Real Fantasy Encounters
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAn actual play podcast where escapism means having the same dumb problems as every other day of your life, but now your fate is decided by the roll of dice. New episodes every other Thursday.
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Case Study 02 - The Rapture Hospital
March 07, 2023 04:53 - 51 minutes - 48.9 MBThe doctors go searching for answers in another timeline, where the Canopic angels are razing the world clean with divine flame. Rev. McDaniels gets a direct line to the pope, Dr Silvery gives a practical lesson on using stopwatches to navigate the multiverse, and Dr von Schattensprecht sews a zipper into someone's arm.
Case Study 01 - A Bloody Messenger
February 21, 2023 10:51 - 50 minutes - 48.2 MBCW / graphic medical depictions The doctors show off their hospital wards before being assigned their new patients. Dr Silvery and Rev. McDaniels analyse a patient’s skin condition using a machine filled with rats, while Dr von Schattensprecht meets with a nun who survived a leap onto a hand grenade. Bloodclotte is available at https://duffhounds.itch.io/bloodclotte
Bloodclotte: Character Creation
February 05, 2023 10:15 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBOur players make three doctors in the Gothic fantasy world of Bloodclotte. Dr. Sebastien Silvery is a doctor from an alternate timeline who must take experimental injections to keep himself tethered to reality. Rev. Daj McDaniels III is an ordained physiotherapist who collects holy tithes in the form of health insurance payments. Dr Johann von Schattensprecht is a surgeon who salvages the bodies of battlefield casualties and adds their parts to organ storage inside of his own Frankensteined ...
Delve 19 - A Lady’s Wrath
January 20, 2022 07:57 - 52 minutes - 53 MBOur delvers enact their murderous plan. Hyponikon and Light attempt to befriend the insulidian landshark, but the plan backfires and it falls to Muz'zel and their Gryndel Club connections to save them all from catastrophe.
Delve 18 - Spores, Moulds, and Fungus
January 06, 2022 06:00 - 52 minutes - 56.2 MBOur Delvers prepare for their unfortunate Landshark hunting accident. Muz'zel gets a complimentary orb consult from a Haven witch, and Light awakens from his prophetic moon hallucination, committing himself fully to Hyponikon's murderous goals. Together with Jagged, they track their enigmatic quarry through the fungus-laden tangle of Briar.
Delve 17 - 2 Outta 3 Ain‘t Bad
December 09, 2021 07:02 - 50 minutes - 55.7 MBOur Delvers wait in Hallow for their Aelfir mark to return. A Hallow witch puts Moon into a dreamstate where he experiences angelic visions, Muzz'el confronts another one of their children stranded in the Heart, and Clawd conspires with Hyponikon to wipe his father's memories.
Delve 16 - Theolosian Sight
November 11, 2021 08:53 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBOur Delvers are scattered across the Heart. Hyponikon colludes with the Blood-Witch Voto to rescue Muz'zel and their son from the Briar. Meanwhile, Muz'zel and Clawde commence their hunt for a Blood Gibbon to present to the Gryndel Club. Finally, Moon's Chosen Light undergoes a ritual to become a scion of the angel, Theolosian. What is clear is that something, or someone, is hunting the Heart. Though who, or what, it is none of them can say.
Delve 15 - Debts of the Father
October 29, 2021 00:19 - 57 minutes - 60.6 MBThe Gryndel door opens, and Jagged, the sky-whaling tycoon, encounters Light and Hyponikon outside the haven of Hallow. The Tycoon offers the elves an opportunity to hunt the Bassidian Land-shark (a misnomer as it's actually a mushroom). Meanwhile, Muz'zel and Clawde are trapped in the Briar. After dialling 1 for assistance they make their way through bloodbeast infested rainforest to the Gryndel Club where they sheepishly apply for membership...
Delve 14 - The Barbed Shacks
October 14, 2021 06:00 - 57 minutes - 59.9 MBOur Delvers put as much space between Landsmith's Rocket and themselves as possible, and are en route to the fabled haven of Hallow. However, they must first make it through the perilous pitfalls of The Barbed Shacks. On the way, they discover a secret entrance belonging to the famed Gryndel Club, a door to nowhere with no key. Our travellers must make a choice: to brave the known dangers of the path before them, or to step into the mysterious doorway, not knowing what may be lurking behind.
Delve 13 - Seeing a Man about a Dog
September 30, 2021 06:00 - 52 minutes - 56.7 MBMuz'zel has a son! And worse, he's in the Heart working as a navigator in the Space Boudoir of St. Landsmith. It is imperative our delvers take him out of this horrible place, but there are fires on the horizon, and the Holy Church of the Moon Beneath may have something different to say...
Delve 12 - The Space Boudoir
September 16, 2021 06:59 - 58 minutes - 63.1 MBA supposed saint has built a rocketship in the Heart for an interstellar quest, but Hyponikon has reason to doubt that it will ever take off. Light reads about an angel that eats people, and Muzz'el meets some human cultists with suspiciously gnollish tech.
Delve 11 - A Trap Door
September 02, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes - 51.8 MBOur delvers are bound for Hallow having escaped the clutches of the Papillius Library, and the vengeful ploys of the Drow Vigilites. They find themselves randomly spat into the infested wilderness beyond the library. In front of them is an all-too-convenient inconvenience store, and on the horizon: a derelict space-faring vessel. The Heart is yet to reveal itself.
Delve 10 - Knowledge is Power
August 19, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes - 42 MBHaving acquired an assortment of arcane tomes, our Delvers' path through the Heart will take them to the haven of Hallow, the domain of the 1111-eyed angel: Theolosian. Between them and the perilous comfort of the Heart is an infestation of corrupted Papillius moths... But all bugs die the same under the crushing weight of a Heretic's brazier.
Delve 09 - Tomes Abound
August 05, 2021 06:25 - 55 minutes - 54.6 MBOur delvers are en route to exact a moth's revenge against an expert bug collector. In exchange it will lead them to the Papillius Library, an archive of knowledge nobody knows. Within our delvers will uncover secrets about their own mystifying conditions, and glimpse the true nature of the Heart.
Delve 08 - Like a Moth to Vengeance
July 23, 2021 08:48 - 53 minutes - 54.3 MBMoon's Chosen Light takes a tour through Silverfish Park with fellow High-elf and avid bug collector: Camo. While they're distracted, Hyponikon takes a tour behind the velvet rope and sneaks a look at Camo's private collection. Meanwhile, at the B&B, Muz'zell eludes a vengeful Warband of Heretics. At the centre of all of this is Camo's prized specimen: a dead (for now at least) Pupilia moth.
Delve 07 - Honeymead Helpers
July 08, 2021 07:04 - 52 minutes - 56 MBOur delvers find their way to a bug collector's haven on the other side of the sabotaged ski-lift where they meet two deep apiarists managing a Bed & Breakfast. Muz'zel seeks answers about their enigmatic curse while Hyponikon and Moon's-Chosen-Light admit themselves to Silverfish Park and infiltrate a prestigious entomologist's private collection.
Delve 06 - Honeyed Words
June 24, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 40.6 MBMuzz'el attempts to coerce the delvers into riding a rickety ski lift into the unfathomable depths of the Heart. From the outside Muzz'el appears lucid, but Moon's Chosen Light suspects them of supernatural treachery. Will our delvers hold fast? Or will they indulge the whim of the bees?
Delve 05 - Ski Lift Stranger
June 10, 2021 06:24 - 40 minutes - 40.9 MBOur delvers must survive the abhorrent Bloodbeast they have encountered on the slopes deeper into the Heart. There will be no time to lick their wounds. At the ski lift beyond is a packless Gnoll from the other side. Not everything is as it appears with this stranger, but not everything is as it appears with Muzz'el either... The bees have plans. Our delvers cannot be allowed to interfere...
Delve 04 - The Reaperwoods
May 27, 2021 06:26 - 47 minutes - 46.9 MBOur Delvers return to the place where their fates became intertwined. Within lie unpredictable horrors, and the threat of bees and Bloodbeasts. Can our Delvers overcome the perils of the Reaperwood, or will Hyponikon's divine greed lead them to their deaths?
Delve 03 - Godly Errands
May 13, 2021 06:40 - 52 minutes - 55.5 MBOur Delvers locate the Temple of the Moon Beneath, but without a shipment of swords to trade they are merely another band of foolhardy pilgrims. A merchant makes an open wager, and Hyponikon accepts... This merchant doesn't know what happens when you kill a Red Priest. The current map of the heart our Delvers have
Delve 02 - Delve Mommy
April 29, 2021 06:00 - 54 minutes - 51.7 MBOur Delvers' first stop is the Sword Kitchen at the Temple of the Moon Beneath. But between them and the church is a zealot with a rifle and deep-set prejudice against pigeon-brained automatons. It's up to Moon's Chosen Light to negotiate the only way he knows how - with smoke and blood.
Delve 01 - Into the Heart
April 15, 2021 06:00 - 55 minutes - 59.7 MBOn our first Episode of Heart: The City Beneath we are introduced to our Delvers: a sordid assortment of displaced outcasts searching for meaning in the grotesque, cavernous reaches of the Heart. Moon's Chosen Light, the Heretic, hears the profane sirensong of the Moon Beneath calling to him; Muzz'el, the Deep Apiarist, seeks a cure for their twisted form of honeycomb and reunion with their familiar pack; and Hyponikon Screed, the Incarnadine, follows salt trails and scrimshaw carvings to th...
Report 30 - A Dream of Blurred Bodies
April 01, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 53.5 MBIt all comes down to this. Castaway on the open ocean, all that stands between our detentioneers and freedom is a turncoat, yokai stoner and her loving dad. Will our heroes open the Gate and portal to freedom from Ganymede Island, or will the Foundation wipe their memories and subject them to further future-proofing experiments? Tune in to the finale of our Breakfast Cult campaign and find out!
Trailer: Heart, The City Beneath
March 25, 2021 01:56 - 2 minutes - 2.67 MBOn April 15th, Real Fantasy Encounters delves into new stories... Heart, The City Beneath by https://rowanrookanddecard.com/ #ttrpg #actualplay #tabletop #ttrpgpodcast #HeartRPG #HeartTheCityBeneath
Report 29 - Tengu in Sheep's Clothing
March 18, 2021 06:52 - 48 minutes - 59.4 MBHaving freshly disembarked, and with no nautical experience between them, our teens must look within themselves to figure out a way home, if there even is a home left for them. After all, what home can be had when The Foundation is hell-bent on their erasure? Hopefully, the powers that be are on their sides.
Report 28 - The Flood and Fire
March 04, 2021 07:54 - 57 minutes - 59.2 MBOur detentioneers have levelled a luxury apartment complex in the Undercampus, and now must escape on a ferry they're not even sure is there. Maja pleads with Saffron to see reason, but it's no use. Until Saffron can recover the spirit blade from the burning wreckage, he is not leaving Ganymede Island. But the sword is on the move, and someone all too familiar has it in his possession...
Report 27 -To Stay or Go
February 18, 2021 06:13 - 52 minutes - 52.4 MBThe students descend into the undercampus intent on livestreaming the truth beneath the Institute and stealing whatever, and whoever, they can carry. Every second ticks toward doom for our detentioneers. Let's hope they're quiet enough, or audacious enough, to locate the dry dock and escape from Ganymede Island.
Report 26 - Into the Underground
February 04, 2021 06:00 - 52 minutes - 50.6 MBThe detentioneers try and return to the school lives they had before the death of Kevin Fong, but none of them can rest easy knowing the secrets of the island. Maja approaches Overlord with an offer to turn whistleblower, Rudy and Bhavneet come up with a new criminal scheme, and Saffron seeks out a broken Professor Al-Nadir.
Report 25 - The "Real" World
January 21, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBSaffron's soul is at stake as he and Neko continue to duke it out at the Ganymede Waste Processing Plant. Simultaneously, Rudy plots to escape from the subterranean Replacement Institute before having his memory completely wiped. After tonight, our gang's perception of reality itself is under existential threat. Can Maja rely on her father to smuggle them off the island, or will the influence of the Institute's Cleaners prove too much to resist?
Report 24 - The Replacements
January 07, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 56.7 MBSaffron is on a cultist slaying rampage, and if Maja can't stop him then they'll both soon be facing down the much greater threat of a Neko at full power. Rudy's rescue mission into the Broom Closet leads to a much deeper conspiracy buried underneath the island.
Report 23 - Phoenix Download
December 18, 2020 07:01 - 53 minutes - 50.1 MBIn the aftermath of Clampy's demise, Saffron is given the chance to rise from his digital ashes into the world once more. With Rudy held captive by cultists, it is up to Maja to retrieve Saffron's cold corpse, and prep it for resurrection. With time running out, and enemies closing in, there is no guarantee for success.
Report 22 - Goodbye Clampy
December 10, 2020 06:00 - 49 minutes - 50.7 MBRudy, Dash, and Mobile Saffron make their daring escape from Kaur Manor on the back of their giant hermit crab. Peaches pursues them on her crotch-rocket. Together they sow mayhem through Ganymede Student Village while Maja and Bhavneet plot bloody revenge against the people responsible for trashing her home. The end is in sight for our detectives, and it looks like there'll be a cabal of cultists and cleaners waiting for them when they get there.
Report 21 - Dinner with Bhavneet
November 26, 2020 06:11 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBOur detectives' dinner plans at the Arts Alliance AGM go horrifically wrong when Rudy goads Peaches into a nectar-fuelled berserker rage. Maja and Saffron coordinate to execute some underhanded chicanery against the vampiric art mogul, but will their antics be enough to sway Bhavneet's judgement, and prevent the murder of another unfortunate classmate? Lucky for them Rudy has an ace in the hole.
Report 20 - A Devil's Bargain
November 11, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBOur detectives have located a piece of damning evidence suggesting Lucrezia Cortez was involved with an Outer Scientific ritual to ghostify Jane Doe. With the cabal of Grandpa Worshippers and Muertos Cultists haunting the school grounds, it's only a matter of time before their curiosity gets them in deathly trouble. But our detectives have one thing on their side the cultists don't: A hermit crab.
Report 19 - SFFRN
November 06, 2020 03:14 - 58 minutes - 61.1 MBAl-Nadir's memories are badly scrambled, and it could take some time to restore them without badly hurting him. Meanwhile, Overlord makes dramatic progress with the SIM card phylactery and Daddy Olsson drops around for dinner.
Report 18 - Unloading the Brain Box
October 30, 2020 02:16 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBMaja has retrieved Professor Al-Nadir's body from the cult, but with his memories removed through outer science, he might not even remember who they are, let alone the information they need. Saffron learns some new ways to use his spirit form, and Rudy turns up some clues about his missing hermit crab.
Report 17 - The Broom Closet
October 22, 2020 10:49 - 1 hour - 61 MBRudy is dangerously close to indulging Neko's desire for more souls despite Maja and Saffron's protests. But how else will they fulfil their promise to the CAS? Our Investigators are now en route to rescue their Home Room teacher, Jabari Al Nadir, from Sunrise Produce's deprogramming facility: The Broom Closet.
Report 16 - Entering WonderLan
October 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 64 MBMaja has uncovered the identity of the Art Club whistle-blower. It seems like Rudy's machinations have finally been stifled, but can the two work together long enough to raise Saffron from the dead? The ancient, evil cat spirit that devours souls is getting hungrier for Saffron's soul by the day. Together they'll penetrate the dark heart of the Computer Appreciation Society's internet cafe front: WonderLAN...
Report 15 - The Semantics of Death
October 08, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBSaffron Spiritcaller is only kinda dead, so Rudy has stuffed Saffron's lifeless body into his locker in the Art Club. Together with Maja, and the assistance of the Computer Appreciation Society they're gonna dox Saffron back to life. But when the mole's identity is revealed during homeroom, plans to rez Saffron are delayed. Can Saffron attune to his new ghostly powers to save his skin, or will Neko claim yet another mouse?
Report 14 - A Life for a Life
October 01, 2020 06:00 - 56 minutes - 63.2 MBMaja's dinner date goes about as well as expected, but her meeting with the Advanced Alchemy Club does not. Unwittingly she is drawn into a gathering of shadowy forces conspiring against the residents of Ganymede Island. Meanwhile, Saffron and Rudy dabble in the Outer Scientific practice of accidentally bringing people back from the dead.
Report 13 - Death is not the End
September 24, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBSaffron Spiritcaller has gone into hiding, fearful of being doxxed by the student body of the Ganymede Institute, and Rudy has promised him protection within the Art Club Forgery Syndicate. Maja has bigger problems: tonight is date night. The horrors of spending an evening with Bartholomew Xavier are almost comparable to the horrors she'll experience at her "Advanced Alchemy" meetup. Above all of this is the question of Kevin Fong. Who, or what is he now he has returned from the dead?
Report 12 - The Computer Appreciation Society
September 17, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBStandby! In this episode Maja teams up with Pavel to produce class-assessed sleeping potions of unusual potency, Saffron locates his place of elemental power, and Rudy rushes to undo terrible plans that he has set into motion. The sinister gaze of the Computer Appreciation Society has fallen upon Saffron Spiritcaller, and now the whole school is on red alert...
Report 11 - Real Fantasy Test Anxiety
September 10, 2020 06:50 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBOur detectives put yesterday's murderous events behind them and return to a run-of-the-mill day of school: home room, alchemy class, and occult lore to name a few. But beneath the surface, Saito's plan to alienate Saffron from the Institute's student body has been set into motion while the art club informant is still at large. There's never a dull moment for our student investigators...
Report 10 - Confessions at Sword Point
September 03, 2020 06:20 - 56 minutes - 65.1 MBThe truth comes out... Saffron spirits a terrified Rudy away into the woods to confess to a murder he's not sure he committed. But is this the damning revelation Saffron thought it would be, or is it an opportunity Rudy can't refuse? The sound of crotch rocket motorcycles rips through the forest darkness. There's never been a better time for an ambush...
Report 09 - Calling all Debts
August 27, 2020 08:15 - 55 minutes - 59.3 MBAfter their confrontation with Kevin Fong's eldritch corpse, our student detectives attempt to readjust to normal academic life. Maja hears out Jin's crazy proposition in the booth of the local Burger Kong, Rudy shakes down Pavel for an injection of cold, hard cash, and Saffron bears witness to a harrowing seance that threatens to uncover the true identity of Kevin Fong's killer.
Report 08 - Striking a Nerve
August 20, 2020 07:23 - 55 minutes - 62.7 MBCW/ body horror It took all of five minutes for the tongue-slug Maja found to attack her face with its tiny, blood-sucking beak. (Un)luckily, Saffron is there to perform a surgical slug removal with his cursed sword. Meanwhile, Rudy is still receiving messages from Kevin Fong's number. Is Kevin Fong really alive? Or is the abundant presence of death in an abandoned, under school junkyard a little too recent? A little too fresh? A little too alive? Find out on this week's episode of Real ...
Report 07 - Into the Boiler Room
August 13, 2020 06:10 - 52 minutes - 55.5 MBCW/ body horror Our duplicitous detectives are in urgent need of a secret gathering spot, and the dilapidated ruin of the old school building may be just the thing they need to evade the prying eyes of the student body. The old school building's infamy is no joke, and it's clear to our detectives that dark forces have co-opted the ruin for Outer Scientific spellcraft. An extradimensional horror lurks in the exploded boiler room, and our student investigators must rely on a delinquent's swor...
Report 06 - Diary of a Jane Doe
August 06, 2020 08:56 - 55 minutes - 64.7 MBOur savvy students theorise there is a ghost in the dormitory, and they're not too far from the truth. Maja conducts background research on her dormmates and discovers something strange about Jane Doe. Saffron uses his new dream walking talents to spy on his dormmates, and piece together the events of the night he killed Kevin Fong. Meanwhile, Rudy meets with the Don of the art club criminal syndicate and requests help from the top to carry out orders for his plagiarism operation.
Report 05 - Playing Cat and Mouse
July 30, 2020 07:41 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBThe stench of rotting meat has crawled its way into the Ganymede dormitories, and it's followed by a thin trail of black flies. This strange phenomenon coincides with the disappearance of academic dropkick Kevin Fong. But is it just a coincidence, or is there something more beneath it? And how are Saffron's waking hallucinations connected with it? It's our unwitting detectives' first day back at school, and their first night is set to change their lives forever.
Report 04 - The Hunt for Kevin Fong
July 23, 2020 09:44 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBOur protagonists discover their first clue to Kevin Fong's whereabouts: a vape box strapped to a live Tesla coil. President-Detective Maja Olsson is on the case! Suspicion falls on misunderstood miscreant Saffron Spiritcaller. Our students must piece together Kevin's movements before his untimely disappearance, and Rudy's lies aren't making things easy for any of them. How will our investigators ever get to the truth of things when they are hell-bent on keeping secrets from one another?