Minionworks - Actual Play Rpg Podcasts

Things have gone awry, moreso than usual, in the sleepy town of Mount Shasta. Julian Alder created chaos when, under duress, his trippy amulet birthed an entire forest in Mount Shasta Memorial Hospital that enveloped our heroes. Worse yet, Aubrey broke from reality herself, chalking up her suddenly woody surroundings to a waking dream. That dream, however, is about to become a nightmare. Ambiguous Federal agents have descended upon the town in the wake of the happenings at the hospital, and Junie and Grey have been taken into custody. Can Luca and Monty free them from captivity and, if so, can they track down Aubrey before she gets tangled up in something worse than tree roots? With apologies-in-advance to Italian-Americans, French-Canadians, and Chad Kroeger, Minionworks kicks off the last half-dozen episodes of the first season of On Top of Mount Shasta™ with a trip to everyone's favorite do-it-yourself electronics store. You've got questions? We've got answers.

Julian Alder is in a struggle for his life. Rushed to Mount Shasta Memorial Hospital, he's been whisked away to emergency surgery to repair his wounds, but he's in anything but good hands. Sinister forces are plotting his demise while the rest of the group continues to try and crack the mystery surrounding Valeria Magnani's ritualistic killing. As strange as things have been, though, they're about to get a lot weirder around the mountain. Prepare to have an open mind because Julien Alder is certainly about to and, when he does, anything can happen.

After close calls and nearly... meating... their maker, the gang has reassembled in time to take a badly injured Julian to an ACTUAL emergency room as oppposed to an little old Italian woman's cottage. While Julien is whisked to the ER to get patched up, the party decides to quickly finish up their investigation in the interim. They may end up regretting that decision, however. While he may be in a hospital, Professor Alder is definitely NOT in caring hands, and his wounds are about to be the least of his problems. Will Julian, isolated and groggy, manage to survive his surgery, or will be the victim of some horrible bedside manner?

The party has decided to divide up to find answers that may help them solve the mysteries of Mount Shasta and get Flim-Flam off their backs. However, before you can say what a bad idea it is to split the party, things take a turn for the weird and prove the point. Something has shown up at the Triple-MS with an apparent beef to settle with Montgomery Swindler. Meanwhile, something has shown up at Valeria Magnani's trailer that is apparently... beef. Can the separated parties survive the grilling they are about to receive, or is someone about to meat their maker? Either way, you'll never look at Spam® quite the same way again.

With some Italian homeopathic remedies... let's say... administered expeditiously... Monty and Julien have been patched up by Luca's mother, Nona Fazio, after a deal with Flim-Flam and Rubble set them free. Now, the gravity of the contract the group has entered has hit them like a ton of capicola. Flim-Flam wants the location of the Lost City of El Dorado. Rubble wants the mountain left alone to the Shaggymen MC. And someone apparently wants Junie's mysterious formerly-three-bladed knife that surprisingly has connections to others in the party. It all comes back around to Valeria Magnani, the otherwise ordinary waitress in an ordinary diner in a not-so-ordinary town. Were the secrets to the location of El Dorado and the significance of the knife locked away in her brain that had been scooped out of its skull? Or could the missing information still be hidden somewhere in her now-vacated trailer home back in town?

Junie and the gang may now be under onus to the Shaggymen and Flim-Flam, but at least they've rescued Monty and Julian. Poor, severly beaten, nearly-dead, completely unconscious Monty and Julian. Desperate to save her companions, Aubrey has suggested that the group flee the closest medical care available - her grandmother's cottage on the outskirts of the mountain. Before you can say porca puttana, the party arrives at Mama Fazio's home where everyone's favorite Nona is ready to chop garlic and heal the wounded... and she's ALL out of garlic. Come for the limoncello, foccacia and bad accents, stay for the plastic-covered sofas, the lesson in Italian swear words, and the turkey basters. This is Mount Shasta medicine, Eye-talian style!

Junie and the gang have found themselves summoned to a summit at an abandoned convenience store on the mountainside and, upon arrival, find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place. One on side stands Rubble, leader of the Shaggymen MC. On the other stands Flim-Flam, leader of the Goblin Market and self-proclaimed king of the mountain. Each wants something out of Mount Shasta and both hold leverage over the party to get them to do the dirty work necessary to achieve their goals. What kind of leverage, you ask? Let's just say... it's in the bag.

The play session concludes as the gang finds themselves the center of mob violence. Despite the fact that they were the ones that incited it, the mob is the least of their worries. A date with Flim-Flam is on the horizon and, by the time it's over, it will be anything but a "convenience".

Luca, Junie, Julian, Aubrey, and Grey continue to work through the post-concert series of events that have been made all the more confusing by the discovery of an odd skull.

Luca, Junie, Julian, and Aubrey have met at Golddiggers and, along with Grey, have begun sifting through the mountain of information - no pun intended - that has hit them like an avalanche. However, as they dig deeper into the mysteries surrounding Mount Shasta, they only seem to be coming up with more questions than answers. What is Lemuria and how does it connect everyone involved? Listen and find out as as new play session begins!

The benefit concert may be over, but the weirdness has only begun. Junie, leaving the Triple-MS, has run across attendees wandering aimlessly throughout park grounds still under the influence of whatever was causing their odd behavior during the show. Meanwhile, Grey, Luca, Monty, and Aubrey have left the concert as well, heading towards a secret rendezvous point to square things up with Flim-Flam by giving him his green-eyed... kid. However, when the wandering concertgoers turn suddenly violent and the exchange of Flim-Flam's payment goes pear-shaped, the citizens of Mt. Shasta City will have their hands full with all the macabre the mountain can muster.

Strange things are afoot at the Triple-MS. Well... stranger than usual anyway. In the midst of a benefit concert thrown for the victims of the A-OK Campground rock slide, Flim-Flam, the leader of the Goblin Market, has taken to rousting the local vendors, upset by the violation of trade rules on the grounds of Mount Shasta. Meanwhile, as the musical acts get weirder and more esoteric, the concert-goers' behavior is moving right along in step. What started as people giving of themselves has turned into people giving parts of themselves - hair, flesh... even live children. It's up to the intreprid townsfolk to try and defuse the situation with the King of Coin while figuring out what has the crowd in such a giving mood.

It's been one week since the A-OK Campground was buried at the bottom of a rockslide, and the citizens and businesses of Mt. Shasta City have gotten together to throw a benefit concert to help the surviving families. Monty Swindler has agreed to host the concert at the Triple-MS - for a price, of course - and a very interesting collection of local talent has showed up to play for the townsfolk. However, no good deed goes unpunished on Mount Shasta. Flim-Flam, leader of the hidden Goblin Market on the mountain, hasn't taken too kindly to coin exchanging hands on his slopes without his customary cut. Between the racket, the racketeering, and a mysterious musical influence settling upon the crowd, the party will have its helping hands full in the start of this new play session.

The third and final act of this Dooneyland session is here! Emmeline Holt has had her hands full with bossy executives, an unruly crowd, and a persistent protestor as everyone at Dooneyland prepares for the re-opening of the Hall of Assassins ride. Below the ride in the service tunnels, Chippy Fisher and Greasy Combs have made a grisly discovery in an old storage room. And up in the ride itself, Stephen Moore is manuevering his way to put his own personal stamp on Dooneyland history. Soon, these events will converge and, when it does, expect the unexpected. Who lives? Who dies? And who eventually gets immortalized as the sixth-most influential assassin in world history? Listen and find out!

We're back to weekly releases, folks! The debut of the Hall of Assassins' newest inductee is moments away, but something horrible is lurking underneath the surface - literally! There's something sinister going on in the tunnels beneath the ride, while things are getting out of hand up on the surface. Can Emmeline keep a group of problematic, purist protestors under control? Can Chippy, Greasy, and Stephen get to the bottom of what's going on in the storage closet at the base of the Hall? And what lies in store for the guests who get a turn on the gruesome ride? Find out as the session continues in this all-new episode!

It's Fourth of July weekend at Dooneyland and what better way to celebrate the founding of our country than to put a spotlight on those figures that have unequivocally changed the course of history with a single action. America's founders? Former presidents? Famous politicans? Decorated war heroes? Hell, no! This is Dooneyland - it's all about the most influential changers of human history - ASSASSINS! For the first time since it opened in 1971, Dooneyland's Hall of Assassins is set to get a much ballyhooed update. However, not everyone is happy about the park's choice to feature Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme over whom they consider to be more obvious choices, and let's just say that some of them are more... animated... than others about it. First debuted at Chupacabracon in 2018 with some of our fans, The Hall of Asssassins has now been opened to the Minionworks' players. What lies below the world's most polarizing theme park attraction ever constructed? Listen in and find out!

In the midst of trying to figure out who killed Valeria Magnani, Professor Julian Alder proclaimed to those at her wake-slash-memorial lunch that he had had a vision - Magnani's death was only the start of a series of unfortunate events to come in Mt. Shasta, and that something bad was about to happen on the mountain. Racing up the mountain following Alder's vision, the party narrowly missed crossing paths with some sasquatch bikers presumed to be from the Shaggymen MC. Reaching the cliffside above the park's A-O-K Campground, Grey LaMontange came across a block of C4 plastic explosive. Unfortunately, that block was connected to a whole series and, before anyone could react, the entire hillside exploded, sending the half-vampire, Luca, and Alder sky-high and an avalanche of rocks sliding down to the campground below. Now, the town must deal with the aftermath, and the party must heal its wounds and start to piece together exactly what is threatening the balance of their beloved mountainside town.

The residents of Mt. Shasta are coming to grips with the strangeness surrounding the death of Valeria Magnani, a seemingly ordinary waitress at the Black Bear Diner. However, before anyone's pot roast special could grow cold, town crackpot, Julian Alder, had a premonition about another horrific event on the horizon. Now, heading towards Mount Shasta to find out if Alder is psychic... or just stoned... our party is about to find out that the hash-slinger's death is just the tip of the mountain.

Nate has two quick announcements that will affect Minionworks releases in March and April 2019.

In any other small town, the death of a waitress would barely cause a ripple. However, Mt. Shasta, California is no ordinary small town. This death, as the residents will soon find out, was no ordinary death. And Valeria Magnani, the former waitress of the Black Bear Diner, was certainly no ordinary hash-slinger. Join the cast of Minionworks as they trek through the treacherous terrain of Mount Shasta - a place where nothing should be taken for granite.