Latest Spindle Podcast Episodes
Arden vs Anarawd
Spindlewheel Stories - August 10, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow is your loyalty earned? It is of course demanded often, a coveted and valuable thing to many. And it can be lent, or faked, or retracted, a temporary boost or slight in a long line of alliances. But when you offer it for keeps, when its strength outweighs the memory and obligation of any ot...
Nienevé vs Captain Gall
Spindlewheel Stories - July 19, 2019 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat makes a legend? The iconic Jolly Roger long outlasts its captain. The history books cherry pick the notorious and the bombastic to remember from a vast trade of mercenary sailors. But the kraken and her sisters still haunt the waters below, still weave their bodies around the edges of the ...
Truance Schecter vs Double Capra
Spindlewheel Stories - July 12, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhere do you place your faith? When hard numbers err and machine gods falter, when their prophecies speak to the untenable, you might put your trust in the knowable fallacies of the human heart. When legacy and traditions are tried and found oppressive, hegemonic, poisonous down to the roots, y...
Saros vs Ember
Spindlewheel Stories - July 05, 2019 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow is power measured? If you bring down the moon, can you call yourself stronger than someone who quells a generational fear? If the magic in your heart commands the sea with a gesture, are you worthy of more respect than someone with nothing but luck and guile on their side to pull the tides ...
Dr. Whenst vs Sluddo Quust
Spindlewheel Stories - June 28, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat has more value: companionship, or clout? All things being equal, or ceteris paribus as they'd say, far above the worries of hunger and war, when your biggest concern is impressing your contemporaries and grading undergrads, and you find yourself with either the esteem of your institution a...
Vitriate vs Salvia
Spindlewheel Stories - May 19, 2019 07:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen you die, what hand will guide you from your body? Let's make the assumption that there is something beyond this flimsy world. Let's assume whatever life or afterlife awaits you, you will meet it fully deserved. Now, the psychopomp who leads you there: what are they owed? A gold coin for t...
Saint Velarian vs. Sheriff Mallick
Spindlewheel Stories - March 25, 2019 02:31 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat does a town need? Why raise a mansion no one lives in? Why fit a jail door with a lock that shines? What landed gentry goes to seed that does not rot the roots? Speak as soft as you want, but if you carry a gun, people expect you to use it. The same goes for wealth, and reputation, and fea...
Festival: the Witch, Kimaera
Spindlewheel Stories - March 10, 2019 01:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDid I know THIS was going to happen? Not in so many words, no. But did I see this coming? I’ll put it this way: unlike some people, I know where the right place, and when the right time, will be. So, yes, when the two of them found me, I was right where I needed to be. They threw around earnest...
Festival: Osedax and Vindication, Part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - March 01, 2019 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPreviously... Osedax Roseus, pirate-without-a-ship, enlists the help of old friend Somniosidae and sea-witch And the Queen Bore Upon Her Shoulders Thousands of Chittering Insects, Vindictive Servants of Light and Life (or [Vindication]) to free their friend Village Crumbled Under Leviathan's We...
Festival: Osedax and Vindication, Part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - February 22, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOn a clear day you can see it from the city limits: a silhouette through the sea snow, perched on the very edge of an oceanic trench. But... that’s all you can see, really. The maelstrom between here and there keeps curious minds from confirming their theories, and there are lots of those to go...
the Fallen
Spindlewheel Stories - February 15, 2019 14:12 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's my birthday! Happy birthday, me. It's also the two-year anniversary of the production of Spindlewheel. This time in 2017, I was crunching through the first two weeks of february to make a twine game for my birthday. I've linked a thread in the description talking more about that if you're ...
Festival: the Gilded Lily, Part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - February 08, 2019 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPreviously... Kudzu, Namer and keeper of secrets among the lawless shadow organization the Goose Down, finds herself frustrated and fascinated by her neighbor Justice Jacinthe, a recently divorced cellarer who infests their shared garden with rot and ashen fertilizer. In preparation fo...
Festival: the Gilded Lily, Part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - February 01, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFirst, you will need a fire with which to burn. Then, you will need a garden in which to bury. List the items as you toss them into the flames. An old watch, returned to you with a new face. Several books, nonfiction, whose margins are filled with notes that alternate handwriting, a co...
Festival: First Mornings, Part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - January 04, 2019 20:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPreviously... The Reader has spent their entire life studying among the first fully sapient AI, Deep Sleep, who has opened their arms to Ion, a perfect machine in contention with an errant branch of themself. Jinx, a mischievous diagnostics program turned agent of chaos, is trailed by a former...
Festival: First Mornings, Part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - December 21, 2018 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe singularity occurred within living memory, and my entire career since has been spent talking to an inch of its existence. Digital sentience was a miracle the way penicillin was a miracle; with the divine guiding hand of evolution throwing every possible combination at the wall and hoping so...
Festival: Tamarind's Folly, Part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - December 08, 2018 03:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPreviously... Tamarind, scientist and unwitting leader, creates a new mold from which to make things. Vinnie the Vigor, ghost of a broken and forgotten time; Demerit Delour, pillar of the strange force known only as the Witch; and the many sharp blades of Aledoth at guerrilla fighter Veth's hip...
Festival: Tamarind's Folly, Part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - November 30, 2018 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThey are always watching us, there, behind the veil. I’ve only met their gaze a few times, only by necessity--a gift of the Witch demands to be used once it’s given--and it’s always me who flinches first. But, I don’t need to see them to feel their gaze upon me. They vibrate in the dark occlus...
Festival: the Marlen House, part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - November 23, 2018 20:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPreviously... Trapped below the Marlen House with antiquities enthusiast Virgil France and actor out of work Terrace Mavelle in a bizarre labyrinth of gothic hallways lined with occultist runes, Reggie Marlen, assistant and understudy of business tychoon Leonid Mavelle, and Solomon Ash, spouse ...
Festival: the Marlen House, part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - November 16, 2018 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA woman with a broad hat and a dark thin coat stood on my doorstep and told me, with condolences, that a man I'd never met had died. She told me this, having seen my name written as one of his next-of-kin on a less-important document they had found while looking for a more-important document in...
Festival: the Heights Casino
Spindlewheel Stories - November 09, 2018 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere are people at this very bar who remember when the Heights Casino was a half-rate pit stop on the way to the real gambling dens on the coast, but that was back when we had a coast. Ask any of ‘em and they’ll ramble on about how prepared and sustainable everyone was, until the tide came in ...
Festival: Starstruck Mechanica
Spindlewheel Stories - November 02, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe ship hurtled away from the molten light, leaving me terrified and alone as my chassis cooled and contracted down into a single state for the first time in decades. my optics took their time adjusting to the relative dark of space, scraping together meager reflections of color instead of the ...
Festival: Vampira Automata, Part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - October 26, 2018 19:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsPreviously.... Venn, a retired monster hunter and newly adopted parent of several hundred freshly awoken automata, attempts to reckon with the Vampire up in its castle for its heinous crimes against the thieves-town below. Fragile Flesh Dressed In Stone, once the only waking automaton in the ...
Festival: Vampira Automata, Part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - October 19, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNo one remembers what these structures were for in their heyday; but today, they serve a nobler cause supporting our lean-to’s and clotheslines. The inscriptions that once covered them have been chipped off and now circulate as a kind of currency, traded or pick-pocketed from each other’s coats...
Festival: Flower-eyed Faithful
Spindlewheel Stories - October 12, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTo Holy Armiger, ey of starfire and sand, defiant captive, root and blossom of all life: I drank Rowena's potions, as your priests require. It sits heavy on my bones, but the flower of my eye buds without a bloom; a promise I fear won't deliver in my time. There is enough light in the afternoon...
Festival: Phantom Ferry
Spindlewheel Stories - October 05, 2018 19:51 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe belltower of that dreadful church is the first landmark to break the horizon on the return trip across the river. He spends every waking minute straining his ears to hear its bell over the choppy waves, the groaning wood, and the whining passengers. But even that is not a comfort, but the pr...
Festival: Unicorn God Killer, Part 2
Spindlewheel Stories - September 21, 2018 19:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe final part to the story. Strain of Solstice by Mike. Follow Sasha on twitter @sasha_reneau. Follow Mike on twitter @MeAndAmpersand. Follow Spindlewheel's development @teacabbage. Check out the open beta at https://tinyurl.com/spindlewheel-openbeta.
Festival: Unicorn God Killer, Part 1
Spindlewheel Stories - September 14, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsI worked the stone in a dull haze, my ears still ringing as I shaped the frieze depicting my grand appointment to divine artisan, following the treachery and swift execution of my predecessor. The tools were still warm from his hands. I remember it rained hard that night, flooding the stone gu...
Longform: The Whaler
Spindlewheel Stories - September 07, 2018 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYou look out on the western sea and it's hard to imagine, thousands of years ago, that broad horizon was broken up by mountains and jungle. The library's inscriptions speak of this and more of the old world, full of wonders and technologies that would be pointless in our stilt-legged city. But, ...
Longform: The Tricaster
Spindlewheel Stories - September 05, 2018 13:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhen we talk about magic--and we're not just telling fairy tales or parlor tricks--we don't usually talk about it like puberty. But when it returned to the world, it returned in fits and spurts, horrifying and impulsive and stupid, and there really isn't a word more apt. Alas, some of us are sti...
Pixie Purls 19 - Knitting Mojo
Pixie Purls Podcast - August 25, 2008 00:12 ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsEpisode 19 - Knitting Mojo Related Links: twitter.com flickr.com Ravelry Pixie Purls Ravelry Group Fancie Pants LaLaLa An Abundance of Lisa Knitting Nanna ">Never not knitting Stitch Diva Studio's New Custom Knits Book by Wendy Bernard Right-click and save-as to...
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