D.U.M. - The Department of Unsolved Mysteries · Tablestory

Ep. 8 - Everything's A Pickle

December 24, 2025·2 hr 36 min·5 clips
It's a detailed log of everything I ever did every single day during the entirety of my employment as a surveillance operative.
A supernatural mystery unfolds when a player character discovers everyone has vanished from the office. Through careful investigation and strange discoveries - an ancient cursed spell book containing detailed genealogical surveillance spanning generations, mystical tarot cards, and a horrifying realization that the book details their entire life - the character realizes they are trapped in a supernatural scenario with void entities blocking dimensional escape.

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A loose, dice-driven mystery sharpens into one unnerving glance at something in the dark.

"Everything's A Pickle" keeps D.U.M.'s shaggy improvised mystery alive by letting table chatter and dice trouble sit right beside the scare. A success comes with an omen, and the mood turns from joking about rolls to that awful moment when someone looks into the room they were…

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Press play if you want an improvised mystery that keeps tripping over itself.

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