COUNTER/Weight 0.1: The First Bell

The First Bell
Episode information
Episode	0.1
Release Date	January 13, 2024
Length	02:29:10
Meta
Cast	Austin Walker Keith J. Carberry Jack de Quidt Ali Acampora Art Martinez-Tebbel
Game	Mechnoir
Score	The Long Way Around
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Transcript	TBA

Episode description

By two o’clock in the morning, Orth Godlove of the Consolidated Counterweight Technocracy had chosen four names. Cassander Timaeus Berenice: an Apostolosian medic with a cool head and a noble background. They’d be able to use their connections, Orth thought. Speak with the Ithikos in a register others wouldn’t. Then there was Mako Trig, some bright-eyed punk kid who claimed to be able to hack anything and everything. He’d dance through their security with a smile. The robot was a risk. Automated Dynamics’ presence would raise questions, but if it came to it, Orth trusted that they would be nothing compact steel and ceramic couldn’t answer. The last name on the list was a wildcard. He’d had to pull some strings, get some questions answered, make sure that this was the real deal. Aria Joie herself, the jewel in EarthHome’s crown, now apparently turned freelancer on the desert planet. Whatever her motives, her legendary charisma and boundless optimism more than qualified her.

There was a certain matter that needed to be cleared up - a corpse on a casino floor, a CCT manager in a cell. There were people down the hall who Orth knew would love nothing more than to roll in with the big guns, but things were… delicate. That’d be a disaster. No, it’d be these four. He’d already furnished them with a ship. He pinched the bridge of his nose. They’ll be in and out. He made the call.

This week on COUNTER/Weight 0.1: The First Bell

Orth Godlove rolls the dice!

Cast

• Austin Walker
• Ali Acampora (Aria Joie)
• Keith J. Carberry (Mako Trig)
• Jack de Quidt (AuDy)
• Art Martinez-Tebbel (Cassander Timaeus Berenice)

Trivia

• Partway through this episode's recording, the news broke that Henry Kissinger had finally shuffled off this mortal coil. A lot of the resulting celebration was cut for Clapcast episode 76, but several references to his death can still be heard in the released episode.