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Monster of the Week

Cast

  • Aglibol the Divine, played by Mike
  • Chuck the Mundane, played by Rob R.
  • Leonora Lentrix the Gumshoe, played by Krysten
  • Maddie the Sidekick, played by Erin
  • Maddy Finch the Monstrous, played by Heather
  • Ozzonuth the Summoned, played by John
  • Vance the Hex, played by Rob P
  • The Kook, played by Doug
Episode Cast Air Date
Episode 1: Big Haunt on Campus Aglibol, Chuck, Maddy Finch 4/15/2020
Episode 2: Mini Monster Movie Mayhem Leonora, Maddie, Ozzonuth, Vance 4/21/2020
Episode 3: A Church with a View Aglibol, Chuck, Maddy Finch, Vance 7/12/2020
Episode 4: Dream Away the Time Aglibol, Chuck, Maddy Finch, Vance 1/30/2021
Episode 5: Witching Hour Kook, Leonora, Maddie, Ozzonuth 2/8/2021
Episode 6: LA Bites, part 1 Aglibol, Maddie, Maddy Finch, Ozzonuth, Vance 5/13/2021
Episode 7: LA Bites, part 2 TBD TBD

Supernatural Lore

  • Alternate Dimensions: you briefly were trapped in a dimension of whirling colors and mist containing angry spirits. It's unclear what purpose this realm serves. The other dimension members of the team traveled to was the Faerie Realm.
  • Biokinetics: you met a girl whose magic powers solely involved the manipulation of physical life; she turned her cat into a dog and took cancer out of her mother, turning it into classic monster movie creatures
  • Ghosts: magic harms them normally; they don't all have the same powers; some have control of frost, telekinesis, manifesting in nearby objects; angry spirits can gain power from hateful people
  • Hand of Glory: made from the hand and fat from a hanged man, this hand holding a candle has multiple magical properties for finding and gaining entrance to doors, and to entrancing those who look into the flame.
  • Mummies: a mummy animated in a museum some time before the show started. Leonora and the Kook put it down.
  • Vampires: They do show up on videos and cast reflections - unless the mirror has a silver backing, then no reflection is shown. This might mean they're vulnerable to silver. They do not eat/drink people food, only blood. They can charm humans. They do not age. They can go out during the day but aren't very fond of doing so. Victims of a vampire bite show signs of anemia, sometimes enough to make them bedridden for a few days. If a vampire returns for a total of three bites, the victim dies and rises the next day as a new vampire. Otherwise, they should survive. Victims describe feelings of euphoria and mild hallucinations in the days following a bite.
  • Witches (or magic-users by any other name): you met a witch who performed minor feats of safe magic, but her friend used her lessons to try to summon a demon and accidentally summoned a vengeful spirit. You also met another witch who was dead and had a Hand of Glory.

Signs of the Apocalypse

  1. The arrival of Ozzonuth, along with a pattern of natural disasters
  2. Vegetation wilts faster than normal. People's groceries, flowers, Christmas trees. Anything harvested dies fast
  3. another sign has come, but the cast hasn't identified it yet
  4. another sign has come, but the cast hasn't identified it yet
  5. another sign has come, but the cast hasn't identified it yet

Episode Synopses

Episode 1: Big Haunt on Campus

Aglibol, Chuck, and Maddy Finch go to a university to investigate a mysterious death. They discover that a female student wanted to get revenge on a male student that wronged her. She was learning witchcraft from her Wiccan roommate but didn't have the experience to do what she wanted, summon a demon. Instead, she awakened the vengeful spirit of a student that was thrown out a window years earlier. The ghost at times left a layer of ice around her. The team eventually trapped the ghost and freed it from this realm by destroying it.

Episode 2: Mini Monster Movie Mayhem

Leonora, Maddie, Ozzonuth, and Vance are called in by an x-ray technician to investigate a strange creature that bit him. It turned out a girl whose mother was dying of terminal cancer was using her latent biokinetic ability to magically remove the tumors. Unfortunately, the tumors lived on as characters from the girl's favorite movies, classic monster flicks. The team vanquished all the monsters such as Dracula, Wolfman, and King Kong. Vance then completed the curing of the girl's mother's cancer without the negative side effects.

Episode 3: A Church with a View

Aglibol, Chuck, Maddy Finch, and Vance went to a church to investigate a murder. Parishioners reported seeing ghostly and hellish images recently. After performing their own investigation, the church was pulled into an alternate dimension full of angry spirits, enraged and given power by the hateful priest. The spirits took the forms of figures in the church's stained glass, their corporeal forms literally made from the glass. After the team destroyed the glass creatures and smashed the rest of the stained glass, the church returned to Earth. As the team was leaving, a mysterious woman approached them. She called herself Agent 22 from the Watchers and said supernatural activity is increasing at an alarming rate.

Episode 4: Dream Away the Time

Aglibol, Chuck, Maddy Finch, and Vance go to a small fishing town to investigate a rash of attacks in which the victim remembers nothing of their attacker. Through their investigation, they find that the town has an agreement with Oberon made hundreds of years ago. Every 40 years, the town would provide him with their most beloved child. In return, Oberon would guarantee 40 years of good fishing. This year a child was due but there's nobody left in the town who remembers the deal and can provide a child. Oberon sent the last stolen child as well as a redcap to torment the town and eventually do worse until a child is received. The team reached a stalemate in a confrontation with the redcap, and decided to journey to the Faerie realm to speak directly to Oberon. They convinced Oberon to call off the redcap and simply terminate the deal. He agreed and terminated the magical contract.

Episode 5: Witching Hour

Leonora was called in to investigate a house that has some paranormal activity. She brought the kook, Maddie, and Ozzonuth to help. The owner was heir to the house's previous owner, Zenobia Bellairs. The team found the house was quite strange. There were references to a biblical passage in many rooms of the house. And nearly everywhere were clocks of various kinds. They found a secret passage behind a bookshelf in an arcane library. Upon stopping all the clocks, the secret passage opened. In the hidden basement, they found Zenobia, now an undead witch and armed with a hand of glory. The team vanquished her and reported to the owner that the house would now be fine. On the way out, the took the hand of glory and many of the books from the arcane library, since they had genuine information about magic and monsters.

Episode 6: LA Bites, part 1

Maddy Finch received a text from her "father," Silas, asking her to come to LA to help with a problem. She brought Aglibol, Maddie, Ozzonuth, and Vance with her. They met at Silas's club, Fang. He said there were three recent murders that have been loosely connected to Fang. He believed they were being framed and trusted that his vampire clan was not responsible for any recent murders. The team investigated the most recent body at the morgue and finds an address scrawled on a piece of paper that was in her pants. The address was a large office building and since it was 4am, it seemed nobody was there. The team entered, broke into the management office and determined that two floors were owned by a person, not a business and didn't seem to do any public business as they had no logo or advertisements. The team decided to go to the second floor first, which was a Citizens Bank office. They gained easy entry to the office with the Maddie's hand of glory but tripped a motion alarm. Instead of running, they magically blocked the elevators and split up to search the office. Two vampires suddenly appeared outside a window near Maddy Finch and burst in to attack her. To be continued...

Episode 7: LA Bites, part 2

Coming soon

Support Characters

  • Agent 22: She is an agent of a shadow organization called the Watchers dedicated to monitoring supernatural events. She appeared in episode 3 to tell the group that the Watchers appreciate the work they are doing and that significant events are on the horizon. And that supernatural events are occurring more often.
  • Oberon: King of the Faerie.
  • Silas: Maddy Finch's "father", the vampire that turned her more than 100 years ago. He runs a nightclub in LA called Fang, which includes some vampire employees and some humans.
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