Let's Play VAGRANTSONG

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

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

"*He's not the goodest boy, is he? He's just a middling boy!*"
―Laurie
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "if the train doesn't stop at your station, it's not your train. You could still try and get on it, but it might kill you. "
* Will *bustin' make us feel good*?
* Ah, a co-op game. We usually find a way to break those.
* This turns out to be a fairly slow and contemplative game, with a lot of detail and a lovely theme. Our cast enjoy it very much.
* We have spoooooooky hellos today. And Brooke is no longer Lord, but has been demoted to 'piece of shit' based on last week's destruction in *Let's Play WESTERN LEGENDS*. Brooke claims it wasn't her, it was Wild Bill Hiccup.
* Laurie is the Cursebearer, who can upgrade the Haint if it moves through him. Adam is the Runaway, who has a dog which can't be haunted and is weirdly the best fighter in the group. Sullivan is the Songsmith who has a range of skills but none at very high level. Brooke is the Empress who looks very angry and gets extra dice.
* Brooke is driven, rather than dripping.
* Let's all name Eastern European cities.
* Laurie biffs the ghosty. It biffs back a tiny little bit, but we're starting ok.
* We're taunting the ghosts now - I'm sure that won't come back to bite us.
* Singalonga NRB: 'Where's your faces gone?' 'What you going to find?' 'Trippy trippy rum rums' 'The thingy goes first' 'Ghostpuppers'
* Laurie: "Four turns in and we're fucked..." Yep, we made the thing sad and now it's coming right through us. Whoopsie poopsie.
* The pup starts a bit shit, as it happens. Showing the ghost a lovely dog doesn't help as much as we hoped. Everyone gets the shakes.
* Brooke: "I thought you said this game was hard to lose, ADAM?"
* We seem to get batttered about a lot in these early stages, but we do get to a ritual fairly quick so we can do some ghost fixin' at least.
* An apple a day keeps Laurie alive.
* The pup continues to be shit. Sullivan: "Bad dog! ... Shit pup! ... one success? ... Jesus Christ pup! We hate you!" Adam doesn't think we should yell at the pup. We are, however, going to get him fixed. He hasn't earned the reward of a fuck.
* Laurie does a huge turn.
* We've drawn four candles. Nice.
* Sullivan is the luckiest boy on the train.
* On the other hand, Brooke rolls terribly. Laurie: "You couldn't inspire your way out of a paper bag, Brooke!" Adam: "You're going to get shot in the back by your own troops!" She's trying to pass the blame onto the dog - maybe she taught it all it knows about dice rolling.
* SPOOK OF THE DAY! (Shake of the day?) Sullivan can't stand terrain against his window.
* Sullivan makes 'rummage' sound very disturbing. Adam and Laurie just make it worse. Claudia Winkelman is going to have a rummage, but she's not doing it hard enough to reach the special things right at the bottom. Laurie: "I know you're crying, I know it's hard, but you've just got to for it." Oh lord.
* New series incoming - *Have a Rummage, with Sullivan Brown*.
* Time for pup's redemption story. Nope, it's still shit. Even worse than Brooke. Considering the face and the squeaky noises that Adam seems to make every single time he sees a dog on a stream (here's an example from Quizzlemania), it's not a surprise that the pup hatred may actually be making him sad. It's totally deserved though, the dog is rubbish.
* Sullivan's doing a triple rummage - or a trippy trippy rum rums. He may find a piece of Claudia.
* And another new series for Sullivan - *Uh-oh Subbuteo*. We replace all the figures with meat on sticks and Claudia always plays Tottenham.
* Brooke: "Who would ever have thought that nails would be more useful than a dog?" It does actually depend on the job, of course.
* Adam: "Why did you not pull a fucking lucky rabbit's foot from the bag, Sullivan? You stupid songsmith bastard! You probably eat your guitar, don't you, you silly pillock?"
* Pup's redemption time again. Finally! Pup wins!
* We screw up the sign off in a way we haven't done for months.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* Chalkboard is updated with a win!
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* No talking heads this episode.