Cast & Crew

Mischa Stanton

xe/they - Creator, Producer, GM, Sound & Music

Mischa is a storyteller & sound designer based in LA. Polygon.com once called their work “the most incredible sound design you’ll get in podcasting,” and boy if that doesn’t just do a great job of summing it up! Previous credits include LeVar Burton Reads, Pale Blue Pod, The Bright Sessions, StarTripper!!, and MARVELS, as well as shows for CNN, Audible, Netflix, & The LA Times. They also do story & game consulting for Join The Party, and co-created CLEAR EYES / FULL HEARTS, a tabletop RPG about living the epic highs & lows of high school football.

Mischa loves deep sci-fi & fantasy worldbuilding, games with surprising rules interactions to discover, stories about non-human characters attempting to navigate human society, and dice that kinda look like seaglass. They know way more about Magic: The Gathering and Kingdom Hearts than any person reasonably should, and they think games belong to the people who play them, and not the people who keep others from playing them (including & especially large publishing companies).

Bex Taylor-Klaus

they/them - Producer, "Ibra"

Bex is a pleasant but cunning life form that grew into a humanoid over thousands of years from of a wad of radioactive chewing gum. When they were just a boy, they were flown from London to Neverland where fairies and birds taught them to fly. Since then they've built an impressive resume, using their powerful connection with the Force to train Jedi for over 800 years. In their free time Bex enjoys giving back to the community by helping anxious clownfish with a heart of gold reunite with their long lost offspring, despite struggling with extreme memory loss. Bex is so thrilled that they were able to take a break from their most recent project, traveling aimlessly through the world capturing wild beasts, trying to "be the very best, like no one ever was," to work on this podcast. They've also done TV and movies I guess.

Lyn Rafil

they/them - Producer, cover art, "JJ"

Lyn is a queer nonbinary filipino-american first, an unabashed nerd second, and everything else third. Based in Los Angeles, they work as a strategist, researcher, and writer specializing in cultural and media analysis, especially that of games and gaming communities. They’re an uncredited contributor of knowledge to several brands, but they’re happiest rolling dice and telling stories with these friends right next to them.

Please do not look at how many unplayed games they own on Steam or all the unfinished art projects in their office. They swear they'll get to it eventually.

Ian McQuown

he/him - "Gordon"

Ian is an LA based actor/director best known for the YouTube sketches of comedy group Extremely Decent and the popular fiction podcasts The Bright Sessions, StarTripper!!, Deck The Halls (with Matrimony), and Zombies, Run!

He is a lifelong table-top gamer, Fortnite fan, Magic (the Gathering) user, and was raised on Ocarina of Time/still resents Link not getting to keep all the cool memories and loot… Loves coffee, rolling nat 20s, sci-fi in all its forms, and teaching acting classes in Los Angeles.

Mayanna Berrin

she/her - "Fran"

Mayanna is a writer, voice actor, and actual play performer based in Los Angeles CA. She's known for the role of Serif in Vampire: The Masquerade - New York by Night and Embla in Fire Emblem Heroes. She stopped playing Baldur's Gate 3 just long enough to record this podcast.

Erin Bark (she/they) - Production & House Manager

Independent Music Licensing Collective - Music Services

Multitude - Ad Services