The Crew of the Cosmic Orca: TTRPG Actual Plays
Join us as Astrid Nova, Aster Tillian III, Commander Caelin Vess and Esquire "Squid" Cumberbatch travel through the cosmos, using the Mongoose Second Edition of Traveller.The main cast consists of:Referee: Alex KemperAster Tillian III: PaulAstrid Nova: EmilyCaelin Vess: RichardEsquire "Squid" Cumberbatch: Trey
Halloween Special III: Star Trek Adventures
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In Memory of Walter Koenig and Patrick Stewart. May you both have peace among the stars.
Trying something different this year for Halloween, using the Star Trek Adventures 2e system for something I originally crafted for Call of Cthulhu.
On a routine trip back to the ship, two Starfleet officers come face to face with a time displaced ship and the unknown horror within.
System used: Star Trek Adventures, 2e
Music by: Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio, Intro Music by: luis_humanoide
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Signals in the Night, Session 5: Welcome to the Neighborhood
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The edgerunners get used to their new digs and even manage to make a new friend along the way.
Music by Karl Casey @White Bat Audio
System Used: Cyberpunk Red
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Signals in the Night, Session 4: Dreams in Neon
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Grim and Otto get some new chrome, well, the brand new neuroport at the very least.
Music by Karl Casey @White Bat Audio
System Used: Cyberpunk Red
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Signals in the Night, Session 3, Carnival of Rust
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Otto and Grimrose get dropped off by a terrible cab in an even worse area of town.
Music by Karl Casey @White Bat Audio
System Used: Cyberpunk Red
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Signals in the Night, Session 2: Blue Collar Man
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Otto and Grimrose stumble onto an active murder, which isn't exactly a rare thing in Night City and decide to go about getting involved in the mystery. We're still fumbling the system, but that's how I learn.
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Signals in the Night, Session 1: Signals in the Night
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In the first session of the new system, we meet Grimrose and Otto as they pick up a literal signal in the night. Also listen to us completely fumble around the Cyberpunk RED system.
Music by Karl Casey @White Bat Audio
System Used: Cyberpunk Red
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Season 2: Post Season Chit Chat
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The gang is all here to just talk about the season and how it made them feel, along with our reactions as the Artemis II lands back on Earth and other exciting announcements!
See you in Night City.
Intro Music: Life is Beautiful by Takuya Kobayashi
Background Music by Slamhaus
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Season 2: Session 26: See You Space Cowboy
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In the season 2 finale, the crew processes what has happened and learns a few new things along the way.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
Ending Music by: kLEM ENtiNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY13U7DTzJ0
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 25: Shoot to Thrill
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The crew takes a stand against Temperance and Red Seraph.
Note: For copyright reasons, I couldn't stream the actual song and due to it being so protected, I couldn't even really find a cover of Shoot to Thrill I liked, so I subbed in The Trooper by Dan Vasc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvSaPntUaB0
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 24: Walk on Vanity Ruins
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Having boarded the strange vessel, the crew and The Space Police begin investigating.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 23: You're Not Here
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The Crew of the Cosmic Orca rendezvous with The Space Police and formulate a plan of attack to stop Red Seraph at the source.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 22: Nocturnal Reverie
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Squid suddenly rejoins the crew, ready to fight the Red Seraph monstrosities.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 21: Veiled Melancholia
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The crew continues to investigate the hardware store, leading to even darker secrets.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 20: Ashes and Ghosts
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As the crew fights off the monsters, a horrific accident occurs.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 19: Killing Time
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After the battle with the monster and reuniting with their crew, the crew decides that it is high time to follow Raul's footsteps and see where he could have gotten snatched.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 18: End of Small Sanctuary
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The crew returns to the Skyhammer to try and find out anything that could have happened to Raul.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 17: No Way Back
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Gendry is reunited with The Crew of the Cosmic Orca armed with vital information about what Rhys Mercer was up to.
Music by: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio and Soundridemusic
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
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Season 2: Session 16: Intergalactic Space Crusaders, Part 2
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In another update from Gendry and the Space Police, they get word of some very startling news.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio and Soundridemusic
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Season 2: Session 15: Built To Last
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The group has to rush to get healed up so they can get new gear before Gendry gets back and let him get new gear.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 14: Car Chase City
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While the group waits for Gendry to come back, they decide to take on a nice, simple transport job.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 13: Intergalactic Space Crusaders, Part I
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While the Cosmic Orca heads out, Gendry and The Space Police follow Rhys Mercer and the Reclaimers to see what they are up to. We also get some random exposition about Michael.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 12: Brand New Day
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Anya isn't wanting to deal with the Cumberbatch family anymore, so she once again takes refuge with the crew. In addition, Gendry decides to take a trip with The Space Police, leaving The Crew of the Cosmic Orca for the time being and not at all a cover for Richard being sick.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 11: The House of the Rising Sun
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It's dinnertime at the Cumberbatch house, where things get heated.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 10: No Surprises
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The crew arrives on Squid's home planet and the suspense is terrible.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Halloween Special II: Fallout
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It's Halloween again, which means it is time for another special! This time we are playing the Fallout RPG made by Modiphius. This new gang has been tasked with finding some missing vault dwellers, who went missing in an abandoned building.
Disclaimer: Richard is Filipino. It'll make sense why I put this here.
Intro and Outro Music: Fallout 4 Theme by Little V https://soundcloud.com/littlevmills/fallout-4-theme-epic-rock-cover?in=kodipeters/sets/fallout
Background Music by Karl Casey @White Bat Audio https://karlcasey.bandcamp.com/
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Season 2: Session 9: Ain't That a Kick in the Head
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Deciding they have spent enough time on this planet, the crew heads out, taking on the much easier task of transporting a person to their homeworld. Just a nice, simple job, right?
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 8: Dog Days Are Over
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The crew gets an unexpected addition, however their plan for a simple escort mission goes completely off the rails.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 7: Somebody’s Watching Me
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Deciding that they need a break from the action, the crew decided to take a more simple mission to help protect some scientists.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 6: Behind Blue Eyes
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Reeling from the sudden loss of Caelin, the crew decides that they need some new help for the ship.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 5: Tears of a Mandrake
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The crew, along with the very unstable Arlen, spring into action.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 4: One of These Days
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The crew enacts their plan, but as Robert Burns once said:
"The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley"
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 3: The Call
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The crew, after spending some time deciding on a course of action, get an unexpected visitor.
This episodes contains more Profanity than normal.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 2: Kicked in the Teeth
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The crew, being confronted by the Chrome Serpents, have to formulate some kind of plan to get out alive.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Season 2: Session 1: Back in Black
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The hiatus is finally over. The crew has returned and is itching to get back into the field. They decide a bounty is the best way to go, while Caelin is still haunted by his deal with Aurelius.
System used: Traveller 2e, 2022 Update
Music: Karl Casey@White Bat Audio
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Call of Cthulhu: Biohazard: Session 3
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Season Finale. Having found the Silent Dawn hideout, the team has to decide on what the next course of action is.
Alex Kemper as The Keeper
Paul Worrell as Hunter Whycoff
Anthony as Julian Delmar
Richard Nava as Lucas Riley
Emily Weaver as Jenna Frederick
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Call of Cthulhu: Biohazard: Session 2
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Having gotten some good evidence that the hiking trails are where to go, the team sets off to find any missing people and the location of the Silent Dawn.
Alex Kemper as The Keeper
Paul Worrell as Hunter Whycoff
Anthony as Julian Delmar
Richard Nava as Lucas Riley
Emily Weaver as Jenna Frederick
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Call of Cthulhu: Biohazard: Session 1
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Continuing the break from Traveller, we're doing another round of Call of Cthulhu! Following some new recruits of the BSAA, they are tasked with preventing a bioterror outbreak in a lakeside resort town.
Alex Kemper as The Keeper
Paul Worrell as Hunter Whycoff
Anthony as Julian Delmar
Richard Nava as Lucas Riley
Emily Weaver as Jenna Frederick
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Halloween Special: Call of Cthulhu: Outbreak
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Taking a break from playing Traveller, I got a couple friends together to play a special one shot I was working on based off of Resident Evil using Call of Cthulhu. I have never run this system and only played it a few times, so I'm sure I made some mistakes.
Alex Kemper as The Keeper
David Schaefer as Johnny Lawrence
April Emerick as Julia Spencer
Music by Karl Casey@ White Bat Audio
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The Lost First Take
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When sitting down to record the final session, things got a bit... weird. This audio is very minimally edited for clarity, but otherwise is presented as is.
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Marooned on Marduk: Part V: Through the Night
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Season Finale. The immediate threat dealt with, the travellers and the Mardukians have to make a choice on how to survive the night.
Featuring:
Emily Weaver as Madame Referee
Alex Kemper as Tobias DeYoung
Richard Nava as Florynce Khimæra
Trey Young as Hector Bombardier
Paul Worrell as Julia Armstrong
Music by Karl Casey@ White Bat Audio
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