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Beyond the Threshold 8: Putting the AK Back in Alaska

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Anchorage-Skyline

As the team flees San Francisco, Alice finds that there might be trouble on her boyfriend’s continued fishing adventures and persuades everyone to head to the Last Frontier

Featuring Aser, Matt, Megan, and Phil. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Hitman.”

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Beyond the Threshold 7: Specimens

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Attendants, fully covered, wait along rows of empty beds in a hospital ward

The team infiltrates BABEL to see if they can get any answers. What they find is a bit more then what they expected.

Featuring Aser, Brian, Megan, and Phil. Music by Kevin MacLeod, ‘Hitman’.

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TRF’s Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 9, Fear Itself

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On the Ninth Day of Christmas
My GM gave to me,
Nine scary monsters,
Eight prior worlds,
Seven heroes slashing,
Six Fiascos foiled,
Five TPKS!
Four ships still flying,
Three Green Boxes,
Two Draculas,
and a Final Girl fleeing to safety.

An eye peeks through a hole in a door and is full of fear

While not the first Gumshoe game we tried, Fear Itself may very well be the scariest. We’re not hardened wet work artists or seasoned investigators of the unnatural for this outing: we’re regular people with ordinary lives. So basically, we’re screwed.

When you throw in the Book of Unremitting horror, and Megan’s love of tormenting Aser in one-on-one games, Fear Itself has quickly become a TRF favorite.

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TRF’s Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 5, Trail of Cthulhu

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On the Fifth Day of Christmas
My GM gave to me,
Five TPKS!
Four ships still flying,
Three Green Boxes,
Two Draculas,
and a Final Girl fleeing to safety.

 

Man standing in the gloom looking at a corpse

There’s actually only ever been one total party kill on TRF: the scenario Castle Bravo for Trail of Cthulhu. As to be expected from Brian, Phil and Aser though, it’s not achieved by half measures.

Using the core clue mechanic central to the Gumshoe system to guarantee narrative progress, Trail of Cthulhu ensures that your intrepid band of investigators will make it to that payoff at the end of the adventure where the true horror of the situation can finally be revealed. Whether the PCs found all of the other clues along the way determines how well that last scene plays out for them: in Castle Bravo, we found most of them.

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TRF’s Twelve Days of Christmas: Day 2, Night’s Black Agents

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On the Second Day of Christmas
My GM gave to me,
Two Draculas
and a final girl fleeing to safety.

A man garrotes a vampire

Okay, this inside joke between Aser and Megan requires a bit of explanation. What shouldn’t require explaining though is how quickly the TRF cast behind Beyond the Threshold came to love Night’s Black Agents for its unique blend of supernatural horror, techno-thriller action and espionage drama.

Our plucky team of black ops realists have left a trail of destruction from Bosnia to the Bay Area and have been ready to draw down on each other as quickly as the bad guys from almost the beginning. It’s a game that seems tailor-made for TRF.

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Beyond the Threshold 6: That’s Not My Problem!

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A picture of the Tenderloin district in San Francisco

The team scrambles to get undercover and safe after a disastrous encounter at the Fremont.

Featuring Aser, Matt, Megan, and Phil. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Hitman.”

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Fear Itself: The Wickerman

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Christopher Lee stands with his arms raised with the WIckerman behind him.

For Thanksgiving weekend we wanted to celebrate the harvest, TRF style. This episode was previously Patreon exclusive, but since we’re thankful for all of you, we’re making it public. Enjoy this retelling of the 1973 classic horror film, The Wicker Man.

Featuring Aser and Megan. Music from Freemusicarchive.org, Port_City_Music_-_29_-_Night_Terrors from ‘Silber Sounds of Halloween’

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Trail of Cthulhu: Flying Coffins

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A Byakhee in the sky watching a biplane

A squadron of the RFC during The Great War encounter more then Germans in the sky.

Featuring Aser, Brian, Megan, and Phil. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Classic Horror 1.”

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Fear Itself: Soliloquy

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A twisted being that appears to be eating hair

Ted Carter has to watch in slow horror as his life dissolves around him. A bonus episode to celebrate Halloween!

Featuring Aser and Megan. Music from Freemusicarchive.org, Port_City_Music_-_29_-_Night_Terrors from ‘Silber Sounds of Halloween’

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Fear Itself: Invasive Procedures pt. 2

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Invasive-image

As the horror becomes pervasive, the patients try to band together to escape from the monsters in the dark.
Featuring Aser, John, Matt, Megan, Mike, and Rob.
Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Spider’s Web” & “Classic Horror”

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