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🌹The Courting of the Dowager Queen | REALIS [LGBTQ+ friendly]🌖
It is the dowager queen's day of transcendence on the phantom moon of Orionelle. Her grace is never without suitors, are you one of them?
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$25.00
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Weekly / Saturday - 12:00 AM UTC
May 2 / Session 0
Session Duration / 2.5–3 hours
Campaign Length / 3–4 Sessions
3 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
You have been cordially invited to Orionelle, the moon of long lost lace and lattice, to celebrate the transcendence day of dowager queen Enid Olwen. It is a moon of lush forests and sprawling valleys; dotted with villages, towns, and castles pulled right out of a fairy tale. But most fascinating of all is that it's populated entirely by ghosts. Every year, the kingdom throws a lavish party in the gardens of the castle for all the phantom nobles and esteemed guests, from nearby moons, to enjoy. It is two days of bountiful feasts, enchanting music, and thrilling duels that don't end until the corpse sun rises on the third day. Ethereal artists, gold-toothed gamblers, and drunken knights rejoice in the festivities and scheme for their chance take the dowager queen's hand in marriage. As your Orphan Vessel lands in a clearing, what role will you take in this story of "The Courting of the Dowager Queen"? 🤺 A Duelist hoping to catch the queen's attention through besting a phantom knight? 📿 A Theologist attempting to peruse the Roun ruins, rumored to lie beneath the castle? 👩🏽🎤 An Idol searching for an ethereal seamstress to design an otherworldly new dress? 🌌 A smuggler delivering an of-moon package to an anonymous client? Together, we will make Realis ours! ----------- Realis by Austin Walker ----------- Realis is a place—a cursed orbital sphere of 1,000 mystical moons filled with mystery, magic, and impossible technology. Realis is a game—one of diceless storytelling, where characters deploy powerful Sentences, which are rewritten over the course of their saga. Together we will tell the story of a Band of protagonists who use malleable Class Sentences, useful Ephemera, and the raw power of their Dreams to explore, love, fight, worship, and unfold their stories across the Thousand Moons. Realis is designed to explore how these characters, which begin iconic and archetypal, become increasingly specific over the length of a story, and it is interested in the power and vulnerability present in such a transformation. Get the ashcan on itch.io: https://thecalcutec.itch.io/realis
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Sandbox / Open World
Theater of the Mind
Puzzle / Mystery Focused
Combat Lite
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(13)
2 years on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Storytelling, World Builder, Inclusive
Average response time: Under 1 hour
Response rate: 100%
About me
Hey there! I'm Kendrick or Kendo, whichever you prefer, and I want to be your Game Master! Quick things you should know about me: I'm a 30 year-old, queer, neurodivergent, black nerd who's been playing TTRPGs since 2012. I love body horror, political intrigue, improv comedy, mecha anime, and the weird places where fantasy and sci-fi meet. I started my foray into TTRPGs playing D&D 4e in high school when a friend of mine got me into watching the Counter Monkey series on The Spoony Experiment. Hearing him recount tales of friends and strangers coming together to tell the wildest stories possible always made my heart race as I yearned to do the same. Now I can. Nowadays, I primarily run lots of non-D&D-esque TTRPGs like Monster Hearts 2, Rapscallion, and Kids on Bikes. Though I prefer using Tales of the Valiant or Chasing Adventure for my heroic fantasies, I still love getting down and dirty with D&D 5e. I'm mostly known for being on the marketing team for Kobold Press and as the creator and GM of the queer-horror actual play podcast, Tales Yet Told. If you want to get a sense of how I run things, you should check it out. https://www.TalesYetTold.com
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Creating your character
Players will receive the PDF of Realis to be able to look over. You will choose between 2-3 classes you'd be interested in playing to bring to the table and together will do character creation and worldbuilding at session 0.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You will need a working computer/phone, microphone, headphones, and a stable internet connection. You will need an active Discord account to join the server to join session calls and gain access to links and documents.
What Kendo brings to the table
As your GM I bring over a decade worth of experience as a game facilitator, writer, and a improvisational storyteller. As this is a learn to play game, I will be walking you through how the game works from setting the foundational sentences to creating your Band (party). As a facilitator, I will provide: 🗣 Session 0 📁PDFs 🎲 Online Character Keeper 🦺 Safety Tools As a storyteller, I will be providing: 🎵 Ambient music 📧Handouts 📝 Narrative Collaboration
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Headphones
Platforms used
Safety
How Kendo creates a safe table
~ ~ SAFETY TOOLS ~ ~ FOUNDATIONAL SENTANCES | LINES/VEILS Realis has a built in safety tool called 'Foundational Sentences' that act very similarly to Lines and Veils. Together we will decide what content our story "always leans towards", "never shows", or "only shows with great care". This will give us the foundation to build our story on based on our shared enthusiasm of certain themes and an understanding of each other's boundaries. X, N, & O CARDS During session we will be "X, N, & O's" to signal how we're feeling during play and if we need to stop to discuss what is happening above table. POST SESSION DEBRIEF At the end of every session there will be space for a debriefing and for stars, wishes, & sparkles as we reflect on the time we had together.
Content warnings
Safety tools used