The Nearest Stars: Recent Episodes
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The first steps of the escape plan get set into motion. The astronauts visit Lemon's Church of Tumnus one last time.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Autumnus specialists find out Gin and Carry's side of the story, and make a bold decision.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of the song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
We recorded a bit of a conversation we were having about recording the show and our characters, two years down the line. With the hiatus, this episode is now being published beyond three years down the line!
Our astronauts attempt to navigate to where they believe Carrie to be within the Agriculture Dome on the planet Mirkantor.
Thanks to John Mark Nelson for the use of the song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Our astronauts really focus on the journey, not so much the destination. This episode is a revisiting of some of their favorite crime scenes.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of the song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Our astronauts do an apology to some folks they had previously wronged. It went okay!
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Barsi explains the situation of the surface dwellers to our three Autumnus astronauts. The surface dwellers, lead by a very fashionable leader, are in dire need of assistance.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
After daring the dangers of deep space and surviving thus far, our astronauts come to their most difficult challenge yet: a long staircase.
The end of the tour of the Natural History Museum. The gang does a really excellent job of solving a riddle, without the help of podcast editing tools.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The crew of the Space Massager enter the Natural History Museum of Mirkantor, attempting to solve a riddle involving a triceratops and a cyclops. It's a strange old place.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Loring collects more concussions, Clara does some badassery, and Autumn gets very familiar with mustard, all in a 50's style diner on a mining planet.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Out of the Meat Factory and into the Meat Restaurant, our astronauts attempt to make it out of Mirkantor with their newfound ill-gotten goods.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The three Autumnus astronauts continue the fight for survival inside of the meat factory, surprising close to the goal of the Plant Replicator. Clara and Loring do engineering with a comically large wrench. Autumn is terrifying.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
On the loading platform of the meat-packing plant, our astronauts make a tough decision to break down some doors and go for the gold. If only it were that easy.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The autumnus astronauts find themselves in a trainyard owned by the Crows. The Lads are waiting for them to come and open up the safe to make a meat trade-off. Our astronauts do what they must to avoid detection by the Crows.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The astronauts had a nice daring rescue and broke into the chateau. They got themselves into this mess, now they need to get out of it.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of the song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The three Autumnus Industries astronauts attempt to correct some of their errors by diving headfirst into a rescue mission in Carrion's Chateau.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
After making a couple of mistakes, our astronauts decide to make a few more mistakes to fix their previous mistakes.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of the song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Our astronauts lead other astronauts around the city in what could become a wild goose chase.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of the song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Our astronauts seek leverage in the city of Mirkantor, and find themselves in the middle of a plot to overthrow the ruling gangs.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The astronauts may or may not be joining a cult. They soon discover that the new planet Mirkantor is a large and political place.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Our astronauts visit the new planet Merkantor and find out exactly how much the small mining town has changed in 500 years.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
A well-needed break between planetary adventures. It's good to be home at Camp Centaur.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Betrayal, loss, and deception in deep space. Can the astronauts figure out how wires work?
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
The Moot commences, loose ends are tied, and orange trees are rescued. The gang's ready to leave Incouth.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Our three astronauts attempt to find themselves needing a way out of a tricky wartime situation between three parties. Which side do you help? Which side do you try to steal a tank from?
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Dune buggies and fist fights! The tense situation escalates, forcing our three astronauts in to action.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Loring, Clara, and Autumn navigate a tense situation between the two crews of the last surviving TERTs.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Clara, Loring, and Autumn attempt to stop the ever-roaming Ghost Ship.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
This episode is the original first recording with the cast of The Nearest Stars. We explain the rules, create our characters, and create the setting the rest of the podcast is set in. No essential plot points here, if you don't like the nitty gritty of RPGs, this is a non-essential episode.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for the outro of this episode.
Clara, Loring, and Autumn continue their exploits inside the biodome, hoping to walk away with the ghost ship's plant splicer.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
**at some point in the recording my (Ted's) mic power supply started acting strangely, so my audio changes. Luckily we kept the track, it's just a little funky.
Clara, Loring, and Autumn attempt to communicate with a tree person as they decide the fate of the Ghost Ship.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Autumn, Clara, and Loring find themselves in the middle of a hostile environment aboard the ghost ship, and frantically scramble for their lives.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Autumn, Clara, and Loring discover the secrets hidden within the Ghost ship.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
Anna, Clara, and Loring search the Ghost Ship in search of the plant splicer.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for the intro and outro.
Loring, Clara, and Autumn negotiate with a group of dread recyclers after an uneasy meeting with the Captain of a wandering city.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for the intro and outro.
Clara, Loring, and Autumn attempt to find the first artifact on a long-abandoned desert planet. Autumn does some important character development concerning their humor function.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars"
Loring, Clara, and Autumn traverse the Hallway and enter the Dusol Solar System in search of three lost artifacts hidden away in abandoned human colonies.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars"
The Nearest Stars is a collaborative storytelling comedy podcast in a Science Fiction setting.
Launch day has arrived. Three astronauts are sent on a recovery mission to retrieve three useful technological artifacts from an abandoned human colony. Loring, Clara, and Autumn end up on many space misadventures that may determine that fate of Earth.
The simplistic RPG system Tale is used in this podcast for streamlined actual-play.
Thank you to John Mark Nelson for the use of his song "The Moon and Stars" for our intro and outro.
**This episode has been remastered using original files. I needed to fix the sound quality real bad after learning how to edit a little better.