Enter The House Between: "Love Conducted Unto One Death"

 

 

The third episode of Enter The House Between: "Love Conducted Unto One Death." 

Meet TJ Crabtree!

Meet TJ, played by the charismatic Chris Martin!

 

T.J. Crabtree is royalty!!

 

Or at least he thinks he is…

 

T.J is Travis Junior, and the son of Travis Crabtree, a former smart house denizen. As you may know, Travis is President of the United States, and he’s much too busy trying to reconstitute reality to keep an eye on his wayward son.

 

Well, who does keep an eye on TJ, then?   

 

His mom, maybe?   

 

Who is his mom?

 

These are questions that have yet to be answered.  But one thing is for certain: TJ lives in a universe in which he is always right, always rich, and always pursuing his own…fun.

 

TJ’s real wants and motives are unknown at present, but he appears to be an indulged, entitled playboy used to living the high life in a smart hub, in Sector 7. 

 

You can hear TJ in (delightful and dastardly) action in this week’s episode of Enter the House Between, “Shadow Self.”

 

 

Chris Martin met Alicia and the rest of The House Between crew while filming their inaugural season back in 2006. Little did he know that 15 years later, he would be married to Alicia and playing TJ in the show. Now, Enter the House Between and all of its lovely denizens have become a larger part of his family. When Chris isn’t finding new ways to get TJ into trouble, he enjoys dancing, spending time with his 3 boys, and doing the next crazy workout with his F3 buddies. Chris is currently the VP of sales for a software company in Charlotte, NC and has a side business making disc golf discs through TOBU Technology.

Episode #2: "Shadow Self"

 

 The second installment of the new full-cast audio drama, Enter The House Between: "Shadow Self."

Meet Sgt. Brick

Meet Sergeant Brick!

Brick is a man of action, and of few words.  

In the reality of our denizens in Enter The House Between, Brick was sent on a mission to the furthest smart house ever encountered:  "The Dark Place."  

His mission there was to help re-constitute consensus reality and install a mysterious device called "the Loop."

Unbeknownst to Brick, the Loop was a Trojan Horse, a method of insidious mind control. When he learned the truth, Brick abandoned his mission,  and joined up with Astrid, Bill, Theresa, Arlo and the rest to destroy the device and escape from the authorities.

Now, Brick protects the other denizens wherever they go, and continues to live by his own code of ethics. He follows orders, but only the right orders.  

A solid and stolid voice of reason and calm in even the most dangerous situation, Brick is the last line of defense for the denizens, and as our season starts, finds himself "babysitting" the newest denizen, the sarcastic, trouble-making TJ.

Brick is played by Craig Eckrich, who joined the cast in 2007 during the original web series run. His no-nonsense, meat and potatoes approach to the character of Sgt Brick was immediately beloved by cast, crew, and audience alike. Behind the scenes, he keeps everyone in stitches; Craig shares this talent for witty banter as part of his professional work in public outreach.

Listen to Sgt. Brick in action in the first episode of Enter The House Between:

Meet Bill Clark

 

Dr. William T. Clark, or Bill, is a guy who has everything going for him.  

 

Or more accurately, he did…

 

Captain of his high school swim team, a student at M.I.T., a decorated war hero in the Iraq War, and a married man with two daughters, Samantha, and Katie, Bill seemed to be living the American dream in the early 2000’s.

 

But his work changed his life in a way that Bill could never have anticipated.  

 

While working at the Department of Defense with his brother, Sam, Bill had access to top secret government files about America’s new enemy. 

That enemy wasn’t terrorism, but rather global climate change and the impending end of affordable energy. Intelligence agencies predicted mass flooding, millions of refugees, riots, collapse of infrastructure, famine, and starvation from lack of resources.

 

To that end, Bill – ever the scientist -- created Project Habitat. Hoping to save his family and his country, he designed a habitat called a smart house.

It was a high-tech dwelling to be powered not by conventional or even alternative energy, but rather via quantum mechanics. Basically, the smart house (controlled by an artificial intelligence called a “lar.”) would bring in energy, food, resources -- anything -- from another reality in the Quantumsphere, a process accounted for by the Many Worlds Theory. The idea was that the things Americans needed wouldn’t come from nowhere, but rather, would be acquired in any one of a trillion alternate universes or realities where those supplies already existed. It was a transfer from one quantum reality to another.

 

By mysterious circumstances, Bill has ended up living in one of his own smart houses, separated from his family, though he possesses no memory how he arrived there. Also quite unexpectedly, Bill finds himself in love with another denizen in the house: Astrid.  

 

Forever hoping to reconnect with his family, Bill is also haunted by the fact that the smart houses – his invention designed to stave off disaster – is responsible for the holocaust that fractured consensus reality in the first place.

 

The stalwart Bill Clark is portrayed in Enter the House Between by Tony Mercer. Tony gets pulled away from editing and sound design two or three times a year to say words. He sincerely hopes you like the words...

 

Experience more of Bill’s story, and Tony’s performance, in the first episode of Enter The House Between.

Episode 01: "The Oneness Intended for Us All"

 

The day has arrived!  

My new audio drama podcast, Enter The House Between, launches its first episode, "The Oneness Intended for Us All," today.

The sci-fi, full-cast audio series is available for your listening pleasure, on Spotify, Amazon Music, iTunes, and all other major music distributors. 

The episodes are also available on YouTube, and our series website, Enter the House Between.

I humbly ask you to give the episode a listen, and if you like it, let me know. Like and subscribe, and add it to your playlist.

We have an exciting season in store! (And episode #2 drops next Wednesday).

Enter The House Between: Arlo

At just 19 years old, Arlo (no known last name) is one of the most mysterious denizens of the smart house and Enter The House Between.  

As a child, his family died during a freak tornado, and since then, Arlo has exhibited obsessive compulsive behaviors regarding belongings, as well as ownership of his kitchen in the house at the end of the universe, the colloquial name for the smart house he inhabited for a time.

 

Arlo is typically seen in his black leather jackets, jeans, black fingernail paint, and earrings. There is a naïve, innocent quality about this young man, but he also learns, with the other denizens, of his dangerous, violent anger. That anger caused him, as a baby, to manifest the tornado that ripped apart his family.

            

Alone among the denizens he lives with, Arlo possesses the ability to operate the house functions and manifest objects without interface with instrumentation or the household lar.  For a time, he kept his fact secret from the other denizens, until his abilities were needed to help them during crises.  Arlo became more adept at controlling his abilities after encountering a mysterious old man named Thomas, who taught him how to mentally “remove” and “add” ingredients to the world around him.  At one point, Arlo also manifested his worst nightmares, including a fearsome clown figure, Vinny Coto.

 

As Enter the House Between begins, Arlo is in a romantic relationship with Theresa Melita, who is helping him control his rage, so that an incident like the tornado does not recur.

 

Arlo is portrayed in the series by Jim Blanton. Jim is a swashbuckler at heart, though he is not onboard with the piracy with which the term is often associated.  Instead, he has opted for a life path filled with yoga, hiking, podcasting, etc., all of which remarkably provide the endless series of adventures he has sought out by accident or design. He has also recently discovered a love of stationary rowing, make of that what you will. He is not particularly afraid of tornadoes but maintains a healthy respect for their destructive power.

Finally, here is a top-secret communication intercept from the T.R.A. regarding Arlo: