Let's Play HORRIFIED

Let's Play HORRIFIED
Release date	8 Aug 2023
Format	In-person
Cast	Dom, Holly, Laurie, Sully
Games	Horrified
Winners	Co-op win for the whole team
Series	Board Game Club
🡸 Previous	Let's Play MEN AT WORK
Next 🡺	Let's Play SMASH UP

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

"Thatcher smash!"

―Dom

Notable moments

• The first rule of Board Game Club is "a graveyard smash".
• Will our players conquer their demons or will the monsters mash?
• Laurie gives us nicely thematic hellos: Spooky Sullivan, Horrible Holly, Dreadful Dom.
• We start at no Teri (hi Teri!), moving up the Teri scale, getting louder as we go up (or possibly more Teris arrive).
• We should be careful when forcefully 'curing' a werewolf that we're not just tormenting an innocent dog. Dom: "We thought we were fighting the wolfman, we were fighting the man-dog!"
• We can't identify who last ate garlic while Teri is in the room. She's French, you know.
• All hail the Tower of Destiny! Dom really needs to work on his song.
• Automatic captioning is going to struggle with our impressions today.
• Continuing with a theme, Dom seems to have moved on from Stalin to Margaret Thatcher. For those of us of a certain age and cultural background, thus begins a genuinely horrifying episode. Shoulda had a trigger warning, to be honest.
• We have a new edit feature - the dice trays are shown in picture-in-picture, which works really well.
• We're not taking Thatcher's opinion on anything - we don't think he IS a wolfman, Sully: "he's just a Scouser!" She's just never met the working class.
• Laurie: "What do you think the cure for Scouse is?" Dom (as Thatcher): "Hard work!"
• We get our first Hunt - the Scouser's caught a whiff of Holly. Whoopsie.
• JOKE OF THE DAY! some nonsense about teeth and Dracula, to be honest, including not just 'tooth things' and 'fangs a bunch' but also the classic 'pain in the neck'.
• Thatcher! Thatcher! Coffin smasher! Sullivan: "She's such an effective leader!"
• The wolf-man is going to attack Holly twice - it's getting very hairy! (that makes Teri laugh). Luckily she's very dogged (that makes everyone groan).
• Our first defeat - and our first Teri on the Teri tracker. It's a bird call of some kind.
• We can cure the Scouser, but we have a Glaswegian and a Yorkshireman all of a sudden.
• Thatcher punches the Creature from the Black Lagoon and doesn't understand what its saying.
• Sullivan: "For people thinking at home that I've got a bad Glaswegian accent, I was born there - so shut the fuck up!" Turns out every word Sullivan says is really in a thick Glaswegian accent, he's just constantly overdubbed by Andy Datson from the WrestleTalk office. It's in his contract.
• We've rescued our first villager, that's nice.
• Laurie: "Imagine being a Scouser and being beaten to death with a silver cane!" The cure needs to be administered violently, it seems.
• And we're one monster down!
• We're pitching a new gameshow: Smash that Coffin! with Margaret Thatcher. It's every bit as horrifying as you may imagine.
• Anti-union policies are somehow starting to make sense. Shudder.
• Sullivan's history time again - but technically that's an urban legend.
• Dom: "She'll be tough on vampires - and the causes of vampires!"
• We all know there's lots of joking insults flung around with NRB - but surely it's going too far to suggest there are any similarities between Holly and Thatcher.
• Laurie: "You guys just keep doing bits about Thatcher - I'll do the fucking game ... I'll play on my own, I don't mind". DomThatcher claims all of the success so far has been hers.
• Dom: "Standing around, discussing Marx in your neck beards. Get back to work!" Laurie is carrying on determinedly. Sullivan and Dom have gone completely.
• Up to Teri level 2 - we're getting slightly shriller.
• We're not scared. We can tell from the extreme high pitch of Laurie's voice. Looks like all the current monsters are activating all at once.
• Up to Teri 3 - louder and higher. Laurie's wondering if we're even going to have the range for level 7.
• Holly: "Fuck off, Margaret Thatcher!"
• The vampire reminds Thatcher of her late husband. It's the dank pallor.
• Teri 4! Holly: "There's range, there's growth, there's flexibility". Teri: "Thank you guys, I feel really supported right now".
• And we kill the rest of the monsters - Thatcher's taking all the credit.
• We end with a demonstration of the full Teri spectrum - 0 to 7

Talking heads

Talking heads are available for this episode.

• 0:13:16 - Sullivan likes Dom's Thatcher impression
• 0:13:37 - And here it is
• 0:17:12 - Laurie is an explorer, it's surprisingly creepy
• 0:26:23 - Neo liberalism and its many successes
• 0:28:39 - Holly's going to build rapport with the scary wolfman
• 0:33:06 - Laurie wonders about the team capabilities
• 0:35:42 - Sullian's accents make their appearance
• 0:45:13 - Are we eventually going to have to fight the undead and immortal Margaret Thatcher?
• 0:59:17 - Dom as Thatcher praises Holly's potential
• 1:00:01 - And Holly is outraged
• 1:09:11 - Laurie's a little worried - with a little goblin noise from Teri
• 1:27:52 - Thatcher disses her team

Trivia

• Game introduction and rules are presented by Laurie.
• An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.