Healthy Lifestyle Solutions with Maya

We are a team of 3 artists living across the globe and remotely recording the greatest best friend story ever told!
We’ve been doing this together since 2018, and our greatest goal is to tell incredible, visual cinematic stories, to collaboratively build worlds together, and to spread the superpowered magic of friendship through comedy and narrative.
We’ve built an incredible community behind the show, and these people have sustained us and each other through the whirlwind of 2020 and millions of everyday life problems. They are a big part of why we make this show.

Making these stories has grown me as a person, fullstop. This has been a second fulltime job since I joined in 2019. I’ve learned a ton of skills, and I’ve become more adaptable, resilient, and bold than I ever could have imagined.
Because of this show I have made incredible things, we stay in the top 100 on the improv charts, we perform on stage at conventions like London Comic-Con and PAX East, we’re creating our own game system, we’ve built community on multiple platforms, and we’re getting ready to create a book. I’m so damn proud of this show and the people that I make it with.


Our audience truly heed the call. At the end of the day our show is about the deep arcane power of friendship and camaraderie above all things- and we know our flock.
They’re the ones that stay after at cons and come up to us. They join our discord family, they send us their ideas. They’re with us in the stories. I can’t tell you that they are categorically different from any other type of audio consumer- but they are OURS, and we can clock them anywhere.
They see themselves in the characters in the show, and we see ourselves in them. That’s why we all keep coming back.
We are telling a collaborative fictional story together with immersive sound design and improvisational comedy. We are the only three people touching this thing, and the story we’re telling has kept us going for years.
We’ve got a human bear, a sentient jellyfish in a synthetic body, and their whole found family of misfits and stragglers traveling the galaxy in a spaceship called R.E.E.S.E. They aren’t the heroes you expected, but dangit, they’re who showed up. In order to maintain the random element of this game, we do not script the show.
We are interacting together in an improvisational fashion and building the story as we go.
We are also employing our own “game system” that gives us mechanical elements to interact with and allows a dice rolling property that occasionally puts us in positions that we would not have chosen for ourselves.
Our show requires critical thinking, fast problem solving, collaboration, wit, and deep imagination. And what kind of topics do we cover? Well. Anything from casino heists, to infiltrating an alien factory, to psychic warfare with a sentient fungal system, to country witticisms from our very own weapons expert, Cleo.
Over here at Bastard HQ, we are knee deep in dreams of the future.
But we want to make sure it’s a cool future that everyone likes- so we made this survey to pick your brains.
Here it is: https://forms.gle/RDckuVtWDMVpRcnU6 We’ve blasted this thing out to our discord, and a few of our socials, but there’s another group that we don’t want to miss, and that might be you.
So if you’ve got some time, please consider sharing your thoughts. It’s anonymous, and it means a lot to us. We’re working on getting this thing out in as many different places as possible- and when it’s all over we plan on sharing some of the results in our discord.
If you’d like to see that, you can join us here: https://discord.gg/nfYHkbbJh9 Thank you again for being here, and for all of your help. The show wouldn’t be the same without you. We are grateful to have you on board, and we can’t wait to get back.
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