Peeps Unbound

Spoilers ahead!*This article contains spoilers for **Peeps Unbound**. Be warned!*

## Peeps Unbound

### Cast

Adam, Dom, Holly, Laurie, Sully, Tilly, Tom

### Characters

Buck McFadden, Carlton Dreevus Nallsin, Harry Peeps, Ivy Cordova, Nathaniel Fairmont, River Proletariat

### Series

NRB Plays Call of Cthulhu

**Peeps Unbound**, also known as **NRB Play Call of Cthulhu (Ep 2 of 3)**, is the second episode of the NRB Plays Call of Cthulhu series.

**Since these episodes have an overarching narrative structure, the episode guides contain major and minor spoilers.**

"*I've seen them - in the walls! Some are big. Some are even bigger. Some are very small, very small!*"
― Tilly
## Scenario

Continuing from episode 1, it is Halloween Night, 1927. Our players have been invited to the old Tudor manor of Sir George Reek, on the West Sussex/Hampshire border.

Having assembled for dinner, our cast were shocked by the gunshot death of their host just as he was about to announce a discovery that would change their lives. Then, according to our games master, there was lots of horrible business and Holly put her hands into things.

## Characters

As per episode 1:

Dom is the Games Master.

* Nathaniel Fairmont (Adam)
* River Proletariat (Sullivan)
* Harry Peeps (Tilly)
* Ivy Cordova (Holly)
* Carlton Dreevus Nallsin (Laurie)
* Buck McFadden (Tom)

### NPC

* Constable Quinnell, the police constable introduced at the end of Dial GM For Murder. He is diminutive with a 5 o'clock shadow and darting eyes. A clear character assassination of Pete Quinnell.
* Detective Monteur, a French (?) policeman.
* Mr Green, the gardener.
* The Colonel.
* Juliet Reek.
* Thersa/Teri, the maid.

## Notable moments

* Interesting intros from Dom: "Don't worry, you'll have your blond idiot back soon enough. First we have to finish what we started". He does point out that anyone who hasn't watched the first episode should reconsider their priorities somewhat.
* A party heads down to the lake to attend to the generator - Ivy, Nathaniel, River and Harry. There are no weird ulterior motives here.
* Tom rolls a critical success in his first roll of the episode. In a similar calibre, Holly rolls poorly and Ivy walks into a chair.
* There's more to Harry than being a total loser - he knows botany.
* River claims that you can't give anything to Ivy '~~Old~~ Young Butterfingers' Cordova. She'll put her hand through it.
* Any one of them could have murdered Sir George. Apart from Nathaniel. Or Ivy. Or River. Or Harry. It's definitely not Harry.
* Despite Pete Quinnell loving RPGs, he never gets to play. Dom thinks he knows why: "I heard you had a 3 year campaign of D&D where everyone cried at the end - it was that dull." Although he does admit he hardly knows Pete and fully intends to keep it that way.
* Scary Tom is scary and scaring Constable Quinnell. Carlton has been walking over for the entirety of the conversation.
* We hear stories of a witch and people turning strange from Constable Quinnell. Buck is clearly interested.
* The generator group split up. River and Peeps are already looking to be a wonderful duo while Ivy and Nathaniel seem to be indirectly threatening each other through strange facial expressions and implications.
* Nathaniel (who is definitely a priest and not a conman) and Ivy trade unspoken threats and bargaining, with a side of potential blackmail. She's unflappable. He's flapping already.
* River and Harry are smoking joints in the potting shed and see spiders above them. Harry sees Jesus in the spiders. He has also gone indefinitely insane and potentially been possessed.
* Tom can't intimidate Dom, but he will damn well try.
* Buck eats a bit of gammon from the floor. Dom's reaction clearly implies that things are going to be just fine for Buck McFadden.
* Carlton accidentally destroys an antique letter. "Difficult to read."
* Buck and Carlton are planning to steal a yukon from the trophy room. They're interrupted by the Colonel and he's interrupted by a gunshot to the chest with Harry Peeps holding the gun. We're escalating wildly now.
* Nathaniel's hearing things. Ivy's got a gun. We've got character development, folks!
* Buck and the now unpossessed-Harry fight over a big gun. The food poisoning Buck got from drive-by gammon theft may be slowing him down, because he just got his head real broke. Mad Harry is the giga-chad.
* Major Wound gets a salute from the cast - that's adorable.
* The Detective chooses this very moment to interview River and Harry. Adam: "You've just killed a man and you're going to go have a chat with Poirot!" The Detective promises to bring the spiders to justice.
* Carlton is 'rushing' to Buck's aid. Tom: "I feel like 'first-aid' is a general term."
* We know that Sir George's son drowned in the lake. Adam is the only one confused about his age - "A child." Laurie: "... a mere 39 summers". Everyone is very giggly and now Adam can't look Holly in the eye.
* And now Nathaniel is seeing his own child in the window of the house. He sees Pestilence take her with the face of Randall Reek. His sanity is hanging by a thread.
* Dom asks Sullivan for a French roll. Otherwise known as a brioche. The jokes are excellent.
* And now, River tries to speak in French, but the French detective does not understand. No one expected this to be the cliffhanger we end the episode on.

## Trivia

* We pick up exactly where we left off in the last episode, and end with a teaser.
* More Cluedo references:
	+ Mr Green is in reference to the player character Reverend Green in Cluedo, renamed to Mr Green in some copies.