Scripts

This is the third script in the Rolled series. Rolled is Dark Dungeon RomPG. Each episode is about a different RPG character class. It's also about a dark relationship between the Dungeon Master and the player. This one is about monks. Kelly in the real world is Kiarra in the campaign. She's found that the focus and ascetic discipline of her character class helps to keep her mind off her previous cognitolol lifestyle. As a character, Kiarra needs to infiltrate the Order of the Steel Lotus, a rival monastic order. She sees that they're plotting with mind flayers. To penetrate the Order and spare minds from flaying, she needs to navigate the Mirror Maze. She'll learn all about herself in the process.

Episode 1 of After After, the fifth season of the Deep Dream State audio drama. Naia opens a contest over the future of posthuman love, with Tessa volunteering as its first teller. In Seattle, WSFC Behavioral Intelligence investigates Tessa as a possible black widow after three wealthy husbands die under similar circumstances. As the team examines her history, her private life, and a new suitor named George, Tessa begins showing signs that she knows she is under surveillance. The episode ends with the investigation moving from remote observation to direct contact.

This is the next chapter of Rolled. Flay Queen Flay was the first. Rolled is Dungeon RomPG. It’s romance in a dungeon setting. It shifts between levels of the fantasy dungeon and the actual play scene. The scene shifting allows the series to have all the emotional depth and spice of a romance, combined with the mechanics and joys of a role-playing game. The dungeon RPG is familiar to most. This series is definitely dark romance, so it’s most appropriately called Dark Dungeon RomPG. That’s a mouthful. In this episode, Ashlyn gets a mouthful a well. In the actual play, she’s reminded of the terms of her pact. She is a vessel and a gateway. One day a week, she has to empty her mind and prepare herself ritualistically for occupation by her Patron. The DM comments on this, blurring the line between the RPG and reality. She’s reminded of the price for this – she has to retain her calm. It’s necessary to be a vessel. That isn’t easy for her; she has a strong sense of justice and doesn’t want to be ignored.

"You're so talented." A music teacher addresses an advanced cello student. There's a lesson behind her lesson, revealed over the course of the narrative. The Music Lesson series is a deliberate slow burn, with a twist. It is gray dark romance. Each lesson teaches something about music. Any “surprise” encountered by the sub/ject is entirely voluntary. That's made clear in the script itself. Notes about the script format make this clearer for both actors and listeners. SFX means sound effect. The design is minimalist. They're simple effects, made to anchor the script.