Tavern Watch Plays Kids on Bikes, Episode 1: Welcome to New Novemberwood

It’s just another day in the sleepy little town of New Novemberwood, just a regular old day like any other. But this is Tavern Watch playing Kids on Bikes, so you know it can’t be just any old day. For the students of Pineapple Honors, it sure seems ordinary — right up until some outrageous (and unlikely) drama breaks out during lunch. Is luck taking a turn for some of their fellow students, or is something else afoot here?

Your guide to the mysteries is Joe Perez, and the titular kids on bikes are:

• Liz Harper as Rhiandrea “Ree” Rains, an independent young Scout and local bookstore employee who doesn’t like being told what to do by her parents — or their ideas of how to run her life
• Trish, aka AwkwardishPanda, as Ginny Jacobson, an extremely precious girl and fish out of water who got advanced to her junior year six years early
• Matt Rossi as Jacob Jacobson, who’s kind of a weird kid, but he looks out for his little sister and maybe believes in magic
• Phil Ulrich as Randall Fletcher, who could really be something if he applied himself, but he doesn’t see why it’s worth trying so hard all the time, man

This is the first of a three-part actual play series of Kids on Bikes, a rules-light and very accessible system for achieving the kind of feel you’d expect from media like The Goonies, Stand By Me, or E.T. — any of those kind of 80s and 90s coming-of-age media where maybe something supernatural happens. Watch for new episodes every Monday! If you think this game is rad, you can pick up your own copy from Hunters Entertainment or Renegade Game Studios.

The music in this episode is “Hiding Your Reality” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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