Act Two of Five: And the King said unto the scurrying interlopers, Kneel before mine throne and let me know mine enemy.Coming next on 15 August – Dear Renko & co (Vigil Backstage)PROGRAMME NOTESThis production contains fantasy violence, drug use, sex references and authoritarian coercion.Congratulations to all the winners of the first annual CRIT (Creator Recognition in TTRPG) Awards! Including:Friend of the show Tib Winterfield’s award-winning newsletter, Loremasters: https://loremasters.substack.com/Award-winning Twitch channel Girls Run These Worlds, featuring friend of the show and past guest Fiona Howat as a regular game master: https://girlsruntheseworlds.com/Luvvie alert! We simply must introduce you to Deck of Many Aces, an actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast made by actual asexuals and aromantics! Follow four heroes as they adventure through a fantasy world on the cusp of a technological revolution, augmented by magic. Each character's fate is tied to one of the 22 cards in the Deck of Many Things, a D&D magical object based on a tarot deck. https://shows.acast.com/deck-of-many-acesDRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONSGWYNNED: A former shieldmaiden of the triple goddess Morrigan. For the crime of saving a mortal man from the Morrigan’s cruel whim, the goddess exiled Gwyn to live as a duck, overlooked by mortals. Recently freed from the curse, Gwyn is negotiating a new relationship with her mistress.JINNY GREENTEETH: Proprietor of the Grove of Oddities, a tacky Sherrydown tourist attraction. In a past life, Jinny was branded a witch after a series of drownings in her Lancashire village.RENKO: A DoOm agent assigned to Sherrydown, furloughed since the office closed.HARPER: A US exchange student trying to sever her ties to the Shadow realm she sometimes enters through revolving doors.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:- Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine- Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger- Vikki as Renko, the Flake- Marta da Silva as Harper, the SearcherROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael SandsMUSIC BY: Alexander PankhurstSOUND DESIGN BY: Matt BoothmanSFX AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC INCLUDES: pigeons taking off by glaneur de sons on Freesound (CC BY 3.0); soaring clouds by bruce956 on Freesound (CC BY 4.0); and may include others made available to use without attribution.EDITED 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