Gauntlet Hangouts Video Roundup - September 14, 2018

Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet Hangouts video roundup! Don't miss any of the great sessions in the updated playlists and video links below.

​This is a notable week, as it includes Lowell Francis posting his 100th Gauntlet Hangouts video in 2018! You can see the entire list here. Congratulations to Lowell, and to us all!

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Star Wars Saturday

Misspent Youth (Session 2 of 5)
Rich Rogers runs for Keith Stetson, Noella H, Paul Edson, and Steven Watkins
The threat of the Imperial Youth presses the Twi'Lek punks into hard decisions and sends them on the run! Content warning: coercive reproduction.

Gauntlet Sunday

Urban Shadows (Session 2 of 5)
Lowell Francis runs for Darren Brockes, Fraser Simons, Joe Zantek, and Rich Rogers
A stolen book and misplaced blame leads to using a murder house as a sanctuary; this does not go as well as it sounds.

Tragic Tuesday

Cthulhu Dark: The Whole Is Greater
Shane Liebling runs for Asher S., Greg G., and Harry
A handful of Harlem Hellfighters investigate grisly murders in 1918 Saint-Nazaire.

TGI Thursday

Scum and Villainy (Session 2 of 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Barry, Eduardo, and Paul
The crew investigate and ultimately release a jailbroken, murderous AI after building a body for it. But they get paid.

Gauntlet Quarterly

Gauntlet League Wrestling Season 3 (Session 9)
Lowell Francis runs for Alex, Gerwyn Walters, Joe, Matt, Patrick Knowles, and Tyler Lominack
Conspiracies abound, Wolf Backhaus is fired, and Sub-Fahrenheit puts "Mad Dawg" Matthews in the hospital.

The Gaunt Marches

Freebooters on the Frontier: Into the Wild (Session 1 of 3)
Horst Wurst runs for Christo Meid, Pawel S., Sabine V, and Spencer Paskett
An emissary arrives. A burning palanquin. Finding solace in the temple of pain. A two-headed troll floats away. The Zarutu charge. The demon of rage.

Funnel World: Den of Iniquity (Session 2 of 3)
Richard Ruane runs for Andy, James, Josh, and Tony H
There's more strange music, a demonic chapel, movement from the upper floors, and some much-anticipated kissing. Also, flying knives, burning ghosts, and a taxidermied bear.

Indie Schwarze Auge

[DEUTSCH] World of Aventurien: Schatten im Zwielicht (Session 2 von 2)
Gerrit Reininghaus leitet eine Session für Eike, Mathias, Sabine V, und Tina T.
The Shadows in the Twilight hunted a mouse, collected cookies, were the hot takes on a masquerade ball and soon seem to be their own worst enemies.

Gauntlet Hangouts

The Mecha Hack: System Malfunction (Session 2 of 4)
Maria Rivera runs for Asher S., Josh DeGagne, and Leandro Pondoc

The Woodlands (Session 1 of 4)
Yoshi Creelman runs for Asher S., David Rothfeder, Jesse A., and Noella H
Bluebelle [Explorer, Warden, Mouse] leads Otis [Veteran, Warden, Beaver], Morrigan [Sage, Specialist, Black-billed Magpie], and Stone [Recruit, Recruit, Otter] on a "Routine" mission to get supplies, and find out what is really going on.

Monsterhearts 2: Once Again, We Return Season 1 Deluxe Box Set (Session 5 of 5)
Patrick Knowles runs for Alex, David Rothfeder, Lauren, and Ryan M.
Ryan, David, Alex, & Lauren star in this critically acclaimed, thermonuclear floor-filler of a pop smash sensation! This deluxe edition playlist includes the previously unreleased finale episode as well a 2-disc soundtrack for the series. Add this multimedia extravaganza to your collection today!

Monsterhearts 2: Once Again, We Return (It Was Never Going To Be Okay) Season 2 (Session 1 of 4)
Patrick Knowles runs for Alex, David Rothfeder, Lauren, and Ryan M.
We're back to build a new Pantheon - well-used actually, but new to us - in our 2nd run of Once Again. Watch as the series name gets ever longer! Watch Patrick try out a new time-saving Setting Playbook that saves no time! Watch them hang all of their Chekhov's Tragedies on the walls! RIP Nyxie.

Swords Without Master - Remnants: Year 2, Spring
Pat P. runs for Ary Ramsey, Lu Quade, and Tomer Gurantz
The rogues search for the elusive blood lotus within a hidden graveyard.

The Woodlands (Session 2 of 4)
Yoshi Creelman runs for David Rothfeder, Jesse A., Lauren, and Noella H
Bluebelle is resting from illness. Adelle, the chipmunk innkeeper, sends the group looking for her lover Lee. Lindin, an old portmaster beaver, remembers Otis and gives them trouble, while Stone steals a boat. Aroha [Soldier, Warden, Kakapo] mocks Lindin as they sail off. Morrigan joins up and leads the group to find some bandits in the woods with the help of her spider companion, Seance. Will they find Lee? What about the secret he was keeping?

Night Witches Season 2 (Session 3 of 6)
David Rothfeder runs for Bethany H., Donogh, Horst Wurst, and Noella H
The pilots fended off yet another Nazi attack while the upper brass began realizing the inequity between the men's and women's regiments. The fact that the message they got was that the Night Witches will fight off German Panzers with sticks and find a way to win if they need to might be an issue. Of course, destroying their own air fields may further cause a rift with the men's 216th. Content warning: rape survivor, victim blaming, and tragic death.

MR-KR-GR: The Death-Rolled Kingdom (Session 2 of 2)
Tomer Gurantz runs for Lauren, Pawel S., and Sidney
Join Mahi the Agent of Kraching and Panya the Witch of Merating as they continue their search for corpse honey and spirit mangoes, joined by the mysterious Najja the Pilgrim of Bambung, on a journey in the Thousand Thousand Islands, a South-East Asian fantasy world setting being created by Zedeck Siew and Munkao.

Monsterhearts 2: Kingsport 1692 (Session 2 of 4)
Catherine Ramen runs for Darold Ross, David Jay, Dylan R., Leandro Pondoc, and Seraphina Malizia
Episode 2 of our Puritan Witch Trials in Lovecraft Country Monsterhearts game features hauntings, vengeful nightmares, a witches' sabbath, book signings, Jolly Old Scratch, accusations flying, and a heartbreaking farewell.

Pigsmoke: Summer Term (Session 4 of 4)
Tyler Lominack runs for Asher S., Ludovico Alves, and Pawel S.
As Summer nears Fall, our heroic professors confront the secret in the basement and reveal what the future has in store for them (hint, hint..more teaching). Afterward is a very interesting discussion of Pigsmoke as a game and ideas for how to make it better.

Check out all the great videos on The Gauntlet YouTube channel and be sure check out the playlists to catch up on all your favorite Gauntlet Hangouts games. If you'd like to play in games like these, check out the Gauntlet Hangouts Google+ Community where game signups are announced! To support The Gauntlet and Gauntlet Hangouts, please visit the Gauntlet Patreon at https://patreon.com/gauntlet where $7 and up patrons get priority RSVP for Gauntlet Hangouts games. Enjoy, and everyone have a great weekend!