The Listening Club TTRPG Special: Episode 2 - Missing Friend Investigation

Recap of Last Episode

• 🎙️ The group, comprised of horror podcast fans Margot, Elodie, Barry, and Alphonse, are playing a TTRPG based on The Magnus Archives.
• 🔍 They are playing characters who are normal people gathering to listen to the horror fiction podcast, The Armitage Library.
• 😱 The latest episode featured the narrator confronting a creature called "Mr. Clock," described as a sentient gory drain clog, which was seemingly killed but with a hint of its return.

June's Urgent Message

• ❓ The usual fifth member of their group, June, is absent, which is uncharacteristic.
• ✉️ The group receives an urgent message from June stating, "Need to see you now. Urgent quick."
• 📞 Attempts to contact June by text and phone go unanswered, with her voicemail stating she is very busy.

Investigating June's Disappearance

• 🏠 The group decides to visit June's flat, located a short bus ride away.
• 🚪 Upon arriving, they find June's keys in a bowl inside her flat, indicating she hasn't left.
• 🎧 In June's recording studio, they discover several Sony MiniDiscs, the same media used for The Armitage Library podcast, and a pair of headphones with a dark, viscous liquid on the ear cup, suspected to be blood.

Uncovering June's Research

• 💻 Elodie accesses June's laptop, revealing extensive searches about "Moldy Pencil Productions" (the creators of The Armitage Library) and audio distortions.
• ✉️ A letter found in the living room from "A.G.N." thanks June for her request, but the enclosure is missing.
• 📞 Attempts to call Moldy Pencil Productions are unsuccessful as the number is not in service.

The Audio Clues

• 🎧 June had been using a custom audio cleanup program called "Open Ear" on the MiniDiscs.
• 🔊 While the audio is still somewhat garbled, coherent words can be heard, though their meaning is unclear and potentially disturbing.
• 🩸 The presence of blood on the headphones, combined with the garbled audio and June's research, raises serious concerns for the group.
• 🤯 The episode ends with Alphonse putting on the blood-stained headphones, leaving his fate uncertain for the next episode.