Unfamiliar Heroes 18 – The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 5

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 18 Summary

Zombies are coming toward our three heroes. Join them in the eighteenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes as they struggle to get to the shelter of the Inn on the Bridge!

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 divergent minds use tabletop role-playing games to together create stories that center disabled, sick, and mentally divergent 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/

Berenstain Bears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears

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

Ominous zombie theme: Tenebrous Brothers Carnival – Act Three (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

Bush rustle: Foliage_Rustling_001.wav by duckduckpony | License: Attribution

The owlbear pounce was made from the following four sounds:

Jump: SFXJumpLiftOffGrass.wav by dkiller2204 | License: Creative Commons 0

Landing: Jump Landing [remix MentalSanityOff’s jumping 148796] by qubodup | License: Creative Commons 0

Bite: Zombie Flesh Bites by MrPokephile | License: Creative Commons 0

Blood: Blood_Drips_Tomato.wav by melissapons | License: Creative Commons 0

The owlbear clawing and biting the zombie effect was made from three sounds:

Ripping: Melon Rip.wav by neilsher | License: Creative Commons 0

The same bite and blood effects as above

The rope trap sound sequence was made from the following nine sounds:

Branch snaps: breaking branches.wav by Zbyhek | License: Attribution

Swish: swishes.wav by buzbe20 | License: Creative Commons 0

Twirling rope: ropes by ssierra1202 | License: Creative Commons 0

Thud: ROPE_GOES_TIGHT.WAV by dansotak | License: Creative Commons 0

Rope pulling tight: Rope pull 1.wav by Huggy13ear | License: Attribution

Bush hit: bushhit.wav by