Unfamiliar Heroes 1 – Welcome to the First Responders Training Program Part 1

Writing Alchemy Unfamiliar Heroes 1 Summary

In this first game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes we meet Vanessa the judgmental witch and Janus the slacker ghoul, learn about Sylvan Community College, and discover the mysterious event that connects Janus and Vanessa.
Underneath the facade of ordinary reality lies a hidden world of monsters and magic. At Sylvan Community College a secret program teaches supernatural teens to deal with this dangerous world as they struggle with the mess and confusion of their own lives. Welcome to the First Responders Training Program, a tabletop game using the Monsterhearts 2 role-playing system!
Unfamiliar Heroes is a podcast series in which three disabled, neurodiverse, and/or chronically ill players and a game master play story-focused tabletop role-playing games where all of the player characters have disabilities, diverse minds, and/or chronic illnesses. 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.
Gaming System: Monsterhearts 2
Storyteller: Jordan Green
Players: Fay Onyx, Tobi Hill-Meyer
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!
 
Show Notes:
Game System
Monsterhearts 2: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/monsterhearts/
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/
Tobi’s Links
Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/Tobitastic/
Tobi’s one woman show Fallen Star is part of the Gay City Arts Season 5: https://www.gaycity.org/arts-season/
The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/03/02/dr-seuss-seven-lady-godivas/
Jordan‘s Links
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jokuge
Birds of Prey comic series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_(comics)
Heroes for Hire comic series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_for_Hire
Greg Universe character from Steven Universe TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steven_Universe_characters
Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Marvel_(Kamala_Khan)
Kamala Harris (California Senator): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
Music Credits
Intro: Kickin’ in the Turbo (Alasdair Cooper) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Game theme: Ascension 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
Outro: Everybody’s Got Problems That Aren’t Mine (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 4.0The post Unfamiliar Heroes 1 – Welcome to the First Responders Training Program Part 1 first appeared on Oppression Aware Podcast, Fairy Tales, and Games.