Tales from a World Asunder

Tales from a World Asunder is a D&D actual play podcast that focuses on cooperative storytelling and world-building.

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to Tales from a World Asunder! We are a (primarily) d&d actualplay podcast focused on story and narrative!

Basic Pitch:

Cowboys! Gangsters! Airships! Magic! Litte Guys! We've got it all! (Don't look over there at the oppressive military expansion and people living on the fringes of a developing colonial society) Tales from a World Asunder follows Miss Mila Bentezza and Captain Adelaide Vihammer as they attempt to keep whats close to them safe against the forces of nature and government that rule Meridia.

Setting:

The People's Public of Meridia is a Magitechnocratic Empire with inspirations taken from the history of the Americas, both North, South and Central. Both players and GM have a say in what happens and there is a ton of the world to still be filled in. Come discover it with us!

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We are back from Hiatus!!

This friday we return to our regularly scheduled program with episode 6 of Tales from a World Asunder!

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Héctor,

I must confess your words have worried me to movement. You will forgive the brevity of this letter, but I have little time or concentration to focus. I do hate these commercial airships. My fellow passengers have refused to respect manners befitting of a public space and as such my mind is beleaguered by noise and constant jostling. I hope when we make stop next I will be able to send this letter on to you so that it may arrive before I do, therefore forewarning you of my presence in Antonia.

I have been speaking to the captain about the old days of commercial flight, and he was able to direct me to an old friend of his, who had several blueprints of older airships. Héctor, I cannot suppress my astonishment at the discovery of the Airship Freedom's Wings in that dossier. He allowed me to take a copy he had made, which I now send on to you for safe keeping.

Your friend and colleague,

Sebastian Vianza

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Sebastian,

I have progressed further into the trust of the Bentezza Family. I will spare you the details, but I was able to look through their more private collections, and I came across this portrait. I was able to make a copy of it to send to you and return it without issue. Please do not send any more letters to the Bentezza household, I will send you a more private postal box by which you may get in touch with me.

In copying this photograph, I did not have the time to also copy the back of it, but inscribed on it is "In remembrance of our time in Trés Barranques." It is signed by Mila Bentezza.

Laying low in the meantime

Héctor Castell de Costa Quintana

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Héctor,

I have been incredibly fortuitous in my dealings with the Morena House recently. I have, through the various means you know to be at my disposal, convinced the curator, Dr. Gavin Morena, to give me a guided tour of some of the portraits that they keep in their archive whether for storage or restoration purposes. One such portrait however, caught my eye: a photograph of which I have enclosed within this letter.

It is, of course a very young Montoya. It was apparently gifted to the museum by an anonymous soldier, along with a container that contained some of his personal effects. I have some suspicions as to who this may have been, however I will continue to do my research before making baseless conjectures. Importantly, included in these personal effects seems to have been either his original, or a copy of his citizenship card from when he was a 2nd Leutenant.

Your friend and colleague,

Sebastian Vianza

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Sebastian,

I am glad to hear of your success. I have continued my search within Antonia. Using the approximate dates we have discerned and a very short lived conversation with the entity in question, it seems that the constant companion of Miss Bentezza, a certain Rhoden Pinky was first summoned by her shortly after she and the Captain arrived in Alpujarra, it was, at that time, still an unregistered familiar. I was unable to have a further discussion with the spirit as it had other business to attend to however I hope to have a further conversation with it at another point in time.

I have also found, within the old Portolés Archives in Antonia, a series of journals and notebooks written by an as of yet unidentified author that I thoroughly believe to be our elusive Captain, as the handwriting of the texts seem to match up to his own, as well as the nature of the texts. Stories, Sebastian. They are draconic stories. You will forgive my lack of decorum when I say that I am beyond ecstatic to have found these journals. I believe they will be seminal to our understanding of draconic art forms and storytelling. In one such notebook I have found a sketch labled Razajith, the image of which is comparable to the form of the drake, Razzy, that the Captain is so often painted alongside.

Missing your company in Antonia

Héctor Castell de Costa Quintana

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Héctor,

It is with deepest pride I send you this letter. My searching around in the annals of not only the Rita Morena house, but in the Alpujarra department of records as well, whose archivist has shown a remarkable willingness to aid me, has granted me some several pieces of historical document that not only prove incredibly useful, but are actual second hand accounts of happenings. I believe the story we are piecing together goes far beyond the obscure biopic we had originally planned.

Included here are the papers of a Captain Alejandre Damery, who I believe I can prove is the Ale briefly described in Montoya's later memoirs. Not only this, but I was able to locate a journal of his that has, written down, some conspiracy between Ms. Bentezza and the Captain. I feel as if I am now at the beginning of their journey and will follow where the trail leads.

Your friend and colleague,

Sebastian Vianza

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Sebastian,

I've finished going through those scattered letters you gave me. While there are many interesting pieces of information concerning daily life and military activities that will undoubtedly be useful for our research and for others at the Ozymandian, this letter in particular stuck out to me. It is the last correspondence between Montoya and Malena, and what I believe to be the reason that she chartered Captain Vihammer in the first place. We can finally start piecing together what happened. This is where it all started.

Please come back so we can continue our work together,

Héctor Castell de Costa Quintana

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Sebastian,

I thank you for your apology; your sudden absence was much felt in Lacuna Station. But I write to you instead from Antonia, where I came to try and pick up a trail of Miss Bentezza. You will recall my irritation back at the Historical Foundation that they only had the commonplace depictions of her in older age, but, here, I have been able to track down the Bentezzas that remain in Antonia, who let me look into their personal archives. I'm pleased to share with you a portrait of the Miss Malena around the time of our study, dug from what seems to be her schooling archives.

I am glad to hear you are alive.

Héctor Castell de Costa Quintana

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Dearest Héctor,

I'm so very glad we were able to spend those days together in Lacuna Station last week. Not only were they highly productive, but it is always a pleasure to spend time in your company. I must again apologize for leaving in the manner that I did, however I am sure you will forgive me when you learn what I have discovered here in Alpujarra.

I have found in my vacationing the Rita Morena Home, a small but stalwart portrait gallery. Within their collection they had portraits stretching back to the 70s, and I discovered, in a small room on the top floor, amongther, less important figure work, a portrait of a very young Captain Adelaide Vihammer. The museum staff didn't seem to its specific originally as it seems to have been a part of the collection since before it began! I will continue to look into this, but I have attached a photograph of the portrait.

Your hopeful friend and colleague,

Sebastian Vianza

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Sebastian,

Gaining access to the Lacuna Station Historical Foundation has been very enlightening. Not only have I found several documents that give us more of a concrete idea of what the Captain's finances looked like at the time, but I've also come across an overwhelming amount of evidence that Ms. Bentezza was far more involved in all of this than either of us previously imagined. These two discoveries have culminated in the attached newspaper clip that was published in the Tribune only a year before the date which I believe to be the first time the Captain and Ms. Bentezza first came into contact.

I advise that you finish your work in the Capital quickly and come join me in Lacuna Station. I've already cleared your credentials with the Historical Foundation here so our work will be uninterrupted. I have a feeling that we will need to revise the entire project and look at things with a new angle considering Ms. Bentezza's involvement.

As you've told me many times before,

Don't Lose Heart,

Awaiting you in Lacuna Station,

Héctor Castell de Costa Quintana

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Dearest Héctor,

That is excellent news! I'm glad that the archivists at the LSHF have finally seen reason on the matter and are willing to trust our devotion to history and to the truth.

I must admit, I myself am becoming increasingly frustrated with the mess that I am now tasked with organizing. For as fastidious a man as Montoya was in his letters, he did not number or date his pages, which makes my task unenviable even to myself. I have attached a scan of a fragment of one of his letters that stuck in my mind. I'm still trying to find the other pages. There must be something more here.

Frustrated without end,

Your friend and colleague,

Sebastian Vianza

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis

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Sebastian,

Your encouragement is unnecessary, but welcomed. I have persevered and have finally gained access to the archives that the Lacuna Station Historical Foundation keeps, though I am under constant scrutiny and must be very careful in my investigation. I have discovered, within the immigration archive here a partially destroyed personal manifest of a Mr. Karas who took passage on the Captain's airship. There is more to be found here and I will continue my search.

Yous in discovery,

Héctor Castell de Costa Quintana

Fellow of the Ozymandian School of History & Development, University of Baranòpolis