Pest Control

Rabbit and Nammi make a pitch to end the threat of the Crystal Flower, while Kelly attempts to quell threats on his own.

Kelly takes everything on. Rabbit can’t stop himself from looking. Nammi finds herself on the opposite side of an eerily familiar conversation.

(Content Warnings: hospital settings, police, gun violence, mental manipulation)

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)

NPCs
Almos Sumati (he/him) - Werewolf. Damn good laywer. Dresses in an expensive blue suit that compliments his fur. Chooses to stay in wolf-form all the time. Helps organize the Norfork softball team. Trans-man. Single, in case anyone was wondering.
Glymmer AKA Aina Steen (she/her) - A white woman with short curly brown hair. Dressed in a ribbed black tanktop and selvedge denim shorts. Colorful bright jacket with an image or intertwined roses on the back, and a pair of aviator sunglasses nestled in her hair. Dating(?) Carmichael.
Cold Moon AKA Rosa Kalyani (she/her) - Unofficial leader of the lunar witch coven in which Rabbit was raised. Former astronaut. Imposing Black woman with short spongy black hair, and an athlete’s physique. Often wears an elegant coat, even when it’s hot.
Carmichael (he/him) - Arch-vampire nightclub owner and socialite in The City. Kelly and Nammi both owe him, and he aims to collect. Dating(?) Glymmer.
Officer Sal Fukfuk (he/him) - Police officer. Low on the proverbial ladder, mostly relegated to taking calls from subway security and petty crime. The "Costello" in his usual team with Officer Butte.
Officer Conrad Butte (he/him) - Police officer. Low on the proverbial ladder, mostly relegated to taking calls from subway security and petty crime.  The "Abbott" in his usual team with Officer Fukfuk.

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Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)
Additional Music "Carmichael Arrives" by Layne Smith

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

Now that they know what sits beneath the Divot, the trio attempt to come up with a way to stop the Crystal Flower - before it can fall into the wrong hands.

Kelly asks a question he doesn’t want the answer to. Nammi uses her police contacts. Rabbit reconnects with family.

(Content Warnings: possession, police, hospital setting, brief description of injures)

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)

NPCs
Jillian Murphy (she/her) - Former liaison between The City and Norfork, and former hookup of Kelly’s. In search of purpose. Demon.
Officer Sal Fukfuk (he/him) - Police officer. Low on the proverbial ladder, mostly relegated to taking calls from subway security and petty crime. The "Costello" in his usual team with Officer Butte.
Officer Conrad Butte (he/him) - Police officer. Low on the proverbial ladder, mostly relegated to taking calls from subway security and petty crime.  The "Abbott" in his usual team with Officer Fukfuk.
Alek, Meg, and Tisiphone (All She/Her) - Rabbit’s trio of mothers. They are a part of the Lunar Coven started by Cold Moon. Rabbit lives with them on and off.
Buck Curt AKA "Buck Moon" (He/him) - Member of the Lunar Coven. Heavyset white man with a wide beard. Huggable. Mid 30s. Lawyer.

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Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

The trio get some answers.

Kelly asks questions. Nammi sees similarities. Rabbit remembers something startling.

(Content Warnings: police)

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)

NPCs
Jillian Murphy (she/her) - Former liaison between The City and Norfork, and former hookup of Kelly’s. In search of purpose. Demon.
The Mothman AKA Jimmy Domal (he/him) - Vigilante, and Kelly’s protege. Not very good at the whole vigilante thing. Needs The Cryptid’s help to solve his own murder, and now finds himself with unexpected help.
Silvia Rui (she/her) - Member of the Norfork Parent's Assemblage ("The Moms"). White woman with frizzy brown hair, long cardigans, and mom-jeans. Can barely stand Hannah Radek. Rabbit, disguised as Kelly, helped run her kids birthday party at Cheapskate.
Chuck Rui (he/him) - Silvia’s husband. Proud member of the City Police.

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Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

The police have finally caught up with The Cryptid, but the trio aren’t just going to roll over. As they all search for a way to get Kelly free, the citizens of Norfork dig through the rubble of the Divot, drawing ever closer to what’s buried underneath…

Rabbit entertains. Nammi offers a solution. Kelly faces the law, head on.

(Content Warnings: police, imprisonment in a jail cell, brief mention of loss of limbs)

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)

NPCs
Jillian Murphy (she/her) - Former liaison between The City and Norfork, and former hookup of Kelly’s. In search of purpose. Demon.
Almos Sumati (he/him) - Werewolf. Damn good laywer. Dresses in an expensive blue suit that compliments his fur. Chooses to stay in wolf-form all the time. Helps organize the Norfork softball team. Trans-man. Single, in case anyone was wondering.
The Mothman (he/him) - AKA Jimmy Domal. Vigilante, and Kelly’s protege. Not very good at the whole vigilante thing. Needs The Cryptid’s help to solve a murder; his own.
Romeo (he/him) - Agent of Dranja. Calm and assertive. Appears on Earth as a white person with platinum-tipped hair, often chews the end of a toothpick absentmindedly.
Isla (she/her) - Agent of Dranja. On Earth, she appears as a Latina woman wearing a loose-knit sweater and a long grey skirt. Uncertain about Valentina's plans for the Agents.
The Agents of Dranja - Nammi’s family, and fellow refugees of the Garden.

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Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

The Divot is in ashes, but the trio need to make some stops before they can reconvene and decide what to do next. It shouldn’t take long, right? Right?

Rabbit makes a pitch. Nammi brings some plus one’s. Kelly opens a door there is no closing.

(Content Warnings: police, mention of hand wound, )

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)

NPCs
Dr. Siobhan Clement (she/her) - Astronomer, and student of Cold’s.
Det. Ripley Adams (he/him) - police detective determined to catch The Cryptid.
Jillian Murphy (she/her) - Former liaison between The City and Norfork, and former hookup of Kelly’s. In search of purpose. Demon.
The Agents of Dranja - Nammi’s family, and fellow refugees of the Garden.
The Mothman (he/him) - AKA Jimmy Domal. Vigilante, and Kelly’s protege. Not very good at the whole vigilante thing. Needs The Cryptid’s help to solve a murder; his own.

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Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

Dark smoke fills the sky over Norfork as the trio find their footing in the wake of the events at the Church.

Kelly holds his breath. Rabbit visits family. Skidemour finds a home. Nammi is asked for the impossible.

(Content Warnings: description of dead bodies, decomposition, grief, memory loss, abusive dynamics, hospital settings, )

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CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)
Skidemour, the Monstrous - Frannie Morrison (she/her)

NPCs
Elodie (she/her) - A girl from the French countryside, circa 1400. Skidemour's friend. Estienne's sister. Dead.
Valentina (she/her) -  Leader of the Agents of Dranja, and member of the City police's Myriad Taskforce. On Earth, she presents as a tall white woman with long straight black hair and combat boots. Searching for something here in Norfork. Despises Nammi.
Romeo (he/him) -  Agent of Dranja. Calm and assertive. Appears on Earth as a white person with platinum-tipped hair, often chews the end of a toothpick absentmindedly.
Billy (they/them) -  Agent of Dranja. Petite Black person with short light pink hair.  Hawthorne’s partner.
Hawthorne (he/him) - Billy's partner. Human man that looks like a hybrid between Santa Claus and Blackbeard. Normally carries an AK-47 strapped over his shoulder. Honorary Agent of Dranja.
Alek, Meg, and Tisi Moon (all she/her) - Rabbit's trio of moms. All members of the Lunar Coven. Rabbit lives with them on and off. Meg is pregnant, Tisi was recently in a car accident.
Cold Moon AKA Rosa Kalyani (she/her) -  Unofficial leader of the lunar witch coven in which Rabbit was raised. Former astronaut. Imposing Black woman with short spongy black hair, and an athlete’s physique. Often wears an elegant coat, even when it’s hot.
Dr. Roger Maricelli (they/them) -  Doctor hired to treat magical injuries at the City hospital. Short person with a Mediterranean complexion, curly short brown hair, and small horns protruding from their temples.

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Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

Arc #3 finale. The Knight has promised himself and one other to the Hunt, so to keep Skidemour safe the trio must put everything on the line to name a new sacrifice: Butch.

Oh my god it worked, it actually worked. What? Why do you have that look?
Valentina, what we just did...
We're fixing a mistake. All we did was cross out the errors.

(Content Warnings: out of body experiences, graphic description of dead and decomposing bodies, children in physical/emotional distress, brief descriptions of mass death)

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CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Kelly, The Crooked - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/them)

Nammi, The Divine - Sam Darr (@mossyauthor, She/They)

Rabbit, The Shapechanger - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/them)
Skidemour, the Monstrous - Frannie Morrison (she/her)

NPCs
Butch (he/him) - A shadow that offered to help Kelly get out of a sticky situation early in his vigilante career. Eager to help Kelly like you’re eager to keep a fruit tree pruned and safe from deer. But there's something familiar in the way he speaks...
The Knight AKA Estienne de Lancret (he/him) - Knight of the Red Star, Mars. Brother of Elodie de Lancret, and Skidemour’s hunter.
Elodie (she/her) - A girl from the French countryside, circa 1400. Skidemour's friend. Estienne's sister. Dead.

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Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

Historically, it's hard to argue that something changed the nature of the town of Norfolk more than the Boom. The mine disaster killed an incredibly high proportion of the town's residents, but it also flattened their stories.

That is not, of course, the truth of the matter. Their stories still exist. The truth is that the people living in and around Norfork before, during, and even after the incident carried on complicated lives with problems often as mundane as ours, today. The bar served drinks, the newspaper published articles, people had their leaky sinks and roofing tiles fixed. These details are not sanded away maliciously, but the history lost to the scale of the tragedy is personal.

In the displays below you will see examples of everyday life from the people of Norfork before the events of the Boom represented through objects saved or recovered from the explosion - like a prototype writing machine that predates the typewriter, and a dress that would have been worn at the time - as well as preserved examples of their own writing about themselves and each other. As you explore the exhibit, think about what your life would have been like if you lived in Norfolk at that time. What would you have seen? What type of work would you do? Why do you think Myriads had not yet revealed themselves to the public?

When you've finished with the exhibit, please move down the hall to the right, to the room labelled "The Boom and the Divot".

-- Norfork History Museum Display, credited to Kennedy Hartsfeld

(Content Warnings: flesh, eye horror, guns, fire, mention of memory loss, possession, brief description of mass death)

Check out our amazing guest players!
Our guests this week come with three amazing shows all of their own! You should go check out Kaitlin's horror call-in show "Thin Places Radio" & "The Streampunks", Devin's excellent music and character work on "Band of Blades" actual-play show "Oathsworn", and Birdie's upcoming actual-play show "The Storyplayers". All come with our highest recommendations! 

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Laura Ellison, the Spooky - Kaitlin Bruder (@kkamabr, She/her)
Annabelle "Annie" Parker, the Wronged - Birdie (@el3phantbird, She/They)

Guthrie Lemon, the Flake - Devin Nelson (@devindecibel, He/they)

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Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

No one feels safe in the woods around Norfolk, and that's a fact. Since the opening of the town's mine and the attraction of individuals towards it's success there have rumors of unnatural occurrences. My sources recall a wide variety of otherwordliness in their tellings - wolves standing on hind legs, echoing screams or sobs with no source, strange shapes flitting across the moon - and while others might dismiss that as a symptom of their unreliability, I have always held an alternative theory: Norfolk is a queer place that many queer things have made their home. However, I can't say that I expected to witness my town's strangeness quite so directly as I did in the woods that night in the Spring, alongside two unexpected new friends. I hope they will not take issue with my characterization of the events to follow...

Here, the excerpt from The Norfolk Register cuts off. The date is missing, but the curator has assured you that the article was written somewhere around 1850, prior to the Boom that would create the Divot. The piece appears to be part of an ongoing column called "The Hidden Door" written by one Mr. Guthrie Lemon.

(Content Warnings: severed limbs, blood, gore, dead animals, serious wounds, grief, mention of memory loss, brief enclosed spaces, flesh)

Check out our amazing guest players!
Our guests this week come with three amazing shows all of their own! You should go check out Kaitlin's horror call-in show "Thin Places Radio" & "The Streampunks", Devin's excellent music and character work on "Band of Blades" actual-play show "Oathsworn", and Birdie's upcoming actual-play show "The Storyplayers". All come with our highest recommendations! 

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Laura Ellison, the Spooky - Kaitlin Bruder (@kkamabr, She/her)
Annabelle "Annie" Parker, the Wronged - Birdie (@el3phantbird, She/They)

Guthrie Lemon, the Flake - Devin Nelson (@devindecibel, He/they)

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Audio editing by Sam Richardson (@laggardson)
Audio Mixing by William White (@kwilliamwhite)
Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.

Before the Gateway Demon, before The City, and before even the explosion that created the Divot, Norfolk began as a small mining town in the mid 1800s; a quiet stop on a railway line from here to there. But, since it's founding atop a lucrative mine, things have moved in the town's shadow.

Let's start from the beginning...

(Content Warnings: broken bones cutting through skin, headaches, body horror, blood, gore)

Check out our amazing guest players!
Our guests this week come with three amazing shows all of their own! You should go check out Kaitlin's horror call-in show "Thin Places Radio" & "The Streampunks", Devin's excellent music and character work on "Band of Blades" actual-play show "Oathsworn", and Birdie's upcoming actual-play show "The Storyplayers". All come with our highest recommendations! 

CHARACTERS

Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/him)

Laura Ellison, the Spooky - Kaitlin Bruder (@kkamabr, She/her)
Annabelle "Annie" Parker, the Wronged - Birdie (@el3phantbird, She/They)

Guthrie Lemon, the Flake - Devin Nelson (@devindecibel, He/they)

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Audio editing by Sam Richardson (@laggardson)
Audio Mixing by William White (@kwilliamwhite)
Original music by Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse) & William White (@kwilliamwhite)

Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop horror RPG podcast produced in association with AltHaven (@AltHaven_). Our second season uses “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions. You can pick up a copy here.

Season two, “Norfork”, follows a trio of friends living in the edge-city of Norfork as the community adapts to the open presence of Myriads and the encroachment of The City.