If You're The Type Who Likes To Watch For Hints, Listen Out For The Bits Of This Episode About Other

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

Heard my first "long live the king" last night (in a pre-theatre show announcement). It took me by surprise and I did not care for it

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

Now that today's entry closes the book on Renfield, I'm confident saying the chap doesn't deserve the bad rap he gets.

My pop cultural understanding of Renfield was as a simpering minion of the baddie who actively helps seduce or misdirect other people towards evil. The Monster of the Week RPG even has an NPC minion type that it explicitly labels a "Renfield", whose motivation is "to drive others towards the monster".

But your man straight up doesn't do that! Yes, he seems to admire and worship the Count at first, but based on later scenes, my take on that is that it's vampire mesmerism working on a vulnerable subject - vulnerable because the thinking that landed Renfield in the asylum, about consuming life, lines up so neatly with what the Count does and can offer. But unless I missed something, there's no scene where Renfield tries to drive anyone into the Count's clutches, or where he wilfully puts anyone in danger. He's the reason Dracula is able to get into polycule HQ, but it seems pretty clear Drac mesmerised and/or terrorised him into "inviting" him in.

In fact Renfield seems to spend most of his time trying to warn people about Drac, but being either dismissed or unable to get his meaning across coherently. Wherefore this reputation as a slippery quisling? Renfield's as much a victim here as anyone else!

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

The Lords of the Wing are like if Statler and Waldorf had an assignment due in the morning