Tavern Watch Plays Planet Mercenary, episode 2: Accidental reality show stars

With their ship missing and a cheerful reality TV show host narrating their every move, our mercenary crew’s simple mission — retrieve a lost pet — has gotten a lot more complicated. We probably should have expected that when someone hired an entire mercenary company to find one lost pet.

This week on Tavern Watch Plays, we’re doing an actual play of Planet Mercenary, a comic space opera based off of the Schlock Mercenary webcomics (but you don’t need to be familiar with the comics to understand the game). Joan Albright is leading this game, with a colorful cast of team players who are doing a great job of coping with being stranded on an alien world. (And they still have a pet to rescue.)

Here are our mercenaries this week:

• Trish (AwkwardishPanda) as Raven Crawford, captain of the Jackdaws mercenary company, and who is possibly regretting some of her hiring decisions during this mission.
• Christian as Brother Ron, the ship’s chaplain, who offers the wisdom and comfort of the Star to help guide the crew in their journeys. He also carries a suspicious number of grenades, but that’s probably just the wisdom of the Star at work.
• Liz as Eleanor Goodbite, an awakened polar bear but also the ship’s doctor. (She also carries a suspicious number of grenades, because sometimes offense is the best defense.)
• Kameron (Tetsemi) as Helena Seonwu, the Jackdaws’ legal counsel, who is here to read all of the annoying fine print in the contracts — and make sure everybody gets paid.
• Matt as Hudson James, an awakened wolverine who is also the ship’s engineer. Ostensibly that means he’s here to fix things, but he’s also a wicked shot with the plasma rifle he carries.

This is the second episode in a three-part actual play of Planet Mercenary (listen to the first episode here), with new episodes every Monday! If you enjoy the game, you can pick up a copy of Planet Mercenary from the Schlock Mercenary store or DriveThruRPG.

Music for this episode is “Galactic Echoes” from ineedmusic.co.

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