The Gaming Council (Harold Gaming)

The Gaming Council is a video series by Harold Gaming. The series follows many different gaming channels through a war between Capitalism and Socialism. The show is set for 3 seasons and possible spin off episodes focused on certain characters are also planned. Episodes are released inconsistently, but usually 2 episodes are released per month. Episode 1 released on the 30th October 2020 to critical success after Harold Gaming took a month long hiatus from making videos. The spin-off video The Gaming Council: Fates and Jonathan Gaming's adaption of the Gaming Council are not canonically related to this version.

Season 2 of the series began airing 26th May 2021, not long after the conclusion of Season 1. The season is a parody of the video game series ‘Danganronpa’ and has a significant increase in production quality from season 1, with an assistant editor added to the Gaming Council team.

Additionally, prequel episodes under the title ‘The Gaming Council 0’ began production during the airing of Season 2. The episodes are usually around 30 minutes long and follow the backstory of one character/ event.

Characters
Named characters who appear throughout the series along with their first appearance, in order of appearance


 * Harold (First appearance: S1 E1)
 * Jonathan (First appearance: S1 E1)
 * Charles (First appearance: S1 E1)
 * Morris (First appearance: S1 E1)
 * James (First appearance: S1 E1)
 * Greg (First appearance: S1 E2)
 * Walter (First appearance: S1 E3)
 * Jimothy (First appearance: S1 E5)
 * Thomas (First appearance: S1 E6)
 * Jack (First appearance: S1 E7)
 * Bob (First appearance: S1 E7)
 * Frank (First appearance: S1 E7)
 * Clarence (First appearance: S1 E7)
 * Tyler (First appearance: S1 E8)
 * Rolf (First appearance: S1 E9)
 * Michael (First appearance: S1 E11)
 * Asian (First appearance: S1 E12)
 * Fatality (First appearance: S1 E12)
 * The Fella (First appearance: S1 E15)
 * Larry (First appearance: S1 E18)
 * Ganon DisrespectMaster34 (First appearance: S1 E19)
 * Gilbert (First appearance: S1 E19)
 * Arthur Birling (First appearance: S2 E1)
 * Logan (First appearance: S2 E1)
 * Arnold (First appearance: S2 E1)
 * Macbeth (First appearance: S2 E2)
 * Trial Assistant/ Game Master (First appearance: S2 E3)
 * Trevor (First appearance: S2 E4)
 * Jacob (First appearance: S2 E12)
 * Danny (First appearance: S2 E13)
 * Banquo (First appearance: S2 E13)
 * Gerald Croft (First appearance: S2 E17)
 * Tyrone (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- The Life of Jack)
 * Mark (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- The Life of Jack)
 * Mike (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- The Life of Jack)
 * Sybil Birling (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- Apple and Birling)
 * Eric Birling (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- Apple and Birling)
 * Inspector Goole (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- Apple and Birling)
 * Penguin Partner (First appearance: The Gaming Council 0- Apple and Birling)

Story Arcs
List of story arcs throughout the series so far:

Season 1

 * Prologue (Episode 1)
 * Meeting Greg Arc (Episodes 2-4)
 * Biker Gang Arc (Episodes 5-6)
 * Base Escape Arc (Episode 7-10)
 * Michael's Army Arc (Episodes 11-13)
 * War in Spain Arc (Episodes 13-17)
 * Disrespect Arc (Episodes 18-22)

Season 2

 * Chapter 1: Let The Game Begin (Episodes 1-3)
 * Chapter 2: Order And Chaos (Episodes 4-7)
 * Chapter 3: To Rise Or To Fall (Episodes 8-12)
 * Chapter 4: May The Seeds Burn (Episodes 13-17)
 * Chapter 5: Dragged To Hell And Back (Episodes 18-22)
 * Chapter 6: Absolute Nothingness (Episodes 23-24)
 * Chapter 7: The Fall Of The House Of Disrespect (Episodes 25-26)

Plot
For list of episodes refer to: List of Gaming Council Episodes

Prologue
The story begins in The Gaming House, located in Northern Libya. Here is where Harold, Jonathan, Charles and Morris meet regularly to game. But one day, a member of a socialist gang arrives named James. He was sent by Socialist Warlord, Michael Gaming, to turn Harold into a pickle. However, Morris jumps in front of the blast and turns into a pickle himself. Immediately regretting his actions, James decides to instead aid the crew. The five of them head to Canada in order to find Greg Gaming, who has the power to turn Morris back into a human.

Meeting Greg Arc
Upon arrival at Greg's shrine, Greg uses his power to transform Morris back. But they are soon cut short by Walter, as assassin sent by Michael to assassinate Greg. Harold, James and Greg manage to successfully drive Walter away. After tending to Charles, Jonathan and Morris' wounds, Greg reveals that Michael and Walter have tried to assassinate him before. Years ago, they manipulated Greg's best friend Fatality and converted him to socialism, with their combined power they destroyed the city of Quebec in order to destroy the bloodline of the Pickle Prince. However, Greg was able to escape and now has been training to exert his revenge on all three of them. It is found that when escaping the shrine, Walter dropped a map. The map depicts a giant red cross in the centre of Texas, it is deduced that this is the location of Michael's base. The group leave Canada and cross the US-Canadian border in pursuit of Walter. They catch up with Walter in Minnesota where he has received deep wounds through a violent encounter with a wild animal. James makes a deal with Walter, where they will heal his wounds if he stops working with Michael, to the frustration of Greg. Walter begrudgingly accepts and leaves.

Biker Gang Arc
On a desolate desert highway, the group encounters a biker gang, led by a man named Jimothy Gaming. Jimothy instantly takes interest in the group and proposes a duel. He claims that if Harold can beat him in a challenge, his gang will become their bodyguards. However, if he loses, someone from his group must join his gang. Harold decides to accept the duel after the revelation that they can just give Jimothy Charles, who is perceived as utterly useless by the majority. The duel is revealed to be a spelling bee, which is soon evident to be rigged. After a crushing defeat by the hands of the rigged spelling competition, Harold has no choice but to hand over Charles to the gang.

Charles joins Jimothy's gang who tells him that the gang's boss is in fact Michael Gaming. Upon learning this, Charles has two options. Does he stay with the socialist gang, people who care about him but commit evil actions, or go back to Harold's team, people who don't treat him well but are on the side of justice. In the end, Charles' emotions get the best of him and he chooses to side with Jimothy's gang, betraying Harold.

Base Escape Arc
The group arrive in Texas, where they find Michael's base inside a giant pyramid that bears a striking resemblance to the Pyramids of Giza. Inside they find Charles, who lures them into a trapdoor which drops them into a prison cell. To escape, Greg burns the guard alive and takes the key. Upon commencing their escape, they meet Bob Gaming, who is the leader of a rebellion against Michael Gaming and his socialist agendas. Bob and Harold's group rendezvous with Frank and Clarence, two more members of the rebellion, on the ground floor of Michael's base who have prepared a portal which will take them to Florida. Before they can escape, they are stopped by Walter, who slaughters Clarence in cold blood. Greg proceeds to distract Walter by filling his mind with semi-erotic thoughts about stuffing his glutenous maximus with cement, which provides the group with an optimal chance to flee through the portal. After reaching Florida, Walter soon catches up to them and murders Frank. Walter reveals he has the power to make anything he touches explode, while Bob reveals he has the power to reconstruct anything he touches. Walter and James proceed to fight while Bob tries to reassemble Frank's body, atom by atom. Meanwhile, Greg heads to find Tyler Gaming, a sailor who can help the group escape the country, and Harold, Morris and Jonathan head back into the base to help some stranded members of the rebellion. Bob successfully revives Frank, who is then able to defeat Walter, however the Walter they thought is soon discovered to be a mere clone of the real Walter. Inside the base, Harold, Morris and Jonathan meet Rolf Gaming who is another member of the rebellion. Not long after, Jonathan is attacked from above and knocked out. James, Bob and Frank soon catch up to them and the group starts to search for an escape route. Meanwhile, Greg meets with Tyler at a port however he reveals himself to just be Walter in disguise. After an excessive amount of taunting from Walter, a battle ensues, which Greg ends up losing. Greg's fate after this battle remains a mystery for the next few episodes of the series. After Rolf conducts a survey of the building, it is found that all exits have been blocked off. Under such intense conditions, the rebellion decides to betray Bob and return to Michael, however Frank and Rolf remain loyal. Bob takes a drastic action and breaks open the conveniently placed parachute safe which conveniently contains exactly the amount of parachutes they need in order to jump off the balcony on the top floor. Once they arrive at the balcony, they meet Charles, who does not wish to fight them. Charles desires to have a talk with Harold, which Harold accepts. Charles reveals his plan to change Michael's organisation from the inside for he wishes to reveal the good that is in socialism. Harold and Charles decide to not be enemies but instead work towards a shared goal but through different methods. Charles then lets the group escape, however when landing outside the base they are spotted by a sniper, and Rolf is shot and killed.

Michael's Army Arc
One week after escaping Michael's base, a funeral is held for Rolf. Afterwards, Morris tells Harold that he's sick of losing people to this conflict. Morris decides to go on a journey to train and become stronger so that he can better protect his friends. Harold returns to the hospital that Jonathan is staying in; Jonathan is in a coma and it is unknown when it is he'll wake up. Knowing this, the group are forced to leave him behind for know. Suddenly, an army is sighted on the horizon marching towards the town; Bob learns that this army is being led by a man in a black hood and clock, who the group immediately identify as Michael Gaming himself. In order to protect Jonathan, Tyler the sailor stays behind at the hospital while the others escape to Europe. Michael's army destroys the town and Michael proceeds to give orders to his followers. Charles and Jimothy are ordered to go with him to further search the area, Thomas is to take a group of men and patrol the near-by buildings starting with the hospital, and Walter is to secure a boat in order to pursue escaping ships along with Asian Gaming. Meanwhile, Morris begins his adventure in pursuit of strength. On his travels, he meets a man in a hood. The man claims he can train Morris if he comes with him, which Morris does. Morris asks the man for his name, however he says that his name was stolen from him 10 years ago during the Tragedy of Quebec. The man says that his identity and appearance were stolen by an imposter, and that this imposter would go on to commit heinous actions during the Tragedy of Quebec. He also laments that his best friend at the time is under the impression that he was the one who killed all those people and thinks the man betrayed him. Morris soon puts the pieces together and realises this man is Fatality Gaming, Greg's childhood friend. Fatality says he may know where Greg disappeared to and the two set off on a journey to find him. Asian and Walter form a crew and set sail in pursuit of a ship. Unbeknownst to Walter, Asian and the rest of the ship's crew have formed a plan to get rid of Walter and betray the organisation. Walter and Asian catch up with Harold's ship and commence an invasion. However, Asian immediately backstabs Walter and orders his men to throw Walter overboard. Upon doing so, Walter dissolves in the ocean, revealing him to just be yet another clone. The team set sail quickly to Europe as the real Walter must know of his clone's destruction. Back in the hospital, Thomas invades. He proclaims that he had arrived to take out Jonathan, however Tyler stands in his way. The two have a showdown, where they both stand and stare at each other awkwardly, not knowing how to make a move. Suddenly, Jonathan awakes from his coma and burns Thomas alive. Morris and Fatality arrive in the ruins of Quebec, where they find a deranged Greg Gaming. Greg mistakes the two for spirits who have come to mock and shame him, which appears to have been a common occurrence to him in recent times. Greg explains that he died during his battle with Walter, but due to the blood of the Pickle Prince flowing through his veins, his soul was still allowed to inhabit his body, however he is now a walking corpse and his body is slowly deteriorating. Fatality attempts to explain what happened to Greg, however Greg denies his claims and states that Walter informed him about Fatality's delusion of innocence. Morris is left torn on who he should believe.

Battle in Spain Arc
Harold and the others arrive in Spain, to everyone's relief. However, a strange man encounters the group who reveals himself to be the real Michael Gaming and that the one leading the army in Florida is just a clone. Asian appears and shoots and Michael, but misses. Asian explains that his crew was attacked by Michael's soldiers while they were unloading the boat and that half of the army is in fact stationed in Spain. The group decide that they shouldn't run this time, and that they will stay and fight.

A scout returns with the whereabouts of the commanders of the army. The group decides to split up and take them all on. Bob, Frank and Asian head to the docks where they find Jimothy and Charles. Jimothy challenges Frank to a spelling bee, which he accepts. It quickly becomes evident that the spelling bee is rigged so Asian uses his very convenient mind control powers that he has had all along to manipulate Jimothy's speech so he gets the final question wrong, giving the win to Frank. Suddenly, Jimothy begins to wither away, revealing that it was prophesied from his birth that if he ever loses a spelling bee he will die. Jimothy fades away in Charles' arms, leaving Charles with no option but to flee.

Harold and James head to the town square to confront Michael. Michael proceeds to taunt the two of them, commenting on their naivety of the situation and that they know nothing about him or his motives. Michael reveals that he has the power to channel energy from Gods and calls upon the Greek God Zeus to fire a bolt of lightning at Harold, badly injuring him. Nevertheless, Harold stays determined to beat Michael proclaiming that there must be a way to beat him. Michael states that Harold has no hope of beating him considering he hasn't awakened his, 'Gamer Powers.' It is explained that descendants of the Gamer Gods all have Gamer Blood flowing inside of them and that it is possible to harness the power dwelling within this blood and manifest it as a supernatural power. Most commonly it manifests as a SIT like with Walter, James and Bob but for some such as Michael, it can be even stronger. Michael then calls upon the Greek God of War, Ares and severely burns Harold. This scares James, and he insists that the two of them need to retreat, but Harold stands firm and says that the conflict must end here and that they cannot give up. James then runs away, leaving Harold for dead.

A lightning bolt hits town square. James watches and regrets his actions immensely. He concludes that there is no way Harold could have survived that blow and decides to go and help everyone else to atone for his selfishness. Meanwhile, Jonathan and Tyler arrive at town and witness a bolt of lightning hit town square, they proceed to go there to investigate.

On the other side of town, Walter laments that no one has come to fight him, when suddenly Fatality appears. Walter and Fatality appear to be friendly. Walter reveals that he isn't the real Walter but instead just another clone and that the real Walter has actually been dead for a while, having died back in Minnesota when he was attacked by a wild deer, but as long as they have his DNA they can keep making clones. Fatality then reveals that he was in fact lying to Greg the whole time but tells Walter that Greg didn't believe it.

Jonathan arrives at the town square and bares witness to Harold's showdown with Michael. Just before the decisive final lightning bolt strikes Harold, Jonathan jumps in the way, taking the blow. This saves Harold's life but cuts Jonathan's short. Jonathan suffers a painful death as the brute force of the lightning sliced his apple body into multiple pieces. Michael leaves the scene and tells Harold to meet him in Washington D.C. Michael also steals Jonathan's body.

Frank, Bob and Asian rendezvous at the ship and assess the situation. They decide that they need to go help Harold and James as Michael is a difficult foe, when suddenly Harold appears. He explains what happened to them and the group is shocked, Harold says he's going to avenge Jonathan and head to Washington in pursuit of Michael but Frank instead wishes to search for James. Bob and Asian agree with Frank and Harold is outraged stating that James abandoned him, so he'll abandon James. Harold tries to convince the three of them that it isn't worth searching for James, to little prevail. Harold bursts, releasing all his anger and frustration onto the group. Frank decides that he can't work with a man who can't keep his emotions in check and leaves along with Bob and Asian. Left alone by his allies, Harold's arrogance takes the better of him and he sets sail for Washington D.C.

Michael meets with a Walter Clone and hands him the bag containing Jonathan's body, only to find it mysteriously empty. All that remains inside the bag is a Green hat. Michael recognises this hat and says the culprit of the theft is a person of whom he wished would not get involved for he is a God; his name is The Fella.

Meanwhile, Greg and Morris confront Fatality and a Walter clone. Bored immediately, Walter flees leaving Fatality alone to fight the duo. Fatality begins to regret his life decisions, wanting to make things right again. Greg begins to sympathise with Fatality and relates to his troubles, however Fatality has issues trusting anyone and says he has 'awoken from a dream', he then leaves and tells Greg and Morris to head to Toronto to 'watch the show'.

Harold meets with Tyler and they set off to Washington D.C. While sailing across the Atlantic yet again, a strange light appears before Harold. The Fella, a demi-god, appears along with Jonathan, back from the dead. The Fella and Jonathan convince Harold to turn back and go help his allies, as Michael is too strong for them to face alone. Meanwhile, a Walter Clone finds James and tells him to go to Washington D.C.

Frank, Bob and Asian are searching the ruined city for James when suddenly Asian falls ill, Frank recognises the illness as tuberculosis and makes the painful diagnosis that Asian doesn't have long left to live. There is no hospital nearby to take Asian too, so recovery is impossible. Frank leaves to continue the search for James while Bob stays with Asian. The two sit and watch the sunset while reminiscing their childhood, Asian Gaming dies peacefully next to Bob, his life long friend.

Disrespect Arc
Harold, Jonathan and The Fella decide to go back to The Gaming House, as Harold believes that Michael has converted it into one of his bases while they've been gone. The three meet with Larry Gaming, a professional spy, who informs them that Michael has started a mining operation in the house and is after the plutonium deposits underneath. They sneak into the house and go to the secret room in the fridge, where tons of firearms are stored, they then go to the basement where Harold us suddenly attacked by a mysterious man in the shadows. This man is actually James Gaming, who has betrayed the group for reasons yet unknown.

Meanwhile, Greg gets a haircut and finds his old suit, getting himself back together. He reveals to Morris that they don't have time to find everyone else in order to get help to take down Fatality as Greg's body is slowly deteriorating, he assumes he as three days left at most before he won't be able to control his body anymore. They go to the airport where they meet Frank, who was going to Washington D.C. to find Harold, Frank's flight gets cancelled and he decides to join Greg and Morris in their mission to Toronto.