Act One of Four: Mick struggles to wake from a nightmare, and the earth under Sherrydown shakes. Coming next on 14 May – Dream team (Vigil Backstage) PROGRAMME NOTES This production includes a natural disaster, fantasy violence, blood, and dismemberment (the dismemberment is not bloody). Nominations are open for the CRIT Awards 2024! https://www.critawards.org/ Merely Roleplayers is eligible for Best Podcast, Matt Boothman for Best Podcast Host and Best Game Master – Indie, and the following series are eligible for Best Series (which also means the characters in these series are eligible for Best NPC or Best Villain, and the players are all eligible for Best Player – Indie): - Main House: Vigil: The Great Fire, Vigil: Chief/Exec, Vigil: Fear Itself - Studio: Falling Cadence, The Queen’s Dead, The Office Party Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Thorne Files, a fellow Monster of the Week actual play podcast detailing the exploits and mysteries explored by agents of Thorne Investigations, a paranormal investigations agency, in 1952. https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-thorne-files-podcast DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONS MICK MASON: Sherrydown’s favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline. MELODY BANTHAM: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since. BRIER: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest. 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: - Dave as Mick Mason, the Mundane - Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the Constructed - Strat as Brier, the Monstrous ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands https://genericgames.co.nz/motw/ MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst SOUND DESIGN BY: Matt Boothman EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman FIND US On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/ On Tumblr https://merelyroleplayers.tumblr.com/ www.MerelyRoleplayers.com