Call of Cthulhu: Loki's Gift - Part 1
The first part of our actual play of the Call of Cthulhu scenario, Loki's Gift
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Descend into madness with us as our cast of three authors swap pens for dice in the first part of this Call of Cthulhu scenario.
"I must know why my son took his own life."
When Lord Gladstone calls three hardy investigators to his London mansion on a cold rainy evening in October 1896, they awaken old scars - and create new ones. What was the music that Charles Gladstone was working on before his death, and why is it so unsettling?
Cast:
- Tariq Ashkanani (author of The Midnight King) as Donovan Ramsbottom III
- Nicholas Binge (author of Dissolution) as Rev. Tobias Ashford
- David Goodman (author of A Reluctant Spy) as Lord Wilbur Linklater
- Marco Rinaldi as your Keeper of Arcane Lore
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This is a playthrough of Loki's Gift from the Cults of Cthulhu book from Chaosium.
Music from Monument Studios
Sound FX from Syrinscape
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Author/Cast Member/Co-host
Tariq Ashkanani is an award-winning Scottish crime author. His first novel, Welcome to Cooper, was released back in 2021 and won the Bloody Scotland Debut Award. It was also nominated for the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the CWA New Blood Dagger.
His novel The Midnight King picked up the McIlvanney Award for best Scottish crime book of the year at Bloody Scotland.
He has also started an Edinburgh-set crime series starring Callie Munro - a female Private Investigator who has to contend with a serial killer in her first outing, The Night Watcher.
His latest novel is The Hollow Boys. A small Appalachian town is thrown into disarray when two boys go missing, presumed drowned — only for one to suddenly reappear ten months later…
When he's not writing, he's working the day job as a solicitor or recording Page One - The Writer's Podcast, where he interviews writers of all kinds and dive into their journey to publication. Give it a listen!
Author/Cast Member
David Goodman is an award-winning, multi-genre Scottish author. His debut novel A RELUCTANT SPY won the 2025 McDermid Debut Award and Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and was optioned for television by Carnival Films. The sequel SOLITARY AGENTS was longlisted for the 2026 McIlvanney Prize.
His SF debut, SHARDS OF STARLIGHT, as David W. Goodman, is forthcoming in Autumn 2027 from Solaris. He also has several published short SF stories and novelettes.
Author/Cast Member
Nicholas Binge is a bestselling author and screenwriter. He writes speculative thrillers that blend big sci-fi concepts with psychological horror, as well as crime and thriller novels under the pseudonym Nick Brucker, with his crime debut White Smoke set to release in 2027.
In 2023, his breakout novel Ascension was a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick, finalist for the Goodreads' Choice Awards and Ignotus Award, and named a ‘best book of the year’ by Vulture, Goodreads, The LA Times, and The Sunday Times. His sophomore novel, Dissolution, was hailed as one of the best thrillers of 2025 by The New York Times and other leading outlets, and was followed swiftly by the critically acclaimed novellas Extremity and Abyss.
His work has been, or is being, translated into over 30 languages and several of his novels are in active development for either film or TV. Notably, Dissolution is being adapted into a major motion picture by Sony Pictures, with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Birdbox) penning the script, and White Smoke is being adapted into a prestige TV series by A24, with Benedict Cumberbatch starring in the lead. Ascension and Extremity are also in active development for film and TV, respectively. He is also creating and writing Understudy, a TV show for Netflix, alongside Steven Yeun, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller.
Binge has lived across Asia and Europe — from Singapore to Switzerland to Hong Kong —before settling in the UK, where he writes and co-hosts the Binge Reading Book Club podcast. Beyond fiction, he has wr… Read More