpus from greater conquest, her forces were unable to recover the peaks.

### Significance to Corpus

The war coincided with the current imperial dynasty's rise to power. Tellus IV, great-great-grandfather to Tithanpet I, was eager to demonstrate strength after successfully dethroning the prior emperor, Quantus VI. With few options for easy expansion, Tellus IV ordered the invasion of Margethy, specifically the mountain range along the northern border of the latter. The challenging terrain and existing Margethean fortifications were significant risks to such a plan, but the emperor accurately surmised that Margethy's over-reliance on numenera would limit the capability for them to withstand a sustained siege.

There were rumors at the time that an emboldened Tellus IV wanted to push deeper into the land, but the official histories all state that the annexed territory was his only goal. As the Corpus historian Prela Bortan put it:

> [Tellus IV] was no fool. He knew that Margethy would retaliate, and that spreading his forces farther apart would hinder the effort. The Emperor was a man of great intellect, indomitable will, and careful forethought. He knew that taking the peaks would forever weaken the northern borders of Margethy, presenting future opportunities for expansion, either during his reign or that of his descendants.
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This conflict solidified Tellus IV's legitimacy as emperor, as well as opening resource rich lands for mining.

### Significance to Margethy

In addition to the loss of lands, this multi-year war severely depleted the military forces of Margethy. In the conflicts final battle alone, over 40,000 lives were lost, including both Queen Mala Yonni, and her sole heir. This loss was initially kept secret from all except a select few, allowing the closest advisors from her court to negotiate the cease-fire. Chief among them was Ingas Fern, a wealthy aristocrat who then rose to the throne with a promise of resurrecting the glory of the nation from the ashes of its defeat.

1. ↑ Borton, Prela (C1045) *Architect of the Future: The Rise of Tellus IV*
Stannis

Stannis is a member of the Guardians of Night’s Hope, who is based out of Shallamas. She was first encountered by the group when being rescued from the Hive Man, and appears to report to Selah.

She is a former associate of Salianna Stone, but their relationship soured when Stannis abandoned the Handlers to join the Guardians of Night’s Hope, and has been on the run ever since. She has said that Stannis is not her original name, and that her features are different from what they used to be.

She has suggested that she was originally recruited by Mamma Jerrun.
Interview With The Nano

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Stace's summary at the beginning of Episode 60.

The crew had a chat with  Doc Taraz using the lie eater cypher. They learnt that she is a bad nano who has been siphoning the energy from Nix's mom's teleportation situation. She has been using the power to charge batteries that allowed her to power this artifact beneath her house that created cyphers and artifacts. The Doc had not previously been aware of the Benevolent Society of Travelers connection to Nix's mom's attacks and the similar energy Nix possesses.

The party confiscates the battery and learns it can also be charged through void storms. In order to get through the maze under Doc Taraz's house to reach the artifact you need the charged battery.

It was also discovered that the jade eggs are addictive and not effective in the way that Doc Taraz advertises (which was suspected).

Everyone (minus  ChaCha who maintained watch over Doc Taraz) ended the episode talking to Merrick to update him on what they learnt and confirm that he will hold the Doc for an additional two days. Merrick was surprised to learn no one disguised themselves during the earlier interrogation.

## Player Intrusion

Stace offers an XP to check out Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jone. It is a regency period fantasy book set in a vaguely European country called Alpennia. There's lots of political intrigue, honour duels, magic that is a mishmash of ancient Greek mystery cults and Catholicism and a female-female romance subplot.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/59 (1hr 04m 19s)
Lucas and Isa

**Lucas and Isa** are close friends in ***Skam NL***.

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## See Also

 Isa and Kes • Liv and Noah • Olivia and Kes • Lucas and Sabina
Invisible Strings

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Marietta's summary at the beginning of Episode 12.

Atalia finished up her meeting, some back story was revealed. Nix went back to see her sick mom, who it turns out has been randomly teleporting to places. They hired a nano to help her cuz theres some sort of disease or something going on there and it's really heckin' expensive. Nix just made some dollars but not quite enough and she hasn't really told the party anything about this yet. ChaCha and Dili went to a really shitty bar that they found called the Queen's Spittoon, they get a table together and a couple beers. Dili gives a shin for what was a quarter-shin cost and since he doesn’t have change he just gives the rest of it as a tip and the lady’s like, wink, wink. Something’s going on there and it’s kind of confusing and little awkward.

Nix eventually says goodbye to her parents and shows up at the bar like, “Oh my gosh, guys, you didn’t get me my scorpions,” because, PS, previously, Nix had been like, “Oh, meet up at this bar, get me some green scorpions.” Atalia joined the party and they all ate the scorpions, then this creepy shadowy person appeared in the bar and was kind of checking Atalia out. She stood up and did, like, a quick stealth look and was like, “That’s fuckin’ creepy, that seems like someone from 'question mark' organization. But I actually do have to pee so I’m gonna go pee.” So then Atalia went to the bathroom and creepy dude followed her. Which is creepy, first of all, and was like, “Hey, you shouldn’t ask questions, you know better than that.”
Stars Are Fire

Sourcebook cover

Stars Are Fire is a science-fiction supplement for the Cypher System published by Monte Cook Games. It includes both a tool-set for adapting the Cypher System for sci-fi games, and the hard science-fiction setting, The Revel.

Often the cast of Explorers Wanted will use the terms “The Revel” and “Stars Are Fire” interchangeably, because no one likes a pedant.

#### One-Shots

* Rude Awakening
* The Babysitters Crew
Deuces

Deuces is a member of the Knyxos. Along with Aces, he worked for Asidra as part of the enforcement team for the Reaper-derived automaton project. He and Aces were later assigned to retrieve a fugitive Dili. After the events of The “Heist”, he and Aces were also tasked with acquiring Nix.

Deuces is incredibly large, with hamhock hands. He is also very fast, and has been described as “Fleet of Foot”. He has demonstrated impressive hearing, and prefers to fight unarmed.
Hearts in Orbit (Campaign)

**Hearts in Orbit** is the second long-term Numenera campaign of Explorers Wanted, beginning with the fourth season of the show. It is set in a home-brew region of the Ninth World located along the southeastern coast of the supercontinent.

#### Cast

* GM - Daniel Andrlik
* Ezri Stonebreaker - Stace Babcock
* Ilsene Vite - Sampson Davis
* Magpie - Alex Finn

#### Key Pages

* Season Four
* Pets
More Than A Kitchen

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Sampson's summary at the beginning of Episode 16.

Atalia got out of the meeting no problem, so the party went to Gma's house. Gma had a little anecdote about her and Nix's mom talking about a symbol of the Traveler’s Youth Hostel, Nix outs Dili as being wanted (Gma had a right to know, they were in her house). Dili tells Gma about the Knyxos, she then has a little talk with Atalia alone. Gma also seems to know a lot about the crime life in Charmonde. Nix has a weird dream (this is the Snake Campaign).

The next morning things get a little spicy between Nix, Atalia, and Gma. After that ChaCha suddenly runs out of the house, talks with a phantom, comes back a little bummed out she didn’t get more. Then she, after looking at the encrypted book that was copied from the Ruins of Kamathan. She pulls out a line referring to the "Guardians of Night’s Hope" that is not encrypted, it’s just in a different language. The party heads to the Queen’s Spittoon where Nix is going to talk to Karfa. Then we see that Nix’s bite marks from the snake brooch have turned black.

## Player Intrusion

Daniel offers an XP to check out the book The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin, the first book in her Broken Earth Trilogy. Jemisin is the first writer in history to win the Best Novel Hugo Award for three years consecutively. "The Fifth Season" takes place very far in the Earth’s future, it is a situations where things have gone dramatically wrong and is full of post-post-apocalyptic goodness..

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/15 (1 hr 12m 21s)
A Coven of Contractors

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Stace's summary at the beginning of Episode 3.

At some point about a week prior, each of the main characters individually walked through a door in an alley labeled 'Explorers Wanted', sat through an interview then went about their lives. Later small children showed up with messages to come back to the place in the alley and meet up with the lady who has a name - Mamma Jerrun.

First was Atalia - tan with auburn hair and yellow eyes. Then Dili, a nervous short boy. Next was ChaCha (she's a hugger) wearing a red cloak with many pockets. Last but not least, and late as always was Nix. They had tea and small cookies, and were dispatched to some ruins outside of town. Someone Mamma Jerrun had sent out searching for an artifact had disappeared there. The party is looking for the lady and the artifact.

Making camp for the night they were attacked by flying intestine monsters. Dili got the first kill with Nix killing the other two. The next morning the party gets near to where the ruins ought to be, but there's no ruins. And then, ChaCha sees something weird (a floating fire monster), she says something cryptic about horrors and wanders off. Everyone follows ChaCha and encounters some giant green spires made out of green synth.
Amaranth Stone

Amaranth Stone is the grandmother of Atalia, and mother to Salianna. She was a feared freelance assassin in her youth, but after her granddaughter was abandoned, she retired from the life of crime to serve as a gardener for the Sladek family, which is how Atalia and Nix became friends.

Nix, Atalia, Dili, and ChaCha refer to her by the nickname "Gma" which was coined by Nix as a child.

Gma appears to be incredibly knowledgeable of the current criminal organizations of Charmonde, is incredibly loyal to the crown of Naverne, and appears to have maintained many, if not all, of her deadly skills.
Senate (Corpus)

### Overview

The Senate of Corpus is the body of government that ostensibly provides a check on the power of the Imperial House. It is comprised of oligarchs representing the various industries of the nation. They are elected by their various guilds/conglomerates/business leaders. The president of the Senate is elected by the Senate itself every two years, though it is rare for the position to change hands more often than once a decade.

The Senate is responsible for the majority of day-to-day governing decisions within Corpus, and its seat of power is located in Lathe. While many senators maintain properties and business across the nation, the practical limitations introduced by Corpus' vast expanse means that that all of them reside in the capital city.

There are officially ten voting senate positions, and one Shadow Senator, who has no official vote, but significant influence.

### Governance

For more information on how the Senate interacts with the Imperial House, see the Government heading in the article on Corpus.
Aces

Aces was a member of the Knyxos. Along with Deuces, he was part of the enforcement team employed by Asidra on the Reaper-derived automaton project.

Dili has described Aces’ appearance as “greasy and dangerous” like an “anthropomorphic dirty syringe needle”.

While attempting to retrieve Dili during the events of The “Heist”, his knee was crushed by Nix. Asidra later replaced this with an enhanced prosthetic.

Aces was ultimately slain during a battle with Atalia and ChaCha. ChaCha notably harvested his prosthetic leg from his body afterwards.
Vlad

Vlad is a member of the Guardians of Night’s Hope, and is the controller that the party is assigned to upon leaving Charmonde. They first meet up with him in Mountain's Bone in episode 71: Hark! The Hendersons!. He is described as a tall man who looks like a "blonde Edward James Olmos".

Vlad is no-nonsense and not amused by the party's antics and tendency to cause chaos. He has shown an advanced capacity to craft illusions.

### Writing Career

It was revealed in Among the Angels that Vlad is also a writer of romance novels under the pseudonym "Lyria R. Summermane". They are not considered to be high quality in general.

#### Selected Bibliography

 *Catching Chills* | Romance
 *Beyond Shins* | Romance
 *Loins of the Lastborn* | Erotica
 *Seskii Says* | Romance
 *Hope Is a Rock* | Adventure
The Sinking Ark

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Stace's summary at the beginning of Episode 8.

Atalia and Dili were lulled into taking a nap by the beautiful tree. Nix barely managed to stay awake at the insistence of ChaCha. Then ChaCha discovered there were spores coming from the tree putting everyone to sleep and that the tree itself needed to be convinced to let them go. Nix tried to talk to the tree, the tree did not respond. Nix knocked on the tree rudely again. The tree did not respond. And so the Nix was like I'm just gonna go sleep and go talk to it. So she did. She convinced the tree to let them go, with the power of spending one XP for a reroll and subsequently rolling a 20 on that reroll. Managed to let the tree - or get to get the tree let us go and promised the tree to help it find vessels for all the previous souls that it had stolen and stored.

Then the team went back to Charmonde and went and saw Mamma Jerrun who seemed very forthright and honest about her involvement with the artifact and Mewin's death. Reported Mewin's death to Momma Jerrun, showed her the journal. She then paid out 40 shins apiece. Except for Atalia who has some weird contract thing going on and then renegotiated that contract with Atalia.
Leeda

### Overview

Leeda is a former colony of Corpus, that has since become a recognized city-state of the empire. It is located along the archipelago of islands to the northeast of Corpus. Originally intended as a staging point for northern expansion, it was established as a shipping hub and staging point for the Imperial Navy. Unfortunately, its abundant reefs and northern storms rendered those plans impractical, but its access to prosperous fishing, and shipping routes that neatly avoid the Well of Sighs made it ideal land to hold.

It was granted its status and seat on the Senate against protest from both the Fishing and Shipping Guilds, but its own wealth and influence won out.

### More Info

Leeda's borders are non-contiguous with Corpus. The northern mires mean that travel to and from its islands requires sailing the relatively calm southern waters between them and Corpus's most northern ports.
Chansey Letoile

**Chansey Letoile**, nicknamed "ChaCha", is a "Passionate Nano who Sees Beyond". ChaCha comes from the wilds where she wandered and was primarily raised by various entities amongst The Horrors. Based on what ChaCha has shared so far, it appears there wasn’t much consistency amongst which entities guided her, and it’s unclear if any of it was coordinated or if she was simply passed around them randomly.

ChaCha’s passion is performing for and educating children, but her passionate nature and harassment from snake-like horrors resulted in her being run out of, and banned from many towns. She keeps a map of places she is no longer allowed to go.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/alex
2. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/2 (1m 21s)
Handlers

The Handlers are a criminal organization that specializes in contracting out their services to other organizations and individuals. They rarely engage in their own gambits, instead providing a layer of separation for their customers, who may be other criminal organizations, or merely individuals who can afford their services. In a similar fashion, most trouble-shooters deployed by the Handlers are contractors in their own right, in order to protect the the organization as a whole.

Only the most promising of contractors are ever inducted into ranks of Handlers proper.

### Notable Handlers

* Salianna Stone
* Murric
* Tamara
* ”James”
* Stannis (former)
Margethy

Margethy is an old nation located along the southern border of Corpus, with whom they maintain a reluctant trade partnership. Two centuries ago, Corpus' endless appetite for expansion resulted in the annexation of some of Margethy's mineral-rich mines of the northern territories. The nation of Margethy has never forgotten this, but lack of resources and reluctance to emulate the industrial exploitation of their old enemy has kept them in a defensive posture.

Margethy is a nation rich in independent Wrights and Nanos, and has banked much of their future on the discovery and application of prior world technology. It is primarily agrarian, and its closest trade partners are Kamphos and Tellion to its south. It's capital city is Thok, and its current monarch is Queen Abest Fern.

### Government

Margethy is a constitutional monarchy, consisting of a royal family and a parliament. The monarch is frequent guest of parliamentary proceedings, and often brings matters where consensus is preferred. The Ferns have been in power for around 150 years, as a result of the loss of prior queen and her heir during the prior conflict with Corpus.
Stalking Salianna

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Marietta's summary at the beginning of Episode 62.

The party begins following Atalia's mom, taking great care to be stealthy until Nix and ChaCha walk into a food vendor packing up. Nix falls into Nix behaviour and helps the guy pack up while ChaCha falls into ChaCha behaviour and starts eating the street meat on the ground. The vendor is unimpressed and its kind of confrontational, since Salianna is not hard of hearing she starts heading towards them.

Atalia has more stealth checks, Dili has everyone disguised. While ChaCha trys to distract Salianna with her street meat hands, Nix walks away with the street meat vendor. Dili pretends ChaCha is drunk and succeeds in helping her away. The street vendor is pretty startled when Nix's disguise drops and they part ways. Unfortunately Salianna sees Nix, scans her, learns about the 1200 shin bounty and sends Handlers after Nix.

Atalia continues following her mom while instructing Dili and ChaCha to help Nix. There's some fighting, then Atalia reveals herself, tries to pass the rest of the party off as hired help and is (maybe) ready to talk to Salianna.

## Player Intrusion

Sampson offers an XP to check out an anime called Promised Neverland. Its a thriller-ish suspense anime, one of those ones you only watch once since after that you know what's happening. Its a crazy game of cat and mouse with twists and turns, plans within plans. Imagine three Enders from Ender's Game - very smart children, versus one adult Ender, who has raised them their whole life. Content warning for dead children.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/61 (57m 34s)
Sampson Davis

## Bio

Sampson haunts the streets of Ames, IA, currently in pursuit of a PhD and coffee.

You can also identify Sampson by his frequent cursing at his ~~bullshit~~ *interesting role playing opportunity giving* dice rolls.

## Characters

* Dili in Night's Hope (campaign)
* Ilsene Vite in Hearts in Orbit (Campaign)
* Stella in Rude Awakening
* Whitmore in Of Paperwork and Panties
* Prince Roogy in Orientation Day
* Reagen in How To Steal a Body
* Papa-Slacks-Cuddle-Butts in Warren and Briar
* Alpha Wave in Digging Deep
* Taro in The Safety Job
* Reyolds in Welcome Home

## Social Media

Twitter

Mastodon

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/sampson
Daniel Andrlik

## Bio

Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He is a writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, a programmer, and an executive at a software company. He wears a lot of metaphorical hats, but few real ones.

He is the default GM for the group, as well as being the oldest and most brittle.

## Characters

* Tamara Caraith (SaF) in Rude Awakening and The Babysitter's Crew
* Professor Perilous in Orientation Day and Digging Deep
* Tallow Ren in How To Steal a Body
* Lowbout Sample in Suddenly Ham Bath

## Social Media

Mastodon

Website

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/daniel
Where To Go

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Stace's summary at the beginning of Episode 55.

The party minus ChaCha were chilling at Mamma J's just killing time. When ChaCha walked in with Nix's parents in tow. Atalia went to scan the Benevolent Society plate and was transported to the Marsh's place, then Nix's not-aunt...maybe-aunt had a lamprey face this time, it got weird. Atalia attacked put Nix's mom in a wristlock to prevent her from taking the plate. It was determined Nix's mom was doing really poorly, medically speaking, until she got the plate, and she held it to herself and just seemed very clearly to be doing better after that.

Nix's parents decided to go to Qi to hide from the queen and Mamma J said she would take care of that, the party chipped in on getting them a little cash as a send-off. Then Mamma J offered to have the guardians kidnap Doc Taraz so that the crew could interrogate her later, and sent the crew to a safe house.

 Dili meditated, tried to connect to the automaton again, and he did, successfully. And then he saw a vision of the automaton trashing Dili's old shop and then Deuces coming in for an update and telling the robot to get to work, and "Stop fucking around!".

## Player Intrusion

Sampson offers an XP to check out Angel's Egg. It is a very oblique story, very abstract in its storytelling, one of those things where it explains itself through visuals, but very oblique visuals. It is a story about a girl who is caring for an egg and then this guy comes along. And then something happens and then the movie ends. It's very weird, but the visuals are beautiful.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/53 (1 hr 7m 30s)
Scorps To Go

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Alex's summary at the beginning of Episode 13.

It started in the bathroom.

Atalia was being threatened because she stuck her nose where it didn't belong, and you've got to threaten somebody in the bathroom for that. To save the day, Nix and Dili busted in while ChaCha did a saucy puppet show. It was a good puppet show though so you win some you lost some. Dili pointed out to the crowded bar that hey, the person watching Atalia is a pee pervert. After being outed as a pee pervert, that mysterious person just wrecked another monster.

Anyway after getting more scorps, the party left the bar and went to Nix's church group (Benevolent Society of Travelers) who run a youth hostel. Nix told her buddy Pathfinder Jen to not visit Nix's mom any more. Some of Nix's friends including Hey You realized that Dili had a wanted poster and through magic means, they did not recognize Dili. It was decided they could not stay there, so the pasty went to stay in Nix's mom's basement. Atalia went to stay with her grandma and found a note from the Handlers that says "See me" with an address in a different ward for 8pm that night and in a completely different set of handwriting, "Sorry, A. I did what I could." Signed J.
Transit Guild (Corpus)

### Overview

The Transit Guild of Corpus maintains and directs the massive multi-tier trains that make up the nation's mass transit system. This system is what has enabled Corpus to effectively maintain the stability and control of its vast geography. This, in addition to their authority over the complex series of lifts between tiers within the Warrens of Lathe makes them a particularly powerful guild. In fact, some refer to them as the "Third House", suggesting their influence may be on par with the Senate itself.

The current elected leader of the Transit Guild is Priley Moller, who also represents the guild in the Senate.

### Transportation Systems

There are three systems of transportation that the guild oversees, all of them domestic.

#### Trains

There are two types of trains running in Corpus.

##### Screamers

In the body of Corpus, the express trains, or Screamers, are its arteries. These massive, multi-level trains travel at great speeds across the nation, and earned their name from the shrieking sound of the rails that occurs when one of them is speeding past. These machines carry cargo, messages, workers, and anything else needed within its borders. The guild maintains these trains, their stations, their timetables, and the railways they travel.

##### Droners

The local trains within the surface city of Lathe are much slower, and quieter, which is why locals refer to them as Droners. These trains are still two levels in height, and are rumored to be insulated from the Pulses, but this has never been confirmed. While these are slower than their express counterparts, they still move quite quickly, and their mass ensures they will smash through obstructions left in their way.

#### Lifts

The Transit Guild also oversees the lifts that transport people and cargo between the various tiers of Lathe. The majority of the time, these are unattended, as the controls to operate a lift are relatively self-explanatory. Maintenance teams from the Transit Guild are some of the few officials from the surface city that dare to travel down into the Warrens with any regularity. And this bravery is justified. No one in Lathe wishes the ire of the Transit Guild.

### Rumors

The official histories have it that the train system was created by the Transit Guild over centuries of research and development, and that this invention made the Corpus the powerhouse that it became. Some believe that the trains and their tracks were merely prior world discoveries adapted for the modern age, but no one would dare to say so in front of a guild member.
Lachlan

Lachlan is an explorer made of amber crystal that the party encountered in the Black Riage along the border of Thaemore. She journeyed with the party to Osmus before parting ways to further study, and travel the Obelisk Network.

Lachlan has a history with Vlad, having known him when he was embedded in the Order of Truth as a (unbeknownst to them) false Aeon priest, using the alias 'Ikaris'. During their time adventuring, they became friends, and he provided her with the information that would eventually lead her to Osmus and the collected lore around the obelisks that is housed there.

She originally traveled with Manta Ray as both mount and pet, but gave him to Dili when she realized that Manta Ray would be unable to accompany her through the Obelisk Network.
Kamphos

Kamphos is a resource-rich nation located along the southeastern border of Margethy. A relatively young and small territory, Kamphos was originally a military outpost and colony of Corpus before successfully leading a revolution for their independence a century ago. It is highly militaristic and the current monarch is King Simeon Resock.

It's capital city is Stalwart.
Doc Taraz (disambiguation)

Doc Taraz can refer to

* Doc Taraz (person) - a medical practitioner
* Doc Taraz (episode) - an episode in Season One

Disambiguation page for Doc Taraz (disambiguation)The following is a list of links to pages that might share the same title.Please follow one of the disambiguation links below or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
The Horrors

### Overview

The Horrors is ChaCha’s term for the variety of extradimensional entities that she can perceive (through her gift) as interacting with the physical world. They appear to vary both in form and the degree of their awareness/concern about the physical world.

It’s unclear at this point whether they operate as purely individual entities or if there are internal politics at play.

### Notable Horrors

* Buddy Cop
* "Not Buddy Cop"
* Bastian
City Guardians (Lathe)

### Overview

The City Guardians of Lathe serve as the primary local law enforcement entity of the city. Most other major cities of Corpus use them as a model for their own local entities. Most residents of the city simply refer to them as "cops". They are primarily recognizable by their cloaks of deep purple and their high quality full-face masks which are marked only with a badge number.

### Organization

The City Guardians are organized into three precincts based on the geographical regions of the surface city. While their authority does extend to the Warrens as well, its rare to see them patrolling any lower than the first tier due to safety concerns.

Each precinct individually reports to Tora Resk, the appointed governor of Lathe. As with any local enforcement body, in cases of imperial law, they will also take direction from a magistrate.
Palker

Located along the northwestern border of Corpus, **Palker** is a small but resource rich nation. It uses a representative democracy for governance, and is a bit of a mess. It has avoided being absorbed into Corpus due to the line of prior world defense towers, known as God's Fingers, which run along much of the two nations' shared borders.

Its capital city is Inkset, and as to its current ruler, that can change from week to week.
We Are All Mad Here

Cover of sourcebook

We Are All Mad Here is a supplement for the Cypher System that provides both a tool set for creating fairy tale inspired games, as well as it’s own fairy tale setting, The Heartwood. The Heartwood is a setting that explores concepts around mental illness through the metaphor of fairy tales.

The cast of Explorers Wanted often use the terms “The Heartwood” and “We Are All Mad Here” interchangeably, because no one likes a pedant.

#### One-Shots

* Of Paperwork and Panties

1. ↑ https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/we-are-all-mad-here/
Fathers and Sons

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Marietta's summary at the beginning of Episode 57.

It starts with  Dili connecting to the automaton, the party is in the safe house, it's in the morning. They see the automaton on a ship with Deuces. Then Deuces is like, "You're not responding appropriately." and rips its arm off. And then a voice says in Dili's head as he's inside the automaton. "You're not cut out for this father." And then the automaton punches Deuces with its other arm in the face and it crunches, in that Deuces is done kind of way. And then the automaton leaves the ship and the automaton says to Dili as it steers off into the distance, "The man has a point." Because Deuces while in that combat was like, "Why haven't you found Dili yet? Come on, you should be able to do that." So then the automaton was like, "I should find you." and is coming to find the party.

Dili comes out of the dream, he's spooked. Kind of tells the others a little bit about being inside the automaton. And then the automaton takes over Dili and stands up and looks around like, "I'll be right here, I'll hold your coffee." The party start to plan for the incoming combat, Aces attempts to sneak (Atalia is unimpressed, its not sneaky at all).

The highlights are, Atalia got hit with Aces' dart. Aces eventually got smashed. ChaCha gets the kill with the ray gun, she shot him through the eye. The automaton punched through the wall and grabs Nix because Nix took the hit for Dili, and then they Kapowpow fight more. Nix gets the final KO, the automaton, and Dili are then in a dark void because Dili passes out after the automaton gets KO-ed and they're in a dark void together. And the automaton says, "Well father, this is awkward" and then the episode ends"

## Player Intrusion

Marietta offers an XP to check out Star Trek Discovery. She highly recommends putting forth the effort to check it out, if you want something wholesome and good and space in your life, in a TV. It's not exactly the same as the other Star Trek TV series, if you go into it with more of an open mind, but they teach really important values, like love! And Star Trek's discover!

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/55 (1 hr 5m 25s)
Guardians of Night’s Hope

The Guardians are a secret society dedicated to the long-term preservation of humanoid kind. They believe that with proper preparation, it will be possible for various humanoids to survive what they predict will be an apocalyptic event that will bring about the fall of the Ninth World. They gather knowledge and gather items of numenera that could either of be help in survival and/or escape of said event, or any items that are so dangerous that they might hasten its arrival.

In order to maintain secrecy, Guardians rely on complex codes, sometimes incorporating obscure prior world languages, and often employ contractors for missions that do not require them to expose a guardian to possible discovery. Contractors are also often considered as recruits, and tasks may be used as trial runs to evaluate the potential recruit’s skills and character.

Very little has been revealed yet with regard to the internal structure of the organization but it does appear to be very hierarchical and compartmental in nature.

### Types of Guardians

* Guardian: the apparently generic title for a full member.
* Callers: Recruiters for the order
* Proctors: Managerial layer of the order

There may be more types of guardians, but they have not been mentioned or revealed by Daniel yet.

### Notable Guardians

* Mamma Jerrun
* Merrick
* Stannis
* Selah
* Clemuel
Nayo Sladek

Nayo is the mother of Nix, and a former diplomatic analyst in service to the crown of Charmonde.

She has been afflicted with a terrible illness that causes brief attacks of teleportation to random locations in spacetime, often at huge risk due to the various environments. During Season One, she was receiving treatment for this condition by Doc Taraz.
Heart: The City Beneath

Cover of sourcebook

In **Heart: The City Beneath**, players delve into the Heart, a strange subterranean region of unreality beneath the city of Spire. There they delve into stranger and stranger tiers below, compelled by their own obsessions.

The Heart is not just a place though. It's alive, and it knows what the characters want most deeply. And it will give it to them by any means, even if it kills them.
Dinner and a Show

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Sampson's summary at the beginning of Episode 61.

ChaCha split off do likely do some horror stuff and got a stone with transmutative properties. The rest of the party gets lots of delicious street meat. When ChaCha (undisguised) rejoins everyone, a stranger noticed and took note but ran before the party could learn more.

Afterwards they headed to Ward Kala to watch the Handlers building prior to the meeting time Atalia's mom set. Atalia scanned the buiding and saw there were a bunch of people upstairs but only two way down below. Atalia also accidentally scanned ChaCha and learnt that her nature is in flux - not quite the same as whatever is up with Nix but something. There's also a grey bracelet around her wrist that doesn't exist in this world.

Atalia's mom and two others then exit the Handlers' building and start heading towards Laramon.

## Player Intrusion

Alex offers an XP to check out ghost hunting.  (Although not yet canon, in the future there may a Patreon tier for Explorers Wanted go ghost hunting once other goals are met)

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/60 (40m 56s)
2. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/60 (43m 29s)
Knocking Around With The Knyxos

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Sampson's summary at the beginning of Episode 65.

Dili and ChaCha were dragged by Gma into the Knyxos building where Nix and Atalia were. After that it just started devolving into one big combat. Minos, Deuces and Asidra all got involved - Asidra died (great news for Dili), Minos and Deuces did not (not great news for Dili). Everyone in the party survived and learnt just how terrifying Gma is in action. Other highlights include: Dili whipping up an invisible knife, Nix football tackling Deuces off a ledge and later binding Deuces and Asidra together with a cypher tether rope thing.

After escaping, Gma saw Atalia to out of harm's way and they then slipped away to have a conversation involving an object and lines. Dili, Nix and ChaCha limped along trying to find somewhere to rest in the very early morning.

## Player Intrusion

Stace offers an XP to check out the video game [[1]]. Its about a lady named Jesse who enters the Federal Bureau of Control - a federal agency that takes care of supernatural phenomenons in New York. After passing through security an elevator drops you down into an office setting that has some weird stuff going on, You start to gain telekinetic-type abilities throughout, if you're into weird X-Files vibe with a bit of a horror twist its a great game to check out.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/64 (1hr 16m 56s)
Mamma Jerrun

Mamma Jerrun is the mysterious woman that initially contracted Atalia, ChaCha, Dili, and Nix. She is a Caller for the Guardians of Night’s Hope and hired the four of them as a recruitment exercise.

She resides and operates within Ward Anna of Charmonde. She works closely with Merrick.

Little is known of her history, and it is unclear if “Mamma Jerrun” could be an alias. She has at one point claimed to be hundreds of years old.
Pets (Night's Hope)

## Jeskii

Atalia acquires a Seskii who is determined to be her new best friend during her heist in Atalia (session zero).

## Hubert (the first)

Hubert the First initially appeared in episode 71: The Road's Bounty. He was found in the pocket of a lime green coat gifted to ChaCha by Mamma Jerrun. He is described as a small mouse with antlers, and still resides within ChaCha's pockets.

## Hubert (the second)

Hubert the second was liberated by Nix in episode 82 Getting Nix's Goat, described as a "a furry sphere with large, dark eyes", its fur is incredibly soft and makes "trilling sound[s], like a high pitched version of a purr". Hubert the second is hopefully not plotting the downfall of the entire party.

## Manta Ray

Originally accompanying Lachlan, Manta Ray is a flying creature scared of storms and heights, unaware that it is Manta Ray the fourth(?). Ownership has since been passed over to Dili. First appeared in episode 88 Reunions.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/82 (53m 18s)
2. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/82 (54m 38s)
Die RPG

Cover of sourcebook

In **Die**, players take on the roles of people that have been unwillingly sucked into a fantasy RPG world. Players embody both their Personas, the real-world characters that were pulled into this reality, and their Paragons, the in-world heroes that they become within.

The world itself is formed from their old campaign, and made up echoes of their former lives, and their old GM is the one that has brought them here. They must either escape by turning their game master to their cause, or choose to live in this new world forever. The world will be destroyed with them in it if a unanimous decision is not made soon.

It may seem like an impossible task, until you recall that the dead do not get a vote.
Lathe

### Overview

Lathe is the coastal capital city of the empire of Corpus. It is carved directly through the cliff face next to the shores and consists of the surface city at the summit, and the Warrens below.

The surface city is the home of the Imperial House and the Senate of Corpus. In addition, a number of factories, offices, and rich residents make their homes on the surface. Everyone else lives in the Warrens.

### Local Government

The current governor of Lathe is Tora Resk.

The primary law enforcement entity for Lathe is the City Guardians. The lowest three tiers of Lathe are primarily overseen by the Port Authority.

The notable appointed magistrates of Lathe include:
Alex Finn

## Bio

Alex hides herself in the frozen Midwest state of Wisconsin. A first generation American, she still doesn't understand how a lot of things work. One day, Alex might understand life. One day.

When Alex is not enjoying TTRPGs with friends she splits her time between dance (Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi), learning how to roller derby, whining at the gym because things are too heavy, trying to hug all the animals in the world, and wishing she was thicc like Geralt of Rivia.

## Characters

* ChaCha in Night's Hope (campaign)
* Magpie in Hearts in Orbit (Campaign)
* Mox in Rude Awakening and The Babysitter's Crew
* Princess "Ivy" Ivengard in Of Paperwork and Panties
* Steven in Tails of Autumn Monsters
* Danielle Steel in How To Steal a Body
* January Davis in Warren and Briar
* Even Steven in Orientation Day and Digging Deep
* White Lotus in The Safety Job
* Robin in Welcome Home

## Social Media

Twitch

Twitter

Instagram

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/alex
Meeting Minos

## Episode Overview

Paraphrased from Stace's summary at the beginning of Episode 64.

Nix got snagged by Deuces and followed him back to the hideout of the Knyxos and started talking with the head of the Knyxos, Minos. Asidra, the Nano was running the Reaper Project that Dili was initially part of was also there. Nix was trying to talk her way out of her bounty & their possession. Minos offered her a deal of having Deuces as a partner for an indefinite amount of time doing unspecified jobs until her ~~bounty~~ debt is paid off. The other option was to turn in Dili, who Nix denied even knowing.

Nix fed them some information on the artifact while Atalia did some sneaky stuff to end out just outside the door where Nix was being held. Gma, Dili and ChaCha were following not far behind. The episode ended with them reaching the door to the house and Gma giving Dili a pep talk to prepare them for storming the house and slaughtering everyone.

## Player Intrusion

Daniel offers an XP to check out Ted Lasso on Apple TV.. Ted Lasso is a football coach from Indiana who decides on a whim to take a job in England coaching soccer. Even with everything stacked against him, Ted Lasso is just so smart and so observant and so socially aware and so inherently charming he slowly gets the team playing better and thinking like a team. Its a lovely uplifting show that people should check out.

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/63 (55m 22s)
Stace Babcock

## Bio

Stace is the proud servant of two cats. Her driving goal is to become a Space Marine. While awaiting the formation of the Space Marine Corps, Stace plays a lot of video games and is the PvP healer you wish you knew. Otherwise, Stace enjoys books and television shows that are high on action and low on plot.

Stace prefers tabletop RPG characters that hit stuff good. True to type, she plays Nix, a Confident Glaive who Needs No Weapons.

Stace believes kitkats are intended to be eaten whole.

## Characters

* Nix in Night's Hope (campaign)
* Ezri Stonebreaker in Hearts in Orbit (Campaign)
* Ser Percy in Of Paperwork and Panties
* Storm in Tails of Autumn Monsters
* Cal in Warren and Briar
* Imogeen in Welcome Home

## Social Media

Twitter

1. ↑ https://www.explorerswanted.fm/hosts/stace