C3E4. Whose House? (Trial Period Part 4)
The team is starting their recovery investigation by visiting the scene of the crime. Then maybe the scene of another crime. The second crime is a metaphor.
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Author: Nerd & Tie
89. Starfleet Academy Prelude – So Much Child Death
Do you hear the siren song of synergy?
That means we’ve got a brand new Star Trek show on the horizon and Miles and Charlie want in. With Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on the horizon, our brave lads are going to squeeze back into their school uniforms and try to remember how school works as they approach three episodes of Star Trek which deal with students at SFA.
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91. “Ancient” Practices
There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?
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186. Retro Game Shopping in Japan
It used to be true, and still is to some extent, that visiting a video game store in Japan is a rite of passage for foreign visitors to Japan, but if you pull out a camera to take a video you may find you are no longer welcome.
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C3E3. The Client (Trial Period Part 3)
The team’s together, one of them’s gotten robbed, and now it’s time to meet their first client. Everything hinges on this meeting going well. Maybe, for once, it will.
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C3E2. As Quick as Smoke (Trial Period Part 2)
Eloise Stormwood has assembled her team, so it’s time to start with the basic, new hire orientation — which consists of filling out a bunch of paperwork and taking a tour of the new office.
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99. Respect My Authority
What exactly is authority? Where does it come from? How do you get it? Can you move authority from St. Paul, MN to the south side of Chicago? Join Em and Jesse for a wide-ranging chat on the subject.
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Casual Trek Rewind: Mirror Universe Episodes
Due to various medical emergencies, our Starfleet Academy episodes are going to have to wait a little while. Instead, here’s an old favourite episode: “They Exploded Odo!”
We experience the original Mirror Universe episode and try to understand a system of government entirely based around betrayal (that isn’t the Romulans’), also a fantastic episode of DS9 with some shock as there’s a pretty brutal explosion of one cast member!
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C3E1. The Interviews (Trial Period Part 1)
There’s a new office of Stormwood & Associates. There’s someone named Stormwood. There just aren’t any “associates yet.” Which is, y’know, a solvable problem.
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