Drawn from the Undertow

The podcast formerly known as Eidolon Playtest is now Drawn from the Undertow!
Welcome to Undertow Update, your monthly newsletter describing what awaits you in the next month of Drawn from the Undertow. This month, we've got a lot!
Threadspinner is now ready for a full playtest, and we're going to do it in not one, not two, but three long-form campaigns that will serve as the backbone of this podcast for the next year and a half:
Threadspinner FLAME
Players: Iris, Maxie, Tyberius
GM: Luke
Editor: Iris
Threadspinner SPARK
Players: Crystal, Morgan, Zoe
GM: Luke
Editor: Luke
Threadspinner GLOW
Players: Lexi, Mike, Molly
GM: Luke
Editor: Mike
May is going to be a transitional month between Eidolon and Threadspinner, where we will look back on the latest round of Eidolon miniseries while rolling out details about Threadspinner Playtest, which will officially debut on May 25th! The full schedule is below:
Monday, May 4: Eidolon ISLAND/FLASHBACK/ADULT GM Postmortem with Crystal and Maxie
Wednesday, May 6: We will reveal the cover art, opening music, and premise of Threadspinner FLAME!
Monday, May 11: Eidolon ROMANCE/+MACHINE GM Postmortem with Crystal, Iris, and Zoe
Wednesday, May 13: We will reveal the cover art, opening music, and premise of Threadspinner SPARK!
Monday, May 18: Eidolon TOOL/PROTO GM Postmortem with Crystal, Luke, and Mike
Wednesday, May 20: We will reveal the cover art, opening music, and premise of Threadspinner GLOW!
Monday, May 25: Threadspinner FLAME Session #0
Monday, June 1: Threadspinner SPARK Session #0
Monday, June 8: Threadspinner GLOW Session #0
Welcome to the podcast, Morgan!
Morgan is joining as a permanent cast member of Drawn from the Undertow! Everyone loved her performance in Eidolon ADULT, and we're lucky to have her as part of Threadspinner SPARK!
Why rename the podcast?
We're not playing EIDOLON in the near future, so "Eidolon Playtest" isn't really accurate. But we're also not done with EIDOLON forever, and more RPGs will come in the future, so "Threadspinner Playtest" would only be temporarily accurate. Instead of changing the name over and over, we're using a permanent name that is inclusive of EIDOLON, Threadspinner, and everything else that we do: Drawn from the Undertow.
Why three campaigns?
In the past, we split our 9 non-GM players into groups of 4 and 5. We noticed that the 5-player groups consistently struggled to keep up the pace and give each character equal spotlight. For the recent round of Eidolon miniseries, we experimented with 3-player groups and found that they reliably avoided the frictions of larger groups. In addition, 3-player groups are easier both to schedule and to edit.
With 3 players in each campaign, FLAME, SPARK, and GLOW will be smoother and more consistent productions than our previous long-form series. We're also using these three campaigns to showcase the thematic diversity that Threadspinner can offer. We hope that each one has a different style and dynamic!

Mike sits down with Molly and Crystal to talk about their all-time favorite band and the inspiration behind Eidolon TOOL, the seminal prog-metal band Tool! The Long Song Pervert has logged on and they will not be logging off!
Listen to the playlist here!
Edited by Iris
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This month, we work on filling in some gaps that we left out of Draft 1 of Threadspinner, since making it ready for Session 0 was more important than getting every single aspect of it finished. Specifically, we further build on what it takes to develop an Artifact, and work up elevator pitches for the 22 types of Devils that players can encounter when they allow their Malaise to climb too high.

WiFi X turns against its friends, no longer certain of what it believes in, its faith in the path of the hero lost. As the revolutionaries battle on the ground floor, the Machine's most loyal servant waits patiently for the winner to meet her on the 50th floor, for the Machine's Inventors to bare witness to the final battle.
🎶 Do not say this is how it has to be 🎶
CREDITS:
Molly Rhinebeck as Cascade Incursion
Iris Christianson as Tacit Dragoon
Crystal Zaslavchik as WiFi X
Luke Varner as The GM
Edited by Iris Christianson
Music by Max Knightley
Cover Art by Tavish Buchanan

Content Warnings: Authoritarian oppression, dismemberment, body horror, dissociation, gaslighting.
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Cast deep into the bowels of The Machine, our heroes race to climb back to the ground floor before they're incinerated, taunted all the while by Tacit's long-lost wife, who has joined The Machine for reasons unknown.
🎶 If there's a way out of this somebody tell me now
I know it's all gonna end but I swear I don't know how
You keep outrunning your past 'til it hunts you down 🎶
CREDITS:
Molly Rhinebeck as Cascade Incursion
Iris Christianson as Tacit Dragoon
Crystal Zaslavchik as WiFi X
Luke Varner as The GM
Edited by Luke Varner
Music by Max Knightley
Cover Art by Tavish Buchanan

Content Warnings: Authoritarian oppression, dismemberment, body horrors, spiders.
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