Friends at the Table

Sangfielle 12: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 4

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for insect infestation, brief descriptions of bones, decorative bone carving, and disembodiment. Safe in the com...

Sangfielle 11: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 3

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for insect infestation, brief descriptions of eye trauma, general body horror, and blood.  Roseroot Hall revolt...

Sangfielle 10: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 2

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for description of haunting, disorientation, dissociation, insect infestation of a human body, and discussion of...

Sangfielle 09: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 1

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for discussion of bombings, insect infestation of a human body, gun use, viscera, and threatening with a knife. ...

Sangfielle 08: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 4

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for implied execution, description of bound people, knives, fingernails, poison/chemical weapons, hallucination ...

Sangfielle 07: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 3

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for gun use, implied execution, knives, and amputation. As the Blackwick Group approaches the Priory of the Moth...

Sangfielle 06: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 2

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for a corpse, an animal feeding on flesh, claustrophobia, broken bones, death from immobility and implied starva...

Sangfielle 05: The Hymn of the Mother-Beast Pt. 1

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for discussion of cigarettes, rotting flesh, animal corpse, aggressive animal, knives, gun use. One year after t...

Sangfielle 04: The Blackwick Group

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for discussion of knives, possession, insect infestation of a living person, death, animal slaughter, being buri...

Sangfielle 03: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pt. 3

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for human death, teeth, knives, possession, human branding One day of strange occurrences is, in some ways, a bl...

Sangfielle 02: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pt. 2

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for human death, discussion of cannibalism, the death of animals, knives, and knifework. The suns rise on Easter...

Sangfielle 01: The Curse of Eastern Folly Pt. 1

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode carries content warnings for discussion of death and an allusion to drowning.  Welcome to Sangfielle. This episode marks not only the be...

Season 7 Trailer & Announcement

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

People will tell you that the heartland got sick about 200 years ago. When the dust came, reality left, and the panic set in. But trust me, it was ail...

PARTIZAN 48: Post Mortem

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone! Join Austin Walker, Ali Acampora, Keith J. Carberry, Sylvia Clare, Jack de Quidt, Janine Hawkins, Art Martinez-Tebbel, and Andrew Lee Sw...

PARTIZAN 47: Operation Shackled Sun: Act 3: The Stories Told About the Things We Do

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Why do we travel the Prophet's Path? This is a question raised yearly at this time, as we prepare for our Pilgrimage. Today, a year before the Millen...

PARTIZAN 46: Operation Shackled Sun: Act 2: The Gate

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With Kalar and the Figure in Bismuth rescued from the Pact and their apparently game-changing intelligence delivered—albeit cut in two and sent to d...

PARTIZAN 45: Operation Shackled Sun: Act 1: The Fray

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is the year 1424 of the Perfect Millennium. It is now.  In the chaos-depths of Girandole, the Pact of Necessary Venture is shackling a god to an e...

See you next year!!

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hello everybody! Instead of an episode, we have an announcement: there's no episode this week or next week! The next Friends at the Table episode will...

PARTIZAN 44: The Prison at the Top of the World

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For generations, the Chasmata family has had an outsized place in the politics of Stel Kesh. Certainly, they were as loyal and stately as any other gr...

PARTIZAN 43: The Tunnels Beneath

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Miles to the south of the Chasmata Quarry, AO Rooke loads an artillery shell into cannon. It's the third to be fired, in a set of 50. He is providing ...

PARTIZAN 42: The Unbreakable Quarry

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Buried deep in the records of the Divine Past is a peculiar absence. What is buried beneath the northern pole of Partizan? "The Chasmata Quarry," says...

PARTIZAN 41: Orbital Decay

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On a map, it would seem as if the Blue Channel and its inhabitants, revolutionaries of the Millennium Break movement, were nearing freedom from the Pa...

PARTIZAN 40: Engine Burn

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Blue Channel and its inhabitants have left Partizan behind. And as it grows dim in the distance, they have time to both reflect on the hard path h...

PARTIZAN 39: Escape Velocity

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In a hanger on a beach on the Isles of Logos, Kal'Mera Broun, Jesset City, Ver'Million Blue, Thisbe, Eiden Teak, Avar, Ryrira, and Si'Dra Balos stand ...

PARTIZAN 38: The Red Light

24 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the shape in the sea draws ever near, much of SBBR--with the help of their rivals in the Company of the Spade--begin to evacuate hundreds of thousa...

PARTIZAN 37: The Gravity of Absence

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Having returned from his audience on the Reflecting Pool, Sovereign Immunity briefs his SBBR and their allies on the impending arrival of what the Wit...

PARTIZAN 36: The Witch in the Glass Pt. 2

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Content Warnings: Discussion of a broken bone, killing of dog-like creatures, killing of humans via firearm, near-asphyxiation The Witch in the Glass...

PARTIZAN 35: The Witch in the Glass Pt. 1

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Content Warnings: Violence against cats, birds, and dog-like creatures. Religious sacrifice of cats. Brief discussions of a broken bone and its treatm...

PARTIZAN 34: Guests, Invited and Otherwise

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After months away, SBBR has finally returned to Oxbridge, only to find it burning. Every day, the city is rocked by its own political revolution, as m...

PARTIZAN 33: A Single Shot

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Inside of the High Altar, dignitaries sit under the flickering light of a projector, while above them, the very subjects of the film they watch fend o...

PARTIZAN 32: GLORY Arrives

12 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For Kalar Anakalar and Phrygian, SBBR's newest recruits, it seemed like another boilerplate mission. A too-warm, too-quiet night in seaside town, maki...

PARTIZAN 31: The Grand Premiere

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It has been just over fifty days since Millennium Break took Cruciat, and each day has been more busy than the last. The hammer of the Principality fe...

PARTIZAN 30: A Cemetery for Heroes

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Content Warnings for this Episode Throughout: Violence During a Public Event 00:00 - 20:30: Disrespect of the Dead, Implied Disrespect of a Dead Body ...

PARTIZAN 29: Buried Beneath Golden Leaves

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A month ago, Millennium Break seized control of Cruciat, ushering in a new age on the holy moon of Partizan. But like a counterpunch already chambered...

Bonus Episode: Sports Are Just Numerology

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone, welcome to a very special bonus episode of Friends at the Table. As we said on Twitter, we're currently taking a few weeks off after the...

PARTIZAN 28: Millennium Break: The Storm Over Cruciat

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For those who live under tyranny, the exhaustion and fear is such that it can be hard to even imagine or recognize what escape or progress or revoluti...

PARTIZAN 27: Millennium Break: She said, "To Win We Must Play!"

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

However the Summer Passage of Arms--a yearly competition of strength, skill, acumen, and style--began, it has followed in the fate of many similar com...

PARTIZAN 26: Millennium Break: Breaking Vigil

10 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With its internal threats sorted, at least for now, Millennium Break's de facto leaders shift the bulk of their attention outward. As rebellion is spa...

PARTIZAN 25: Millennium Break: Courage in the Shadow of Opportunity

03 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A week away from the moon of Partizan, a vessel rare in its luxury and power orbited the Portcullis which connects this provincial system to the rest ...

PARTIZAN 24: Millennium Break: The First and Second Arrests of Clementine Kesh

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One might think that, with elections behind them, Millennium Break would turn its full attention outwards, towards the world it was trying to change. ...

PARTIZAN 23: Millennium Break: Who Will Lead Millennium Break?

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Word traveled fast: The Oxblood Clan had demanded elections, and whether they'd get them had become the talk of all Icebreaker. For the hundreds on bo...

PARTIZAN 22: Millenium Break: Forward, to Piracy (Sharp Tensions Across Tremulous Seas)

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

First off, a quick note of thanks to everyone who has already contributed to our fundraising efforts for Reclaim the Block, The Bail Project, BYP100, ...

PARTIZAN 21: Millennium Break: We Will Take Hold of the Loom of History!

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone, Austin here. Today's episode kicks off an eight episode run tracing the revolutionary movement on Partizan that formed at the end of the...

PARTIZAN 20: On the Eve of Revolution

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The town of Rezevi is quiet, most days. Five years ago, when the war with Kesh first kicked off, the sleepy fishing town's residents wondered if their...

PARTIZAN 19: On the Edge of Fracture

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a stunning victory in Orzen, the Society of Banners and Bright Returns must now face the cold light of day. Bodies wounded, hollows damaged, and...

PARTIZAN 18: BITTER AIR - COMBUSTION

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the valley where Juniper lies along a slight river, the Divine Motion has brought her enduring velocity to bear. In front of her, the vanguard of h...

PARTIZAN 17: BITTER AIR - THREECARD

25 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At the northwest reaches of the extended defensive perimeter known as Fort Icebreaker, Kesh brigades engage in a feint so convincing that the graves h...

PARTIZAN 16: BITTER AIR - BEHEST

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the weeks since Kesh's new offensive into Apostolos territory, little has changed besides the quantity of weekly war casualties. Halting Kesh's pus...

PARTIZAN 15: Divine Attention

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Content Warning: This episode features discussion of chemical warfare and suffocation. Deep in the Pique Ridge, at the back of a steephead valley, on ...

PARTIZAN 14: Deception in the Canyon City

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eager to refill their coffers, Kal'Mera Broun has brought SBBR to meet Kesh noble (and HORIZON commander) Gucci Garantine, who offers the group a dari...

PARTIZAN 13: A Captive Audience

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Content Warning: This episode features injury, surgery, and infection.  With Gur Sevraq retrieved (and secreted away inside of the Winter Palace), th...

PARTIZAN 12: A Call From an Island

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the "kidnapping" of Gur Sevraq spread far and wide, each Stel on Partizan spins up for war—even though some have not yet decided who they will ...

PARTIZAN 11: DESERT SQUIRE - SLEIGHT

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From the midst of a sandstorm, hands burst through the tempest in search of a miracle worker. From the front, the reformed pirate Callister Drive Call...

PARTIZAN 10: DESERT SQUIRE - RIPOSTE

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With their defense operation underway, the Rapid Evening have moved into position and identified a potential threat in the form of an unnaturally-movi...

PARTIZAN 09: DESERT SQUIRE - VANTAGE

22 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In a matter of weeks, thousands of Kesh hollows will slide down the icy hills of the Verglaz Taiga, weapons raised and spirits on fire, as they charge...

PARTIZAN 08: Under the Boughs of the Court

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After their initial gambit found success, the members of SBBR have put Columnar's too-curious 301st Appraisal Unit off balance. Now, they seek to fini...

PARTIZAN 07: Ambush in the Sand

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Before Cymbidium died, he asked the labor machine Thisbe, whose deerlike design drew from the form of his own people's, for a favor: Deliver a final m...

PARTIZAN 06: A Palace During a Wake

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a successful mission retrieving key remnants of the Divine Past and the body of the Elect Cymbidium, the Rapid Evening has returned to Cruciat, ...

PARTIZAN 05: Profit and Loss

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The events in Obelle were disastrous for many, yet for the Society of Banners and Bright Returns, the nighttime raid on the seaside town went down in ...

PARTIZAN 04: SHORESIDE RECOVERY - BLACKGLOVES

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Northwest of the seaside town of Obelle, there is a crater. Inside of that crater are the remains of the Divine Past, and those who wish to claim them...

PARTIZAN 03: SHORESIDE RECOVERY - DINNERDATE

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The destruction of a Divine, the killing of an Elect, and war on a new front: Any one of these could shift the balance of power on a moon like Partiza...

PARTIZAN 02: Obelle, On Fire

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To the west of the small town of Obelle, the Oxblood Clan attempts to secure the landing zone for an inbound VIP. The plan is simple: Recover them and...

PARTIZAN 01: The Seaside Town of Obelle

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It started with as basic a job as they come: The Society of Banners and Bright Returns (SBBR), a rookie outfit based in Oxbridge, was tapped for a con...

PARTIZAN 00: The Divine Principality

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It is the year 1423 of the Perfect Millennium, and the galaxy has been conquered by the Divine Principality. At the center of this empire, the only pl...

The Road to PARTIZAN 11: Summary & Recap

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the final episode of the Road to PARTIZAN. This week, Dre, Jack, and Austin talk through and discuss through the entirely timeline of even...

The Road to PARTIZAN 10: Microscope Pt. 2

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the final part of the final game (but not the final episode) of the Road to PARTIZAN. Building on the foundation of everything that has c...

The Road to PARTIZAN 09: Microscope Pt. 1

30 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Finally, the Road to PARTIZAN enters its final lap. Over the next two weeks, we'll be zooming the camera out to look at the 5,000+ years that have tak...

The Road to PARTIZAN 08: For the Queen

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Road to PARTIZAN continues, and it does so with Alex Roberts' and Evil Hat Productions' For the Queen, a card based storytelling game about the re...

The Road to PARTIZAN 07: Beam Saber Pt. 2

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The world of Grona is said to hold the key to ending the war between the ever-expanding Divine Principality and its rivals, the recently allied Orion ...

The Road to PARTIZAN 06: Beam Saber Pt. 1

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On today's entry of the Road to PARTIZAN, we pick up with the characters we made in Dusk to Midnight and zoom in to the climax of the Divine Clash by ...

The Road to PARTIZAN 05: Ech0 & Dusk to Midnight

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to the Road to PARTIZAN. Today, we're moving into a new trio of episodes that explore an era of history that would come to be called The ...

The Road to PARTIZAN 04: Armour Astir Pt. 2

26 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The crew of the Constellation-class Carrier Hellebore has breached the earliest defenses of the station which orbits the center of the Milky Way Galax...

The Road to PARTIZAN 03: Armour Astir Pt. 1

19 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in our second game on the Road to PARTIZAN, where we are playing Armour Astir: Advent by Briar Sovereign, a fantastic PbtA mech game that is e...

The Road to PARTIZAN 02: Dialect Pt. 2

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For millennia, three rules guided the Hypha as they traveled across the galaxy. First: Follow the light of the strand through the stars, stopping onl...

The Road to PARTIZAN 01: Dialect Pt. 1

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Road to PARTIZAN, an interlude connecting Twilight Mirage to PARTIZAN, our next full season (where we'll be playing Beam Saber by Aust...

Announcing: PARTIZAN (And Some New Merch!)

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone! Austin here. If you've already listened to the entire Spring in Hieron Post-Mortem or follow us closely via social media or our Patreon ...

Spring in Hieron Post Mortem (Read the post!)

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us to say goodbye to Hieron.... From beginning...     ...to end!!   It's been quite a journey and we had a great time cappin...

Spring in Hieron 44: The Second Spring Pt. 6

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

...took a new name: the Frost Shepherd. It was in trying to understand this act, its causes, and its consequences, that I first thought this second vo...

Spring in Hieron 43: The Second Spring Pt. 5

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

...understandably caused us to doubt not only our relationship with them (albeit too late), but also with ourselves and our faculties.  The world was...

Spring in Hieron 42: The Second Spring Pt. 4

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

…unexpected means of conveyance, but at that time, what ought have been reasonably expected at all? Perhaps such flippancy isn't well placed. Now, w...

Spring in Hieron 41: The Second Spring Pt. 3

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

..alone would drive many settlements to resign themselves to his vassalage, as the Duke's medicinal stores separated him from many of the other warlor...

Spring in Hieron 40: The Second Spring Pt. 2

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

...good a start as could be imagined, given the circumstances. But there was a confounding question still, which seemed to rent space in everyone's m...

Spring in Hieron 39: The Second Spring Pt. 1

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

…was standing there in the midst of utter chaos, I found strength in words uttered by the immortal warrior Red Jack (who you will become well acquai...

Friends at the Table @ Gen Con this week!!

31 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hiya everyone!! Instead of an episode this week, we have a few announcements, which you can either enjoy in audio form or text form or BOTH! -We're at...

Spring in Hieron 38: See Where You're Standing

27 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Across the long lawns below the central tower of the Last University, the grass defies itself. In the mind, a field is a million individual blades ble...

Spring in Hieron 37: Ingenuity and Love

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Of all the resources unique to the City of First Light, the Ordennan Impetus was most taken by the ancient city's network of trains. The once-island n...

Spring in Hieron 36: Terrible and Necessary

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As the shell-sky ruptures under impossible heat and pressure, the citizens of the Last University face grim prospects. Beings of empty light tread ove...

Spring in Hieron 35: Unfinished Work

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The bounty was plastered from the boulevards of Malle's Fist to the canals of Kanton, on the broken archways of the old imperial road and the mural bo...

Spring in Hieron 34: The Variation of Natural Life

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

  Victorious after their journey to the Mark of the Erasure, the leading members of the Last University find time to celebrate. But they know too wel...

Spring in Hieron 33: Particular Malice

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Weeks ago, the Advocate took flight its cradle hidden in the hills and trees. Its path north took it across places already devoured by the Heat and th...

Spring in Hieron 32: Insurmountable Odds

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It is an old road that travels between the Last University, through the settlement of Baron's Gate, and into what is now called the Mark of the Erasur...

Spring in Hieron 31: A Handful of People

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The morning after the second sun broke open, the campus of the the Last University is quiet. But this is not hard-won exhalation. It is a gasp for bre...

Spring in Hieron 30: A Safer Second

24 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Above the waves of the Alcyonic Sea, the second sun has not yet hatched. But below its blood red light, a plan has begun to. But what sort of plan is ...

Spring in Hieron 29: Deeper Than Flesh

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Under crimson light, a plan moves into effect, a counter motion with speed so great that it matches the age of the plot it seeks to derail: the consum...

Merch Available on Fangamer & Gen Con Tickets On Sale Sunday!!!

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Hello everyone!!! In lieu of an episode this week, we have some announcements instead! The next episode of Spring in Hieron should release tomorrow, l...

Spring in Hieron 28: Significant Concern

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the city of Coraline, on the isles of Alcyon, the morning sun is welcomed with the ringing of bells. But not today. Instead--for some reason--there...

Spring in Hieron 27: A Place and A Time

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the dangers that surround the Last University are new. Bright stones at the bottom of a stream burn bare feet. Sometimes, when the wind blows...

Spring in Hieron 26: An Attractive Offer

26 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Before the travelers from the Last University settle into their guest lodging on the peninsula of Alcyon, they must finish some small bits of business...

Spring in Hieron 25: The Second Sun

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Above the Last University, two suns hang, unbalanced. Under their shearing light, the heroes of this makeshift city move into action, even though they...

Spring in Hieron 24: Closer to Kin

12 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Far to the north east of their home at the Last University, a party of nine has arrived on the shores of Alcyon. Here, they hope to find much: Lord Ep...