Gauntlet Video Roundup - October 11, 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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Star Wars Saturday

Witch Squadron (Session 1 of 3)
Rich Rogers runs for Bethany H., Gerrit Reininghaus, Keith Stetson, and Sabine V.
The new recruits to the Witch Squadron make their first flights on rickety Clone Wars-era Y-Wings. Things break, a pilot washes out. Things don't go smooth.

TGI Thursday

Mutants in the Night (Session 2 of 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Chris Newton, Christopher Walborn, Jason Zanes, and Leandro Pondoc
Their shark-toothed fixer offers the crew several jobs and they opt to aid The Clinic again by retrieving stolen medicine from a wasp-filled gang bunker.

Gauntlet Quarterly

Masks: Prospect Academy (Session 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for David Morrison, Ludovico Alves, Ryan M., and Sabine V.
As Prospect Academy rolls into October, the uhh prospect of a school dance, the Silver Masquerade, looms in the horizon as its pupils deal with schoolwork, time travel, a hostile school president and lurking, unseen anxieties. Kasey deals with the fallout of her mother's capriciousness, Mary grapples with the complicated nature of time travel, Serenade faces off against the new president and Zero-G battles Charles Dickens for a decent grade.

Impulse Drive: Coriolis (Session 1)
Lowell Francis runs for Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Steven desJardins
We do character creation and then set our new crew of artifact seekers off into the dark where they find a extraction stymied by a mysterious planetside conflict.

Gauntlet Comics

Masks: The Best Worst Things About Fall (Session 1 of 3)
Chris Newton runs for Alex, Rich Rogers, Sarah J., and Sawyer Rankin
Worst crew encountering people dressed even more ridiculously than a golden age superhero: commedia dell'arte stock characters!

Monsterhearts 2: Super Juvie (Session 2 of 5)
Rich Rogers runs for Joe Zantek, Leandro Pondoc, Misha B, and Peter Mazzeo
The students of New Guard Academy participate in a basketball game, plot and flirt, then wake up...on a beach?

Gauntlet Hangouts

Trophy Gold: Tomb of the Serpent Kings (Sessions 1-2 of 2)
Jason Cordova runs for Fraser Simons and Tyler Lominack

Ross Rifles
Stentor Danielson runs for Jeremiah Pena, Kristina, Maria M., and Steven desJardins
In which our scrappy band of Canadian soldiers check out the local ecology of no man's land and take a German prisoner, much to the consternation of Lieutenant McConnell.

The Veil Fantasy: Kriusthos (Session 2 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for David Walker, Marcolo, Maria M., and Pearl Zare
The group is asked to act as deal-brokers of a contract. They slowly pierce out that there is more to it than it initially seem and try to stop the same deal they are facilitating.

Apocalypse World: Rusted Trust (Session 1)
Sawyer Rankin runs for Christopher Walborn, Robbie Boerth, Robert Angus, and Steven
The group gathers together and we start piecing together a world of reclaimed nature, terraforming gone wrong, and animals which have mutated and gone Jurassic Park on us. Our world is a view of Bioshock on land, bridged together by a Battlebabe, a Brainer, a Hocus, and a Show. We start off with a religious picnic which goes wrong, find a hippie commune from the 70s era scare days, and end on what seems to be gunning for a Cult vs Cult battle.

Legend of the Five Rings: Topaz Championship (Session 1 of 3)
Ludovico Alves runs for Josh H and Pawel S.
Let's learn L5R 5th edition! Let's see what a Dragon and a Scorpion get up to in the village of Tsuma!

Free From The Yolk: Land of the Dragonslayers (Session 2 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for Greg G., Mikael Tysvær, and Sawyer Rankin
The First Queen leads the efforts against the rebellion, as the Teachers seek to profit from the instability. We unearth an ancient curse created by the forging of a crown and the breaking of a promise, as well as renew the vows between the Horselords and the Land. All while truces are settled and the First Queen Reborn is only increasing in power.

Lighthearted: The Tea (Session 1)
Kurt Potts runs for Barry, Lauren, Pearl Zare, and Puckett
In this session, we create characters and do an intro scene. Four college students at the El Camino Community College of Magic and Technology. Are drawn together by a professor. Next week we'll see what happens when your mentor spills everyone's baggage all over the table of a tea shop.

Spire: Ironshrike (Session 3 of 3)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Gabriel Robinson and Pawel S.
Somewhere within the tangled web of factions and desperation that comprise the market of Ironshrike, somewhere is the right combination of allies and enemies that could spark change into this corner of Spire. Varda is reminded of her duties as midwife to the drow and Nirvic prepares a con for the ages.

Rapscallion: A Night at the Opera (Session 1 of 2)
Alun R. runs for Alexi S., Julie Rogers, Leah Libresco Sargeant, and Robert Angus
Captain Nightshade's intention to steal two mystically engraved organ pipes from St Sucre's Grand Opera House is complicated first by a fire, and then by the rest of his crew. Clay Golem Raku is always eager to get things right and follows instructions (very) literally before losing its cool and swatting away a platoon of Marines. Clance, the only crew member possessed by a Demon (as far as we know), can't resist "all the shiny things" and finds himself between a fire and an angry crowd. St. Sucre's great and good, before cutting the rope securing a candelabra and shooting to the roof. Jamie, the ship's Chronicler, prefers a quiet read and keeps her angry djinn in its bad-tempered place, but seeing everyone's aura is a strain that she can't contain when confronted by a previous employer. Through it all Captain Nightshade keeps his cool (and his organ pipes) so they can help him chart a route through the Deathwaters next time in...Rapscallions.

Urban Shadows: Vienna, 1950 (Session 2 of 4)
Alexi S. runs for Eli S., Leandro Pondoc, Pearl Zare, and Sarah J.
Salomé, the Tainted outrider of the Wild Hunt, has arrived, so the party can get started! Tonight, Vienna will be rocked by poisonings, out-of-body experiences, and more-or-less inept attempts at seduction and assassination. Cosima acquires a very haunted cabinet. Emilie snoops her way into so much trouble that only letting out her inhuman side can save her. And Sophie/Johannes commits herself to aiding Salomé's hit job on an American colonel, whether she wants it or not.

The Bat Hack: All-American Girls: Mrs October (Session 1 of 5)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Catherine Ramen, and Rich Rogers
We re-learn the ropes with a short roster as the Gauntlet City Gals head back to Detroit to face the Debs in Game 1 of the Championship Series!

Hack the Planet: A Sky Reflected in Terror (Session 2 of 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Alun R., Josh H, Parham Doustdar, and Rob Ruthven
A simple job: infiltrate a derelict lab, extract a brilliant gene-hacker and escape before Acts of God or well-armed scavengers get in their way. Terribly straightforward, yes? Lincoln evades the spotlights in the sky, Nova dives deep into the lab's security workings, Shadow dives through the sky with ease and Mellow confronts a strange, cybernetic attacker.

Lighthearted: The Tea Gets Dark (Session 3 of 3)
Kurt Potts runs for Barry, Lauren, Pearl Zare, and Puckett
In this session, we find out what Kyle's been up to and why Baylee got so upset with Dr. P in the previous session.

Night Witches: September 2019: Pashkovskaya/Rudnya (Session 4 of 4)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Maria M., Mike Ferdinando, and Puckett
The Natural Born Soviet Airwomen of the 588th settle in to their new Duty Station with an unusual mission.

Night Witches: October 2019: Rudnya (Session 1 of 4)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Eli S., Maria M., and Sarah J.
It was a Dark and Stormy Night for the 588th. Transfers to cover losses mean the return of former comrades.

Apocalypse World (Session 2 of 5)
Lowell Francis runs for John Campbell, Peter Mazzeo, Scot Ryder, and Steven desJardins
After the attack on The Mud Pit, the group looks into who is pushing the war brewing behind the scenes of the settlement.

The Bat Hack: Mrs October (Session 3 of 5)
Jim Likes Games runs for Bethany H., Catherine Ramen, Jesse A., and Rich Rogers
The Gauntlet City Gals face the Detroit Debs in Game 2 of the 5-game All American Girls Professional Baseball League Championship.

Trophy Gold: Tomb of the Serpent Kings (Session 3)
Jason Cordova runs for Fraser Simons and Tyler Lominack
Our treasure hunters meet their end as they push their luck against a basilisk.

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