Play Session 002 of ICONS, wherein train tracks, impacts, solid smacks and wise cracks permeate the tackling of a towering troll! The team continues to gel and the baddies get a little payback deep in the underground! BlindGeek is Game Mastering, Nikki is Diamond Lil, Pat is P.ing, Chris is Mindshadow and Josh is Kid Salamander.

Play Session 001 of ICONS, complete with hard hitting bad guys, lightning quick Super Heroes and, of course, hot delicious Latte! Don't miss this pulverizing beginning of the adventure! BlindGeek is Game Mastering, Nikki is Diamond Lil, Pat is P.ing, Chris is Mindshadow and Josh is Kid Salamander.

The ICONS gaming begins anew with Team Creation and Mach II ! Listen in as the Gutter Skypes Galvanize their super hero ICONS characters ( 'galvanize' get it? did you see what I did there? . . robots in the team . . .galv- ) into a crack fighting force of might, power and above all . . style! This will be the first of many upcoming Gutter Skypes episodes following their Rock'em Sock'em adventure! ( I did it again . . did you see? .. I went with the robot thing and . . . )

BlindGeek is Game Mastering, Nikki is "Diamond Lil", Pat is "P.ing", Chris is "Mindshadow" and Josh is "Kid Salamander". Let the synchronization begin!

There's unfinished business of the Zombie kind, and the Gutter Skypes are getting out the beat stick to deal with it! Lightning bolts, pounding fists and anti-arcane acrobatics are all employed to take out the Big Baddies once and for all in this exciting conclusion to the three part adventure created and Game Mastered by Andros! It's a SotC smack down of epic proportions that you won't want to miss!

Stan Rocket is played by Mark Kinney of All Games Considered. Trixie Trueheart is played by Nikki. Nick Tessla is played by Blindgeek. Hank Bugle is played by anim5.

What began in session one as a display of Pacific cultural treasures turned to a labrynth of dead revolutionaries, killer penquins and an evil undersea god! Join the Gutter Skypes in session two of this three-part SotC adventure, created and Game Mastered by Andros! When the enemy sends foes to kill you, and you're totally outnumbered . . . it may turn out that violence will occur. ( umm, yeah anim . . DUH! )

Stan Rocket is played by Mark Kinney of All Games Considered. Trixie Trueheart is played by Nikki. Nick Tessla is played by Blindgeek. Hank Bugle is played by anim5.

In this installment of The Gutter Skypes Mark Kinney gets us up and running with a one shot of INSPECTRES. A hauntingly fun little jewel of a game that we got into and bounced around in. By the time we got out, we'd all had a very strange adventure, four new characters and a great deal of fun!

This episode has a good deal of caffeine in it and the supernatural had to take a backseat to the unabashed weirdness from the PC's. We had fun. 'Hope you do too. Give it a listen!

A catch up on listener feedback and then The Gutter Skypes Mach II play OCTANE ! This may be a vintage recording, but what better way to cool off in July than to hear a January recording? I'm more than glad to post it, and extend many thanks indeed to Blindgeek for game mastering and then doing all the Editing work to make it available! Fasten your safety belts and listen to OCTANE, all the while remembering . . . what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

When RPG characters come up against complications the result is usually a good story. But when those complications are thrown at them by the very players who run them . . . a good story gets even better as their adventure goes from a promising endeavor to an ongoing FIASCO. ( Kind of like real life, but either more humorous or more tragic depending on who is playing ).

Check out this episode wherein Mark Kinney, Andros and anim5 find out how many ways they can make things go wrong while dangling the carrot of hope and applying the flame of panic to three ne'er do wells in the old west!

Listener Feedback . . then . . . Emergency measures! Andros was unable to join us and Game Master, so we rolled up characters for ICONS! Lots of reading and thinking in this one, but if you're interested in hearing how it's done, Mark Kinney kept us on track as we built AMAZING heroes one layer at a time! :)

An all new "Spirit of the Century" Adventure - Game Mastered by Andros! Listen in and have as good a time as we did setting out with our SotC characters and Andros on his Gutter Skypes GM'ing debut! WARNING: There WILL be Penguins involved. If you have special phobias with regard to cold climate flightless birds, please take appropriate precautions!

Stan Rocket is played by Mark Kinney of All Games Considered. Trixie Trueheart is played by Nikki. Nick Tessla is played by Blindgeek. Hank Bugle is played by anim5. Download and find out what terrible trouble totem tinkering tenders!

Action Packed! A phrase used all to often to describe a film, a story or a municipal council meeting. As applied to this 50th episode of The Gutter Skypes, it simply means " Holy Cow! What a lot of stuff to happen in such an exciting ending! ". Game Mastered by Blindgeek, this amazing conclusion to the Spirit of the Century adventure 'Return of the King' does not fall short in over-the-top pulpy goodness and Kong-tastic Keester Kicking!

Stan Rocket is played by Mark Kinney of All Games Considered. Trixie Trueheart is played by Nikki. Reggie Forthright is played by Andros. Hank Bugle is played by anim5 and the extra special celebrity monster King Kong is played by himself. ( Well no, not really . . he's portrayed by Blindgeek . . but you know . . . .) Download and listen or you'll never know what happened!

The best way to illustrate the plot entanglements resulting from time travel, is to use the very same method employed by the highway planning authorities of New Jersey and Los Angeles. Get a big clean sheet of paper and drop a big bowl of well-stirred spaghetti onto it. Remove the spaghetti and work from the "printed" results.

Bladestar, Shaylee and Smack ( oh yes . . and the annoying Lucas ) find that while they're able to make big splashes in the river of time, they can't change its course! Find out why in this Eigth installment of "Cartoon Action Hour" !

Crooked, creepy, collared criminals are out to pull off a kidnapping right under the noses of FOUR Centurians! These are NOT your Mother's Minions! Tune in to this third part of a Blindgeek Game Mastered 'Spirit of the Century' that takes up where "Rumpus in the Rhumba Room" left off!

Also - The Gutter Skypes Are considering entry to The Ennie Awards Competition. Do you have an all-time-favorite episode? Please write in and let us know! We need feedback to influence our selection of a representative episode. Thanks!

From Breakfast cereals to Miracle Cleaners to Super Sweet soft drinks, no one growing up within the influence of a television set escapes the parade of vivid product mascots and spokes-cartoons!

Blindgeek game masters this pre-convention Gutter Skypes playtest of "Advertitans". A game concept that makes full use of the QAGS game system and our life-long exposure to these larger than Fiction commercial beings! Have a listen! No purchase necessary!

The Innuendo is ignoble! The Banter is Bizarre! The Puns are Punishing! And the Yum Yums go flying like a Dragon at a Ren-Fest ! Download this 6th installment of the M-Force series or you'll call yourself a masochist for the rest of your life!

Pat plays : Fenton Bo DeJong  Nikki plays : Robbin St. John Jocelyn Goodfellow  Moon Dog plays : Kajika  Josh plays : Pete Gunderson

The hit film "KING KONG" is now in the public memory, but certain individuals have arranged a press conference in the Empire State Building, to announce a new book revealing startling FACTS about the unknown, real life expedition! Not just any reporter's assignment, this gathering goes awry in a hurry, and Stan, Reggie, Trixie and Hank are on hand to witness all! - Don't miss this exciting new Spirit of the Century actual play session, or you'll feel like a massive chimp!

M-Force - Actual play - Session Five.
You know there will be monsters ( M ) you know there will be force involved ( Force ) - But if things get a little "Funky". . . Well we can't be blamed for that! If you insist on making it OUR fault then listen to the episode to be absolutely SURE !

Pat plays : Fenton Bo DeJong  Nikki plays : Robbin St. John Jocelyn Goodfellow  Moon Dog plays : Kajika  Josh plays : Pete Gunderson

The Return of Nikki ! The woes of old computers! The Knitting of Doctor Who! Listener Feedback! and an Action Packed Amphibion Ambush at Ample Altitudes! Don't miss this first installment of a NEW SotC adventure with the Blindgeek, Mark Kinney, Nikki, Andros and anim5. ( Not safe for tadpoles ).

Missing Nikki because of real life computer impacts, BlindGeek, Andros, Mark Kinney and anim5 play a one-shot using the OCTANE game system. Blindgeek GM's and bizarre business bounces beneath the Big Top!

M-Force - Actual play - Session Four. There's Listener feedback! There's Head Goo! There's Yippy, Yappy and Yahooey! If you have to ask what its all about, then don't waste a minute! Download this and listen!

Pat plays : Fenton Bo DeJong  Nikki plays : Robbin St. John Jocelyn Goodfellow  Moon Dog plays : Kajika  Josh plays : Pete Gunderson

Long awaited Forum Posts and Emails - Then The Group creation of Nikki's new SotC character - Trixie Trueheart! Lots of tangents, a cat's cradle of connections, but in the end, Trixie LIVES !

Session Seven of CARTOON ACTION HOUR "Captive Souls".

Please go back to the beginning of this sentence and force yourself not to read it. You now know what flavor adventure the Heroes will be chowing on for this episode. The Delicious paradox of temporal tampering!

Game Mastered and Edited by BlindGeek! - M-Force - Actual play - Session Three. No Messin' about! M-Force takes off the kid gloves, ignites the flaming bat of death and ups the stakes!

Pat plays : Fenton Bo DeJong  Nikki plays : Robbin St. John Jocelyn Goodfellow  Moon Dog plays : Kajika  Josh plays : Pete Gunderson Special thank to Moon Dog this episode for providing the back-up audio that made it possible!

The exciting conclusion to the epic Gutter Skypes sessions of "Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies" !

S7S Play Session 11 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - Playing Ravenna D' Mystiere is Nikki.

Game Mastered and Edited by BlindGeek! - M-Force - Actual play - Session Two. The audio demons are banished, and the M-Force team come up against a domestic drudgery featuring two little monsters. Before long the landscape changes and the big monsters come on fast and furious! Great fun, great energy and great galloping game dice, Don't miss this one!

The gang aboard the Guano Loco iron out some wrinkles and discover a few new ones as they kick the speed up to nearly faster than the plot! A tempting jewel, A few tough bargains and a powder blast are all included at no extra charge!

S7S Play Session 10 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - Playing Ravenna D' Mystiere is Nikki.

Session Six of CARTOON ACTION HOUR "Captive Souls".

The Knights of Shenseen meet a mysterious stranger, take a test, and learn that some of the trickiest terrain on the planet Xim is in their own minds!

Game Mastered and Edited by BlindGeek ! - M-Force - Actual play - Session One. A Monstrous encounter guaranteed to set the fast-food world on fire! Check out this New Gutter Skypes game series from a group of players with audio nerves of steel !

A Prisoner Poked, A Galleon Gorged, A Star searched for and Lieutenants Lathered! There's Jewelry traded, Brandy Stolen, Flintlock anesthesia and Ruckus from a Ruq! Don't miss it!

S7S Play Session 9 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - Playing Ravenna D' Mystiere is Nikki.

Session Five of CARTOON ACTION HOUR "Captive Souls".

Is it wild and chaotic Cartoon Adventure you'd be after havin' ? Well The Gutter Skypes session five of Cartoon Action Hour Delivers! Bladestar and Smack prove once again that they're always after the plucky harms. Saucy and wicked NPC's do homage to St. Patrick's day without mercy.

Plot with a capital P. Exposition of epic proportions on board "The Shield of Vaoz". Knowledge is shared, gaps are filled, but the major threat remains! What Next ?

S7S Play Session 8 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - Playing Ravenna D' Mystiere is Nikki.

S7S Play Session 7 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - Playing Ravenna D' Mystiere is Nikki.

A foot-free glider, an aireal fruit fracas and a tango in the tavern. The Gang go gaga in Gegenschein !

S7S Play Session 6 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek.

The crew get a dim view of a dim cultist. Doctor Pegrini takes his next step and the heat is on with landfall at Gegenschein!

S7S Play Session 5 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - playing Ravenna Mystiere is Nikki.

Cannon Madness, Coded Webs Unwoven and Koldun Chicanery. The Guanno Loco has it all and a mysterious passenger to boot! Follow the continued oddities of this S7S adventure!

Session Four of CARTOON ACTION HOUR "Captive Souls". Though Smack, Bladestar and Shaylee get totally submerged in a sea of danger, it does not dampen their spirits . . . Thrill to their adventures in this under-tow of terror!

S7S Play Session 4 GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - playing Ravenna Mystiere is Nikki.

A Schooner Scuttled - A Koldun on ice - A galeon encounter of high strangeness. The minutes pass and the world changes. Same thing happens in this game!

Calculating Carnage and Ironing out game mechanical Kinks while Kicking Cackling Koldun Keester! 

Session Three of CARTOON ACTION HOUR "Captive Souls". Shaylee, Bladestar and Smack Chainmore seek the Helm of Xim in a desolated ancient city. Obstacles and attacks abound!

S7S Character Creation wrap-up and Game session 1. Impersonating a GM: anim5 - playing Captain Zafiri Karloson is Mark Kinney of The ENnie Award-winning "All Games Considered" - playing Pard is Andros - playing Kuruk is Blindgeek - and, introducing the Newest Gutter Skype. . . Nikki! playing the character Ravenna Mystiere. First half of the episode completes the characters, second half is the beginning of Play. Much Adventure, excitement and mystery! Cannon fire and Blood! Don't miss a minute!

Session Two of CARTOON ACTION HOUR "Captive Souls". Bladestar and Smack Chainmore take up where they left off in the dark and dangerous Pyramid of Fantra !

Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies !  Character Creation session. Impersonating a GM: anim5 - Creating the character of Captain Zafiri is Mark Kinney of All Games Considered - Creating the character of Pard is Andros - Creating the character of Kuruk is Blindgeek. If you are in the process of learning S7S, this may be the episode for YOU. It sure helped me.

Please note that the publisher info given at the top of the episode is only HALF correct. Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies was published by Evil Hat Productions AND Atomic Sock Monkey Press. A Correction will be made in Gutter Skypes Episode 22.

Bonus Gameplay! Blindgeek, Lioncourt and anim5 set off on classic 80's animated adventure in "Cartoon Action Hour!". This episode is the character creation session followed by actual play at the end. This new game series will alternate with "Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies". That means a new Gutter Skypes episode every week!

From under the Sea to above the clouds, Keppler, Drake and DePelieu bust Nazi bawlz with three blazing barrels! This is the action-packed conclusion of our current Hollow Earth Adventure!

Game 004 of Hollow Earth Expedition. Drake, Keppler and DePelieu in the company of a scientist and his daughter, have concluded a harrowing car chase through the streets of Aberdeen and switch from fearful flight to firefight!

Trapped on the end of a pier with a gun toting murderer and the forces of Thule behind them, they fight for possession of the Pulse Magnetic Detector, the safety of those they rescued and their very lives! Keppler clubs a creep, Drake blasts a barbarian and Depelieu drops his dignity! Don't miss it!

Game 003 of Hollow Earth Expedition. Drake, Keppler and DePelieu jumpinto the middle of an explosive kidnapping, which leads to gunplay which preceeds flaming building collapse and finally culminates in a first-hand lesson in Thule Road Rage!

Game 002 of Hollow Earth Expedition. Drake, Keppler and DePelieu discover the reason behind the Massachussetts Mansion Masacre. Earthly science has been bent to the will of brutal cultists with the hellish hearts of crazed nazis. The scope of their mission expands to Aberdeen and off they go! Thrill to their adventures in an episode that challenges their code breaking skills, gears them up and launches them airborne to rescue yet another scientist on the side of virtue!

Game 001 of "Hollow Earth Expedition" - Three brand new Gutter Skypes characters are thrown into the thick of it at a Mansion in Massachusetts. Grumpy Professors mix it up with blazing guns. Don't miss it !

Imminent attack! A race to beat a pirate rendezvous, political gambling that ups the stakes, and the coordination of a plan that even brings in the Space Patrol! Join the Gutter Skypes for this exciting conclusion to the Starblazer Adventure ! Loose cannon are tied down, the searing energy of Plasma Dragons singes the ship, and the plan is completed just in time for our heroes to stare straight into the eyeballs of Death!

Ivan, Tank and Montab reach The Mystic Net with their Corporate VIP's in tow along with the mysterious sample of Rubble from Beta Epsilon. In this episode dangers multiply, but so do revelations about the strange yellow substance that started this whole adventure! Finally the stakes are revealed!

With the mysterious yellow rubble and two mining company executives on board, Tank, Ivan and Montab set off for the Mystic Net in THE SPARROW HAWK. They quickly formulate a plan to peel away some of the mystery from their closed mouthed guests by stopping at The Cornucopia Collective. The puzzle takes on new shading, but no solution. After leaving the famous food source they fly into a mess so funny it just might Kill Them!

The Beta Epsilon asteroid fields are a hive of activity as an entirely unknown substance comes to light. Two rival mining corporations oversee the bulk of its retrieval, but when a press conference is called over the nature of "The Rubble" things begin to go . . .  odd. 

On the surface of it all things appear normal, but none of the facts add up! Tank Rondar, Ivan Archangel and Montab Comet find themselves blasting off into a new adventure where the stakes are unknown, the clues are all skewed and 2 + 2 = Danger !

Start with thin air, add four Gutter Skypes, simmer for a few hours and out come three STARBLAZER ADVENTURE characters!

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Four geeks get together over Skype and occasionally complete game preparation for Starblazer Adventures! Mostly though, they go off on wild tangents and the breeze is thoroughly shot! Listen in as The Gutter Skypes fill in some skills, build a ship and create a galactic map of Science Fiction adventure!

Also, check out Mark Kinney's latest Actual Play recordings of  The Byzantine Game !

The Second Half of "Spirit of the Season" - Who could have guessed that travel by tesseract train track could tantalize and twist into terror! Stan, Reggie and Hank are dumped at a destination dipped in Danger! The private little country at the North Pole so famous for exporting Christmas suffers in a fiendish grip until the Century Club Heroes peel away the hairy fingers!

Watch the IDDFOS rss feed for the next new Gutter Skype Play sessions. Coming up: Starblazer Adventures! - An all new cast of player-characters!

Feeling a touch of the "post-holiday" blues? Well energize your voice, pinch your nose and read what follows into an empty coffee can!

"Spirit of the Season !" A Brand new, two-part SOTC adventure covered in snow and Game Mastered by Blindgeek! Once again we hear Andros as Reggie Forthright, anim5 as Hank Bugle, And in this story, Mark Kinney brings about the return of Stan Rocket!

The boys from the Century Club are getting a real taste of winter weirdness in Washington.

Christmas Eve warps into Christmas Evil when a simple shopping trip in the nation's capitol turns to terror in a toy store! Our heroes are plunged into a Holly Jolly Jigsaw Puzzle of Peril. There are few things they know for sure, but one of them is - Christmas is in Danger!

Be sure to hear the conclusion of this story in "Spirit of the Season Part 2 ".

The final chapter in this adventure! Can Nick, Reggie and Hank defeat the plans of The Shocking Shaman? Will the crackling, cackling Shaman Shackle Europe starting with captured German Ships? Find out yourself and listen !

Captured by the Shocking Shaman of Shanghai last week, the Centennial Three behaved VERY rudely at dinner and managed to get loose aboard the evil man's massive airship. But what kind of damage can they do before they escape? Can they escape? Powerful allies of the Shaman are determined to make things HOT for our heroes!

Having defeated the mysterious mechanized minions that attacked the airbase, Nick, Reggie and Hank set off to locate the source of the radio signal that motivated the mysterious, massive, malevolent, metal monster. Taking to the air and heading West - they meet up with a shocking surprise!

The Three Century Club members find themselves on an airbase in England among an international assembly of high ranking military dignitaries. What begins as an informal evaluation of air-power turns to mayhem as the base comes under full high-tech assault !

Next week, the story continues, but keep an eye on your podcatcher during the week for a short, special holiday message from The Gutter Skypes.

If you'd like to comment on this or any upcoming episodes of "The Gutter Skypes" - Please visit the IDDFOS Forums using the graphic link on your right.

If you've arrived strictly from a gaming interest and have never heard of "International Detective Dragons From Outer Space" ( IDDFOS ) you might enjoy checking out one of those shows too. It is vastly different from these recorded game sessions, but you may find it entertaining as well.

The first ever GUTTER SKYPE recording before we even had a name for the group. Many Thanks and Laurels to Mark Kinney of "All Games Considered" for becoming our first game master and creating a fantastic SOTC adventure!

Those familiar with "Spirit of the Century" will know that the character creation process holds as much creative energy and fun as the gameplay itself. In this session you'll discover just how enjoyable it is to build three adventuring heroes from the age of pulp fiction and serial adventure cinema. Please listen along as Andros, Blindgeek and anim5 create their adventure group from the ground up and have a blast doing it !

IMPORTANT NOTE : The audio of this first installment does not represent the quality level you can look forward to in future game sessions. Only THIS episode was obtained using my portable digital recorder. The episodes that will follow are cleaner 'in-line' recordings of a much higher quality. My apologies for the less-than-stellar mp3 experience for this one, but I hope the fun will still shine through the bits of hiss.

If you'd like to comment on this or any upcoming episodes of "The Gutter Skypes" - Please visit the IDDFOS Forums using the graphic link on your right.

If you've arrived strictly from a gaming interest and have never heard of "International Detective Dragons From Outer Space" ( IDDFOS ) you might enjoy checking out one of those shows too. It is vastly different from these recorded game sessions, but you may find it entertaining as well.

"Spirit of the Century" is a fiendishly fun Role Playing Game written by Rob Donoghue, Fred Hicks, and Leonard Balsera. Published by Evil Hat Productions.

"STARBLAZER ADVENTURES!" is an RPG developed by Chris Birch of Cubicle7 games. It is an adaptation of the 70's and 80's British Space Opera Comics originally published by D.C.Thompson. The Highly praised FATE system by Evil Hat Productions is also used in this game.