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With what words they have left, the Rogue Linguists expound on their experiences of the Forbidden Library.Coming up in the Main House – Vigil: The Long NightProgramme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer; Harrison, the Wonky Xerox; Jaguar, Readers Unknown; and Courtney, the Overachieving User- Natalie Winter as Tabitha, the Jazz Knight- Ellie Pitkin as Simon, the Monster Botherer and Gary, the Blood Slinger- Strat as Ernest, the Very Naughty and Ralph, the Ignored Boy- Matt Boothman as Basil, the Lithe Yodeller and Nerm, the Gold InventorROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Bibliocalypse from All Eyes No GamesMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Act II of III: The False Librarian acquaints the Rogue Linguists with the red acid slap of their own words.Coming next on 3 March – A to Z (Use Your Words Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst as Harrison, the Wonky Xerox; J, R_ U_; and C, the O_ U_- Natalie Winter as Tabitha, the Jazz Knight- Ellie Pitkin as Simon, the Monster Botherer and G_, the B_ S_- Strat as Ernest, the Very Naughty and R_, the I_ B_- Matt Boothman as Basil, the Lithe Yodeller and N_, the G_ I_ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Bibliocalypse from All Eyes No GamesMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Utterances deemed unpalatable by even the False Librarian. (The recording got giddy and I cut a lot out. Here some of it is.)Coming next on 24 February – Use Your Words, Act IIIProgramme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer and Harrison, the Wonky Xerox- Natalie Winter as Tabitha, the Jazz Knight- Ellie Pitkin as Simon, the Monster Botherer- Strat as Ernest, the Very Naughty- Matt Boothman as Basil, the Lithe YodellerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Bibliocalypse from All Eyes No GamesMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Act II of III: Words bleed meaning as False Librarian logophagy value extraction. Demonstration: yassified bakery explosion, lava (not hazardous), horizontal eruption, ceramic skulletComing next on 17 February – Lost for words (Use Your Words Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer and H_, the W_ X_- Natalie Winter as Tabitha, the Jazz Knight- Ellie Pitkin as Simon, the Monster Botherer- Strat as Ernest, the Very Naughty- Matt Boothman as Basil, the Lithe YodellerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Bibliocalypse from All Eyes No GamesMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

The players scry and speak their Rogue Linguists into being. (You heard a speedrun of this bit in Act I. This is longer and sillier.)Coming next on 10 February – Use Your Words, Act IIProgramme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst as Jehova, the Knowledge Undoer- Natalie Winter as Tabitha, the Jazz Knight- Ellie Pitkin as Simon, the Monster Botherer- Strat as Ernest, the Very Naughty- Matt Boothman as Basil, the Lithe YodellerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Bibliocalypse from All Eyes No GamesMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Act I of III: With a world losing meaning at their backs, the Rogue Linguists present their library cards and enter the nonsense that the Forbidden Library has become.Coming next on 3 February – Rogue Linguists (Use Your Words Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex and drugs.Subscribe to Professional Relations, the Foggy Outline newsletter, for monthly backstage updates and more.CreditsSTARRING:- Alexander Pankhurst as J_, the K_ U_- Natalie Winter as T_, the J_ K_- Ellie Pitkin as S_, the M_ B_- Strat as E_, the V_ N_- Matt Boothman as B_, the L_ Y_ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Bibliocalypse from All Eyes No GamesMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

No rest for the wicked, they of shaken faith. The players look back on the assignment – and forward to the next…?Coming next in January – Use Your Words, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.Play the Assignment we’re playing in this production, The Stone Shackle, with your own Silt Verses RPG gaming group. And let us know how your Custodians resolve it!CreditsSTARRING:- Marta Da Silva (The Silt Verses) as Nim Harrow, of The Watcher in the Wings- B Narr (The Silt Verses) as Jasper Finch, of The Pox-Martyr- Fiona KT Howat (What Am I Rolling?) as Billie Fletcher, of The Waxen ScrivenerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: The Silt Verses RPG, by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova, published by The Gauntlet.MUSIC BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Act 3 of 3: Stockstill in the searchlight. Stand together. Yes, banish hesitation, but it’s okay to look back sometimes too. A god must feed, so can one starve? The Custodians strive for resolution.Coming next on 2 December – Next assignment (It Feeds Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.Play the Assignment we’re playing in this production, The Stone Shackle, with your own Silt Verses RPG gaming group. And let us know how your Custodians resolve it!CreditsSTARRING:- Marta Da Silva (The Silt Verses) as Nim Harrow, of The Watcher in the Wings- B Narr (The Silt Verses) as Jasper Finch, of The Pox-Martyr- Fiona KT Howat (What Am I Rolling?) as Billie Fletcher, of The Waxen ScrivenerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: The Silt Verses RPG, by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova, published by The Gauntlet.MUSIC BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Anywhere can be an altar, and anything can be an offering. The players offer and accept some sacred (and sometimes useful) things.Coming next on 25 November – It Feeds on Fire, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.CreditsSTARRING:- Marta Da Silva (The Silt Verses) as Nim Harrow, of The Watcher in the Wings- B Narr (The Silt Verses) as Jasper Finch, of The Pox-Martyr- Fiona KT Howat (What Am I Rolling?) as Billie Fletcher, of The Waxen ScrivenerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: The Silt Verses RPG, by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova, published by The Gauntlet.MUSIC BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com

Act 2 of 3: Sky falling at the SSPC. Heavy hearts at Ornglen Unbroken. The trains don’t run any more. Nowhere to run. RUN. The Custodians have a theory.Coming next on 18 November – Altars (It Feeds Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.Play the Assignment we’re playing in this production, The Stone Shackle, with your own Silt Verses RPG gaming group. And let us know how your Custodians resolve it!CreditsSTARRING:- Marta Da Silva (The Silt Verses) as Nim Harrow, of The Watcher in the Wings- B Narr (The Silt Verses) as Jasper Finch, of The Pox-Martyr- Fiona KT Howat (What Am I Rolling?) as Billie Fletcher, of The Waxen ScrivenerROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: The Silt Verses RPG, by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova, published by The Gauntlet.MUSIC BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFind usOn InstagramOn Tumblrwww.MerelyRoleplayers.com