Did We Just Discover Our Setting's Origin Of The Bogeyman...?

Did we just discover our setting's origin of the bogeyman...?

Ghouls (Vigil Backstage)

We create some more lore about ghouls, especially the specific one Cameron is bent on destroying.

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COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Vikki as Renko, the Flake

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

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

hey. hey do you guys think that the stranger and the beholding fought over rights for the london eye during the eyepocalypse????

"you eyeball FREAKS this does NOT BELONG TO YOU!!!! ITS A FERRIS WHEEL!!!!! IT'D BE PERFECT FOR OUR FACELESS CLOWNS!!! MORONS. IDIOTS."

"shut up FOREVER. its IN THE NAME. london EYE??? what are you not getting??????????? go play with the Buried avatars in the river thames we are DONE here. GOODBYE."

meanwhile the vast has already claimed it and is busy stuffing terrified civilians into the carriages and flinging them into the sky

Unfriendly reminder that the night of the staking was supposed to be Arthur and Lucy's wedding night :)

Lou conjured what was clearly a griffon pigeon this week, this is looking less and less like coincidence

"I'm a different bird"

Lord Squak Airavis 🤝 Travis Matagot

If you're the type who likes to watch for hints, listen out for the bits of this episode about other realms - they will pay off in the next Vigil production (which I'm editing right now!)

Disbanding (Vigil Backstage)

We look back at Vigil: Quarry. Did we truly stop the danger or just put it off until later?

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COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Vikki as Renko, the Flake

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

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

I do not have a Write A Coherent Essay brain but today's Dracula just made me feel a little sad about toxic masculinity and the cultural norm that men have to put on a good face in front of other men

Like, we've been watching Arthur mourn, even "I would release Renfield after one coherent conversation" Seward could see he was upset, and even in this tight group of men who are incredibly open about their feelings for the time, he still needed to be alone with a woman to fully break down and receive comfort, and I just feel SAD, you know? Like, it's not fair to women and it's not fair to men, and people are STILL doing this, and I want more for them.

There's a lot to say about how Stoker writes women and probably a woman written by a woman wouldn't be necessarily so blithely accepting of this dynamic as Mina, but looking at how Stoker writes MEN, I just get this feeling of him as someone with A Lot Of Emotions who thinks about them a lot but doesn't have the gender theory to realize that the patriarchy might be the problem.