Vigil: Cold Snap, Act 1

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Early morning sunlight streams down through the foliage of the Rosebrier Forest while a gentle breeze dances around The Grove of Oddities, carrying with it the scent of blood.

Programme notes

This production contains fantasy violence.

If you enjoyed Vigil: Playtime, our first Main House production, you should pick up The Sherrydown Enquirer 1: Playtime, a Monster of the Week mystery scenario and Sherrydown lore supplement. It contains Playtime, a mystery for use with the roleplaying game Monster of the Week by Michael Sands, for the roleplayers among you; and snippets of history and information about the Sherrydown setting, for fans of Vigil. Buy The Sherrydown Enquirer 1: Playtime on itch.io.

Our promo this episode is for Monster Hour, a grimcamp Monster of the Week actual play set in the town of Firmament, Colorado.

Dramatis personae and other definitions

Brier: a mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

Gwynned: 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 trying to do good without attracting her mistress’s attention.

Cameron Jarvis: an intense young man, obsessed with monster hunting since his parents and sister were killed by ghouls while camping outside Sherrydown.

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.

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.

Credits

COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Natalie Winter as Gwynned, the Divine

Chris Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Josh Yard as Jinny Greenteeth, the Spellslinger

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Natalie Winter

SFX INCLUDES: dark ambience by Patrick Lieberkind; Virtutes Instrumenti and Mirage by Kevin MacLeod; horse on turf, start into gallop from BBC Acropolis (RemArc licence); Wintersong and Tranquil Fields Tense by Alexander Nakarada; bird whistling, single, robin A by Jonathan Shaw; birds flapping wings EQed by juskiddink; and may include others made available to use without attribution.

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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