Gauntlet Video Roundup - August 9, 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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TGI Thursday

The Sprawl (Session 1 of 3)
Lowell Francis runs for Kurt Potts, Puckett, Steven Watkins, and Tre'
Character creation leads into our team trying to handle a botched extraction which leads to many characters making Harm rolls.

Indie Schwarze Auge

[DEUTSCH] World of Aventurien: Liska Fänge: Kopfgeldjäger (Session 1)
Gerrit Reininghaus leitet eine Session für Eike K., Rye, Sabine V., und Tina T.
The players entered the realm of Germany's old tradition of 'Bauerngaming' and brought their characters from zero to 100 in terms of adventure level in just one day in the merchant town of Riva.

Gauntlet League Wrestling

World Wide Wrestling: Gauntlet League Wrestling 2019 (Session 1)
Lowell Francis runs for Chris Newton, Jim Likes Games, Leandro Pondoc, Matt A., Robert, and Tyler Lominack
Gauntlet League Wrestling has fallen on hard times with the loss of stars, money, and even their arena. Can they make a comeback?

LAOG - Live Action Online Games

Makeup Moments: Raging Swans
Gerrit Reininghaus facilitates for Ala, Nataliya, Noella H, and Pearl Zare
A session of Makeup Moments (Codex Glamour 2), a LAOG about putting on makeup together. The stage crew "Raging Swans" prepare for a show at the Waterfront Preservation Charity Ball.

Gauntlet Hangouts

Voidheart Symphony: Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There (Session 1 of 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Alex, David Morrison, and Ludovico Alves
Deep within this metropolitan city surrounded by swamps, an unremarkable construction foreman's heart has grown dark and corrupt. Now it's up to a strange being of shadows and magic, a tutor of children looking to help those in need and the foreman's delinquent relative, trying to figure out this warped world, to set things right and beat back the dark.

Once Again, We Return (Monsterhearts): The Business of Misery (Session 1 of 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for David Morrison, Kyle H., Pearl Zare, and Puckett
Character creation and worldbuilding as we discuss this new Pantheon, how they've taken London by storm and how they're trying to navigate this new becoming of theirs. Adrestia is given a righteous task, Hades fulminates at the world around him, Lilith is stymied by a seemingly impossible mystery and Persephone tries to put on a brave face. (Note: this session is split into two videos.)

Pigsmoke: Summer School (Session 1 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for Eugene Marshall, Mikael Tysvær, and Stentor Danielson
Welcome to Pigsmoke, the foremost academy of superior magical education in America! Meet our professors: Arthur Stenger, local Workhorse and student/demon wrangler; Claire MacDonell, an Aussie Rockstar and terror of editors and Alchemy budgets everywhere, and Hugo Aldrana, Earth-shaking Albatross and opportunist elementalist.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians (Session 1)
Bethany H. runs for Joe Zantek, Luiz Ferraz, and Steven
Meet the thirstiest trio in the Lesbian Pirate Republic! Emeria goads her friends into a mud-wrestling contest, Freyja romances a snake goddess, and Dominique tries to seduce everyone in sight. Will insults and misunderstandings keep them from the objects of their desires? Probably!

Companions' Tale: Companions of the Cat
Stentor Danielson runs for Kirk Rahusen, Noella H, and Pearl Zare
Hear tales of ghost lions, a poisoned river, a sea captain trapped in a tower, and some high-value belly petting.

Night's Black Operators: The Van Helsing Letter (Session 1 of 2)
Alun R. runs for Ainar Miyata-Sturm, Horst Wurst, Lowell Francis, and Will H
Blake (the British Hacker/Tech), Eun-Jung (the Korean-Amercian Cuckoo), Behrouz (the Iranian Muscle) and Nadia (the Norwegian Analyst) receive a tip-off about 'The Conspiracy' but their informant, Markov, is taken out before they can meet her in fashionable West London. Meanwhile our villain (played by Michael Shannon) is revealed in his opulent Paris apartment planning the next steps in HIS operation... A clue leads the characters to the Ille de la Cite in Strasbourg and an old contact of Nadia's. Some soft and hard talk gets him to hand over the package Markov sent him just as some goons begin to machine gun his bookshop under cover of 'road repairs'. Our heroes escape using cunning disguise, fast feet or 'Iranian Parkour', across the rooftops, to find that the package contains a letter dated 1908 and signed by...Abraham Van Helsing...

Thirsty Sword Lesbians (Session 2)
Bethany H. runs for Joe Zantek and Luiz Ferraz
Lesbian definitely-not-pirates Dominique and Emeria fight enemies on (and under) the sea and in the air. Emeria reunites with a lost love who needs her help. Dominique has to spend time with (ugh) Valeria the Red. And there's an evil wizard to be slain, if they can fight their way through all the complications that keep cropping up.

You can see all these videos (plus all the ones that have come before) on The Gauntlet YouTube channel playlists, and be sure to subscribe to catch all our great podcasts! If you'd like to play in games like these, check out the calendar of events and the Gauntlet Forums where games are announced. To support The Gauntlet, please visit the Gauntlet Patreon. Everyone is welcome to sign up for Gauntlet Hangouts games, but Patreon supporters get extra options like priority RSVP for Gauntlet Hangouts games and joining the Gauntlet Slack team where special events and pickup games are announced. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!