Paul Fricker Posted June 6, 2023 Share Posted June 6, 2023 https://blasphemoustomes.com/2023/06/06/time-travel-in-call-of-cthulhu-part-1/ The Good Friends of Jackson Elias are ten years old! Well, not the Good Friends ourselves, obviously. One look at our grizzled countenances should disabuse you of that. If you tried to total up our lived years, you’d quickly run out of fingers. And toes. And any other protuberances you may have. But the podcast itself will have been around for ten years as of the 8th of June 2023. That’s 262 regular episodes, 42 specials, and 12 backer-only episodes. No wonder we’re tired. We figured we’d mark this milestone by discussing the role of time travel in Call of Cthulhu. In one form or another, time travel has been a part of stories for about as long as people have been telling them. Genre fiction and media have codified a lot of tropes, however, some derived from actual science and some the product of pure imagination. We discuss some of our favourite media presentations of time travel in its various forms, looking for inspiration for our games of Call of Cthulhu. Once again, we found this was a larger topic than we’d anticipated and have had to spill over into a second episode. Join us next time when we discuss time loops, as well as the presentation of time travel in Call of Cthulhu and Mythos fiction. The Blasphemous Tome issue 11 The next issue of The Blasphemous Tome will soon be ready to creep its way across the globe. This is the fully licenced Call of Cthulhu fanzine we produce for Patreon backers of the podcast. Issue 11 features a gorgeous full-colour cover from John Sumrow and a brand-new Call of Cthulhu scenario from our own Scott Dorward titled “Blackshade”. Anyone backing us at the $5 level or higher will receive a print copy of the Tome, signed by our arthritic hands. For latest details on getting all issues of the tome: Blasphemous Tome Fanzines Update for $3+ backers (May 2023) or Blasphemous Tome Fanzines Update for $1 backers (May 2023) A Weekend With Good Friends GM signups are now open for A Weekend With Good Friends! This is the online RPG convention organised by our lovely listeners and hosted on our Discord server. While the main source of information is said Discord server, we also have a web page with important details and links. We will update this as things progress. If you would like to offer a game and have it listed in the programme, please check out the AWWGF GM signup page between the 2nd and 15th of June. Don’t worry if you miss the cut-off, however — there will be pickup games running throughout the weekend. The important dates are: Friday 2nd – Thursday 15th June — GM signups Friday 23rd – Thursday 29th June — Player signups Friday 30th June — allocation results announced Friday 7th – Sunday 9th July — AWWGF 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Fricker Posted June 20, 2023 Author Share Posted June 20, 2023 And here is part 2: https://blasphemoustomes.com/2023/06/20/time-travel-in-call-of-cthulhu-part-2/ As we mentioned last episode, we ran out of time to discuss time. This means we’ve gone back to the discussion, delving into psychic time travel as well as different varieties of time loops. We also spend a bit of time (it’s really hard not to make jokes here) talking about the way time travel has been presented in Mythos fiction and the Call of Cthulhu RPG. The Blasphemous Tome issue 11 The next issue of The Blasphemous Tome will soon be ready to creep its way across the globe. This is the fully licenced Call of Cthulhu fanzine we produce for Patreon backers of the podcast. Issue 11 features a gorgeous full-colour cover from John Sumrow and a brand-new Call of Cthulhu scenario from our own Scott Dorward, titled “Blackshade”. Anyone backing us at the $5 level or higher will receive a print copy of the Tome, signed by our arthritic hands. For latest details on getting all issues of the tome: Blasphemous Tome Fanzines Update for $3+ backers (June 2023) or Blasphemous Tome Fanzines Update for $1 backers (June 2023) A Weekend With Good Friends Player signups for A Weekend With Good Friends will soon open! This is the online RPG convention organised by our lovely listeners and hosted on our Discord server. While the main source of information is said Discord server, we also have a web page with important details and links. We will update this as things progress. Don’t worry if you missed the cut-off for GM signups. There will be pickup games running throughout the weekend. The important dates are: Friday 2nd – Thursday 15th June — GM signups Friday 23rd – Thursday 29th June — Player signups Friday 30th June — allocation results announced Friday 7th – Sunday 9th July — AWWGF The Murder Shack and Blackshade on Ain’t Slayed Nobody A few years ago, Scott ran “The Murder Shack”, his scenario from issue 5b of The Blasphemous Tome, for our good friends over at Ain’t Slayed Nobody. Cuppycup has recently edited the audio and produced it as a podcast, with music, sound effects and voice acting for a key NPC role. You can hear the end product on ASN now. As if that weren’t enough, a recording of “Blackshade”, Scott’s scenario from issue 11, will be available on Ain’t Slayed Nobody next month. Watch your feed for more details. Sean F Smith Interview Following our recent episodes about Victorian Spiritualism, Scott interviewed Sean F Smith for a follow-up special. Sean is a stage magician and mentalist, with a lifelong interest in the techniques of fraudulent mediumship. The discussion goes into the psychology of trickery, along some history of how Spiritualism and stage magic evolved together in Victorian Britain. Scott on Bud & Griff’s RPG Creepshow Bud and Griff recently invited Scott onto their (relatively) new gaming podcast. As well as discussing horror gaming and podcasting, the duo asked Scott about his weirdest uncanny experience. This gave Scott the perfect opportunity to talk about that time he got roped into performing an exorcism. The episode will be released on their public feed this coming weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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