Let's Play GLOOM

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

"*At least none of us are from Stoke.*"
―Dom
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "you're going to need a sunstone if you want to turn THAT into a Bellosom".
* Who will *find themselves merrily mired in misery* and who will *find that the glimmers of hope won't help you win*?
* We return to Spooky Week and our hellos are sombre, just like this game where the entire aim is to be the most miserable family. Just our luck, Dom and Holly are from the Midlands, so this should be easy for them.
* We get fun facts about cities that the cast shit on in a delightful little slideshow.
* Dom is playing the Slogars, a scientist family whose patriarch is a brain in a box. Even the card for Melissa Slogar says that she should die soon. Oh dear.
* Laurie is playing the Black Water Watch, a group of poisoned, in-bred pirates. But they have a dog!
* Sullivan is playing as the Wellington-Smythes, a rich family whose father dotes upon his cheating late wife's twins. The butler's card says 'Whatever it is, he did it'. So classic British royalty shenanigans. Sullivan does struggle to act miserable though.
* Holly is playing the Carnival of Dark, an unrelated group of circus acts including the 'illustrated lady' who doesn't like being seen and a bearded man.
* We got a wonderful Bristol Family remix of the Addams Family theme from Sullivan. True art right here.
* Laurie: "Happiness exists in the Midlands, right? You guys have that?" Holly: "We've got Greggs."
* Dom decides to only spread happiness on his turn: Cousin Mordecai marries some algae on the lake and Darius Dark gets his 15 minutes of fame! Naturally, the rest of the cast are less than pleased.
* The story-building from these four is just delightful through out. No thread is left loose!
* Dom: "Just happy for the sake of it! Bullshit!"
* The Beau Browns are now part of the Gloom universe - the first Doctor Beau Brown marries little Thumbelisa. It's such a shame that he immediately dies after 'vigorously performing surgery' on himself at the altar. Thank you for the giggles, Teri!
* Holly: "You are a snitch!" Sullivan: "I'm telling him the truth!" Holly: "Yes, like a snitch!"
* The poor Wellington-Smythe twins' holiday villa burns down. Somehow, that's worse than Thumbelisa's husbands dying at the altar and Willem Stark going to prison.
* Dom: "She was having a hard time - and people noticed."
* Okay, but have the characters tried smiling?
* Laurie: "The thing about bake sales is that they attract bears."
* Teri's got the giggles again with the dog chasing a ball. No, not his own testicle.
* Sullivan: "How can you be happy if you can't dance?"
* Good old political comedy from Laurie.
* Holly rips away a good -45 points from Laurie. The others are cackling. Laurie is left flabbergasted. The stack on Willem is almost opaque, despite the transparent cards from how much 'life experience' he has had. "I just want to kill a man who's sad! I just want to kill one man when he's sad."
* Joke of the Day! Tiger Who Came to Teehee! But Holly's "By Judith Kerr-haha" is not the joke of the day. Holly Musgrave herself gets a -20.
* Dom: "Professor Helena Slogar did get married to Doctor Beau Brown. Unfortunately, he was a Protestant. And she's your classic Catholic. So she was unfortunately chastised by the church which she didn't like - it reduced her to -25 if she had to put a number on it. Which she did, because the Catholics are like that."
* Famously, ghosts and home invaders hate piss. Sullivan: "Now, you might say it's their fault for trying to, like, haunt a toilet. But that's immaterial to the ghosts because they are immaterial." Ghost of the day.
* A return of Sullivan and kissing as poor Lola Wellington-Smythe kisses too many people and becomes the subject of scandals. The card doesn't actually mention any kissing though.
* The words 'picnic in the park' have never been uttered so violently. Dom: "Enjoy your fucking picnic you clown."
* Holly: "We'll send them a cake." Sullivan: "How's she meant to eat it when she's got sores all over her lips?" Dom: "We'll push it up her bum!" The discussion somehow devolves even from that remark.
* Holly delivers another devastating blow by removing one of Sullivan's characters from the game! Holly: "*She* supports Chelsea."
* And another devastating blow from Holly Musgrave, except she brings one of Dom's character's back to life! She has now gone for every other player.
* Laurie: "Poor Angel, shitting and shitting as she is..."
* The final scores are close, but who was the most miserable?

## Scores

* Holly: 45
* Sullivan: 90
* Dom: 95
* Laurie: 95

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Laurie.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* There are talking heads for this episode.