We're a few days late, but if it means anything to you, dear listener, it made me haul a lot of my music equipment up to my office and I am definitely going to try and do more original music for my episodes now!

Welcome to another one-player one-shot where I play games I have been dying to get to the table all by myself. This time it's another by one of my favorite designers in the TTRPG community, Midnight Melodies by Cezar Capacle.

In Midnight Melodies, you play as a jazz pianist confronted by the Grim Reaper themself after a night out playing, but there's a catch - you're immune to their touch. Instead, they recruit you for the Department of Unauthorized Deaths to investigate strange, unsanctioned deaths while the big Death works out what to do with you. Now, every now and again, a name will appear in the tip jar at the end of the night, and you must get to the bottom of the unnatural death.

In this episode I play Riley Hawkins, member of the big jazz band The Eclipse, as he goes unauthorized death detective on the case of an academic counselor, Bradley Keats. It gets wild. 

Go get Cezar's games, they're all bangers, you can't go wrong!

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Music in the Episode (in order of appearance):

Bugablue from Pixabay

Sweet Braam (D) by Monument Studios

Bass Hit by Monument Studios

Autumn Leaves Falling Again by Trygve Larsen from Pixabay

Podcast Jazz Music by Denis Pavlov from Pixabay

Dark City by TabletopAudio.com

Nordic Noir by TabletopAudio.com

Noir Procedural by TabletopAudio.com

Portal by Monument Studios

Body Fall Glass B by Monument Studios

Into Silence by Vindsvept

Rene Plays Games Theme written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands