Beste Flimsy Rituals Podcasts (2024)

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Ryne Crowdfunder: The final day of funding 2:24

2y ago2:24

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Hello all! Just a quick update to let you know that the Ryne crowdfunder will be ending 8am Wednesday 23rd (BST). We've fully funded, and hit our first two stretch goal, so there will be a rulebook full of art and guest writers coming 2023! You can still pledge to Ryne here on Indiegogo.com, and we'll be running in-demand pledges once the crowdfund…

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Ryne is now on Indiegogo! 8:21

2+ y ago8:21

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Ryne is now on Indiegogo! Help us print Ryne as a beautiful hardback book. Five years ago, we first started thinking about and making These Flimsy Rituals. We spent a year working out what kind of podcast we wanted to create, the kind of stories we wanted to tell and the world we wanted to play in. We sat down to play a game of the Quiet Year and b…

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Announcement: Ryne is crowdfunding on the 21st July! 2:21

2+ y ago2:21

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Hello everyone! This is just a quick announcement to let you know that Ryne will be crowdfunding on Indiegogo this Thursday, 21st of July. Head to our pre-launch page if you want to find out more, and get notified when we launch! Ryne is the game that we played during our first season, Tiding. We've been working on it since before we launched that …

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Embrace 40: With These Words I Go 1:14:31

2+ y ago1:14:31

1:14:31

"Regardless, we weren't in there long... A couple of nights, as best we could tell, before we were dragged out down Mawk's Mantle. That leaves us back where we started, I guess - the flickering dawn, the stage, the bismuth nooses, that bloody heron. Funny what your mind notices in the direst moments." ~~~ Our ritual fades, our story ends. Behind th…

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Embrace 39: Choked By Your Embrace 1:54:40

2+ y ago1:54:40

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cw: betrayal, death, violence, arrest "Boctive Deign, Xenarus Crow, Neah nim Gorse - they’d fill the air with blood and smoke. Their treachery had already claimed Boleth and Serrivomer, they came for us next. There are those that rightly call the Lodge a sanctuary, but I will never step foot there again. For me that place is nowt but a tomb, in its…

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Embrace 38: I Know Everything Must Die 1:01:33

2+ y ago1:01:33

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c/w body horror, family conflict, betrayal “Embrace is a hole. A rip in the heart of the world. It’s like the gardens of Crown’s Ait - petal and green cloistered by wall from the world around. Ordered sweeps of fragant colour and soft, useless lawn. Beautiful, I’m sure, but that beauty belies the effort put into maintaining it” As the Gall blossoms…

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Embrace 37: Almost No One Makes It Out 1:10:17

2+ y ago1:10:17

1:10:17

c/w violence, police, outer-body experiences “A tree of crimson and bone that grew down miles, visible despite the layers of architecture between, its every inch of growth fuelled by the centuries of us. Our blessings and our bonds, our lusting and loving and hoping and playing and learning and striving.” Ivar and Ezra watch the barricades of Tail'…

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Embrace 36: Looking For A Revolution 1:23:54

2+ y ago1:23:54

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c/w violence, betrayal, body horror (ghosts) “Ask me to talk about history and politics and you’ll be stuck for hours; ask me about the forces that shape our world and my tongue is still. I place my faith in others interpretations and what they say happened - a new Remnant awoke in Embrace that day.” As alarms wail and the barricades are overrun, W…

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Episode Update & New Ryne Playkit 7:43

3y ago7:43

7:43

Hello everyone!Unfortunately, there's no new episode today. Thryn is in the middle of submitting their PhD and then taking a well-earned break, so instead we'll release the next part of Embrace either next week or the one after. Sorry if you were looking forward to finding out what's happening with the Lodge and Ash and the horrible, possessed caro…

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Embrace 35: All The Ashes In My Wake 1:16:31

3y ago1:16:31

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c/w gore, loss of identity, body horror (ghosts) “As we lay entangled, fingers on each other's throats, the roots and tendrils of something new grew around us.” There are few options left, but choices must be made. Regrouping in the streets of Tail's End, Ezra and Ivar put the weapon stolen from the Pale Lanterns to use. They risk their selves to d…

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Embrace 34: Be Near When I Call Your Name 1:18:58

3y ago1:18:58

1:18:58

c/w thought invasion, injury, explosions “If we had one advantage, it was that we faced them on our own turf. Most of the fighting would take place amongst the gambling dens and race courses of Hinter Ward. If there were anywhere suited to turn the odds, it were there.” ~~ PEOPLE ~~ Ahste Whist: One of the seven, a group of revolutionaries who muti…

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Embrace 33: Look The Bastards In The Eye 1:24:22

3y ago1:24:22

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c/w intense peril, kettling, implied death “From Crown’s Ait, three columns of nim Shif soldiers marched on us, followed by Ministers and the Lanterns and the fucking Swifts. And at their head Valour and Vigor themselves, armour gleaming and spears in hand, come to remove the last bit of grit from the shine of their ambition. The second siege of Ta…

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Embrace 32: Schemes and Senseless Lies 1:25:11

3y ago1:25:11

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c/w mindreading, manipulation, surveillance, betrayal, break-ups “But then our triumph broke, torn asunder not by those whose noses we’d bloodied to build it, but those who’d helped us fight for it. Boctive Deign, Xenarus Crow. They’d always held fear in their hearts. That fear would poison our fragile course.” ~~~ The day before the march on the A…

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Embrace 31: Shouting Fight! Fight! Fight! 1:25:02

3+ y ago1:25:02

1:25:02

c/w murder, assassination, heavy wounds, explosions, jailbreak, unreality “Already, there were tears forming in the fabric of our banners. Soon, we’d all be grasping at them, each claiming that we should be the ones to hold them aloft. We’d tear the whole canvas apart.” ~~~ Slipping through the cut, Ash tries to linger amongst the chaos of Lastreac…

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Embrace 30: We're At The Gates, We're At Your Door 1:22:22

3+ y ago1:22:22

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c/w blood, threats, major injury, prisons, jailbreak “I imagine in their heads, they were biding time and collecting their forces, ready at any moment to take the fight to the upstart nim Shifs. In truth, they were kidding themselves. Their doom were writ on Fate’s tapestry, their line would soon be done.” ~~~ Hopeful, but unsure, the would-be abol…

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Embrace 29: Torn The Banner From The Line 1:01:40

3+ y ago1:01:40

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c/w prisons, jailbreak, murder “We declare now the institution of the Common Government of Embrace and proclaim immediate: The dissolution of Embrace’s council. The institution of an Assembly representative of the city’s common citizenry. That this Assembly establish a constitution by which a future government will be formed. It will provide govern…

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Embrace 28: A Party When The Wolf Comes Home 1:23:48

3+ y ago1:23:48

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c/w political unrest, takeover of government building, protest, violence “For one moment, the night before, I’d known something like peace. For hours half-a-dozen of us had written and debated and drafted, putting words to the cause that carried our bones. LV was the one to set it and I remember the clacking of their presses as they created copy af…

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Embrace 27: No Masters Or Kings 56:07

3+ y ago56:07

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“The early sessions were long and chaotic, stretching through night and dawn. We slept on the hall’s pews, rather than leaving. Fuelled by a freedom centuries hoped for, it would take time to find our structure and rhythm. There were proposals about fundamental rights alongside those for docking permits, debates about abolition of the swifts alongs…

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Embrace 26: Both Sides of Both Sides 1:23:39

3+ y ago1:23:39

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“And so the first Assembly formed, as our whole revolution broad and various, came with their grievances and their doubts, their dreams and their ideals, and their hopes for what would come next” ~~~ In the shifting halls of Winter’s Lodge, Embrace’s first People’s Assembly meets. The various revolutionary factions coalesce, attempting to find comm…

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Embrace 25: Making Plans, The Best of Friends 1:47:12

3+ y ago1:47:12

1:47:12

c/w state/police violence (intro: 1:30-4:20), injury descriptions, discussions of death and post-death, family drama “The rest knew only the ryne of power. They were blades singing to be used, even if by a tyrant’s hand. They came with their Bismuth nooses and gave Mawk’s Mantle its name.” ~~~ Embrace bleeds. The nim Shifs are ascendant, their poli…

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Embrace 24: 'Neath the Proud, Proud Veins 47:47

3+ y ago47:47

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c/w bribery, death threats, family conflict “Within a matter of weeks all manner of scandal and blackmail, violence and assassination incident brought the council to its knees. And we were left unsure as to whether to celebrate its demise, or fear what appeared in its place. The nim Shifs ascendant, a dictatorship ruled by Valour and Vigor. The Sun…

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Embrace 23: Holding Breath And Coming Up Again 1:22:11

3+ y ago1:22:11

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c/w arrest, difficult parent/child relationships, lost pets “You ever done much gardening Belka? You know how you never really see a sapling appear out of the soil. Just one morning it’s there? It was like that and, honest, it was hard to believe that it hadn’t always been there.” ~~~ For the first time that anyone living has known, the dawn breaks…

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Episode 22: Where You Gonna Run To? 1:28:50

3+ y ago1:28:50

1:28:50

c/w insects, eating of an envoy, temporary hearing loss "The Gall, naturally, fell into Oken’s hands. That discarded thing, relic lost and living, vessel to a remnant’s power. I’m not sure whether then or later, he understood the potential of what he carried. Raised himself on power’s sap, could he truly read its dread portent? Maybe he saw it only…

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Embrace 21: Unsure, Unsound And Unstable 1:10:36

4y ago1:10:36

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c/w insect-like envoy “Lilylium was the second. Envoy born before there was Embrace, before there was Alamire. In many ways we were lucky that it was the Jubilant that faced them, even if it was to be in the labyrinth they’d made their hunting grounds.“ ~~~ Hi! A quick announcement: we are now on Patreon! If you enjoy the show and want to support w…

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Embrace 20: Bound By Blood And Blisters 1:24:33

4y ago1:24:33

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c/w arrest “But while we fought for the right to weave our own fates, the Jubilant stood defiantly against the forces of regression. The Cut has always been the domain of the dead and the ghostly, weighed down by the heft what came before. The labyrinth echoed with the siren song of glories past." ~~~ The Jubilant Maybe arrive at the Winters Lodge …

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Embrace 19: Matching Shadows With A Coward 1:30:50

4y ago1:30:50

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c/w possession, injury “It shouldn’t be a surprise to hear that for some, the Cut were a better home than Embrace above. There were many who’d take dangerous strangeness over the hatred and oppression of the city proper.” ~~~ The Jubilant find themselves outside the Fettled Green, the lush garden in the Cut grown by Roan nim Ovid. Getting in is a p…

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Embrace 18: If Honey Is Power 1:50:09

4y ago1:50:09

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CW: possession, body horror, use of corpses, insects, uncertain reality "But you know what unites the theories we had about that place? In all of them, the Cut is subject. It’s something attached, a barnacle lodged to the city. But the Cut is not addition or reflection or parasite. It’s not mirror, but window - mud-caked, fogged and frosted. If we’…

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Embrace 17: A Pair of Ghosts From Door to Door 1:31:45

4y ago1:31:45

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CW: possession, bothering animals "I sent them to the Cut because it seemed like the best place for them. It's obviously not a safe-house, but it were out of the authority's control. As close to out of the city as I could get the Jubilant. They'd still have to survive, to be canny; but at least there wouldn't be half a city baying for their blood. …

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Shards & Fragments: The Brokenhearted 1:11:25

4y ago1:11:25

1:11:25

"But what they created wasn't remnant or envoy, it was something different. The many stories differ on what - a drifter, a machine, a seeker, a monster. For years it wandered, collecting tales as others would figurines. Everywhere it went new stories blossomed, until, they just stopped." - a fragment from the memories of Serrata Paige. *** Cast out…

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Shards & Fragments: This Thing We Started 1:10:10

4y ago1:10:10

1:10:10

"We searched for ages for rumour, for story, for precedent for what we were about to do. If anyone before us had created a remnant, perhaps then the path that we were on wasn't heresy, perhaps what we were creating wouldn't be an abomination. The closest we could find was a collection of stories from the Sounds; of something called the Spindle, cal…

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Embrace 16: The Void Behind Your Eyes 1:04:10

4y ago1:04:10

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c/w psychological trauma, eyes “I wouldn’t let Ezra be the middle of that blaze. They would not be our revolution’s effigy. I couldn’t… I wouldn’t… They meant so much more than that.” ~~~ The Jubilant Maybe gather. Their latest scores have made them prey for the city’s authorities. The Ministers, the Provenders, the Swifts. All want their blood. Th…

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Embrace 15: With My Own Blood In My Mouth 1:13:32

4y ago1:13:32

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c/w police, between 55'33 and 59'57: family conflict/threats and discussion of disfigurement “Drawing connection between the revolution’s many parts was its own challenge. Both because we were a house built with uncommon brick and because of the families desire to keep us disparate. Ezra and Oken wouldn’t be the only ones to find trouble. As our me…

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Embrace 14: Cause We Love A Bit Of Trouble 1:34:53

4y ago1:34:53

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c/w fights with police, animal harm, NPC death “Across the city these splinters of defiance spread. Each spelk the families plucked saw two more embedded into Embrace’s flesh. Us ginnels and those like us, watched. We were both proud of our comrade’s successes, and jealous, desperate to join the fray." ~~~ As the rain lashes down over Embrace, Ezra…

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Embrace 13: All Hell Breaks Loose 1:31:57

4y ago1:31:57

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c/w description of insects and spiders, violence, NPC death “For as long as I’d known, resistance in Embrace had been like puddles in the cobbles. Disparate, kept separate by the foundations of the city. Over there a union of factory workers fighting for pay and safety; here a group trying to raise their voices above Parsant’s tight dogma. For us G…

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Embrace 12: These Kids Proposing Mischief 1:06:29

4y ago1:06:29

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c/w description of police violence (in intro: 0'00 to 2'43) “Over the next few weeks, the families paraded their victory over us. Their news-sheets celebrating the crushing of the radical ward of Atrium and the arrest of the heretic priest Lena Fisher. The press’ insults were the easiest taunt to brush off, their actions were harder to stomach. ” ~…

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BONUS: Cut That Out #1 18:34

4y ago18:34

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Episode contains spoilers for Tiding season one. Hi everyone! Due to a combination of deadlines and illness we're not releasing a new Embrace episode this week. We're going to take a little bit more time to put the episode together, we'll be releasing it next Sunday instead. We're releasing this bonus clips episode in its place. It's a collection o…

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Embrace 11: For A Moment Or So 1:32:25

4+ y ago1:32:25

1:32:25

c/w police violence and named NPC death (1:21:30 to 1:25:46. If you skip the description but want the facts, check below episode notes), natural disaster (earthquake) “Those moments were just a glimpse though. They’d soon be brought to an end. Disaster brings out the best in communities, and the worst in authority.” I can’t remember if it was Serri…

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Embrace 10: These Are My Confessions 1:01:23

4+ y ago1:01:23

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c/w earthquake, discussion of murder “In sessions over in Marrow, in the ransacked halls of the Arrad Chambers, they advocated for great sums of money to go to the Bridgers to repair their tarnished heirloom. We’d not get a penny of it. We were left to fend for ourselves. ” ~~~ An earthquake rocks Embrace. The land that-two years ago-started moving…

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Embrace 09: Subltety's A Word I Cannot Spell 1:22:04

4+ y ago1:22:04

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c/w graphic descriptions of violence and death, natural disaster “The earthquake that rocked through the city would only be a footnote. A disaster that many would tie to other events of that day. Because, at the same time as our protest, the rest of the Jubilant were over the other end of the city. And they were about to do something really fucking…

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Embrace 08: If I Had A Voice I Would Sing 1:25:31

4+ y ago1:25:31

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c/w: mass protest, violence against protestors, death, natural disaster "Heat in Embrace wraps close to the skin - saturating, condensation mingling with sweat. There’s a texture to it that I’ve not felt anywhere else. When the sun breaks, it doesn’t tip-toe through dawn. It’s there in its full fury, from moment of first light til its dusk retreat.…

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Embrace 07: This Ain't No Disguise 1:15:30

4+ y ago1:15:30

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“As much as Maybes had leaders, Ezra was the Jubilant’s. When we took Oken, others in the Ginnels had a dozen ideas for different ways we could use him - whether that be as a bargaining chip with the council or turning him into the weapon the Jackal’s said he was. It took all my sway to keep him with the Jubilant. I reasoned that if Ezra could help…

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Embrace 06: Ain't No Need To Feel Alone 1:04:02

4+ y ago1:04:02

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c/w blood, eyes, combat, discussion of police “Then, there were the Jubilant. They weren’t professional or ruthless; they weren’t calculating or swift-tongued - but, they had their ways. They were resourceful, broad-hearted and brave. Uncertain in a way that kept them open to other means of doing things. Others liked to dismiss them. All they saw w…

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Embrace 05: Deny Your Maker 1:25:48

4+ y ago1:25:48

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c/w body horror, possession, insects "Us that used to play in the alleys and backstreets of Calvary had a game. A bunch of us would cluster together, locked arm-to-arm, roaring and vicious, pretending to be a remnant. Whoever was left got to be one of the Tenders, would try and take that giggling mass of bodies down. They’d pretend to be Carn nim D…

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Embrace 04: The Stories We Might Write 1:15:33

4+ y ago1:15:33

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C/W hanging/public execution, 0'00 to 3'34, body horror (eyes)“And then, there’s the end. The whole lot of us rounded up and stood on that platform on Mawk’s Mantle. A great crowd of people before us, no cover from that boiling sun. I remember the quiet most. Looking into all those faces and being met with nothing. Everything waited.”~~~Under the c…

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Embrace 03: Atrium Part 3 58:50

4+ y ago58:50

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“After their worldly Guidance, Tovak, died and Rialla’s Harbour was left without leadership, who else but Lena would dare say that they’re going to lead it as its new, folk-chosen head? Then to start harboring the likes of us - rebels and dissidents, maybes and ginnels - while her right to be there was still being questioned. Well, I guess shame on…

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Embrace 02: Atrium Part 2 1:17:00

4+ y ago1:17:00

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“I’m getting ahead of myself though. I’m talking about Atrium and you’ve got no idea what or where that is. Back then it was a forgotten sort of place, a few faded streets, not even a ward in its own right. All of Embrace had its weirdness from our departed remnants to deal with, but Atrium - jammed between the docks and the Tear, the Jackals and t…

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Embrace 01: Atrium Part 1 53:00

4+ y ago53:00

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“Belka, you asked me before about my exile, about how I came to join Vilte’s parish, about why I left Embrace. I think I’m just about ready to tell that story. Now, there’s a lot to hear - about the revolution, about the Ginnels and the Swifts, the bastard nim Shifs and the defiant Maybes. First though, let’s start with what’s important: that city …

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Embrace: Trailer 3:03

4+ y ago3:03

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"Where their corpses lay, an island formed. And then a city. Its citizens named it for the remnant's struggle, they named it Embrace." ~~~ Hey! We're excited to share the trailer for season two of These Flimsy Rituals, Embrace. We're going to be playing a game of Blades in the Dark by John Harper, following a crew of radicals fighting to change Emb…