The Apocalypse Players

By: The Apocalypse Players (D Allen D McAleer M Chance D Wheeler)
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  • A Call of Cthulhu actual play podcast. Dice-driven cosmic horrors supplied by Dominic Allen, Joseph Chance, Danann McAleer and Dan Wheeler. --- The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers We now have a free Discord server where you can come and worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will be only to eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH
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Episodes
  • Dead Light 03 FINALE: 'Waxy Bisque'

    Dead Light 03 FINALE: 'Waxy Bisque'
    Nov 4 2024

    In which the scat hits the fan, and things get really weird...

    Dead Light is a Call of Cthulhu Scenario by Alan Bligh.

    (A special video version of this episode is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@apocplayers)

    Cast:

    Ignatius ‘Iggy’ Sugar – Dan Wheeler

    Vincent Julius – Joseph Chance

    ‘Big’ Charlie Pope – Danann McAleer

    Keeper of Arcane Lore ­– Dominic Allen

    With very special thanks to John Pope for supplying additional bass riffs for this scenario.

    CW: This podcast contains mature themes, strong language and cosmic horror. Human discretion is advised.

    The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers

    We now have a free Discord server where you can come and worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will be only too eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH

    For more information and to get in touch, visit www.apocalypseplayers.com

    The Apocalypse Players are:

    Dominic Allen @DomJAllen

    Joseph Chance @JosephChance2

    Danann McAleer @DanannMcAleer

    Dan Wheeler @DanWheelerUK

    Music and Sound

    Horror soundscapes from Hideous Hiss:

    https://www.patreon.com/hideoushiss

    Music in the public domain

    Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen - Winin' Boy Blues -Traditional arranged by Jelly Roll Morton

    She's my Sheba, I'm Her Sheik, by the St. Louis Rhythm Kings

    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers – Boogaboo – Jelly Roll Morton

    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Shoe Shiner's Drag - Jelly Roll Morton

    Silent Movie 45 by Sascha Ende from filmmusic.io

    License: https://filmmusic.io/en/standard-license

    Sound and music from Epidemic Sound including:

    A Summer Night's Kiss

    Antimony - Ethan Sloan

    Blue Notes - John and the Land of Plenty

    Breath of Whiskey - Franz Gordon

    Down the Alley

    Every Time You Go Away

    Fat and Muscles - Martin Landstrom

    Foliage - Bladverk Band

    Good Thing Gone - Rich in Rags

    Great Scott! - Martin Landstrom

    Guess I Shouldn't

    How We Met - Golden Age Radio

    Kansas City Flashback

    Like You and I

    Lindy Hop Gals

    Longing - Vendla

    No Time for Drinks

    Our New Victrola

    Ragtime Jam - Golden Age Radio

    Shallow Dreams - Bill Ferngren

    Silent Screams - Bill Ferngren

    Sing It Loud

    Stompin' Jazz Night - Golden Age Radio

    Tablespoons - Martin Landstrom

    The Devil's Defiance

    Trailing - Christian Andersen

    Additional sound from zapsplat.com
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Dead Light 02: 'Scatting and Violence'

    Dead Light 02: 'Scatting and Violence'
    Oct 28 2024

    In which the trio attempt to make a swift exit. Iggy's compulsion is aggravated, Vince tries to get a date, Charlie meets his match, and a new tagline for the Apocalypse Players is coined.

    Dead Light is a Call of Cthulhu Scenario by Alan Bligh.

    (A video version of this episode is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@apocplayers)

    Cast:

    Ignatius ‘Iggy’ Sugar – Dan Wheeler

    Vincent Julius – Joseph Chance

    ‘Big’ Charlie Pope – Danann McAleer

    Keeper of Arcane Lore ­– Dominic Allen

    With very special thanks to John Pope for supplying additional bass riffs for this scenario.

    CW: This podcast contains mature themes, strong language and cosmic horror. Human discretion is advised.

    The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers

    We now have a free Discord server where you can come and worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will be only too eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH

    For more information and to get in touch, visit www.apocalypseplayers.com

    The Apocalypse Players are:

    Dominic Allen @DomJAllen

    Joseph Chance @JosephChance2

    Danann McAleer @DanannMcAleer

    Dan Wheeler @DanWheelerUK

    Music and Sound

    Music in the public domain

    Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen - Winin' Boy Blues -Traditional arranged by Jelly Roll Morton

    She's my Sheba, I'm Her Sheik, by the St. Louis Rhythm Kings

    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers – Boogaboo – Jelly Roll Morton

    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Shoe Shiner's Drag - Jelly Roll Morton

    Silent Movie 45 by Sascha Ende from filmmusic.io

    License: https://filmmusic.io/en/standard-license

    Horror soundscapes from Hideous Hiss:

    https://www.patreon.com/hideoushiss

    Sound and music from Epidemic Sound including:

    A Summer Night's Kiss

    Antimony - Ethan Sloan

    Blue Notes - John and the Land of Plenty

    Breath of Whiskey - Franz Gordon

    Down the Alley

    Every Time You Go Away

    Fat and Muscles - Martin Landstrom

    Foliage - Bladverk Band

    Good Thing Gone - Rich in Rags

    Great Scott! - Martin Landstrom

    Guess I Shouldn't

    How We Met - Golden Age Radio

    Kansas City Flashback

    Like You and I

    Lindy Hop Gals

    Longing - Vendla

    No Time for Drinks

    Our New Victrola

    Ragtime Jam - Golden Age Radio

    Shallow Dreams - Bill Ferngren

    Silent Screams - Bill Ferngren

    Sing It Loud

    Stompin' Jazz Night - Golden Age Radio

    Tablespoons - Martin Landstrom

    The Devil's Defiance

    Trailing - Christian Andersen

    Additional sound from zapsplat.com
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Dead Light 01: 'Rain and Ash' | Call of Cthulhu Actual Play

    Dead Light 01: 'Rain and Ash' | Call of Cthulhu Actual Play
    Oct 21 2024

    ...or ‘How to Talk to Women’

    In which the correct number of musicians for a Jazz trio have an unexpected encounter on the road, and stop for a really bad bathroom break.

    Dead Light is a Call of Cthulhu Scenario by Alan Bligh.

    (A video version of this episode is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@apocplayers)

    Cast:

    Ignatius ‘Iggy’ Sugar – Dan Wheeler

    Vincent Julius – Joseph Chance

    ‘Big’ Charlie Pope – Danann McAleer

    Keeper of Arcane Lore ­– Dominic Allen

    With very special thanks to John Pope for supplying additional bass riffs for this scenario.

    CW: This podcast contains mature themes, strong language and cosmic horror. Human discretion is advised.

    The Apocalypse Players is an actual play (or live play) TTRPG podcast focused on horror tabletop roleplaying games. Think Dimension 20 or Critical Role, but fewer dragons, more eldritch horrors, and more British actors taking their roleplaying very seriously (most of the time). We primarily play the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, but have also been known to dabble with other systems, most of which can be found on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/apocalypseplayers

    We now have a free Discord server where you can come and worship at the altar of the Apocalypse, play Call of Cthulhu online, and meet like-minded cultists who will be only too eager to welcome you into the fold. New sacrifices oops we mean players are always welcome. Join here: discord.com/invite/kRQ62t6SjH

    For more information and to get in touch, visit www.apocalypseplayers.com

    The Apocalypse Players are:

    Dominic Allen @DomJAllen

    Joseph Chance @JosephChance2

    Danann McAleer @DanannMcAleer

    Dan Wheeler @DanWheelerUK

    Music and Sound

    Music in the public domain

    Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen - Winin' Boy Blues -Traditional arranged by Jelly Roll Morton

    She's my Sheba, I'm Her Sheik, by the St. Louis Rhythm Kings

    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers – Boogaboo – Jelly Roll Morton

    Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Shoe Shiner's Drag - Jelly Roll Morton

    Silent Movie 45 by Sascha Ende from filmmusic.io

    License: https://filmmusic.io/en/standard-license

    Horror soundscapes from Hideous Hiss:

    https://www.patreon.com/hideoushiss

    Sound and music from Epidemic Sound including:

    A Summer Night's Kiss

    Antimony - Ethan Sloan

    Blue Notes - John and the Land of Plenty

    Breath of Whiskey - Franz Gordon

    Down the Alley

    Every Time You Go Away

    Fat and Muscles - Martin Landstrom

    Foliage - Bladverk Band

    Good Thing Gone - Rich in Rags

    Great Scott! - Martin Landstrom

    Guess I Shouldn't

    How We Met - Golden Age Radio

    Kansas City Flashback

    Like You and I

    Lindy Hop Gals

    Longing - Vendla

    No Time for Drinks

    Our New Victrola

    Ragtime Jam - Golden Age Radio

    Shallow Dreams - Bill Ferngren

    Silent Screams - Bill Ferngren

    Sing It Loud

    Stompin' Jazz Night - Golden Age Radio

    Tablespoons - Martin Landstrom

    The Devil's Defiance

    Trailing - Christian Andersen

    Additional sound from zapsplat.com
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    1 hr and 40 mins

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Brilliant stuff

Funny, scary and enthralling.

Lovely to hear people having so much fun, while making something so good.

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Always top tier

The best at what they do plain and simple great work guys keep it up

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Calling Cthulu...

What a star-studded team of Investigators! from the core crew of Dom, Dan, Dannan and Joseph to guests like Jeany Spark, each tale of terror is beautifully enacted, with horrors galore, as the Keepers of Arcane lore guide the hopeless, and oft times luckless, teams to their doom!! fans of Lovecraft, M.R. James, and other masters of the macabre will enjoy these feasts of fear!

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Fantastic for gamers and non-gamers alike

An absolute must for anyone who enjoys horror, comedy and wants to listen to four grown men having fun going stark raving mad on the regular. Hilarious and genuinely frightening, the acting and banter are wonderful across the scenarios. My personal favourites are:

If you know nothing about Call of Cthulhu:
● 'The Lightless Beacon’ – kicks off quickly and features a guest who has never played before, so all the rules are explained as they play.
● For a more detailed and visual introduction, you can watch Dom GM a brilliant Agatha Christie-style scenario he wrote over on YouTube, called ‘NRB Plays Call Of Cthulhu (Ep 1 of 3)’. It introduced me to Call of Cthulhu, made me laugh like a loon, and sent me hunting for this podcast.


If you know the game or are happy to figure it out as you go:
● 'Bleak Prospects' - only just started, but it's a phenomenonal opening episode. Strong characters and immediate horrorifying tension contrasted with some of the funniest player conversations in their whole catalogue. Incredible work everyone, especially Dom as keeper and whoever's on editing. The character sheet reveal had me in stitches!
● ‘A Christmas Inheritance’ and ‘A Residence at the Bay’ – written by Danann in the style of M R James. A must for anyone who loves slow-build, atmospheric horror like ‘Dark Matter’ by Michelle Paver. Wonderful Jamesian horror with humour and domestics giving way to increasingly uncanny and terrifying occurrences. Inspired me to go and listen to all the free M R James stories on Audible. I am now impatiently waiting for Part 3 and for Danann to write a novel!
● ‘Machine Tractor Station Kharkov-37’ – one of the tensest scenarios in an endlessly bleak setting and the normal mythos horror augmented with the chilling dynamics of Stalinism.
● ‘Saturnine Chalice’ – an oldy but a goody! Dom is a hilariously evil keeper clearly having the time of his life. The other 3 are playing prison escapees who just broke down outside the wrong haunted house. No one is prepared, least of all the NPCs!
● ‘Crimson Letters’ – starts slow but builds towards an amazing episode 6 and just keeps getting better from there. A side-splittingly chaotic and creepy witch-hunt.
● ‘The Afflicted’ – the most disturbing of the scenarios so far, although the humour is still thankfully present. The stunning music soundscape by Dan & co. and the players responding to some genuinely upsetting scenario moments make this one really stand apart. Increasingly devastating police cases and city-wide dreams in a New York heatwave. I now have an actual fear of saxophone music as I listened to this while experiencing a 60+ hour bout of insomnia!
● ‘Il Portico di San Luca’ – wonderful trip to Italy! Felt like going on summer holidays.

If you enjoy the scenarios here, their Patreon is absolutely worth the price of admission, especially for the wonderfully creepy, claustrophobic 1 player vs Keeper Dom games and for the post-scenario discussions.

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