Could've Been Heroes
Fantasy & Science Fiction Podc
Could’ve Been Heroes is an actual play podcast where six old friends adventure as six total strangers who, after missing their shots at destiny, now get a second chance to make a mess of everything.Set in the land of Faritall, a world cast in the spirit of Wonderland and Oz, but with more murder, blood and swears. This strange, wondrous place of living fairytales and walking nightmares is recovering from a very near apocalypse after a flood of darkness fell upon it from The World Above. Told in a new and developing game system of our own design focused on exciting characters based on classic fairytale tropes, twisted, subverted and modernized. Would you suffer the Sacred Curses for spectacular power and near immortality? Yeah, so would we.
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Location:
United States
Description:
Could’ve Been Heroes is an actual play podcast where six old friends adventure as six total strangers who, after missing their shots at destiny, now get a second chance to make a mess of everything.Set in the land of Faritall, a world cast in the spirit of Wonderland and Oz, but with more murder, blood and swears. This strange, wondrous place of living fairytales and walking nightmares is recovering from a very near apocalypse after a flood of darkness fell upon it from The World Above. Told in a new and developing game system of our own design focused on exciting characters based on classic fairytale tropes, twisted, subverted and modernized. Would you suffer the Sacred Curses for spectacular power and near immortality? Yeah, so would we. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/could-ve-been-heroes--6153884/support.
Twitter:
@CBHPod
Language:
English
Email:
CBHPod@gmail.com
Episodes
WGA Strike and Working Class Solidarity
5/9/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA2AMxRz0iA&t=280s
As Jane Mcleavy says in this interview, we are not the 99% v the 1%, because the working class is divided. Our challenge is to turn fractured groups of working class americans into a united front against the structures of power
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jane-McAlevey/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJane+McAlevey
https://www.themarysue.com/wga-strike-2023-how-to-support-the-writers-strike-online-and-in-person/#:~:text=If%20you%20want%20to%20support,in%20New%20York%20or%20LA.
https://www.dsausa.org/
https://aflcio.org/formaunion
https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union
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Duration:00:03:13
Ghost Wax Trailer
12/1/2022
Hello! If you haven't heard we are currently making a new anthology horror podcast and we've finally produced a trailer for it! Check out Ghost Wax anywhere podcasts are found!
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Duration:00:01:14
Far and Tall Tales Launch and Patreon Update
11/2/2022
A brief message outlining our new production company launch and some current and upcoming changes to our Patreon page.
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Duration:00:01:30
Ep69 - Heroes
8/5/2022
The Nearlies set out charged with a question "Could you be Heroes?" Today they answer. Thank you for hearing our story...the end
Creative Commons Music Credits:
Scott Buckley:Resolutions - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/resolutions/Felicity - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/felicity/
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Duration:01:55:41
Ep68 - The Offer
7/26/2022
Would you take a second chance at your second chance? One more episode.
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Duration:01:17:49
Ep67 - Mothers and Daughters
7/19/2022
Love to Love, Life to Life. Mother’s and Daughters. No more complicated relationship exists and none of us exist without it. Futures are written and erased. Three more episodes.
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Duration:01:08:11
Ep66 - Poison Love
7/12/2022
Among the most potent poisons of all, is real love gone sour. The battle for the tower rages and whatever the outcome, many stories are coming to an end.
Creative Commons Music Credits:
Scott Buckley - She Moved Mountainshttps://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/she-moved-mountains/
Scott Buckley - Felicityhttps://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/felicity/
Scott Buckley - The Encounterhttps://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/the-encounter/
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Duration:01:21:44
Ep65 - Tangle. Slither. Scorn.
7/5/2022
The Heart of Scorn, a massive mystical emerald and the lynchpin of The Briar Tower’s impregnable magical defenses lies just ahead. New allies and bitter foes. Trigger Warning: Ophidiophobia.
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Duration:01:51:02
Ep64 - Momma's Boys
6/14/2022
Clementine the shapeshifter, obsessed with Martin enough to follow him all the way into the darkest heart of the Grimmwood, has warned them of Mr. Sticks inevitable betrayal. Noddigaster, desperately wanting finally get a win over his brother puts his magic at the groups disposal. So with Noddigaster’s tremendous powers to craft illusion and trickery, what masterful and tactful deception will the party deploy to get past the ambush of wicked fey and loyal ogres?
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Duration:01:30:43
Ep63 - Reunion
6/7/2022
The Nearlies have done everything they can to ensure victory in the Briar Tower, but time has run out and a desperate Lavaleen has agreed to the bargain with Mr. Sticks. They are now reunited within the Briar Tower and the climb to stop the mad ritual begins. Looks like a long way up.
Creative Commons Music Credits:Scott Buckley - She Moved Mountainshttps://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/she-moved-mountains/
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Duration:01:24:08
Ep62 - Apocalypse Sound
5/31/2022
At the end of a path blazed by dragon fire the Nearlies have turned the Crownlanders ire toward the Briar Tower, but their meeting has drawn unwanted attention. Now, amid a battle upon a field of ashes the end begins...
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Duration:01:12:13
Ep61 - Burn Your Darlings
5/25/2022
The Nearlies and their allies approach the Sacred Grove, a designated meeting ground to treat with The Crownlanders. The mission is simple, draw the eye of the human armies, King Demm in particular away form the Queen of Spite and Castle Ire, to The Briar Tower where their foul plot will come to its conclusion. Baiting a mad king into attacking one of the most notoriously impregnable locations in Faritall won’t be easy, or safe, but would prove an invaluable distraction and depletion of the towers defenses. Unrelated quick question… does it feel hot to anyone else?
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Duration:01:46:45
Ep60 - Blood Thicker Than Water
5/17/2022
The princess Bitterbell is in their grasp, literally. Kel Under the Waters is across the field of battle, all that stands between the Nearlies and leverage against the Queen of Spite. Blood is thicker than water. Love is thicker than blood. Battle and betrayal in the swamp of sorrows.
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Duration:01:10:13
Ep59 - Stories from the Sorrows
5/11/2022
The Nearlies trudge through the legendary swamp of sorrows, trying to find Kel, her quarry and the Princess they seek to capture. They do their best not to catch the nightmarish, uniform depression that seeps into the world around them. In the bookends, we hear a tale of sorrow from one of Faritall’s mirrored worlds, Iscra in the Light.
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Duration:01:36:54
Ep58 - Swampy Sad Sad
5/3/2022
The party has been split, Valeriana and Lavaleen travel with a group of veteran heroes out of retirement, including Hurdy Spweedow, The Barricade and the thick headed but woke Crammuel Bonks. The mission? To track down Kel, Under the Waters and end her fiendish life, but more importantly, to take the second daughter of the Queen of Spite, who hides in the guise of one of Kel’s hunting hounds, hostage. Just a light trip to the saddest place in Faritall to kidnap some royalty.
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Duration:01:38:37
Ep57 - Party's Over
4/27/2022
A very close shave for the Nearlies, and literally for Xenator, the Nearlies have the backing of the witches… and an unexpected ally in the form of King Allfeel, master of the Endless Bacchanalia of the Revelwood. But how to strike at the Briar Tower and foil the Queen of Spites plans? There will not be a second chance. Either way, the party is over, maybe in more ways than one.
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Duration:01:24:28
Ep56 - Nemesis
4/19/2022
The Nearlies have been pursued by huntsman of a scorned king, survivors or disaster seeking vengeance, scorned family and even blood-bound demons since the first days of the strange journey. In order to save a “mostly dead” ally they hope to enlist the powers of the very same necromancer that raised Xenator from the grave. To do so they will have to face their pursuers at long last.
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Duration:01:27:24
Ep55 - Nascence
4/12/2022
The Witch Moon Rises, the Festival of New Life commences! Trials, choices and bloodshed! Just like a proper ritual of the old ways ought to be! By dawn not much will be the same.
Content Warning: self harm, suicide, body horror, gore
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Duration:01:32:10
Ep54 - First Coven Thirst
4/6/2022
The Nearlies arrive at the intoxicating and mystically charged Festival of New Life timed by the stars to align with their arrival. The First Coven needs three new members to balance their powers and as always, the universe has provided plenty of excellent candidates… Have the women among the Nearlies found a new kind of home, and can they ally with these dangerous practitioners of magic? Or are some places simply too fearful to tread.
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Duration:01:40:57
Ep53 - Last Lost Day
3/30/2022
All ways within the Grimmwood are perilous. No path is clear. The Nearlies are becoming as tangled inside as the forest around them. If they cannot gain the favor of the Witches of Candlewood they have little chance of completing their mission. A way forward must be charted cautiously. Good thing they have absolutely no time to do so. Meanwhile the Sidekick Brigade goes into action.
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Duration:01:41:37