The City That Never Was: A Call of Cthulhu Actual Play Podcast

Before diving back into the mystery, our investigators gather around the table to piece together what they remember from last session. What clues did they miss? What’s the next move? This bonus recording captures the pre-game chatter—full of speculation, strategy, and a few laughs—as the team tries to make sense of the chaos before it swallows them whole.

As strange connections begin to surface, our investigators are pulled deeper into a web of secrets, surveillance, and silence. Kent’s discovery leads to a harrowing police encounter, Jessica and Kelly uncover a desperate warning, and Monika finally gets through to Melanie—only to find that Motel 9 holds more than just memories. Meanwhile, a fire ignites a chain reaction that will leave no one untouched.Dark forces are moving.

As the city settles into another restless night, dreams twist into something darker. Each investigator faces a new thread pulling at the edges of their reality—shadowy figures, half-buried secrets, and opportunities that may not be what they seem. Kelly begins to question what her father never told her. Jessica digs deeper into unsanctioned city development projects. Tommy receives a strange offer from a company whose taking over his clients. Monika reconnects with her sister Katya. And Kent’s latest hustle leads him into something far more terrifying than cops or junkies.The pieces are moving. The city is watching. And in the static between dreams, something calls.*Trigger Warning: this episode contains descriptions of graphic violence and self-harm.

In the inaugural episode of The City That Never Was, a councillor, small-time drug dealer, mechanic, sub shop owner, and sex worker each experience something unsettling—an offbeat bureaucratic mix-up, an impossible case of identity theft, and, perhaps most disturbingly, a dead man found standing in his living room. At first these strange occurrences seem unrelated, but when all five individuals are coincidentally brought together to their beloved convenience store, they begin to suspect these events are connected, and that something in the city itself is changing.