Gauntlet Video Roundup - January 3, 2020

Greetings, happy new year, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet Hangouts video roundup! Enjoy these new recordings of online games organized through Gauntlet Hangouts and the Gauntlet RPG community. These recorded sessions represent only a portion of the wide selection of games available every week, and anyone is welcome to join in the fun! If you'd like to play in new games (or catch up on the back catalog of recordings), check the links at the end of the post.

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Star Wars Saturday

Ghost Orbit: Pound of Flesh (Session 2)
Rich Rogers runs for Erez, Marco, and Will H
The union engineers negotiate a double-cross while one of them joins a church and another hangs out with his old TIE Fighter Pilot buddy. Also, did someone say Doro the politician?

Hutt Cartel (Session 3)
Rich Rogers runs for Keith Stetson, Leandro Pondoc, Scot Ryder, and Tyler Lominack
Kingpin Skreet Mountbank advances on the Pyke Syndicate while supported by his new assassin and his Cook, but he's beset by the ISB in unexpected ways.

Gauntlet Hangouts

Band of Blades: The Legion at the Western Front (Session 3)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Chris Newton, Dan Pucul, David Morrison, and Matt Phillips
In the relatively-safe but suspicious climes of Plainsworth, the Legion deals with numerous highs and lows as they tally their dead, try to resupply their stores, try to divine the workings of Blighter's undead and battle a bandit monarch in the woods afar. Everything goes quite well until it doesn't.

Last Fleet: Playtest (Session 3 of 3)
David Morrison runs for Diana Moon, Leandro Pondoc, and Zach Bain
Commander Cascade is obsessed with the new threat that has materialised, and her paranoia leads her to shut herself off from her fellow crewmembers. Lt. Soto stands strong in her convictions, though a moment of weakness exposes a dark secret. And Porter Malik prepares for an important function with his fellow Captains. One thing is certain - the evening will go off with a bang.

The Alien Dark: Fiorina 161
Alun R. runs for Blake Ryan, Christopher G., SalamanderJames, and Will H
(Content warning: some body horror.) The 7 person crew of the USCSS Lake are contracted by Eigen Disposals Inc. (EDI) to undertake a survey of the mothballed mining & ore processing facility on Fiorina 161. EDI are handing the sale of the site by Weyland-Yutani and need to confirm that the site conforms to the specification they've been given. This is 2 years after the escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-landed on Fiorina 161, and the events of 'Alien 3'...not that the characters know anything about those events, which were covered up by Weyland-Yutani...

Rhapsody of Blood (Sessions 1-2 of 2)
Jamila R. Nedjadi runs for Bethany H., Charles Cordingley, Kristen, and Will
I ran this to celebrate my birthday! It's easily one of my favorite systems, even though I've only played it a handful of times. Hope I can run a longer campaign later this year. Our players were fantastic and I had so much fun playing off everyone's great personal stories.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Queen of Thieves (Part 1 of Session 3 of 4)
Bethany H. runs for Chris Newton, Eli S., and Kristen D.
Our heroes make a foolproof plan to deal with the sheriff and get the previous generation of witches and bandits on board. Nobody can sustain that level of responsibility for long, so then they go to a secret cave and dig up cursed items.

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.

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!