Show Notes
(Content warnings: police, interrogation, religion, medical settings)
The Hunter’s effects on the world at large begin to rear their head - for better or for worse. Maggie’s magic does awry. Keely confronts the law. Jamie gets a new case. Henrietta tries her hand at matchmaking.
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)
NPCsZee Hemingway (He/him) - Skateboarder. Black kid. Has spikes on top of his helmet. Probably like 10 or 12. The hunters originally met Zee in the town of Geringer.
Sussana Waldorf (She/Her) - White woman in her 20s with dark brown hair and a graphic tee. The hunters met Sussana outside of the Silky & the Solutions concert outside Denver.
Meghan Lusk (She/Her) - Small white girl with big, thick coke-bottle glasses and stringy grey hair. Meghan has a pair of large feathery grey wings on her back. They spread out when she gets excited. Nine years old. The hunters met Meghan at the M.R.S. Montessori school in Nevada.
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.
Jenny Wessler (She/her) - Contact of Jamie Jesigo. Worried about her grandfather.
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.
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.
Pest Control is an actual-play tabletop RPG podcast produced in association with Queuetimes (
@_queuetimes). Our first season was played using “Monster of the Week”, a Powered by the Apocalypse system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions.
Season one of Pest Control - “
Fate” - 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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Pest Control is an actual-play horror tabletop show from AltHaven. Join Keeper Sam R, and players William, Jonas, and Sam D as they get lost in fantastical worlds featuring compelling characters, engaging story, and thrilling twists!
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...
Season 2, "Norfork", uses Monster of the Week as well as a mix of other indie tabletop role-playing games to tell the story of a world where everyone knows monsters exist, and a town that is slowly losing its identity to the enormous neighboring City.