Unfamiliar Heroes 14 – The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 1

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 14 Summary

In the fourteenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes, our three heroes get their first internship assignment from The Adventurers Academy. Join them as they start out on their journey!

Willa the gecko lizardperson rogue, Tarragon the orc bard, and D’Zân the weredragon druid are participating in The Owlbear Reintroduction Program, a project that is reestablishing owlbears in areas where the owlbear populations have been previously wiped out. Of course, this is not as simple as it sounds, because owlbears are large, ferocious, magical predators. Throw in a group of skilled poachers determined to steal owlbear eggs and things are bound to get interesting. This improvised, tabletop adventure was created with the Magic Goes Awry role-playing system!

Unfamiliar Heroes is a new podcast series where people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or diverse minds use tabletop role-playing games to together create stories that center disabled, sick, and mentally diverse characters. In its core values this project centers the experiences of people living at the intersections of oppression. Unfamiliar Heroes is part of the Writing Alchemy Podcast.

Game System: Magic Goes Awry

Storyteller: Fay Onyx

Players: Oriana, Robin, Sage Ealy Silk

This illustration depicts three characters, each from a different genre of story, and each with a disability. On the left is a black gnome archer riding in a chariot pulled by a large brown dog. The chariot has a chair in it so that they can sit instead of stand. In the middle is a Latina woman manipulating a tech device on her wrist as she begins to go invisible. She is wearing an air filtering mask of the type that people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sometimes wear. On the right is a white muscular superhero wearing a very gay, blue superhero outfit. He has lightning crackling between his two hands, which are shaped atypically. This beautiful work of art was created the amazing Rose Adare!

Episode Transcript

In order to make these transcripts as accessible as possible, each one is produced in four formats: as an online post for access convenience, in a word document with a low vision friendly font (Veranda), in a pdf with a dyslexia friendly font (OpenDyslexic), and a low contrast blue on black pdf as an access option for people with migraines (Veranda).

Online transcript: https://writingalchemy.net/2019/11/18/transcript-of-the-owlbear-reintroduction-program-part-1/

Word doc: Writing Alchemy E33 Transcript

Pdf: Coming soon!

Blue on black: Coming soon!

Main transcripts page: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/transcripts/

Transcribed by: Larcie with the help of Otter.ai

Show Notes

Game System

Magic Goes Awry: https://writing-alchemy.net/magic-goes-awry/

Fay’s Links

You can become my patron on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/WritingAlchemy

The RSS feed of this podcast is: https://writing-alchemy.net/feed/podcast

Unfamiliar Heroes: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/unfamiliar-heroes/

Robin’s Links

Tumblr: http://skeletonmug.tumblr.com

Access LARP: https://accesslarp.com/

Oriana’s Links

Facebook: www.facebook.com/oriana.sobriket

Our Space: A Coloring Book: https://www.facebook.com/ourspacecoloring/

Sage’s Links

Dreamwidth: https://vladdraculea.dreamwidth.org/

Music and Sound Credits

Intro: Kickin’ in the Turbo (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Game theme: Living Voyage (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

Adventurers Academy music: Red Giant by Stellardrone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License

Rainforest birds: Rainforest Morning Chorus_2.wav by digifishmusic | License: Attribution

Podcast announcements: The Place Where I’ll Return To (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

River water: River Tay.wav by inchadney | License: Attribution

River drone: River Drone by silentseason | License: Creative Commons 0

Townsfolk: Converses mercat.wav by AAEPGranollers | License: Creative Commons 0

Docks: moored small boa