Minions Roll Call

Left to right: Lil' Gyro, Chik O' Stiks, Flounder, Duck Sauce, & Mystery Meat

Minions, now with more...spice!

Episode 3: More Dark Heresy

Episode 3: Dark Heresy Anima Hereticus part 2

http://www.cowell.org/~andy/motmm/64k-podcast.rss

Hosts: Duck Sauce, Gyro, Biscuit, Chick-O Stick, Mystery Meat, Flounder

Show Notes:

• laughs and shenanigans
  
• around the horn
• Biscuit sketches the peeps
  
• actual play of Dark Heresy
  
• Evan Williams and you
• a discussion of documentaries...of sorts
  

In our fourth podcast (episode three) we follow hot on the heels of the previous session just two days prior. The game picks up right in the middle of a large firefight with baronial forces as the acolytes try to get to their shuttle and get off world. The hosts share many hearty laughs to book end the actual play portion of the episode.


...action pics of the party's firefight

Professionalism...

...with the Minions, it runs deep!

Episode 2: Dark Heresy Actual Play

Episode 2: Dark Heresy Anima Hereticus

http://www.cowell.org/~andy/motmm/64k-podcast.rss

Hosts: Duck Sauce, T-Bone, Gyro, Biscuit, Chick-O Stick, Mystery Meat, Americana

Show Notes:

• three new players to the show
  
• around the horn
  
• actual play of Dark Heresy
  
• a couple of brief sports segues
  
• Yuengling and you
  

In our third podcast (episode two) we launch into our monthly 'weekend' game which is currently Dark Heresy. This episode picks up after a couple of brief encounters as our acolytes embark on a new mission for their Inquisitor investigating possible Xeno-tech weapons being used by minor nobility on an industrial mining world.

Monkeys of the the Monster Master?

Episode 1: The Lost Session

"Black Jack" Onyx was plying a meager trade route in the outskirts of the Callixus Sector, financed by the mid-tier trade consortium Collective Menelauis . It was consistent, if not extremely prosperous, work. On one route, while hauling grain from an agri-world, he received a distress call from a navy vessel requesting immediate assistance from all Imperial craft within hearing. By the time Onyx showed up, he discovered a badly battered Sword-class frigate making way as best she could. Investigating, he quickly discovered the ship was manned by an Eldar prize crew trying to get the captured vessel into hiding! Quickly taking stock of the situation, Onyx led his merchant crew in a boarding action against the frigate. Numbers soon told, and the vile Eldar corsairs, no doubt crew of the notorious Ulthyr Ellarion, were soon wiped out.

New Logo

ask and you shall receive...

We number an eclectic bunch of hombrés within the Minions; a school teacher, a social worker, a nuclear engineer, an network admin, and a graphic artist. The latter coming through in spades with the new, official logo you see above. This is a 'freebie' for Biscuit, since he's not signed up as an author...yet, I'll show it off for him!


a comparison between my sketch and his final version

I've dabbled in art all my life, but never had any formal training (other than a couple of ceramics classes and a painting class). I can basically get what's in my head down on paper to a fair degree, and its usually gaming and everything related to it that gets my creative juices flowing.

For the logo it looks like Biscuit (Chri3) went to this sketch for the basis of the monster master himself. It's pretty cool to see this all come together, and I'm glad he picked this one 'cause I really liked the idea of the staff in there. It's truly uncanny how he's captured the nuances of my sketches and cranked out this finished piece.

I'm hoping this blog will take off as a place for Chri3 to display some of the stuff he's working on, we can all get some inspiration from it.

Logo Sketches for the Show

What's a show without a logo?

I've been cranking out some sketches for the 'Minions' podcast on iTunes, as well as one for the blog. These are merely sketches mind you, and we'll wait on our resident artist, Biscuit, to get his claws into these and see what he comes up with.


Here's an HTML code below to add a 'Minions' badge to your own blog! Surprisingly enough, we've amassed some blog followers, so why not use this badge and spread the word on your own blogs! Hopefully you can just copy and paste it...


...and thanks to the HTML/RSS coding skills of Duck Sauce, when you visit the Minions podcast page out of iTunes, you'll find us, placeholder logo and all!

Vikings

In Sarterra. They're bad ass.

When Was Lord of the Rings Published?

Debated on the last podcast-- the Hobbit was published in 1937, Lord of the Rings was started before WW2 but published in 1949. Yeah, I was waaaaay off on that one.

The Lovecraft Circle

We also discussed the relationship between Robert E. Howard (left) and H.P. Lovecraft.

Organized Play

Organized Play, a newly opened local shop which got some praise in the latest half-episode. Plus, they don't gouge you by selling Space Hulk for $150.00.

Episode 1: Rogue Trader First Session

Episode 1: Rogue Trader First Session

motmm-ep1-64kbps.mp3

Hosts: Duck Sauce, T-Bone, Gyro, and Biscuit

Show Notes:

• the show gets a new host
  
• around the horn
  
• iTunes announcement
• hail to our blog followers
• the Lovecraft Circle
  
• epic fail with a major rookie mistake

This could possibly be the shortest podcast we may ever produce. If you've followed along thus far, you may have picked up on the fact that our outfit is rather, hmm, developmental in its beginning stages. So, our 'epic fail' occurred early in the show.

My idea was to kind of "edit on the fly" pausing where need be, gain our bearings, unpause it and get rolling. Of course this flies in the face of my previous stance in the vein of Hitchcock's "Rope" where I suggested we roll it without stopping. Now in hindsight, I'm thinking that my original inclination was the really the right way to go.

Our "podcast technical equipment" is new to the group, including its owner, tech-sherpa Duck Sauce. When we thought we "unpaused" it, err, we didn't. That being the case, the bulk of the show, which was the most important part of the show, the actual game play itself, was completely left out. Ah, what can you do?

C'est la vie, these are the birthing pangs of being a bunch of rookies I guess. No, we're not going to "reshoot" or anything, we're just going to move on.

Throw Another Host on the Pile...

Welcome Aboard Biscuit!

T-Bone's Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars

At last night's podcast, I brought a hastily-made batch of Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars. Here is the recipe.

Please note I've added some steps in bold, which you can ignore, unless you desire to increase your kitchen stress via a 5-year old child.

12 oz. pkg. chocolate chips (plus ingredients for preparing the cookie dough)
or
Pre-made cookie dough from the grocery store.

2 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese
2 eggs
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

On the back of the chocolate chip package, follow the directions for making Toll House cookie dough (no nuts). Set aside. Alternatively, you can just buy grocery store cookie dough, like the kind you get in a roll.

Soften cream cheese. Put in mixer and beat cream cheese with sugar. Tell your son to stop pulling spoons out of the drawer and beating on table impatiently. Add remaining ingredients and mix well until creamy, or allow your son to stir the mixture, spewing cream cheese mix all over the floor and walls of the kitchen in the process.

Grease the bottom and sides of a 9 x 13 inch pan. Son, put the cooking spray down....don't aim it at the cat! Cut cookie dough in half. Spread half of the dough in the pan. Pour all cream cheese over dough. Put the rest of the dough. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. No, it is not done yet! It has to cook! Go play in your room please! Chill. Drink a Beer.