Empire Of Rust 168 – Foundation’s Road

With General Libra’s recommendations in hand, the crew departs Arris One aboard one of the Harmonium’s ancient underground monorail lines. Once built to unite the world’s great cities, the tunnels now serve as lifelines beneath a planet at war, carrying the team ever closer to Principle. But Principle is only the beginning. Beneath the bustling heart of the Harmonium lies an older world, sealed away beneath layers of history and forgotten engineering. There, hidden behind colossal vault doors and dormant machinery, the crew discovers an immense transport lift descending far below anything found on modern maps. Their journey is no longer toward another city. It’s toward the foundations of a civilization…

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Show Notes:

  • Intro [0:00:00]
  • Chapter 1 – Technology Has A Smell [0:07:37]
  • Chapter 2 – Have Fun Saving The Planet [0:27:37]
  • Chapter 3 – Magnum Gets Shafted [0:47:50]
  • Closing [1:00:48]

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What is the Empire Of Rust Podcast?

TransMissions Podcast Network presents: the world’s first and only Transformers RPG actual play podcast! Conceived, developed, and run by TransMissions Podcast producer and editor Michael Ordway (@minervion), this podcast combines the tabletop role playing game (RPG) experience (think Dungeons and Dragons) with the setting, universe, and characters of the Transformers into an actual play podcast. Each episode records the gaming sessions as the player characters experience the adventures planned and designed by the game master (GM). The RPG system being used is based on Starfinder, a sci-fi variant of Pathfinder, combined with elements of the Transformers-themed Mechamorphosis d20 system (more info here).

Empire of Rust takes place in the IDW Comics Transformers Universe that ran from 2005 to 2018. It is set at the beginning of the “First Strike” storyline that was published in 2017. But while the starting point is based on the events of the first issue of First Strike – where Earth is being inducted into the Cybertronian Council of Worlds – the story of Empire of Rust will be very different. So if you’ve read the comics, don’t think you know what’s going to happen!

The players have all created original Transformer characters to take part in this adventure, but they’re sure to encounter some familiar faces in their adventures on Cybertron, and beyond.

Cast:

  • Game Master, Narrator, & NPCs (Non-Player Characters) – Michael Ordway
  • Magnum and Pythagoras – Matthew G
  • Spindrift – Mike M
  • Carapace – Patrick Finn
  • Kevin Carlson – Rough & Tumble
  • Additional Voices – Brandon Ouellette

Special Thanks:

  • Teletraan 1 Outro – Brandon Ouellette

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