Push The Roll with Ross Bryant | Call of Cthulhu Improv TTRPG Podcast

A beauty sales convention at a remote Maine inn turns into something stranger than a weekend of pep talks. As the players improvise their way through an early 1980s Call of Cthulhu setup, awkward social pressure and guilt bleed together.Content Warnings: references to real-world Tylenol poisonings, body horror, social coercion, vomiting, profanity, thunder and microphone feedback (SFX)FeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreOscar Montoya as Gerson MeyersPaula Deming as Lou GriffithMary Lou as Val Janssoncuppycup as Doogie WilsonDialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript coming soon.

A strange case escalates quickly as unsettling visions and coincidences begin to stack up. By the time the shape of the "gift" becomes clear, it’s already far too late to simply walk away.Content Warnings: self-harm, suicide, cannibalism, religious imagery, forced pregnancy, abortion references, body horror, sexual references, profanity, violenceFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreBecca Scott as Brenda the BoldPaula Deming as MarcellaJosephine McAdam as Caspius Lawcuppycup as Maximus ArtifexDialogue Editing by cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript coming soon.

A holiday investigation drifts off the rails as the group uncovers something deeply wrong. Visions and warnings begin to pile up, pointing toward a larger pattern no one can quite name yet. What is this "gift" anyway?Content Warnings: self-harm, suicide, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, misophonia, sexual references, religious imagery, violence, profanityFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreBecca Scott as Brenda the BoldPaula Deming as MarcellaJosephine McAdam as Caspius Lawcuppycup as Maximus ArtifexDialogue Editing by cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript coming soon.

A festive title inspires an improvised Call of Cthulhu story set during Saturnalia in Imperial Rome. Prophecy, sacrifice, and cosmic horror! Merry Saturnalia, I guess.Content Warnings: animal sacrifice, harm to children, misophonia, sexual references, religious imagery, violence, profanityFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreBecca Scott as Brenda the BoldPaula Deming as MarcellaJosephine McAdam as Caspius Lawcuppycup as Maximus ArtifexDialogue Editing by cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript coming soon.

Ohhh yeah. We're dropping a free episode of Bout of Radness, our Patreon companion show to Push the Roll with Ross Bryant. This is a full-on hangout with a truly deranged buffet of unused titles we absolutely wish we could've used. It’s an hour of horror brainstorming and media inspiration with Ross Bryant, cuppycup, Scott Dorward, and Mary Lou. We also chat about our most recent series "Side Effects May Include..."Join us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pushtherollThanks, as always, for supporting the show. Humanity > robots. 🖤

The group’s plan to gather evidence collapses almost immediately, sending everything into chaos. The line between waking life and nightmare logic continues to blur.Content Warnings: drugging, kidnapping, body horror (incl. fingernails), drug experimentation, sleep paralysis, violence, profanityFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreColton Dunn as Dr. Reginald BiggsMary Lou as Beth SilvermanScott Dorward as Charlie Finchcuppycup as Hitch GordonDialogue Editing by cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-side-effects-may-include-part-3

The sleep study gets a whole lot weirder as everyone beds down for the night. By morning nothing feels quite right and one participant mysteriously vanishes. Everyone is pretty sure this study isn’t what they signed up for.Content Warnings: children in peril, drugging, harm to livestock, kidnapping, body horror (fingernails), drug experimentation, sleep paralysis, violence, profanityFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreColton Dunn as Dr. Reginald BiggsMary Lou as Beth SilvermanScott Dorward as Charlie Finchcuppycup as Hitch GordonDialogue Editing by cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-side-effects-may-include-part-2

Join Ross Bryant and special guest Colton Dunn for an improvised Call of Cthulhu adventure about a clinical sleep trial that already feels a little too good to be true. The weirdness starts creeping in almost immediately.Content Warnings: children in peril, harm to livestock, fear of kidnapping and sex trafficking, body horror, drug experimentation, sleep paralysis, violence, profanityFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreColton Dunn as Dr. Reginald BiggsMary Lou as Beth SilvermanScott Dorward as Charlie Finchcuppycup as Hitch GordonDialogue Editing by cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-side-effects-may-include-part-1

The band heads into a remote town hoping to help a girl in trouble. As tensions rise and trust cracks, the group tries to stick together even as the world around them stops making sense.Content Warnings: teens in peril, body horror, drugging, eating sounds, religious themes, sexual themes, profanity, violenceFeaturingRoss Bryant as Keeper of Arcane LoreMatt Young as Nate HighlandNic Rosenberg as Bobby KingPaula Deming as B.B. Bakercuppycup as Chris HollowayDialogue Editing by Victoria Cheng and cuppycupSound and Music Design by cuppycupProduced by cuppycupTranscript available at https://pushtheroll.com/transcript-the-right-stuff-part-3