Island Demeter: Recent Episodes
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Island Demeter is an Actual Play podcast where a rotating cast of players explore systems to engage in critical play and queer bonhomie.
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Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
Things really start moving...
Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
The farmlands continue.
Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
Bee and Adam switch things up by getting the mystery going a little earlier.
...Then Bee and Ricky play a game called The Gateshead Engine to establish something for later.
Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
Pil does a big steppy.
Featuring Bee, Rickie, Duckie and Adam.
Playing Rude Detectives.
The tale of an immovable force and an unstoppable object, probably.
Featuring Bee, Rickie, Duckie and Adam.
Playing Rude Detectives.
Pil & the Kry Twins continue investigating the mine.
Featuring Bee, Rickie, Duckie and Adam.
Playing Rude Detectives.
The Kry Twins and Pil (who does not have dogform) head to the mines to investigate.... a haunting!
Featuring Bee, Rickie, Duckie and Adam.
Playing Rude Detectives.
Island Demeter: Season 2 continues with the Kry Twins and Pil finding something out about the spooky mech.
Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
Island Demeter: Season 2
Featuring: Bee, Ricky, Duckie, and Adam
playing Rude Detectives
This is a collection of clips from each game in season one, highlighting Island Demeter's goal of showcasing critical play and queer bonhomie. Table talk and critical appraisal stand side by side with jokes and serious, emotionally charged storytelling. Because that's what we do.
Around 26 minutes and 20 seconds into this (after a bit of silence), there's also some brand new material: a bit of opening narration from the first game recorded for season 2, which is going to have more traditional GMing and campaign work that shines some light on the world(s) that season 1 implied.
We finish out season 1 with Home by Anders Kleiman. Darius Rose, Tiffany Takashi, Orletta Sam and Tyler Liv all live together in a nice house. But everyone is hiding a secret.
(The secret is that we all are living in different genre archetypes. It's goofy.)
This time, Bee is joined by Keishi, L and Sil.
Podcast art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
Takuma Okada's Together Among the Stars is a 2-player version of Alone Among the Stars. Bee & Sharmi take a wholesome tour around a couple planets, exploring glacier folks and cloud kittens and chilling in a lake while diamond bugs swarm in the shape of a face on a cliff.
This time, Bee is joined by Sharmi.
Podcast art by Floppydisko. Episode art by Sharmi. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
Erasure by angrynerdgirl is a game about queer assimilation into cis hetero patriarchy, and this episode includes some pretty frank discussions of dissociation and gender dysphoria, out of character. It's also got a lot of jokes. Take care of yourself.
This time, Bee is joined by Adam and Ricky.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada seems to have inspired a slew of single player RPGs, so I wanted to give it a try. I really, really liked it.
Nonym (because I forgot to give them one during the recording) strikes off from their interstellar mapping culture to explore a universe where planets break free of stellar gravity regularly, to make their own additions to the map.
This time, Bee is alone.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
Role Over Play Dead's Ech0 is a game where a bunch of kids bother a long-dead mech pilot, so we figured Pil (from Pil, Who Forgets) should get some more screentime. Plus John Luca (10), Berrigan Omatose (9), Zip (9) and the Kry twins, Marvin and Roger (4).
This time, Bee is joined by Adam, Duckie, Ricky, Sharmi and Sil.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
We play cosmiqueers in You'll Find a Rainbow by Riverhouse Games. This might be the truth of Island Demeter: grappling with a system, and finding the full joy of being in it.
This time, Bee is joined by Ricky and Sil.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
For the completion of the Moss Creeps, Stone Crumbles (Adam Roy) game we are joined by Sil and it became even more of a mess. Come for the conclusion of a century-old bee god, stay(?) for the weird fucking conversations we have along the way.
This time, Bee is joined by Adam, Ricky and Sil.
Podcast art by Floppydisko. Episode art by Bee, Sil, Ricky & Adam. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
For our second Mechs Into Plowshares game (still by Anomalous Entertainment Co.), we play the Two-Player variant by Collin Babcock.
Bee plays the authoritarian voice of the rules and Ricky plays Pil, an infantry pilot in a dystopian fascist world who loves their dancing mech and their mom, and hates their fascist overlords.
This time, Bee is joined by Ricky.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
The first half of our two-part game of Moss Creeps, Stone Crumbles by Adam Roy, a cozy game that we took in a ... different direction. Part 2 will release as episode 7.
The drawings we did for the first 50 years:
This time, Bee is joined by Adam and Ricky.
Podcast art by Floppydisko. Episode art by Ricky, Bee & Adam. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
Mechs into Plowshares by Anomalous Entertainment Co. is the first solo game of the season. Berrigan farms and things go great.
This time, Bee plays by themself.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
In our second Actual Play, we run Take My Revolution by Jamila R. Nedjadi of Sword Queen Games. Nasturtium "Terry" Flo, Brinn Talon, Cake Severin, Eben Severin, Poppy Smith and Qualia L pursue their individual revolutions. Mostly by wandering around a magical high school and hitting on Poppy.
This time, Bee is joined by BW, L, Ricky, Sil and Sorrel.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
In our first proper Actual Play, we run Tiny Stories by momatoes to tell the story of Praxis, a dude who really just wants to chill even though he is living the same day over and over.
This episode was recorded in April of 2020, so those debate jokes are about the primaries 😳.
This time, Bee is joined by Adam, Jenna, Keishi, Ricky, Rodrigo and Sharmi.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.
Island Demeter Season 1 kicks off with a group of us chatting about our histories playing tabletop roleplaying games. We then go on to talk briefly about each of the games that will get played over the course of this season.
This time, Bee is joined by Keishi, Ricky, Sharmi, and Sil.
Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.