NRB Wish Charity Livestream!!

### Cast

Adam, Blair, Brooke, Dom, Holly, Jon, Ken, Laurie, Luke, Rosie, Sully, Teri, Tom

### Games

*WWF Battle for the Belt*, *The Mind*, *Risk*, *Monopoly*, all other games not on BoardGame Geek.

### Series

Board Game Club

The ***NRB Wish Charity Livestream for Shelter*** was a ten hour livestream on the No Rolls Barred YouTube channel, hosted by Adam Blampied.

"*Welcome to what is going to be a very shit day, for me specifically.*"
―Adam
It was the third ten hour livestream, following the *10 Hour Board Game Club Marathon For 50K Subs!!!* and *100k Subs NRB Charity Marathon For Mind!!!*, and was streamed in celebration of Adam completing his 2022 new year's resolution. It was supported technically by Teri and Rich.

The stream brought us a number of firsts: Luke's first in-person appearance in Board Game Club, Teri's first full participation in an on-screen game and the introduction of a number of brand-new games, played for the first time on YouTube. We use the cardboard trophy from the first game as our game trophy throughout the stream.

The stream was a fundraiser for Shelter, with viewers donating to the charity throughout. NRB cast members were granted a wish for the board game or activity they would like Adam to play, revealed in the video *NRB Charity Livestream ANNOUNCEMENT!!*. The stream raised £13,264 against a target of £3,000.

## Notable Events

### Chelsea Football Club Football Club Board Game

* Cast: Adam, Laurie, Luke, Sullivan
* Sullivan's wish
* We're starting strong - Laurie: "Don't touch me!", Adam: "I offered everyone... a wish to do over this livestream... and they were all pricks about it."
* This game looks like we made it and the mechanics are not great. It takes a very long time for most people to pick up players and it's completely driven by dice rolls.
* Adam: "Sullivan, do you want to explain how this game works?" Sullivan: "Well, no".
* Teri spot! Teri wave! Teri's doing some scoring for this one.
* There's lots of football banter, much of it involving men who know nothing about football. Sullivan shouts 'football!' a lot. We occasionally recognise names. Sullivan drops the occasional anecdote and football chant. Rich occasionally throws in an Arsenal jibe.
* Sullivan is determined that this is the best game we've ever played - not in any way impacted by the fact that he's the only one with no prospect of winning at any point. Laurie: "Sullivan, we could have just hung a Chelsea shirt on the wall and let you look at it." Chat are loving it, because we are masochists and sheep.
* Adam and Sullivan are boyfriends. Soulmates even.

Winner: Luke

### WWF: Battle for the Belt

* Cast: Adam, Brooke, Laurie, Luke, Sullivan
* Luke's wish
* Another shit game made of flimsy cardboard. There is a suspicion that this is the same game as the previous one, just themed differently. There are almost no tactics, this is about dice rolls. It's even got the 'lose a turn' mechanic. And the wrestling nerds are disputing the scoring.
* Adam loves wrestling and hates board games, as we know. Brooke knows the most about wrestling, of course. She shares her Kane facts with us.
* The dice are so big, Brooke uses two hands to roll.
* Brooke and Sullivan are playing the brothers of destruction - with kissing. And sugar cumming. It's a thing. Sullivan: "Why are your lips covered in sugar and cum?" Adam wins the cover of *Hitler and Cum* magazine, also known as *Mein Cumf*. There is a lot about cum, which at least is on-brand for Board Game Club.
* Sullivan's claiming that this is the best game he's ever played. We all agree it's better than anything we normally play. Even the folding is superb.

Winner: Sully

### Hot Bucket, Cold Bucket

* Cast: Adam, Brooke, Jon, Laurie, Sullivan
* Brooke's wish
* Oh, this is very special. Not to jump to spoilers, but chat and the Discord Patrons love this game so very very much.
* Brooke claims this is just like Cockroach Poker - there are no winners, only a loser. "If the bucket's too hot, you lose."
* Sullivan: "It does feel weird." Brooke: "I told you."
* This was one of Brooke's favourite childhood games, along with the classic *Count to 1000*. So much suddenly becomes clear.
* Jon's got tiny t-rex arms as it is.
* Adam wins based on his expressions of pain, then euphoria, then 'fuck you'.
* But Teri gives in to the demands of chat and joins the game. And steals the cup from Adam.

Winner: Teri

### The Mind

* Cast: Adam, Brooke, Jon
* Jon's wish
* From the ridiculous to the sublime - this is quiet, intense, contemplative. It's also strangely compelling and almost moving.
* Teri can't take the tension, she breaks first.
* Teri thinks if chat doesn't understand the game, they should look it up. And when chat gets snippy Adam says they should just get bent.
* We get to level 5 the first time through.
* Adam: "Brooke, never change for a *day* in your life."
* Teri's breathing very heavily, it's just making the tension worse. It's not the air-conditioning, no matter how loud it sounds.
* We take a pragmatic turn. Tweet all the vitriol to @ElFakidor, we'd love it.

Round completed: Level 6

### Guess the Card

* Cast: Adam, Brooke, Jon, Ken, Laurie, Sullivan, Teri
* Adam: "We are back here on the NRB Punishment Stream where all of my best friends have colluded to make my life a living hell."
* Guess the Card is Teri's secret wish. It's no more complicated than it sounds.
* We have a run of correct number/wrong suit. It's deceptively spooky.
* We brought professional poker player Ken in to count the cards and make sure somebody actually wins at some point.
* Chat goes wild when we get our first win!
* And the second!

Winners: Adam, Adam, Sullivan

### Risk

* Cast: Adam, Dom, Laurie, Sullivan
* Dom's wish
* We have vaguely military hats and a sense of foreboding. Dom claims this game was Adam's choice as he was given several options and rejected the rest.
* *Eddie Izzard* spot! Dom: "Do you have a flag?"
* Laurie claims he doesn't know how to play this and is just rolling dice and being told he's lost. Chat are quibbling about rules but we're not really that invested. Adam worries the viewing figures will go down. In fact, they bob around but don't drop too far. Even though the game is objectively TERRIBLE.
* Sullivan is providing the trumpet sounds.
* Wall to wall petty vengeance, unsurprisingly. Sullivan to Dom: "Was your secret mission to be a prick?" Dom: "No, that was my choice." Sullivan is having a horrible time and Dom is behaving at his very worst. Sullivan: "It's not the playing of the game, it's the laughing in the face."
* We have a major Kallax incident and many fallen boardgames.
* Adam is trying to help Sullivan have fun, Laurie and Dom say this is only because Adam is winning. Adam claims it's, you know, the usual thing with him and Sullivan.

Winner: Adam

### Rosie's Made-Up Board Game

* Cast: Adam, Holly, Laurie, Rosie, Sullivan
* Rosie's wish. And Holly's
* Holly gets her gavel and launches the chaos. Straight in the mouth.
* We select the elements of the new game via the time-honoured mechanisms of props and raisins. We end up with a pitching 1-against-many church themed game with wild card rules.
* Adam does the proper intro and teach - our game is temporarily named Grubby Little Raisins.
* Again, both chat and the Discord Patrons went wild for this game and there were several genuine attempts to codify it properly.
* Astonishingly, this absolute shower of nonsense held together really very well. It wasn't the worst game we've ever done on Board Game Club, not even close.
* The wild card rules are pure insanity. Everything descends into beautiful chaos. Holly drops her gavel. Sullivan runs off with the raisins and claims massive victory. Adam changes a dice roll. Laurie just wants an animal cracker. Chat starts a campaign #givelaurieacracker. Rosie draws nudes. Adam: "What the living fuck am I doing?" Sullivan says Rosie doesn't know what a rule is. Adam's giving up the will to live. Laurie and Sullivan are mostly hungry. Holly's feeling unappreciated.
* We will respect Adam's wishes and not quote that sentence he said about nipples.

Winner: Rosie

### Monopoly

* Cast: Adam, Blair, Holly, Laurie, Sullivan, Tom
* Laurie's wish, and Blair's
* Here we are, finally - with Adam in a Toad costume (looking about as uncomfortable as he's ever looked, and that's including that time Oli sang R. Truth's theme song at him on PartsFUNknown). Laurie is ostentatiously not playing. Tom looks slightly pained and really wants to be doing what Laurie's doing. He actually looks like the only sober one at a party. Again. Holly's going mad with the gavel. Blair and Holly are feuding over the cat token and Sullivan has not had enough tea today.
* Adam: "How are you enjoying this so far? Do you want four more? You pricks!... You want four more? You don't know what you want! I know what you want."
* Blair does the worst turn we've ever seen in any game.
* Laurie is reading a book, listening to music, playing games on the Switch, trying to recruit people to pay 2 player games. Living his best life, essentially. Although I imagine he'd have preferred a comfier chair.
* We have another Kallax incident, Holly knocking a bunch of games over.
* The ever-developing canon of Sullivan's fetishes expands to include trains. He does fuck them, according to Holly. He even sings about it. Tom suggests Sullivan take a look at his tank engine.
* The studio becomes a room of pain and distress. The game is decided on the very last roll.

Winner: Sullivan

### Open the Box

Tom's wish was for Adam to open a box. The box turned out to contain Jenga, which would be used to play the TTRPG Dread in March 2023 - *Red DREAD Redemption*.

## Final scores

* Chelsea Football Club Football Club Board Game - Luke wins
* WWF: Battle for the Belt - Sullivan wins
* Hot Bucket, Cold Bucket - Teri wins
* The Mind - Level 6 completed
* Guess the Card - (1) Adam wins, (2) Adam wins, (3) Sullivan wins
* Risk - Adam wins
* Rosie's made up board game - Rosie wins
* Monopoly - Sullivan wins