Show Notes
(Content warnings: body horror, death, grief, sacrifice)
The Hunters make their last stand against a cataclysmic threat. Maggie reunites with family. Henrietta defends her friends. Keely gives a speech. Jamie learns a new skill. Everyone says goodbye.
CHARACTERS
Keeper - Sam Richardson (@Laggardson, He/Him)
Keeley, The Expert (She/Her) - William White (@kwilliamwhite, They/Them)
Henrietta, The Monstrous (She/Her) - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/Them)
Maggie, The Spellslinger (She/Her) - Sam Darr (
@mossyauthor, She/They)
Jamie Jesigo (He/him) - Jonas Newhouse (@jonasnewhouse, They/Them)
NPCs Jordan Jr "Jojo" Jesigo (He/they) - Henrietta's youngest child. Adopted child of Henrietta and The Sailor. Currently residing at the M.R.S. Montessori. Possible Myriad.
Xilin (He/him) - An enigmatic figure who used to work for M.R.S. When presenting as a human, looks like a tall, lanky, handsome Chinese man with short black hair and gold-painted nails. Dressed very hip. When not in human form, looks like a brilliant, reflective golden-colored giraffe with scales, cloven hooves, and antlers.
Martin Graves (He/him) - Monster-hunting Chosen One who has already fulfilled his prophecy. A white guy in his early 20s. Looks kinda like Elijah wood, with short mussed brown hair. One of his feet was badly burned, leading him to walk with a cane. Last seen at the Silky & The Solutions concert.
Lorelei (She/her) - Siren and opera singer. Larger blonde woman originally from Germany. One of Jamie’s contacts.
Henry Sweezle (He/him) - A guest from the Dirge, somehow involved in the events there. White man in his 30s or 40s with a whining voice and a rat-like face. Was on his way to VaccuCon, but the Hunters stopped him in Denver.
Carly Guarin (She/Her) - 16 year old Latina trans-woman. Keeley's biggest fan.
Poppy Graves (She/her) - A woman just touched with wrinkles, with shoulder-length light brown hair and kind coffee-colored eyes framed by a pair of rounded, dark blue glasses. Martin’s mother.
Calvin Graves (He/him) - A tall man wearing a hawaiian shirt over a lanky frame. He's bald, with a tight salt and pepper mustache over a mouth that is crooked into a constant expression of endearing, bemused apology. Martin’s father.
Theresa Graves (She/her) - 30 year old white woman. Dark brown, bobbed hair. Tanktop. Martin’s oldest sister.
Charlie Graves (She/her) - 27 years old white woman. Frizzy black hair. Glasses. Brown eyes. Always has a book. Martin’s middle sister.
Jordan Jesigo (He/him) - The Sailor. Henrietta's former lover/captor, and head of M.R.S.
The Speaker (He/him) - You know him, he swear you've seen his face on the news at least a handful of times, maybe splashed across a press release, or his name listed prominently besides the words "Executive Producer". He's famous, powerful, rooted in a legacy of old money, with a voice that makes the mezzanine feel comfortably close and a smile that has launched a thousand business ventures. Leader of VaccuCon.
Magnolia Thornback (She/her) - Maggie's grandmother, now a ghost.
Thomas Wessler (He/him) - Old professor who works at a community college in CA. His granddaughter, Jenny Wessler, heard he was leaving on a cruise trip and looked up the company, she became nervous that he was being scammed by the cruise company.
Minny, Mauve & Bell (All She/Her) - Maggie's witchy cousins.
ORGANIZATIONS
M.R.S. AKA Myriad Relocation Services - A mysterious non-governmental organization tasked with investigating supernatural occurrences and relocating monsters/cryptids who are risk of human discovery or interference. They have field agents scattered throughout the United States and, presumably, the world.
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Season 1, "Fate", originally ran in 2019 as a livestream on the AltHaven (formerly Queuetimes) main YouTube channel. It uses the Monster of the Week game system. It follows a group of found-family monster Hunters as they set off on a journey across the United States, dealing with the creatures they encounter and drawing ever nearer to the end of the road...
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