S01E03 - Destabilized Part 3

After several harrowing encounters with the malicious entity in the Houghton House, the investigators finally find a piece of the puzzle that will let them out of the house. That proves easier said than done as the entity doesn't want to let them go without a fight. Can the Lovelycraftians escape the Houghton House in one piece? Will they learn the house's secrets? Stay tuned...

Our promo this week features our friends at Modified Roll. If you're into DnD 5e, taverns, adventure, and taverns, this is the podcast for you!

CREDITS

"Clash Defiant" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

"The Goldbach Conjecture" by Savfk. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

S01E04 - Brackish Part 1

CONTENT ADVISORY: There are references to suicide in this episode but no depictions of it or scenes including self-harm.

An odd discovery in the Chicago River. Multiple seemingly content men jumping into the river off of three specific bridges. One survivor. The investigators are on the trail of what could be another portal, but they may need to get their feet wet with this one.

CREDITS

"Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E05 - Brackish Part 2

CONTENT ADVISORY: There are references to suicide and mental illness in this episode.

After returning from the asylum, the investigators set off along the river to find a portal, not knowing that two of their comrades are about to be psychically compromised at a critical moment.

CREDITS

"Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E06 - Familial Part 1

A warning about keeping their noses to themselves arrives at Dr. Osborn's lab, along with a gift that triggers a memory in Rose: an unwelcome and volatile blast from the past. Ruby makes a connection between the gift and a previous haunt. After asking about the preciously guarded book that was missing when her mentor died, Ambrosia receives an oddly coded message that points to danger in the Chicago Public Library archives. Millie eats all the pickles, and she doesn't even have to use her newfound mental powers to do it. The investigators learn much in this episode, but they may not like where it leads.

S01E07 - Familial Part 2

In the Chicago Public Library, Amby finds more questions than answers about her mentor's demise. Rose turns to her father for help with her menacing and frighteningly well-informed ex. Millie befriends a street urchin. As they brace themselves for a night of intrigue and stakeouts, death reaches out once more.

The Drop on Mooch

In this one-shot adventure, mobsters Mooch, Pete, and Marla try to carry out orders from their boss, Gaston "Shiner" Judge. They need to hunt down an expensive piece of merchandise, but finding it may cost them more than they anticipated.

Guest starring Lee (Cassie's partner/Lovelyspousian) as Pete, Adam (Sade's partner/Lovelyspousian) as Mooch, and Sade as Marla.

CREDITS

"Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E08 - Familial Part 3

The investigators make their way to Gaston Judge's warehouse for the midnight rendezvous with Mikey, but things don't go quite according to plan. The stealth mission quickly falls apart as the merchandise makes an angry getaway, leaving the Lovelies with the mess.

CREDITS

"Spy Glass" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E09 - Familial Part 4

A failed stealth mission leads the investigators right into Gaston Judge’s clutches, which would end poorly for all. Taken captive, can our investigators escape? Or are they at the mercy of an unforgiving mob? Stay tuned…

S01E10 - Captive

Millie and Marty hatch a plan to rescue the other investigators, unaware that Ambrosia has been taken somewhere else to tackle an increasingly dire situation alone. Ruby gets a taste of the mob's more magical projects. Rose finally faces the music, and her father, in a painful moment of growing up.

S01E11 - Escape

Millie and Marty attempt to break into the Pella house to rescue their friends. The investigators get a glimpse at the mob's involvement with a darkness that lurks beyond this realm as time begins to run out for Ambrosia.

CREDITS

"The Rover" by S Strong. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Lady in the Lake

CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains depictions of body horror, dissociation, and torture. 

In a shack by Lake Michigan, far from home and safety, Ambrosia DuBois' story finds an abrupt end. Is it the end of the chapter, or is the book of her life closing for good?

CREDITS

"Silent Night (Dark Piano Version)" by Nicolas Gasparini. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E12 - Fallout

The investigators, now homeless, on the run, and worse for wear, deal with the fallout of their disastrous encounter with the mob.

S01E13 - Pieces

After everything, the Lovelies take a breather to recuperate and piece together what they've learned so far. They also start asking uncomfortable questions about their friend Irene and just how much she actually knows about what's going on. Marty brings them word from Ruby's friend, whose cafe is more trouble than they know.

CREDITS

"The Rover" by S Strong. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E14 - Entangled Part 1

With Ambrosia's husband in tow, the investigators sneak out of Marty's apartment and make their way to the campus morgue. There, they interrogate the guard from Papa Pella's house being held hostage, and it quickly becomes clear that not all is as it seems. Even close to home.

****Featuring special guest star Quinn Sullivan of SoulBear Productions.****

CREDITS

"Spy Glass" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E15 - Entangled Part 2

Dorcas Doolan's cafe appears to be failing for no real reason. Worse yet, customers have been disappearing from the cafe entirely. The Lovelies, with Jacques and Marty, find themselves in a basement with no doors and no clear way out. They can only hope that they're alone down there.

 ****Featuring special guest star Quinn Sullivan of SoulBear Productions.****

CREDITS

"Silent Night (Dark Piano Version)" by Nicolas Gasparini. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

"Circus of Dread" by Robert Austin. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

S01E16 - Entangled Part 3

The investigators are shaken after their encounters with their fears, but things only get worse when the beast who roams the labyrinth appears. Can they find the portal to escape the labyrinth? Stay tuned...

****Featuring special guest star Quinn Sullivan of SoulBear Productions.****

CREDITS

"Desert City" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

S01E17 - Famished Part 1

In the small amount of recovery time after the trip through the labyrinth, Amby learns more about her newfound love of water...and her compulsion to drown her husband. Millie puts her PI skills to use bribing street urchins and hears about the mob world after the explosion at the Pella Mansion. Rose's family is worse for wear after her tussle with Gaston's affairs. But more dangerous still is what Ruby encounters once she's been left alone in the medical building on campus. 

CREDITS

"Spy Glass" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E18 - Famished Part 2

The Lovelies meet up with Willy, their captive mobster, in the morgue of the UIC medical building. There, he introduces them to a body that died from what seemed to be exposure in otherwise temperate weather. The body also has the same half-dollar sized bruises as the one on Ruby's forehead. Things scurry at the edge of their sight, fleeting but persistent.

CREDITS

"Desert City" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

"Suspense7" by Sei Mutsuki. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E19 - Famished Part 3

The Lovelies rescue a student from the clutches of a pair of rats with spears as well as pants. Their encounter with these weaponized rodents leaves them wondering not just how they got there, but who made them and to what end. The answers may be more than they bargained for as they catch a larger group of the creatures unawares.

CREDITS

"Suspense7" by Sei Mutsuki. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E20 - Famished Part 4

The Lovelies discover just how advanced the trouser rats really are. In uncovering the truth behind the rodents' creation, the investigators come face-to-face with the Dr. Frankenstein behind the rats, and find a more horrifying mystery to untangle.

CREDITS

"Suspense7" by Sei Mutsuki. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E21 - Famished Part 5

The investigators finally corner the franken-rats after their creator was dragged away by giant tentacles. They learn much more about the trouser rat society that has formed in the weeks since Milton created them, perhaps more than they anticipated. Four investigators enter. How many will return?

CREDITS

"Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

"Dragon City" by Makai Symphony. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E22 - Sundered Part 1

Trapped in the trouser rats' ritual room with no way out, the investigators uncover a strange circle, and an even stranger remnant. When help finally arrives, they learn of Marty's fate, and of someone who may be able to locate the next portal: the mysterious Cora Gray.

CREDITS

"The Paladin's Underworld" by Shane Ivers Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

"Cool Vibes" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. 

S01E23 - Sundered Part 2

Cora Gray, ever one for death-defying adventures into the occult, agrees to help the Lovelies find one of the last portals they need to close (at least according to Dr. Osborn). It quickly becomes clear that the investigators opened the door for more than what they bargained for when using the symbol found in the franken-rats' sacrificial chamber to open a portal.

CREDITS

"Cool Vibes" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.  

"The Rover" by S Strong.  Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.  

"Suspense 7" by PeriTune.  Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

S01E24 - The Green Flame Part 1

The investigators commandeer a boat to take them to the green pillar of light out in Lake Michigan. They aren't the only ones interested, and they soon find themselves entertaining dangerous company.

S01E25 - The Green Flame Part 2

As Rose slowly suffers the consequences of her actions, the rest of the investigators find themselves inside Four Mile Crib. Many mysteries lie within, testing their physical and mental abilities. But what happens when they solve everything?

S01E26 - The Green Flame Finale

The Lovelies finally learn the terrible truth about the portals, but it comes at a grave cost.

CREDITS

"Silent Night (Dark Piano Version)" by Nicolas Gasparini. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

"Circus of Dread" by Robert Austin. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

"Dragon City" by Makai Symphony. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.