Merely Roleplayers

Vigil: Chief/Exec, Act 5

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Act Five of Five: The appointed hour is nigh, for the humble and lowly to Attack and Dethrone Gods. Coming next on 26 September – Exit interview (Vigil Backstage) PROGRAMME NOTES This production contains fantasy violence, drug use, sex references and authoritarian coercion. If you enjoyed this production, throw us a rose emoji! We’re @merelyroleplayers on Instagram and Tumblr, and the cast are on Instagram @winternatters, @nanaluvren and @joshyard. Follow Marta to The Silt Verses season 3, where she’s entering her villain era as Val, the reality-bending saint of The Last Word. https://www.thesiltverses.com/ Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Trolls of the Two Tonne Bridges, a Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast, currently playing through the Tomb of Annihilation campaign. Expect adventure, laughs and the occasional dinosaur. And zombies. And zombie dinosaurs. https://linktr.ee/TotTTBpodcast DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONS GWYNNED: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is negotiating a new relationship with her mistress. JINNY GREENTEETH: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village. RENKO: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed. HARPER: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors. DEPARTMENT OF OMISSIONS (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres. SHERRYDOWN, BRACKSHIRE: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office. OMISSION EFFECT: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon. CREDITS COMPERE: Matt Boothman STARRING: - Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine - Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger - Vikki as Renko, the Flake - Marta da Silva as Harper, the Searcher ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst SOUND DESIGN BY: Matt Boothman SFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: Virtutes Instrumenti and Right Behind You by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0); pigeons taking off by glaneur de sons on Freesound (CC BY 3.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution. EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman FIND US On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/ On Tumblr https://merelyroleplayers.tumblr.com/ www.MerelyRoleplayers.com