Unfamiliar Heroes 17 – The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 4

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 17 Summary

Our three heroes begin their negotiations with the owlbears in the seventeenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes. Join them for the excitement of river adventures and camping with owlbears!

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!

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

Deer creek: river1.wav by Andy_Gardner | License: Creative Commons 0

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

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

The boat box opening sequence was made from the following three sounds:

Paper rustle: paper sounds by swordofkings128 | License: Creative Commons 0

Magic chime: Magic wand.wav by olver | License: Creative Commons 0

Box opening: cupboard creak 8.flac by tim.kahn | License: Attribution

Boat enlarging (this sound was reversed for the shrinking sound):

The boat thud and splash sequence was made from the following four sounds:

Crash and creak: Rysähdyksiä / Crash, wooden crashes, some creaks, mix by YleArkisto | License: Attribution

Thud: wooden door slam.wav by ttiimm54 | License: Sampling+

Rattle: light_crate_smash2.wav by Srehpog | License: Attribution

Splash: Big Splash.wav by Bird_man | License: Creative Commons 0

The boat scraping along the wharf was made from the following four sounds:

Large scrape: Wood Chest Slid.3.wav by kforetek | License: Creative Commons 0

Vibrating scrape: wood chair scrape on floor, papers,.mp3 by JohnsonBrandEditing | License: Creative Commons 0

Strained wood: Wood panel fence pul