These Flimsy Rituals
These Flimsy Rituals
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Hello all!
Just a quick update to let you know that the Ryne crowdfunder will be ending 8am Wednesday 23rd (BST). We've fully funded, and hit our first two stretch goal, so there will be a rulebook full of art and guest writers coming 2023!
You can still pledge to Ryne here on Indiegogo.com, and we'll be running in-demand pledges once the crowdfunder ends - though we won't necessarily be able to use later pledges toward stretch goals.
Thanks so much to everyone who has supported Ryne so far, and we'd really appreciate your help in this last push!
Thryn ^ Adam
Ryne is now on Indiegogo! Help us print Ryne as a beautiful hardback book.
Five years ago, we first started thinking about and making These Flimsy Rituals. We spent a year working out what kind of podcast we wanted to create, the kind of stories we wanted to tell and the world we wanted to play in. We sat down to play a game of the Quiet Year and built a community precariously balanced on the edge of a cliff. The people there would celebrate each year when the titan that had, over millennia, carved the canyon that surrounded the villages strode past. Then we drew cards and told the story of their one quite year of peace.
An adventurous child climbed out on the branches of the Koak trees that hung over the chasm. A strange group known as the Parish turned up following a weaver named Vilte. A storyteller called Jeddah tried in vain to stop the takeover of the bullish stonemason, Aya. The Remnant didn't walk past. Vilte was poisoned. A Remnant of storm approached. The community fractured between those who chose to seek refuge in the caves beneath their village, and those who fled the coming of the Frost Shepherd.
Then, we sat down to play a longer game in that world. We knew that we wanted something that created the kind of collaborative, narrative-focused game we loved, but we couldn't find the one that fit our world. So, we made our own. We called it Ryne.
Five years later and Ryne has changed a lot from the game we started with in that first season. Its changed from a rough hack, a mash-up of bits from our favourite Powered by the Apocalypse games, into a game that we think is really polished, sharp and brings its own unique take on both PbtA and fantasy.
We're delighted to bring it to Indiegogo, to get one step closer to printing it as the book we dreamed of when we first started making it. Hardback, full of great art, with evocative details about our world and everything you need to play. We've spent a lot of time shaping, so it works for the stories you want to tell. When you play a game of Ryne, you'll make the world your own. Together you'll create titans of stone and moss and spirit, you'll detail their landscapes, and the people, flora and fauna that make their homes there. You'll tell stories of great journeys, of communities adapting to change, of impossible projects to heal fraying colossi.
Ryne is a game shaped around our tagline, "Small stories in big worlds". We can't wait to hear about the world you create and the stories you tell within it.
Hello everyone! This is just a quick announcement to let you know that Ryne will be crowdfunding on Indiegogo this Thursday, 21st of July. Head to our pre-launch page if you want to find out more, and get notified when we launch!
Ryne is the game that we played during our first season, Tiding. We've been working on it since before we launched that series in 2018. All told, we've spent probably five years turning it into the game that we want it to be. We feel like it's reached the point where we're ready to bring it to print. We're really proud of it and hope, especially if you're a listener, that it's something that will provide the perfect companion to our show with details about the world and rules for playing your own games of Ryne.
We'll bring some more news once we go live, but for now we'd appreciate people signing up for our pre-launch. Basically, the more people that sign up before we launch, the smoother everything goes for us and it becomes more likely that we hit some of our more exciting stretch goals! We'll also be giving one person who signs up a free fabric map of Ryne, added to their pledge.
- adam
"Regardless, we weren't in there long... A couple of nights, as best we could tell, before we were dragged out down Mawk's Mantle. That leaves us back where we started, I guess - the flickering dawn, the stage, the bismuth nooses, that bloody heron. Funny what your mind notices in the direst moments."
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Our ritual fades, our story ends. Behind the fallen arras, twenty years of asking and wondering. Nilkat and Belka stare into the cooling fire. They trace the knot and growth of exhausted timber, with only ash and ember to shape the phantoms of the trees that could have been.
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A finale, then. We play the HISTORY IS GONE BUT WE REMEMBER by Ben Roswell as we let ourselves drift from our tale of Ginnels and Swifts, the bastard nim Shifs and the defiant Maybes. We study the city from a distance, imagine the stories that could have been, those loose ends ready to be woven into our greater tapestry.
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Episode title from Camp Adventure by Delta Sleep
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Follow the show on twitter @flimsyrituals
Find our website at flimsyrituals.com
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson.
Series art by Ben Swinden.
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin.
cw: betrayal, death, violence, arrest
"Boctive Deign, Xenarus Crow, Neah nim Gorse - they’d fill the air with blood and smoke. Their treachery had already claimed Boleth and Serrivomer, they came for us next.
There are those that rightly call the Lodge a sanctuary, but I will never step foot there again. For me that place is nowt but a tomb, in its halls our revolution is buried."
In an instant, the violent arc of Galena's pistol brings down Embrace's dawn-blessed son and with it the revolution's fault lines are seared into reality. Oken lies dying, Ivar is fractured, Ezra faces an assassins blade, Neah frays at the seams, and Ash must decide where his true loyalties lie.
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Altara nim Shif: Scion of the nim Shif family and their trusted enforcer.
Boctive Deign: A charismatic member of the Wolves, whose radical treatises on Embrace are widely distributed and eagerly read.
Crik Rise: Leader of the Flint Street Knappers. Once a friend of Ezra and Nilkat, but life has taken them on a different path.
Flint Reccan: A former Jackal and companion of Oken, who stayed in Eolith as envoy to Bregu after the slaying of Relict.
Galena nim Ovid: The imposing head of the Umbral Provenders and Ash’s aunt. She has ambitious plans for the city.
Xenarus Crow: The cynical leader of the Triumphant Maybe and member of the Wolves.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
nim Shif: Embrace’s newest great family. Plotting to take over the city with silvered tongues and bloody blades.
Trusted: A small cell of revolutionaries loyal to Neah, headed by Ido Ozk Erut.
~~ PLACES ~~
The Cut: A ghostly echo of Embrace. Caerdroia’s labyrinth unspooled into unknowable maze.
Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
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Episode title from Loyalty Festers by Onsind.
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Follow the show on twitter @flimsyrituals
Find our website at flimsyrituals.com
Support us on patreon patreon.com/theseflimsyrituals
Chat to us on Discord
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin