Real Play Games Podcast

Having had a relatively unproductive conversation with Aseneth, the group does some digging around town, and the information that they gather paints a pretty grim picture of what's actually going on in Innsmouth.  Getting hassled by the police and the weirdos that live in town is just the cherry on top of this shit-show. Episode 2/3 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/...

In the spring of 1985, the Seekers of Truth, an occult group dedicated to unearthing mysteries beyond mortal ken, finds themselves in Innsmouth, Massachusetts,  on the trail of a dear friend who left Arkham under rather mysterious circumstances.  Two of their members, married couple Harold "Hal" Tomlin and Virginia "Ginny" Tomlin, don't really want to be there all that muc...

Things come to a head between the Seekers of Truth and the town of Innsmouth as the hotel-housed investigators become even more suspicious of the little burg and then decide to launch into action, spurred on by some pretty serious threats.  Everything changes from here on out, and nobody's safe! Episode 3/3 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Body Horror (bodily metamorphosis,...

The Seekers of Truth have found themselves rapidly falling out of excitement after having spent a few hours in Innsmouth; between the standoffish locals, the food, the accommodations, and a painful discussion with Aseneth, one would think that sane people would leave.  Fortunately, they are not all sane people. Episode 2/3 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Profanity Louisa Toma i...

In the spring of 1985, the Seekers of Truth, a small occult society that never really experienced more than a few cryptid hunts and graveyard scares, heads to Innsmouth, MA to investigate what's become of their friend and former member (not to mention one member's distant relative and another's lover!)  What they'll find there will shake the group to their very core! Episode 1/...

Hey Gamefriends, GM John here!  Have you ever run through a tabletop adventure with your friends, but then wondered, what if people would’ve made different choices, or played different characters?  What if I’d had different players altogether? Would things change?  Well, we’ve felt the same way more than a few times, and so we decided to put that question to the test.  In our first version of the...

Having discovered that Gemekala still lives (at least, after a fashion), the group is racing against time and the simmering tensions of the tribefolk they traveled all the way to help in the first place!   Will they be able to convince two groups that're at one another's throats to work together for the good of the whole area?  Better hope they don't let Moss do most of the talking!...

Hot on Gemekala's trail even if they don't know how to pronounce her name, the group is forced to separate briefly to allow Fragilly and OnlyChance an opportunity to bond with the area.  What everyone will discover is shocking, and will turn their mission directly onto its head!  Moss shows off the fact that his density isn't just mental!  Fragillly sits in a tree!  Thraa uses a tri...

Following Hou'dza's accident, the group gathers together once more to keep on the track of Elder Prophet Gemekala or her potential fate.  With chief huntress Adelajaja accompanying them, the group keeps well-fed enough despite the dwindling resources along the Bloodmarshes.  What is it that could be poisoning these life-giving waters, and is it related to Gemekala's disappearance? E...

On the sweltering living continent of Kalsentia, the temperature isn't the only thing that's up!  Tensions between the jungle-dwelling Red Wader village and the lowland-dwelling Kyteholdr peoples due to the disappearance of the Elder Prophet Gemekala, and fingers are being pointed on both sides as hostilities start to mount.  To add to the issue, pollution has begun issuing downstream, c...

It's unrelentingly hot.  The turtle-apes and their minions want to enslave or kill you.  Most of the beasts want to eat you or lay eggs inside of you or something else real gross.  The Invaders want to make you into goo.  That's the struggle that the hardy Cruach and lithe Zangatur tribes deal with on a daily basis.  Follow the exploits of five very different individuals as they attempt...

One where the  GM and players talk about whether or not they enjoyed the adventure, discuss highlights, and come down from the exhilarating  threat of being devoured alive (or worse) by things that are at least partially inscrutable to the human psyche!  Just keeping it light and wholesome, LOL! Content Warnings: Adult Language, Profanity Harm, Obie, Ru, Ames, and Steve are all themselves in this...

The relentless assaults of the creatures have left the team shaken, on-edge and fewer in number; desperate times call for desperate measures as attrition and paranoia take their toll.  Finally, a decision is made that will affect all of the team members in ways they cannot comprehend... though they might, at least, eventually.    Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations,  Alcohol/Drug Us...

Even as things continue to go from bad to worse, the team does their best to find a period of relative safety.  Some combat (aka field research) yields promising results, but also leads some of the team to get a tiny bit careless in terms of the trouble that they're in.  There's a good chance most of them will still make it out alive, but will they be able to see the dangers before it&ap...

Things become even more tense as the team discovers more about why the research outpost is in the state that it's in, and what's happened to the team that was there previously.  Things aren't adding up, and the fact of the matter is, trying to find out an explanation for what's happening could very well get them all killed. Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations , A...

A five-member team heads to Halcyon Biological's Arctic Research station to replace scientists, technicians, and other members who've been working a three-month rotation conducting experiments relating to bioplastics pollution in the ocean.  What they will encounter will shake their belief and rock their understanding of what can be.  This is their story. Content Warnings: Adult Language...

Twenty thousand years ago, something from beyond our galaxy entered Earth’s atmosphere and crashed in what would one day become the Arctic Circle, becoming entombed and going dormant beneath thousands of tons of ice and snow.  In the year 2022 CE, five brave souls, headed to the Halcyon Biological Research Laboratory for a three-month mission, will discover what terrors wait in store for the world...

It's the final showdown of good versus evil, as the heart of winter meets the heart of darkness!  The presence of a few unexpected allies has helped to even the playing field a bit for Santana and Martina, but will it be enough to stop the machinations of the vile Lord Malignous?  Or will the holiday, and the world, be lost forever to the tide of evil threatening it? Santa Santana  Lozado-Pin...

Just when you think things are on the way to resolving, something happens, and then you've got to do it all over again.  And again, and again, and again...  The secrets of the Chronometron are revealed, and the plan changes completely as an entirely new dimension to the mission becomes clear to Santana and Martina.  It's a Hell of a time! Santa Santana  Lozado-Pineda is Harm Martina Vale...

Even as Martina starts to become hyper-efficient at her job, Santana develops a bit of an alcohol problem!  With the first portion of the ritual already completed, surely nothing too crazy can happen on the next legs, right?  It's not like Santa and the Claws have made anybody angry or anything like that.  We're sure it's fine. Santa Santana  Lozado-Pineda is Harm Martina Valentine...

It's the start of the real Christmas season, and Santana and Martina are gearing up for their first run ever!  Everything they've been through in the last three months still possibly couldn't prepare them for what's ahead!  The elves have been hard at work on a secret project, even as their eggs drip festively from the connective gel holding them across the walls and ceiling, s...

It's the holiday season (the holiday season), and Santa Santana and Martina the Claws are deliverin' the presents and they're breakin' some jaws when they're comin' down the chimney, down! Keep the Old Ones at bay! Keep the Old Ones at bay! While the wards of Earth are still standing, happy last-potential-ever holidayyyyy to you! Holiday Havoc: In the St. Nick of Time...

With the series at an end (but by no means the story), we sit and chat about what happened, some of the background stuff that wasn't brought up explicitly, our takes on some things (including how weird the season got, seriously, some parts of it feel like a fever dream) and talk a little about where it's headed.  Thanks again for listening, folks, we hope you enjoyed it! Episode 15/15 Co...

After stealing a boat from a bunch of seagull fishermen and narrowly evading pursuit by a New Stafford cutter, the group made it back to Salem, just in time to find that Pauly T. ended up vamoosing with Mr. X to the beach.  What the group will find when they're looking for them, though, will change the trajectory of their entire trip!  It's the end of the line, folks, but also a new begi...

With the goal of locating Artemisia complete and Winnie reunited with the group, now Liblet, Bly and the others are faced with an even more daunting prospect: just how the Hell do they get out of New Stafford, anyhow?  With the King's Guard hot on their tails and Rod Rodman's car in about a billion little pieces aboveground, they're going to need a whole lot of luck to pull this one...