Call it a love-letter to a 20th century that never was; an intrepid, impossible future as envisioned by an imaginary past and presented in a style we call "Curated Actual Play". It's a continuous story universe which pays tribute to all of my favourite fiction from the last 200 years, in a genre best described as 'epic, retrofuturistic science fantasy.' Whatever you call it, it's a story like you won't hear anywhere else. •RAPSCALLIONS• is our flagship series; a crime-caper set in Bailymena, a wicked city as corrupt and byzantine as it is ancient and beautiful. From the putrescence of the Styles to the splendour of the Hightower District, follow this felonious fellowship as they navigate from salons and saloons to parlours of power in the depths of the Dreaming, and back again. Now in our third epic season! •TALLWATER TALES• is our second series. It follows a plucky bunch of outcast academics as they discover a destiny bigger than they'd ever dreamed possible lurking in the million islands of the West Rim Archipelago...
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episode 1: Rapscallions S1E01: A Fine Fellowship of Felons Redux
Along the slopes and shores of its eponymous firth, ancient Bailymena rises. A majestic city of towers and waterfalls, it is the Capital of the Isle of Skōdia, the southernmost holding of the Holy Cathrican Empire. Confined as it is by geography, the city has built upward as it has grown; this tradition of building the new atop the old has given Bailymena a skyline which bristles with towering high-rise architecture, and an impressive depth of civic infrastructure which continues far beneath its byzantine warren of cobblestone streets.
It's here that we meet the hooligan heroes of our first storyline. It's a crime caper that follows the first fumbling forays of a freshly-formed fellowship of felons in a fractured fairytale I like to call Rapscallions.
You may have heard this story before, but I guarantee you've never heard it like this! This is the 2020 Director's Cut, restored and re-mastered from re-discovered original footage with tighter story editing and a lush soundtrack that enhances the main tale while telling another all its own. This is the introduction to Bailymena you deserve! Hear it again, for the first time!
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