ParaScience

TW // cults, drug mention, alcohol, mind reading, spying When we last left our players, Alister and Saint had both gone down separate rabbit holes in order to get more information on Dr. Springwood and the odd group of people that surround him. While the sun sets on Roswell, New Mexico and the Symposium of the Strange winds down for the evening, our two investigators reunite to discuss the web of...

TW // cults, alcohol, mind reading, intoxication, It seems Dr. Springwood is in town for more than just to sell books, but the mystery surrounding him and his multi-millionaire contact McKenzie Roberts doesn’t seem any clearer. Alister talks with Agents Cyan and Magenta for information from Springwood’s laptop, while Saint puts his ear to the ground, and his exorcist group chat, for information on...

TW // cults, alcohol, mind reading, intoxication Alister and Saint have temporarily checked into the Sun Ridge Resort and Spa. They’re not here to relax, but to investigate the secret business dealings of Dr. Springwood and find out just what he wants from occult collector Ms. Mackenzie Roberts. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the...

TW // government surveillance, cults, impersonation Picture if you will, One Dr. Julian Springwood. A mysterious man who advertises himself to the world as a healer, scholar and a motivational speaker. Saint and Alister’s encounters with and research into this man has revealed a little more than he’s initially let on. The son of a cultist and sound engineer, a charlatan and seemingly, a psychic of...

TW // government surveillance, cults, churches, mind reading, invasion of privacy, cigarettes Secrets have been uncovered, somewhat unwilling and the relationship between our two investigators is as strained as ever. Can Alister and Saint cooperate long enough to crack the mystery of Dr. Springwood? Or are open minds vulnerable ones? ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told th...

TW // government surveillance, cults, churches, mind reading Agent Grey is a man in the business of secrets. He keeps secrets for other people, he prevents secrets from escaping and he makes it his business to investigate the secrets of others. For somebody who keeps as tight a focus on his subordinates as Agent Grey does, it should be no surprise that he already knows Alister’s greatest secret be...

TW // government surveillance, cults, churches, mind reading, invasion of privacy, cigarettes ”Who’s Anna?” ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as agnostic exorcist Saint Garcia Flores and Nikki Boylan as conspiracy theorist Jules Or...

TW // government surveillance, cults, churches, mind reaching, invasion of privacyThe Power to Tap into the Human Consciousness. To Read the Thoughts of Others. Tempting, to say the least. But Saint and Alister both have investigated enough charlatans to know that not everything is what it seems, especially when they’re performing for others. Especially when they have something to sell. Still, his...

TW // government surveillance, cults, churches, mind reaching, invasion of privacyDo you want to believe? In yourself? In something greater than yourself? The Church of the Open Mind can help. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as a...

TW // government surveillance, cults, churches Do you want to believe? In yourself? In something greater than yourself? It’s an ancient human itch. Not just to explain the impossible, but also the world around us, to explain ourselves. These answers are impossibly large. Impossible to comprehend. And all of us will be in the ground a long time before any of us truly understand the world we live in...

TW // ghostsSnow Wasn’t Falling When Allister Graham McAndrews and Saint Garcia Flores freed the town of Kenway, Nevada from the strange signals that were keeping the residents apart from each other. Even so, it felt like Christmas. Families hugging. Warmth in the streets of Kenway. And the clatter of voices all happy to see each other again... even if they forgot they were ever apart. For Saint a...

TW // disappearances, memory loss, breaking and entering, surveillance, loss of sanity, grief “Alister, turn around” Picture, if you will, a shadow cast by nothing. A figure in an empty room. A person you know should be there, but.. For a reason unclear to our investigators, simply isn’t. Hard for the mind to comprehend something that has left this material plane just as your back has turned. It’s...

TW // disappearances, memory loss, breaking and entering, surveillance, loss of sanity, A vibrant community now lives in the shadows. Saint and Alister need to crack the mystery of what’s happening to Kenway, Nevada before they’re the only two living souls left in the city limits. Picture, if you will, a shadow cast by nothing. A figure in an empty room. A person you know should be there, but.. Fo...

TW // disappearances, memory loss, breaking and entering, surveillance, loss of sanity, alcohol There are moments in some people’s lives when they encounter something they cannot immediately explain. A dash of shadow through your car’s high beams, two reflections in your bathroom mirror, moving lights in the sky. Panic subsides and logic takes over. These things can be explained. Picture, if you w...

TW // disappearances, memory loss, breaking and entering, surveillance, loss of sanity Glowing footsteps on the forest floor, a giant hole in the earth amidst broken trees, half of the town replaced by walking shadows, a mayor with half a day’s memories, an inaccessible radio station control room and a missing agent from an unidentified and highly classified government agency. Clues dot the surfac...

TW // guns, gunfire, disappearances, memory loss, ghosts There are bullets on the ground and electricity in the air. The town feels at once stiff and empty and crackling with energy. It seems that the residents of Kenway Nevada are not handling their isolation well at all, even if they haven’t noticed how many of their neighbors are missing. While the mystery of the shadows has not yet shifted int...

TW // guns, gunfire, disappearances, memory loss, ghosts The merry go round continues to spin in front of you. With each passing squeak of the old metal structure, you can hear more and more movement around you. The world starts to warm up as if it had been frozen up until this point. The clouds roll back and a glimpse of desert sun starts to peak between the icy sky. The swings around you start t...

TW // disappearances, paranoia, sensory alteration or hallucination Paranoia hangs like a fog ten feet above Kenway, Nevada. Our investigators have barely stepped foot down the dusty main street and already signs of foul play begin to materialize, buzzing past your ears. While questions about the ethics of using domestic hotel cats for ghost hunting purposes hang in the air, our investigators spot...

TW // disappeared persons, surveillance, breaking and entering mention. After meeting Cactus the Cat and his owner Lucille, Saint and Alister go upstairs to their new hotel room to go over their battle strategy for how to find Agent Oliver Coy in this small town in the desert. Their search is quickly derailed when Cactus the Cat points them in the direction of the bigger mystery in town. ParaScien...

TW // disappeared persons, paranoia Out one hotel and into another. Saint and Alister arrive in Kenway, NV, an empty ghost town of only 310 people, though who knows how long it’s been since that sign was updated. Alister briefs Saint on the Department’s concerns with missing agent Oliver Coy and their plan of attack as they check into the Roadside Bed and Breakfast. Saint has to confront his great...

TW // The following episode of ParaScience contains references to a kidnapping, a possible abduction, and smoking. Settled bills, shared sunrises and still photographs. Before our investigators drive off into the desert, they need to solve a missing persons case. But just how long do they look for Jules when Allister has a pressing mission begging for his attention? The unlit skeleton of a neon gi...

“That’s why I have a hard time trusting Alister,” Jules tells Saint as they sit in a dark midnight diner on the edges of Long Beach. As Alister receives his new assignment from his agency employers, Jules lets out her deepest fears over an order of fries. Perhaps the real monsters were the ones we befriended along the way. There’s a missing Department agent in Kenway, Nevada and an empty hotel roo...

“Mister Thornwall, I have dedicated my whole life, my whole adult life, to saving people,” Saint explains to the ship’s concierge when asked what he and two supposed port authority inspectors are doing exploring the abandoned pool inside the Queen Mary. But there may not be anything to save down here beneath the surface. I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning t...

The Drowning Ghost on board the Queen Mary comes deeper into focus as a strange and jarring radio signal echoes off the tiles of the ship’s pool. Now Jules, Saint and Alister are putting their heads together trying to piece together the clues leading up to this new phantom. I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are indistinguishably...

The powerful smell of chlorine and mildew assaults the senses of Allister and Jules as they both sniff out any spectral happenings in the abandoned, historical pool of the Queen Mary. Is there something more than cameras, sound equipment and patch jobs down here? I’d like to take you to Long Beach, California, just as autumn is beginning to fade. The air and ocean are indistinguishably grey and pa...