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UNLOCKED: Episode 74 - Tabletop Game Theory Pt. I (1/18/17)

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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NOTE: Ahead of this week's premium episode, we are unlocking our first 2-part gaming episode, "The Pizza In The Gate." This is the first of a two-part radio play/tabletop game run by Virgil, who locked us in a room to play Call of Cthulhu. Turning the clock back to the 1920s, the guys act out a Lovecraftian cosmic horror-noir. Will plays a disturbed, incestuous race scientist, Felix a military valor-stealer turned jazz vocalist, and Matt a medically trained decrepit foot fetishist. They receive an odd message from a grotesque, half-man, half-baseball that leads them to uncover dark secrets in the heart of our young nation’s capital…

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0:17.0

This we got Chapel Trap House are three intrepid heroes find themselves investigating some naughty and suspicious going on in a D.C. area, Penseria.

0:22.0

Will they survive this next terrifying encounter with the

0:25.9

occult? You'll find out this week on Chappo Trap House. house. This is going to be a very special episode. As you may know, I am a gamer.

0:54.0

Call of Kuthulu is a tabletop role-playing game originally published by Chaosium in 1981,

0:59.0

currently in its seventh edition, Call is based on the works of HP Lovecraft. Today, Will Matt and Felix will be playing

1:05.8

a scenario I wrote with the help of my friend Dave Cresses. They will be playing as characters

1:10.4

designed by themselves, investigators, in the 1920 1920s and I will be running the

1:14.4

game as the keeper. In the tabletop genre Kowlakathulu's unique for its

1:19.7

love crafty and themes of horror, investigation and the loss of sanity as player characters encounter mind-rending aspects of the Cosmic Lovecraft mythos.

1:28.0

Another lovecraft theme is racism, as Lovecraft himself was an inveterant white supremacist obsessed with genetic purity and racial memories.

1:35.0

You may notice all of these themes present in the following scenario,

1:38.0

which is 100% not based on actual people or current events.

1:42.0

Or previous episodes of the show.

1:44.6

So guys just want to make something clear.

1:47.0

You're going to be hearing a lot of goofy stuff going around the game, a lot of creepy stuff.

1:51.8

We're going to be using a lot of dice and I want to make

1:53.7

clear this is exactly what the Torah is.

1:57.3

Is everyone ready to enter the world of spirit cooking.

2:04.0

Let's do it.

2:08.0

It is January 16th, 1925, and the three of you host a body niche radio show called Capone Speakeasy, whose

2:15.1

broadcasts have attracted a devoted following thanks to your stalwart support of race science,

2:19.4

repealing women's suffrage, and insisting that fighting Bob Laffalette would have won the

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