Sophia in Chains: The Safeword is "Paradox" [21+, LGBTQ DM, NSFW Content-Friendly, Kink Culture-Centering]

Creating your character

Character creation will happen during Session Zero, or afterwards in a free one-to-one session if the Bravery/Consent/Safety/Boundaries discussion consumes Session Zero. Players are assumed to be mages, Proximi, or Sleepwalkers, though other Chronicles of Darkness splats (vampires, werewolves, sin-eaters, mummies, hunters, demons, beasts, changelings, deviants, prometheans, gifted mortals, etc.) are possible, if the player wishes. Mages will be created according to starting mage rules according to the 2nd edition rulebook. Other splats may be created more akin to the newly Awakened mages (which is what the two pre-existing characters are). All types of mage are allowable, including the five orders of the Pentacle Alliance, Nameless or Apostates, members of Nameless Orders, Seers of the Throne, Scelesti, Tremere, Banishers, Reapers, etc.

Preparing for the session

Please have the technology necessary to connect to Discord, including a microphone. Though I would love to see your face while you play and thus encourage you to have your webcam on, I do not require it. Other than a Discord account (and mebbe downloading the Discord client/app), there are no programs or websites to which you need access. Knowledge of the rules and a rough idea of a character before Session Zero is wonderful and helpful, but not at all necessary. Both pre-existing players had neither, and we have told a deep and engrossing story together.

What Emily Loretta Flummox (et alia) brings to the table

I bring an active Discord channel discussing the game between sessions, on my Discord server where I run the game. I have exhaustively mapped out the mage societies of the San Francisco Bay Area, including connections to other Chronicles of Darkness splats. However, my GMing style is deeply concerned with player agency and collaboration with the players as fellow storytellers, so expect to be actively involved in determining the direction, themes, and conflicts of the story. Much of my efforts as one of the storytellers in the campaign is to find the mental/emotional weaknesses of the characters and then push on them. I also bring an exhaustive knowledge of and deep thought about the cosmological considerations of the setting and campaign; every once in a while, a session involves answering detailed questions about that from the players and helping them understand the larger implications of campaign events. I try hard to keep my eyes on considerations of sociocultural power dynamics in the game, as well as player inclusivity, and am very open to hearing when I can improve!

How Emily Loretta Flummox (et alia) creates a safe table

Players are given to a communally created, living Lines/Veils/Highlights documents during Session 0, which will be held with all players when they join. N/O/X cards are primarily communicated by means of Discord's VC text chat, though spoken or video versions will be very much respected. Every session opens with a 15-minute, detailed reminder of the group's Bravery, Consent, Safety, and Boundaries Practices/Tools to ensure that everyone is on the same page and to ensure that these practices/tools are not forgotten. Also, to repeat: Although the possibility exists for this game to engage with erotic scenes and themes with appropriate safety/consent tools (and has done so, at times), this is not an ERP. If you’re looking for fapping opportunities or material, don’t waste your money on me; find a game offering that.