Unfamiliar Heroes 16 – The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 3

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 16 Summary

Our three heroes finally reach the owlbear den in the sixteenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes. Join them as they have their first encounter with wild owlbears!
Willa the gecko lizardperson rogue, Tarragon the orc bard, and D’Zân the weredragon druid are participating in The Owlbear Reintroduction Program, a project that is reestablishing owlbears in areas where the owlbear populations have been previously wiped out. Of course, this is not as simple as it sounds, because owlbears are large, ferocious, magical predators. Throw in a group of skilled poachers determined to steal owlbear eggs and things are bound to get interesting. This improvised, tabletop adventure was created with the Magic Goes Awry role-playing system!
Unfamiliar Heroes is a new podcast series where people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or diverse minds use tabletop role-playing games to together create stories that center disabled, sick, and mentally diverse characters. In its core values this project centers the experiences of people living at the intersections of oppression. Unfamiliar Heroes is part of the Writing Alchemy Podcast.
Game System: Magic Goes Awry
Storyteller: Fay Onyx
Players: Oriana, Robin, Sage Ealy Silk

This illustration depicts three characters, each from a different genre of story, and each with a disability. On the left is a black gnome archer riding in a chariot pulled by a large brown dog. The chariot has a chair in it so that they can sit instead of stand. In the middle is a Latina woman manipulating a tech device on her wrist as she begins to go invisible. She is wearing an air filtering mask of the type that people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sometimes wear. On the right is a white muscular superhero wearing a very gay, blue superhero outfit. He has lightning crackling between his two hands, which are shaped atypically. This beautiful work of art was created the amazing Rose Adare!
 
Show Notes:
Game System
Magic Goes Awry: https://writing-alchemy.net/magic-goes-awry/
Fay’s Links
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Unfamiliar Heroes: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/unfamiliar-heroes/
Robin’s Links
Tumblr: http://skeletonmug.tumblr.com
Access LARP: https://accesslarp.com/
Oriana’s Links
Facebook: www.facebook.com/oriana.sobriket
Our Space: A Coloring Book: https://www.facebook.com/ourspacecoloring/
Sage’s Links
Dreamwidth: https://vladdraculea.dreamwidth.org/
Music and Sound Credits
Intro: Kickin’ in the Turbo (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Game theme: Living Voyage (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0
The first alchemy sound sequence was made from the following ten sounds:
Bubbling: Bubbling beaker.wav by Melthurian | License: Creative Commons 0
Magical bubbling: Bubbles.aiff by gnrja | License: Attribution
Rumbly bubbling: LABORATORY – BUBBLE – WATER – OXYGEN – CHEMISTRY.wav by tjandrasounds | License: Attribution Noncommercial
Gluggy pouring: liquid.wav by tim.kahn | License: Attribution
Bottle pouring: Pouring_Martini.aif by bhweber | License: Creative Commons 0
Pouring smoothly: Pouring a shot by JakLocke | License: Attribution
Splashes: Liquid Drip by junkfood2121 | License: Creative Commons 0
Drips: Water, Dripping, Medium, A.wav by InspectorJ | License: Attribution
Fizzing: Tablet fizzing in water by justiiiiin | License: Attribution Noncommercial
Magical fizzing: Liquide by earlcash05 | License: Attribution
Owlbear warning call: ANML_M_Ext_Crows_Flock_Angry3.wav by conleec | License: Creative Commons 0
The Owlbear fight was made from the following six sounds:
Bush rustle: Foliage_Rustling_001.wav by duckduckpony | License: Attribution
Branches breaking: breaking branches.wav by Zbyhek | License: Attribution
Loud rustles: Askeleet metsässä, varvikko / Footsteps, walking in the forest, underbrush rustling, a close sound by YleArkisto | License: Attribution
Thuds: Heavy Impacts by RICHERlandTV | License: Attribution
Leaves scattering: bushhit.wav by j1987 | License: Creative Commons 0
Bush movements: bushmovement.wav by j1987 | License: Creative Commons 0
Transformation magic: Magic by RICHERlandTV | License: Attribution
The calming potion effect was made from the following two sounds:
Smashing bottle: Breaking a glass bottle by dasebr | License: Creative Commons 0
Vapor: Air_escaping.wav by Adam_N | License: Creative Commons 0
Podcast announcements: The Place Where I’ll Return To (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Traveling song: From the Ground Up (saQi remix) by Ayla Nereo is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Magic leaf platform: Swirling Wind.wav by duckduckpony | License: Attribution
Enhancing diplomacy sound: Right Words To Say by Derek Clegg is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
Performance music: Tenebrous Brothers Carnival – Prelude (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0
The flame sounds were made from the following five sounds:
Flame waving: Torch_Swinging_ medium speed 1.wav by kev_durr | License: Attribution
More complicated waving: Torch_Swinging Quickly 1.wav by kev_durr | License: Attribution
Flame whoosh #1: Fireball Flyby 1b by LiamG_SFX | License: Attribution
Flame whoosh #2: Designed Fire – Swooshes – Bursts, evolving by GregorQuendel | License: Attribution
Flame whoosh #3: flamewind.wav by scarbelly25 | License: Creative Commons 0
Polymer bubbles: Magic Bubbles by Electroviolence | License: Creative Commons 0
Biological transformation: metal-ring by CosmicEmbers | License: Attribution
Outro: Everybody’s Got Problems That Aren’t Mine (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 4.0The post Unfamiliar Heroes 16 – The Owlbear Reintroduction Program Part 3 first appeared on Oppression Aware Podcast, Fairy Tales, and Games.