The Tension Builders 15—The One Where Downtime Also Manages to Go Off the Rails
18 February 2026

The Tension Builders 15—The One Where Downtime Also Manages to Go Off the Rails

Improv Tabletop

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Are you supposed to be able to mark doom during the part of the game that's all about relaxing and resetting? Dunno if it's rules-as-written, but it happened. Pilfer cooks up a staff stew. Master Brickithon finds out where his palantir went. Oleg gets a new son.


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Audio Credits


The theme song for The Tension Builders is "Melodic Marauders Scared Stupid" by Ned Wilcock.


The following songs also by Ned Wilcock.
“Fuguenchillen”


The following songs are from tabletopaudio.com. All of the 10 minute ambiences on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
“Dark City”
“Arcane Athenaeum”


The following songs are used courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library License.
“Birdseye Blues” by Chris Haugen
“Nicolas MF Cage” by Ezra Lipp


Professor Umlaut by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4243-professor-umlaut
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license


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This actual play episode uses the Bump in the Dark RPG rules by Jex Thomas and Last Pine Press.


This is a fanmade work of parody. Improv Tabletop is not affiliated with the LEGO brand or its owner The LEGO Group.