Gauntlet Video Roundup - August 30, 2019

Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet Hangouts video roundup! Listed below are links to recorded sessions of online games played under the Gauntlet Hangouts banner and other games organized through the Gauntlet online RPG community. These recorded sessions represent only a small part of the giant selection of games available every week, and anyone can join in the fun! Details on how to become a part of the community are listed at the end of the post.

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Star Wars Saturday

Apocalypse World Tatooine (Session 4 of 5)
Rich Rogers runs for Bethany H., Joe Zantek, Leandro Pondoc, and Steven Watkins
While Tebbi, Tella, and Sundown complete their run to Mos Eisley for desperately needed supplies, Janela works her way into the good graces of Teemo the Hutt's majordomo to help liberate Mos Shuuta from the Stormtrooper gangs.

Gauntlet Sunday

Kuro (Session 3 of 3)
Lowell Francis runs for Christo Meid, Keith Stetson, and Sherri
The group tries to identify the source behind the recent supernatural outbreaks, leading them to a drowning canal, a haunted bathhouse, and a desperate family's dark bargain.

TGI Thursday

The Sprawl (Session 4 of 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Kurt Potts, Puckett, Steven Watkins, and Tre' Grisby
The team only has six hours to intercept a cargo transport protected by decoys, hidden destinations, and a heavily-armed security team, but what's actually being transported may change everything...

Gauntlet Comics

The Ward: EXTRA (Session 3 of 4)
Jim Likes Games runs for Barry, Dan Pucul, and Sarah J.
The staff of Aescalapeus Hospital run head-on into the super-hero community, treating an injured hero, dealing with the trauma of another, and trying to be heroes themselves with varying degrees of success. Introducing the SPARK custom move.

Indie Schwarze Auge

[DEUTSCH] World of Aventurien: In Liskas Fängen (Session 2)
Gerrit Reininghaus leitet eine Session für Eike K., Horst Wurst, Rye, und Tina T.
We continue to follow our mundane heroes through the Dark Eye classic adventure 'In Liskas Fängen'. The characters survive the tides of the Oblomon delta, become friends with some sapphire turtle hunters and side with the wrong tavern in Keamonmund.

[DEUTSCH] World of Aventurien: Liskas Fänge (Session 3)
Gerrit Reininghaus leitet eine Session für Eike K., Rye, Sabine V., und Tina T.
We met the river king, made an excellent copper kettle, received a wolf amulet for our kindness and found tulips of love. We also got stuck in a burning barn.

Gauntlet League Wrestling

World Wide Wrestling: Gauntlet League Wrestling 2019 (Session 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Chris Newton, Jim Likes Games, Leandro Pondoc, Matt A., Robert Angus, and Tyler Lominack
Several wrestlers prepare to move on and Mr. Fabulous returns as we finally see a belt put on the line, but out-of-ring violence threatens to mar the show.

LAOG - Live Action Online Games

[DEUTSCH] Doll: Buzz
Gerrit Reininghaus ermöglichte eine Session für Eike K.
The players found each other spontaneously for a pickup game of Doll, a game about a creepy doll by Josh Jordan. Played as a LAOG, this is dark content, but nicely short.

[DEUTSCH] Doll: Liebes Püppi
Gerrit Reininghaus ermöglichte eine Session für Eike K.
Another session of Doll in German. Püppi figured out that the parents are evil and try to rescue the child. Or what did Püppi have in mind?

Gauntlet Hangouts

Voidheart Symphony: Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There (Session 4 of 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Alex, Ludovico Alves, Parham Doustdar, and Puckett
The net our heroes are weaving around the duplicitous Dr. Christine Boucher tightens, even as a new player arrives and the web of connections threaten to swallow them whole. Ido's ideals are confronted by the world's strange undercurrents, Nadine strives to help those put under her charge, Mot steps closer to xer origin and Lily is confronted by a serene, smiling doctor.

Hogwarts RPG: Summer School (Session 4 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for David Walker, Maria M., and Pearl Zare
Confronting Dumbledore and using wits and the resources at their disposal, our students save the life of missing students. They uncover the tangle of conspiracies, as Death Eater recruiters and Order of Phoenix activists fight it out while keeping the Ministry out of their affairs. Our students find a new family, a community, a home in Hogwarts, and find out how to protect it for the next years with love and friendship. Not featured: Pebbles, the anarcho-syndicalist house elf.

Spectaculars: Muster Up (Issue #3) Fire in Park Royale (Session 3)
Mikel Matthews runs for Michael Mendoza, Steven desJardins, and Zander MacDonald
A Fire in Park Royale turns out to be convering up a murder. Halopoint, Tranqulity, and Spyne work to save the people trapped in the apartment building while someone lurks upstairs.

Don't Pay the Ferryman: Kestrek Thefts
Blake Ryan runs for Diana Moon and Sabine V.

Monster of the Week: A Church with a View (Tome of Mysteries)
Tyler Lominack runs for Asher S., Chris Newton, and Sarah J.

Pigsmoke: Summer School (Session 4 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for Mikael Tysvær and Sawyer Rankin
As the Fall semester approaches its first break for Thanksgiving, papers are finally publish, and professors have to deal with low-ranking journals, stubborn editors and barnacle co-authors. A Wild-Hunt, an ancient demon cult, and secrets of the 16th century: all confluent to dealing with a specially annoying student and their influential family.

Once Again, We Return (Monsterhearts 2): The Business of Misery (Session 3 of 4)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Kyle H., Pearl Zare, and Puckett
A giddy night of bonding amongst the plants between Persephone and Lilith unleashes consequences beyond imagining. London, and the world, is about to change, thanks to the whims of the gods. Persephone feels the Ancient One weedle their way into her brain, Lilith works to leave the world a better place and, at the apex of things, Adrestia makes a powerful invocation.

Girl Underground
David Morrison runs for Julie Rogers, Ludovico Alves, and Robert Angus
While looking for a moment of peace from her noisy family, Serena finds herself emerging on the shores of a strange island. Meeting the explorer Francis Lightfeather, she frees his beast of burden: the esteemed Professor Alpaca Carmine, a talking alpaca. Travelling together they encounter Morea, a girl of plants and flowers, and Frank, a boy who has been in the Underground since he fled home at the end of WW2. Serena and her companions travel the open see on a crumbling wreck, investigate the mysteries of an enchanted city, and confront Lightfeather in his mountain lair.

Hearts of Wulin: Inn of the Drifting Lotus (Session 3 of 3)
David Morrison runs for Ainar Miyata-Sturm, Parham Doustdar, Pearl Zare, Puckett, and Steven desJardins
In the final episode of our story, matters come to a head in the aftermath of the duel. Ming learns of his uncle's plans for the inn and its inhabitants. Gentleman Bao-Yin gives a wordless display of his adoration for Changing Wind. Changing Wind almost falls victim to the nefarious Order of the Veiled Night, but the quick action of Wei and the support of her friends sees her through. Harmonious Evening Star Jin plans for the defence of the inn, and the guests band together to make a last stand against Undefeated Steel Ox. As the assassins make their moonlit strike, they are faced with an unlikely band of defenders, in a battle shot through with love and treachery.

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