Gauntlet Video Roundup - August 14, 2020

Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet Hangouts video roundup! Enjoy these recordings of online games organized through Gauntlet Hangouts and the Gauntlet RPG Community. These recorded sessions represent only a portion of the selection of games available every week, and anyone is welcome to join the fun! If you'd like to play or watch more games like these, check out the links and information at the bottom of the post.

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Star Wars Saturday

Bounty of the Week (Session 2)
Rich Rogers runs for David Miessler-Kubanek, Greg G., and Will H
The crew of the Wraith board the space station Port Jericho and make some trouble. They capture a bounty and some droids, and take out a Tapani noble in the process.

TGI Thursday

Veil'd Fantasy: Sects in the City (Session 1)
Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Jesse A., and Steven Watkins
Our protagonists hit the streets in search of jobs and coin, but things take a turn when demons sabotage a textile works, nearly killing them.

Veil'd Fantasy: Sects in the City (Session 2)
Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Jesse A., Josh H, and Steven Watkins
While three of the group confront a haggard noble about who is targeting him, our Orcish cook follows his demon's commands and steals a sinister pet carrier from a lurking tengu.

Gauntlet Comics

Apocalypse World 2e: Apocalypse Angels (Session 1 of 4)
Sawyer Rankin runs for Bethany H., Jim Likes Games, John Campbell, and Kyle H.
We set up the slice of Chain's End we're at. The Apocalypse Angels ride into the world and find...trouble. Trouble is definitely brewing. With the way people are having to set up alliances and to try and get information things are already going badly. Let's hope it doesn't get much worse without heroic intervention.

Apocalypse World 2e: Apocalypse Angels (Session 2 of 4)
Sawyer Rankin runs for Bethany H., Jim Likes Games, John Campbell, and Kyle H.
Our Angels learn more of what is happening. Swan's Song is being protected by American Empire soldiers while Freehold is housing a secretive Nazi Assassin. How do our Angels keep the peace and fight neofascism? Tune in to find out!

Gauntlet Hangouts

Apocalypse World 2e: The Outlands (Session 1 of 5)
Sawyer Rankin runs for Jo Zantek, Joel N., Kyle H., and Steven S.
We set up our beautiful world of wonders and begin with a lovely tea ceremony that is interrupted by drug addled greed. Slowly the ruler of our hold begins to pick up Henry the 8th vibes by threatening to off his current wife and had eyes on our precious Skinner! The Battlebabe and Faceless think it's easy to kill a Baron and with the Hocus helping it is accomplished swimmingly. The grateful "Widow" Bach throws a celebration for her new coronation and learns that tactics will be desperately needed to keep everything together.

ALIEN: The Hunt (Session 2 of 5)
Jason Zanes runs for Alun R., Paul Rivers, and Will H
Surprise, surprise. Our band of hunters discover that they've been caught in Weyland-Yutani's treacherous web. In the dark places, they find something rather unpleasant.

Beam Saber: Human Gravity (Session 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Bethany H., Lara Boerth-Dryden, Michael G. Barford, and Rob Ruthven
What should be a textbook mission (retrieve the corpse of a fallen soldier) turns chaotic as vendettas rear their ugly heads and the Recon Squad finds themselves swamped by the forces surrounding them. JD learns of a plot to steal their home, Verb connects with the strange technology of the Church, Crux unleashes hell on the enemy and Naga tries to put their rival down.

Ultraviolet Grasslands: Season 6 - In the Shadow of the Near Moon (Session 2 of 3)
Horst Wurst runs for Abe Lincoln Jr., Dennis Matheson, Nathan Harrison, and Puckett
Glass Bridge

BALIKBAYAN: Taking Back Earth (Session 4)
Jamila R. Nedjadi runs for Gerrit Reininghaus, Max Kämmerer, SalamanderJames, and Will
In this session the hammer comes down. Godric pushed too far with his psychic powers and now he has fallen into CORP hands. It gets worse from there as the plans of the CORP unfold in earnest, in a way that will shake the city down all the way to its heart. The revolution will begin in earnest, in violence and desperation. But above it all, the song of love and yearning breaks through it all.

Apocalypse World 2e: Outlands (Session 2 of 5)
Sawyer Rankin runs for Brandon, Jo Zantek, Kyle H., and Steven S.
Our lovely weirdos meet a new weirdo who had been thought dead by most. His war vehicle makes a great alliance with the gang and they go to give Baron Zenko his divorce gift: Who will come out on top when an all out war is brought to bear?

Hearts of Wulin: Measure of the Soul - Season 2 (Session 2)
Jamila R. Nedjadi runs for Darold Ross, Joel N., Maria M., and Sherri
Strings of the heart connect our heroes, complex, intricate, but strong. They all prepare themselves for the difficult journey ahead: descending into Hell itself. They must find Crane of the Woods and stop her before she claims all of the power of hell for herself and completely destroys the city above. Feelings will surge and emotional truths surface, before we find ourselves at the gate of hell itself.

3:16 Carnage Amongst the Stars: Oscar Sector (Session 1 of 4)
Donogh runs for Anders, Jim Likes Games, Pawel S., and Puckett
The databanks of the wrecked Damocles gave them the coordinates of Holbein, where reports indicate the aliens have been genetically modified...even if their early encounters are a breeze, the Troopers quickly find these feline displacer aliens a tough challenge - trenches or not!

Trophy Gold: The Source of True Purpura (Session 2 of 4)
Sam Zimmerman runs for Dan Pucul, David L., and Kyle H.
Kiva and Orlen are joined by the antiquarian Masero in this second session of The Source of True Purpura. Unfortunately my internet died after our first break, so we had to cut the session short after only 30 minutes of play. Hopefully next week we can enjoy the full session!

Leverage: Hustler's Convention (Session 2 of 4)
David Morrison runs for Diana Moon, Jim Likes Games, Lowell Francis, and Philip Rogers
It's ComVention 2020, the foremost comics convention on the West Coast, and the crew have been enlisted to steal back legendary superhero Lady Danger. Adora dabbles in cosplay, Sasha helps out behind the scenes, Lenny leads a death-defying chase and Eun Jung takes on a starring role.

Spire: Shadow Operations - How To Steal A Body
Leandro Pondoc runs for Donogh, Horst Wurst, and Steven S.
It seems quite straightforward: break into a morgue in the Spire's Necropolis, relieve it of the body of a drow noble and deliver it to a temple of Charnel for a proper sending. But with a dead mortician, several interloper guards, strange temperature changes and voices crawling along the walls, it may prove a harder task than expected.

Better The Devil Who Serves You (Session 2)
Jamila R. Nedjadi runs for David Morrison, Joel N., Sam Zimmerman, and Sherri
In this session we begin our service day in earnest. A fortune teller comes by the cafe, could they help our devil butlers find love and connection? Devilish shenanigans occur and we generally have a cozy and sweet time. Miss Bond seeks perfection but needs the power of friendship to see her through, Vel almost ends up engaged, K'vira struggles to contain her full power, and Jel finds out how to make the best bread pudding!

Gauntlet Campaigns

Keepers of the Cards: Our Magical School (Session 1)
Jamila R. Nedjadi runs for Darold Ross, David Schultz, Joel N., and Sherri
Our Keepers of the Cards find the time to take a good look at the mystery before them, get caught up in classroom magic, and face off their first colossal creature of magic! ALSO WE GET INTO THE MAGICAL ROBOTS.

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