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Merely Roleplayers
By Foggy OutlinePerforming Arts
Merely Roleplayers episodes
- Custodians (It Feeds Backstage)
The players create the unsettling, troubled trio upon whose shaken faith the fate of Ornglen now depends.
Coming next on 11 November – It Feeds on Fire, Act 2
Programme notes
This production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.
Credits
STARRING:
- 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 Scrivener
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: The Silt Verses RPG, by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova, published by The Gauntlet.
MUSIC BY: Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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41 min - It Feeds on Fire, Act 1
Act 1 of 3: Stone fists on riot shields. Banish hesitation. Awe and terrify. Faiths are founded on less; who’s playing god in Ornglen? Custodians Billie, Nim and Jasper gather clues.
Coming next on 4 November – Custodians (It Feeds Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.
Matt’s other podcast, I Need A Miracle, is doing a live show at Audio Drama Hubfest on 1 November. You can get an evening ticket for just the live shows or a day ticket that includes all sorts of voice acting-related panels and activities.
Subscribe to Professional Relations, the Foggy Outline newsletter, for monthly backstage updates and more of Matt and his parents interviewing each other.
Credits
STARRING:
- 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 Scrivener
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: The Silt Verses RPG, by Gabriel Robinson and Jason Cordova, published by The Gauntlet.
MUSIC BY: Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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1 hr 9 min - After the end (Tipping Point Backstage)
Well what the fuck happens now?
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
Credits
STARRING:
- Alexander Pankhurst as Sacramento del Barco, the News
- Natalie Winter as Sundown, the Brainer
- Chris Starkey as Nasus Nest, the Waterbearer
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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24 min - Tipping Point, Act 3
Act 3 of 3: Nasus, Nipperkin, Sacramento, how the fuck does your garden grow?
Coming next on 23 September – After the end (Tipping Point Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
Support Apocalypse World: Burned Over, the new edition of the roleplaying game we’re playing.
Get ready for our next production by listening to The Silt Verses and watching our guest appearance on What Am I Rolling?’s two-part series playing The Between, run by its designer, Jason Cordova.
Credits
STARRING:
- Alexander Pankhurst as Sacramento del Barco, the News
- Natalie Winter as Sundown, the Brainer
- Chris Starkey as Nasus Nest, the Waterbearer
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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1 hr - The Hx network (Tipping Point Backstage)
Who’s side-eyeing who? Who’s flush with jingle a fucker could relieve them of? And who’s bartered it all away?
Coming next on 16 September – Tipping Point, Act 3
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
Credits
STARRING:
- Alexander Pankhurst as Sacramento del Barco, the News
- Natalie Winter as Sundown, the Brainer
- Chris Starkey as Nasus Nest, the Waterbearer
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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22 min - Tipping Point, Act 2
Act 2 of 3: What the fuck happened to Weird Sammy and them up at that house? Someone should see what Nasus knows.
Coming next on 9 September – The Hx network (Tipping Point Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
A few of our ensemble are going to London Podcast Festival on Sunday 7 September to see the Camlann and Wooden Overcoats live shows. Shout if you spot us and want to hang out, luvvies.
Credits
STARRING:
- Alexander Pankhurst as Sacramento del Barco, the News
- Natalie Winter as Sundown, the Brainer
- Chris Starkey as Nasus Nest, the Waterbearer
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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49 min - Who survives (Tipping Point Backstage)
What fuckin weirdos survive and thrive in a world like this? Got plenty wrong with them, ‘s for sure.
Coming next on 2 September – Tipping Point, Act 2
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
Credits
STARRING:
- Alexander Pankhurst as Sacramento del Barco, the News
- Natalie Winter as Sundown, the Brainer
- Chris Starkey as Nasus Nest, the Waterbearer
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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56 min - Tipping Point, Act 1
Act 1 of 3: Who the fuck’s this Dremmer think he is, rolling in tooled up with bandits in tow? Someone should tell him what’s what.
Coming next on 26 August – Who survives (Tipping Point Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
Subscribe to Professional Relations, the Foggy Outline newsletter, for monthly backstage updates and more of Matt and his parents interviewing each other.
Credits
STARRING:
- Alexander Pankhurst as Sacramento del Barco, the News
- Natalie Winter as Sundown, the Brainer
- Chris Starkey as Nasus Nest, the Waterbearer
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
Find us
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www.MerelyRoleplayers.com
52 min - How it happens (Tipping Point Backstage)
This fuckin world’s gonna burn and drown, scrap and starve. Take it from the experts. Here’s what we’re in for.
Coming next on 19 August – Tipping Point, Act 1
Programme notes
This production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.
What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos and online courses from Foggy Outline.
Credits
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
- Richard Boothman and Karen Boothman – climate educators from Foggy Outline, and Matt’s parents
ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Apocalypse World, second edition, by Vincent D Baker and Meguey Baker. The News playbook with Josh Savoie.
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman
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58 min - Post-credits scene (Vigil Backstage)
What epic future storylines could these events have set up? The Shadowfall cast speculates.
Coming next on x August – How it happens (Tipping Point Backstage)
Programme notes
This production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.
Dramatis personae and other definitions
Melody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless patchwork person animated by music, who fled her creator ages ago and has owned a music shop on this spot ever since.
Harper: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.
Gwynned, the Shieldmaiden: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan, exiled to live as a duck for the crime of saving a mortal man from her mistress’ cruel whim, now freed from her curse and elevated to a third of the godhead herself.
Brier: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.
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:
Helen Stratton as Melody Bantham, the Constructed
Marta Da Silva as Harper, the Searcher
Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine
Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
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
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About Merely Roleplayers
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Where theatrical people play roleplaying games. Each season our players part-improvise a story in a new genre, with roleplaying game rules providing surprising twists and turns. Jump in at the start…
of any season! The story continues every other Tuesday; on the Tuesdays in between, Backstage episodes shed light on the game and storytelling mechanics behind the scenes.