Tavern Watch Plays Brindlewood Bay, episode 1: A night at the whaling museum

Welcome to Brindlewood Bay, a peaceful New England village on the sea with picturesque views, cozy bookshops, and quaint B&Bs. It also has an unusually high murder rate, and that’s where today’s adventure comes in to play, as our party of sleuths attempt to untangle a mysterious death.

And, of course, our adventurers are all little old ladies. Let me introduce them:

• Joan as Louisa, resident gardener who loves getting her hands dirty and has seen absolutely every episode of MacGyver. Always carries her Swiss Army knife (the TSA hates her).
• Matt as Ludmilla, a retired powerlifter who has retired to a peaceful life inBrindlewood Bay. She keeps an indeterminate number of cats (and is never seen anywhere without at least one of them).
• Mitch as Bordy, a collector of all things, who has never seen a bauble she didn’t want to add to her collection. She’s also been getting mysterious messages on her answering machine lately, but it’s probably nothing.

So let’s dive into today’s adventure, where our little old ladies talk about the first mystery they solved… and head to the whaling museum. Probably no one’s going to get murdered. (Probably.)

If you enjoy our game, you can give it a try yourself! You can pick up the Brindlewood Bay rulebook from from The Gauntlet, including the Nephews in Peril supplement which includes the adventure we’re playing here! The whole thing is a little bit Murder, She Wrote and a little bit X-Files, and a whole lot of roleplaying. We had a lot of fun with it, so check the game out!

Music from this episode is “Villainous Treachery” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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