Party of One Podcast | Creative Interviews Through Tabletop RPG Actual Play

493 - Tether with Justin C. Key (Author, The Hospital At The End Of The World)

Justin C. Key [https://www.justinckey.com/] is a speculative fiction and horror author whose new book, The Hospital At The End Of The World, is available in stores now. It's a murder mystery set in the last human-run hospital in a world overrun by a seemingly (but not quite) perfect AI algorithm overseen by a sinister corporation. Talk about an unfortunately timely premise. We sat down to play Tether [https://adambaffoni.itch.io/tether], a two-player journaling game about people decades apart staring down the same supernatural curse, with only a journal spread across time to help them stop it. JUSTIN C. KEY: https://www.justinckey.com/ THE HOSPITAL AT THE END OF THE WORLD: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-hospital-at-the-end-of-the-world-justin-c-key?variant=43822999928866 TETHER: https://adambaffoni.itch.io/tether ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ [https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/] PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK [https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK] SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer [https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer] FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer [https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer] THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands]

Party of One Says Go Birds: Tacklebox with Emma Shannon

BONUS EPISODE! In honor of Tacklebox winning a Judge's Spotlight award at the ENnies, please enjoy our latest Party of One Says Go Birds live recording, and join us 7/11 when we sit down with Dan and Marty from Breaking Mayberry for a game of Characters Welcome! Emma is host of Unnatural Selection [https://moonshotpods.com/unnatural-selection/] on the Moonshot Podcast Network, about film adaptations of books, the weird choices Hollywood makes, and what actually constitutes a “good” adaptation. He's also a cast member on Interstitial Infinity [https://moonshotpods.com/rhataf/] (an Actual Play podcast about troubled pop culture teens on the Infinity Train) and Dead Teen House Party [https://moonshotpods.com/dead-teen-house-party/], a rewatch podcast of MTV's Scream series. We sat down to play a surreal fishing TTRPG where reality shifts with every card. Two brothers hit the water, and nothing is as it seems. TACKLEBOX: https://possible-worlds-games.itch.io/tacklebox [https://possible-worlds-games.itch.io/tacklebox] UNNATURAL SELECTION: https://moonshotpods.com/unnatural-selection/ [https://moonshotpods.com/unnatural-selection/] DEAD TEEN HOUSE PARTY: https://moonshotpods.com/dead-teen-house-party/ [https://moonshotpods.com/dead-teen-house-party/] INTERSTITIAL INFINITY: https://moonshotpods.com/rhataf/ [https://moonshotpods.com/rhataf/] FOLLOW EMMA ON SOCIAL MEDIA: https://bsky.app/profile/crabmoney.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/crabmoney.bsky.social] ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ [https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/] PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK [https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK] SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer [https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer] FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer [https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer] THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands]

492 - Elf With a 10-Page Backstory with Johnny Stanton IV (Adventuring Academy, Almost Friday TV D&D Series)

Johnny is a professional athlete, professional nerd, and ambassador for all things D&D and tabletop RPGs. You can catch him right now on the Almost Friday TV D&D series on YouTube, running the cast through their first-ever Dungeons & Dragons game. We sat down for an indulgent celebration of all things trope-y tabletop fantasy in a game of Elf With a 10-page Backstory, in which over-the-top TTRPG characters unleash their overwritten origins to stop apocalyptic threats. JOHNNY STANTON IV: https://www.stantoniv.com/ [https://www.stantoniv.com/] ALMOST FRIDAY TV PLAYS D&D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AlRcT8SBNc [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AlRcT8SBNc] ELF WITH A 10-PAGE BACKSTORY: https://devindecibel.itch.io/elf-with-a-10-page-backstory [https://devindecibel.itch.io/elf-with-a-10-page-backstory] ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ [https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/] PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK [https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK] SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer [https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer] FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer [https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer] THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands]

491 - The Long Shift with Andrew Sherman (Podcaster, ARGonauts, The Podcast Mines)

Andrew is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but he is also the host of some of my favorite podcasts, including ARGonauts [https://moonshotpods.com/argonauts/], The Podcast Mines [https://moonshotpods.com/the-podcast-mines-there-but-for-the-grace-of-pod-go-we/], and Mild Manor'd [https://moonshotpods.com/mild-manord/]. We're also sitting down THIS WEEKEND (at the release of this episode) at Moonshot.mov [https://moonshot.mov/] for MOONTROPOLIS, a three-day charity stream raising money for Advocates for Trans Equality We sat down to play The Long Shift [https://seaexcursion.itch.io/the-long-shift] by fellow Moonshot homie Caro Asercion to tell a slice-of-life story about aliens in a galactic diner. THE LONG SHIFT: https://seaexcursion.itch.io/the-long-shift [https://seaexcursion.itch.io/the-long-shift] MOONTROPOLIS: https://moonshot.mov/ [https://moonshot.mov/] ARGONAUTS: https://moonshotpods.com/argonauts/ [https://moonshotpods.com/argonauts/] THE PODCAST MINES: https://moonshotpods.com/the-podcast-mines-there-but-for-the-grace-of-pod-go-we/ [https://moonshotpods.com/the-podcast-mines-there-but-for-the-grace-of-pod-go-we/] MILD MANOR'D: https://moonshotpods.com/mild-manord/ [https://moonshotpods.com/mild-manord/] ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ [https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/] PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK [https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK] SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer [https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer] FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer [https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer] THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands]

490 - We Did Start The Fire with Sarah Gailey (author, Spread Me, Make Me Better)

Sarah is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, essays, comics, and more. Their 2025 novel Spread Me [https://bookshop.org/p/books/spread-me-sarah-gailey/585b1bcdcfb45512?ean=9781250387332], a darkly seductive tale of an otherworldly intruder at an arctic research station, was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by Vulture, and their new book, Make Me Better [https://bookshop.org/p/books/make-me-better-a-novel-sarah-gailey/f4adb70f82360936?ean=9781250851758&next=t], just dropped in stores this week. We sat down to play We Did Start the Fire [https://morganeilish.itch.io/we-did-start-the-fire], an RPG of the people who ended the world, and how they live with themselves after the fact. 🐸 ALL HAIL MARIGOLD. 🐸 SARAH GAILEY: https://sarahgailey.com/ [https://sarahgailey.com/] MAKE ME BETTER: https://bookshop.org/p/books/make-me-better-a-novel-sarah-gailey/f4adb70f82360936?ean=9781250851758&next=t [https://bookshop.org/p/books/make-me-better-a-novel-sarah-gailey/f4adb70f82360936?ean=9781250851758&next=t] WE DID START THE FIRE: https://morganeilish.itch.io/we-did-start-the-fire [https://morganeilish.itch.io/we-did-start-the-fire] ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ [https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/] PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK [https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK] SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer [https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer] FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer [https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer] THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands]