who we are

Stories & Lies is the passion project of a bunch of nerds and one super cool editor. Mat, Taylor, Thomas, and Wes founded the podcast in 2022 and launched our first story at the beginning of 2023. Over the last year, we have brought Mark and Brandon on as more permanent members of our rotating cast. We play Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu scenarios, sometimes in the wrong system for added fun.

Brandon

PLACEHOLDER

Mark

PLACEHOLDER

Mat

Mat plays Fred Fontaine in our show. What started out as trying Dungeons & Dragons years ago out quickly became a main hobby, from D&D to his one true love: Delta Green. Pre-written campaigns like Masks of Nyarlathotep, Curse of Strahd and Impossible Landscapes are his favorite, where he can learn the content, then bend it and twist it as he wishes. In real life, he is a high school teacher with a love of literature and video games.

Taylor

Taylor plays Dorothy Somerset in our show. He facilitates show production and assists with editing some episodes. Outside of the podcast he is a graphic designer, software engineer, and security enthusiast. He is also an illustrator, and a writer, having dabbled in everything from short stories and poetry to full length novels. So far, he has 12 years experience running various game systems, but Delta Green and Pathfinder are his favorites.

Thomas

Thomas serves as the primary Handler (GM) for the show, and plays Morrison for the introduction. He writes, assists with production and publicity, and manages. He majored in Communications and Theater in college. In the real world, he works as an attorney. He has decades of experience as a GM in a variety of systems. His favorites are Vampire: the Masquerade, Call of Cthulhu, and Delta Green. He has prior experience in AP podcasts, featuring in The Great Dane Society (Quests and Chaos) and Redacted Reports.

Wes

Wes plays Willow Keason in our show. He is a computer science expert, and professional nerd, Wes has several years experience playing in and running RPGs, including Pathfinder and Starfinder, among others. Stories & Lies is his first experience with Delta Green, and the Cthulhu mythos in general. He brings an element of realism to our stories through research and real-world knowledge of some of the most grounded elements of Delta Green, such as law enforcement, medicine, and military operations.

Ged

Ged adds all the fun beeps and boops! Serving as the lead editor, he heads most of the production work for each episode, including sound design, music and mixing. Having fallen in love with tabletop gaming around eight years ago, Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, and of course, Delta Green, have emerged as some top picks. He is currently a student studying film and media, and also enjoys making and producing music of his own!

credit where credit is due

Featuring the Voices of

In order of appearance

Story 1: Ladybug

Zakiya Goggins (they/she) as Dr. Nadja Fulani - ZakTheDrak

Vince Kaufman as Matt Carpenter - Black Project Gaming

Sergio as Reginald Fairfield - Mayday Roleplay

Story 2: Painting Darkness

Chris Olsen as Sgt. Damian Randolph - The Chaos Engine Podcast

Lixx as Dr. Cassandra LaBlanc - Lixx.Laugh.Lust on Instagram

Sebastiaan as Harvey Sharpe - Zero Dead Podcast

Zakiya Goggins as Dr. Sam Flores - ZakTheDrak

Story 3: Static

Mark Stone as Dr. D

Sebastiaan as Dr. Friend - Zero Dead Podcast

Story 4: Heaven’s Flame

Mark Stone as Dr. D

The Chaos Engine Crew (Chris, Meescha, Cody, Tyler, Jake, Amber) - The Chaos Engine Podcast

ZeroDead Podcast crew (Luke and Sebastiaan) - Zero Dead Podcast

Lukas / Loluan

Story 5: Dead Letter

Mark Stone as Dr. Dallan

Chris Hamje as Ed Wist - Sorry Honey, I Have to Take This

Zakiya Goggins as Dr. Nadja Fulani

Story 6: Ark-105

WIP

Leighanna as Hariet

Story 7: Days Long Since Decided

WIP

Chris Olsen as Hugo Thompson

Meescha as Ursula Browning

Story 8: Ghost Lights

WIP

Story 9: God’s Teeth - Go Forth

WIP

Story 10: Golden Orchard

WIP

Kimmy Genheimer as Elizabeth Carroll - Black Flare Podcast

Arc Dream Publishing

Our podcast is published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this podcast are © Stories & Lies, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property.

You can find Delta Green: The Roleplaying Game over at Arc Dream’s website. If you enjoy the show, we highly recommend playing Delta Green, Not sure where to start? Arc Dream offers a free quick start guide called the Need to Know, available on DriveThruRPG. This little book contains everything you need to get started playing Delta Green, including rules, characters, and a starter scenario. All you need is a way to roll dice, and maybe a way to take notes.

Special thank you to Rachel Ivey, Arc Dream’s community manager and all around badass, for helping to coordinate the Delta Green content creator community, and facilitating fulfillment for our Dead Letter giveaway!

Chaosium Inc.

Chaosium Inc. are the creators of “Call of Cthulhu” 7th Edition, and publishers of fine books such as the Investigator’s Handbook and the Keeper’s Rulebook, among many others. Chaosium have been leaders in the d100 gaming space for decades. They also have other cool games you can check out.

Scenario Authors

In all cases, scenarios that we use for the show are modified to fit our table by the GM who is running the scenario. We run both modern Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green scenarios, often adapted to use the Delta Green: The Roleplaying Game system. We also write several homebrew scenarios, which we have run in both systems.

Our first story is based on “Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home” published by Stygian Fox in their first book, The Things We Leave Behind. The book is edited by Jeff Moeller, who is also the author of the scenario, and who graciously joined us for an interview after the conclusion of our first scenario. This story is run by Thomas.

The second story is a home brew scenario called “Painting Darkness”, written by Taylor, specifically for the podcast. It may be available as a standalone module one day, but for now lives only in the show. This story is run by Taylor.

The third story, “Static”, is based on Unremembered by Heinrich Moore and published by Chaosium. Our story also includes elements and inspiration from Impossible Landscapes by Dennis Detwiller and published by Arc Dream. This story is the second run by Thomas.

Our first Patreon-exclusive series “Forget Me Not” is based on a story of the same name, written by Brian M. Sammons, also published in The Things We Leave Behind.

The fourth story, “Heaven’s Flame”, is a homebrew scenario created by Mat for the show.

The fifth story, “Dead Letter”, is written by A. Scott Glancy and published by Arc Dream. We started releasing the story right around the time this new version was published, and we worked with Arc Dream and Rachel Ivey to run a giveaway for our listeners, giving away a print copy and a PDF copy of the scenario.

The sixth story, “Ark-105”, is a homebrew scenario written by Thomas Ogas for the show, and run using the Call of Cthulhu rules.

The seventh story, “Days Long Since Decided”, is a homebrew scenario written and run by Taylor, specifically for the show.

The eighth story, “Ghost Lights”, is a homebrew scenario, written and run by Thomas Ogas for the show, but featuring some elements of The Conspiracy and PX Poker Night, both published by Arc Dream.

The ninth story, “Go Forth”, is the first scenario in the campaign collection “God’s Teeth”, written by Caleb Stokes and published by Arc Dream.

The tenth story, “Golden Orchard”, is a homebrew story written and run by Taylor for the show, using Call of Cthulhu system.

Sound and Music

The theme songs we have used in the show include Where the Stories Lie, Sphinx, and The Times by Fifty Dollar Dynasty, from their album Precession. They are a small band out of Texas, and were gracious enough to let us use their music royalty-free. Please support them, and please support your own local music scene. You can find their music on FiftyDollarDynasty.com, and on their Patreon.

We have also used the following songs as intro themes:

The show also features music from Nine Inch Nails, provided under Creative Commons. This includes tracks from The Slip and Ghosts I - IV.

Sound effects and background music for the show are provided by Epidemic Sound and Envato.

Editing and Production is handled by Ged using Adobe Audition, with some episodes produced by Taylor using Logic Pro.

Artwork and Website

Our “DG Crew” illustration (found on the home page) was created by Zakiya, who can be found at: ZakTheDrak.com, or emailed to inquire about commissions.

All podcast cover images, and handouts, are created by Taylor, except where otherwise noted.

The covers for Ark-105 and Ghost Lights were both collaborations between Ged (using 3D modeling software) and Taylor (using Affinity Suite).

The God’s Teeth cover image, and character portraits from Go Forth, were illustrated by Laura Semesky under commission. Check out her artwork (Instagram) and hire her for your own projects (Etsy).

A piece called Curiosity Sigil by Andy Bauman via his studio Cogito Prints was a huge inspiration for the aesthetic feel of Golden Orchard during planning, and remains hung on Taylor’s wall in a beautiful green frame. That piece, and Andy’s work more broadly, can be found on his website.

This website is created and managed by Taylor using Squarespace.