Gauntlet Video Roundup - January 21, 2022

​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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Gauntlet Calendar

Ex-Capes (Issue 10)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Bryan, and Chris Newton
The Ex-Capes try to stop the Synergy Killer before they can strike again.

Delta Green: Divergence (Session 2)
Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., Horst Wurst, Paul Rivers, and Will H
Still shaken from what they witnesses, the team works to figure out the source of this unnatural material. While Agents Williams and Oliver do legwork, Evans and Rajavi find themselves in a shoot-out at the accident site at 3AM.

Delta Green: Divergence (Session 3)
Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., Horst Wurst, Paul Rivers, and Will H
The team dig deeper into the mystery of the Eternal Flesh, capturing two killers sent to track down a wayward cultist, which leads them to a farmhouse contaminated by a hypergeometric infection intended as a protection.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E: Ravnica: Labyrinth of Mirrors (Session 2)
Lowell Francis runs for Jim Likes Games, Joe F, Joel N., and Tim Leitner
The group split up to search an apartment block, looking for a street thief currently targeted by Tythois Vek and find themselves facing down The Widow Sales and her gang in a hallway melee.

Against the Vampire Conspiracy: Finding Throndal (Session 2 of 4)
Alun R. runs for Anders, Puckett, Sabine V., and Will H
Having rescued the missing graduate student Rajesh Chaudry the team adopts a variety of approaches to discovering what he knows before putting him on a plane back to Stanford...where he can't stop telling people about 'what happened to me in Munich...' We learn a little more about the history the team members share and their relationships clarify on two separate road trips to Moravia where, as far back as you care to look, the first son of the Throndal dynasty is always named 'Simon'. There's a legal firm with a partner that Anton believes is a blood mage and Mia finds the firm's data system is 'hardened' and has a secure link to the parking garage next door. Meanwhile, Dylan's charm gets the team a plan of the building and its relationship to the extensive disused mine tunnels beneath the town. Finally, Timothy stakes out the building...and has a bad feeling about the 8th floor...

Ex-Capes (Issue 11)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Bryan, Chris Newton, and Matthew Arcilla
The Ex-Capes take on two new Plots: The The Apocalypse Remnants and Hearsay.

Ex-Capes (Issue 12)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Chris Newton, and Matthew Arcilla
The Ex-Capes investigate both Hearsay and the Apocalypse Remnants.

Gauntlet Quarterly

Godbound: Shattered Temples (Session 15)
Lowell Francis runs for Dan Brown, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Tyler Lominack
The young pantheon heads out to sea to confront the Storm Giant Pirates, but encounters along the way create tensions. Finally they face down one of the Hulks of the Corrupted Storm, as well as the animated body of a dead god and it's necromancer pilots whose purpose remains unknown.

Fate of the Faerie Queen (Session 3 of 12)
Shane runs for José Feito, Kyle H., and Matthew Doughty
As they plot to undermine the potency of the gingerbread church, the characters unexpectedly encounter the fey-aligned mob boss Alexander Koschei himself.

Old School Essentials: Against the Slavers (Session 3 of 12)
Mike Ferdinando runs for Ben, Jim Likes Games, Joe F, and Tim Leitner
"Slave Pits of the Undercity" part 3. The wizard Zalalaz, acrobat Topaz, warrior Kaf, and halfling cleric/thief Clintoch delve into the dungeons below the slavers' fortress in Highport. They rescue captive dwarf Bah'Run, who joins their party. Delving through the sewers, they discover what is likely the slave lord's secret escape route, which they follow to his sanctum!

Star Wars Saturday

Apocalypse World Burned Over (Session 3)
Rich Rogers runs for Alun R., Anders, and Bethany H.
Who knew a cortex bomb could be...cute? And the Chekhov's gun is fired.

Stars in the Dark (Session 15)
Anders runs for Marc Majcher, Mark (they/them), Rich Rogers, and Steven Watkins
The Wake - Gambling, drugs, and a lovers' quarrel surrounds the wake for a fallen member of the gang.

Bounty of the Week: For a Few Creds More (Session 3)
Will H runs for Anders, Chet, Rich Rogers, and Sabine V.
The Bright Beauty spends some time on their base of operations, chasing down leads on their personal drives and digging into their prospective bounties. They settle on hunting down an Imperial Moff with a predilection for tomb raiding and cultural theft, tracking him to a dig site on the forest planet of Ashas Ree. Surely, the stories about the ruins on Ashas Ree are just hokey superstition...right?

Silent Falls

Monsterhearts 2 (Session 3 of 5)
Donogh runs for José Feito, Mark, Max, and Steven S.
Maria hosts the party to end all parties! Dakota grabs Bay, and the fun he has along the way is a bonus to making Jack jealous. Jack's inability to deal sends him running off into the deep dark woods despite Julia's warnings, where he encounters something unexpected. Meanwhile Evan wastes no time in pursuing Maria, to help Bria's schemes to come to fruition...

Where to Find More

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 catch these sessions in an audio-only podcast, check out the community-run Hangouts Podcast at http://gauntlet.hellomouth.net/.

If you'd like to play in games like these, check out the calendar of events and the Gauntlet Forums where games are announced, or catch one of our Gauntlet Community Open Gaming online mini-conventions.

To support The Gauntlet, please visit the Gauntlet Patreon. Everyone is welcome to sign up for Gauntlet Calendar games, but Patreon supporters get extra options like priority RSVP for Gauntlet Calendar games and joining the Gauntlet Slack team where special events and pickup games are announced.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend