Unfamiliar Heroes 19 – The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 6

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 19 Summary

That creepy feeling is back, Willa is impressed, and a character from a beloved childhood story makes an appearance. Join us for the long-awaited conclusion to the Owlbear Reintroduction Program in the nineteenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes!

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 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/

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

Watching crow music: Tenebrous Brothers Carnival – Intermission (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

Hall of Wonders patter: Tenebrous Brothers Carnival – Act Two (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

Calming spell: Dreams Become Real (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

Magic flourish for bed sculpture twirling: Magic mallet.wav by Hotlavaman | License: Creative Commons 0

Glass bottle smashes: Breaking a glass bottle by dasebr | License: Creative Commons 0

Entrancing eye makeup: Fairytale (Harp & Chimes) by Slaking_97 | License: Attribution

Smoke bomb: Smoke bomb (small).wav by Nakhas | License: Attribution Noncommercial

Action music: The Complex (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

The same glass bottle smash effect as above

Smoke neutralizer releasing: Air_escaping.wav by Adam_N | License: Creative Commons 0

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

Deflecting glass bottle: glass bottle bounce.wav by natemarler | License: Attribution Noncommercial

The same glass bottle smash effect as above

The glue trap effect was made from the following seven sounds:

Poof: Poof of Smoke by Planman | License: Creative Commons 0

Bang: Explosion