The Wretched

Barney notices strange shapes sliding under his skin and bleeds himself in an attempt to flush them out. Anyra, strangely drawn to Barney’s blood, discovers that she can absorb the blood and somehow alter the mark seared into her palm. Eike clocks this disturbing development but Taryn is distracted by the appearance of a stocky stranger smoking a quash pipe.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG...

Eike slips back into the shack to steal a pod from the carnivorous vine. She and Anyra wake Taryn and describe Lumina’s fate, helping him to regurgitate her. At the same time Barney also awakens, bound, with aching joints and burning hands. Eike and Anyra refuse to untie him but he easily slips his bonds while they are distracted by Taryn. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds ho...

Anyra arrives on the scene of the well to find a real mess.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wretched Adventures were created by Michael Frank...

Taryn suffers the consequences of exploring the well as Eike tries to save him from his own self destructive behavior. Meanwhile, Barney follows the old man into the shack but where two enter, only one comes out. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations m...

Anyra and Nikki travel around the outskirts of Arden, checking various groups of refugees and eventually entering the city itself where they locate Nikki’s mother. Throughout all of this, Anyra is plagued by confusing visions that might be from her own past.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature o...

Taryn and Eike head west into the desert, where Barney soon rejoins them with rumors of a cave full of wonders. The trio then discovers a shack near a large open well and meets the gnarled, toothless man who lives there.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and si...

In this episode our adventurers toil about what to do with too many fingers and an inconvenient accomplice. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wre...

Chapter 2 resumes with the burned city of Arden in the distance, and our adventurers finding a new path. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wretch...

This special episode is a look back with cast commentary at the first season. It is a chance to get to know the players and that Wretched Ward a little bit better as they reminisce on some of the fonder moments of Chapter 1. Stay tuned to the end for a surprise from one of the episodes.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to...

In this conclusion to our first Wretched Sidetrack, Bimple, Obie, and Thorn struggle to remove a group of mischievous missing children from the forest, but nothing goes as planned.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a spec...

Bimple, Bog, and Obie search the forest for the missing children. Bog is lost in the dense fog and Bimple and Obie pick up another companion named Thorne. The three come upon the missing children in a clearing but soon realize that something darker hides within the fog. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisationa...

As chapter 1 came to a close, we present to you an opportunity to explore the world from a different perspective in a spooky, 3 episode arc. 

As we learn more about Barnabus Boldwood he, Taryn, and Eike spot Josai and approach him. Eike manages to steal his ring while Taryn leaves with a bag of quash. Anyra, still reeling from the loss of the archive, snatches a partially burned page from the air that sears a mark into her palm. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due t...

The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wretched Adventures were created by Michael Frank, Wayne Holt, Rick Duthersford, Emily Mills, and Sam W. Music...

The remaining party members flee the foundry as Arden burns. Taryn heads straight to the lakeshore as Eike follows Anyra towards the archive. On the way, they find Nikki trapped in the second floor of her burning home. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situat...

Skala is badly burnt by the fire he set in the foundry. Taryn and Eike attempt to help while also hiding evidence of their presence. They all make it out alive to witness an incendiary finale. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we incl...

Skala sets a fire inside the foundry and fights the blacksmiths who challenge him. Taryn and Eike enter the foundry looking for Skala and are quickly drawn into the fray. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content...

Outside of the foundry, Eike is challenged by a former mark and Anyra and Taryn help her divert his attention. At the same time, inside, Skala helps a woman with a splinted leg, taking over her work and sending her out for a break. She encounters the rest of the party and shares information about Reggie, angering young Nikki.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and hum...

Jo gifts Anyra a fire quill as she and Eike leave her home to find their friends at the mine. Taryn suffers greatly from the heat of the foundry as Skala investigates inside, finding an unfortunate link to his homeland.   he Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situ...

Anyra and Eike take Jo home and discover a journal outlining her husband’s desire to follow an orange line to a woman in the cliffs. Jo eventually wakes and shares more information about Aeschen’s abduction. Meanwhile, Nikki leads Taryn and Skala to the mines where her father used to work. Skala agrees to take a job there, but the heat from inside the foundry makes Taryn intensely uncomfortable. T...

Caution, contains SPOILERS: Taryn decapitates two snakes in the archive but catches Skala’s finger in his swing. Exiting the archive, Skala collides with an intoxicated woman - the same woman from whom Eike stole the medallion. She and Eike have a verbal altercation and Skala attempts to restrain her, dragging her back into the archive where she passes out.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG p...

Skala accosts Anyra, demanding her help, as Taryn tries and fails to calm young Nikki. Meanwhile, Eike steals the medallion that Anyra had spotted. Anyra and Eike enlist Taryn and Skala to help with their snake problem and the four return to the archive, Nikki tagging along behind. Taryn uses Lumina’s glow and a well-placed mirror to lure the snakes out into the open. The Wretched is an actual pla...

The suspicious Eyes of the Light seize Josai's unconscious body from Taryn and Skala. While Taryn and Lumina take a very public swim, Skala (who can’t read) recognizes Josai’s face on a poster. Meanwhile, Eike and Anyra rough each other up to gain sympathy from the guards but are soon sidetracked by a child in need. Anyra spots a familiar medallion hanging from the neck of an unconscious woman but...

Taryn and Skala knock Josai unconscious and carry him to Arden where they are challenged at the gates by suspicious members of the Eyes of the Light. Meanwhile, in the archive, an errand boy named Jun tries to help Eike and Anyra with their snake issue but alas, he's not up to the task.   The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to...

On the road to Arden, Taryn and Skala meet Josai, who invites them to walk an orange line that only he can see. Meanwhile, in the Arden Institute of Knowledge and Mental Spirit, Eike and Anyra deal with an angry patron named Ronek who looses three snakes into the archive. Anyra refuses to flee, instead attempting to deal with the snakes herself. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that me...