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RQ Network Feed Drop – Planet Arcana: Episode 1–Welcome to Riskotheque
13 Apr 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the premise of Planet Arcana?
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Hi everyone, it's Lowri here. Today we are bringing you the first episode from one of the brilliant podcasts that has launched on the RQ network, Planet Arcana. Planet Arcana is a science fantasy audio fiction presented by two game runners and built through a D&D 5e framework, set in a retro-futuristic world of humans and androids.
Chapter 2: Who are the main characters in the story?
An influencer, a drug dealer, and a cowboy walk into a casino, then into a vast mystery of science, magic, and tarot-inspired gods. The world of Planet Arcana is rife with mystery, intrigue, and crime, and no answer is ever straightforward. What really happened at the Riskotech casino?
Chapter 3: What mysteries surround the Riskotheque casino?
Who's been stealing android organs, and why? You can listen to more episodes of this series by searching for Planet Arcana wherever you listen to your podcasts by clicking the link in the show notes below or visiting rustyquill.com or www.planetarcana.com for more information. Enjoy the episode.
Good evening, and thank you for tuning into our broadcast as we enter the summer of Fool 182. I'm your host, Sholda Paz. I don't know about you, but this cycle's Year of the Fool is shaping up to be a great one all across the Fifth Collide. We only see a few Fool years in our lifetimes, folks, so make the most of it and have some fun.
As always, this cycle marks a year of festivals, competitions, and performances, honoring newness, folly, and marking the first year of our 182nd cycle since the big oops. With her coronation festivities in Crown City complete, the Regent Rae is set to begin her grand tour, starting from the Crownlands, to the Good on Wilds, the Coldbreaks, the Thoroughlush, and finally, the Phantom Isles.
Across these lands, citizens and factions alike are preparing to receive her with celebration.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Year of the Fool?
Speaking of celebration, looks like this year is going to be a popular one for makers, as years of the Fool always are. With Regent Ray's devotion to the Sun Arcana, it is said by many to be an especially auspicious year for makers to impart upon their offspring vitality and joy, and many creation points are seen as well in applications.
Excitingly, this means extra activity in the many towns and cities that run adjacent to the traditional walkabout trail. While each region prepares to host their events and receive the region an advisor, Troponio Vega is, as always, doing the year of the full best. Champions, artists, and celebrities are pouring into the city eager to gamble and
party and try to get a good view for the spinning of the wheel of fortune as with any year of the fool the fifth collide will scrutinize the spin closely as many believe it sets the tone for the entire 22 year cycle as for this broadcaster i'll be there live and up close reporting from the top of riscotec tower see it here first folks
See it here first, in Troponia Vega, the neon jungle city that balances crime, luck, hedonism, and law on the edge of a coin. Despite its lawless reputation, each faction maintains a presence here. Specters hold sermons on every street corner, while in every alleyway scrappers sell drugs and muscle to the royals who come to party and gamble.
The cugs come to showcase their technological wonders and to woo wealthy investors. The diplos come to provide an illusion of order. And the analogs. Well, they say every analog runaway ends up in Trobo-Neovega. The city feels as though it's stacked in layers, glowing vines and massive palm fronds sprouting from every crack, crevice, and skyscraper precipice.
Drops of condensation collect on the glass and on the glowing billboard screens, carving glistening paths as they drip down from the canopy level to the pavement far below, refracting the neon lights into a hazy miasma. The androids and humans of Troponio Vegas stay up all night, and so do the birds.
You're so high up that you can't see the ground from the window of your suite at Risco Tech Casino. But you can hear the birds.
You find yourself in a Risco Tech suite. The room you've been put up in is almost unbearably swank as all top floor Risco Tech suites are. Three rooms, each with a bed the size of a small swimming pool embedded into the floor.
In the bathroom, there is no tub or shower, but an AI-powered blob of warm water that disrobes and engulfingly washes you, finishing you off with a spritz of personalized perfume before returning your clothes, cleanly pressed. In the common area, a bar in the back rotates into a DJ station and dance floor at the push of a button.
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Chapter 5: How does the spinning of the Wheel of Fortune work?
I feel like Creator's pretty punctual.
Yeah, I don't feel like I'm very punctual.
Celestine wouldn't be going anywhere around here first, not without crater.
Well, crater, as you enter the room, what do we see?
So what you see is a seven foot six steam android. Very tall, very broad shouldered, a very big menacing looking creature. As you're looking at him more closely you'll see that he looks rather old where his bolts that are holding his limbs together are pretty rusted over at this point.
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Chapter 6: What unexpected events occur during the casino party?
His torso is essentially the size of a boiler. It's a large cylindrical shape with some blotchy black marks on it which makes it look like it's has been burned over years and years and years, and he looks rather hot to the touch. His head is most likely the size and general shape of a milk crate, and in there is two sunken LED lights for eyes that are giving off a faint blue color right now.
If I were to lick my finger and put it on a crater, would it make a like... It would do that, and then you'd have an annoying blister on your finger for like two months afterwards.
Golly. Spicy.
Spicy.
Okay, so you arrive and you check out the room. Maybe you're arriving after going out briefly. It is the night of the event. So maybe you were in here before, you took a quick walk around, or maybe you're arriving here for the first time. But in either case, you find yourself in this incredibly swank room.
Holy shit, this is swanky, bud.
Great. That's perfect. We got it. We got it. As you say that, who wants to go next?
If Celestine arrives a little after Crater, I definitely think that, like, he arrives with the assistance of some hotel staff because he's definitely gotten lost. This is way too big for him. He's never seen anything like this before. And so someone had to show him to his room. Thank you very much. I really do appreciate you taking the time to help me here today.
And, you know, I feel mighty embarrassed, if I'm honest.
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Chapter 7: What are the stakes involved in the blackjack game?
You know, I've been here before and then, well, I wandered away and Plum got lost. But here you go. Here's for your time. And then I just like try to give him way too much money as a tip.
Exactly how much?
I'm sorry. All I've got on me here is about 15 gold. But if you'd like it, you can have it. This is a big city and there's not a lot of friendly faces and you've done me a nice service here. So here you are.
Most generous of you, sir.
Have yourself a good night. Celestine walks into the room and I think he's sort of like just looks around at all of the swank and is just a little bit uncomfortable. Goes and finds what is probably the least comfortable chair in the room. Just finds like something that's supposed to probably be like a step stool or something like that.
Not really any cushioning and sets himself up near the window and sits on it. It's still comfy. This is not what I'm used to. Crater, I do thank you for bringing me along here. So Celestine, as he sits down, you see he is as different looking from Crater as he could be.
They're both androids, but where Crater is huge, seven foot six, big and sort of rough and tumble, as a Gears android and a young Gears android, Celestine is... Slender. If he was a human with muscle, you'd call him lean. And he's only about 5'6". Makes him tall for a Gears android, but significantly shorter than Crater and most other people. His joints move smoothly.
He's a new android, but he's still got the kind of stiff walk of a cowboy, the kind of cowboy strut. and he dresses the part of a cowboy. From the boots up, he's complete cowboy. Brown leather, dusty worn boots with little gears where there should be spurs. Got brown leather chaps over top of faded blue jeans. belt, brown leather belt, with a shiny metal disc as a belt buckle.
He's got a vest of worn brown leather, and underneath that vest is a very nicely pressed, very loud floral blouse that belonged to his mall.
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Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude with the characters' plans?
Around his neck, he's got a deep purple bandana with white stars embroidered on it and he wears a white cowboy hat that's just a bit too big for his head he wears a pair of gun holsters on his hips one of them's completely empty and the other one is full of stalks of wheat for chewing of course for chewing
And strapped to his back, he typically would carry around a rusted old machete from the farm and a surprisingly like fancy looking shiny chrome hubcap. He sort of straps to his back, but I'm not sure what our situation is in terms of like carrying weapons into the casino.
Yeah, y'all have been given temporary platinum patron status, so you can have your weapons on you.
All right. Well, that's Celestine. I think he sits down and tries to get himself as comfortable as he can in this too soft kind of room and just goes to Crater like, Crater, I... As I said, I do appreciate you inviting me along. I don't know really anyone else in town, and I'm not sure what I'd be doing tonight if I wasn't here with you, but I wish I knew why we were doing this.
And I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not ungrateful for all you've done for me. I probably wouldn't be alive without you. I owe you everything. Nobody's been kind to me like you have since I left my own pa's farm, but this business that we're doing, I mean...
Look, I'm young and there are things that I don't know, as you well know, you know, some things that I'm not aware of because of the trouble with my thinker.
But your your thinker is just fine, man.
That is very kind of you to say. And that means a great deal to me. I will have, you know. But one of the things that I do know is that in most cases, theft is frowned upon. So why are we doing this?
You know, it's definitely not the most legal of jobs to be doing, but I do think that at the end of the day, this is probably going to help both you and I out more than you can really think. I think at the end of the day, it's going to be a net positive. And I don't know, man, like it's just some rich people like we're not really on their side, are we?
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