Merely Roleplayers

With what words they have left, the Rogue Linguists expound on their experiences of the Forbidden Library.Coming up in the Main House – Vigil: The Long NightProgramme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references to sex...

Act II of III: The False Librarian acquaints the Rogue Linguists with the red acid slap of their own words.Coming next on 3 March – A to Z (Use Your Words Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, and references...

Utterances deemed unpalatable by even the False Librarian. (The recording got giddy and I cut a lot out. Here some of it is.)Coming next on 24 February – Use Your Words, Act IIIProgramme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body shaming, an...

Act II of III: Words bleed meaning as False Librarian logophagy value extraction. Demonstration: yassified bakery explosion, lava (not hazardous), horizontal eruption, ceramic skulletComing next on 17 February – Lost for words (Use Your Words Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals,...

The players scry and speak their Rogue Linguists into being. (You heard a speedrun of this bit in Act I. This is longer and sillier.)Coming next on 10 February – Use Your Words, Act IIProgramme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereavement (including death of a parent figure), body sham...

Act I of III: With a world losing meaning at their backs, the Rogue Linguists present their library cards and enter the nonsense that the Forbidden Library has become.Coming next on 3 February – Rogue Linguists (Use Your Words Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains strong language, choking sounds, violence (including gun violence) and gore, harm to children and animals, death and bereav...

No rest for the wicked, they of shaken faith. The players look back on the assignment – and forward to the next…?Coming next in January – Use Your Words, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.Play the Assignment...

Act 3 of 3: Stockstill in the searchlight. Stand together. Yes, banish hesitation, but it’s okay to look back sometimes too. A god must feed, so can one starve? The Custodians strive for resolution.Coming next on 2 December – Next assignment (It Feeds Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, govern...

Anywhere can be an altar, and anything can be an offering. The players offer and accept some sacred (and sometimes useful) things.Coming next on 25 November – It Feeds on Fire, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrif...

Act 2 of 3: Sky falling at the SSPC. Heavy hearts at Ornglen Unbroken. The trains don’t run any more. Nowhere to run. RUN. The Custodians have a theory.Coming next on 18 November – Altars (It Feeds Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and r...

The players create the unsettling, troubled trio upon whose shaken faith the fate of Ornglen now depends.Coming next on 11 November – It Feeds on Fire, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and oppression, police violence, and references to ritual sacrifice.CreditsSTARRING:- Mar...

Act 1 of 3: Stone fists on riot shields. Banish hesitation. Awe and terrify. Faiths are founded on less; who’s playing god in Ornglen? Custodians Billie, Nim and Jasper gather clues.Coming next on 4 November – Custodians (It Feeds Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains violence, body horror, grotesque religious imagery, cults, religious trauma, family trauma, government corruption and o...

Well what the fuck happens now?Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in the real world? Learn all about climate breakdown (and who you need to yell at to do something about it) with videos...

Act 3 of 3: Nasus, Nipperkin, Sacramento, how the fuck does your garden grow?Coming next on 23 September – After the end (Tipping Point Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening in t...

Who’s side-eyeing who? Who’s flush with jingle a fucker could relieve them of? And who’s bartered it all away?Coming next on 16 September – Tipping Point, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it...

Act 2 of 3: What the fuck happened to Weird Sammy and them up at that house? Someone should see what Nasus knows.Coming next on 9 September – The Hx network (Tipping Point Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the apocalypse an...

What fuckin weirdos survive and thrive in a world like this? Got plenty wrong with them, ‘s for sure.Coming next on 2 September – Tipping Point, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it happening...

Act 1 of 3: Who the fuck’s this Dremmer think he is, rolling in tooled up with bandits in tow? Someone should tell him what’s what.Coming next on 26 August – Who survives (Tipping Point Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the...

This fuckin world’s gonna burn and drown, scrap and starve. Take it from the experts. Here’s what we’re in for.Coming next on 19 August – Tipping Point, Act 1Programme notesThis production contains climate breakdown, allusions to sex, conspiracy theories, gun violence, psychic coercion, and death. It mentions people in cages and dying of thirst.What caused the apocalypse and how can we avoid it ha...

What epic future storylines could these events have set up? The Shadowfall cast speculates.Coming next on x August – How it happens (Tipping Point Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an agel...

Act Five of Five: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Can Mayor’s unspecified scandal derail historic property deal?Coming next on 22 July – Post-credits scene (Vigil Backstage)Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street....

Act Four of Five: What happens when you mix ancient Albion’s divine magic with the gray psyche of the urban USA? Not a riddle: we’re about to find out.Coming next on 15 July – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 5Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Matt played Coiled Spæce with Maddy Searle on A Game Of One’s Own.Dramatis personae and other defin...

Act Three of Five: The library is a gateway to knowledge and, since they installed the revolving door, to dark places too.Coming next on 1 July – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 4Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Matt’s Mum interviews him about Merely Roleplayers in the next edition of Professional Relations, the Foggy Outline newsletter, d...

Act Two of Five: In the deepest darkest basement, the former Mayor has a lead that could go all the way to the top.Coming next on 17 June – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 3Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.In chapter 3 of Camera Obscura, Matt’s actual play of Outliers by Samantha Leigh, the RAs do battle with a dæmon-haunted server.Dramati...

The Shadowfall cast check the status of their characters’ relationships, and check Matt’s fit for clues.Coming next on 3 June – Vigil: Shadowfall, Act 2Programme notesThis production contains fantasy violence, gunfire, and references to child abduction.Dramatis personae and other definitionsMelody Bantham: The owner of Melodies, the cosy cafe and vinyl shop on Market Street. Melody is an ageless p...