Ch. 02 Road of Ruin - Pt 5

Act One of Five: And lo, on the eve of the mayoral election, a messenger did appear to the good folk of Sherrydown. Programme notes This production contains fantasy violence, drug use, sex references and authoritarian coercion. Don’t miss the epilogue at the very end of the episode! Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to The Monster’s Playbook, another actual play Monster of the Week podcast, where the real world crashes into the paranormal over and over and over again. 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: 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 https://foggyoutline.com/merelyroleplayers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, Reeling after an awful situation, the remaining group members return to the scene of Seekers death to pass the night in relative safety before the long climb up the mountain. Do you think the two men coming down the mountain at them with shotguns will notice the cult's artifact carelessly tossed into the mine? I guess you're about to find out. Thank you to Tanja for voicing OTI! Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, Trapped in what should have been safety, the group continue to fight off the darkness that's coming for them. Do you think they regret backing themselves into a corner? I guess you're about to find out. Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, Opportunities were seized as Seeker decides to take a dangerous risk in order to get to the Book that so mysteriously went missing. After which, the team forges ahead towards Gumpendorf and makes camp in a potentially safe place outside of a mine. Common, you know it's probably not safe, right? I guess you're about to find out. Ah, Violet, took the concept of truth and lies and did... well... you'll find out, sooner rather than later I fear. Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, Long forgotten memories come to haunt the travelers as they set themselves up for the night. They end up watching shadows and talking until the sun comes up - covering everything from the wisdom of age, lost family and the instinct to run, but will their long night be detrimental to them as they have a long day's trek ahead? I guess you're about to find out. I find the dark strangely illuminating when it comes to ones fears, and the daylight oddly sanitizing of those fears. Perhaps a balanced introspection is best reserved for twilight or dawn. I guess which you prefer depends on if you're a glass half full or glass half empty kind of person. Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, The new group started heading towards the witches coven at Diableria, stopping at the first gate to talk with Lilian. Lilian who knows of Aster, Seeker... and obviously Ralph. Seeker not only receives information, but also a protective rune from Lilian, before she makes her way towards the airport. She seems quite nice, Lilian I mean. Meeting old friends is always a strange feeling, especially when time has passed and we all change with time, don't we? Or do we? I guess you're about to find out. Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, Seeker comes bearing coffee and employment, although he is shut out of the room as Lark and Sully discuss a mutual friend. With dreams being dreams and there being a very physical threat of cult activity, the group instead turn to more practical matters as Seeker seeks to join them. Tangling with the cult, even briefly, equaled death for three, I wonder how investigating more directly will turn out? I guess you're about to find out. The difficulty with existence is how we all perceive it differently. An object viewed from different angles gives you a different set of information, and yet we seem so eager to only believe our own point of view... I guess this distrust comes from the fact that we can lie. Lark's dreams are sadly a mixture of truth and lies so no wonder Sully is struggling. Big thank you to Chris Kaine for voicing Ash Malik Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, After meeting with the leader of Diableria, the travelers finally come face to face with Aster's friend Henri, or Seeker as he goes by now. Telling someone that there has been a passing is never an easy thing to do. But when the manner is so unusual, how will Seeker react? I guess you're about to find out. Hmmm. Seeker might have more information than he's letting on - oh my, it's quite unpleasant! I do hope he's staying. Big thank you and welcome to Travis Vengroff! Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, Last we left, they had decided to follow Aster's last request and head towards Diableria to meet his friend Henri. Sully being Sully, is about to stumble into some familiar faces - not all of whom are friendly. Is approaching so boldy into a Collective a smart move? I guess you're about to find out. It's nice when strangers carry out your last wish. Good for them. Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/sprouting to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Scabard - rpg note and world organizer! https://www.scabard.com/pbs Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs BIG thank you to: Karim for Roland, and Chris Kaine/Shaderu for Ash Malik Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dear Listener, OTI makes his way towards the recently crystalized in order to discover what happened to recently departed. Is there encapsulated in the crystal? Is it safe to tread upon? Is anything else hidden in plain sight? I guess you're about to find out. It's amazing what lurks in our subconscious, eh Lark? Our Amazing Sponsors: https://www.questportal.com/ to use the awesome Virtual Tabletop system that allows us to play across the globe, use SPROUT30 at checkout for a one time 30% of a Pro Subscription! Use SPROUT10 for 10% off store wide at www.chaosium.com - the makers of Call of Cthulhu 7e! Use Sprout10 for 10% off at www.sybotanica.com to start your botanical adventures! Go to SkullSplitter Dice and use the code SPROUTING to get 20% off of your purchase! https://bit.ly/3THtLXs Find the authors: Email: [email protected] Website: https://linktr.ee/thesprouting Discord: https://discord.gg/vtgnVAZY44 Support: http://www.Patreon.com/blighthouse This is a Blighthouse Studio production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices