Act Five of Five: In which the full might of the Great Fire, the Searing Tongue, the Smothering Haze, is unleashed on Sherrydown.Coming next on 6 June – Burning questions (Vigil Backstage)PROGRAMME NOTESThis production contains violence (including gun violence), possession, and death by fire.As the curtain falls on this production, throw us a rose emoji on any of our social media accounts – Instagram, Tumblr or Twitter! While you’re on our Instagram, check out The Feed: our now-complete actual play of Unreal, the video-journalling game of weirdness in the Big Brother house, by Josh Fox of Black Armada Games.Natalie Winter, Strat and Helen from Merely Roleplayers joined Fiona from What Am I Rolling? for a two-part livestreamed game of the The Between, a horror mystery against the backdrop of Victorian London, run by the game’s designer, Jason Cordova. All four parts are now available on the What Am I Rolling? podcast (for real this time). https://www.wairpodcast.com/Nominate for the Creator Recognition in TTRPG (CRIT) Awards by 1 June. https://critawards.mystrikingly.com/Our promo this episode is for the Fiction Podcast Weekly, your source for audio drama and fiction podcast news, resources and opportunities. https://www.thepodcasthost.com/fictionpodcastweekly/DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONSPERSEPHONE ‘PERCY’ BYRON: A Victorian monster hunter and half-sister of Ada Lovelace. Percy tried to time travel from 1852 to 1666 to stop the summoning of an apocalyptic demon, but something went wrong, and she landed in present-day Sherrydown instead.MICK MASON: Sherrydown’s favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.BRIER: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.ED KINCAID: a once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.DEPARTMENT OF OMISSIONS (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.SHERRYDOWN, BRACKSHIRE: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.OMISSION EFFECT: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.CREDITSCOMPERE: Matt BoothmanSTARRING:- Ellie Pitkin as Percy Byron, the Exile- Dave as Mick, the Mundane- Strat as Brier, the Monstrous- Chris MacLennan as Kincaid, the ProfessionalROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanEDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt BoothmanFIND USOn Instagram https://www.instagram.com/merelyroleplayers/On Tumblr https://merelyroleplayers.tumblr.com/On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/merelyroleplaywww.MerelyRoleplayers.com