Anything Could Happen

About Anything Could Happen

Welcome to the show where 'Anything Could Happen' - a real play experience set in the far future where players have to solve dilemmas that have no simple answer, incomplete information & before they run out of time! We set the players against no-win scenarios that they have to decide on a solution typically within 20 minutes. The games are set in a sci-fi context that allows us to safely explore issues and topics in a way where we are free to think 'What If?' Episodes released every 2 weeks New episodes every 2 weeks on Thurs 16:30 UK ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©Stormlantern Productions 2024 AnythingCouldHappen Show is part of the Fable and Folly Network (https://fableandfolly.com/)

Publisher

Anything Could Happen

Category

comedy · fiction · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Aug 2024

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   ANYONE CAN TAKE THE BLAME

   Welcome to Anything Could Happen—the real play experience where we put players against problems with no easy answers, incomplete information, and a ticking clock. I'm Oscar, your host, and it's my job to set things up and then go behind the scenes to pass messages to the players to keep knocking things off track. We find ourselves on the oldest of the Gytanki sacred worlds, a reservation granted a century ago in recompense for the near-destruction of their people, and never, until now, trodden by an armed human boot. Days ago a UFR military vessel came down inside it, uninvited, and broke the oldest treaty between Gytanki and Human. The Gytanki are an ancient civilization of many worlds and many deeply held traditions, and one of the three peoples who founded the UFR. Across those worlds the crowds are rising, vigils turning to protest and worse, and everywhere the same cry: that the insult be answered in blood. By the Doctrine, they are not wrong to ask. Four of the most significant voices gather as the Circle to set the Answer: a war-leader, a keeper of the faith, a speaker for the mixed worlds, and one of their own who sits on the Republic's own war council. Not one of them, in their heart, wants the war it would unleash, for it would ruin the Gytanki and perhaps the Republic they helped to build. But the streets are burning for it, and any leader seen to halt a righteous war would be swept away by their own people. …but of course, Anything Could Happen. ROLES: ROLE 1: The Admiral - Lucie Prunier (She/Her) ROLE 2: The War-Speaker - Asis Mansingh (She/Her) ROLE 3: The Speaker for the Mixed Worlds - Chris Payne (He/Him) ROLE 4: The Keeper of the Way - Alpha Stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Anyone Can Rule the World

   Welcome to Anything Could Happen—the real play experience where we put players against problems with no easy answers, incomplete information, and a ticking clock. I'm Oscar, your host, and it's my job to set things up and then go behind the scenes to pass messages to the players to keep knocking things off track. We find ourselves on Teegarden's Star b, a dome-and-tunnel colony on a world with almost no air of its own, where one people long ago split in two and never healed. The few who hold the Foundry, the machine-heart that makes the power and the water, have ruled the many who farm the surface, until eight days ago the surface rose in revolt, and the two peoples closed their hands around each other's throats. Now the Ninth Dome, packed with thousands of surface families, is dying. The Foundry cut its power, its water, and its air, in answer to what they call the surface's terrorism, and it has perhaps twenty minutes left. A UFR patrol hangs overhead. The hardliners on both sides have brought this world to the edge of slaughter, and the patrol's Diplomatic Envoy has decided it ends today: they have forced the leaders of the factions, two from the Foundry and two from the surface, onto one open channel that none of them can leave, and given them until the dome fails to agree how it is saved. Fail, and the Envoy decides for them, with soldiers, with charity, or with prosecutors. Each of them speaks for their people. Each carries things the others must not learn. And the dome is dying while they talk. …but of course, Anything Could Happen. ROLES: ROLE 1: Foundry Governor - Lucie Prunier (She/Her) ROLE 2: Keeper of the Deep - Asis Mansingh (She/Her) ROLE 3: Uprising Commander - Chris Payne (He/Him) ROLE 4: Voice of the Domes - Alpha Stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3. 

   3 Jul 2026

   Anyone Can Decide Who Lives

   Welcome to Anything Could Happen—the real play experience where we put players against problems with no easy answers, incomplete information, and a ticking clock. I'm Oscar, your host, and it's my job to set things up and then go behind the scenes to pass messages to the players to keep knocking things off track. We join the crew of the UFR quarantine cutter CSV Seacole, holding orbit above the colony world Billgrey, where four of them are sealed inside the medical bay. A specimen canister has cracked, and a toxic agent is bleeding into the air. The scrubbers that should clean it are failing. They have about twenty minutes before the bay is unbreathable. There is one working rebreather rig. Whoever wears it could cross the contaminated corridor and restart the scrubbers by hand, saving everyone else. But the dose out there will almost certainly kill whoever goes. An automated distress signal was sent out, but there has yet to be any reply and the coms system is on the other side of the corridor. Do they send someone to certain doom or to seal the bay and hope for a rescue that may not reach them in time? Our crew have to decide whether to send one of their own to die so the rest can live, or to all gamble on rescue together. And of course... Anything Could Happen ROLES: ROLE 1: Medical Officer - Lucie Prunier (She/Her) ROLE 2: Pilot - Asis Mansingh (She/Her) ROLE 3: Colony Delegate - Karim Kronfli (He/Him) ROLE 4: Corporate Rep - Phil Foxton (He/Him) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who has been a guest on Anything Could Happen

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• Karim Kronfli
• Lucie Prunier
• Claire Gaskin
• António Salreta

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Spotify

2.5 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 12 / 100

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23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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