LAWHAMMER TALES 3: ONE OF THE LADS (S1E14.5) (Patreon)

The following is a copy/pasta of the introduction found in the attached pdf.

As many of you know, we lost some LAWhammer episodes when our production PC broke down last year and the replacement PC was temperamental. Slowly, but surely, we have either retaped or replaced those missing sections, but one – Episode 14.5: Lads, Lads, Lads – was never planned to be updated.

Why? Well, we really liked what happened when we played through the episode live and we didn’t want to change the events.

When you retape an episode, it always changes on the repeat play. Choices are different, reactions are less genuine, and points when PCs previously made mistakes are replaced with sudden bouts of unexpected observation and capability, almost as if they had done it all before… So, when we retape episodes that are lost or have technical issues, I tend to run them completely differently on the second playthrough to ensure everything stays fresh and the player interactions feel genuine. And the problem here was that Andy Leask, Ed, and I really liked the way Lads, Lads, Lads landed on the first playthrough. Therefore, we decided not to retape it.

So, what did we like so much that meant we didn’t want to revisit it? Well, everyone got very drunk, including Luitpold. Gerhardt nearly fell off a cliff and needed to be hauled back by his tights (which, of course, ended up around his ankles, leaving him somewhat exposed). Lukas was astonishingly direct for the first time, which would change how he interacted with Gerhardt from that point onwards. We also had a classic Gerhardt trap-within-a-trap, which was of course terrible, and Luitpold was surprisingly cool about it all. By comparison, Lukas exploded and laid into Gerhardt for his lack of care. And it was memorable. Indeed, there were just so many cool scenes that we wanted them to stand as they were.

That left us with another question: what should we do to share what happened? One of the answers to that is this story. Consider it a replacement for Lads, Lads, Lads. That episode is now a private affair for Gerhardt, Lukas, and Luitpold to keep to themselves. After all, does anyone really need to have the image of a drunk Gerhardt hanging off a cliff as a drunk Luitpold, with a broken arm, and a drunk Lukas, attempting to pull him up by his ankles? I thought not. Instead, let’s leave it private for them. I’m quite sure that Gerhardt would prefer, like the lost episode itself, for such tales never to be shared again.