Intrepid Web Fest

While the workers of Duskvol fight for better pay and conditions, the gang known as the Silver Spectres infiltrate the homes and businesses of the wealthy elite and uncover a sinister occult plot.

This 4-part Blades in the Dark Actual Play explores wealth inequality and the power those with money and status exercise over those without. We are proud that the cast and production team of The Ballad of the Silver Spectres is 80% LGBTQIA* and 50% BIPoC, with 5 countries represented. This is what European tables look like.

Inspired by Indigenous Brazilian folklore, “Beneath the Surface” is a story of five cousins — their lives rooted in a distant land. The cousins are beckoned back to their shared ancestral village. What they envision as a mere reunion spirals into a mystical journey when they meet the village elders. The coastal village's connection to its ancestry has started to wane, and the five find that they have been chosen for a sacred task: Travel to where your ancestral spirits lay, and bridge the widening chasm between the living and the spirits.

GODKILLER: Qismat is an interstellar tale of several lives whose destiny are shaken up because of a murder of a God among the pantheon of a galaxy by an outlying comet. Each Godkiller pursues their own story's end which are intermingled with the fate of the God who lords over their planets and whose divine lives are at stake. Each Godkiller has their own struggle, unique and universal, under the shadowed canopy of rules that their planet forces upon them, and yet each Godkiller has the choice of becoming something more than their destiny. GODKILLER: Qismat is not a story about killing Gods, but breaking down pillars of thoughts which become our Gods.

An in character interview show where the Host (dustehill) does tarot reads for a single guest and a character of their choice from a TTRPG they play them in. The themes of the show is to really learn who the character is by delving into something as vulnerable about talking about their dreams and fears.

In the worst time the economy has been in a while, four down on their luck 20 somethings get tricked to pad applicants to a task app that is actually a hunter's consignment app. While stuck in the nitty gritty of their situation, they learn to adapt, rake in the cash, and become hunters of Duskborn in New York City. It only gets more complicated when a conspiracy arises and the gang gets in deep with the secret kindred benefactors of the app. Midnight Rush tackles the subjects of poverty, found family, monstrosity and finding oneself.

'Soul Operator' is a liminal, emotional horror solo ttrp actual play and audio drama focusing on solo ttrpgs as a genre and how they can be used as an avenue for storytelling. The show focuses on themes of personhood and what we as creators are willing to put characters through for the sake of said storytelling. It marries together the narrative, arc forward format of audio drama with the gamification found through solo ttrpgs. Each season will be based on a different game, which is played through to completion and then said gameplay is adapted to an audio drama. 

Our Lives in the Wood is a slice-of-life horror series that uses a variety of TTRPGs to explore the many stories within the setting of Sublime County. The Sublime fantastical forest world ruled by an entity known as the Stranger. This episode uses Dream Investigator by Nathan Lurz to explore the horror of Clinical Trials, corporate intrusion on privacy, and the "War on Terror" through the perspective of a doctor, a patient, and the intelligence agent being asked to spy on them.