Episode 510 - Cyberpunk I: 2089, chapters 1-5

Episode 510: Cyberpunk I: 2089, chapters 1-5

He has a leathery earlobe, if that helps.

Welcome to Night City in the year 2089 where literally nothing has changed in over a decade and the status quo seems to be enforced by law. It’s a city with a million stories, and you might end up actually reading some of them as a collection of random idiots stumble around through overly forced introductions in an effort to make you the reader decide which one of them you dislike the most. So you better get used to Nomad Kid, Street Kid, Odious Jogging Girl, Idiot Corpo and Cop Movie Cliché Guy because we're in for the long run with the first part of Cyberpunk I: 2089. Please send OCs. No, please, I’m begging you.

Riffers: Dan, Rebecca Bartley, Tsuneo Tateo and Rick R. Mortis

Written by: Zogster and Rick R.

Episode 509 - Fallout: United Carolina Republic, chapters 9-14

Episode 509: Fallout: United Carolina Republic, chapters 9-14

So in short, I think we should change the name back to Columbia because raiders wiped out my hometown and I had sex with Zoey.

In this, the next set of alphanumeric characters that constitutes Fallout: United Carolina Republic, John shows up, issues arbitrary orders, effortlessly slaughters his inept opponents and is congratulated for it. But treachery is looming in the form of the return of his greatest enemy, Enclave John. Yes, that is the character's name. Please stop laughing. So as the narrative collapses in on itself get your ridiculously convenient excavator, your manky bear pelt and the tragic(?) death the fic has been threatening all along for the final chunks of Fallout: United Carolina Republic. But really, his name is Enclave John. We're not making that up.

Riffers: Dan, Rebecca Bartley, Tsuneo Tateo and Rick R. Mortis

Written by: Zogster and Rick R.

Episode 508 - Fallout: United Carolina Republic, chapters 5-8

Episode 508: Fallout: United Carolina Republic, chapters 5-8

The symbol of the notorious raider gang, the poop shovel gun bears.

Warning: Contains explicit sex

John has sex with Zoey. This development is vitally important because it means that John had sex with his girlfriend Zoey who is his girlfriend because she loves him because they have sex. This deeply developed and emotionally compelling relationship forms the heart of this story. Just kidding. It’s mostly about John ordering a mass killing and everyone being okay with this. So get your newspaper headlines, your killer robots and hang out with Father and Son for the next four chapters of Fallout: United Carolina. No really, they never get any names beyond Father and Son and are constantly referred to as such throughout. You'd think somebody would have noticed by now.

Riffers: Dan, Rebecca Bartley, Tsuneo Tateo and Rick R. Mortis

Written by: Zogster and Rick R.

Episode 507 - Fallout: United Carolina Republic, chapters 1-4

Episode 507: Fallout: United Carolina Republic, chapters 1-4

Besides, I’ve never shanked a Lizard Man before. It was kinda fun.

Meet John. He’s the president of the United Carolina Republic. Who is he, what does he do and what is this nation that he supposedly runs? Doesn’t matter at all. What does matter is listing everyone’s weapons and what modifications they have in detail, and boy does this fic have you covered. But if that’s not enough, you get to watch John meet people, hand out arbitrary orders and generally be stupid and have everyone agree with him which is just as thrilling as it sounds. So get your ported extended long calibrated sniper’s Pipe Bolt-Action Gun and cannibalise your neighbours for the first four chapters of Fallout: the United Carolina Republic. May or may not contain Radcoons.

Riffers: Dan, Rebecca Bartley, Tsuneo Tateo and Rick R. Mortis

Written by: Zogster and Rick R.

Episode 506: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA: Genesis Breakers, chapters 9-12

Episode 506: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA: Genesis Breakers, chapters 9-12

And if you can't trust an incomprehensible alien superintelligence, then who?

Meet Patterson. He's a one-man transhumanist clone conspiracy that has infiltrated the Martian military at every single level as a part of a plan to de-terraform Earth in order to ensure the superiority of his own personal agenda. And of you're wondering what this has to do with anything else, then you’re not alone as the entire story just takes a hard left turn off a cliff, throwing away everything we've seen so far for an ending that is so out of nowhere that it’s impossible to connect to the rest of the fic.* So it's time to say a fond farewell to Stomach, Observer 6543321, Thomas Wisette and Cindy the Wolf Sniper for the last chunk of Genesis Climber MOSPEADA: Genesis Breakers. It's an ending so good that you'll feel mad for all the time you spent reading it.

*Not a fanfic.

Riffers: Dan, Rebecca Bartley, Tsuneo Tateo and Rick R. Mortis

Written by: Zogster and Rick R.

Rebuild of Elmer Studios, year fourteen

 The fourteenth year of the Rebuild of Elmer Studios saw us achieve a significant milestone, reaching episode 500. Admittedly we’re not entirely sure if it actually was episode five hundred or if we had 500 episodes previously, but it’s close enough for us. We got a total of fifteen episodes out, which means that we were able to maintain our planned one episode per month release rate during the course of the last year. That schedule is one that we are fully intending to maintain for the foreseeable future.

This last year gave us a rather mixed bag of fics across a number of different fandoms. However, none of them managed to really dominate the year as has happened in past. None the less, there were ones that were memorable for a variety of reasons, and one that is very dear to me for a very, very strange reason.

So let’s take a look back at this last year and see what we had.

Episode 505 - Genesis Climber MOSPEADA: Genesis Breakers, chapters 5-8

Episode 505: Genesis Climber MOSPEADA: Genesis Breakers, chapters 5-8

She's a special operations space murder cyborg nepo-baby from Mars. Normal is a relative term.

As Gate probes the mysteries of an unknowable alien superintelligence, we are left with a single burning question: who is Thomas Wisette and why do we care enough about him to have an entire chapter dedicated to his backstory? Are we really that invested in his observations of Jupiter, the research he does online or his thesis paper that we had to learn all about it in pointless detail? And most importantly, why are we wasting time on this when Eagle, Simmons and Necessary have basically done nothing to justify their existence? Doesn’t matter, he’s dead now anyway. So get your presidential advisory AI and your whimsical child’s painting of an alien fortress for the next four chapters of Genesis Climber MOSPEADA: Genesis Breakers. And how do you drop a submarine from space anyway?

Riffers: Dan, Rebecca Bartley, Tsuneo Tateo and Rick R. Mortis

Written by: Zogster and Rick R.