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i loved this!

this is really great! the colors and shapes are so lovely. i really enjoyed looking at the creatures.  i hope you make another one of these!

I played a session of this with my friends tonight! There's four of us, and we played through character creation/setup and four "episodes." It ended up taking just about four hours. 

We played with some homebrew additions to the Archetypes, Teen Complications, and Conflicts, to add some options more suited to our tastes (such as "someone dies" as a Conflict, which did happen).

It's fun, and the structure helps keep things moving at a nice pace as well as helping provide a lot of direction! The vibe is great and perfectly set us up for a breezy fun episodic teen drama vibe.

My main quibble is that we found incorporating our Archetypes into the Plays was pretty easy and so winning felt too easy. We're going to tweak some things to see if we can make losing feel more likely.

Setup was quick and easy and felt very collaborative and natural. I enjoyed having a different Main Character for every episode, and our Can't Lose bonus questions have been great for adding moments of character drama and setting up character beats for others to follow up on in later episodes!

Our group is not familiar with football basically at all, so the Plays have been a bit of a struggle, but now that we've done a session I feel like I've got a better grip of how I want them to work. It definitely does work just fine if you aren't familiar with football! I think I'd recommend picking a sport you have a bit of familiarity with though just because it can feel a little awkward trying to come up with things for your character to be actually doing otherwise, which slows the pace of the game down some, haha.

Would definitely recommend playing this!! Especially if you like teen TV dramas. It's easy to get into, fun to play, and uses the Teen TV Drama structure super well I think. Having everybody have a turn as Main Character and everybody encouraged to play NPCs felt like a great way to make sure everybody was playing as much as they were happy with without anyone stepping on each others' toes. Good stuff!!

Just played this! I think this is a very nicely-written and atmospheric game, highly reminiscent of Sunless Sea (I put on the Sunless Sea soundtrack while I played). Playing it took me about twenty-five minutes.

I really really love the premise of this game, though I think it's more fun to read than to play - the "prompts" are so detailed that they don't feel like they leave much room for journal entries at all, and I found myself struggling to write more than a sentence apiece. It's a good read, though! 

I just played this today! It was a really fun light game, super quick and sweet. The prompts are a nice combination of specific and broad, and I had fun exploring the little market. I got all the crystals and made two spirit friends :)

Definitely recommend checking this out if you want a warmup or a quick break; it sparks creativity and makes it feel very easy. I bet kids would really enjoy this.