Backwater Bastards: An Actual Play Podcast

Backwater Bastards: An Actual Play Podcast

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A team of artists telling THE GREATEST BEST FRIEND STORY that the galaxy has ever seen! While everybody else is out saving the world, we’re just trying to find the next best place to eat. Join us on our haphazard adventure.

  1. OCT 18

    Director of the Light

    TW: Gore, Cannibalism, Blood. RWD presents - a Rendezvous with Bastards! Our friends find themselves trapped in the middle of a meltdown. Will they be able to escape this emergency, or will the mystery behind the walls prove just too tempting to ignore? Millicent practices first aid, Lucky smells the ground, Harrison shows off his criminal enterprise and Hank hits back. Backwater Bastards is a sci-fi comedy improv actual play podcast played by three international artists with an emphasis on slice-of-life style situational humour. This show features immersive sound design, its very own game system, Orbital Refuse- and a team of alien antiheroes that will choose each other over the universe every time. Tay and Dan are two of those aliens, and can be found anywhere that you find Backwater Bastards, or on twitter at @TAYvanbiljon and @deadtoothbrush. A Rendezvous With Destiny: A Bite Marks actual play podcast. New episodes every other Thursday! Find us on Twitter and Instagram @RWD_Pod, and join our Discord Server here: https://linktr.ee/RWD_POD A Rendezvous With Destiny: Outcast's theme music is written and performed by Chloe Elliott. Find it, and other original tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/user-914339386 The Shiver name, mechanics and lore are solely the property of Parable Games. We have no affiliation with Parable Games and in no way represent them or their views. Music: RWD: Outcast Theme :: Chloe Elliott Censor Beep Sound Effect :: Free Use - YouTube Phantom From Space:: Kevin Macleod Medusa :: Kevin Macleod Eating: Comedy - Masticating apple - 1967 (7C, reprocessed) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Bells, Door Chimes And Buzzers - Electric door chimes rung at intervals. (Ding-dong note) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Footsteps Across Sand - footsteps as man walks across sand on beach :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Hand Saw - close-up sound of hand saw being used to cut down side branch. Crack as branch breaks and falls. :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Footsteps: Mud - Footsteps, one person running in mud. : BBC Sound Effects Archive Lifts - Lift doors close, lift runs. : BBC Sound Effects Archive Martian Cowboy :: Keving Macleod Electronically Generated Sounds - Emergency alarm (with slight phasing). (Futuristic Spot Effect.) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Wilhelm Scream - Free MP3 Download :: Sound Vault - YouTube Timecode: 00:00:00 - 00:00:26 - Intro 00:00:27- 00:05:33 – Government Mandated Banter 00:03:10- 01:10:39 – The Adventure 01:10:40 - 01:15:08 – Outro  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 15m
  2. OCT 10

    Closer to Heck

    Episode 1: Closer to Heck Our good friends Chloe, Will, and Am are - A Rendezvous with Destiny - an actual-play podcast that immerses listeners in tabletop role-playing games where players explore mythological themes and narratives. They took us on this incredible adventure and it was so much fun! Thank you again to Chloe, Will, and Am and please go and check out their show where ever ya get your podcasts. RWD (A Rendezvous with Destiny ) presents - a Rendezvous with Bastards! Joined by the Ennie-nominated cast of Backwater Bastards, we descend into a spine-tingling game of Shiver. Our band of 20-somethings are invited to their mate Steve's debut at a local Haunted House. But is all as it seems? Harrison refuses to play taxi, Lucky rushes in, Millicent is millitant and Hank is left in the dark. A Rendezvous With Destiny: A Bite Marks actual play podcast. New episodes every other Thursday! Find us on Twitter and Instagram @RWD_Pod, and join our Discord Server here: https://linktr.ee/RWD_POD A Rendezvous With Destiny: Outcast's theme music is written and performed by Chloe Elliott. Find it, and other original tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/user-914339386 The Shiver name, mechanics and lore are solely the property of Parable Games. We have no affiliation with Parable Games and in no way represent them or their views. Music: RWD: Outcast Theme :: Chloe Elliott Martian Cowboy :: Kevin Macleod Phantasm :: Kevin Macleod Phantom From Space:: Kevin Macleod Censor Beep Sound Effect :: Free Use - YouTube Electronically Generated Sounds - Emergency alarm (with slight phasing). (Futuristic Spot Effect.) :: BBC Sound Effects Archive Wilhelm Scream - Free MP3 Download :: Sound Vault - YouTube Timecode: 00:00:00 - 00:01:00 - Intro 00:01:01- 00:06:17 – Government Mandated Banter 00:03:10- 00:58:43 – The Adventure 00:58:44 - 01:03:09 – Outro  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 7m

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