PARTIZAN is the sixth season of Friends at the Table and the third season of the Divine Cycle. It focuses on the Divine Principality, a galaxy-spanning empire made up of five sub-cultures, called Stels: Stel Kesh, Nideo, Orion, Columnar, and Apostolos. The main action takes place on the moon Partizan, originally focusing on the two parties: the Society of Banners and Bright Returns and the Rapid Evening.
Continuity
PARTIZAN takes place some five thousand years after the events of Twilight Mirage and about fifty thousand after COUNTER/Weight. As such, although there are references to those preceding seasons, they can be enjoyed in any order. It is followed by its direct sequel season, PALISADE. The five years between PARTIZAN and PALISADE are fleshed out by the mini-season Road to PALISADE.
The main body of PARTIZAN is preceded by the miniseries Road to PARTIZAN, a series of one-shot or two-shot games in different systems which established aspects of worldbuilding. Listening to Road to PARTIZAN is not necessary in order to understand the events of PARTIZAN.
Plot
PARTIZAN has two plot summaries available:
- An episode-by-episode summary, which summarizes every individual episode of the season
- A faction level summary, which is a high level summary of factional moves and changes
Episodes
Cast
- Austin Walker (GM)
- Ali Acampora (Kal'mera Broun)
- Andrew Lee Swan (Valence and The Figure in Bismuth)
- Janine Hawkins (Thisbe)
- Jack de Quidt (Clementine Kesh and Kalar Anakalar)
- Sylvia Bullet (Ver'million Blue)
- Art Martinez-Tebbel (Sovereign Immunity)
- Keith J. Carberry (Exeter Leap and Phrygian)
Games
For most of the season, the Friends play Beam Saber by Austin Ramsay. The Millennium Break arc is played with Kingdom, the Witch in Glass arc is played in part with The Tower, and in the finale the Friends play War in the Year 1424 of the Perfect Millennium, Austin's hack of War in the Year 3000.
Trivia
- Touchstones for PARTIZAN include Battletech and 1960s and 70s hard sci-fi.[1]
References
- ↑ The Road to PARTIZAN 07: Beam Saber Pt. 2 at 01:36:37