The Fragments of Aethyrim
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As such, you will be required to mark a post as either "in character" or "out of character" when responding to each other's entries. Because our game is in a semi-high roleplaying style, please be respectful of the narrative tone of any particular moment when making out of character comments/posts.
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Tapestries of Fate and Dream
Wed, Jun 4th 2025 10:10
This discussion board will contain all play-by-post entries - including any journal entries, short fiction, song playlists, etc - that are generated outside of actual in-person game sessions.
As such, you will be required to mark a post as either "in character" or "out of character" when responding to each other's entries. Because our game is in a semi-high roleplaying style, please be respectful of the narrative tone of any particular moment when making out of character comments/posts.
Some threads will be have posting limits based on player, character, or both. Not all people will be allowed to post on all threads. Please contact me if you need help creating a new thread/scenario.
Spinning the Threads
Thu, Jun 5th 2025 01:50
It begins with the gathering—raw wool pulled from thornbushes and wind-scattered drifts, still full of burrs, of earth, of the scent of storm and field. The fibers must be picked through with quiet patience. Every snag and stain, every shadow of what the wool once carried, must be sorted by touch and instinct. What can be made clean is kept. What cannot is burned.
Carding follows. Wire teeth are drawn across one another in rhythmic motion. The wool is combed until the fibers align as roving—long and loose, prepared to be shaped.
A spindle is set into motion by a flick of the wrist. The first threads are drawn out, fed from the roving to the spindle’s motion. With each turn, the fibers stretch—pulled through tension and memory. Each inch carries something with it: a scent remembered, a wound traced, a truth once buried.
When spun too tightly, the thread coils and snarls. When spun too loose, it drifts apart. But when balanced, it holds. And in the holding, a story begins to take form. The thread is wound on. And in the winding, it becomes history.
This discussion board is for GM-generated play-by-post exploration of key moments in a character’s background. Use it to roleplay the earliest defining events in your character’s life.
This discussion board is for GM-generated play-by-post exploration of key moments in a character’s background. Use it to roleplay the earliest defining events in your character’s life.
Mordant and Dye
Fri, Jun 6th 2025 12:05
First comes the mordant. The thread is raw—unreadied, untouched by meaning. It is lowered into the bath where metal salts bite deep, opening every fiber. The mordant does not stain. It prepares. It makes the thread ready to receive. Without it, color slides off like lies from loose lips. With it, every hue sinks in and stays, as permanent as truth carved in bone.
Then comes the dye. It is poured, steeped, or beaten in. It burns, it bleeds, it transforms. Little by little, the color is revealed. What the thread has endured shapes what it will become. Blue like unfeeling memory. Red like a scream you heard too late. Black like a moment that can't be forgotten.
When the threads are lifted from the depths of the vat, they are chaged. They hold story in every strand—visible, irreversible. People are the same. The moments that saturate your skin, that drown you in feeling - the dye that your life scalds into your soul cannot be scrubbed out.
This board is for player-created fiction. You may post short stories, character journals, scene fragments, or any other kind of prose exploring your character's journey.
This board is for player-created fiction. You may post short stories, character journals, scene fragments, or any other kind of prose exploring your character's journey.