Bluff City: America's Playground Pt. 01 (WITH ANNOUNCEMENT!)

Friends at the Table

Games, Fiction, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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BEFORE WE GET TO THE EPISODE THERE IS AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!!

This upcoming weekend, July 3rd and July 4th, Friends at the Table will be doing a LIVE STREAM MARATHON FUNDRAISER for the National Network of Abortion Funds!!

We'll be hosting the stream over at twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

JOIN US 12 - 8 PM ET JULY 3RD AND JULY 4TH! Watch us play some videogames! Listen to us play some ttrpgs!!! Enjoy us not playing games at all for a bit of it!!! We might do a Marielda one shot . . . . ? It'll be fun! Tell your friends!!

The Scamps Are About

The unusually mild spring of 1891 saw an unusual craze sweep the length of the Bluff City boardwalks, when the organ grinders found themselves targeted by the city’s children in an outbreak of particularly nefarious behavior. The children, moving in loosely organized packs, would fall upon one organ grinder after another. Some would find the cans that contained their tunes removed and dropped off the pier. Others would turn their organs’ handles and salt water would pour, improbably, from the pipes.

The organ grinders, by and large, were not much older than their assailants, and as mild spring turned into cold summer, unusual battle lines were drawn among Bluff City’s children. Elliot Callahan, discussing this song the following year, wrote: “I know not which young band of voices would raise these verses. Whether the beleaguered grinders - or, in parody, the roustabouts themselves - it matters not.”

The scamps are about! On the beaches and the boardwalks! 

The scamps are about! Send the word along the line!  

From the bait shop on pacific, in a mob that’s quite terrific,

Wearing grins that are horrific and demeanors so malign!

The scamps are about! Pouring southward, ever southward,

And they’re carrying those sacks they use to make their wicked play!

See the organ grinders panic, hear their melodies grow frantic,

As the antics of the scamps intensify along their way!

The scamps are about! Is there anyone to stop them?

Is there any lion-hearted soul to step into the fray?

If there’s someone strong of spirit then I’d really like to hear it,

Since the beer they poured inside my organ’s getting in the way.

Featuring: Austin Walker, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Jack de Quidt, Janine Hawkins and Keith J Carberry

Music & Description by Jack de Quidt

Mall Kids is available at https://mr-matthew.itch.io/mall-kids

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, it's Ali here, and I have kind of a big announcement.
0:04.8	This weekend, July 3rd and July 4th, Friends of the Table is going to be doing a fundraising
0:11.5	livestream marathon for the National Network of Abortion funds, given the recent decision
0:17.9	to overturn Roe vs Wade and just the ongoing threat to reproductive rights in the states right now.
0:25.6	We wanted to do something to raise support for organizations that need it right now,
0:30.4	and the National Network of Abortion funds is one that we are happy to support.
0:37.8	Happy in quotation marks. The National Network of Abortion funds not only serves as a resource
0:46.4	for people to find support in their area, but also the money that we raise will be allocated to
0:53.2	smaller organizations across the country who do things like fund abortions straight out,
1:00.9	will cover travel and lodging for people who need to seek an abortion.
1:08.4	The sorts of things that people will increasingly need support with.
1:13.6	So yeah, we're looking forward to doing this. We're going to be playing some video games,
1:20.0	we're going to be playing some tabletop games, sometimes we're not going to be playing games and
1:25.6	doing some big, very different. We might do a Marieldo one shot if we reach kind of a high goal,
1:35.8	you know, just just for fun. So join us over at twitch.tv slash friends at the table on July 3rd
1:47.6	and July 4th from 12 p.m. Eastern time to 8 p.m. Eastern time, both days. Again, that's going to be
1:57.0	over on our Twitch, not on the YouTube, so twitch.tv slash friends at the table is where you'll find the
2:02.9	stream. And yeah, come hang out, come ready to support, come ready to have a good time, tell your
2:14.4	friends about this, anyone who you think might be interested in like a funny and good video game
2:20.7	live stream on top of supporting reproductive rights. Again, that is July 3rd, this upcoming Sunday
2:28.4	in July 4th, the following Monday. Come hang out with us instead of being patriotic. Um, and
2:36.7	have a good day, make the best of it, and um, enjoy this episode of Plops City, bye.
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