Dubious Creatures Presents

Cowboy-ism: Kick Up a Row - To create a disturbance 

Content Warnings: Language, Burning, Abusive Relationships

Episode Description: The coterie’s first impression of the Church of Caine goes about as well as you’d expect. Their sacrament reveals to Crowe a truth she’d long been denying…

Cowboy-ism: Gospel Mill - A church

Content Warnings: Language, Forced Blood Draining

Episode Description: All roads lead to St. Francis Garcés Church, where Kindred and kine alike are gathering - for very different reasons.

Content Warnings: Graphic Violence/Gore, Death of a Parent, Death of a Child, Torture, Posioning, Animal Death, Mentions of SA

Cowboy-ism: By the Skin of Your Teeth - Narrowly avoiding a dilemma 

Content Warnings: Language, Kidnapping, Mind Control, Forced Blood Draining

Episode Description: Raleigh decides the fate of Olivia Lemarque, and the results leave no-one feeling good about themselves. Crowe pitches her sire’s half-baked plan, and Jeremy makes himself a promise.

Cowboy-ism: Disremember - Forget or choose to forget

Content Warnings: Language, Abusive Relationships, Gore, Forced Blood Draining

Episode Description: Raleigh gets an unwanted guest in her room at the Palmdale, triggering a confrontation that’s been years in the making. Meanwhile, Sebastián is up to his usual tricks, much to everyone but Crowe’s apprehension…

Content Warnings: Graphic Violence/Gore, Death of a Parent, Death of a Child, Torture, Posioning, Animal Death, Mentions of SA

Cowboy-ism: In For It - Engaged in a thing from which there is no retreating

Content Warnings: Language, Mind Control, Abusive Relationships  

Episode Description: They have a time, and they have a place. Now all the coterie needs is to keep themselves busy these next few hours. Unfortunately, a new problem rears its ugly head up on Feldspar Hill…

Cowboy-ism: Skulduggery - Rascality, treachery

Content Warnings: Language, Misgendering

Episode Description: Are you a S.T.U.D.? Nick directs our Kindred towards a Nosferatu who could get them closer to another item they require.

Content Warnings: Gore, Graphic Violence, Kidnapping, Vigilante Justice, Sexual Content, Blood. Dementia

Cowboy-ism: Little End of the Horn - To come away from a situation at a disadvantage

Content Warnings: Language

Episode Description: Having finally caught a moment to breathe, the coterie learns just how far out into the deep end they are.

Cowboy-ism: Lead Poisoning - Shot, usually fatally

Content Warnings: Language, Abusive Relationships, Graphic Violence

Episode Description: Crowe and Ambella have themselves a private conversation, which goes anything but to plan for either of them.

Content Warnings: Gore, Graphic Violence, Kidnapping, Vigilante Justice, Sexual Content, Blood. Dementia

Join Aubrey and Misfit as they talk about the first half of the book, in it we talk about Unique Vampire Mythology, what Clan some of the vampires in this book are, and our love of red flags. 

Cowboy-ism: Euchered - To be outwitted or suckered into something

Content Warnings: Language, Graphic Violence, Death, Forced Blood Draining

Episode Description: The dust finally settles as the constabulary arrives, but revelations from Ash’s sire don’t bode well for the coterie’s future…

Cowboy-ism: Hellabaloo - Riotous noise and confusion

Content Warnings: Language, Graphic Violence, Death, Forced Blood Draining

Episode Description: Anarch gangsters, strung-out co-eds, a bunch of pissed-off bikers armed to the teeth, and our coterie is quite literally caught in the crossfire. Just another night in Sixgun City.

Content Warnings: Alcohol, Amputation, Animal Death, Anxiety, Attempted Murder, Blood, Drugs, Misogyny, PTSD, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Spiders, Violence

Cowboy-ism: Fix One’s Flint - To settle a matter 

Content Warnings: Language, Drug Use

Episode Description: The coterie heads to the near-derelict San Arroyo Switchyard to meet up with the Anarchs, but they’re not the only ones about to crash their party…

Cowboy-ism: Snake Oil - A worthless or fraudulent remedy

Content Warnings: Language, Addiction, Forced Blood Draining, Kidnapping

Episode Description: Half of our Kindred haggle with the mercurial Curatrix, while the other half deal with a twitchy Vietnam veteran going through serious withdrawal. Both are going to want something in exchange for their help.

Content Warnings: Alcohol, Amputation, Animal Death, Anxiety, Attempted Murder, Blood, Drugs, Musogyny, PTSD, Sexism, Sexual Assult, Spiders, Violence

Cowboy-ism: Cut a Swathe - To make an appearance, either good or bad

Content Warnings: Language, Forced Blood Draining

Episode Description: In their search for the artifacts, the coterie decides to divide and conquer. Raleigh, Aster, and Crowe break into the local Historical Society only to come face-to-face with its guardian…

Cowboy-ism: Blatherskite - A blustering, noisy, talkative fellow

Content Warnings: Language, Mentions of Addiction

Episode Description: As the coterie convalesces, Aster reconnects with her ex, Raleigh avoids the law, and Ash runs into an old acquaintance who is surprisingly in the know…

Content Warnings: Depictions of Death, Sexual Content, Graphic Violence, Substance Use, Death by Suicide, Kink/Fetish Content, Horror Elements, Nonconsensual Drugging, Hard Kink/Edgeplay, Consensual NonConsent

Cowboy-ism: Boot Hill - A graveyard, specifically for those who “died with their boots on”, i.e. were murdered

Content Warnings: Language, Gore, Graphic Violence

Episode Description: Barely escaping thanks to an unlikely savior, the coterie forms a new plan with the help of a strange occultist.

Cowboy-ism: Bucket of Blood - A violence-prone frontier saloon.

Episode Description: A visit to the Roll of Honor results in an unexpected tip and unfortunate casualties. But, nothing can prepare the coterie for what they find in the Wight’s lair…

Content Warnings: Depictions of Death, Sexual Content, Graphic Violence, Substance Use, Death by Suicide, Kink/Fetish Content, Horror Elements, Nonconsensual Drugging, Hard Kink/Edgeplay, Consensual NonConsent

Content Warnings: Drugs, Alcohol, References to Cheating

This week we take a small break from our usual drama to bring you something different. Christmas is here in San Arroyo, Raleigh Asher is here shooting her next film. Can our intrepid players win her heart before she has to leave? Who will get the kiss under the mistletoe?

Cowboy-ism: By Hook or by crook - One way or another, by any way expedient

Content Warnings: Language, Mentions of Addiction, Misgendering

The hunt for Masav begins. The coterie gathers what scant leads they can, even as the reality of their situation comes crashing down on them.

Cowboy-ism: Above One’s Bend - Out of one’s power, beyond reach

Content Warnings: Language, Mentions of Addiction

Our newly-formed coterie spends the night and gets their bearings, and Anselm returns with an ultimatum…

Cowboy-ism: Docity - Quick comprehension, usually used in a negative way. Ex. “He has no docity.”

Content Warnings: Language, Gaslighting

They may have escaped the carnage, but they’re not out of the woods quite yet. Already, other Kindred have plans for our unlucky bunch…

Cowboy-ism: Fandango - A party with lots dancing and excitement

Content Warnings: Language, Violence, Forced Blood Draining, Misgendering

Five young, inexperienced vampires find themselves at an illegal warehouse rave on New Year’s Eve. What could possibly go wrong?

Content Warnings: Language, Violence, Forced Blood Draining, Gore, Depictions of Serious Illness

Her “breakout role” landed her in the middle of nowhere. But, the show must go on…

Content Warnings: Language, Kidnapping, Violence, Death

It was meant to be temporary - a place to lie low, to get her feet under her again…

Content Warnings: Language, Gaslighting, Forced Blood Draining, Depictions of Addiction

He lived his whole life trying to drown the noise out. Then he died, and the noise just got louder…

Content Warnings: Language, Gaslighting, Depictions of Mental Illness, Misgendering

Content Warnings: Language, Violence, Drug Use, Gore, Death

All she wanted was to live free and clear of it all, under the stars…