Tavern Watch Plays Starfinder: Murder in Metal City, episode 1: If you’re watching this, I’ve already shut down

A group of strangers gather in a dimly lit bar in the mechanical megalopolis of Striving at the behest of one Tier-99-Professor, who promised them some incredible news. Unfortunately, Tier-99-Professor — “Tierney” to his friends — has already experienced an unexpected shutdown, and now it’s up to his group of friends to hunt down who would want to take out Tierney and why on the mean streets of a metal city. Was this just a robbery gone wrong, or is there some deeper conspiracy at play?

Luckily, Liz Harper as GM is here to guide our group through their investigations, and we’ve got a crack squad on the case:

• Joe Perez as “Nitpick” Bennit, Ysoki Witchwarper, who always knows a guy, and is a daft hand with both magic and technology
• Phil Ulrich as Lunar-17, Android Mystic, who’s so terminally online that it gave her magic powers
• Matt Rossi as Tooth Hug, Skittermander Solarian, who could really use a snack right now
• Special guest Trish Olson, a.k.a. AwkwardishPanda, as Jaedana, a Kasatha Operative gamer who’s uncannily good with a gun, but doesn’t know why she’s here

This is the first in a three-part actual play series of the Starfinder 2E published adventure Murder in Metal City — look for new episodes every Monday!

This game was played using the second edition of Paizo’s Starfinder, which expands their Pathfinder game into space. We’re really fomd of this rollicking science-fantasy game system — so much so that we’ve even played it before on the show — and if you like what you hear today, you can easily pick it up for yourself!

Music from this episode is “Start a Trek,” by Edgar Henderson; you can check out more of his music on Soundcloud.

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