Ruin's Gate 40: Delving Too Deep, part 2

The Unexplored Places

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Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…

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Funerary traditions on Antarras vary by town. The early settlers brought with them a range of belief systems, cultural traditions, and dispositions towards death, so in the earliest days, there were as many cremations as there were burials, and almost as many mourning practices as there were settlements cropping up on the planet’s surface. Eventually, most of the planet settled into the same—or at least similar—general traditions, though there were some smaller settlements that held out against the planet-wide preference for cremation and kept well-tended cemeteries of their own dead nearby to town. But for most, superstition won out against any Earth-based cultural beliefs, and the dead were usually burned for fear that what was buried might not always stay that way.

This week, on Ruin’s Gate: An act of remembrance.

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Ruin's Gate 40: Delving Too Deep, part 2

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This week, on Ruin’s Gate: An act of remembrance.

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Ruin's Gate 59: In the Wrong Hands 1:56:39

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Hellstone weaponry was always destined to be a matter of convergent evolution: with so powerful an energy source at their fingertips, and in such a volatile set of situations, the eventuality that someone tried to create a more powerful weapon was certain. The mystery was only a matter of who would get there first—and, of course, who would get to wield them. For the Company, Antarras was not only a source for hellstone, but it was also a testing ground, a safe place far from Earth to see just what these hellstone weapons could do. But for the people of Antarras who were developing their own similar weapons, these were a matter of survival against the overwhelming odds. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Heroics and hearsay. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 58: Hellstone or High Water 1:57:11

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CONTENT WARNINGS: discussions of body horror (1:15:00-1:17:00) While there was a contingent of separatists, among the first settlers of Antarras, the original missions to Antarras weren’t launched with the idea of ever becoming fully independent from Earth. Enough uncertainties plagued the early missions that finding native alternatives to every single need could never have been high on the list of priorities: early efforts towards practical sustainability went into determining what familiar crops found functional homes in Antarran soil, and what available building materials could replace the temporary prefab structures brought over on those first ships. Fuel might have been higher on the list had it not, in fact, been so readily available—hellstone’s value came from its easy, if dangerous, efficiency as an energy source. But there was enough else those first settlers needed that its value as an export vastly outweighed the value in investing in long-term infrastructure to encourage its use on Antarras. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Crises of energy and conscience alike. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 57: Election Day 2:38:03

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Those first three months were, in some ways, the easiest. Even if it seemed like the world had fallen apart around us, at least the path was clear: to get through, at all costs. Pure survival. A straightforward goal with straightforward steps. Ensure the farms were undamaged, replant what seeds had been destroyed. Check the stability of the town and its buildings, rebuild anything that needed shoring up. Tend to the wounded. Bury the dead. One foot in front of the other, heads down all the way. It was only after that initial period of work, when we finally started to look up and to look out, that things began to get complicated. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Questions and consequences of governance. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 56: Aftermath, part 5 34:50

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This week, on Ruin’s Gate: A choice of some consequence. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 55: Aftermath, part 4 24:25

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This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Crossing bridges. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 54: Aftermath, part 3 44:39

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This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Religious reform. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 53: Aftermath, part 2 40:00

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This week, on Ruin’s Gate: A symbolic gesture. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 52: Aftermath, part 1 49:07

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This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Rebuilding and building anew. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 51: The Last Days 2:32:39

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Three major events anchor the history of human life on Antarras. The first, of course, is the discovery of hellstone by the original settlers. The second is the signing of the Ostenberg agreement, after the Battle of Swallow’s Pass, when terms between those same settlers and the Company were negotiated into an unsteady but even, temporary peace. The final, almost four decades later, would be the events of that day in Bell’s Landing—a day that changed everything we thought Antarras could, or couldn’t, be. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: The end is nigh. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 50: The Envoy's Promise, part 2 1:49:03

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Covenant is a game that, by design, is about making the best of the hand you’ve been dealt—making smart bets even in unlucky circumstances. As such, the game resonates with the spirit of the original settlers on Antarras who invented it: none of them had been dealt a very good hand at all in life, but the promise of the hard journey out here was that they might make something of themselves nevertheless. To this day, not only is Covenant the most popular card game on Antarras, but it's also, to many, an important symbol of the ethos of Antarran life, the firm belief that anyone can make something of themself out here, no matter where they come from or what they start with. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: A covenant. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 49: The Envoy's Promise, part 1 1:43:29

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One day, a fellow reporter and I were sitting in our office at the end of a long day, passing a flask of whiskey back and forth, and she asked me a question I’d never asked before, but I’ve never since forgotten: What, she asked, after a long swig, do you think was actually here before us? After a moment, she went on: there’s water, here, and plants, and animals. Shelter’s easy enough to find, and there’s no shortage of oxygen. Seems silly to think we’re the first people ever set foot on this big red rock, don’t it? This week, on Ruin’s Gate: A promise kept. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 48: From Below, part 2 2:01:39

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CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (1:28:00), coercion (1:39:30) The… unfriendliness, shall we say, of hellstone’s predisposition to spontaneously combusting upon transport in the early days of hellstone mining precipitated a whole host of research from all kinds. The second question—after, of course, how to safely mine the stuff—was how to safely move it, first to move it from the mines to the towns, and then how to move it from Antarras back to Earth where it could be traded and sold. Before the current refining process was finalized, there was a nonzero risk of the stuff setting off deadly chain reactions upon, for instance, atmospheric reentry—and of all the things the original settlers of Antarras gave up when the Company got exclusive trade rights in the Oestenberg Agreement, the responsibility of dealing with how to get hellstone safely anywhere was widely considered no great loss. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: The old-fashioned way. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 47: From Below, part 1 1:53:20

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There had always been those who naively believed that hellstone could, in some way, in some novel form, actually be tamed—could be brought under control, made safer or more convenient, be “domesticated,” as the case may be. And there have always been opponents to that idea. When Eleanor Greer invented the process that would later go on to be cemented as the standard process for refining hellstone for safe use and safe shipment, the President of the Mining Guild at the time, a man by the name of Arn Goldman, would, allegedly, tell anyone who would listen for more than a minute or two, that Greer was a fool for trying: “it’s no coincidence,” he is recorded as having said, “that hellstone’s the very same color as blood. Anyone who doesn’t take that as a sign is stupid enough to deserve what’s coming to ‘em.” This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Nowhere to go but down. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 46: Through New Eyes 2:08:58

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CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (eyes) [00:05:09, 00:26:00], references to cannibalism [1:54:50] Now, what’s deceptive about a sleepy little town — which, though I’ve argued before that Ruin’s Gate was far from, but for the sake of poetry, let’s say the sentiment stands — is that, sleepy as they might seem, that doesn’t mean there isn’t always something going on under the surface. Trouble brewing out of sight. Pieces moving on chess boards in back rooms. Plans hatching, plots thickening, deals being made in the dark. And in Ruin’s Gate, in those days, there was plenty of dark to go around. This week, on Ruin’s Gate: Reunions and reconsiderations. GET YOUR "SAY OK TO THE CLOCK" SHIRT HERE: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-unexplored-places Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unexploredcast Follow us on Tumblr: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/ Art by Ben Prevas Music by Andrew: https://andrewperricone.bandcamp.com/ Indigeneity Consultation by Wind: https://twitter.com/windjammah , https://qomrades.com/ Transcripts: https://unexploredcast.tumblr.com/transcripts…

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Ruin's Gate 45: The Devil's Pilgrimage, part 2 2:02:46

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