#Tales Yet Told

[talesyettold]

Welcome to the Sublime🍁

You haven't listened to Strangers in the Wood yet??? Well, you're only missing out on one of the best actual play series that has ever hit your podcatchers. We've got the awards to prove it.

Illustration by @spookynest

“But what is it?” You ask.

Strangers in the Wood is the first season of our show, Tales Yet Told, which premiered on September 2021. The whole season is only 33 episodes, each sitting around an average of an 1hr 30min per episode. It’s weirdly fun, surprisingly vulnerable, and horrifically evocative.

Strangers in the Wood is possible because we’re playing Babes in the Wood 1e by World Champ Game co., a ttrpg heavily inspired by Over the Garden Wall. It’s a narrative focused game using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine to help facilitate a story of tense and intimate horror and it serves as the backbone of everything Strangers in the Wood is.

Strangers in the Wood follows the story of two foster siblings, Dorothy and Dakota, as they wander a mysterious forest ruled by a shadowy entity known as The Stranger. Thankfully they have their friend Walter, the talking weasel to be their guide. If this sounds like Over the Garden Wall…that’s on purpose

“But who is it?” You shout from the windows.

Kendo (They/He) as The Game Master Hi, that's me. I'm our narrative facilitator and arbiter of consequences. I've been playing ttrpgs as a semi-forever GM for about a decade now. I started in D&D 4e and have since fallen in love with the indie ttrpg scene. I have a love for character-driven stories and exploring ourselves and the world around us through collaborative storytelling.

Dr. Hilda (She/Her) as Dorothy Margaret Reed - (She/Her) Dorothy Reed is a shy yet stubborn 7-year-old with dark hair and blue eyes. She idolizes her foster-sibling Dakota as well as her bio-sister Hazel from whom she was separated when she entered the foster system due to their large age gap and Hazel aging out of the system quickly. She enters the sublime dressed as a pepper shaker for Halloween and also wears a hand-me-down blue coat and red shoes that she got to pick out herself. She is incredibly happy with her life at the Abbott's home and wants desperately to return to the only place she’s felt safe. Her biggest fears include spiders, dogs, and the dark.

Marcie (She/They) as Dakota Wallace - pre episode 21(She/Her), post episode 21 (He/They) Dakota Wallace is a fiery and hardheaded 15 y/o boy with short black hair and green eyes. He grew up with an only father who live a hard and fast life with Dakota being there for the worst of it. As he got older he learned that if he wanted his place in life he has to fight for everything. After his father had a particularly bad incident, Dakota was thrust into the foster care system where he began to feel like an outcast. He enters the sublime dressed as Ferris Bueller for Halloween. He is afraid of returning home to the Abbott's and that he will always cause destruction wherever he goes.

Gus (He/Him) as Walter Brookstone - (He/Him) Walter is a clever and snarky young man currently in the body of a small brown weasel. He entered the Sublime after running away from home, feeling like an outcast and a loner. Here, after some time, his transformation would take place. He is determined to return Dakota and Dorothy home, hopefully sparing them his fate, and maybe cause a little mischief along the way. Walter has no love for the Sublime and would see it in shambles if he had his way. His biggest fears include being a bad person, staying a weasel forever, and owls. And yeah…that’s all of the Player Characters. Of course, there are plenty of NPCs to latch on to as well, but you’re gonna have to listen to find them. 

“But where is it?” You scrawl into a dusty tome.

Lucky for you it’s everywhere you can get your podcasts! We have new episodes every other Wednesday! Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Goodpods | Stitcher | Podchaser

“But why is it (something I should listen to)?” You whimper.

Because you love good stories. Because you love ttrpgs. Because you love Over the Garedn Wall. Because you love autumnal aesthetics. Because you love talking animals. Because you love your siblings. Because you love a crisp breeze through the trees. Because you love wandering blindly into the woods. Because you love cars driving through school hallways. Because you love selling your secrets. Because you love long road trips. Because you love the feeling after the tears have fallen. Because you love the isolating horror of recognizing your body is becoming something you don’t recognize and despite the fact that your true self is struggling to make itself known and free society will continue to treat you based on the malignant skin sack that buries your soul beneath its unrecognizable meat and despite all that you can still be firm in the fact that you are the only person who can define yourself.

All of that is Strangers in the Woods. Are you ready?

#over the garden wall #ttrpgs #indie ttrpg #actual play #podacs #SitW #Stranger in the Woods #Over the Garden Wall #OTGW #horror #80s style #Tales Yet Told #dungeons and dragons #D&D #dnd5e #dnd actual play #Spotify #Welcome to the Sublime

[britneyshakespeare]

wait james somerton sounds a lot like some people on tumblr when they start spouting off about queer history or supposed controversies within it. is that where you guys are getting your stuff? is it james somerton brain poisoning?

#i had never watched or heard of his channel before hbomb and todd's videos #im still watching todds video i just got past that stupid nambla part #tales from diana #i suppose there's a lot to say about people making as nick called 'observational' statements but what todd more aptly calls #pulling shit out of one's ass. #it's the same thing as somerton talking about straight women or white women or straight white women being offended at gay sex scenes #yet supposedly seeking out queer media that would have gay sex scenes? #or slighting more chaste/fluffy queer media ie heartstopper? #ppl who have these sorts of biases against certain types of gay people or their media if it's not what they see as #the most radical progressive form of queer visibility and acceptance. #creating strawmen enemies that they stand in defiance of #yeah this stuff is really getting my mind rolling #i swear ive seen a lot of these points james somerton has made being later used elsewhere on social media #was it ppl watching him who were inspired to go on these rants? #bc ive always seen these sorts of citationless rants and ravings in queer-friendly spaces and been like 'what are you talking about' #maybe someone with a scarf and a video essay voice told them smugly that these things were true #crazy. crazy #but also then again how much of this baseless speculation on social media just fueled/inspired the writing of these video essays... #idk. misinformation is a self-perpetuating cycle.

[nalyra-dreaming]

A tale in a tale...

I think there has been a story, that has been told to Louis, that Louis told to himself, that maybe Armand has told to him, too.

(For those of you who do not know the books) This is a major player out there folks!

This is the leader of a coven of vampires!

Rolin Jones - Episode Insider ep7

#the story that has been told #rolin jones #episode insider #interview with the vampire #iwtv gif #gif set #my gifs #interview with the vampire gif #iwtv armand #armand #iwtv louis #louis de pointe du lac #beautiful one #a reminder bc I saw yet another post more or less condemning those doubting the tale and I'm a bit tired #listen to the showrunner then will you

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - Twice-Told Tales; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (1963)

#vincent price #twice told tales #Dr. Heidegger's Experiment #sydney salkow #nathaniel hawthorne #i love how they made him old in the beginning #and yet he's still so fuckable #god yessss #still gorgeous #those fucking lips #sigh #stares at him.... sigh #bicon #bisexual #god #fav #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #horror movie

[doloniaxdiegesis]

She was thrown into this new world quite violently, and by the way her body reacted to the lack of honaki energy chimere felt herself relax ever so slightly. A big mistake.

"SH-"

The hit was only dodged by instinct. The herrscher of binding moved just a little faster and know she was running. White chains were formed and held the beast for just a few moments causing the girl to huff.

"... " Of course her being injured and hungry would make her powers not react like they should have, she hasn't properly erupted awakened yet.... and if she had her way she wouldn't ever want to.

Her moment of hesitation was what cause the beast to break free and attack indiscriminately. Had she been alone she would have been okay but -

"Watch out !!!!"

The herrscher did her best to protect the poor stranger that got tangled in her mess.

#open starter #･｡ * ｡ ☆ * :: Chimere #･｡ * ｡ ☆ * :: Verse tag pending | Our story has yet to be told | #･｡ * ｡ ☆ * :: crossover | a tale that's being retold| #tw violence #its more like me trying out writing action- #XD

[ofyorkshire]

This doesn't really belong here, I'm just Inserting My Muse into other canon, as you do, but it is so screwed up about Actual FBI Agent Roy Petty being so willing to give informants addictive drugs to "calm their nerves" when his own mother, whom he loves and evidently fears for, is struggling with severe addiction. The ease of which he does that and complete lack of regret is insane to me. Normal people are just pawns for him to play with in order to get his man, but he's frankly no better than the criminals he hunts.

Anyway the thought is BJ accidentally finding himself an informant for a similarly slimy government agent and being put in a similar situation. Wondering if he'd take the bait, if it'd cause a relapse... Thinking ESPECIALLY about the tension of BJ having to hide things from your muse. Dodge questions about where he is at night, who he's talking to and why. Thinking about BJ being made to wear a mic, and the knowledge of that affecting how he behaves around your muse too. Not wanting them to get wrapped up in it, but not having a choice; they're indirectly involved by association. He doesn't want to be a part of this anymore, but he doesn't have a choice. Maybe he's being blackmailed for a change?

Thinking about all the ways that could eventually trickle down to your muse. Maybe whoever BJ is supposed to be gathering information on comes after your muse in an attempt to scare BJ off? Maybe your muse IS the person BJ is supposed to gather information on? Maybe it isn't even that serious, but the tension and sudden elusiveness from BJ puts a strain on their relationship? Maybe they think BJ is just hiding the fact he's using again, and that causes problems?

Idk idk. Rolling the plot bunnies around. Enjoying the general idea of BJ getting in over his head again and accidentally dragging your muse down with him.

#out of fairy tales [ooc]; #stories yet told [wishlist];

[loveisalwaystheanswer]

Grace who can't sing. Grace who betrayed Tommy. Grace who can't stand up for herself. Grace who stays alive in the first season only because Tommy and Campbell save her ass. Grace who is ridiculous when she points a gun at Polly. Grace who cheated on her husband. Grace who only cares about money. Grace who doesn't feel any remorse. Grace who isn't accepted by Polly and Polly knows best what is good for Tommy. Grace whose presence on the show makes no sense. Grace who has no character development. Grace who is irritating. Grace 'thank god she was killed'. Grace who is annoying. Grace who doesn't understand Tommy. Grace who gets in the way of Tommy's business. Grace who makes everything about herself. Grace because of whom Danny was killed. Grace who ruined Tommy's future. Grace who demands too much from Tommy. Grace who wants to change Tommy. Grace who purposely got pregnant. Grace who married Tommy just because he's handsome and has a lot of money. Grace whose wedding dress is awful.

Did I forget something? Feel free to add yours!

#blah blah grace #i was thinking about all the reasons why i can hate her #and yet i don't feel any hint of hate in myself #this is a twice-told-tale #all the same #trite and boring #grace burgess #grace shelby #peaky blinders #text post #liata notes

[comixandco]

thinking about little molly finch, the baby on a boat that tugged a house across the ocean

who grew up hearing bedtime stories based on tales from her family’s old country, of shapeshifters and seamonsters, and the story of the night the sea rose up around them and dragged that boat down to bottom of the sea bed

who could see that giant house and boat at low tide at night

who drew a picture of a princess in a castle at the bottom of the sea besieged by a sea monster

and died sure it was coming after her

#what remains of edith finch #wroef #molly finch #i do think that edie would have sensationalised and told molly all about that ill-fated journey to america #i think she told it like a big and tragic adventure so often and so vividly that molly sometimes felt like she could remember being there #even though she was less than a year old at the time #and i think the first generation of finches but especially molly were brought up on the same stories and myths that edie would have been #and somewhere in that little child mind molly sewed the two tales together #it wasn’t a storm that killed her grandpa but a sea monster #and there were sea monsters out there creatures in the sea that people just hadn’t found yet #and the night she ate poison and slowly died her thoughts latched on to that and dreamt of the night the boat sank #from the monster’s point of view. and became convinced it was going to try to eat all of the finches starting with her #eh idk ignore me i’m just having Thoughts

[daydreamerdrew]

The Incredible Hulk (1968) #247

#ahhh this is so great for me #very intrigued by the transition here between Bruce’s memory of visiting his parents’ graves #which would have been before the gamma bomb accident #and the Hulk’s memory of burying Crackajack and then making him a tombstone #and that the Hulk says he remembers this place but can’t remember from where #and then the narration supplies that it’s ‘from fairy tales told to a lonely child christened Robert Bruce Banner’ #ok I haven’t read She-Hulk’s first appearance yet which I believe would have been published a few months before this issue #but briefly assuming that nothing about Bruce’s background was revealed there #there’s been two stories that dealt with where Bruce went to college and a professor that was significant for him there #and there was the therapy issue where Samson went into the Hulk’s mind #and saw really sanitized and decontextualized memories that portrayed Bruce’s childhood as incredibly normal #and that is it for the entirety of what we’ve seen of Bruce’s pre-gamma bomb accident life #so this is first revealing that both his parents are dead #and that he was a ‘lonely’ child #marvel #bruce banner #my posts #comic panels

[talesyettold]

🎉Holy shit, we're so close to getting 10k downloads🎉

I was worried we wouldn't make it by our 2nd anniversary but at this rate we just might. Quick, go tell all your friends to listen to Tales Yet Told! Find us wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Goodpods | Stitcher | Podchaser | Goodpods

#ttrpgs #tales yet told #actual play #whispers in the sea #Strangers in the Wood #Sitw #Wits #indie ttrpg #10k downloads!

[britneyshakespeare]

i cannot stop thinking about henry vi part 2

#i havent rewatched it yet #i watched part one again (the bbc television production from 1983 directed by jane howell whomstve we STAN) #i havent watched a production of part 2 though... ever. not since i read it four years ago now #in which it was all in my head #AM I READY FOR WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER THOUGH? AM I? #IM NOT SURE I AM #oooohohoh #shakespeare history plays are breaking my brain #i said i was gonna use july to detox before reading henry v but then i made a kanopy profile oops #margaret of anjou is gonna WHAT? she's gonna WHAT???!??!!? #SUFFOLK WHAT???!?!?!?!? #tales from diana #i also keep thinking about how. i initially had no interest in reading the english history plays whatsoever. lol #if it weren't for ned @sneez my dear friend being the number one henry vi fanboy inthe world... idk if id have read any of them by now #in truth i only started 1 henry vi bc of him. and i was a bit dismayed and daunted by the fact that it was one of 3 #about that king alone... and then to discover richard iii was the end of that tetralogy series. #but then like. i started that shit and i was like WHAATTT?!?!?!?!? #everyone told me shakespeares english histories are just elizabethan propagranda. no one told me that they're general hospital #seriously the medieval court drama is unmatched #i dont get a kick out of true crime like some ppl. for my real-life-intrigue fix i need deposed kings and lord protectors sorry #and several wars going on at once #the pacing in the histories are also nothing like the rest of shakespeare's works. i mean ppl make a joke about hamlet #how basically the whole play he does nothing but go insane and soliloquize until he dies #IT IS NOT LIKE THAT IN THE ENGLISH HISTORIES #PPL WILL BE BANISHED FROM THE REALM ON PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IN FUCKIN. ACT II OF V. SHIT'S CRAZY

[godzexperiment]

obviously there is no reason for nix to like not be an honest person *bluntly so at times* aside like certain things are just default not mention/skirt around topics etc..... but also i feel he 100% has pathological liar tendencies *especially related to those topics* and it's sad because sometimes it just happens, he's just like .... well guess that's the version of events i'm adhered to now :(

#<< falling apart at the seams i cant deny >> headcanons #(not me thinking about “human” verse d.ominion nix just more inclined to make up tales for the blankness) #(100% it's another reason gets in conflict with others) #('see but you told steve that your favorite color was blue yet you just said it was red') #(nix just like .... 'it was blue when he asked but now its red so what') #(area man gets in trouble for breaking an nose when somebody makes some comment about parental abandoment) #(nix- idk why my anger is so much more intense than it should be on this fact of life but whoops busted up my hand too) #(can also be just giving answers that'll seem more acceptable to whoever is bothering him for his history etc)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - Twice-Told Tales; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (1963)

#vincent price #twice told tales #nathaniel hawthorne #dr. Heidegger's Experiment #short story #i love how they made him old in the beginning #yet hes still so fuckable #those lips tho #i wanna kiss them #and suck on his bottom lip #im fine... #this is fine... #fuckkk #!!!!! #vinny p #vp #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #photo edit by me #photos #photo edits by me #photos by me

[doloniaxdiegesis]

"So ah.....anyone else know how to deal with being a walking talking world ending bomb ?"

She is having a crises send help -

#･｡ * ｡ ☆ * :: Chimere #･｡ * ｡ ☆ * :: Verse tag pending | Our story has yet to be told | #･｡ * ｡ ☆ * :: crossover | a tale that's being retold| #open starter

[ofyorkshire]

thinking about bj having some reason to return to yorkshire post-canon. maybe he's contacted by someone there and asked if he would stand as a witness to help speak out against and convict the remaining crooked police and businessmen involved in yorkshire's crime ring.

thinking about how scary that would be to not only have to think about all of that again, but to openly be the exact thing that got his friends and almost himself killed: a witness.

thinking about bj talking about it with your muse, asking them... "should i?" martin laws, john dawson, and bob craven are all dead now. their crime ring was broken and it will undoubtedly begin again, but it will never be as strong or as big as it was. will helping convict the other killers and dirty cops help? what if bj just wants to be done with it, what if he's tired and doesn't want to have to revisit any of that?

knowing, though, deep down, that he has to go. he'd have to go bc just like he wouldn't rest knowing laws was alive, he won't be able to rest knowing that his witness could make or break a case to put away the vile men responsible for the deaths of his friends.

thinking about him asking your muse to go with him. would they?

thinking about after it's all said and done, if your muse did go, bj asking if they can stay for a few days longer to decompress elsewhere. and he takes them to walk along the shore in blackpool, where he spent his last happy day with his mum, and his first day free almost 20 years later.

justttttt. soft. about bj trusting someone enough to ask, and soft about bj being willing to share these intimate pieces of his history with them.

#blaghh emotions emotions emotions. i love him. #out of fairy tales [ooc]; #stories yet told [wishlist];

[eiiskonigin-a]

The lines between friend and foe are blurry, these days, and Winter cannot recall whether this one is among the list Weiss has insisted are trustworthy or not. It was so much easier when her world was simpler, and her trust was dictated by what uniform someone was wearing.

She won't pretend to remember the girl. It wouldn't be believable if she had.

"Is everything alright?"

@tricoloredillusion​ // ❤

#tricoloredillusion #( verse.04 ) / ✦ with ice in her veins . #/ VAAAAGUE timelines because i wasn't sure if you had a post-v8 verse or not #/ if this doesn't work just kick me on ims and i'll fix it ;w; #/ winter cannot remember who is who anymore so she's like ''you look young enough to be one of weiss' friends...'' #( queue ) / ✦ it's like a tale still yet to be told !