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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · 2d

It's time for a road trip! And with every long journey comes some cramped quarters and lots of talking to people. What can our agents learn by speaking to the others?

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Window #7: The Tortoise and the Dog

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 10/06/2025 · 47m

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Greg @lysander03.bsky.social · 8d

Domeskai Tamers is here!!

I'm so excited to bring you my latest game. I can't wait for everyone to get their hands on it. Please consider backing today!

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · 9d

The heroes’ investigations lead them to... a library. Let the research montage begin! What secrets can be found in these musty tomes?

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Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play

Improv Podcast · Updated Weekly · Welcome to Very Random Encounters, a show where we play pen and paper RPGs in which we've randomly determined as many things as is possible, including characters, vil...

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · 16d

Our heroes are in strange new world, meeting exciting new people, and learning many new things. A meeting with the elder brings us more questions about the Wheilori.

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Window #5: Imagining a Bunny in Advance of Meeting God(?)

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 09/22/2025 · 28m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · 23d

It's a window, not a door. So the question is, do you go through it?

Our heroes debate going through to the other world and just how dangerous that idea is.

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Window #4: Droza of Abathis

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 09/15/2025 · 47m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · 29d

This is so good and accurate

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Logan Jenkins @loganjenkins.bsky.social · 29d

Oh hey! The @vrecast.bsky.social book is in here, too!

Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · Sep 8

BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK!

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Sep 9

The window opens but for a limited time only. Can the group actually communicate with the other side? Do they even speak our language?

Episode 3 of Window is here!

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Window #3: Message in a Bottle

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 09/08/2025 · 57m

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gisela @bladeofgoldnite.bsky.social · Sep 4

boy howdy i sure do love the new cast of my favorite actual play podcast @vrecast.bsky.social

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Sep 1

A government lab disappeared overnight right under the nose of the secured facility –

But what’s stranger is what has appeared in its place.

Episode 2 of Window out now.

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Window #2: Colonel Waffles McSafety

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Window opens! Never listened to us? Start with today’s season premiere

This Hellboy or XFiles adjacent tale will use the game Agents of the O.D.D. That means we get to randomly roll for 1 of 100 class options!

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Window #1: ...But With Cryptids | Playing Agents of O.D.D.

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Logan Jenkins @loganjenkins.bsky.social · Aug 20

Who will I see at Dragon Con next week? Come see me on some of my panels!

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Greg @lysander03.bsky.social · Aug 14

Wow! Sulthorn evolved into Roseberon!

The full plant type starter line for my new game Domeskai Tamers!

Follow now on Kickstarter!

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Aug 16

That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Aug 11

The final chapter in this story about Sweet City is here. We meet some new folks, and the powers at play begin to change.

The finale of I’m Sorry, Did You Say Street Magic with @catieosaurus.bsky.social is here.

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Street Magic with Special Guest Catieosaurus #3 of 3: Sweet City

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 08/11/2025 · 22m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Jul 28

Also at

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Street Magic with Special Guest Catieosaurus #2 of 3: Peppitmint Bustleball

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Jul 28

Oh we got trouble... right here in Sweet City (right here).. With a capital S that rhymes with Mess, which is what this is becoming.

We're playing I’m Sorry, Did You Say Street Magic? by @seaexcursion.itch.io with @catieosaurus.bsky.social !

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Street Magic with Special Guest Catieosaurus #2 of 3: Peppitmint Bustleball

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 07/28/2025 · 20m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Jul 14

A new mini series appears! Join us and @catieosaurus.bsky.social as we create a new city and the people who live there.

Listen as we play "I'm Sorry, Did You Say Street Magic?" by Caro Asercion

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Street Magic with Special Guest Catieosaurus #1 of 3: Wintery, Cluttered, Ethereal, Joyous

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Jun 30

We say goodbye to Violenceball and the Land of Eem. It's our after show and we have some very special guests Land of Eem creators Ben Costa & James Parks!

Listen to how this season & how Land of Eem came to be.

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Violenceball Aftershow

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 06/30/2025 · 1h 25m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Jun 16

The violenceball field is gone and the future is uncertain. Can the Mootlings hold on to victory and change Eem for the better?

The finale is here and we say goodbye to the Land of Eem.

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Violenceball #31: To Live and Die Again [Finale]

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 06/16/2025 · 54m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · Jun 2

And then it was the final game. The last game of the Xtreme Xaltation. Can the Mootlings win against the undead corpses of the best violence ball players? And also save the world?

More Land of Emm.

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Violenceball #30: Vs The Crumblemire Consortium

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 06/02/2025 · 50m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · May 21

Doing our civic duty 🫡 🏈

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · May 19

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Violenceball #29: Third Stringers

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · May 19

It's time for the X-Treme X-Altation! The greatest violence ball team this podcast has seen - The Mootlings - vs those bums Crumblemire Consortium. With so many plot lines in the air, can the Mootlings do it all?

More Land of Eem!

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Violenceball #29: Third Stringers

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 05/19/2025 · 47m

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Very Random Encounters Podcast @vrecast.bsky.social · May 5

It's the week before the big Violence Ball finals and everyone has a montage!

Cue the music, splice the footage together, we've got all of Eem to cover.

More of our Land of Eem playthrough!

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Violenceball #28: Violenceball Rules

Podcast Episode · Very Random Encounters: Chaotic Improv Actual Play · 05/05/2025 · 43m

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