- This page is about the season. For the setting, see Twilight Mirage (location).
Twilight Mirage is the fourth season of Friends at the Table. It focuses on the decline of the utopic Divine Fleet, an itinerant society of Divines and people, as its people try to save it and build something new from it.
Continuity
Twilight Mirage takes place in the same universe as COUNTER/Weight, but after over 30,000 years have passed; Twilight Mirage stands alone from COUNTER/Weight. However, the season is partially a response to "We could have made them look like anything, but we made them look like us," a phrase often repeated in COUNTER/Weight. Instead, Twilight Mirage starts with the assumption that some beings are very, very different from humans.[1]
Plot
The Divine Fleet is a utopia in decline, facing possible extinction. At its peak, it contained three hundred of the intelligent, powerful 'robot gods' known as Divines. About a thousand years ago, that number started to dive. Three hundred years later, it stabilized to around eight, and in the last couple of decades it has dropped down to just two.
The show opens on the day of the death of the second to last one.
The main ships, each one created by one of the friends and home to one of the player characters, were each once home to a Divine, but no longer. Nearly all of them have perished in some way, and each ship has lost some function they once contributed to the fleet while a Divine was present.
The first half of the season features the Beloved Dust and the crew of Myriad. The Beloved Dust, with GM Austin Walker and players Ali Acampora, Jack de Quidt, and Janine Hawkins, play to find out what happens among these very ships. The crew of Myriad, with GM Austin Walker and players Andrew Lee Swan, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Sylvia Clare, and Keith J. Carberry, travel to Quire, a planet that could be a new home for the now-failing Divine Fleet.
In the second half of the season, the Notion, with GM Austin Walker and players Sylvia Clare, Andrew Lee Swan, Ali Acampora, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Jack de Quidt, Janine Hawkins, and Keith J. Carberry, try to find stability in the shaken Quire system post-Miracle as various factions vie for control of the area.
Episodes
↳ List of Twilight Mirage episodes
Cast
- Austin Walker (GM)
- Ali Acampora (Tender Sky)
- Andrew Lee Swan (Even Gardner)
- Art Martinez-Tebbel (Grand Magnificent)
- Jack de Quidt (Fourteen Fifteen)
- Janine Hawkins (⸢Signet⸣)
- Keith J. Carberry (Gig Kephart)
- Sylvi Bullet (Echo Reverie)
Games
Twilight Mirage uses The Veil, Follow and Scum and Villainy to tell the story of the Divine Fleet and the people living within it, as well as those who leave it behind in order to seek a new home for those souls in the fleet.
Trivia
- Twilight Mirage was occasionally referred to as "Season Six" prior to its release, although the eventual sixth season would actually be PARTIZAN. Originally planned to be the sixth season, Twilight Mirage was moved up the line after the Friends decided that Bluff City was more suited to being a bonus series for supporters of the show on Patreon than the podcast's fourth main season.
- Twilight Mirage contains numerous references to Frank Ocean's music, and his lyrics are quoted in the majority of episode descriptions.
References
- ↑ Episode 00, 0:13:25.