The Fellows Bold

It's "good"-cop teen-cop when Urtlod and Wanderheart shake down an unlucky sahuagin guard for information as he hangs from a hook in cold storage. Meanwhile across the complex, Lucis and Jac undergo the toe-tapping task of stacking dead bodies while listening to nostalgia radio. Will the Fellows' forceful deceptions work the next time they encounter an occupied room on their stealthy vanguard mission? Or are they destined to stumble through a series of completely avoidable farces as they jugger toward their mission's end? You know the answer.

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This week's episode is a farce - practically a pantomime! Jac abandons the attempt to explore the fortress undetected in favour of confronting the sahuagin and offering them redemption in St Cuthbert. Urtlod applies an ass-focused creative licence to his translation duties and forces the party into a close-quarters fight. Wanderheart and Lucis are disappointed by a series of empty coffers. 

We didn't say in the episode, so: thank you so much to Dan Lee and to Adam Sillman for our podcast cover artwork and theme tune respectively. You can find Dan on Instagram at @danleecomics and Adam runs a multimedia poetry magazine you can find at crunchpoetry.com. 

Just as a side note: we're still in lockdown here in Wales (UK) and recording from our respective homes, and we're really grateful that we've been able to continue to do this, and humbled by the time and effort our players put in and by you, Dear Listener, downloading and listening to our episodes. Stay safe, stay home if you can, wear a mask when you can't, and we hope we can see you (vaccinated) soon! 

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Harryl Staint has not approved this mission, but our heroes made a promise they intend to keep; Jac Tegwyn (Dan Jenkins), Lucis Freeman (Saul Woods), and Andreina "Wanderheart" Kulanekali (Rachel Stockton) are off to fight alongside the lizardfolk in their long-prepared assault on the sahuagin, who have taken over their home. En route, they've drafted fellow rebel and new character Urtlod Octavian, the tortle monk (Kev Davies). The lizardfolk have a special task for the renegades, but it'll require them to sneak unseen into the now two-thirds submerged fortress and survive the night. 

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Whether stuck in traffic on a motorbike, cresting waves on a jet-ski, or piercing through the skies as a peregrine falcon, the race for the gods' favour must be won. Oliago confronts a dragon, Von abandons his own creation, Aurelia unwinds a grave injustice, and Blaze asks a woman to take her top off!

Only one team can win, only one player can have their wish fulfilled. Who will it be?

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Our special player versus player "Fringe Festival" bonus chapter continues! The two teams race through a columned hall guarded by mythical beasts and discover the mysterious city beyond. Blaze and Aurelia speed through traffic on a Ducati 996 while Oliago and Von are back at the biker bar searching for answers.

It's a ring-ripping, bike-borrowing, dragon-dodging dungeon dash and only one team can win the wish!

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The pandemic stopped us from being able to record a live episode last year but we still wanted to go ahead with the special side mission that we'd planned so here it is. It's quite different from our previous "Fringe Festival" specials for a number of reasons,

Like all our pandemic episodes the game is being played and recorded remotely over Roll20.

What was supposed to be a single episode affair turned into a chapter because Dan doesn't know how to make small simple things.

Throw the friendly teamwork attitudes in the bin because this time it's PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER!

DM Dan has decreed that the gods from 2019's live episode have created a challenging dungeon race for two teams of mortals to conquer with the promise of a great reward. Co-host Abi and guest player Rachel return their heroic season one characters Aurelia and Blaze to fight for Team Gold. Racing against them for Team Ultramarine are Von and Oliago - the mighty (but a little rusty) season one characters played by guest players Kev and Harry.It's a riddle-icious, trap-gasmic, brain-bending dungeon designed to push the players to their limit! GraveAmbition / Twitter / Facebook

Bombus, Geraint, and Jac finally discover a plot point after venturing through the secret doorway Dan sneakily spied on the Roll20 map in the last session. Geraint takes a critical hit from a gigantic Grecian-myth monster, Jac gets brave, and Bombus picks the absolute best (read: worst) time to open a bag of chocolate buttons. 

The Fellows are responsible for yet another fire. Bombus and Geraint share a moment of intimacy. Jac tries to join a cosmic dragon vore cult. 

Next episode will be our Not Live at the Swansea Fringe special - featuring some returning, excitingly high-level, season one characters! 

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Seasons Greetings, Dear Listener! This is our third annual Fellows Bold Christmas Special, so of course we asked Rhys, Laura and Kath to join us for another festive adventure!

The four Fellows wake up in the local jail with no memory of why or how they got there. The only thing they can be sure of is that they'd all been at the FGWAA Non-Denominational Midwinter Festival Party.Can they escape their bind and find freedom? Will they ever remember what heinous crime they commited - or supposedly committed? Can the players keep the foul language to a minimum so we can release a single episode without the explicit tag? (spoiler: no - Dan's bleeped the swears, but there are still some adult/challenging themes)

Merry Christmas, Nadolig Llawen, Happy Holidays. Thank you for continuing to tune in

An attempt at diplomacy. Ham. Restrained in a net. Ham. Bashed on the bonce. Ham. Dirty Kitchen. Ham. Trolling a card game. Ham.

After recording, we looked up Billy Bear Ham to see if it's just a UK thing and it appears it is, so sorry non-UK folks. It is internet search-able though, so we'd recommend doing that for the lolz. According to metro.co.uk, the ingredients of Billy Bear Ham are pork (66%), water, pea starch, salt, pea protein, dextrose, salt replacers, spices, antioxidants, stabiliser, yeast extract, and preservative - so you can make your mind up on whether you'd put that inside your body or not.

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Dan really wanted this week's episode description to just be Iron Maiden lyrics, but then he remembered Iron Maiden are a bit fascist these days so we're not doing that.

 

DM Abi realises she probably should have scaled down the Skull Dunes encounter, but our brave Fellows venture on anyway. Jac spends his last big spell slot summoning a second camel and we're sure you can guess how that'll end. Geraint (re)discovers bludgeoning damage. Bombus plays with his Jimmy Snap. 

 

Will they be able to talk their way out of this fight or will Dan (as Jac) just talk them into it further? 

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