Aug 24, 2026 · 55 min · 16 segments
The Miskatonic Playhouse presents Act 4 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. NewmanHostT. A. NewmanGuestPeteGuestThank you, and welcome back to act four, the overhead encounter.
I think we're circling the wagons as, in the surrounding hills, the unnerving noise of scavenger birds, hunter birds, alien creatures, reptiles, something that wishes to do harm to our UFO investigators, who are in a truck heading down the road to Widston and the Schubert farm.
Is this correct?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I think-
Yes.
Yeah, if, if we take my cop car and we put the civilians in the truck, and that way if we need to run interference they can carry on driving.
Okay, okay.
I mean, if the keeper says I have one, you're welcome to it.
Tom, stop being so nice to the keeper-
[laughs]
... to tell him things.
Uh, there is no need to deploy the weapon at this point.
Um-
Nice one, Officer Song
... uh, if we've, if we've deci- I assume we decided to hit the road pretty quickly.
Jillian would have insisted on Officer Young sitting in the backseat with her, and she would snag her rucksack from Jensen if he grabbed it, uh, 'cause she wants to try to do some first aid to patch him up a little bit, 'cause he's pretty messed.
Okay, yes.
Let's have some first aid rolls.
I'll be kind.
If you get an extreme first aid roll, I'll get you two hit points back.
Oh.
Oh, that's not great.
Thank you, and welcome back to act four, the overhead encounter.
I think we're circling the wagons as, in the surrounding hills, the unnerving noise of scavenger birds, hunter birds, alien creatures, reptiles, something that wishes to do harm to our UFO investigators, who are in a truck heading down the road to Widston and the Schubert farm.
Is this correct?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I think-
Yes.
Yeah, if, if we take my cop car and we put the civilians in the truck, and that way if we need to run interference they can carry on driving.
Okay, okay.
I mean, if the keeper says I have one, you're welcome to it.
Tom, stop being so nice to the keeper-
[laughs]
... to tell him things.
Uh, there is no need to deploy the weapon at this point.
Um-
Nice one, Officer Song
... uh, if we've, if we've deci- I assume we decided to hit the road pretty quickly.
Jillian would have insisted on Officer Young sitting in the backseat with her, and she would snag her rucksack from Jensen if he grabbed it, uh, 'cause she wants to try to do some first aid to patch him up a little bit, 'cause he's pretty messed.
Okay, yes.
Let's have some first aid rolls.
I'll be kind.
If you get an extreme first aid roll, I'll get you two hit points back.
Oh.
Oh, that's not great.
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