Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 12 Summary
Meet Tarragon Songsteel the orc bard in this character introduction episode of Unfamiliar Heroes. Tarragon is a student at the celebrated Adventurers Academy, and right now they are studying creative problem-solving. Join them for a surreal training exercise where they attempt to retrieve an orb from a mysterious underwater maze.
This character introduction is preparation for The Owlbear Reintroduction Program, a game where the characters participate in a project that is reestablishing owlbears in wilderness areas where the owlbear populations have been previously wiped out. Of course, this is not as simple as it sounds, because owlbears are large, ferocious, magical predators. This improvised, tabletop adventure was created with the Magic Goes Awry role-playing system!
Unfamiliar Heroes is a new podcast series where people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or diverse minds use tabletop role-playing games to together create stories that center disabled, sick, and mentally diverse characters. In its core values this project centers the experiences of people living at the intersections of oppression. Unfamiliar Heroes is part of the Writing Alchemy Podcast.
Game System: Magic Goes Awry
Storyteller: Fay Onyx
Player: Robin
This illustration depicts three characters, each from a different genre of story, and each with a disability. On the left is a black gnome archer riding in a chariot pulled by a large brown dog. The chariot has a chair in it so that they can sit instead of stand. In the middle is a Latina woman manipulating a tech device on her wrist as she begins to go invisible. She is wearing an air filtering mask of the type that people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sometimes wear. On the right is a white muscular superhero wearing a very gay, blue superhero outfit. He has lightning crackling between his two hands, which are shaped atypically. This beautiful work of art was created the amazing Rose Adare!
Episode Transcript
In order to make these transcripts as accessible as possible, each one is produced in four formats: as an online post for access convenience, in a word document with a low vision friendly font (Veranda), in a pdf with a dyslexia friendly font (OpenDyslexic), and a low contrast blue on black pdf as an access option for people with migraines (Veranda).
- Online transcript: https://writing-alchemy.net/2018/09/09/transcript-of-episode-31/
- Word doc: Writing Alchemy E31
- Pdf: Writing Alchemy E31 OpenDyslexic
- Blue on black: Writing Alchemy E31 blue on black
- Main transcripts page: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/transcripts/
- Transcribed by: Larcie
Show Notes
Game System
Magic Goes Awry: https://writing-alchemy.net/magic-goes-awry/
Fay’s Links
You can become my patron on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/WritingAlchemy
The RSS feed of this podcast is: https://writing-alchemy.net/feed/podcast
Unfamiliar Heroes: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/unfamiliar-heroes/
Wizards of the Coast name generator: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20010208b
Robin’s Links
Tumblr: http://skeletonmug.tumblr.com
Axes N Yarn blog: http://axesnyarn.blogspot.co.uk/
Music and Sound Credits
Intro: Kickin’ in the Turbo (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Game theme: Living Voyage (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0
Crossroads setting mystery theme: Uninvited by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Attribution License
Podcast announcements: The Place Where I’ll Return To (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Looking into the water music: A BIRTH OF A PEACEFUL INTERNAL RENAISSANCE by Trans Atlantic Rage is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
Splash: Sukellus, hyppy veteen / Dive, jump to the water by YleArkisto | License: Attribution
Underwater sounds: Underwater [Loop] AMB.wav by DCSFX | License: Attribution Noncommercial
Atmospheric underwater music: Echoes of Time (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0
Sudden fish movement: wave hydrophone 001.wav by klankbeeld | License: Attribution
Come to Me song: Come to Me by Rony Friedman is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
The applause sound effect was created from the following three sounds:
Small crowd cheering: Cheer 1 short.wav by jayfrosting | License: Creative Commons 0
Three people with distinct claps and cheers: Small Crowd Cheering & Clapping — Three People; Two Females & One Male.WAV by Ndheger | License: Attribution
Small crowd clapping: smallcrowd.wav by sagetyrtle | License: Creative Commons 0
Outro: Everybody’s Got Problems That Aren’t Mine (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 4.0
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