Gauntlet Video Roundup - July 2, 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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Gauntlet Community Open Gaming

10 Million HP Planet
Mike Ferdinando runs for Diana, Geoff Hunt, Jim Likes Games, and Mike
After planet Ditko-9 gained malevolent sentience and declared war on its inhabitants, our quartet of cosmic-level heroes arrived to give this planet the beat-down it sorely deserved!

The Green Knight RPG
Mike Ferdinando runs for Ben and Gareth
Game warden Lot and her liege Sir Ranulfus set out on a perilous quest to the Green Chapel to fulfill their side of an honor-bound obligation to the mysterious Green Knight.

Hearts of Wulin: Wedding of Jade and Sorrow
Lowell Francis runs for Flavio, Marc Majcher, and Misha Panarin
Our protagonists arrive at the wedding to find their hearts draw them in dangerous directions and betrayal lies ahead.

Trophy Dark: Isle of Water and Blood
Mike Ferdinando runs for Blake Ryan, Daniel T., and Michael Pelletier
In 1902, just off the coast of New England, a group of dilettante occultists attempt to contact a benevolent spirit of enlightenment that promises great arcane power. What could possibly go wrong? This incursion is based on an unpublished scenario for Call of Cthulhu that the GM wrote 25 years ago.

Sunset Kills
Mark (they/them) runs for Brian, Jeffrey, Kae, and Rod Santos

Hit the Nazi - Retrieve the Ark
Alun R. runs for Gareth, Joe A., Jonah, and Rod Santos
In their efforts to protect Democracy, Air Ace 'Bake' Baker, Mesmerist Professor Bodenstein and Hustler 'Chance' Le Chance are transporting an important artefact to the New Gauntlet City Museum. When they have to take a detour to avoid pursuing Nazi agents they find themselves driving through a busy fair and circus where they (literally) bump in to everyone's Friend and High School Teacher Marvin Roy and his mother. There's bystanders to protect, circus strong men to mesmerise, and esoteric candelabra to keep track of...then a surprise villain is revealed, Messerschmitts intervene, and a trader (pirate?) captain helps them reach an archaeological dig at the rumoured site of the garden of Eden...

Hutt Cartel
Rich Rogers runs for Adrian, Bryan, MadJay Brown, and Mario C
The organization under Crime Lord Amara Tavi scheme and betray each other as they seek their own paths to power.

Wolfspell
Donogh runs for Gareth, Kae, and Marc Majcher
A hunter in the wilderness, an assassin in the city and a fur trade magnate are all caught in the Wolfspell. A sorceress tyrant of the north has molded their flesh wolfward to add them to his menagerie. Can they free themselves from the sorcery in time?

Hearts of Wulin: Wedding of Petals and Steel
Lowell Francis runs for Anders, Mark (they/them), Michael, and Rod Santos
Our protagonists work to find their own hearts' paths, but at what cost? A ceremony is shattered and two pairs of friends must draw steel against one another.

Against the Dark Conspiracy
Alun R. runs for Cameron D, Kae, Steve, and Steven Watkins
Marrakesh...the team's Sparks, Hanna, has set up a van's fake break down to enable former NSA Analyst, Eli to keep eye's on both the hotel where their target is staying and the team of local 'watchers' who are also watching it. Meanwhile former Lisky Bratva Burglar, Jan, sips tea while waiting for the right moment to get past the receptionist, and ex-Navy Seal Assassin, Calder, gets the drop on the senior watcher. There's an 'engine fire' with associated smoke screen, a frightened journalist to save, and a smooth exfiltration that leaves someone known to Calder fuming in the van's exhaust fumes...then a suspicious health charity, an archaeological dig at a Transylvanian, and tense intra-team relations before a shadow emerges from the pit...

Team-Up
Dan Brown runs for Donogh and Rod Santos
Heroes 13 and Fortune take down Lord Petrol’s plot to undermine the city’s green energy iniatives.

World of Gamma
Dan Brown runs for Adrian, Dan Pucul, and Geoff Hunt
Mutant fungus, mole, ferret, and cheetah set off to acquire defensive measures for their enclave to protect them from the fabled Sasquatch. Their journey takes them into See Attle, where they must infiltrate the Hom-pot.

Star Wars Saturday

Storm Furies (Session 4 of 4)
Rich Rogers runs for Brandon Brylawski, Greg G., Jo Lene, and Steven Watkins
This is not a drill. This is not a training hop. The pilots of Fury Squadron hunt down and take on Imperial Star Destroyer The Implacable in a glorious finale.

Gauntlet Calendar

The Great American Witch (Session 3 of 3)
Donogh runs for David Morrison and Mark
We see some of Roxane & Miranda's home life, while they surmount Sam's reticence to initiate him into the Craft; and helping out an old student with a serious problem with the Storm Coven.

MOTH-LIGHT (Session 0)
Agatha runs for Chris Newton, Jex Thomas, Matthew Arcilla, and Rich Rogers
The crew comes together to create their Pact and their world, a jungle planet filled with giant bugs, Predator-like aliens, and a dying Sun.

MOTH-LIGHT (Session 1 of 4)
Agatha runs for Chris Newton, Jex Thomas, Matthew Arcilla, and Rich Rogers
The crew figure out what they need to do to save the sun and their planet. Their first task - obtaining fuel!

MOTH-LIGHT (Session 2 of 4)
Agatha runs for Chris Newton, Jex Thomas, Matthew Arcilla, and Rich Rogers
The Pact encounter the Ghosts for the first time as they seek to rescue Fe-Mat, their key engineer!

MOTH-LIGHT (Session 3 of 4)
Agatha runs for Chris Newton, Jex Thomas, Matthew Arcilla, and Rich Rogers
The Pact finally faces the apex predators of this world, looming whale-sized moths, in their attempt to pay off a debt.

MOTH-LIGHT (Session 4 of 4)
Agatha runs for Chris Newton, Jex Thomas, Matthew Arcilla, and Rich Rogers
Doubts and tensions are building within the camp, but there's no looking back for the Pact. It's now or never in their attempt to resurrect the dying sun.

Against the Dark Conspiracy: NBA (Session 4 of 4)
Alun R. runs for Lowell Francis, Paul Rivers, Pawel S., and Will H
Vlad the former GRU Sparks is smuggled into Russia while Eun-Jung, the other Operator on an FSB watch-list due to her wetwork for the US, invests in a solid cover. They meet Lena the ex-Finnish police Handler and Jimmy, the Burglar intimately bound up with MI6 in Moscow, to find 'Site A' before the Conspiracy does. There's an offer to 'come in from the cold' and a a séance, while the suspicious activity of GRU pawns of the Conspiracy leads to a retired doctor with a dark Soviet past. Then...a kidnapped innocent, a car chase, and a water park where a vampire's scheme is revealed...

Paragon System: Rising Tide (Session 2 of 2)
Dan Brown runs for Darin Rebertus, Joe A., and Matthew Arcilla
The crew of the Aegis, having captured the sinister CEO of Atlantico, a fossil fuel conglomerate, must dispense justice. But can they deal with the mercenary team that’s been sent in to rescue him?

Rebel Crown: Oak (Session 5)
Jesse A. runs for Alexi S., Jason Zanes, and Jex Thomas
In which a new vassal is acquired, a party is held, another oath is made, and Queen Siobhan is nowhere to be found.

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/.

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Enjoy, and have a great weekend!