Gauntlet Video Roundup - February 8, 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

Void Vultures (Session 1 of 2)
Rich Rogers runs for Alejandro, Alun R., Jeremy Mahr, and Sabine V.
We meet the Void Vultures serving "retired" Republic officer Gran, and they head off on a mission for the rebellion to recover a Lost Expedition.

Gauntlet Sunday

Cryptomancer (Session 1 of 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Alejandro, Bryan, Patrick Knowles, and Sherri
Captured in their fight against the Risk Eaters, our revolutionary cell of heroes must hack their way off of a prison island with a combination of magic, subterfuge, and stabbing.

TGI Thursday

Forbidden Lands (Session 1 of 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Alejandro, Darren Brockes, Fraser Simons, and Steven Watkins
Escaping from a their Saurian captors, our heroes discover exactly why the lands are forbidden when a wild boar impales Hild the Goblin to a tree.

Gauntlet Quarterly

Masks: A New Generation (Session 6)
Lowell Francis runs for Chris Newton, Kurt Potts, Steven desJardins, and Tyler Lominack
In the wake of tragedy, Sara Sparks assembles a new team. After battling a towering inferno, a new foe stokes the flames of outrage against them...but new teammate Odd-Ball has a strange connection to this politician.

Gauntlet Comics

Urban Shadows: COVEN PRIME (Session 1 of 4)
Jim Crocker runs for Alexi S., Misha B, Peter Mazzeo, and Sarah J.
The stars of the fan-favorite 90s horror comics American Haunt, Tooth/Claw, The Devil's Due, and Always a Witch combine forces in an epic limited series with the fate of Coven Prime in the balance! Meet the cast, learn about their neighborhoods, and hear which Tarot card their character is on in the Official Narcrosis Tarot Deck!

1%er Supers (Session 1 of 4)
Rich Rogers runs for Chris Newton, Luiz Ferraz, Sherri, and Tim Osburn
The Scoville Scourge interfere with the "good super citizens" of the Future Legion as they stop a thief! Who will stop the menace of the Scoville Scourge?!?!

Monster of the Week: Precinct 13 (Session 1 of 4)
Jim Crocker runs for Bethany H., Rich Rogers, Tara, and Tom F.
Session Zero prep as we travel back to 1978 to walk the Freak Beat with two detectives, an embedded AEON agent, and a Vampire-hunting PI. Meet the crew and learn how their tangled histories interweave!

The Gaunt Marches

Freebooters on the Frontier: In Search of Adventure (Session 1 of 3)
Horst Wurst runs for Aljoscha, Asbjørn Flø, Chris Challice, and Mikael Tysvær
Hunting in the Knee-High Sea the adventurers loot a mysterious nest, are attacked by a Swamp Shambler, bury a friend, escape from the jaws of death and ponder whether to eat the Frogmen's eggs or raise an amphibian army.

Gauntlet Hangouts

Monsterhearts 2: St Osana's School for Boys (Session 1 of 4)
David Morrison runs for Alex, Leandro Pondoc, Sawyer Rankin, and Sławomir
It's 1966, and at St. Osana's School for Boys - a boys boarding school in Yorkshire - we follow the exploits of four boys from Fisher Upper Fifth as school begins for a new term. Distracted by thoughts of Juliet, Emmet the Hollow commits accidental trespass; Adrian the Vampire is invited to a tryst with Burnley Minimus; and Callum the Witch goads Lysander the Ghoul into a violent confrontation.

Monsterhearts 2: Dead of Summer (Session 1 of 4)
Sawyer Rankin runs for Peter Mazzeo, Stephen, and Sławomir
The first session we blaze through world building and get to the heart of camping. We welcome the most adorable conspiracy theorist Bedlam, the most rational and haughty hottie Fae, and the poor Neighbor who's already in over his head. We have discovered something intriguing and there is already a mystery in camp!

Monsterhearts 2: Absolutely (Session 3 of 4)
Donogh runs for Alun R., David Morrison, and Jim Crocker
After the tragic* death of the King’s mistress, the Queen goes to the Paris opera to escape the palace. Leading lady Celine aims to impress despite a very nervous company. Father Jean manoeuvres against his cardinal while the Countess Aurelie sinks her claws into the Queen even deeper. (*Not tragic!)

Dark Designs in Verdigris: The Stygian Library
Richard Ruane runs for Asher S., Chiv, Leandro Pondoc, Peter Mazzeo, and VC
The crew arrives at Huber’s Museum of Books, flirts with the Sawyer the Bear, evades the agents of General Jinjur, and gets rough with a murderous automaton before finding out the door they wanted to open was under their feet the whole time. Then the door opens.

Spire: The Kings of Spire (Session 5 of 12)
Darren Brockes runs for Brett WH, Fraser Simons, Leandro Pondoc, and Rich Rogers
Serro, Ashe, Altrium, and Yvette plan a little get-together for only the most popular aelfir in all of Spire. No big deal, not even when Serro gets shot trying to steal a crate of gilded oysters and Altrium gets blamed for it.

Gothic Society: A Study in Onyx (Session 1 of 4)
Gene A. runs for Agatha, Peter Mazzeo, Ryan M., and Sarah J.
The Gurgling Sickness seizes London as a complicated web of relationships play out at a masquerade ball.

The White Hack:Longwinter (Session 1 of 4)
Richard Ruane runs for Bethany H., Darold Ross, Jesse A., Jesse Larimer, and Sam Z.
Autumn's End - Just as Longwinter begins, Kazimir and his associates converge on the spa town of Vreley to find his lost friend Viktor.

Dungeon World: Fantasy Heartbreakers
Robbie Boerth runs for Alejandro, David L., and Rachelle Dube
A Dungeon World adventure with a Valentine's theme. Three intrepid fantasy heartbreakers attend a gala only to find that the bride-to-be is a Lich in mourning over her departed soul mate and looking for a new partner.

Spire: A Disease of Language (Session 1 of 4)
Leandro Pondoc runs for David Morrison, Diana Moon, Jim Crocker, and Stephen
The Ministry of Our Hidden Mistress has sent a cell into Red Row to find the source of the dream they call Revolution that is said to be spreading like a plague. Elifet surveys the scene, Phyrrus becomes an accessory to some flirting, Ixel charms the pants off a guard, and Jez'zara learns of the song that will sing Spire into waking.

Worlds in Peril: X-Men '83 (Session 1 of 2)
Kyle runs for Fraser Simons, John Campbell, and Peter Mazzeo
Our teenage heroes get an unexpected visitor that changes everything amidst the New York blizzards in February, 1983.

Worlds in Peril: X-Men '83 (Session 2 of 2)
Kyle runs for Fraser Simons and Peter Mazzeo
The Soviets get with the Shi'ar and the techno-organic virus threatens Midtown High!

Masks: Prospect Academy (Session 1 of 4)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Agatha, Alun R., Ludovico Alves, and Sabine V.
We meet our protagonists, the so-called Newspaper/Detention Club of Prospect Academy, Earth's 11th best superhero school. They comprise of a rescued boy of nanites dealing with his anger, a clone of a supervillain turned hero, a mouthy graffiti activist and a spunky traveller from the past confronting her dark future.

Trophy: The Flocculent Cathedral
Jim Crocker runs for James L., Michael G. Barford, Owen Thompson, and Tom F.
The Flocculent Cathedral opens its mossy doors to (not so, it turns out) doomed Treasure Hunters.

Other Games

Dead Friend: Button Eye
Barry facilitates for Lauren
Dorian weighs the privileges provided to him by the wealth of his Victorian family against endless summers of adventure in Wonderland with his imaginary friend Lancelot Littlebury.

Shadow of the Demon Lord (Session 5, Part 1)
Pat P. runs for Darren Brockes, Fernando "Dolan" Dolande, and Lu Quade
After a night reflecting on their past, they get a wake up call from some beastmen. Blix runs off and wanders. Jonah & Skive meet a treasure hunter.

Shadow of the Demon Lord (Session 5, Part 2)
Pat P. runs for Darren Brockes, Fernando "Dolan" Dolande, and Lu Quade
Jonah and Skive help a farmer with a problem. A pig kiss. Blix follows through on a contract.

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