Let's Play THE SHIVERS

**Let's Play THE SHIVERS** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*I think I might love this game.* "
―Tom
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "shall we play a game?"
* Who is going to be *getting themselves a scooby snack* and who's going to be *encountering a g-g-g-ghost*?
* Do you know what's better than NRB doing role play? Very little. Except... NRB doing role play when Tom is storytelling. And it's not even Christmas.
* This is an absolutely gorgeous little thing too - look at the rooms! Look at the teeny version of Autumn!
* Tom does the hellos - Laurie is the usurper, Holly is Master of Dexterity and Blair is Group Pet. Well, yeah.
* Eat shit, Blair! We're not kink-shaming.
* Adam is Riley Shivers, 45 year old dad cliché, good at making stuff, but scared of snakes and spiders. Holly is Brighton Shivers, 13 year old book smart son of Riley, good at music but scared of the dark. Laurie is Autumn Lark, 13 year old reclusive teen, photographic memory but scared of fire. Blair is Shep, Autum's protector who can sense danger but is scared of loud noises and storms. Yep, a dog.
* Why would anyone hate perfectly normal teenage boy, rather than perennially annoying dad who keeps asking you to pull his finger?
* Laurie: "Are we sure I'm role playing?"
* Why did Blair choose the dog not the cat? "His name is SHEP!" She's going hard on this one.
* Laurie's leaning hard into his character too - already demanding space from Blair. Hey, hang on...
* Shep brings the ouija board, so it's now wet and slightly dented.
* Teri spot! Tiny Teri spot! Hi Teri! Tom's directing the post-production, to shrugs and the finger from Teri off-camera.
* Blair to Holly: "Don't worry, you always brighten it up!" Holly: "Thank you Shep the dog, that's very articulate."
* Not on the furniture, Shep! It's not even our furniture! Adam doesn't want us to be cruel to the imaginary dog, though.
* For everyone's sake, we're not going to spoil the dad jokes. Nor indeed could we count them. Enjoy.
* We start with a joint roll and good lord that's so sweet.
* Laurie: "What's that, dog? You think we should close the borders?" And we've gone.
* Shep has a useful thing. Brighton has a useful thing.
* Shep needs a belly rub. Autumn is considering leaving.
* Adam: "Stop complaining about my drinking, Brighton - that's why your mum left." He likes Riley a lot.
* Brighton's trying to impress girls. With fire, sadly. Not great in this case. Girl and dog retreat.
* Riley has a tool. And we just found some boardgames.
* OH Autumn. That was unfortunate. Laurie gets a new voice to do.
* The flirting hotline may be phoning Brighton to help him out.
* The house is slowly opening up, it truly is gorgeous.
* Adam: "Please be a dog with a chainsaw!"
* Riley tries to do a nice thing but it goes ever so badly. On the other hand, Autumn has given Laurie another new voice.
* There's a reasonably high creepy factor with this game, every so often.
* We heard the Grinch reference, Adam - we see you.
* Autumn's first instinct is to punch the ghost.
* Oh, chaos. Whoopsie poopsie.
* Things that are surprisingly good: Blair doing an impression of a dog becoming human.
* Holly: "woof woof woof woof" Adam: "Good point, yes."
* This is a dog with very suspect reactionary opinions.
* Blair can rub her own belly now - Adam suspects a gif explosion based on this episode.
* Adam works out where we're going, juuuuuuuust before we get there.
* Situation normal once again.
* Laurie gets what he wants! yay!
* Brighton does some really bad rolls. Holly: "Goddamn! Brighton you useless boy! You're so useless! That's why you think you're useless!" Adam: "Because you are!" Holly: "Because you're useless!" Adam: "You *should* feel bad all the time!" Autumn's so much better, she's out of his league.
* We just lost a key piece of equipment. Shep's a dog-sicle.
* *Now* we're getting somewhere. Although Brighton is trying last minute heroics, so it could still all go wrong. He just needs a hug.
* Finally, Brighton gets a good roll but we end on a joint roll, just as we started.
* Tom: "... it splinters - not just on the jaws of a dog, but on the jaws of friendship!" In context, this is an incredibly sweet moment. Followed by another. We finish with a huge smile.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* This is the third episode since he started with NRB that Sullivan has not been in the cast (the two other being *Let's Play SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM* and *Let's Play DUNE* ).
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* No talking heads this episode.