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Desperate Attune

@desperateattune.bsky.social
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Actual Play podcast about characters with their identities in peril. Posts (mostly) by Zoheb.

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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The real deep state was the friends who made us along the way New Desperate Attune! desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 09: ...Same as the Old Boss | Desperate Attune
Perfidelity goes on journey of self discovery. Ahiri and Tar-Minotaur make plans for the future. Iskandaric learns about the deep state. Support us at https://ko-fi.com/desperateattune and at https://...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
due to this editor's brain currently doing its best impression of a small, forgotten rock at the bottom of a poisoned well, today's episode is going to be a few hours late. my apologies from the well.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Apologies for the late post, but here's more skullduggery and nation-building in the ruins of Convergence Valley. desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 06: This Little Mole Went To The Market | Desperate Attune
Tar-Minotaur contends with the burdens of knighthood amid the Grand Caravanserai. Lady Iskandaric fights a creature of great stature. Ahiri treats Kid Gloves to a bath without kid gloves. Perfidelity ...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Very similar to the old boss New Convergence Valley episode! desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 05: Meet the New Boss | Desperate Attune
Ahiri makes a deal. Perfidelity makes a friend. Iskandaric makes it to the top. Tar-Minotaur makes someone pay.Support us at https://ko-fi.com/desperateattune and at https://www.patreon.com/DesperateA...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We are posting our Christmas episode the day after Christmas because we did a regular episode post on Christmas Merry Christmas, this is more Blades '68, and it is probably the most deranged thing we have ever done desperateattune.podbean.com/e/a-desperat...
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A Desperate Attune Christmas: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (Blades '68) | Desperate Attune
Officially, the Imperial Intelligence Agency's Headquarters are in Cairn House, Charterhall. Unofficially, the Palace works mostly in the field. An operation targeting Blackthorne Park's own agents in...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
In this episode we do high stakes negotiations and Ahiri is mostly occupied with the boiler that she had nonconsensually installed desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 04: In Fact, the Demons Own It Now | Desperate Attune
Lady Iskandaric gets a new house. Perfidelity gets a new coat. Ahiri gets a new boiler and a new tenant. Tar-Minotaur decides to kill somebody.Support us at https://ko-fi.com/desperateattune and at ht...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Lady Iskandaric gets run over by a car in this episode desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 03: Afterward, the Compromise | Desperate Attune
A mortally injured Tar-Minotaur and a more-or-less perfectly fine Perfidelity make for the Tower, which Lady Iskandaric has now claimed. One conflict seems to follow another. Ahiri is just trying to l...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The second episode, with apologies for the delay. Much blood is shed. desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 02: Call an Ambulance! | Desperate Attune
Tar Minotaur and Perfidelity engage in shotgun diplomacy. Lady Iskandaric finds it hard to organise a raid. Ahiri hangs out. Support us at https://ko-fi.com/desperateattune and at https://www.patreon....
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The ways we are to each other reflect how strange a place the post-apocalypse - the post-post-apocalypse, even - must be.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ahiri, the owner of a bar who tries to simply continue to exist around these otherwise very violent people, knows that it's important to separate your personal life from your professional life. So he's a man when he's at home, and a woman when she's working. Other genders only by special request.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Lady Iskandaric leads a pack of ruffians, hoodlums, and ne'er-do-wells, none of whom are allowed to be like her, because she's the boss and they're not. So if she's a woman, none of them can be women. You want to be one of us, you gotta follow the rules.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Tar-Minotaur, Knight of the Order of the Worm, and Perfidelity, their squire, are defined by who they are to each other and who they represent to the world. For them, 'presentation' is about presenting the face of knighthood.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We're very interested in exploring how gender can be mutable when we let go of so many of our basic assumptions about society, which means that all our PCs are reactions to the ways we think about traditional roles and what it means to fulfil them as a gendered person
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Episode 2 of No Anthem, our weird Apocalypse World game comes out today (Episode 3 for patrons!) Our previous work is very grounded in our South Asian influences and backgrounds, but this season is fully devoted to seeing exactly how unhinged we can get, no holds barred.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Burned Over's playtest draft has been available to Vincent Baker's Patreon supporters for a while now, but the game's public release is on crowdfunding right now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is our session 0, where we mostly set-up and then cliffhanger -- but if you're already impatient for the action, we are releasing each episode one week early on Patreon! Episode 2 is already live. www.patreon.com/posts/no-ant...
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No Anthem 02 - Call an Ambulance | Desperate Attune
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are finally back. Season 3! This is the story of the fall -- and fall again -- of a nation. We're playing Apocalypse World: Burned Over by @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social. desperateattune.podbean.com/e/no-anthem-...
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No Anthem 01: Convergence Valley | Desperate Attune
We're back with our experimental 3rd season. We've had a rough year, and this season almost didn't exist. We bring it to you, warts and weird fuckery and all. It's fitting -- after all, this is Apocal...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Burned Over, 3rd edition of Apocalypse World, is currently on kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We return from the dead to say that Season 3 is Apocalypse World: Burned Over by @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social, and will be dropping very soon. Please enjoy the teaser. We specifically request this.
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Zoheb AKA Klow @zohebmashiur.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A lot of hands went into this laser-cut sculpture of the U'duasha map from Sumirror by @desperateattune.bsky.social and I am very happy to have it on my wall now
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We've been putting out these bonus episodes to tide y'all over as we prepare to drop all of S3 starting in November. Hope to see y'all there too with No Anthem, played in Apocalypse World: Burned Over.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We're back with Blades 68 by @olddog.games and @evilhat.bsky.social Space rockets, lasers, heartbreak, secret identities, robots passionate about goats, the importance of daily walks, are all part of the schemes of... the Queen of Harts! desperateattune.podbean.com/e/blades-68-...
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Blades '68: Queen of Harts | Desperate Attune
"The Blueraker Project promises to unveil the secrets of the wild Blue, reveal the far reaches to the world, and truly establish Imperial superiority in these simmering times. Bluerakers One until Fou...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
you WILL be hearing more about this
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Zoheb here, using our AUDIENCE to spread the word that I'm getting my first TTRPG published. Please get in on this action with Zine Club, and spread the word. The game means a lot to me, and I've had the privilege of working with really lovely and talented people to make words into game.
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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our talented Zine Fiend @carrion-comfort.com brought in Zoheb of @desperateattune.bsky.social's game Midnight in Perfect World for this month's Zine Club & it is a tremendous game. Zoheb has been an amazing creator to work with & I can wait for folks to hold this game. Mustache Bias?
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I don't know what that prize would be. Maybe I do like the thing where you can hire a celebrity to do you a custom audio, except it's Bidrohi speaking and it's for free. Is that a thing people would consider a gift and not a curse?
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A listener who works out the really stupid joke at the heart of this oneshot gets a special prize.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Feminism. International espionage. Science rats. HIGH SPEED RACING. It's all coming to a head in... THE PINGUS AFFAIR. We teased it, so here's the whole thing. A oneshot of Blades '68 by @olddog.games and @evilhat.bsky.social. www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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Blades '68: The Pingus Affair
Dr. Stefano Pingus has invented a radical new sparkcraft engine, the Mark X Cork, but nobody wants to buy it. He's been reduced to offering it to Rajan Ankhayat to settle his gambling debts. Rajan wan...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We're back with a oneshot of Blades '68 by @olddog.games and @evilhat.bsky.social. Dropping this week, with a little teaser of what to expect from... THE PINGUS AFFAIR.
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Blades '68: The Pingus Affair (Teaser)
Konstantin Hafoff, Skovic spy, faces off in a battle of wits against his arch-nemesis Bond James Rodrigues of Xir Majesty's Secret Service. Tune into The Pingus Affair, our Blades '68 oneshot, coming ...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The 2 seasons we've uploaded are in the same continuity and setting and can be listened to back to back for the 'best' experience, but we designed season 2 to work fine on its own. Our upcoming season is fully standalone.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Poor man! Season 3 dropping soon.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Everybody finds in it a sentence that pleases them. Season 3 coming soon.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Read the rest of Mengde's poem at krikson.net/2012/08/shor...
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‘Short Song Style’, Cao Cao
I really enjoy this poem by Cao Cao. First that I saw it (literally, saw it) was in that great scene in Red Cliff where it is recited to a flame-enlightened dark night. I lift my drink and sing a s…
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
THE EMPIRE DOES FALL. Season 3 coming soon.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You can also support our Patreon! It's 1USD and you get an automatic invite to the server. www.patreon.com/c/DesperateA...
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is creating an Actual Play podcast
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
There are two ways to access the Discord. If you download Sunmirror (free, donation optional) you will find an invitation to our Discord within the book. desperate-attune.itch.io/sunmirror-re...
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Sunmirror: Reflecting U'duasha by Desperate Attune
An unofficial setting rework for Blades in the Dark
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We're getting ready to start worldbuilding for Season 3, and you can listen to us live on our Discord every Sunday at 4PM CET!
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Looking back on the season, and closing the doors to the House of Endings one last time. desperateattune.podbean.com/e/house-of-e...
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House of Endings: Retrospectives and Epilogues | Desperate Attune
We look back on the season and send-off our characters. Support us at https://ko-fi.com/desperateattune and at https://www.patreon.com/DesperateAttune Follow us at https://twitter.com/DesperateAttune ...
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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Mum Chums, my slice of life #ttRPG about the people who care for kids, is now live on Kickstarter. If you like your gaming with a strong emotional core, back it today!
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Mum Chums
A slice of life RPG about the people who care for kids
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Get your fresh new Desperate Attune trademark Defiance Of Divinity here. It's finale time. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-hrzan...
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House of Endings 62: Into That Heaven Of Freedom pt. 2
To end, things must begin. To begin, things must end.   Support us at https://ko-fi.com/desperateattune and at https://www.patreon.com/DesperateAttune Follow us at https://twitter.com/DesperateAttune ...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
our inspirations don't merely rhyme they are each other. because poetry, like water, is inescapable.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
alice oswald's poem, dunt, ends in this fashion: beautiful disused route to the sea fish path with nearly no fish in
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
one of my favourite - and most famous - telugu poets, Sri Sri, ends one of his most famous poems thus: the world an inescapable labyrinth poetry an unquenchable thirst
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
prince's tireless engagement with the poetry we discussed all season was one of the reasons it was effortless for all of us to do this.
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
when i ran the game last season, i focussed on profoundly personal things - the relationship between a father and a son, the devotion of a believer in their god, the fervour of a fan supporting their team this season, prince did the same, but then also added broader, structural relationships
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
we are not ever separate from each other but one thing that is unique about desperate attune, which separates us from others, is that we are all of us intensely committed to language, to poetry, and to conveying things even words fail to sometimes express
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
the title of the finale, Into That Heaven Of Freedom (pts 1 and 2) also comes from a poem, this one by Tagore. Our last season ended with an episode titled in Bengali, and though i didn't choose to do the same this season Tagore's poem is originally in his mother tongue
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
this season ends with a poem i [tree] find impossible to read without crashing and soaring. dunt: a poem for a dried up river, by alice oswald www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90863/...
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Dunt: a poem for a dried up river
Very small and damaged and quite dry, a Roman water nymph made of bone tries to summon a river out of limestone very eroded faded her left arm missing and both legs from the knee down a Roman water ...
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
something we did this season was make a conscious decision not just to add poetry to our recordings, but to engage with poetry as we went through the campaign
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Desperate Attune @desperateattune.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
about eight minutes to finale pt. 2 drop
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