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BTT One-Shot: The Skeletons, Ep. 4

The final phase of the game, The Desecration. The first round of the intruders have a different prize in mind, and then the final intruders spark an interesting change in how the skeletons respond. We also transition into a brief commentary on the game and how we enjoyed this unique way of telling a story… or multiple stories at once.

System: The Skeletons by Jason Morningstar

CAST:
Aaron — The Headless
Jeremy — The Tattered Cloak
Johnny — The Horror
Jordan — The Crawler

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios, and Kevin MacLeod

BTT One-Shot: The Skeletons, Ep. 3

We have entered The Time of Dust, the next phase of the game. Two more intruders to kill or chase off, and they are pretty horrific ones. We also get several glimpses into the lives of the skeletons before they were charged to guard this tomb, and it’s becoming clear that their stories are equally tragic.

System: The Skeletons by Jason Morningstar

CAST:
Aaron — The Headless
Jeremy — The Tattered Cloak
Johnny — The Horror
Jordan — The Crawler

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios, Kevin MacLeod, and other sources

BTT One-Shot: The Skeletons, Ep. 2

The Skeletons

Phase one of the game, the “unsealed tomb”. Two intruders, thwarted, and several secrets of the skeletons’ past are revealed… but at a cost. Time passes, but the guardians still stand watch, for now. So far we are loving the collaborative storytelling in this game.

System: The Skeletons by Jason Morningstar

CAST:
Aaron — The Headless
Jeremy — The Tattered Cloak
Johnny — The Horror
Jordan — The Crawler

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios and Kevin MacLeod

BTT One-Shot: The Skeletons, Ep. 1

In just getting through the set-up, we were already geeking out about this game. We collaboratively describe the layout of the tomb that we will be guarding. There were a lot of interesting ideas that will make this storytelling game a favorite of the group we are sure.

System: The Skeletons by Jason Morningstar

CAST:
Aaron — The Headless
Jeremy — The Tattered Cloak
Johnny — The Horror
Jordan — The Crawler

Music in the background from Kevin MacLeod

BTT One-Shot: The 2600 Club, Ep. 6

This game has been listed as an inspiration for the show since the beginning, and we finally got around to playing it, so we had a lot of fun talking about it in this commentary episode. Although Jordan reveals the amount of homework he did for this story, as usual, the player’s choices didn’t always line up to bring out those details. But it was quite interesting hearing the depth of the story shared after the fact.

System: Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions

CAST:
Aaron — George Clark
Jeff — Barry Graves
Jeremy — Silas Thompson
Johnny — Eugene Fields
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios

BTT One-Shot: The 2600 Club, Ep. 5

The boys all head into town to get some answers about what they’ve been experiencing, only to find a lot more people than normal out and about. Have others also had enough of the telecommunications mystery, or are the characters walking in to a trap? Let’s find out in the conclusion of this story.

System: Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions

CAST:
Aaron — George Clark
Jeff — Barry Graves
Jeremy — Silas Thompson
Johnny — Eugene Fields
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios, Kevin MacLeod, Audionautix.com, and other sources

BTT One-Shot: The 2600 Club, Ep. 4

More wonky phone calls, morse code, repeating number sequences, and now a voice that claims to be watching the characters. All the boys do what the can to silence the calls but the voice is now in their heads and threatens to do more than just harass them with messages.

System: Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions

CAST:
Aaron — George Clark
Jeff — Barry Graves
Jeremy — Silas Thompson
Johnny — Eugene Fields
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios and other sources

BTT One-Shot: The 2600 Club, Ep. 3

The investigation in the woods continues and we see some typical high school tensions between the characters. That tension quickly fades as some mysterious clues are discovered. It seems the snooping around has made them possible targets as they all receive an ominous phone call.

System: Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions

CAST:
Aaron — George Clark
Jeff — Barry Graves
Jeremy — Silas Thompson
Johnny — Eugene Fields
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios and other sources

BTT One-Shot: The 2600 Club, Ep. 2

The characters are are students at Mont Clark High School in Pine Grove Tennessee, “GO HAWKS”. The story kicks off as they learn of the mysterious deaths of two of their classmates. Some of them ditch school to investigate the scene.

System: Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions

CAST:
Aaron — George Clark
Jeff — Barry Graves
Jeremy — Silas Thompson
Johnny — Eugene Fields
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios and Purple Planet Music

BTT One-Shot: The 2600 Club, Ep. 1

For this Horror Halloween One-Shot, we finally get around to playing a game we have pulled a lot of inspiration from, Fate Accelerated, another game put out by Evil Hat Productions (Monster of the Week). In this first one-shot episode we do our character creation as Jordan sets the scene for the horror story centered around mysterious telephone anomalies.

System: Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions

CAST:
Aaron — George Clark
Jeff — Barry Graves
Jeremy — Silas Thompson
Johnny — Eugene Fields
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios

BTT One-Shot: Ten Candles, Ep. 4

10C Here’s a quick commentary episode on our play of Ten Candles. As usual, we dive into what we liked about the mechanics, character creation, and the overall atmosphere that the game creates. We also make some comparisons to other games we have played and weigh in on whether we’ll want to comeback to this as another one- shot in the future.

System: Ten Candles, by Stephen Dewey

CAST:
Chris — Senator Brightburn
Jeff — Vance Doolan
Jeremy — Evan Gilmore
Johnny — Senator Blame
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios

BTT One-Shot: Ten Candles, Ep. 3

10C Things really spiral out of control quickly in this episode. Despite successfully gaining a “hope die”, most of the characters still fell short of finding refuge in the bunker. The end came quickly for some, while others put up more of a fight. But one by one, the horror of “them” was too much to overcome.

System: Ten Candles, by Stephen Dewey

Chris — Senator Brightburn
Jeff — Vance Doolan
Jeremy — Evan Gilmore
Johnny — Senator Blame
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios, Audionautix.com, Kevin MacLeod, and other sources

BTT One-Shot: Ten Candles, Ep. 2

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With one candle out, the story continues. In this episode, there are glimpses of “them” in the diminishing light. The character frantically try to make it to the bunker, but there is loss of life and limb as several more candles are put out.

System: Ten Candles, by Stephen Dewey

Chris — Senator Brightburn
Jeff — Vance Doolan
Jeremy — Evan Gilmore
Johnny — Senator Blame
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios and Audionautix.com

BTT One-Shot: Ten Candles, Ep. 1

10C It’s time for yet another spooky one-shot on Bone Throwers Theater. We invite a special guest to join this play session. In this episode ,we explore the interesting aspects of character creation, and then drop right in to the horror, already in progress.

System: Ten Candles, by Stephen Dewey

Chris — Senator Brightburn
Jeff — Vance Doolan
Jeremy — Evan Gilmore
Johnny — Senator Blame
Jordan — The Game Master

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios and Audionautix.com

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BTT One-Shot: Cthulhu Dark, Ep. 6

We wrap up this one-shot as one by one the characters meet their demise, but some refused to got down with out a fight. We also spent a few moments on a brief commentary on the game.

System: Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

CAST:
Aaron — Jason Dalton
Ellie — Bonn Bolton
Jeff — Darius Millson
Jeremy — Marsden Phoenix
Jordan — The Director

Music in the background from Fesliyan Studios

BTT One-Shot: Cthulhu Dark, Ep. 5

In this episode, one of our characters is captured, while the others are still on the run. But where they are running to seems to be a point of contention. One is seeking adventure, another reinforcements, and another… food. Where exactly they’ll end up is still up in the air, but one thing for certain is that they are all scared out of their minds.

System: Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

CAST:
Aaron — Jason Dalton
Ellie — Bonn Bolton
Jeff — Darius Millson
Jeremy — Marsden Phoenix
Jordan — The Director

BTT One-Shot: Cthulhu Dark, Ep. 4

More crazy details are revealed, but that doesn’t shed too much more light on the nature of this horrific mystery. Who knew that a chat with your friendly neighborhood TV repairman could land you back in the hospital. And it wouldn’t be a horror story if one character didn’t carelessly return the the original scene… after dark… alone.

System: Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

CAST:
Aaron — Jason Dalton
Ellie — Bonn Bolton
Jeff — Darius Millson
Jeremy — Marsden Phoenix
Jordan — The Director

BTT One-Shot: Cthulhu Dark, Ep. 3

When the investigation goes awry, all the usual places one would go to for help don’t yield and beneficial results. Neighbors are reluctant to get involved, the hospital is dragging its feet, and the cops aren’t taking the report seriously. But who could blame them when the details are told by a fiction writer.

System: Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

CAST:
Aaron — Jason Dalton
Ellie — Bonn Bolton
Jeff — Darius Millson
Jeremy — Marsden Phoenix
Jordan — The Director

BTT One-Shot: Cthulhu Dark, Ep. 2

The story begins as the characters’ common associate gathers them together to investigate a mysterious delivery. Jordan confesses that the mystery is based on a actual real life event. Of course, there is more horror to come than what was in the actual news report.

System: Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

CAST:
Aaron — Jason Dalton
Ellie — Bonn Bolton
Jeff — Darius Millson
Jeremy — Marsden Phoenix
Jordan — The Director

BTT One-Shot: Cthulhu Dark, Ep. 1

Jordan picks up a new one-shot via a Kickstarter for us to play, Cthulhu Dark. This fits our gravitation toward our usual dark and spooky stories. We’ll create our characters, come up with some interesting backstories, and by the end of the episode Jordan says “The victims will should be ready.”

System: Cthulhu Dark by Graham Walmsley

CAST:
Aaron — Jason Dalton
Ellie — Bonn Bolton
Jeff — Darius Millson
Jeremy — Marsden Phoenix
Jordan — The Director

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 8

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We put a wrap on our first run of Inpectres with a few possessions, a cauldron, ghost traps, and a couple well-place mirrors. All is made right, or at least not any worse than when they started off. But will the team ever be the same again?

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 7

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As if the creepiness wasn’t already at an all-time high, Jordan cranks it up to eleven. A few characters have out of body experiences, in more ways than one, and another regains consciousness in a mysterious, dark and dank basement. The descent into madness continues.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 6

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When the group flees the airport and checks themselves into the Canterbury, EVERYTHING seems to go wrong. The stress rolls abound and chaos ensues as everyone looses there cool when the ectoplasm hits the fan.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 5

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The next round of investigation takes place at the office, and the “client” calls quite displeased. The jury is split on what to do next, but before they can come to a consensus, supernatural sparks start to fly in the form of visions, voices, and violent flames. Needless to say, there were a lot of stress rolls in this episode.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 3

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The franchise gets a call and secures it’s next job form a peculiar gentleman who works at The Canterbury. During the Investigation Phase, Jordan reveals that there are some real life details weaved into the premise of the story, at least according to a list of Seattle’s most haunted places. But the group goes to see there is any truth to this ghost story.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 2

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We set up our franchise in this episode. Our choices of the franchise name, location, and financial status will determine some key details in the game. When we start rolling for what our technology limitations are, that adds some pretty interesting quirks that will provide some challenges for the business… but will make for some great storytelling for sure.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT Throwback: Inspectres, “Seattle Spirits” 1

SS Inspectres Here’s another throwback to one of our favorite games. This is our 1st run of the game Inspectres; a game that combines the worlds of Ghostbusters and Cops. In this episode, we begin the process of developing our characters using the Campaign Mastercraft Method! Jordan then conducts interviews with each of the characters to learn even more about them.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Carlin – Auri Glasston
Jeremy – Nathan Alex Woodson
Johnny – Phil Raymond
Mike – Frank Cross
Stephanie – Trixie Canton
Jordan – The Gamemaster

Throwback Thursday: Inspectres, “Loan Star” Ep. 6

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In the conclusion of this one-shot we’ve got werewolves, aliens, time travel, men in black… and it wouldn’t be ridiculously complete without fighting Nazis. The final confessionals reveal no one in the group really knows what has been going on. How will they make it out alive, and how will they move forward?

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Jeremy – James Alex Xavier (Jax)
Jeff (Fafa) – Brandon Hargitay (Brad)
Johnny – Kraig
Jeff – Robert Janette Tolbert (Bob)
Jackie – Apurva Patell
Jordan – The Gamemaster

Throwback Thursday: Inspectres, “Loan Star” Ep. 5

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Full on into the Asylum, and the “residents” don’t seem to be too welcoming no matter how the team tried to get in. Not only that, but a mysterious figure approaches from outside. And we get the full trifecta as a threat from within the group appears to be imminent.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Jeremy – James Alex Xavier (Jax)
Jeff (Fafa) – Brandon Hargitay (Brad)
Johnny – Kraig
Jeff – Robert Janette Tolbert (Bob)
Jackie – Apurva Patell
Jordan – The Gamemaster

Throwback Thursday: Inspectres, “Loan Star” Ep. 4

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On this Throwback Thursday episode, the team researches the history of the Jefferson Davis Mental Asylum and finds some pretty haunting details. So heading back to the asylum at sunset seems like the best idea… but the dice strongly disagree.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:

Jeremy – James Alex Xavier (Jax)

Jeff (Fafa) – Brandon Hargitay (Brad)

Johnny – Kraig

Jeff – Robert Janette Tolbert (Bob)

Jackie – Apurva Patell

Jordan – The Gamemaster

Throwback Thursday: Inspectres, “Loan Star” Ep. 3

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On this Throwback Thursday episode, the team heads to the client’s apartment to investigate the ghost siting, which just “happens to have been” and old mental asylum. So the descent into madness happens rather quickly, and they all may not make it back out alive… but not because of anything supernatural.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Jeremy – James Alex Xavier (Jax)
Jeff (Fafa) – Brandon Hargitay (Brad)
Johnny – Kraig
Jeff – Robert Janette Tolbert (Bob)
Jackie – Apurva Patell
Jordan – The Gamemaster

Throwback Thursday: Inspectres, “Loan Star” Ep. 2

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On this Throwback Thursday episode we set up our Inspectres franchise in Houston, Texas, and find out what level of tech we will be working with. Brad wants to work with only the best, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Maybe everything IS bigger in Texas… including aspirations.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Jeremy – James Alex Xavier (Jax)
Jeff (Fafa) – Brandon Hargitay (Brad)
Johnny – Kraig
Jeff – Robert Janette Tolbert (Bob)
Jackie – Apurva Patell
Jordan – The Gamemaster

Throwback Thursday: Inspectres, “Loan Star” Ep. 1

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Here we go with another Thursday throwback series! We’re going back to another favorite, our 2nd run of the game Inspectres. In this episode, we begin the process of developing our characters using the Campaign Mastercraft Method! And oh boy, what a cast of characters it is.

Game System: Inspectres by Jared A. Sorenson

Cast:
Jeremy – James Alex Xavier (Jax)
Jeff (Fafa) – Brandon Hargitay (Brad)
Johnny – Kraig
Jeff – Robert Janette Tolbert (Bob)
Jackie – Apurva Patell
Jordan – The Gamemaster

BTT One-shot: Grin Ep. 5

Grin

The finale of Grin is upon us! Doctor Schroeder has taken Taylor to his operating theater. Vivisection is imminent! Will his remaining friends be able to save him? Or will Taylor meet a grisly end?

There’s only one way to find out.

System: Grin from Arcana Games. You can find the rules at http://www.arcana-games.com/grin.

Aaron — Taylor James
Jeff — Brad Greenson
Jeremy — Shane Simmons
Nick — Terrence Brock
Sarah — Samantha Ludwig

BTT One-shot: Grin Ep. 4

Grin

Things have become far more Grim on this one shot episode of Grin. We’ve had a character die. Most of the group get locked into an isolation room with a corpse. Taylor hears a door opening. Could that be something Even more frightening? Listen to find out… if you dare??

System: Grin from Arcana Games. You can find the rules at http://www.arcana-games.com/grin.

Aaron — Taylor James
Jeff — Brad Greenson
Jeremy — Shane Simmons
Nick — Terrence Brock
Sarah — Samantha Ludwig

BTT One-shot: Grin Ep. 3

Grin

Welcome to the third episode of Grin. The players continue exploring the abandoned sanitarium. They explore an operating theater with a door welded shut.

Once they make their way to the main foyer, they decide to go toward the right. Things seem to be going well so far! What could go wrong?

System: Grin from Arcana Games. You can find the rules at http://www.arcana-games.com/grin.

Aaron — Taylor James
Jeff — Brad Greenson
Jeremy — Shane Simmons
Nick — Terrence Brock
Sarah — Samantha Ludwig

BTT One-shot: Grin Ep. 2

Grin

The Grin players have been wandering through a flooded hallway into a water-filled room. Brad sees a body hanging in the corner of the room. Were the party the most recent visitors? Why has someone else come here to… end things?

System: Grin from Arcana Games. You can find the rules at http://www.arcana-games.com/grin.

Aaron — Taylor James
Jeff — Brad Greenson
Jeremy — Shane Simmons
Nick — Terrence Brock
Sarah — Samantha Ludwig

BTT One-Shot: Grin Ep. 1

Grin

Happy Halloween! We’re here with a new one-shot of the free horror game, Grin! Special thanks to our friends, Nick and Sarah for joining us.

The party plays a group of high school friends to stay in an old, abandoned, haunted sanitarium. As they begin exploring the grounds, things don’t add up…

System: Grin from Arcana Games. You can find the rules at http://www.arcana-games.com/grin.

Aaron — Taylor James
Jeff — Brad Greenson
Jeremy — Shane Simmons
Nick — Terrence Brock
Sarah — Samantha Ludwig