Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 5

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Act Five of Five: In which the full might of the Great Fire, the Searing Tongue, the Smothering Haze, is unleashed on Sherrydown. Coming next on 6 June – Burning questions (Vigil Backstage) PROGRAMME NOTES This production contains violence (including gun violence), possession, and death by fire. As the curtain falls on this production, throw us a rose emoji on any of our social media accounts – Instagram, Tumblr or Twitter! While you’re on our Instagram, check out The Feed: our now-complete actual play of Unreal, the video-journalling game of weirdness in the Big Brother house, by Josh Fox of Black Armada Games. Natalie Winter, Strat and Helen from Merely Roleplayers joined Fiona from What Am I Rolling? for a two-part livestreamed game of the The Between, a horror mystery against the backdrop of Victorian London, run by the game’s designer, Jason Cordova. All four parts are now available on the What Am I Rolling? podcast (for real this time). https://www.wairpodcast.com/ Nominate for the Creator Recognition in TTRPG (CRIT) Awards by 1 June. https://critawards.mystrikingly.com/ Our promo this episode is for the Fiction Podcast Weekly, your source for audio drama and fiction podcast news, resources and opportunities. https://www.thepodcasthost.com/fictionpodcastweekly/ DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONS PERSEPHONE ‘PERCY’ BYRON: A Victorian monster hunter and half-sister of Ada Lovelace. Percy tried to time travel from 1852 to 1666 to stop the summoning of an apocalyptic demon, but something went wrong, and she landed in present-day Sherrydown instead. MICK MASON: Sherrydown’s favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline. BRIER: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest. ED KINCAID: a once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline. 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: - Ellie Pitkin as Percy Byron, the Exile - Dave as Mick, the Mundane - Strat as Brier, the Monstrous - Chris MacLennan as Kincaid, the Professional ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands 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/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/merelyroleplay www.MerelyRoleplayers.com