Description
Early morning sunlight streams down through the foliage of the Rosebrier Forest while a gentle breeze dances around The Grove of Oddities, carrying with it the scent of blood.
PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains fantasy violence.
If you enjoyed Vigil: Playtime, our first Main House production, you should pick up The Sherrydown Enquirer 1: Playtime, a Monster of the Week mystery scenario and Sherrydown lore supplement. It contains Playtime, a mystery for use with the roleplaying game Monster of the Week by Michael Sands, for the roleplayers among you; and snippets of history and information about the Sherrydown setting, for fans of Vigil. Buy The Sherrydown Enquirer 1: Playtime: https://merelymatt.itch.io/enquirer-playtime
Our promo this episode is for Monster Hour, a grimcamp Monster of the Week actual play set in the town of Firmament, Colorado. https://monsterhour.podbean.com/
DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONS
BRIER: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.
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 trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.
CAMERON JARVIS: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.
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.
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:
- Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
- Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine
- Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged
- Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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