Real Play Games Podcast

It's a chilly night close to Christmas in Exton, PA, and Hoffman Institute Dept. 7 Agent Cassidy O'Rourke is on assignment, trying to garner more information about several mysterious missing persons cases.  Meanwhile, Alejandro "Alex" Gallego is just trying to get done with his shift at the hobby gaming and model store so he can make it home on his bike before the snowstorm that's been predicted starts gett...

In a world where vast conspiracies fight and overlap one another in the shadows, and forces from within, outside of, and beyond the possible boundaries of humanity encroach on an unsuspecting world.  The agents of the Hoffman Institute's Department 7 regularly encounter things beyond mortal ken and do their best to destroy or contain threats to humanity.  These are their stories.

Dark*Matter: Dead Season is a Real Pla...

 The gang's forced into the darkness of the old Weyland Mining Company caves, only to find out that it ain't just Dustbillies after them.  There's a whole lot more in them there hills, but will the four manage to get out in one piece... or at all?

Roy is Jackie Hughes
Harm is Gwendolyn "Trixie the Tomboy" Brown
Steve is Thaddeus "Tad, the Rad Plaid Lad Galahad" Gaddowski
Obie ...

As things are heating up in Abattoir and the Dustbillies are getting all riled, the gang finds themselves between a bar and a hard place as they're dragged into a series of running battles for their very lives, and then are forced to do some very tricky driving if they want to get anywhere at all in this burg...

Roy is Jackie Hughes
Harm is Gwendolyn "Trixie the Tomboy" Brown
Steve is Thaddeus "...

With nowhere to go and the van beat to shit, the gang takes cover in town as best as possible and tries to keep their heads down.  After earning themselves a little respite from heatstroke during the day, they strike during a lucky break, and all Hell breaks lose as they settle in for a drink with some of the locals.

Roy is Jackie Hughes
Harm is Gwendolyn "Trixie the Tomboy" Brown
Steve is Thaddeus "...

Gwen, Jackie, Drew, and Tad arrive in Abattoir, TX intending to stop for gas and ending up stopping for some repairs instead.  The local marks vary from timidly helpful to obnoxious, which is pretty standard for this stretch in the 70's.  Then everything goes to Hell real quick and things get messy.  Should've just let them go on their way.

Roy is Jackie Hughes
Harm is Gwendolyn "Trixie the Tomboy" ...

July 28th, 1975 - Four pro wrestling personalities headed from Portland, OR to Tampa, FL when they encountered some automotive problems.  The events that happened next would become a legend in wrestling history, and a nightmare for the folks who decided to PISS THEM OFF!

Highway of Blood: Dark Territory is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Call of Cthulhu® is a registered trademark of Chaosium, Inc.  Pulp Cthulhu is a...

A lunar excursion turns things up to fever pitch,
but as everyone knows, revenge is a b@$%*!
A twist puts our heroes in a terrible spot
so Team Christmas gives this all the effort they've got!
It's a fight to the finish, it'll be over soon;
just think how much they could do with that boon!

Harm is Santa Santana  Lozado-Pineda
Ames is Martina Valentine aka Nightfire

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Their second match went about as good as projected,
Valhallan janitors cried o'er what was ejected.
Success at the cost of heartburn for days
earned them a prime spot within the Grand Chase;
their sleigh armed and armored the best they could get,
stick around for the finish, you ain't seen nothing yet!

 Harm is Santa Santana  Lozado-Pineda
Ames is Martina Valentine aka Nightfire

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Despite all possible odds, Team Christmas succeeded
but more tournament pairings thereafter proceeded.
The second day's goings-on happened so fast,
but lucky for those two, their match was taking place last.
So instead, they catch up on other happenings,
all the while dodging horrible assassin things.

Harm is Santa Santana  Lozado-Pineda
Ames is Martina Valentine aka Nightfire

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T'was the fifth of September, and Santana was waiting,
enjoying some coffee and mentally debating
two bad interviews, and one yet left to go
but Martina gave Santa reason to ho-ho!
When all through the java place arose a big torment
Time and space sucked open, now they're in a tournament
for holiday survival, and glory, of course!
We'll end this rhyme now, lest we beat a dead horse!

A job interview at a coffee shop to find the new Claws of Winter turns into an extradimensional excursion for Santa Santana Lozado-Pineda and her interviewee, Martina Valentine.  The fun starts here, folks, so ho-ho-hold onto your pants!

 Holiday Havoc: Here Comes Santa’s Claws is a Real Play Games Podcast production.  Megaverse® and RIFTs® are © Copyright and Registered Trademarks owned by Palladium Books.  Brulyx, Heroes...

This is the one where we kick back, stop worrying so much about what's happening in the adventure (since it's over) and talk about how we created the characters/setting, adapting an adventure published in 1990 to a 2022 context, cultural issues in portrayal that specifically involve the US Southwest, and give a bunch of information about what we were thinking and feeling as the adventure was going on.

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This is the one for all the marbles!  The sisters gather as much equipment as they possibly can and head out to the old mine shaft for their confrontation with The Man from Outside!  Dark things are revealed; will the D'Amore sisters end up swallowed by the darkness beneath the Earth, or will they drag the vileness of the ghost-eating fiend back into the light?  Don't miss the explosive finale!

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A sudden manifestation of potent supernatural abilities on the part of Jazz puts the sisters back on the right foot, at least for the time being, as the two join forces to attack the alien foe who's been stalking them throughout Cozy Caverns.  They've put almost all of the pieces together, but now they need something even more important than the truth: a plan!

 Content Warnings: Adult Language, Drug References, F...

Jazz's date goes about as poorly as Dani's went well, perhaps even worse, but it's fun to watch that trainwreck happen in real time.  Things get far more exciting once the date is done, to the point where the sisters find themselves menaced several times by the shadowy figure that's been stalking their trail!  Don't miss the bone-crushing excitement!

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With their dates fast approaching, Jazz and Dani are digging up as much information as possible, but will a freak-out underground spell disaster for a promising evening?  Or will the D'Amore sisters take their lumps as they come and try to make the best out of what turns out to be a sticky situation?

Content Warnings: Drug References, Frightening Themes, Ontological Horror, Mentions of Psychological Disorders/Institut...

The D'Amore sisters are certainly keeping busy on their trip!  A meeting with D. Frisbee reveals a whole glut of information about some of the stranger goings-on that've taken place within bucolic Cozy Caverns, and a mine tour with ol' Tom goes south fast when Dani ends up finding something she really wishes she hadn't in the cool caverns below the little town with the most warmth!

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It's an incredibly full day for the D'Amore sisters as the town's in the midst of the Cactus Festival!  Dani's experiences prompt Jazz to have the both of them do more digging into the weirdness that seems to surround Cozy Caverns, and the two find out some vital information, but the real burning question is: what's a gal have to do to get a date around this sleepy little town?

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