TLMC #000 - Introducing The Loremaker Chronicles Cast

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Terry Dana Jachimiak II: Hello and welcome to Loremaker Chronicles, an actual play

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podcast produced by Roll for Perception.

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My name is Terry J.

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Kimiak.

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I am the co founder of Roll for Perception as well as the GM for this actual play.

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I want to thank you for joining us.

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This is session zero, though this session zero will only give you a bit

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of information about our characters.

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I'm Evelyn Jekimiak, uh, and I'm going to be your host for this

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episode of The Dance of Dreams.

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I'm Evelyn Jekimiak, uh, and I'm going to be your host for this episode of The

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Dance

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I am part of Roll 4 Perception.

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I have been for a while since I helped found it.

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Um, and then, uh, I've been playing TTRPGs since I was 18.

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So for about 20 years, so not straight.

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Um, and, um, I'm not really anywhere on social media or anything, but

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you can find me in our discord.

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I hang out in there a lot and, um, I actually host, uh, a, uh,

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session of Pathfinder, uh, to you once a week, which is awesome.

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Um, so yeah.

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So if you want to like chat with me, our discord is the best place to find me.

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So my character is Helena Erickson.

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Uh, she is a writer specifically of ghost stories in this context, but

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writer is her occupation in Urizen.

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Um, She is a young woman whose frame is willowy yet resilient like a reed

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bent but unbroken by spectral winds.

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Her complexion is fair and dark circles rim her deep set eyes due to countless

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sleepless nights spent scribbling by candlelight or peering into shadows,

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though her stormy gray eyes convey a spark of liveliness that seems

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in stark contradiction, uh, to me.

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that the dark circles might suggest, and often her gaze drifts off in

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distant directions as if she's focusing on something unseen.

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She wears her chestnut hair, prematurely streaked with silver, piled untidily atop

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her head in a loose chignon, um, wisp's escape to frame her sharp cheekbones.

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A scattering of various writing implements seem to hold the loose updo

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in place and ensure the author always has her implements easily at hand.

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Her slender fingers are perpetually stained with ink and graphite, and small

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scars across her palms hint at some past trauma that has left its mark.

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Her garments show a great deal of wear, with the lace decorating

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her wrists and collar beginning to separate from the blouse, and the

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skirts faded and moth eaten, the leather of her heeled boots beginning

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to crack with age and constant use.

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A delicate cameo brooch at her throat depicts a weeping willow.

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Upon her hip, her worn leather belt secures an old ragged doll

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that always accompanies her wherever her travels may take her.

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Her writing desk within the society castle is often scattered with occult

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tomes, various curious artifacts she has collected from past excursions,

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and manuscript pages that are filled with her meticulous and precise

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handwriting detailing her various spectral encounters and supernatural

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occurrences that she compiles in preparation for for the society as

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well as for the contents of her next volume of ghost stories for publication.

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Um, as a girl, Helena's mother was driven mad by an unknown basin, which

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led the woman to smother all of her children in their beds as they slept,

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though Helena fortunately survived the incident and her mother was removed from

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the home and committed to an asylum.

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Leaving Helena alone in the world with the only remnant of her

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childhood being her doll, Greta.

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Her motivation now is to find the basin that drove her mother to madness

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so that she might have some closure.

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Hi, so my name is Rob, otherwise known as PhantomNJ.

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Uh, cybersecurity, uh, Analyst by day, a TTRPG person at nights and on the

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weekends and whenever else I get a chance.

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Uh, I've been playing TTRPGs for, oh God, at the risk of aging myself some 40 years.

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Um, we, we, we're not going to talk about that.

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Uh, where you can find me online.

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Well, you can find me in pretty much every, every discord apparently

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known to men dealing with TTRPGs.

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I feel like I'm in all of them.

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That's not quite true, but I'm getting there.

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Uh, at least for, for the smaller communities.

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And I am also found on Twitch, um, at my channel, which is also phantom NJ.

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Uh, I do have a YouTube channel where I store my videos.

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Um, however, I'd be lying if I could remind, remember what the URL is off hand.

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You can find those though, via my discord or via my, uh, Twitch channel.

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Um, so let's see, uh, I am playing for the purposes of this vase and game.

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And I love it so much.

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Uh, I am playing a doctor, Dr.

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Tomas Nystrom, uh, Dr.

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Nystrom is, I'm not going to call him a good doctor.

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He may be a good doctor.

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He's not the good doctor.

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Uh, he is a tall man.

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Uh, his skin is best described as pasty.

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Uh, pale in the best of times pasty most of the time, uh, for

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various reasons, which probably quickly become apparent in game.

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And, uh, he's, he does have a mustache.

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Uh, he's in his early forties and his hair may have begun receding a bit.

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It's, it's not the most, uh, kept thing in the world.

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Uh, he, you know, he, he might have a loose association with a brush

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or a comb, but that's about it.

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Um, and he is, he is reasonably well off.

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So he does tend to be pretty well dressed, uh, you know, overcoats, suits

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and, and the like, uh, he does have a walking stick, you know, a crafted

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walking stick, though he doesn't really need it is just a matter of,

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uh, making sure that he looks like a, the aristocrat that he wants to be.

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And, um, as far as his traumas and motivations, well, his motivations

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are motivation is pretty easy.

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He, he wants to lead the society at some point.

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He, he sees himself as a man of science, a, a man of logic, um, someone who

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Is well suited to leading this, uh, this agency, uh, as far as his trauma,

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um, I'm going to let that play out because it's not as much fun if you

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know what's happening to him at a time.

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One of part of his part of his trauma might come out really, really

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soon or come out really early.

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Some of it is going to be a little bit of a longer burn.

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And, uh, he does, he doesn't have Any immediate family, he does have his

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servant, Tova, uh, who is another player in the game, and I will leave that, uh,

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I'll leave Tova's story to the player, uh, but, uh, he, he does have a close

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relationship to his servant, which, uh, will become really apparent really quick,

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um, uh, And yeah, he's a, he, he, he's going to be a really, I'm looking forward.

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He's a really interesting character to play for sure.

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Uh, I'm hoping we can get into the real depth site, uh, of, you know, what makes

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him ticker, what has happened to him and why he is partially the way he is

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or why he's here in the first place.

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Uh, but yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.

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Hey guys.

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Uh, my name is Eric Andrews and I have been playing tabletop role playing

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games for a little under eight years.

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And now I've been playing with Terry for a little over a year now, and it

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has been fun every step of the way for every character that he's killed.

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And there have been quite a few.

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Uh, I run a little game store in Coleman, Alabama, though.

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We have three in the state now, which is pretty cool.

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Uh, and you can find me online at one gamer geeks, Coleman.

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Which is where my store is in case you were wondering, uh, you can also find

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me online at Barty hard and basically anywhere role for perception is now.

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Cause this is like my eighth project with them.

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So, during this game, I'm gonna be playing Klaustromain.

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I'm a, I'm a priest from the states.

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Uh, I'm a, I'm a younger gentleman at, uh, about 26 years old, though

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you wouldn't be able to tell it from his, his, his swagger and attitude.

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Uh, he wears, uh, the priestly adornments that one might expect.

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The, the frock, the, the white collar, uh, uh, the, the leather boots.

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Uh, all.

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What makes him stand out just a little bit more is he's got a Bible strap to

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his chest, uh, with a leather strap.

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So it's always on hand whenever the monsters come to get them.

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Uh.

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I have, uh, of course been afflicted by a few things in my life that put

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me down the path of a Thursday's children, child, close enough.

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Uh, my whole goal in this is to find information on these evils

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of the devil, which I believe most of a son to be, although I'm

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not quite so gung ho as maybe.

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Other factions in this world might be, uh, and my vote of my motivation

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rather is I often suffer from nightly terrors caused by a bench full of mare,

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which keeps me on edge constantly.

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Uh, additionally, I find myself at odds with the other, uh, logical characters

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of the party as Klaus is not logical.

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He is driven purely by his feeling and this empathy towards people,

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which often comes out as him being rather fiery, to say the least.

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Hey, I'm TKat.

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I, uh, I paint miniatures and play TTRPGs as well as D& D.

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I've been playing TTRPGs for about six years now, and you can find

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me on Instagram and Twitch at

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LLTCatLL.

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Hey guys, it's TCat again.

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Today I'm playing Tova Beck in this TTRPG, who is a 60 year old maid,

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elderly, gray, salt and pepper hair.

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Who's a maid to the Dr.

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Thomas.

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My trauma is I have been bitten by a brook horse and my motivation

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is to protect my master.

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So we'll see what comes up.

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Terry Dana Jachimiak II: And that is our party for our first

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actual play using the system.

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Vason, I hope you tune in and stick around and enjoy what we have to offer.

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If you ever want to get in contact, you can check us out at role for perception.

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com or head over to our discord discord.

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com.

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At Gigi rfp now tune in for the beginning of the Dance of Dreams.