Aug 10, 2026 · 53 min · 14 segments
The Miskatonic Playhouse presents Act 2 of The Overhead Encounter, by Jack TaylorIt’s the summer of 1989, on a humid night on a long and remote stretch of road just off of U.S. Route 431. At the…
T. A. NewmanHostLady BedevireGuestPeteGuestTheTallTomGuestThank you, and welcome back to the Overhead Encounter, where we've arrived at the Overhead Inn, and it seems the Overhead Encounter is true to form and is beginning now, as we have just heard an unearthly noise erupt from the sky.
Let me just take you over to the Overhead Inn, where our players are.
In various stages of getting to bed, nobody's actually fallen asleep apart from our judge who is dreaming the dreams of justice and golf, no doubt.
Four,
send him down for life.
Uh, Jillian, let's go with you.
What do you want to do?
Jillian hears it and immediately jumps up.
She's going to grab, she's got the contents of her backpacker kind of strewn across the bed around her, like a little rat's nest of conspiracy theories.
And she is going to grab her like flannel shirt and her camera and she is just going to run outside.
Young probably hears her door like slam open so hard that it hits the wall.
She just like busts out and like runs out into the parking lot looking up.
Okay.
Uh, Agent Young, what is your reaction to this? This is very peculiar.
Yeah.
Well, at the noise, he stands bolt upright.
He'll pull his gun from his holster and...
A
readied firearm.
Good, good.
Yeah.
Assuming the judge is awake, he'll be like, stay there, stay put.
And he's going to go to the door.
Our judge is fast
Thank you, and welcome back to the Overhead Encounter, where we've arrived at the Overhead Inn, and it seems the Overhead Encounter is true to form and is beginning now, as we have just heard an unearthly noise erupt from the sky.
Let me just take you over to the Overhead Inn, where our players are.
In various stages of getting to bed, nobody's actually fallen asleep apart from our judge who is dreaming the dreams of justice and golf, no doubt.
Four,
send him down for life.
Uh, Jillian, let's go with you.
What do you want to do?
Jillian hears it and immediately jumps up.
She's going to grab, she's got the contents of her backpacker kind of strewn across the bed around her, like a little rat's nest of conspiracy theories.
And she is going to grab her like flannel shirt and her camera and she is just going to run outside.
Young probably hears her door like slam open so hard that it hits the wall.
She just like busts out and like runs out into the parking lot looking up.
Okay.
Uh, Agent Young, what is your reaction to this? This is very peculiar.
Yeah.
Well, at the noise, he stands bolt upright.
He'll pull his gun from his holster and...
A
readied firearm.
Good, good.
Yeah.
Assuming the judge is awake, he'll be like, stay there, stay put.
And he's going to go to the door.
Our judge is fast
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