One of the challenges I'm having is the ordering of posts.
On the one hand, it'd be nice to have the oldest posts be on the top and the newer posts below, in an order that mimics the usual order of chapters/episodes of a book.
On the other hand, since this is dripping out, it'd be nice to have new posts on the top so that they are easily accessible.
So what I've done is make two Table of Contents.
For the "Traditional" TOC, with the Prologue on the top, click here.
For the "Newest Bits First" TOC, with the latest episode on top, click here.
I'm also going to change the layout so that they are more easily found on the sidebar.
I've made a number of blogs over the years. When I've done video content in relation to those blogs, the videos have been in support of the blogs.
This Apothecaria play-through blog, however, is different. The video content I'm creating contains Hows, Whys, and Wherefores that aren't part of the blog entries (which are just the episodes themselves with no further context). The blog content now exists to support the videos. Therefore, I'm going to be publishing the blog as the related video is available for public viewing.
I apologize to anyone who's started reading the story and are used to weekly updates. The posts now will be published every other week. And since, at the writing of this post, only two videos are currently published, I'm going to take all the other posts to draft and then re-publish them as the related video comes online.
The one thing I can offer is that paying Patreon members get access to the videos roughly two weeks before they are viewable by everyone.
Before diving into the text version of the blog, here's the option to watch the video version:
Hello everyone - Parz Sattva here. I'm a creative writer who focuses on microfiction and other short story formats.
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!)
