Redwood Bureau – “TRICKSTER” (RBP 0141_2)

Host: Eeriecast Network | Lead Voice: Josh Tomar as Agent Conroy
Release Date: December 6, 2025

Episode Overview

This harrowing episode revisits and dramatically expands the leak of Redwood Bureau Report 0141 - “Trickster”, a catastrophic containment case. Narrated through official interrogations and leaked firsthand accounts, Agent Conroy reveals the horrifying details of what happened during and after the breach of an entity dubbed “the Trickster.” The episode explores the Bureau’s callous methods, procedural failures, and the chilling unknowability of the Trickster itself. As the body count rises and a new creature emerges, listeners are left questioning the true nature of supernatural threats and the hubris of those who claim to “contain” them.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Background & The Bureau’s Ethos

• [02:23] Agent Conroy recounts the initial containment of RBP 0141, a case shrouded in mystery from the beginning:

  “For an entity with such mysterious abilities, the Bureau seemed to contain it almost immediately. In fact, I'd say it pretty much went willingly.” — Agent Conroy

• The Bureau weaponized the containment’s dangers, assigning “problem agents” to guard the cell just as the entity’s predatory cycle was set to recur, effectively using the entity as a means of disposing of unwanted personnel.
• Despite years of agents disappearing every three months (“just a glitch and a gap in the roster”), the Bureau failed to truly understand or neutralize the Trickster.

2. Agent Hartwell’s Transfer & First Encounter

• [05:39] Agent R. Hartwell, newly diagnosed with terminal cancer and recovering from a failed mission, is reassigned away from fieldwork to containment duty as a supposed act of “dignity.”
• [10:11] Hartwell’s post is clinically sterile and forbidding:
  • “Do not make verbal contact. Do not gaze directly through the viewport. Report all anomalous sensations immediately.” — Posted Protocol
• [12:56] Hartwell experiences a direct psychic assault:

  “The feeling hit, it was like the hallway itself noticed me all at once. … The voice was inside my head, but it wasn't my inner voice or my thoughts. It was a pressure that arranged itself into words.” — Agent Hartwell

  • [13:58] The Trickster’s “Rejection”

    “Send another that isn’t broken. I have no use for broken things.” — Trickster (via Agent Conroy’s narration)

    • The entity spares him, apparently detecting his illness and dismissing him as “already trash.”
    • Bureau medical staff classify this as a “rejection,” not a communication. Hartwell feels lucky—he has survived where so many have vanished.

3. Security Supervisor Rourke’s Testimony – Breach and Carnage

• [16:24] In an internal review, Supervisor Caleb Rourke details the outbreak.
• [19:32] On Hartwell’s Ejection:

  “He took one shift in the chair outside that door, and whatever's behind the steel told him he was broken and to send somebody else. … That was the first time I ever saw it force someone out. So I guess you could say that's when the deviations started.” — Rourke

• [21:12] The first disappearance during the incident is classic Trickster: flicker of static, staff simply gone, but visual artifacts leave the impression of something watching.
  • “If I hadn't spent so much time on the Ozark file, I might have missed it. … half obscured, was a shape that looked too much like a face to be a coincidence.” — Rourke
• [22:11] The cell’s dead video feed comes alive, showing a chilling, shifting lattice of human bodies:
  • “Bodies tangled into three dimensional lattice… jaws gaping open. A whole scaffolding of human wreckage hanging in a dark that had no floor. Every eyelid was gone and every eye open.” — Rourke, 35:45
• [36:28] The Trickster reveals itself—now not alone. From the writhing mass, a new humanoid emerges:
  • “If you squinted, it was a person, roughly the right outline, but the details were wrong … like an AI's poor rendition of what a person should look like.” — Rourke, 37:23
• [47:09] The violence escalates:
  • “Then it flung him against the wall with such force that the concrete cratered on impact. His body didn't just break—it detonated.” — Rourke, 47:09
  • “The Trickster’s grin never left as it looked directly to the camera and bounced his body around like a puppet, lifting him to the lens for us to see.” — Rourke, 52:02

4. The Failure Unfolds: Massacre & Mass Escape

• [49:50–57:48] Trickster and its new “offspring” begin slaughtering staff across the facility.
• Notable Moments:
  • “The small one waded into the mess after, tugging and twisting at the bodies like it was trying to see how many ways joints could turn before they broke.” — Rourke, 53:10
  • “A hand the size of a shovel coming down on the closest guard's head and taking it off in one wet, crushing gesture.” — Rourke, 56:39
  • Rourke himself narrowly survives, lapsing into unconsciousness after a brutal physical and psychic attack. He notes being stared down by both Trickster and its fledgling, sharing a silent, chilling communion.

5. Aftermath & Broader Implications

• [59:27] Agent Conroy closes by lambasting the Bureau’s perpetual ignorance:
  • “For all the bodies, all the missing staff, all the years of steady sacrifices, the Bureau still cannot tell you what the Trickster actually is. … They don't know why a dying man with cancer wasn't worth taking, but a supervisor with a clean bill of health was worth sparing.”
• Multiple patterns emerge:
  • The Bureau’s containment may not have ended the regional disappearances attributed to the Trickster; there’s evidence that another entity was active before and while RBP0141 was sealed underground.
  • Now multiple predatory beings may be loose again and “competition” rather than containment is the true state of things.
  • “If you live near or in the Ozarks, this is the time to move. … this is only getting started.” — Conroy, 62:40

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Send another that isn’t broken. I have no use for broken things.” — Trickster (via Conroy/Hartwell, 13:58)
• “You have the right to know.” — Agent Conroy, 01:45
• “We had a door and a number and a routine, and we mistook those for control because it made them feel good.” — Rourke, 18:20
• “A whole scaffolding of human wreckage … every eyelid was gone and every eye open.” — Rourke, 35:45
• “If you lay the timelines over each other, a nasty pattern shows up. Whatever was hunting in those woods before the Bureau showed up didn’t stop when the Trickster was contained.” — Agent Conroy, 61:00
• “For all the bodies … the Bureau still cannot tell you what the Trickster actually is.” — Agent Conroy, 59:27

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:23] — Agent Conroy’s overview of the Trickster project and the Bureau’s internal rot
• [05:39] — Agent Hartwell’s reassignment and his first, terrifying psychic encounter
• [13:58] — The Trickster rejects Hartwell; unique “spared” event
• [19:32] — Supervisor Rourke on Hartwell and initial deviations from routine
• [21:12] — Disappearance of staff, video anomalies
• [22:11] — Horrific body lattice footage and the emergence of a new entity
• [36:28] — The Trickster & “offspring” breach and begin slaughter
• [49:50] — Onset of mass casualties, agents slaughtered
• [59:27] — Aftermath and Agent Conroy’s warning to the public

Tone & Language

The episode maintains a tense, clinical, and exhausted tone. Testimonies are dry, often blackly humorous, but always tinged with trauma and fatalism. Language is precise, rich with procedural detail, and viscerally descriptive when recounting horror and violence.

Conclusion

“TRICKSTER” is a viscerally terrifying, deeply atmospheric account of a containment experiment gone disastrously wrong. The structure—braiding post-incident interviews, real-time logs, and Agent Conroy’s rebel narration—emphasizes both the humanity and the profound insignificance of the Bureau’s operatives when facing forces they neither understand nor control. The episode’s closing questions explicitly challenge the Bureau’s methods and the morality of its leaders, as well as hinting at greater supernatural threats now unleashed. Anyone interested in cosmic horror, conspiracy, and the limits of bureaucratic control will find “TRICKSTER” essential, if deeply unsettling, listening.

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