A Familiar Problem: Sprinkle’s Incredible Journey!
Combat:
No combat mechanics. Some checks in escape scenarios.
Recurring Themes:
- Sentient Animals: Cartoonish protagonists are a weasel, blink dog, crab, octopus, and a pseudo-dragon. Many other animals are part of the story. Things like poop and slobber are also brought up.
- Real owl: A live owl is brought on set at Twitch 3h 22m and hangs out as a co-GM.
- Cartoonish harm to animals: In the story animals get roughed up in many ways they easily recover from. No real animals are harmed.
- Smoking: A protagonist character smokes the whole time. Another character tries smoking from them.
- Vomiting: Many instances of characters vomiting, many with sounds, and some discussion.
Pre-show:
Discussions:
- Dead pet: Marisha dedicates the game to her bird Dagon.
Part 1:
Occurrences:
- Cartoonish harm to animals: Sprinkle the weasel's eventful and traumatizing first 48 hours with The Mighty Nein are described. Sprinkle's magical healing abilities are discussed, as well as his battered appearance.
- Alcohol: Very drunk men stumbling along.
- Jump Scare: a toy suddenly moves in a way that startles everyone. With yelling.
- Stabbing in the groin: a character stabs someone in the groin.
- Failed rescue: Leaving others behind after trying to rescue them.
Sound effects:
- Yelling: at a jump scare.
Break:
- None
Part 2:
Occurrences:
- Smoking: A character tries smoking for the first time.
- Eating a poisonous mushroom: A character eats a mushroom that's poisonous. They vomit. It's also mildly psychedelic.
- Swallowing vomit: A character throws up in their mouth and swallows it again. It's briefly discussed.
- Cartoonish drowning: A character falls in a river and over a waterfall. May have temporarily died.
- Cartoonish traumatic reaction to death: having a breakdown with comic tones.
- Jellyfish/Portuguese man-o-war: A character is terribly stung.
- Cartoonishly restraints in a breakdown: A character having a breakdown is restrained by multiple people.
- Cartoonish loss of limb: a character who knows their arm will regrow tears it off.
- Fear of birds: A player calmly but nervously discovers a fear of birds.
- Cartoonishly cauterizing a wound: A character comically cauterizes a wound.
Detailed descriptions:
- Gore: description of deadly wounds.
Discussions:
- Sleep deprivation/insomnia: A character discusses being extremely sleep deprived and unable to sleep.
- Separating siblings: Whether to separate young siblings is discussed, mostly in a joking tone.
Mentions:
- Sentient bugs: Already bound up, and immediately eaten.
- Private prisons: Subtle joke about private incarceration facilities/prisons being a terrible concept.
Visual appearances:
- Artistic nudity: On tarot cards used as props.
Sound effects:
- Warning: Description