Gauntlet Video Roundup - January 15, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet Calendar video roundup! Enjoy these recordings of online games organized through Gauntlet Calendar 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

HyperspaceD6 (Session 2)
Rich Rogers runs for Cody Eastlick, David Walker, Sabine V., and Will H
The new occupants of Whisper Base get acquainted with their new roomies, go on a joyride, and meet their neighbors. Like you do.

Gauntlet Quarterly

Last Fleet (Session 1)
Jim Likes Games runs for Brandon Brylawski, Joe, Lowell Francis, and Patrick Buechner
We meet the PCs and see how they're dealing with a recent ambush the Fleet barely escaped with their lives.

Empire City

Urban Shadows 2e: Everybody is Going Uptown (Session 1 of 4)
Jesse A. runs for Brandon Brylawski, Jex Thomas, Philip Rogers, and Sam Zimmerman
In our debut Empire City game, we make characters and describe the city, Uptown Manhattan and its nearby neighbors of North Jersey, and the Bronx, with a hub at 181st st.

Gauntlet Calendar

Space Wurm vs Moonicorn (Session 1)
Tyler Lominack runs for Bethany H., Lowell Francis, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Steven S.
World-build and Char Gen for our Galaxy. Family drama for the fate of the Universe!!!

Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Crush of the Titans (Session 2 of 5)
David Morrison runs for Diana Moon, Gerwyn Walters, Joe A., and Steven S.
We meet our fourth member of the crew, Katch the Spooky Witch - a Spartan helot theatre nerd with an unusual connection the the Underworld. The crew puts on a performance of a new satire on the suitors of Penelope at King Telemachus' court in Ithaca. Rhode catches the attention of Prince Nicomedes, who delivers a warning. Katch (mostly?) accidentally pulls King Leonidas of Sparta out of the underworld. Nymphadora accepts a commission to retrieve an item from the horde of Odysseus. And Berenice chafes against her upbringing even as she prepares to face her mother in combat.

Tales from the Low Cantrefs: The Path Unwinding (Session 1 of 4)
Alexi S. runs for Chris Newton, Dan Pucul, David Morrison, and Rosamund
We create our protagonists and the village they live in, with its festivals, superstitions, and values. Then Luned the Bell leads her peers to an abandoned, crumbling tower in search of a lost younger sister. Ruga the Blade confronts a Beast the likes of which she's never seen. Gwyn the Door feels the chill of Death. And Barrow the Loom saves the day with an unexpected (but also unexpectedly costly) item of provision.

Monsterhearts 2: Tomb of Horrors (Session 1 of 4)
Shane runs for Matthew Arcilla, Rye, and Sam Zimmerman
We make our characters, and then they make their characters, as a group of emotionally volatile teenage monsters play DnD in the 80s. Our Queen, Infernal and Hollow begin feeling each other out as they excavate some false entrances, and we learn about strange goings on around the town of Springwood--and amongst the members of the high school DnD club.

Eotenweard: Hospitality (Session 2 of 5)
Alun R. runs for Sawyer Rankin, Tyler Lominack, usnavi, and Will H
Hild confronts Bardwulf, the Lord of Aethelburh, while Cennus ensures proud thane Madog will honour the debt he owes him if called to do so. Meanwhile, Eadric and Gildas visit the treacherous ravine where Bardwulf's first wife met her untimely end and seek answers from her unquiet spirit. There's the feast of Blodmonath, a failed attempt to retrieve a moonstone, and tensions that almost turn violent at the wedding feast...and then there's an ambush...

Ultraviolet Grasslands: Season 11 - Monoliths and Dimensions (Session 1 of 3)
Horst Wurst runs for Abe Lincoln Jr., Chris Thompson, and Nathan Harrison
Vicar's Beach III

Heart: Sickness Unto Foolish Death (Session 2 of 4)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Bodhi, Brandon Brylawski, Jake, and The Rolistes Podcast
Deep below Spire, a heretical church has managed to take root. Believing in the moon below, they have dispatched one of their own to join the expedition of Asher Malperdy to entreat with the witches of Hallow. But they are not the only ones with ulterior motives lurking within the expedition's ranks.

Tales from the Low Cantrefs: Shadows Cast by the Hearth (Session 2 of 4)
Jesse A. runs for Jan, Leandro Pondoc, Maria M., and Robbie Boerth
In our second session in Sidle, Una tries to protect the village, with little sign of what she's protecting it from. Aine's brother is at the center of a struggle. Idris tries his best to help everybody, and meanwhile, Dogan reaches past the realm of the living and invites the dead out.

Alien: Destroyer of Worlds (Session 1)
Jon Grim runs for Daniel H., Jason Zanes, Mark, and Matthew Arcilla
A hastily thrown together unit of Colonial Marines is tasked with tracking down a group of AWOL soldiers escaped with highly confidential intel. It’s a need-to-know situation and that’s all you need to know.

Free from the Yoke: Firebird Suite (Session 1)
Lowell Francis runs for Alexi S., Bryan, David Jay, and Scot Ryder
We meet the champions who represent their houses as they gather at the Arbiter's conclave to hear her firebrand vision of the land to come.

Night's Black Agents: Underworld Promises (Session 2)
Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., Paul Rivers, Pawel S., and Will H
Splitting the group to deal with two separate plots leads to a bomb detonating and a sniper bullet to the shoulder, but in the aftermath new pieces begin to fall into place...though Henri, left by herself in the safehouse, realizes she's not actually alone.

Space Wurm vs Moonicorn (Session 2)
Tyler Lominack runs for Bethany H., Lowell Francis, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Steven S.
Space Wurm holds court before learning of a disturbance in the Galaxy. Moonicorn encounters an ancient force newly awakened and makes Universe altering promises. Serpent Princess gets a task from Space Wurm, The Mogul sees opportunity in Chaos. And the Mutant...makes a new friend.

Urban Shadows: The City of Perspiring Dreams (Session 1 of 3)
Alun R. runs for Daniel Westheide, Gerwyn Walters, and Sabine V.
At an imaginary Cambridge College in an imagined 1970's urbane fixer/grifter Reggie the Vamp meets friend (and blood supplier) the Veteran 'Smith'...that's THE Smith. We find out about the 'Piers Verde Dining Club', an incursion by werewolves leading to a call for vampire solidarity, and Wynne the Fae demanding that 'those werewolves are mine'...then...stuff happens...including a lost sword, a walking statue, and a change in the wine list...

Gauntlet Book Club

Wolfsong/Bite Marks (Session 0)
David Morrison runs for Drew D., Jamila R. Nedjadi, Sabine V., and Steven S.
We learn a little about our pack and the werewolves who make it up. Ghost the Howl, the haunted brother of the current Alpha Marcus. Cody the Cub, a newly bitten werewolf and former boyfriend of Marcus. Ivar the Enforcer, an older bitten werewolf who served under the previous Alpha. And Jaxon the Fixer, instagram model and brother-in-law to the Alpha.

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Enjoy, and have a great weekend!