Gauntlet Video Roundup - September 30, 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 Community Open Gaming

Old School Essentials: Mortzengersturm: The Mad Manticore of the Prismatic Peaks
Mike Ferdinando runs for Anya Reyes, Daniel Kušan, Paulo, and Sasha
Posing as royal inspectors, our heroes visit the stronghold of the the mad wizard Mortzengersturm, master of transformation magic. The wizard stole the mystical Whim-Wham Stone to turn himself into a manticore, and the princess wants it back. 1970s cartoon hijinks ensue!

Bluebeard's Bride
Steph runs for Eirinar, Rod Santos, and SalamanderJames
We have some spooky shenanigans through Bluebeard's mansion.

Quietus
Mike Ferdinando runs for Kavya and Mona
Sisters Lorelei and Ashley are struggling to keep the family business afloat, when one night the power goes out and their apartment above their shop are invaded by masked, axe-wielding killers. Can they survive the night?

Hunter: the Reckoning
Blake Ryan runs for Donogh, Kae, Kathleen Fuller, and Steph
🌲 ☕ 🔥 Oneshot set in 2010 Canada. #TimHortons

Hit the Nazi - Retrieve the Ark
Alun R. runs for Jim Likes Games, Mairi, Rod Santos, and Sabine V.
We meet the 'Bruiser/Academic', Prof. Maria Maganda Echeverria; the 'Daredevil/Air Ace', Craig Carter; the 'Hustler/Socialite', Lana Morgan, and the 'Friend/Ace Reporter, Hildy Russell, as events at a ribbon cutting in New Gauntlet City propel them across the globe to where Nazis aim to invoke ancient deities. Democracy prevails through derring-do, almighty alliteration, and plenty of cracking wise...though love is betrayed before a volcano erupts...

Hunter: the Reckoning
Blake Ryan runs for Chris R., Kathleen Fuller, and Steph
🌑 🍟 🐈 Oneshot in 2010 Canada. Black Cats & Moths.

Ex-Capes (Session 1 of 2)
Jim Likes Games runs for Kathleen Fuller, Michael Mendoza, Philip Rogers, and Rod Santos
We create characters and initiate The Contender plot. This part 1 of a 2-session playtest of Jim Crocker's hack of The Between about the adventures of not-so-retired superheroes.

Ex-Capes (Session 2 of 2)
Jim Likes Games runs for Kathleen Fuller, Michael Mendoza, Philip Rogers, and Rod Santos
We dive into The Contender plot and explore other aspects of play, including Answer a Question. This is part 2 of a 2-session playtest of Jim Crocker's hack of The Between about the adventures of not-so-retired superheroes.

Vow of the Knight-Aspirants: The Forest's Lessons
Alexi S. runs for Brandon Brylawski, Eirinar, Jon East, and Rod Santos
Four squires encounter a manticore-like beast, a constructed scarecrow knight, and a village of scared and angry townsfolk. Can they bring about peace in a place roiled by wrath and fear? Lady Kimmin tries to lighten hearts with her humor, Bronwen trusts to her honed swordswomanship, Midnight confronts the suspicions directed at an adopted Seathlander, and Rhymour always has a book at the ready.

Molotov College (Session 1 of 2)
Donogh runs for Anders, Jon East, and Kae
We meet our Alumni: Justine, August & Sage - all struggling in some way in the years since the College closed with the disappearance of the Headmaster. But they find themselves together again with a prospective reopening on the cards; but darker things are in motion - a looming apocalypse and the strange paths of the other Alumni...

Molotov College (Session 2 of 2)
Donogh runs for Anders, Jon East, and Kae
Sage's involvement with Quincy, and his involvement at the centre of Justine's conspiracy board breeds suspicion between the Alumni. The Police throw a match to the flames and August loses control over the Phantom Wind with the intervention of a ghost from their past. But when Quincy shows up things get real complicated... [Content warning: police violence, alcohol.]

Trophy Dark: Isle of Water and Blood
Mike Ferdinando runs for Erik Sofge, Mona, and SalamanderJames
In 1902, a group of dilettante occultists sail to one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire in order to perform a ritual of summoning. It does not go to plan.

Pasión de las Pasiones: Embers of Passion
Lowell Francis runs for Dave, Mike Ferdinando, Mindy, and usnavi
With the vanishingly of the luxury hotel's owner, forces converge on La Rosa Querida to take control or simply find a place-- but when the police raid a room looking for drug, it sets off a chain which will throw lovers together and provide a shocking revelation of parentage.

Crescendo of Violence: Kind of Black & Blue
Lowell Francis runs for Mark, Mike Ferdinando, Mischa D. Krilov, and Rich Rogers
We try out Osprey's just-released neon-noir action TTRPG. When a nightclub singer goes missing our protagonists take the case leading to an apartment under siege, a sharp-edged restaurant, a hyper-spa, and finally a shoot-out at Neo Grand Central Station.

Gauntlet Calendar

Bump in the Dark: Welcome to Last Pine (Session 4 of 4)
Jex Thomas runs for Ben Bond, Berry S, Steven S., and Thomas Manuel
The Burned Book Club investigates strange happenings involving a local teen and the upcoming Pinewood County Fair while tension mounts within the group.

Fallout 2d20: Welcome to Your New Home (Session 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Dennis Matheson, Jason Zanes, Rich Rogers, and Will H
While Cole and Hype are forced through a game of death and onto the floorboards for a deadly game of heretical basketball, Fizz and Longman work to steal the key ElektroVic production line component. When their team begins to turn the crowd, Vault 33's overseer releases a Supermutant ringer onto the Court and things get even wilder from there.

The Between: Ghosts of El Paso Episode (Session 2 of 12)
Jim Likes Games runs for Chris Newton, José Feito, Keith Stetson, and Puckett
Our first Dusk/Night Phases as the Vigilance Committee squares off with the Ghost-Be-Gone Threat, and we introduce The Lady in White.

Fading Suns: Pax Alexius (Session 3 of 3)
Lowell Francis runs for David Montgomery, MadJay Brown, and Rod Santos
Intercepted by Mantis Knights, the group is forced to accept the hospitality of a Decados noble. Though they seem accommodating, things become tense when the groups' incursion into the ruins (and theft of a transport) becomes known. After worrying signs, the group decides to investigate the Baron, leading to a deadly confrontation.

Songs for the Dusk (Session 3 of 11)
Shane runs for Agatha, Ian, and Puckett
The Seagulls successfully sneak into the Hand of the Cocoon's compound in Iron Harbour, but getting out safely and undetected proves to be the bigger problem.

Star Wars Saturday

Starscape (Session 4 of 4)
Rich Rogers runs for Anders, Jo Lene, Sherri, and Will H
The crew of the Dancing Sarlaac knowingly walk into a trap, and not all of them walk back out.

Gauntlet Reading Club

The All-Consuming World
Steven S. facilitates for Leandro Pondoc and Maria M.
The Gauntlet Reading Club discusses Cassandra Khaw's The All-Consuming World. Spoilers for The All-Consuming World in this video!!!

Once More Into the Void: The All-Consuming World (Session 1)
Steven S. facilitates for Leandro Pondoc and Maria M.
The Gauntlet Reading club starts our run of Rae Nedjadi's Once More Into the Void inspired by Cassandra Khaw's The All-Consuming World. Rosafina Blooming recruits mad scientist EL and Mother Rent to carry out one last score as a shadowy legion of the vengeful dead threatens the minds' dominion over space. Plus, we agree that Brother Teleconference is too silly a name.

Once More Into the Void: The All-Consuming World (Session 2)
Steven S. runs for Leandro Pondoc and Maria M.
The crew finds out just how little Rosafina Blooming has left to her name, visits a place Mother Rent would rather avoid, and gets accused of war crimes!

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!