Kids on Bikes - The Glow Stone Mystery Part 1

In the City of Undecided, a trio of teens are at the Glow Stone Strip Mall, as well as the owner/operator of the veterinarian office there. An attempted theft unites them as they investigate the strange goings on in town...

Kids on Bikes is a game of collaborative storytelling in small towns with weird goings on, by Jon Gilmour and Doug Levandowski. The game is available at the Hunter's Entertainment website, both in pdf and physical, as well as a pdf of the Free RPG Day Edition [with additional writing by Crespin and Xasia Villarreal], which we used.

Jared - GM

Ben - Ashley Gleason, The Rich Girl

Dan - Scott Harris, The Conspiracy Boy

Greg - Tex Johnson, The Haunted Boy

Nellie - Dr. Lilanne Okafor, The Serious Veterinarian

Slasher Flick - HR Nightmare

Corporate Social Economics, in the general public, is renowned as a company that helps other companies engage in philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. On the inside, CorpSE is just another company that strips away your soul. On Halloween Night, after a long week with overtime, several employees are wrapping up work before a party. Several groups are called up to the C-Suite, and the horrors only get worse from there...

Slasher Flick is a game of blood curdling horror by Cynthia Celeste Miller and Spectrum Games. The game is available in pdf from DriveThruRPG, and in physical as a print on demand book from Lulu.

(Characters are introduced as whether Primary or Secondary, their name and pronouns, role at CorpSE, and what they are dressed as for Halloween.)

Greg - GM

Dan:

Primary: Shouta Yamasaki, (He/Him), Communications Specialist, Secret Agent
Secondary: Aphrodite “Dita”, Kontos, (She/Her), Social Media Specialist, Torturer
Secondary: Ryker Carter, (He/Him), Videographer, Giant Eyeball Helmet

Ethan:

Primary: Berry Stone, (He/Him), Accounts Payable Manager, Pirate Captain
Secondary: Yazmin Washington, (She/They), Payment Processor, Pirate Crew Member
Secondary: Nazeer Abbasi, (He/Him), Inventory Manager, Pirate Crew Member

Jared:

Primary: Lisa Christensen, (She/Her), HR Generalist, Witch (No Effort)
Secondary: Leonid “Leo” Borysova, (They/Them), Office Generalist, Werewolf (Too Much Effort)
Secondary: Vera Morales (She/Her), Paralegal, Jester / Clown (Inappropriate Effort)

Hauntrifiction - The Butler Estate

Walter Butler, a wealthy occultist, died in the process of a binding ritual. This was the intent, so he could continue the ritual... for 300 years. One of his descendants, Lamont Butler, is being tempted with selling the house for it to potentially be bulldozed. Walter's spirit will stop at nothing to save his home. With one weekend to do it, can he work Lamont and his friends to convince him to keep the home...?

Hauntrification, by Sylvia Gimenez, is part of Level 1 2023, a Silver Ennie award winning Free RPG Day anthology. It is available, still for free, at DriveThruRPG and at 9th Level Games' website.

Greg - "GM" / Lamont Butler, Alyssia Goode, September Ford

Ben - Walter Butler

Alteregomania - The Unmasked Avenger

In the city of New Olympus, super heroes roam the city, powered and run by Plutocorp. The Pedestrian investigative reporter Klara awakens to a phone call concerning a burning building. As she conducts interviews and pokes around, she starts to realize this incident is a consequence of something more disturbing...

Alteregomania is a Gumshoe One-2-One setting, focusing on playing Klara as she investigates problems caused by New Olympus' heroes. It is PDF only, and available on Pelgrane Press' website.

Ben - GM

Greg - Klara Koenig

The Zone - Operation God Zinc

The Zone has grown and overtaken a city, and all expeditions that go into it never return. A quartet of agents go in to investigate the zone and see if they can get to its center. Why they want to get there, and which one alone will make it there, is anyone's guess...

The Zone is an RPG by Raph D'Amico. It is a card based RPG of weird horror. It has a physical version, available as either a box set or as pdfs, available on The Zone's website. The game also has a fully featured web client which is capable of running the game, which we used. It is available at play.thezonerpg.com.

Ben - Dr. Cornelia Tam, MD, The Surgeon

Dan - Jerry Burke, The Entrepreneur

Ethan - Dr. Septimus Frank, The Scientist

Greg - Augustine Pius, The Chaplain