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Bonus: Tabletop Game Theory Origins: Mr. Jeffstein's House (9/30/19)

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Our play of Call of Cthulhu live at Columbus Theater in Providence, R.I. August 23rd, 2019.

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0:00.0

On this week's tale of Mayhem and Michigan, the Cabo boys mean an unneighbored with

0:13.4

unconventional desires. Will our heroes House Call turn up the cure to this

0:17.9

mystery? Or will they be borrowing a cup of abomination? Find out on this week's

0:23.0

episode of Chappell Trepow!

1:00.0

The following is Canon. For those of you who don't know, I'm Virgil Texas and we

1:08.2

are Chappell Trepow's. Most of the time we are your everyday run-of-the-mill arts

1:19.2

and entertainment podcast. But once in a blue moon we delve into the occult,

1:24.6

indulging in a session of the tabletop role-playing game Call of Cthulhu,

1:29.5

based on the works of HP Lovecraft. And like HP Lovecraft, Matt Will and Felix

1:36.6

here roleplay as 1920s investigators who are incurably racist neurotics. Over the

1:44.5

course of their adventures they matched wits with the immortal Hermeticis

1:48.3

Johann Pidessta at the summoning of the Pizzagate. They foiled the mad monk

1:53.2

Rasputeen and his eldritch allies infiltrating American elections. And they

1:57.9

scuttled industrialist Inak Musks Rocket in Musks of Nyarlathetep.

2:03.5

Tonight's scenario is a prequel to the events of tabletop game theory episodes

2:08.6

one through six. And I did not write this scenario. Mr. Corbett was authored by

2:14.0

Michael DeWolf and published in 1990 by Chaosium in the excellent collection

2:18.1

Manchins of Madness. I have merely made a handful of alterations to the

2:24.2

scenario to reflect the ethos of our program. It must be stated that

2:31.0

absolutely, positively nothing in this scenario is based on real events or

2:37.2

real people. With that in mind, let's play Mr. Jeffsteem.

2:54.2

Chris, can I get some talking music?

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