Vigil: Cold Snap, Act 6

Imbued with divine flame and each carrying the mantle of the forest guardian, the hunters battle against the Winter King. Whatever happens, this isn’t going to be a quick thaw.

PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains fantasy violence.

Coming soon:

Codename Mosaic: Ghost Recall opens in the Studio on 4 May! It’s a follow-up to Codename: Mosaic, one of our Blackshaw Saga productions, and uses Mission: Accomplished!, the roleplaying game of super-spies and office meetings by Jeff Stormer. https://jeffstormer.itch.io/mission-accomplished

Vigil: Tourist Trap opens in the Main House on 1 June! Follow us on Twitter @MerelyRoleplay to meet the characters before we raise the curtain.

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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
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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