Ep 8 - Bonfires from Sparks

Show notes:
Mythic Bastionland was created by Chris McDowall https://bastionlandpress.com/products/mythic-bastionland-hardback-book-plus-pdf

Music: I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (Benjamin, Durham, Marcus, Seiler: 1938)

Our intro music is "Medieval" by Ptibec https://openverse.org/audio/1f62fd74-2742-45de-b6eb-79f9dbbddb3a and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Our outro music is "Medieval Victory Epic (Version 1)" by makesound https://openverse.org/audio/794859e7-c63c-466e-9f76-631e1e01e098 and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

Mixed by Jesse from https://beardmancerbungalow.blot.im/.

Timings:
00:00 Intro
00:55 Example Spark Table results
03:47 Sparks for special contexts
04:52 Mixing and matching
06:49 The squire wager
07:40 Changing the purpose
08:12 Under time pressure
13:31 Rerolling
15:59 Elaborating later
17:39 Myth-like results
20:24 Chains of associations
22:06 Themes for interpretation
23:58 Woland - a collaborative mythic realm
34:16 Lasting effects
36:38 40+ sessions
37:25 Threads that aren't myths
44:12 Adding extra omens
45:10 More example Sparks
48:24 You be the Judge!
55:24 Q+A Branching omens
58:40 Q+A Environmental challenges
1:02:47 Q+A Non-interactive omens
1:07:17 Outro

Discussed on the show:

• Blorb principles https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles
• Oddpocrypha on Landmarks (Mythic Bastionland page 199)
• Tale of the Manticore - season 3 using delayed interpretation of Mythic Game Master Emulator spark table results https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-1-s3e01--62324279
• Woland project - launch and collection of all articles https://halfawormandabittenapple.blogspot.com/2026/01/woland-collaborative-mythic-realm.html
• Beardmancer’s method for blending sparks for prep https://beardmancerbungalow.blot.im/one-method-to-prep-for-improvisation
• d4 Caltrops’s d100 – Absent Adventurer: Where Have You Been? https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/01/d100-absent-adventurer-where-have-you.html
• Bastionland Discord - source of questions for the Q+A section https://discord.com/invite/Y6sGBra

Find the hosts at:

• Brian https://luckroll.blogspot.com/
• William https://halfawormandabittenapple.blogspot.com/
• Horst https://blackcitygauntlet.blogspot.com/