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Act Four of Five: Test your smoke alarms and check your boiler regularly. Otherwise your home can really hurt you.
Coming next on 26 November – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 5
Programme notes
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.
Meet actual play podcasters and see some live recordings at the Dragonmeet PodcastZone in London on 30 November.
Back the Slayers Survival Kit and Hunter’s Journal, two new Monster of the Week books.
Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to OMEN Investigations, a comedy horror podcast starring three secret agents as they travel the world fighting monsters, ghosts, aliens and other paranormal perils.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.
Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown’s library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.
Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.
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. Recently lifted.
Credits
COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crooked
Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert
Chris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the Professional
Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
with Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis
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: Mirage by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers
On Tumblr @merelyroleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Three of Five: As the innocents evacuate, hostilities escalate. The walls are closing in.
Coming next on 12 November – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 4
Programme notes
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.
Nominate your favourite podcasts for the 2024 Discover Pods Awards. Merely Roleplayers is eligible under Fiction and I Need A Miracle, the scripted audio drama Matt wrote, is eligible for Best New Podcast of 2024.
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.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.
Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown’s library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.
Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.
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. Recently lifted.
Credits
COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crooked
Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert
Chris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the Professional
Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
with Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis
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: Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod; and may include others made available to use without attribution.
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers
On Tumblr @merelyroleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Meet Peggy: grifter, scion, Crooked. Ellie builds her new character along with an identity parade of supernatural villains.
Coming next on 29 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 3
Programme notes
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.
Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown’s library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.
Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.
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. Recently lifted.
Credits
COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crooked
Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert
Chris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the Professional
Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
with Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers
On Tumblr @merelyroleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act Two of Five: Search this house from bottom to top!
Coming next on 22 October – Peggy, the Crooked (Vigil Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.
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.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Peggy Tailor: The prodigal daughter of a local family that dabbles in fey frolicking and organised crime, back in town to lay low after a grift gone horribly wrong.
Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown’s library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.
Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.
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. Recently lifted.
Credits
COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as Peggy Tailor, the Crooked
Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert
Chris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the Professional
Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
with Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis
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 @MerelyRoleplayers
On Tumblr @merelyroleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The cast work out how everyone’s connected to Ellie’s new character.
Coming next on 15 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 2
Programme notes
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown’s library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.
Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.
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. Recently lifted.
Credits
COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as ???
Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert
Chris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the Professional
Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
with Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram @MerelyRoleplayers
On Tumblr @merelyroleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act One of Five: Welcome to Tailors’ Haunt. Everyone who should live here is gone, and everyone you might want gone can’t leave.
Coming next on 8 October – Woven together (Vigil Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains strong language, drug use, gunfire, and gory fantasy violence.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Calistarius Softbinding: A local horror writer with a cult following, who sponsored the construction of a whole new wing of Sherrydown’s library. Calistarius Softbinding is a nom de plume.
Ed Kincaid: A once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.
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. Recently lifted.
Credits
COMPERE: Matt Boothman
STARRING:
Ellie Pitkin as ???
Chris Buxey as Calistarius Softbinding, the Expert
Chris MacLennan as Ed Kincaid, the Professional
Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger
with Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis
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 @MerelyRoleplayers
On Tumblr @merelyroleplayers
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
What chambers of the Queen’s Labyrinth did we leave unexplored? Join us backstage for a look back at this production.
Coming next on 1 October – Vigil: Tailor Made, Act 1
Programme notes
This production contains memory loss and dead animals.
Credits
GOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie Winter
STARRING:
Helen Stratton as Linda
Ellie Pitkin as Sir Barold von Branwick
Strat as Winkle
Matt Boothman as Gundle
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River Horse
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie Winter
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram
On Tumblr
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 5 of 5: The Goblin Queen’s Castle. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have fought our way here to take back what was stolen.
Coming next on 17 September – Retracing our steps (Labyrinth Untold)
Programme notes
This production contains memory loss and dead animals.
Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together’s ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.
Vigil returns on 1 October, and the first 5 Vigil mysteries (Playtime, Cold Snap, Tourist Trap, Bad Dog, and Quarry) are part of the Supernatural TTRPG Bundle: $20 for 60+ spooky digital games by 50 independent roleplaying game creators, available until 21 September.
Matt wrote a new show called I Need A Miracle, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Episode 1 premieres on 29 August. Or get all 12 episodes on 29 August by subscribing to Apollo+.
Credits
GOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie Winter
STARRING:
Helen Stratton as Linda
Ellie Pitkin as Sir Barold von Branwick
Strat as Winkle
Matt Boothman as Gundle
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River Horse
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie Winter
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram
On Tumblr
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Follow us around a few of the wrong turns, blind alleys and dead ends that we cut from this production.
Coming next on 10 September – Labyrinth Untold, Act 5
Programme notes
This production contains memory loss and dead animals.
Credits
GOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie Winter
STARRING:
Helen Stratton as Linda
Ellie Pitkin as Sir Barold von Branwick
Strat as Winkle
Matt Boothman as Gundle
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River Horse
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie Winter
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram
On Tumblr
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
Act 4 of 5: The Goblin City. Shadows are illegal and opera is mandatory. Just don’t make a scene.
Coming next on 3 September – Clangers untold (Labyrinth Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains memory loss and dead animals.
Matt wrote a new show called I Need A Miracle, where each episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Episode 1 premieres on 29 August. Or get all 12 episodes on 29 August by subscribing to Apollo+.
Goblin Queen Natalie Winter also plays Dungeons & Dragons and other games on Twitch with Roll Together! Find her as the Dungeon Master of Nexus and Nexus Revolutions, using fantasy to send up sci-fi, or playing Elodie Fogg in Roll Together’s ongoing steampunk campaign, Chronicles of Aeodrun.
Credits
GOBLIN QUEEN: Natalie Winter
STARRING:
Helen Stratton as Linda
Ellie Pitkin as Sir Barold von Branwick
Strat as Winkle
Matt Boothman as Gundle
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth The Adventure Game by Ben Milton (adventure) and Jack Caesar (rules), published by River Horse
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SEASON PLANNED BY: Natalie Winter
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
On Instagram
On Tumblr
www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
The podcast currently has 329 episodes available.