Nobilis, Chuubo's, and Other Jenna Moran Works

In Dreams You Will Lose Your Heartache

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:45:23 GMT

Posted by: fictitiouswhimsigot

This is a Gold Quest Set about a dreamer living in a bad place. They face trouble and heartbreak, but their dreams give them a moment of pure and wondrous joy. From that moment they find the strength to change their life for the better.

For this Quest Set, the player will need several narrative elements:

A set of cruel people who mistreat the character.
A hidden virtue or unrealized potential talent.
A social event that acts as a major turning point in the story and is heavily identified with the character’s wishes and dreams.
A Person of Significance who has the power to change their life utterly.

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Lilith, the Lost Lady of Eden, for Glitch

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:58:07 GMT

Posted by: stepnix

I wrote up Lilith as a Mimic(?) for Glitch and technically also Nobilis 4e by extension
I guess this counts as homebrew and/or microfiction???

( A prologue )

(This is probably incomplete without a definitive build and/or specific estates, but I did write up some guidelines for what her stats represent.)

( The Lost Lady of Eden in Play )

yeah

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Tree of Monstrous Divinity (MP shop)

Thu, 13 May 2021 21:15:49 GMT

Posted by: fictitiouswhimsigot

The tree is dark, the tree is ugly. It is a thing of bowed limbs and countless crevasses. Cracks and knobs in the wood reach out like eyes and open like hungry mouths.

It radiates a dark want. An unholy desire.

But the fruit is beautiful. There are so many- a thousand different kinds, shifting from day to day and hour to hour. Every color and shape imaginable is present. A cure for every ill and a balm for every pain is there, if you watch and wait.

If you give the tree what it wants, those things can be yours.

Traditional payments for the tree are written prayer, whispered secrets, beloved photographs, precious relationships and, in a pinch, blood.

This is formally an MP shop. The tree offers blessings that hold back or repel death, cure or heal injury or illness, break enchantments or curses or return to the dead to life.

Sample blessings:

1 MP

A simple bracelet woven from the tips of the lightest branches. The dark wood conveys a +1 tool bonus to evade the attention of ghosts or resist their ghost magic.
A bright and shiny apple that conveys a +2 tool bonus to resist a specific illness that is neither rare nor frequently fatal, like a cold or chicken pox. This benefit lasts about 2-3 books after the apple is consumed.
A twisted purple fruit that smells faintly spicy. This can restore the vigor and health of most domestic animals, returning them to the prime of their life and health. One use.

2 MP

A glittery blue pomegranate. It splits neatly into two parts and, if the halves are pressed together, returns to whole. It never spoils or goes bad. You gain a +1 tool bonus to attempts to heal physical injury or illness, so long as you give someone a seed from the fruit. The seeds are notionally endless, but you can declare that you’ve run out- or feed the whole fruit to someone, to increase the tool bonus to +3.
A star shaped and slightly hairy looking fruit that tastes absolutely dreadful. If someone under the effects of a curse of some kind, this fruit lessens the severity and side-effects of that curse. It can temporarily allow them to rewrite Afflictions, Wounds, Superior Skills or tweak the context of the Sickness issue. The duration of this effect depends on the perceived severity of the curse- if the character’s arc centers on the curse, then it usually lasts 1-2 chapters. If it is something that is a recurring problem they face, but their story centers on other things, then it may last until the end of the current book- or longer, if the book ends soon. If the curse feels minor enough, this can actually permanently alter the curse. This is a one use effect.

4 MP

A shriveled fig that can return the dead to life. If given to a ghost or similar undead creature, they become a living person once more. This can also be given to a dying person, or offered up ceremonially to someone a character knows who once died. The dead person returns, cured of whatever killed them in the first place. However, this is a taxing and very unnatural effect. All characters revived by this fruit bear a serious wound representing the way the forces of death continue to seek them out, the trauma they suffered as part of their return, or a way that death changed them. This can be healed with time and effort, as normal. If a character revived wishes, they may also use the moment of their resurrection to rewrite or reorganize their skills, or tweak bonds or afflictions to represent the change. This is a one use effect.

This is another version of the Tree of Monstrous Divinity miraculous perk, intended to be used as a mundane replacement. Access to this MP shop can be the reward for a Bindings 4 or Shepard 3 quest, in lieu or in addition to a perk.

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Traumagenic Estates and Nobles of Pain (A Subclass of Being that Might Exist)

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:04:54 GMT

Posted by: eagleoftheninth

It is a commonly stated fact that Imperators are not mortal; that they are greater and stranger than we may ever aspire to be while remaining ourselves; that even the Nobilis cannot quite compare. They are alien, terrifying even when beautiful, even when trying their hardest to be benevolent.

This is all completely true!

However.

Imperators-even the greatest among them, even Firstborn and Attaris Ebrôt Appêkā and the members of the Council of Four-

They're still people, you know?

As incomprehensible as they are to us, as incomprehensible as we are to them, they're still sapient beings. They have self-concepts, relationships with other creatures, and opinions on the world in which they live. They exist as thinking minds.

And any mind that exists can be hurt.

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Other places you can find Jennafandom

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:33:44 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

Hi there! This is the Jennafans Dreamwidth comm: a slow-paced place for rules hacks, big posts, and stuff you want to preserve. If you prefer your Moranomancy in a different flavor, though, here's a lot of links to other places:

Jenna's official Discord chat for discussing her various games can be accessed right over here. (That's a public invite link that doesn't expire.) Introduce yourself to get access to the rest of the chat!

There's also a second, unofficial fanclub chat, associated with this Dreamwidth in specific. (At this unofficial fanclub chat we also have things like movie nights/game streams, regular voice chats, peer support for gender alchemy and PTSD, an [opt-in, surprisingly tasteful] NSFW channel, and at least one HG dedicated enough to have resurrected dead campaigns.) It's open to anyone who actually actively asks for an invite. You can ask for an invite by asking in the official chat, leaving a comment on this post, or messaging geostatonary @ tumblr / @ twitter.

Here's some other places to find more Jenna Moran content:

Jenna Moran's official(ish) website, Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon
The cmwge, nobilis, and glitchrpg tags on Tumblr
The Chuubo's, Nobilis, and Hitherby Dragons repositories on Wikidot
The Chuubo's, Chuubo's bonus content, Nobilis, and Glitch threads on rpg.net

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Witnesses: A Counterargument

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 23:58:16 GMT

Posted by: eagleoftheninth

An addendum to Witnesses: A Class Of Being That Might Exist

Look. I...you got part of it right, but-

What you wrote? You missed something. You missed something really important.

You missed out why we need to leave.
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Goose, Called Rebellious

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 18:59:07 GMT

Posted by: elgeonmb

From the Book of Names, apocryphal

The name of Goose is
Rebellious, the pull towards the destruction of good order.

The heralds of Goose are
Anti-goose signage, small metal bells, the rusting of locks, a lovely day for a picnic.

The weapons of Goose are
The Y-button, cacophonous honking, its grasping beak, water.

You turn Goose aside by
Allowing it to finish its tasks.

Goose kills you by
~~...I don't think goose kills you? It's just a goose~~ HONKING

Goose is drawn to
Shiny things, abuses of capitalism, untied laces, the craven and self-righteous, shoes.

Goose hungers for
The humiliation of the powerful, sandwiches, shiny objects, groans of exacerbation and fear.

You can kill Goose by
UNKNOWN

Goose is reborn
When you, foolishly, put a bell in your model of the town again.

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A Glitch Lifepath

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:48:43 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

A Glitch Lifepath, the main instructions

Building Ganedil Istrian, an example of how to use it, written by Juniper Roan

The Glitch book's character creation section (chapter 5) mentions a whole bunch of thematics, like Sphere and Bane and Technique, but has no real guidance about what they might look like. I wanted to fix that. So I decided to make a lifepath.

This is based on the lifepath system seen in Nobilis 3rd ed. and Diary of Deceivers, the one with two keys and a bunch of circles you write in. Then I trimmed out the requirement to draw the circles so that I could write it in a flat text document. (You can use the bubble rules from either of those books if you'd prefer.)

Hopefully this helps those of you who are eyeing the game, or who have it but don't know what to do with it!

(also posted on tumblr)

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Meeting an Omen

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:28:52 GMT

Posted by: kihou

This is a sidequest I drew up for Rinley Sosunov in my GMD game, because I wanted some build-up around the Death Wolf now that Sessily's been kidnapped, leading up to Rinley and the wolf teaming up.

Meeting an Omen (20)

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There's an ominous presence in your life—an animal that seems to be following you around, a spirit, a ghost—that you can't seem to escape. It worries you, freaks you out. It reminds you of something you don't want to think about. You wish it would just go away.

But it needs you for something. Or perhaps, though you don't realize it yet, you need it.

Meeting an Omen

Major Goals

The HG can award you 5 XP towards this quest when:

☐ The omen appears at the worst possible moment and causes you to dramatically fail at something.
☐ The omen unexpectedly scares off an antagonist or otherwise helps in a harrowing situation.

You can earn each bonus once, for a total of up to 10 XP.

Quest Flavor

1/chapter, you can earn a bonus XP towards this quest when:

The omen appears in an impossible or at least highly improbable location.
You go to ridiculous lengths in a futile attempt to escape or avoid the omen.
You mistake something ordinary or innocuous as the omen.
You propose a theory about what the omen or its appearance means.
Your preoccupation leads you to shift a conversation to what the omen represents.

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Wild Skills

Fri, 01 May 2020 03:01:20 GMT

Posted by: typewid

one Superior Skill and one Magical Skill for Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine. i made these to help me write a different thing.

... oh yeah, and they're themed after Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. it was a weird and metafictional thing about being a monster and/or monster hunter!

no associated Bonds/Afflictions yet, might do those later.

( continue? )

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The Mill-Maids - a liminal (high-mortal) campaign concept

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:15:28 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

Talismanic sempstry was mentioned in the Glitch book, but not in any detail.

Suppose, if you will, that talismanic sempstry was not actually invented by the author of The Divine Tailor, but that it was the first formalized compilation of something that individual spinners, weavers, and seamstresses have been doing for as long as clothing has existed: the art of calling down miracles greater than yourself by carefully shaping thread and yarn. Under the assumed name of "A. Tayler", the author in question claimed that they had invented the entire craft, covering up the fact that many of the descriptions and techniques had been lifted wholesale from existing traditions.

(If you were to ask the Excrucians, talismanic sempstry was never really "invented" - it has always existed, in the world outside the world. I have no way of verifying this statement because of the nature of the Lands Beyond Creation.)

Even in mythology and folklore there are traces of this knowledge already having existed since time immemorial - the fairy tale of Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle collected by the Brothers Grimm tells of a girl whose godmother had taught her rites with which her spindle could chase down and locate her lover, and her shuttle could weave a carpet so lush that real plants and animals sprang from it. But this was an individual and idiosyncratic art which was easily traced and suppressed. Any mortal whose ambitions aimed too high, or who discovered a technique too powerful, was helpless against a truly miraculous being.

Still, there were families, and other groups, passing down small handfuls of techniques in secret: a pattern of knots that would call the wind for a ship, embroidery that would grant some protection from bad luck, the weaving pattern needed to create a belt that granted superhuman strength and stamina to the wearer. Some passed on knowledge of plants and dyes that could prime thread and fabric to amplify miracles applied to them. A few also carefully preserved the instructions for greater symbols that could do major magic.

The author of The Divine Tailor did not write their book because talismanic sempstry was invented in the 1870s. They wrote their book because talismanic sempstry became dangerous in the 1870s, with the rise of mass production of textiles and clothing - when it became possible for mortals to hide major works within tens of thousands of yards of fabric and thousands of replicas of the same mass-produced items. In their earliest years, the textile mills overwhelmingly employed unmarried women, and so these saboteurs were referred to as "the mill-maids". The name stuck even as the workforce for the entire industry was slowly replaced with immigrant labor.

A bit of fabric with an embroidered sigil could be activated and then stuffed into a bin of scraps and discards. A jacquard loom's punch-card instructions could be slightly altered to weave in a potent pattern, and then the card burnt and replaced with an innocent one before anyone could tell who had done it. The contents of the great dye-vats used to color fabric in the shocking shades popular in this era could be adulterated. All this had the effect of making it impossible to tell who of a factory's dozens or hundreds of workers had committed any given act.

Some of the aggrieved decided that they'd just punish an entire factory; Noble historians hold that the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911, in which more than a hundred women and girls perished from being locked into their sewing-room and unable to escape from the flames, was an act of retaliation for someone attaching sigils of honesty underneath the buttons of the shirts they made. But mortal garment workers were further motivated to form unions, and within them mill-maids would exchange techniques with each other.

For a campaign with this premise, you might follow a set of mill-maids rooming at the same boarding-house, working in the same room, or involved in labor organization - each of whom has inherited the tradition of a handful of magical and miraculous patterns. The setting could be historical (I really like the Victorian era, okay), or it could be modern. Maybe they are trying to depose the Noble that owns the company they work for. Maybe they're using what leverage they have to fight a (seemingly) unrelated force in the world. You could even insert a (former?) mill-maid into a different campaign and see what happens!

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Sureties: A Class of Beings that Might Exist

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 03:58:48 GMT

Posted by: pelerin

When the Seal of Time broke, when the Second Age’s shattered motes took flight and seeded the entire Cosmic Tree, some went as far as the Weirding Wall. Most have then been stopped and calcined in Narsinha’s embrace. Most, but not all. Upon contact with the Not, some wayward shards acquired a sense of self. Silver ages in the silvered land, they realized the worst weakness of the world they contained: it was never earned. A golden, unchallenged paradise - with no clear blueprints on how to repeat it, or justify WHY it was more perfect than an alternative.

To that end, they corrected themselves. From disjointed fragments of a perfect Age, beautiful beyond realisation, they became blueprints: sets of quests, lists of steps, each cunningly devised to culminate into a singular, delineated utopia. And once all quests would be completed, they declared, those islands of perfection would all merge into a triumphal apotheosis: the return of the Second Age, now warded from the Void by the suffering it endured to produce itself. Born, not made.

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Witnesses: A Class of Being That Might Exist

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:52:11 GMT

Posted by: elgeonmb

The Witnesses are not driven against Ninuan by necessity, by deprivation, by the social forces of their kin. They come here, to us, to Creation, out of what they say is a love for our philosophy.

In Ninuan there is no truth but hypothesis. If two plus two makes four, that is a perception contingent on one's perspective. The Witnesses do not accept this. They have seen, each to each, the billowing fire of an Estate of Creation, how it burns itself into light and meaning, how it relates absolutely to Creation's substrate, and they refuse to let that vision slip through their fingers. So they make the pilgrimage. They come here, to Creation, to this our shining city on a hill.

Of those Ninuani things who seek out Creation they are perhaps the most congenial to the efforts of the Valde Bellum. They are erudite and articulate and happy to help protect all the Estates of Creation. To the Powers and Imperators of their Estate they are hangers-on and sycophants and cheerleaders.

They are also by far the most antipathic towards Ninuan; they are those who call for the destruction of unbeing, for the encompassing of all the void into a great tesselating stratum of Creation. This is probably unwarranted and definitely reaks of colonialism!

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Lostlings: A Class of Being That Might Exist

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:29:54 GMT

Posted by: elgeonmb

When a Law of Creation is broken...

Is killed by the Host, I mean.

When an Imperial thing is taken and shattered and drowned in the Lands Beyond Creation...

Sometimes they survive even still. The shining glimmering wishes at the heart of the broken thing, the splintered fragments of the Law they were, light up Ninuan as stars. They dream, in the dark senselessness of that place, a quiet and malformed dream of Creation.

These are the Lostlings. They are islands of Is in the Not. They are small things, waylets and inclusions of Creation. Some might be the size of worlds and some might be as small as a street corner, but they usually content themselves with being town-sized.

Their dreams of the world are not correct, or, at least, not comprehensible. They have spun what meaning they have out of the stuff of Ninuan; but with no Narsinha to delineate the world, no Azbogah to structure it, and no N’mosnikttiel to populate it, their worlds are no true Creation.

To be in the dream of a Lostling is to be assailed by its focus. They are lonesome, dreaming blindly in the dark. Another mind, another self, that finds them in their byways and speaks to them is a gift of unknowable value. To share with them your vision is balm on their bruised souls.

They are hurting and scared over from the crime done to them. They are inhospitable, often, to outsiders because they cannot comprehend what outsiders are, but they don't really mean to do harm. Their wounds contort them into strange shapes, but there is something of worth and beauty in here.

The void does not tolerate them. The void hunts them down, sends the kin of the Warmains and the Strategists to slay them, sends the kin of the Deceivers to tear them up by the roots. They are not particularly hard to kill, except...

If the Riders should kill them incautiously, should cut them with knives before binding them in coils of magic or winnowing from their hearts the last guttering light of Heaven...

The force of the miracle that bore them would be released into Ninuan itself. It would coil about unbeing, taint it subtly with the nature of Creation. Some scholars assume this must have already happened, must already be happening--

Must be, perhaps, why the sky of Ninuan has falling stars in it.

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and you shlep around like shackles

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:52:58 GMT

Posted by: ladyisak

This is the kernel of a scene, narrated by the Strategist I played as part of playtesting Glitch -- Anzu Aligern, the former Power of Thresholds, currently Dying of Gates. It's sort of a proof-of-concept for a longer fic I've been wanting to write about Anzu and his boyfriend Lebed Morningstar, the Power of Liminality, who's in a strange and, ahem, liminal species situation -- he's been given a Destiny that formerly belonged to an Aaron's Serpent, but it hasn't quite taken effect yet, and he's kind of shlepping it around unsure of what exactly it does besides confusing other Serpents.

Anyway, Anzu and Lebed have a Cause -- what it is becomes clear in the excerpt -- and they're going around trying to recruit both Nobilis and Excrucians, and here they've decided to try and talk a Deceiver into helping them out.

( all the roots from which you grew )

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Aberrations: A Class Of Being That Might Exist

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:09:29 GMT

Posted by: elgeonmb

Aberrations are hollow, hungry monsters with eyes that burn like the sun. They have flayed themselves, taken their essential nature and ripped it apart with their tooth and claw. It hangs off their flesh like meat from a bone and it is killing them.

They're our allies, I guess, or at least co-belligerents. They are born of the void, born to Ninuan as even the Strategists are, and they make war against it. They say they hate the void for making them the cause of their own death, for choking them with their own dharma, for writing the story of them forward and backwards and upside-down in fiery letters whether or not they even like that story. They tear at the void with the shreds of themselves in hopes of beating it back or of shattering it altogether.

The void burns them back. It chains them in their nature. It ignores their attempts to change that nature if they don't fight for it, bite those chains and pull them with the teeth of them. It is a brutal and miserable and in many ways an unwinnable battle, and those Aberrations who survive;

Who keep some heart of themselves theirs and nothing else's;

Tend to be nasty, brutal little monsters.

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My Printable Glitch Character Sheet

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:46:54 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

(crossposted from tumblr)

There's a sheet in the back of the Glitch book, a character sheet for Glitch that looks like the character sheet for Nobilis 2e. It's a nice sheet and a nice throwback, but I decided I wanted something with much, much more space on it. So I found the font used for most of Glitch (it's Caslon, btw) and started tinkering around in Scribus. I added a touch of the icons from Chuubo's and some font art of flowers. Finally, I adjusted all the kerning. By hand.

The result is a sheet that is four pages long. It's designed so that you can print it out and write on it (it's not an online sheet).

You can find it here.

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On Taxonomy of the Imperial

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 20:53:25 GMT

Posted by: elgeonmb

Disclaimer: This is like, 100% spurious bulls-t but I was asked politely to compile my thoughts on the subject for public consumption and SOMEHOW I have a dreamwidth and not a tumblr.

There are similarities between different splats or species of Imperial or near-Imperial entity! Some of these similarities are named and seem to correlate to some shared conceptual genus! Some of these aren't named but I'm going to name them anyway! It is my semi-sincere belief that examining these commonalities can lead to a greater understanding of the Imperial beings in question and my completely sincere belief that it's fun to talk about.

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My Big Chuubo's Character Sheet

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 03:56:53 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

So, I made a poster-size Chuubo's character sheet. It's... big. Very big. Originally the intent was to make it so that you could tape up the quest cards, but then things went a bit off the rails and I ended up with a very ornately decorated poster. To wit:

You can find the various iterations and printables over here, along with assembly instructions.

(mirror of these files on my own website if you're intent on avoiding elgoog)

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Between The Lights: My Retrospective

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:43:58 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

Today, I'm going to talk about the experience of running the game, and why I made some of the decisions I did.

Almost all of this post is under the readmore, but I want to present this bit up-front:

On "Early Installment Weirdness" And Realistic Expectations

Now, the thing about BTL as presented here is that - even though it is an Actual Play, even though it is my best attempt to summarize - it includes quite a bit of after-the-fact editing. The quotes scattered throughout only include what I consider to be the most brilliant of quotes from the session - they're the best 5-10% of the words everyone wrote. I editorialized, sometimes quite heavily, backfilling my own explanations of things that nobody really realized or aimed for at the time.

I, personally, think that Between the Lights hit its proper stride in session 6, at the deathday party. But I don't recommend skipping. The events from before then were important, because they introduced many of the characters and places that were focal to the campaign.

It is completely normal for characterization to skip around inconsistently, especially in the first few sessions and double-especially in a game that runs in real-time. Maddie was already more or less established because her player had been running a Maddie variant for months in another campaign beforehand; the other characters were created for the campaign, and so the voices took a while to settle down. Often, I did not even bother making the voice of an NPC particularly consistent unless and until the players decided to pay attention to them.

It is the nature of a roleplaying game to leave hanging plot threads all over the place. Not even an expansive epilogue like the one I did could totally resolve them all. It would take far more editing than I have done to tighten it up to "literary" standards. That is how a roleplaying game goes. It is - to borrow one of the aphorisms that Sonja of Metaphors loved to use - a journey, not a destination.

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Between The Lights: Epilogue(s)

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 02:19:44 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

This is an actual-play writeup of a game I ran on the Jenna Moran fanclub on Discord.

There is a sort of eternity, in the halls and the keeps of the Nobilis. It is not stasis, for their relationships and institutions are never completely stable. It is not quite that the present moment stretches eternally, or that it moves in an endless loop. But time is flexible, there. A thousand years ago, and a thousand years in the future, might be the same thing as now.

-- Lorica, by Matt Lincoln

Today, we see what happened to everyone. Dozens of plot threads were dropped during the course of this campaign, but, well... even the ones that we never followed up on have their own natural conclusions, and I wanted to know what they were.

I have rearranged the discussions we had so that they are in better storytelling order. Therefore, there might be a stray reference or two to something that comes later in this document, and for that I apologize.

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Between The Lights, Session 25: Descent

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:06:24 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

This is an actual-play writeup of a game I am running on the Jenna Moran fanclub on Discord.

"I thought," he shouted to the sky above, "that you made a promise!"

"I did," the sky said, as it began to rain. "Pity you weren't there to receive it."

-- Sunstories, by Carol Paresi

Today, everyone falls.

Okay, so this week's format needs some explanation. I modified the form of a Ritual, from Chuubo's, to give more structure to what would otherwise be a free-for-all. This concept, of using a Ritual rather than regular Nobilis play for the most consequential fight in the game, is stolen from that time geostatonary did an ending-ritual for a Nobilis game I was in; I really liked the result, so I did it myself.

Here's the instructions for my ending-ritual. I don't expect it to be directly usable in anyone else's game, but go ahead and borrow as much stuff as you want from it.

Anyway, enough words. Time to end this all.

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Between The Lights, Session 23/24: Loneliness

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:24:33 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

This is an actual-play writeup of a game I am running on the Jenna Moran fanclub on Discord.

Did you know?

Ten years ago, a city of ten thousand people disappeared into the Kalahari Desert, and we forgot they existed. The only evidence of their existence is their public art, which includes twenty swirly abstract bronzes that turn out to be replications of physics simulations of water turbulence, fifteen statues of small children with bears for heads, and one that looks like a marble bust of Thomas Jefferson from a distance but, up close, is made entirely of hands with raised middle fingers.

-- did-you-kno.mumblr.nob

Today, things converge.

Session 23 was extremely short (it was, like, one scene long), so I have rolled it into session 24 for the purposes of these logs.

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Between the Lights, Interlude 22.5: Cheshire

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 04:35:37 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

A short fiction about an event that took place in the background of session 22. If you're following my summaries rather than just reading this as a standalone piece, please read that one first for context.

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Between The Lights, Session 22: Searching

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 04:20:59 GMT

Posted by: liquidcitrus

This is an actual-play writeup of a game I am running on the Jenna Moran fanclub on Discord.

She woke with a start, to darkness all around her; to a sensation of floating; to a silence that pressed thickly into her ears.

"Is this what it's like to be dead?" she asked; but her voice was swallowed by the night.

-- Sunstories, by Carol Paresi

Today, Maddie goes looking for some other Anchor of Anze's, and Sasha receives an unpleasant surprise.

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