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ParaScience
by Infinity Break
A paranormal horror story, collaboratively told through the Fate ttrpg system. At the intersection of the supernatural and quantifiable, three wayward souls find themselves facing a world of the unknown and unexplained. Who among us can navigate the flickering boundaries between the paranormal and the scientific and questionable grey area in between? ParaScience features the tabletop talents of Ezra Kaye, Nikki Boylan, Matty Trumbo-Gomes and Game Master Ben Hamlin
Episodes
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Chapter 7, Part 7: Self Portrait No. 13
Alister rotates the luminescent mushroom in his gloved hands. The light radiating off the mushroom blurs with the light from the moon light coming in from the skylight. Questions arise in the minds of our investigators as the lights shift across the tile walls of the bathroom. Content Warning:...
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Chapter 7, Part 6: Self Portrait No. 13
The harsh kitchen lights filter into the freezer and illuminate the empty, frozen eye sockets of a skull, carved from a solid chunk of ice, and left conspicuously so that our investigators would find it. Between the halogen eyes of the steel face in the lobby, the x-ray film you had to look…
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Chapter 7, Part 5: Self Portrait No. 13
Our investigators have already come face to face with the first of Maurice Clayborn’s odd self-depictions. An imposing metal sculpture of the artist’s own face that hid a key to his home. Is this whole process his magnum opus or just a game to him? That’s up to the investigators to decide as they...
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Chapter 7, Part 4: Self Portrait No. 13
“Gaze upon my works, ye mighty and enjoy,” the self satisfied tone of Maurice Clayborn uttered that before the VHS tape ran to a stop. The grey fuzzy static replaced him immediately. Questions about what to expect surely echo through the minds of both investigators as the doors to the next room...
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Chapter 7, Part 3: Self Portrait No. 13
The distorted and abstract videos that Maurice Clayborn sent to The Austin Art Museum do not paint a clear picture of the artist’s intentions. They’re creepy, seemingly disjointed, but are they trying to communicate anything? In a word of signs, symbols and clues, Exorcist Saint Garcia Flores and...
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Chapter 7, Part 2: Self Portrait No. 13
She reaches out a hand from a long draping black dress. She has a shock of white hair and rose tinted eyeglasses that mask her smile lines. As she extends her hand toward you, it’s hard not to notice the sapphire tipped rings on her fingers. She wants you to notice and holds her hand that way....
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Chapter 7, Part 1: Self Portrait No. 13
With the tiny town of refinery workers and bartenders in the rearview, the investigators’ next destination is clear. After disbanding a cult, rescuing an immaterial alien, realigning shadowy planes of reality, busting a fraudulent tourist attraction and saving the senior citizens of the Swaying...
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Chapter 6, Part 25: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
All five candles in Lake Arkansas Texas are lit and only the faded reflections of Saint Garcia Flores and Agent Alister McAndrews flicker in the mirror. The room at the top of the Creek Estate feels very quiet. Still. Silent. The light of the setting sun cuts through the gauzy curtains and fills...
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Chapter 6, Part 24: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
Even with the thick cloth covering the mirror in the attic of the Lakeside Bar and Restaurant, you can feel a seeping malice radiating through the room. Whatever’s on the other side is no friend of the investigators, even if it briefly appeared as one. TW// death and grief. ghosts, blood, knives,...
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Chapter 6, Part 23: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
Face to face. Alister is face to face with a stranger’s reflection. It’s mirroring your exact movements for now, but while your expression is one of bewilderment, its isn’t. There’s something far more sinister radiating off the glassy surface of the backroom mirror of the Lakeside Dive bar. Its...
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Chapter 6, Part 22: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
A tell tale heart lies thump thumping on the floor as Macy regains her composure behind the bar. Saint was able to talk her through one of the worst moments of her life, seeing Phillip Creek for the last time. The details about their protracted fight over the oil lease and the fate of the…
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Chapter 6, Part 21: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
The bright overcast skies above Lake Arkansas begin to dim, as the light fades on the second day that Saint and Alister are in town. A series of disturbing diary entries from days gone by illuminated to our investigators that something shady is keeping this town afloat on the lake edge for so…
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Chapter 6, Part 20: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
There’s something under the water of Lake Arkansas. And it’s screaming at you to let it out. When investigating the candle on the center of Lake Arkansas, Saint and Alister find themselves staring face to face with Phillip Creek again, but this time, under far grimmer circumstances. Phillip Creek...
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Chapter 6, Part 19: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
There’s something under the water of Lake Arkansas. And it’s screaming at you to let it out. When investigating the candle on the center of Lake Arkansas, Saint and Alister find themselves staring face to face with Phillip Creek again, but this time, under far grimmer circumstances. Phillip Creek...
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Chapter 6, Part 18: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
There’s something under the water of Lake Arkansas. And it’s screaming at you to let it out. When investigating the candle on the center of Lake Arkansas, Saint and Alister find themselves staring face to face with Phillip Creek again, but this time, under far grimmer circumstances. Phillip Creek...
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Chapter 6, Part 17: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
After finding mysterious black candles all over the town of Lake Arkansas, Alister and Saint decide to paddle out to the scene of the accident where Phillip Creek perished one week earlier. Alister’s Cape Cod Childhood is in full swing this episode. Really what could go wrong? TW// death and…
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Chapter 6, Part 16: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
Alister interviews a potential suspect as Saint sweeps up broken pieces of a shattered neon light. First on the stand, Lefty Douglas, the very man who invited our investigators to Lake Arkansas. TW// death and grief, ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It…
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Chapter 6, Part 15: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
The attic storage room is dry and without life. Just cascading canvas hanging off of old wood furniture. Broken bar stool legs, a shattered plastic adirondak chair and rusted license plates. Piles of unopened crates. The single black candle sits on a silvery plate in the half darkness with only...
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Chapter 6, Part 14: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
Leave Our Town Alone. Stop Snooping. A threatening message on a very flimsy medium. The colder winter breeze makes the cocktail napkin flap and flutter in your hand. The smell of the lake, the woods and decay of this place drifts by on the same wind. A number of questions arise in the silence…
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Chapter 6, Part 13: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
A lone candle flickers on a silver tray in the dark basement beneath the Lake Arkansas church. It’s light crackles against the dirt walls in this dank space that smells strongly of whiskey mash and mushrooms. Hardly a dead end, this single candle illuminates that something odd is happening in…
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Chapter 6, Part 12: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
Y’all wanna hang out at the hundred year old church buried deep in the woods near the haunted laike? TW// death and grief, vehicle accidents and drowning. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with…
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Chapter 6, Part 11: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
It turns out that once you snoop through a man’s bedroom, you can learn a lot about him. Whether it’s the occult books on the bookshelf, the brass telescope in his bedroom, the strained relationship with his family or the crumpled up contract in his locked bedside table. The texture of who…
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Chapter 6, Part 10: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
It’s a hard thing. Dealing with other people’s grief. But Saint and Alister know they’ll have to engage with the bereaved Alice Creek in order to get even a glimpse into who Phillip was. Saint and Alister find some surprising secrets about the dear departed. TW// drowning, death, vehicle…
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Chapter 6, Part 9: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
Going forward, we’ll be putting the trigger warnings and the bottom of the first paragraph of the description. It’s a new dawn at Lake Arkansas and the nightmare of what happened last night in the Lakeside Dive is over for now. Saint and Alister need to start putting together the pieces of who...
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Chapter 6, Part 8: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Ghosts, Grief, Afterlives “Why do I get the idea that you two know way more about this than I do?” After the encounter that Saint and Alister had on the second floor, it seems that Phillip Creek is not as dearly departed as previously thought. With a bar full of patrons and a whole small…
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Chapter 6, Part 7: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Ghosts, Drowning, electrical disturbance, talk of death. Come on around Alister. Meet everybody. All the patrons of the Lakeside Dive greet our investigators. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben…
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Chapter 6, Part 6: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Ghosts The atmosphere within the Lakeside Bar and Grill is lively, loving, charming. It’s enough to put you at ease and almost make you forget why you came here. That was, until a haunting chord reverberated out of the previously inspected jukebox. An icy chill creeps over the bar as…
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Chapter 6, Part 5: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Drowning. Ghosts. The signs of the supernatural aren’t materializing very clearly, but the glow of the neon signs of the Lakeside Bar flicker and permeate the room. The Lakeside is hopping. It’s as hopping as it’ll ever be. That’s Alister and Saint’s cue to do what they do best - blend in...
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Chapter 6, Part 4: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Drowning. Ghosts. Alister and Saint start their investigation of the Lakeside Dive in earnest and all three members of the cast get realllly into jukeboxes for a moment. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind…
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Chapter 6, Part 3: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Drowning. Ghosts. Alongside the fog over the lake, there is a cloud of grief hanging over the Lakeside Bar and Grill. The building is empty save for their host, Lefty Douglas, but the signs of mourning are sprinkled throughout the bar. Flower petals drift from the memorial wreath in the...
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Chapter 6, Part 2: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Drowning. Ghosts. Town would be a generous way to describe the scattered buildings around Lake Arkansas. A settlement. Maybe. One gas station. One convenience store. One bar. A handful of off the grid homes and trailers. And one, massive, lake. This is a place very few people call home. A...
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Chapter 6, Part 1: The Haunting at Lakeside Dive
TW // Drowning With Springwood Lodge in the rearview, Alister and Saint head south back to Saint’s hometown of Austin, Texas. Just when it seems like Saint and Alister may be parting ways, Saint receives a phone call from a family friend with a specific offer to look into a bar in the…
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Haunted Housekeeping
Like a Séance, this is an opportunity to catch up. We realized that we’ve been a little too quiet for too long, and so we wanted to provide some details on the upcoming Chapter Six: The Haunting of Lakeside Dive, as well as announce some side projects that we’ve been working on during our brief...
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Chapter 5, Part 16: Springwood Lodge
TW // death, ghosts, the afterlife, cults It’s been a harrowing night in Springwood Lodge, but it seems the haunting that has so long inhabited the beams and stonework may have passed into the night with the Visitor. The snow continues to drift down past the rose window at the end of the chapel…
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Chapter 5, Part 15: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, blood, knife violence, gun violence, death, ghost “You don’t know what you’ve done.” The fight against the Springwoods ends here on the third floor of Springwood Lodge. Alister and Saint encounter something beyond either of their imaginations. The world is so much bigger...
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Chapter 5, Part 14: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, blood, knife violence Saint and Alister and have been trapped in this labyrinth for far too long. It's Time to Stab at The Heart of the Beast. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben...
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Chapter 5, Part 13: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, blood, fire, knife violence The flashes of electrical light illuminate the top floor of Springwood Lodge. The shadows of your fellow agents shoot up the side of the walls and flicker with the candlelight. It’s now or never. It’s time to strike against The Church of the…
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Chapter 5, Part 12: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, blood A Single Chime HeraldsTheir Final Destination ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as agnostic...
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Chapter 5, Part 11: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, blood, knife violence, claustrophia Going Up? ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as agnostic exorcist...
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Chapter 5, Part 10: Springwood Lodge
TW // ghosts, claustrophobia Alister had uncovered some shocking details about Springwood Lodge’s foundation, both literal and figurative. What any of these strange unidentified objects mean about what happened here is as of yet unknown, but it’s their first step into putting the pieces together....
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Chapter 5, Part 9: Springwood Lodge
TW // claustrophia, fire, dead bodies,Alister and Saint are both alone. Our investigators are on the opposite ends of a subterranean elevator shaft and neither of them know what’s waiting for them. The rot in Springwood Manor runs deep. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast…
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Chapter 5, Part 8: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, cults Our investigators have been stalking the halls of Springwood Lodge for hours now and the few signs of life have been fleeting and far between. Trash in the hallways, dust on the furniture and footsteps on the second floor. Now, Alister and Saint are facing their…
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Chapter 5, Part 7: Springwood Lodge
TW // physical violence, cults Brave the cold. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes as agnostic exorcist Saint Garcia Flores and...
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Chapter 5, Part 6: Springwood Lodge
TW // cults, ghosts, physical violence, electrocution One type of fear is replaced by another. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in Black Alister McAndrews, Matty Trumbo-Gomes...
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Chapter 5, Part 5: Springwood Lodge
TW // cults, ghosts We last left Alister out in the cold, outside a mansion full of ghosts, on a phone call with his boss. It’s hard to tell what’s scariest here. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin...
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Chapter 5, Part 4: Springwood Lodge
TW // cults, ghosts, heights Elevators hum in the background. A reception bell dings on the front desk. Band music swells from the previous empty and dusty ballroom. It seems that Springwood Lodge is coming to life. Do you care to check in? ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast...
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Chapter 5, Part 3: Springwood Lodge
TW // cults, ghosts As the power flickers in Springwood lodge, one thing becomes suddenly very clear. Alister and Saint are not alone. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben Hamlin with Ezra Kaye as Man in…
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Chapter 5, Part 2: Springwood Lodge
TW // cults, ghosts Broken windows letting in razor sharp cold air. A thick layer of dust covering the arm chairs of the lounge. For a place that the congregation of the Church of the Open Mind allegedly meets in, this place seems abandoned. The empty halls of Springwood Lodge are distorting...
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Chapter 5, Part 1: Springwood Lodge
TW // cults There’s a long winding road up into the mountains of Aspen, Colorado. The echo of the engine of Alister’s van is ricocheting across the silence of the highway. Patchy giants of black and white tower on both sides of your path up to Springwood Lodge and a thin wintery frost clings to…
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Chapter 4, Part 13: The Church of the Open Mind
TW // cults, mind reading “I don’t think any of you understand what’s happening here. I don’t think you ever will.” Part One of the Springwood Saga comes to an end. ParaScience is an actual play, paranormal horror podcast told through Fate. It is Game Mastered by the disembodied mind of Ben…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A paranormal horror story, collaboratively told through the Fate ttrpg system. At the intersection of the supernatural and quantifiable, three wayward souls find themselves facing a world of the unknown and unexplained. Who among us can navigate the flickering boundaries between the paranormal and the scientific and questionable grey area in between? ParaScience features the tabletop talents of Ezra Kaye, Nikki Boylan, Matty Trumbo-Gomes and Game Master Ben Hamlin
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Infinity Break
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A paranormal horror story, collaboratively told through the Fate ttrpg system. At the intersection of the supernatural and quantifiable, three wayward souls find themselves facing a world of the unknown and unexplained. Who among us can navigate the flickering boundaries between the paranormal and...
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