Before diving into the text version of the blog, here's the option to watch the video version:
My wife got both of us involved in our first ever single-player RPG - Apothecaria. And by involved, I mean that the game resources are in the house, we've cracked open the book, and have worked through (however imperfectly) a session of storytelling.
(We ordered the PDF and then had it printed locally - printed PDF is in the foreground while the stuff in the background are some of my wife's journals which are not necessarily being used by her for this game):
This blog is intended to be the tale resulting from the game.
A few guidelines I'll follow:
- I write my journal longhand and then transcribe it here. While there may be a bit of light editing between there and here, it'll be primarily exactly as I originally wrote it.
- I'm a Pantser, which means I just write stream of consciousness. As a result, there will be lots of unresolved bits and pieces, stuff that comes in out of the blue, and otherwise whatever hits the brain matter in the moment.
- This isn't intended to be a story with a "problem statement", a working through of things, and a wrapping up of the situation. This is an open-ended diary where things will arise, develop, and resolve as they will. There will also be bits and pieces where it's assumed that my characters will know what they're talking about and so won't be fully explained.
- While the RPG provides prompts which directly influence what I'll write, I won't be noting those prompts.
- The primary mechanic for getting the prompts and events is a deck of cards. We don't happen to have a deck in the house and, this being Thailand, decks of cards are highly regulated (being seen as gambling devices). We're using Tarot cards.
With all that said, and without further ado, let's dive in...
(And if you enjoy reading this, please let me know with a comment!)
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