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Scary on the Choo-Choo 6: You Just Wake Up

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The Prince standing proudly on a gibbet with bodies hanging behind him

As they reach Lausanne the party looks up the man who sent a note to Dr. Laurian. As they engage in a bidding war with a mysterious French man for a document with clues about the Simulacrum, things take a turn for the strange.

Featuring Aser, Eli, Megan, Phil, and Zack. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Alchemist’s Tower”

Thank you so much for all of your support! Aser and Megan finally got married last week and are headed towards wedded bliss and hopefully several more years of killing each other’s characters.

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Scary on the Choo-Choo 5: Our Friend the Jersey Dogboy

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A ghoul looks over at it's shoulder holding a bone

Headed back to Paris aglow with success, the party decides to investigate the strange going-ons at the hospital.

Featuring Aser, Eli, Megan, Phil, and Zach. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Alchemist’s Tower”

Check out Eli’s short story on Shadowvane Podcast. Or you can read it yourself on Amazon!

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Scary on the Choo-Choo 4: Thorn Amongst the Roses

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Ross of purple, orange, green, and aquamarine

The party makes it to Paris to start looking for the first piece of the Sedefkar Simulacrum, one failed skill check at a time.

Featuring Aser, Eli, Megan, Phil and Zach. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Alchemist’s Tower.”

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Lovecraft and American Racism

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The collective works of H.P. Lovecraft have entertained and inspired readers from all over the world. He has filled our imaginations with psychopaths, mad doctors, haunted towns, cosmic gods, and all manner of other disturbing images. However, the point that has disturbed some readers and sparked a fair amount of criticism regarding his work was Lovecraft’s racism. Like many authors Lovecraft used his work to express his frustrations with his personal life as well as the general state of life around him. And despite how easy it can be to criticize Lovecraft’s intolerance he was by no means a free radical in a world of open minded acceptance. Though I do not say he and his ideals should get a pass, Lovecraft’s opinions were much more common during his lifetime, and they can now serve as an example to learn from or discuss the social politics during the twentieth century, and perhaps even our current social climate as well. In many ways the social mentality during Lovecraft’s time seems somewhat foreign compared to today’s standards, but in just as many places it is hard to tell if thing have ever changed. There are numerous communities segregated not by law but by societal pressures, and people who lash out at minorities and foreigners either physically or politically. We are taught to not only learn about the past but to learn from it. Lovecraft expressed many ideas that were integral to his time. And while we may not agree with those ideas, we can still learn from them as we try to better ourselves, so as not to repeat his mistakes.

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Scary on the Choo-Choo 3: A Bump on the Tracks

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A restored image of Constantinople showing a bridge with the city behind

As we reach the end of the adventure of The Blood Red Fez, the party has to pull together and try their very best to fight their enemies and become controllers of The Fez.

Featuring Aser, Eli, Megan, Phil, and Zach. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “The Alchemist’s Tower”

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Scary on the Choo-Choo 2: The Second Most Evil Hat

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The party visits the past for the adventure “The Blood Red Fez” and quickly meet with more then they can handle.

Featuring Aser, Eli, Megan, Phil, and Zach. Music by Kevin MacLeod, “The Alchemist’s Tower”

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Scary on the Choo-Choo 1: Leavin’ on a Steam Train

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In our first episode of the classic adventure, Horror on the Orient Express, a group is invited to a lecture by Professor Smith, who later desperately needs their help to hunt down the Sedefkar Simulacrum.

Featuring Aser, Eli, Megan, Phil, and Zack. Music by Kevin MacLeod, ‘Alchemist’s Tower’

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