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Red Game Table
by utopologist
Edited and produced sessions of Matryoshka, a cosmic horror investigation rpg set in the USSR during the Cold War. Each season is self-contained, but they all take place in the same continuity/world. If you're new, start with season 1 episode 1! The season 0 Matryoshka episodes are non-canonical. Music from each episode and credits for episode art are listed on redgametable.com For comments, questions, or just to talk, you can email me at [email protected].
Episodes
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Matryoshka 4.6 - The Burn, pt. I
Division 3 works with counterparts in the DPRK to investigate sightings of what look like people made of ashes. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina's labor news podcast Work Stoppage, find Johnny's show Subversive History on his Linktree, and listen to…
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Matryoshka 4.5 - The Sphere
Katya and Yahyo investigate multiple sightings of an unidentified flying object. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and find Johnny's show Subversive History on his Linktree. Talk with other listeners in the Work Stoppage...
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Matryoshka 4.4 - The Staircase
The team investigates a newly uncovered island in the Aral Sea which contains a stone staircase leading into the earth. [Note: Nikolai disappears in the middle of the sesssion for a while but he does return by the end. We apologize for the inconvenience.] For comments or questions, email...
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Matryoshka 4.x (interlude) - The Spacewalk
The crew of Soviet space station Salyut 7 investigate an unexpected visitor. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and find Johnny's show Subversive History on his Linktree. Talk with other listeners in the Work Stoppage...
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Matryoshka 4.2 - Cave Diver, pt. II
The team joins their KGB comrade to go into the caves underneath the cabin in the woods. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina's labor news podcast Work Stoppage, find Johnny's show Subversive History on his Linktree, and listen to Jeremy here. Talk with…
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Matryoshka 4.2 - Cave Diver, pt. I
Katya and Yahyo investigate a musical performance that caused its audience to go berserk. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and find Johnny's show Subversive History on his Linktree. Talk with other listeners in the Work...
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Matryoshka 4.1 - The Town
The entire population of a town near the Pacific coast of the RSFSR disappears overnight and the Vladivostok branch of Division 3 is brought in to find where they went and how to bring them back. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina's labor news podcast Work...
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Fragment II - Statement of Maksim Agliulovich Nurgaliev
Taken 11 Nov 1964 by field agent K. Artemov at Clinical Hospital No. 2, Vladivostok, RSFSR (h/t R. Lentz)
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Fragment I - statement of Gennady Mikhailovich Leonov
Taken 3 Sept 1971 by field agent N. Rostova at City Hospital No. 5, Sochi, RSFSR
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Matryoshka 3.12 - Sailfish
Matryoshka and their Yugoslav comrades make a plan with the Ct'kathka to drive the imperialists out of the sea. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and watch Johnny's twitch stream Subversive History. Talk with…
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Matryoshka 3.11 - Lights From the Sea
The squad goes to Yugoslavia to help investigate reports of a large and dangerous bird-/fish-like creature in a small Croatian town on the Adriatic. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and watch Johnny's twitch...
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Matryoshka 3.10 - The Far-spider
Pavel joins Mels and Emiliano as they return to the Blessed Theotokos Monastery to confront what lies beneath it. For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and watch Johnny's twitch stream Subversive History. Talk with...
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Matryoshka 3.9 - The Signal
Mels and Emiliano go to the Tajik SSR to investigate a plane that went down near Communism Peak under very bizarre circumstances. (h/t R. Lentz) For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage and watch Johnny's twitch stream...
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Matryoshka 3.8 - The Singers of Songs
Mels and Pavel head to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic to find a pair of researchers who disappeared while camping on a deceptively plain-looking tract of land. (h/t R. Lentz) For comments or questions, email [email protected]. Listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work…
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Matryoshka 3.x (interlude) - The Shadow Under Leningrad pt. II
The special investigators, joined by a former agent who specialized in the paranormal, come up with a plan to protect the people of Leningrad from the horrors below. Featuring Jeremy from Invent The Future and A Terrible Influence. For comments or questions, email [email protected], and...
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Matryoshka 3.7 - The Mother of Hounds, pt. 2
Underneath Vaduz, the team must navigate an unfamiliar and unfriendly labyrinth to accomplish their mission. For comments or questions, email [email protected], and listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. Music used in this episode can be found at redgametable.com. The...
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Matryoshka 3.x (interlude) - The Shadow Under Leningrad pt. I
With the city of Leningrad under siege from the Nazis, a group investigates an interruption in bread delivery and discovers a much darker explanation than they could have dreamed of. Featuring Jeremy from Invent The Future and A Terrible Influence. For comments or questions, email...
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Matryoshka 3.6 - The Mother of Hounds, pt. I
The trio must go undercover in Liechtenstein to get their hands on a dangerous artifact before any other more nefarious ones can. For comments or questions, email [email protected], and listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. Music used in this episode can be found at...
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Matryoshka 3.5 - The Storm
The team find themselves stranded in the Belarussian forest in the middle of a blizzard, and something is driving the animals out of their minds. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. Music used in this…
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Matryoshka 3.4 - The Knife in the Dreaming
After a Soviet submarine in the Mediterranean disappears while hunting for the rumored French stay-behind submarine, the team heads for its last known location in hopes of finding both it and the imperialists. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Lina and...
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Matryoshka 3.3 - Blackcurrants for the Devil
Matryoshka investigates the disappearances of everyone on a collective farm on the border of Estonia and Russia. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. Music used in this episode can be found at…
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Matryoshka 3.2 - The Sea-mother
Emiliano summons Pavel and Mels to Algeria to help investigate sightings of figures coming out of the sea to take iron and steel back into the Mediterranean. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. Music used in...
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Matryoshka 3.1 - His Approach Is Swift
In September 1962, a pair of Matryoshka agents go to the forests of Cuba to help investigate a series of unexplained eclipses. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Lina and Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. Music used in this episode can be found at...
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Matryoshka 2.9 - The Atrocity Exhibition
A midnight conference call lets Division C know about a missing member of the team, which in turn leads them up close and personal with enemies they've only heard about until now. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage.…
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Matryoshka 2.8 - The Sixth Dictionary
The gang gets a tip from an old friend that sends them to Beirut, Lebanon to get some more clues about what's going on. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. As usual, music used in this episode can be found at...
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Matryoshka 2.7 - Point Visser
Imprisoned by enemy forces, Matryoshka searches for a way to escape as well as to find out what the US Navy is protecting in the middle of the ocean as far away from land as possible. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work...
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Matryoshka 2021 Holiday Special
In December 1991 amidst the chaos of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Tselinograd branch of Matryoshka is sent to rural Kazakhstan to investigate reports of people being "replaced." For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work...
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Matryoshka 2.6 - Point Nemo
The gang goes to interrogate their prisoner and ends up where they least expect. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. As usual, music used in this episode can be found at redgametable.wordpress.com.
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Matryoshka 2.5 - The Lockbox
Donatas and Pavel go to investigate what appears to be the victim of a fatal industrial accident coming back to life during his funeral. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work Stoppage. As usual, music used in this episode can be...
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Matryoshka 2.? (interlude) - Archangel
In 1919, the British and the Americans have invaded Russia to support the White Russians in putting down the new socialist government. What's left of a Red Army machine gun unit make their way to Arkhangelsk to help take it back from the Whites and the imperialists, but along the way they…
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Matryoshka 2.4 - Gretchen's First Experience with the Sun
Matryoshka goes to Geneva to meet with a possible ally and ends up having to plan an art heist. There are all kinds of weird audio things happening with Dan and M; sorry about that. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor news podcast Work…
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Matryoshka 2.3 - The Dreamer of Dreams
Pavel and Donatas head to the Arctic to find out why a Soviet research station went silent. Apologies for the audio artifacts in Dan's audio; we don't know what caused it and minimized it as much as we could. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com and listen to Dan's labor...
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Matryoshka 2.2 - The Spinning Boy
Matryoshka is sent to the German Democratic Republic to investigate the appearance of some bodies burned in a ritual manner. Apologies for the audio artifacts in Dan's audio; we don't know what caused it and minimized it as much as we could. For comments or questions, email utopologist at...
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Matryoshka 2.1 - The Nine Doors of Consciousness
GRU Division C is back! It's 1969. While making plans to deal with some of the unsolved mysteries from the previous year, Matryoshka's home office undergoes some bizarre changes. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com As usual, music used in this episode can be found at...
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Matryoshka 2020 Holiday Special
(This was supposed to be released in the middle of some December holidays, but various factors including some COVID scares prevented this. However, I've been told that on the liturgical calendar, it's Christmas until Epiphany on January 6, so I'm clear.) Matryoshka is sent to Arkhangelsk to...
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Matryoshka 1.7 - Leviathan
The season finale. The team, along with their new ally Jurgen, track down De Visser once and for all and settle some old scores with Rainer Frosch. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com As usual, music used in this episode can be found at redgametable.wordpress.com.
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Matryoshka 1.6 - Cycles, Awakenings
Division C gets the chance to interrogate an early figure from the case, finally gets some answers to some questions about what's been going on, and gets a lead that might take them to the source of all this. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com As usual, music used in...
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Matryoshka 1.5 - The Visitors
The team goes to a small town to investigate a simple ghost sighting in the woods. Of course, the forests are old and may hold more than ghosts. (M's audio has an odd background sound for the first 20 or so minutes but it does improve.) For comments or questions, email utopologist at…
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Matryoshka 1.4 - The Parade
Division C follows a thread from an earlier case to a small village north of the Arctic Circle whose citizens have a bizarre secret. For comments or questions, email utopologist at protonmail.com As usual, music used in this episode can be found at redgametable.wordpress.com.
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Matryoshka 1.3 - The God of Dreams
A skeleton crew of Matryoshka is sent behind enemy lines to the Aleutian Islands to track down a missing Soviet nuclear submarine. As usual, music used in this episode can be found at redgametable.wordpress.com.
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Matryoshka 1.2 - De Visser
Matryoshka is sent to rural northern Russia to investigate several sightings of an ominous figure around a group of quiet farming villages. (Taylor's mic has some weird feedback throughout, but especially near the end. We apologize for the inconvenience.) Music can be found at...
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Matryoshka 1.1 - The One Who Knows The Silence In The Earth
This is the best place to start if you're new to Red Game Table or Matryoshka! In 1968, Matryoshka is sent to Azerbaijan to investigate a curious issue of people not being able to get in or out of their apartment building (Ethan mispronounces Bernhard's name as "Berhard" because he typed it in...
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Update on the state of the show
A very brief announcement. RGT lives!
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Intermission - The Shadow Over Leningrad
Because we were missing too many players for our DW campaign, here's a special release of Call of Cthulhu: During the Siege of Leningrad, a small Red Army squad is sent into enemy territory to recover supplies when they stumble onto a darker secret buried under the cold and wet soil. Intro:...
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Matryoshka 0.7 - The Dark Things in the Night
It ends here (for a bit)! Division C makes it back to Moscow, where they meet up with Professor Yuzhlek, who knows a few things about what's going on. It's a race against time to find out what hit the university from the sky before an old foe shows back up. Outro music: "Respawn", Vieveri
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Matryoshka 0.6: The Veins of the Earth
(This is Season 0 of Red Game Table and isn't part of the canon of Matryoshka, if you're interested in that sort of thing.) The gang interrogates Brown Jenkin, then finally catches up with the Sergeyovich brothers in Irkutsk, where they're trying to find the entrance to the Veins of the Earth.…
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Matryoshka 0.5: The Sky Has Left Us Forever
(This is Season 0 of Red Game Table and isn't part of the canon of Matryoshka, if you're interested in that sort of thing.) Vasily is back, but so is an old nemesis. The gang makes a new friend, learns about the corporation that's somehow connected to all of this, and actually finds one of the...
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Matryoshka 0.4: In Search of Lost Time
(This is Season 0 of Red Game Table and isn't part of the canon of Matryoshka, if you're interested in that sort of thing.) The team makes it to Vladivostok but has to deal with losing one of their members as well as infiltrating an underground bunker that definitely should not lead to where it...
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Matryoshka 0.3: Trans-Siberian
(This is Season 0 of Red Game Table and isn't part of the canon of Matryoshka, if you're interested in that sort of thing.) The GRU gang picks up where they left off, escorting Ms. Marsh onboard the Trans-Siberian Railway en route to Vladivostok. On the way, they investigate spooky sounds and...
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Matryoshka 0.2: The Shadow Over Tallinn
(This is Season 0 of Red Game Table and isn't part of the canon of Matryoshka, if you're interested in that sort of thing.) ALERT: There is strange audio tearing starting around 15 minutes in, but it only lasts for about 6 or 7 minutes. Picking up where they left off last time, GRU Division C…
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Edited and produced sessions of Matryoshka, a cosmic horror investigation rpg set in the USSR during the Cold War. Each season is self-contained, but they all take place in the same continuity/world. If you're new, start with season 1 episode 1! The season 0 Matryoshka episodes are non-canonical. Music from each episode and credits for episode art are listed on redgametable.com For comments, questions, or just to talk, you can email me at [email protected].
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