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The Wretched
by Wretched Adventures
Condolences dear listener, you are about to enter the realm of The Wretched. Steel yourself for this Cosmic Horror actual play. The dice are sometimes our friends but more often foretell of the horrors that befall our adventurers. Join us as we strive to fend off the terrors our past and the vices constantly threatening to overtake our mortal virtue.
Episodes
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The Wretched Sidetrack 3 E4: Someone Wants Me
Opal has escaped the house, but not the mental horrors inflicted upon her. Francine accompanies Lodge upstairs to view her extensive jewelry collection. Saltfather is ensnared in a dark ritual and faces a difficult choice. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor...
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The Wretched Sidetrack 3 E3: Pocket Razor
The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wretched...
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The Wretched Sidetrack 3 E2: Not That Kind of Story
Opal, Francine, and Saltfather breakfast with Meno around an opulent table, served by countless nameless children. Meno’s sister Nyx joins along with a man named Larry, and their PDA makes Saltfather uncomfortable. Opal finds a child playing piano but when she tries to speak with them she's…
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The Wretched Sidetrack 3 E1: Bonked in the Head
Tis the season... In this brief detour from our main storyline, Opal, Francine, and Saltfather Thatch Lovecairn awaken in a room adorned with roses and smelling of baked goods, remembering nothing but their own names. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a...
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The Wretched C3E15 Epilogue: Come to Me
In the conclusion to chapter 3 Taryn, Eike, and Ren say their goodbyes to Barney and attempt to leave the cavern, only to discover Josai waiting for them. The party leaves with him, somewhat willingly, headed towards an unknown destination. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds...
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The Wretched C3E14: No Touchy
Eike, Taryn, Barney, and Ren together delve deeper into the tunnels. Ren locates the source of the voice – a pregnant woman chained to a wall – and tries to help her only to flee when attacked by a wave of insects. Eike discovers Nikki’s father Reggie, emaciated and vacant eyed. Barney attempts…
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The Wretched C3E13: Between Ecstasy and Pain
The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wretched...
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The Wretched C3E12: Centipede Paté
Eike and Ren finally descend from the top of the plateau but Ren slips, landing in the intestines of the disemboweled creature. She then hears a familiar, alluring voice urging her to enter the cavern. At the same time, inside, Barney and Taryn follow the creature holding a dead bird deeper down...
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The Wretched C3E11: Did You Just Eat That?
From the top of the plateau, Eike and Ren observe one of the gangly humanoids ritualistically disemboweling another, who participates willingly. Inside the cavern, Barney loots the tunnels as Taryn continues to follow the alluring voice. Taryn stops to examine one of the many corpses and as a...
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The Wretched C3E10: Crunchy Bits
Ren and Eike, still on top of the plateau, fail to find an alternate way inside. They spot a large crowd of emaciated figures climbing the back of the plateau and knock most of them out with another boulder. Below, Taryn and Barnabus make their way further into the cavern, feet crunching on old,...
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The Wretched C3E9: Surrounded By Moans
After watching a group of creatures carry the stranger into a crack in the plateau, Taryn and Barnabus follow them inside. Ren and Eike climb the plateau to search for other entrances. When more of the creatures pursue them up the side of the plateau, they retaliate by pushing a large boulder…
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The Wretched C3E8: This Will Not End Well
Taryn, now able to perceive the orange line due to the effects of quash, leads the party further east. Exploring ahead, Barnabus discovers an old, abandoned, tent encampment and then spots movement at the foot of some far off plateaus. Everyone but Ren recognized the figures as the same sort of...
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The Wretched C3E7: Passing a Pipe
Taryn smokes the stranger’s quash and sees an orange hue on the path ahead. At the same time, Eike spots a figure far in the distance. The figure approaches and Eike recognizes Ren, an associate from her past in Arden, who admits to following them from the city. In the meantime, an alluring voice...
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The Wretched C3E6: Past the Point of Concern
Anyra flies off into the distance, hair ablaze, as the remainder of the party tries to come to terms with her fate. Taryn attempts to free Barney’s foot with coral shears and the stranger continues on his path, unperturbed. Taryn and Barnabus follow, and Anyra is a mere speck in the distance when...
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The Wretched C3E5: Shotgunning Anyra
Acid from the centipede dissolves the side of Barney’s tongue and Taryn continues his jig with the stranger as Eike blows a puff of quash smoke into Anyra’s mouth. Anyra feels trapped in her own mind, but the rest of the party experiences her actions very differently. The Wretched is an actual…
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The Wretched C3E4: All Nude Figures
Anyra is in bad shape after her attempted abduction, numb and unable to control her body. Barney, still wrapped in a creature carcass from his own run-in, feels oddly amazing. He cracks open its skull, allowing thick blood to ooze over his fingers, and Anyra feels a ravenous hunger. At the same...
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The Wretched C3E3: Gaslamp Myself aka Fried Palm Pudding
Barney and Anyra are dragged away by strange creatures and Barney stabs his own foot in the process of freeing himself. Eike and Taryn watch as more of the creatures surround the stranger, but then Eike leaves to help free Anyra. Taryn approaches the creatures, attempting diplomacy, but their...
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The Wretched C3E2: Willy Wonka'd in the Bed
Eike, Anyra, and Barney sleep around the smoldering camp fire, Taryn a distance away, as the stranger sits awake, smoking. Taryn and Eike notice a collection of eyes glowing in the shadows as Barney and Anyra, lost in a shared nightmare, are dragged off into the distance by strange humanoid...
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The Wretched C3E1: Licking My Footprints
Taryn, Barney, Eike, and Anyra follow the stranger through the desert along his orange line, becoming exhausted and severely dehydrated as Taryn’s cracked feet leave a blood trail in the sand. After making camp, Anyra attempts and fails to open the box she took from the archive, so she strikes a...
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The Wretched SideTrack 2 E3: Bury Your Face
SideTracks are an opportunity to explore the land of Agress from a different perspective outside of the main adventures. As our spooky 3 episode story arc concludes Seymour meets his mistress while Angus and Cody find their just rewards. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds...
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The Wretched SideTrack 2 E2: Dark, Deep Hole
SideTracks are an opportunity to explore the land of Agress from different perspective outside of the main adventures. As our spooky 3 episode story arc continues Seymour decides to go down deep while Angus and Coddy look for shiny metal above. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that...
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The Wretched SideTrack 2 E1: Strangleweed
As Chapter 2 comes to a close, we present to you an opportunity to explore Agress from a different perspective in a spooky, 3 episode story arc. Join Seymour, Angus, and Coddy as they take to the mysteries of the dark seas. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor...
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The Wretched C2 Retrospective
In this retrospective we delve into some of the challenges we faced in building the world and story during Chapter 2 and offer a little bit of insight into how Rick was potty trained. These episodes are great if you're interested in a behind the scenes look or a little insight on common problems…
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The Wretched C2E10: Goop Up
Taryn fails to apply a tourniquet to stop Lumina from dissolving and as she dies, her yellow eye lodges in his palm as her inksac stains his forearm. Anyra and Eike help Barney climb out of the well and notice that he looks strangely fit and healthy. As all four head out, following the stranger...
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The Wretched C2E9: We're Leaving
The stranger invites Taryn to follow the orange line and lends his flask to Taryn to nurse Lumina back to health. Whatever liquid the stranger carries instead begins to dissolve her. Meanwhile Barney offers up more of his blood to Anyra, who willingly absorbs it through her marked hand as Eike...
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The Wretched C2E8: The Sixth Stage of Grief
Barney notices strange shapes sliding under his skin and bleeds himself in an attempt to flush them out. Anyra, strangely drawn to Barney’s blood, discovers that she can absorb the blood and somehow alter the mark seared into her palm. Eike clocks this disturbing development but Taryn is…
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The Wretched C2E7: One Emergency at a Time
Eike slips back into the shack to steal a pod from the carnivorous vine. She and Anyra wake Taryn and describe Lumina’s fate, helping him to regurgitate her. At the same time Barney also awakens, bound, with aching joints and burning hands. Eike and Anyra refuse to untie him but he easily slips…
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The Wretched C2E6: Don't Drink That Water
Anyra arrives on the scene of the well to find a real mess. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning...
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The Wretched C2E5: Easy Catchings
Taryn suffers the consequences of exploring the well as Eike tries to save him from his own self destructive behavior. Meanwhile, Barney follows the old man into the shack but where two enter, only one comes out. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a…
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The Wretched C2E4: Looking Down Into Darkness
Anyra and Nikki travel around the outskirts of Arden, checking various groups of refugees and eventually entering the city itself where they locate Nikki’s mother. Throughout all of this, Anyra is plagued by confusing visions that might be from her own past. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG...
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The Wretched C2E3: Where the F@ck is Barney
Taryn and Eike head west into the desert, where Barney soon rejoins them with rumors of a cave full of wonders. The trio then discovers a shack near a large open well and meets the gnarled, toothless man who lives there. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor…
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The Wretched C2E2: Schrödinger's Kidnapping
In this episode our adventurers toil about what to do with too many fingers and an inconvenient accomplice. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may...
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The Wretched C2E1: Curiosity Killed the Venyani
Chapter 2 resumes with the burned city of Arden in the distance, and our adventurers finding a new path. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may...
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The Wretched C1: Behind the Scenes
This special episode is a look back with cast commentary at the first season. It is a chance to get to know the players and that Wretched Ward a little bit better as they reminisce on some of the fonder moments of Chapter 1. Stay tuned to the end for a surprise from one of the episodes. The...
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The Wretched SideTrack 1 E3: Day Horror
In this conclusion to our first Wretched Sidetrack, Bimple, Obie, and Thorn struggle to remove a group of mischievous missing children from the forest, but nothing goes as planned. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the...
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The Wretched SideTrack 1 E2: Five Feet of Fog
Bimple, Bog, and Obie search the forest for the missing children. Bog is lost in the dense fog and Bimple and Obie pick up another companion named Thorne. The three come upon the missing children in a clearing but soon realize that something darker hides within the fog. The Wretched is an actual...
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The Wretched SideTrack 1 E1: Sh*t in a Hole
As chapter 1 came to a close, we present to you an opportunity to explore the world from a different perspective in a spooky, 3 episode arc.
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The Wretched C1E13: Have Your Ennui
As we learn more about Barnabus Boldwood he, Taryn, and Eike spot Josai and approach him. Eike manages to steal his ring while Taryn leaves with a bag of quash. Anyra, still reeling from the loss of the archive, snatches a partially burned page from the air that sears a mark into her palm. The...
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The Wretched C1E12: Undburden Them
The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the improvisational nature of the podcast, difficult themes and situations may arise and we include a specific content warning at the beginning of each episode. The Wretched and Wretched...
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The Wretched C1E11: Stay in Your House
The remaining party members flee the foundry as Arden burns. Taryn heads straight to the lakeshore as Eike follows Anyra towards the archive. On the way, they find Nikki trapped in the second floor of her burning home. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into…
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The Wretched C1E10: My Savior, The Ass
Skala is badly burnt by the fire he set in the foundry. Taryn and Eike attempt to help while also hiding evidence of their presence. They all make it out alive to witness an incendiary finale. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product....
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The Wretched C1E9: Ascendant
Skala sets a fire inside the foundry and fights the blacksmiths who challenge him. Taryn and Eike enter the foundry looking for Skala and are quickly drawn into the fray. The Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into a truly wretched product. Due to the...
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The Wretched C1E8: Purpulatocus
Outside of the foundry, Eike is challenged by a former mark and Anyra and Taryn help her divert his attention. At the same time, inside, Skala helps a woman with a splinted leg, taking over her work and sending her out for a break. She encounters the rest of the party and shares information about...
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The Wretched C1E7: Just Spit On Me
Jo gifts Anyra a fire quill as she and Eike leave her home to find their friends at the mine. Taryn suffers greatly from the heat of the foundry as Skala investigates inside, finding an unfortunate link to his homeland. he Wretched is an actual play ttRPG podcast that melds horror and humor into…
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The Wretched C1E6: Knuckle Marrow
Anyra and Eike take Jo home and discover a journal outlining her husband’s desire to follow an orange line to a woman in the cliffs. Jo eventually wakes and shares more information about Aeschen’s abduction. Meanwhile, Nikki leads Taryn and Skala to the mines where her father used to work. Skala...
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The Wretched C1E5: Angry Inebriation
Caution, contains SPOILERS: Taryn decapitates two snakes in the archive but catches Skala’s finger in his swing. Exiting the archive, Skala collides with an intoxicated woman - the same woman from whom Eike stole the medallion. She and Eike have a verbal altercation and Skala attempts to restrain...
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The Wretched C1E4: Fermented Poop
Skala accosts Anyra, demanding her help, as Taryn tries and fails to calm young Nikki. Meanwhile, Eike steals the medallion that Anyra had spotted. Anyra and Eike enlist Taryn and Skala to help with their snake problem and the four return to the archive, Nikki tagging along behind. Taryn uses...
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The Wretched C1E3: I Will Slap You Back
The suspicious Eyes of the Light seize Josai's unconscious body from Taryn and Skala. While Taryn and Lumina take a very public swim, Skala (who can’t read) recognizes Josai’s face on a poster. Meanwhile, Eike and Anyra rough each other up to gain sympathy from the guards but are soon sidetracked...
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The Wretched C1E2: Biting His Tongue
Taryn and Skala knock Josai unconscious and carry him to Arden where they are challenged at the gates by suspicious members of the Eyes of the Light. Meanwhile, in the archive, an errand boy named Jun tries to help Eike and Anyra with their snake issue but alas, he's not up to the task. The...
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The Wretched C1E1: Slither Up My Side
On the road to Arden, Taryn and Skala meet Josai, who invites them to walk an orange line that only he can see. Meanwhile, in the Arden Institute of Knowledge and Mental Spirit, Eike and Anyra deal with an angry patron named Ronek who looses three snakes into the archive. Anyra refuses to flee,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Condolences dear listener, you are about to enter the realm of The Wretched. Steel yourself for this Cosmic Horror actual play. The dice are sometimes our friends but more often foretell of the horrors that befall our adventurers. Join us as we strive to fend off the terrors our past and the vices constantly threatening to overtake our mortal virtue.
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Condolences dear listener, you are about to enter the realm of The Wretched. Steel yourself for this Cosmic Horror actual play. The dice are sometimes our friends but more often foretell of the horrors that befall our adventurers. Join us as we strive to fend off the terrors our past and the vices...
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