Gauntlet Video Roundup - November 15, 2019

​Greetings, 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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Gauntlet Quarterly

Masks: Prospect Academy (Session 9)
Leandro Pondoc runs for David Morrison, Gerwyn Walters, Ludovico Alves, Ryan M., and Sabine V.
The Silver Masquerade draws to a close. In the face of terrible futures, awkward truths and open vulnerabilities, each hero is given a chance to step up and find out their truest selves. Serenade rankles until given a target to punch, Princess Hollyhock figures out when she can and can't help, Kasey tries to connect with a distraught foe, Zero-G steps up to save the day and Mary faces her future in the most stark way possible.

Masks: Prospect Academy (Session 10)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Gerwyn Walters, Ludovico Alves, Ryan M., and Sabine V.
The Silver Masquerade is over but its aftermath lingers on, even as our heroes party forward to something just a bit better. Though even during a party, some folks just needs to get a bit of superheroing done. Princess Hollyhock pushes for a fight against a tentacle-wielding mobster, Regicide offers a friendly hand to a former foe, Image finds the origin of her bad future within someone dear to her and Serenade re-enters familiar territory as a new foe tries to undo past successes.

Gauntlet Comics

Masks: Allied Angels Dawn of '43 (Session 1 of 3)
Jim Likes Games runs for Alexi S., Leah Libresco Sargeant, Sawyer Rankin, and Steven desJardins
The Allied Angels are back in action, protecting the home front of New Gauntlet City in the spring of 1943.

Vigilante Hack (Session 1 of 2)
Rich Rogers runs for Sawyer Rankin and Will B
Anesthesia and The Bride have a run-in with some corrupt cops in Dreamsend. Things escalate quickly.

Gauntlet Hangouts

Scum and Villainy: Radical Dreamers (Session 2 of 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Gerwyn Walters, Ludovico Alves, Rob Ruthven, and Sabine V.
After a high-octane prison breakout, the crew of the Firedrake settle into the planet of Nightfall and try to figure out where to go next. Lei uncovers the workings behind their so-called death, Kie tries his hand at haggling and landscape painting, Finn laughs in the face of the Hegemony's brutes and Shiv eases a family's life, if momentarily. Then it's off to the desert for a confrontation with the Hegemon's mother...

Teens with Attitude! (Session 1)
David Walker runs for Erez, Jammi, Marco, and Pearl Zare
Four teens in the city of Midvale discover something odd in their town and take on radical identities to fight the machinations of Loki! Radical adventures await our new team of elemental morphers in the superheroes 90s kids show-themed game by David Brunnell-Brutman

Root: Spies and Saboteurs (Session 2 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for Richard C., Rob Ruthven, and Toby
Our Vagabonds find out the base of the operations of the bandits organizing a con rebellion. While they find out the identity of the Red Robin and their lieutenants, they find out there is more to this story than they first knew: an army veteran of the Marquisade has organized previous marks into a militia and is chasing them Red Robin into Eyrie territory...and right next to an ancient barrow mound and a bear's den.

Afterlife: Wandering Souls (Session 2 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for David Walker, Leandro Pondoc, Pearl Zare, and Sabine V.
A dinner turns awkward when the host is revealed to be a bunch of caste imperialists and colonizers. The Tenebris reveals itself a cold and scorching place interrupted only by guzzling gasoline and drumming dragon riders. Finally, the Caverns of Salt and the Limbo within...but memories offer no solace. A recollection of destruction, a grand kelp forest, the funeral of a patriarch and a strange monolith at sea.

Hot Librarians
Kyle H. runs for Anthony, Libby Horacek, and Pearl Zare
Hot Librarians must deal with their evil exes who are trying to steal a magic journal.

Eotenweard: The Synhamm Bride (Session 1 of 4)
Alun R. runs for Alexis Graf, Blake Ryan, Cody Eastlick, and Sabine V.
We return to Synhamm to find Iamon, called 'Giant Killer', chafing under the weight of his growing reputation. Meanwhile, Aedwen, Outlaw and lost daughter of a character from another series is just trying to get by; Ragnus, the Hammer of the Gods, seeks those who took his loved ones; and Casudius, a Monstrous Revenant, cursed to walk the earth for offending the Roman gods at a wedding, just wants to put true love on the right path...and then there are outlaws...

Eotenweard: The Synhamm Bride (Session 2 of 4)
Alun R. runs for Blake Ryan, Paul Rivers, Pawel S., and Sabine V.
After last session's confrontation with the Fenland Outlaws, a more pressing challenge threatens Synhamm. Princess Manugia of Elmet must either be handed over to Synhamm's nemesis, King Beda, or spirited away to her betrothed in Mercia, and safety, after her father's Kingdom is absorbed by the most powerful Saxon King, Edwin of Northumbria. Iamon 'Giant Killer' confronts the Eorl's son over who should lead the Princess' escape, while Aedwen the Outlaw and and Bull the Commoner (with his mule 'Donkey') will accompany them. Goderic, the Saxon Mystic, is on a mission from Woden to ensure that 'the love that threatens Synhamm must be properly directed...'; and after summoning spirits sees the attraction between Manugia and Iamon...he will go, too...and then there are outlaws...

Impulse Drive: Coriolis (Session 5)
Lowell Francis runs for Leandro Pondoc, Patrick Knowles, and Sherri
The group find out more about the mysterious Tailor and cross paths with the Order of the Pariah before their journey takes them to a kilometer long pilgrimage train trundling across the jungles of Mira.

Veil Fantasy (Session 2)
Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., David Morrison, Fraser Simons, and Leandro Pondoc
The pieces begin to fall into place as the group discovers the struggles among the Sixty-Six Licensed Sorceries and how that affects them: from haircatching to finger collecting to soul buying. It's complicated. And that's before the angels arrive.

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