5 Days a Stranger

5 Days a Stranger
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Series	The Chzo Mythos
Developed by	Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw
Published by	Fully Ramblomatic
Platform(s)	PC
Release date	September 22, 2003 (2003-09-22)
Genre	Point-and-click adventure
First LP
Played by	John Selig
Featuring	Rick Desilets Nick Bebel Steve DiTullio Brandon Vogel Cait Spain
Original run	July 28 – August 11, 2011
No. of episodes	11
Episode length	5–15 minutes
Playlist	link
Playlist length	2:27:33
Second Stab
Played by	Carolyn Walcott
Featuring	Rick Desilets John Selig C/J Haley Felice Haley Meg Zaremba Ben Mooney
Original run	July 28 – August 6, 2014
No. of episodes	8
Episode length	17–25 minutes
Playlist	link
Playlist length	2:46:35
The Mythic Let's Play
Followed by	7 Days a Skeptic

5 Days a Stranger is a 2003 point-and-click adventure game developed by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and published by Fully Ramblomatic for PC. It is the first of four entries in Croshaw's Chzo Mythos series. The story, as the title suggests, takes place over five days, and follows gentlemen thief Trilby, who finds himself trapped in an abandoned manor along with several others, and subjected to disturbing, supernatural events. The game was played on The D-Pad in 2011. The LP consisted of 11 episodes, released on weekdays from July 28 to August 11, 2011.

The game was revisited on the channel in 2014, as the first game in The Mythic Let's Play. This LP, entitled 5 Days a Stranger: Second Stab, was announced with a trailer on July 23, 2014. The LP itself consisted of 8 episodes, released on weekdays from July 28 to August 6, 2014.

Episodes

2011 LP

This LP was re-released on The D-Pad Unpaused on August 31, 2022.

Episode	Title	Length	Player(s)	Commentator(s)	Release date
1	"Sexy Solitaire"	15:08	John	Rick, Bebel, Steve, Vogel	July 28, 2011 (2011-07-28)
Day One
2	"5 Dudes a Scrubber"	14:59	John	Rick, Bebel, Steve, Vogel	July 29, 2011 (2011-07-29)
Day One
3	"tl;dr"	15:31	John	Rick, Bebel, Steve, Vogel	August 1, 2011 (2011-08-01)
Day One; Day Two
4	"World's Worst Hickey"	13:56	John	Rick, Bebel, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 2, 2011 (2011-08-02)
Day Two; Day Three
5	"BEAR FINGERNAILS"	15:04	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 3, 2011 (2011-08-03)
Day Three
6	"21:39"	14:35	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 4, 2011 (2011-08-04)
Day Three
7	"The Salty Bear"	9:55	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 5, 2011 (2011-08-05)
Day Three; Day Four
8	"Yeah, No, That Didn't Work"	13:02	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 8, 2011 (2011-08-08)
Day Four
9	"The Machete Is the Stick"	15:28	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 9, 2011 (2011-08-09)
Day Five
10	"Stab Her with the Scissors"	14:55	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 10, 2011 (2011-08-10)
Day Five
11	"More Important Matters to Attend To, Like Sequels"	5:00	John	Rick, Steve, Vogel, Cait	August 11, 2011 (2011-08-11)
Day Five

2014 LP (Second Stab)

This LP was re-released on The D-Pad Unpaused on October 9, 2022.

TCM#	Episode	Title	Length	Player(s)	Commentator(s)	Release date
1	*	"In 5 Days..."	3:30		Rick, John, C/J, Felice, Meg, Ben, Carolyn	July 23, 2014 (2014-07-23)
2	1	"They Got a Bidet!"	17:21	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Felice, Meg, Ben	July 28, 2014 (2014-07-28)
3	2	"What's a Boobjob?"	19:30	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Meg, Ben	July 29, 2014 (2014-07-29)
4	3	"Site of Unground Lamb"	17:46	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	July 30, 2014 (2014-07-30)
5	4	"Go, Trilby, Go!"	20:47	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	July 31, 2014 (2014-07-31)
6	5	"It's a Cutscene"	25:05	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	August 1, 2014 (2014-08-01)
7	6	"Poor Salty Bear"	19:28	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	August 4, 2014 (2014-08-04)
8	7	"Alternate Ending Mode"	18:19	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	August 5, 2014 (2014-08-05)
9	8	"He Has Seen Some Shit"	24:48	Carolyn	Rick, John, C/J, Ben	August 6, 2014 (2014-08-06)

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2011 LP 

Second Stab (The Mythic Let's Play)

Second Stab (The Mythic Let's Play) 

Trivia

• The 2011 LP of 5 Days a Stranger was the first LP recorded for The D-Pad after Sonic Week, and the first to be released on their YouTube channel.
• The 2011 LP marked the debut of Nick Bebel, Steve DiTullio, Brandon Vogel and Cait Spain on the channel. With the exception of Bebel, none of them would appear on the channel again.
• The first episodes of both LPs of the game were released on July 28, a significant date in the Chzo Mythos.
• The 2011 LP was originally intended to be the first in an annual series, with one Chzo Mythos game being played every year from 2011 to 2014, and each LP beginning on July 28. After the plans for both 2012 and 2013 fell through, this was ultimately reworked into all four games being played in 2014, including a repeat LP of the first.
• The final episode of the 2014 LP ends with a trailer previewing the LP of 7 Days a Skeptic, the second game in the series.