THESE FLIMSY RITUALS
An actual play podcast, telling small stories in big worlds.
EMBRACE
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“Regardless, we weren’t in there long… A couple of nights, as best we could tell, before we were dragged out down Mawk’s Mantle. That leaves us back where we started, I guess – the flickering dawn, the stage, the bismuth nooses, that bloody heron. Funny what your mind notices in the direst moments.”
Our ritual fades, our story ends. Behind the fallen arras, twenty years of asking and wondering. Nilkat and Belka stare into the cooling fire. They trace the knot and growth of exhausted timber, with only ash and ember to shape the phantoms of the trees that could have been.
A finale, then. We play the HISTORY IS GONE BUT WE REMEMBER by Ben Roswell as we let ourselves drift from our tale of Ginnels and Swifts, the bastard nim Shifs and the defiant Maybes. We study the city from a distance, imagine the stories that could have been, those loose ends ready to be woven into our greater tapestry.
Episode title from Camp Adventure by Delta Sleep
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson.
Series art by Ben Swinden.
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin.
CAST
Adam Dixon: GM
Thryn Henderson: Player – Producer
Ryan Evans: Player
Elizabeth Simoens: Player
Steve Martin: Player
Beck Michalak:Â Player (Embrace arc)
TIDING
Narrative-first roleplaying, telling small stories in big worlds.
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“As the eater of gods approached, Duier set out its last will and testament – and Corpus would be stricken from it. Carn Vers was its bastion and from that broken mountain it directed its servants.Â
Those who could rushed to the borders, carrying Cenja’s secrets with them. That which was left behind, Grafan buried – so deep as to never be disinterred. Duier’s great library was unwritten, given to Belka, the only person used to carrying such sorrow. Its buildings were torn down, gravestones shattered, engravings uncarved themselves.Â
One by one its envoys became a part of Duier once more. Then, when it could hold Corpus back no longer, it brought about its own end. Keen, once a priest of a ghostly moon, saw to both of their unravellings.”
Hey all, this week’s episode is a special one. It features three stories, each tying up some the events of the first season. With the final episodes each being individual ones, we wanted to bring everything together and give an impression of where all the pieces ended up.
We also wanted to share a few production updates, which are gone into in more detail in the episode, but essentially:
- This Tuesday, 11th February, we’re doing a Q&A about our first season. You can join us live at 9pm GMT – we’ll link from our twitter – or we’ll be releasing it as a later episode.
- We’re going to be taking some time before releasing season 2 – we want to make sure that that season is the best it can be. We have some episodes lined up before we kick off – the Q&A and a Shard & Fragments episode – so we’ll probably be sticking to our release schedule.
- Season 2 is Embrace. We’re going to be playing Blades in the Dark, by John Harper. We’ll be telling another story set in Ryne, but around 25 years earlier.
- The second season of Tiding will be after Embrace – we’re imagining it’ll be sometime in 2021, depending on how long the next season is.
As always, thank you so much for listening. We wouldn’t be doing what we’re doing without you. x
Hosted by Adam Dixon (@adtidixon).
Featuring Ryan Evans (@brainxray), Steve Martin (@purple_steve), Thryn Henderson (@thairyn) and Ziz Simoens (@seasylphgames).
Produced by Thryn Henderson and Adam Dixon.
Show cover art by Allissa Chan (@formyths). Eulogy cover art by Beck Michalak (@r_michalak)
Rules are available at adtidi.itch.io/ryne.
Sound clips from rui-aires and thefilmbakery at freesound.org
SHARDS & FRAGMENTS
Narrative-first roleplaying, telling small stories in big worlds.
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“But what they created wasn’t remnant or envoy, it was something different. The many stories differ on what – a drifter, a machine, a seeker, a monster. For years it wandered, collecting tales as others would figurines. Everywhere it went new stories blossomed, until, they just stopped.” – a fragment from the memories of Serrata Paige.
Cast out, Nepps wanders the patchwork of Ryne. It drifts through the Oceans, climbs mountain, wanders desert others would find inhospitable. Its curiosity alight, it scours the world for understanding. Everywhere it goes it collects, gathering threads of spirit around itself like a blanket of concept, emotion and resonance. And, as it travels, it changes.
On its trail are its creators. Occlo, Hiseka, Vade, and envoys of the remnant Inahus. They mean to capture it, to undo its growth. It’s inevitable that they will catch it, but when that happens will they destroy Nepps, or will Nepps destroy them?
This is part two of a two-part special. We play the eponymous The Brokenhearted by Tracy Barnett. It’s a game about being a creation, on the run from those who made you. You have broken free into the world. What do you find? How do you change? At some point you will come face to face with your creators – will you destroy them, or will they destroy you?
For these specials, we welcome two of Rusty Quill‘s own. This episode, we welcome special guest Ben Meredith. In part one, This Thing We Started, we welcomed Helen Gould. We’re delighted to have them both on the show, telling sad stories with us.
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Hosted by Thryn Henderson. Starring special guest Ben Meredith alongside Beck Michalak and Ryan Evans.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Ocean sounds by esh9419 from freesound.org
