“Chris, you’re a monster.”

Join us for spooky trivia games that test your escape room knowledge and scary stories to tell in the dark. Peih-Gee takes over hosting duties from David to present a ghostly and entertaining episode with guests Tommy Honton, and Anne & Chris Lukeman.

We learn about things like mummy brown and the origins of Halloween, a unique trick or treating tradition in the midwest, and a video game called Sanity’s Requiem, which gaslit its players into going mad. Play along with us on The Price is Fright, where we guess the number of escape rooms in the world with certain words in the title, such as “zombie” or “asylum.” And you don’t want to miss Chris’ terrifying tale of a group of friends who wander into an escape room and leave haunted with a mystery they’ll never figure out.

This is a special seasonal episode, and we’ll return to our usual format next week. We hope you have fun playing along on our Halloween Spooktacular Special. Happy Hauntings!

Thank You to Our Sponsors

We are immensely grateful to our sponsors this season: Morty App, Buzzshot, and COGS. We truly appreciate your support of our mission to promote and improve the immersive gaming community.

Topics Discussed in this Episode

• [4:02] Peih-Gee hosts Halloween trivia with questions ranging from pumpkin spice to mummy brown.
• [14:17] Tommy shares a story about a St. Louis trick-or-treating tradition involving jokes.
• [17:22] Chris and Anne prepared a game called “The Price is Fright” where we guess how many escape rooms in the world, as listed on Morty, contain certain words like “cabin” or “zombie.”
• [30:30] Peih-Gee hosts her game, “Even Monsters Need Love,” where the guests must guess the monster from their dating profile.
• [37:11] Tommy tells us about a video game called Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, which messes with the player’s mind, including making it seem like the volume was changing or there’s a fly on the screen.
• [40:18] Peih-Gee challenges the guests with her last game “B-Sides,” where they must figure out if the title is an escape room or horror B-movie.
• [47:05] Chris tells us a terrifying tale about a couple of friends who decided to play an escape room… 
• [56:09] Anne and Chris tell us about their new escape room and some goodies they have prepared for holiday shoppers.
• [57:20] Tommy tells us about his new position teaching the art of escape room design to college students. 
• [1:04:13] Tommy tells us a bonus story about a mysterious door he discovers at his escape room, Stash House.

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• REPOD Season 1, Episode 4: Escape Room Storytelling Through Spectacle, CU Adventures Anne & Chris Lukeman
• REPOD Season 3, Episode 7: Adrenaline Mapping and Escape Room Design with Tommy Honton, creator of Stash House
• REA Review
  • Stash House
  • CU Adventures in Time & Space:
    • Calling All Villains
    • The Wizard’s Curse
    • Game Night
    • Revenge of the Cabin
    • Solve Our Shirts: Treasure Trove of Pirates Cove
    • Solve Our Shirts: Escape from the Maze of the Minotaur

Guests: Terrified Tommy Honton, Craven Chris Lukeman, and Apparition Anne Lukeman

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