Brought to you by Role for Perception, this exciting new series dives deep into a variety of TTRPG systems through immersive Actual Plays. Our debut adventure features Vaesen by Free League Publishing, set in the enchanting northern reaches of Europe, where mythical and ghostly creatures lurk in the shadows.
In this episode, you'll meet our fantastic players—Evelyn, Robert, Erik, and TeaCat—and get a sneak peek at the intriguing characters they'll be bringing to life. It’s a brief but tantalizing introduction that will lead you straight into Episode 001, where the mystery truly begins. Don’t miss it!
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Terry Dana Jachimiak II: Hello and welcome to Loremaker Chronicles, an actual play
Speaker:podcast produced by Roll for Perception.
Speaker:My name is Terry J.
Speaker:Kimiak.
Speaker:I am the co founder of Roll for Perception as well as the GM for this actual play.
Speaker:I want to thank you for joining us.
Speaker:This is session zero, though this session zero will only give you a bit
Speaker:of information about our characters.
Speaker:I'm Evelyn Jekimiak, uh, and I'm going to be your host for this
Speaker:episode of The Dance of Dreams.
Speaker:I'm Evelyn Jekimiak, uh, and I'm going to be your host for this episode of The
Evelyn Jachimiak:Dance
Evelyn Jachimiak:I am part of Roll 4 Perception.
Evelyn Jachimiak:I have been for a while since I helped found it.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Um, and then, uh, I've been playing TTRPGs since I was 18.
Evelyn Jachimiak:So for about 20 years, so not straight.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Um, and, um, I'm not really anywhere on social media or anything, but
Evelyn Jachimiak:you can find me in our discord.
Evelyn Jachimiak:I hang out in there a lot and, um, I actually host, uh, a, uh,
Evelyn Jachimiak:session of Pathfinder, uh, to you once a week, which is awesome.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Um, so yeah.
Evelyn Jachimiak:So if you want to like chat with me, our discord is the best place to find me.
Evelyn Jachimiak:So my character is Helena Erickson.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Uh, she is a writer specifically of ghost stories in this context, but
Evelyn Jachimiak:writer is her occupation in Urizen.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Um, She is a young woman whose frame is willowy yet resilient like a reed
Evelyn Jachimiak:bent but unbroken by spectral winds.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Her complexion is fair and dark circles rim her deep set eyes due to countless
Evelyn Jachimiak:sleepless nights spent scribbling by candlelight or peering into shadows,
Evelyn Jachimiak:though her stormy gray eyes convey a spark of liveliness that seems
Evelyn Jachimiak:in stark contradiction, uh, to me.
Evelyn Jachimiak:that the dark circles might suggest, and often her gaze drifts off in
Evelyn Jachimiak:distant directions as if she's focusing on something unseen.
Evelyn Jachimiak:She wears her chestnut hair, prematurely streaked with silver, piled untidily atop
Evelyn Jachimiak:her head in a loose chignon, um, wisp's escape to frame her sharp cheekbones.
Evelyn Jachimiak:A scattering of various writing implements seem to hold the loose updo
Evelyn Jachimiak:in place and ensure the author always has her implements easily at hand.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Her slender fingers are perpetually stained with ink and graphite, and small
Evelyn Jachimiak:scars across her palms hint at some past trauma that has left its mark.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Her garments show a great deal of wear, with the lace decorating
Evelyn Jachimiak:her wrists and collar beginning to separate from the blouse, and the
Evelyn Jachimiak:skirts faded and moth eaten, the leather of her heeled boots beginning
Evelyn Jachimiak:to crack with age and constant use.
Evelyn Jachimiak:A delicate cameo brooch at her throat depicts a weeping willow.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Upon her hip, her worn leather belt secures an old ragged doll
Evelyn Jachimiak:that always accompanies her wherever her travels may take her.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Her writing desk within the society castle is often scattered with occult
Evelyn Jachimiak:tomes, various curious artifacts she has collected from past excursions,
Evelyn Jachimiak:and manuscript pages that are filled with her meticulous and precise
Evelyn Jachimiak:handwriting detailing her various spectral encounters and supernatural
Evelyn Jachimiak:occurrences that she compiles in preparation for for the society as
Evelyn Jachimiak:well as for the contents of her next volume of ghost stories for publication.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Um, as a girl, Helena's mother was driven mad by an unknown basin, which
Evelyn Jachimiak:led the woman to smother all of her children in their beds as they slept,
Evelyn Jachimiak:though Helena fortunately survived the incident and her mother was removed from
Evelyn Jachimiak:the home and committed to an asylum.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Leaving Helena alone in the world with the only remnant of her
Evelyn Jachimiak:childhood being her doll, Greta.
Evelyn Jachimiak:Her motivation now is to find the basin that drove her mother to madness
Evelyn Jachimiak:so that she might have some closure.
Robert:Hi, so my name is Rob, otherwise known as PhantomNJ.
Robert:Uh, cybersecurity, uh, Analyst by day, a TTRPG person at nights and on the
Robert:weekends and whenever else I get a chance.
Robert:Uh, I've been playing TTRPGs for, oh God, at the risk of aging myself some 40 years.
Robert:Um, we, we, we're not going to talk about that.
Robert:Uh, where you can find me online.
Robert:Well, you can find me in pretty much every, every discord apparently
Robert:known to men dealing with TTRPGs.
Robert:I feel like I'm in all of them.
Robert:That's not quite true, but I'm getting there.
Robert:Uh, at least for, for the smaller communities.
Robert:And I am also found on Twitch, um, at my channel, which is also phantom NJ.
Robert:Uh, I do have a YouTube channel where I store my videos.
Robert:Um, however, I'd be lying if I could remind, remember what the URL is off hand.
Robert:You can find those though, via my discord or via my, uh, Twitch channel.
Robert:Um, so let's see, uh, I am playing for the purposes of this vase and game.
Robert:And I love it so much.
Robert:Uh, I am playing a doctor, Dr.
Robert:Tomas Nystrom, uh, Dr.
Robert:Nystrom is, I'm not going to call him a good doctor.
Robert:He may be a good doctor.
Robert:He's not the good doctor.
Robert:Uh, he is a tall man.
Robert:Uh, his skin is best described as pasty.
Robert:Uh, pale in the best of times pasty most of the time, uh, for
Robert:various reasons, which probably quickly become apparent in game.
Robert:And, uh, he's, he does have a mustache.
Robert:Uh, he's in his early forties and his hair may have begun receding a bit.
Robert:It's, it's not the most, uh, kept thing in the world.
Robert:Uh, he, you know, he, he might have a loose association with a brush
Robert:or a comb, but that's about it.
Robert:Um, and he is, he is reasonably well off.
Robert:So he does tend to be pretty well dressed, uh, you know, overcoats, suits
Robert:and, and the like, uh, he does have a walking stick, you know, a crafted
Robert:walking stick, though he doesn't really need it is just a matter of,
Robert:uh, making sure that he looks like a, the aristocrat that he wants to be.
Robert:And, um, as far as his traumas and motivations, well, his motivations
Robert:are motivation is pretty easy.
Robert:He, he wants to lead the society at some point.
Robert:He, he sees himself as a man of science, a, a man of logic, um, someone who
Robert:Is well suited to leading this, uh, this agency, uh, as far as his trauma,
Robert:um, I'm going to let that play out because it's not as much fun if you
Robert:know what's happening to him at a time.
Robert:One of part of his part of his trauma might come out really, really
Robert:soon or come out really early.
Robert:Some of it is going to be a little bit of a longer burn.
Robert:And, uh, he does, he doesn't have Any immediate family, he does have his
Robert:servant, Tova, uh, who is another player in the game, and I will leave that, uh,
Robert:I'll leave Tova's story to the player, uh, but, uh, he, he does have a close
Robert:relationship to his servant, which, uh, will become really apparent really quick,
Robert:um, uh, And yeah, he's a, he, he, he's going to be a really, I'm looking forward.
Robert:He's a really interesting character to play for sure.
Robert:Uh, I'm hoping we can get into the real depth site, uh, of, you know, what makes
Robert:him ticker, what has happened to him and why he is partially the way he is
Robert:or why he's here in the first place.
Robert:Uh, but yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun.
Erik:Hey guys.
Erik:Uh, my name is Eric Andrews and I have been playing tabletop role playing
Erik:games for a little under eight years.
Erik:And now I've been playing with Terry for a little over a year now, and it
Erik:has been fun every step of the way for every character that he's killed.
Erik:And there have been quite a few.
Erik:Uh, I run a little game store in Coleman, Alabama, though.
Erik:We have three in the state now, which is pretty cool.
Erik:Uh, and you can find me online at one gamer geeks, Coleman.
Erik:Which is where my store is in case you were wondering, uh, you can also find
Erik:me online at Barty hard and basically anywhere role for perception is now.
Erik:Cause this is like my eighth project with them.
Erik:So, during this game, I'm gonna be playing Klaustromain.
Erik:I'm a, I'm a priest from the states.
Erik:Uh, I'm a, I'm a younger gentleman at, uh, about 26 years old, though
Erik:you wouldn't be able to tell it from his, his, his swagger and attitude.
Erik:Uh, he wears, uh, the priestly adornments that one might expect.
Erik:The, the frock, the, the white collar, uh, uh, the, the leather boots.
Erik:Uh, all.
Erik:What makes him stand out just a little bit more is he's got a Bible strap to
Erik:his chest, uh, with a leather strap.
Erik:So it's always on hand whenever the monsters come to get them.
Erik:Uh.
Erik:I have, uh, of course been afflicted by a few things in my life that put
Erik:me down the path of a Thursday's children, child, close enough.
Erik:Uh, my whole goal in this is to find information on these evils
Erik:of the devil, which I believe most of a son to be, although I'm
Erik:not quite so gung ho as maybe.
Erik:Other factions in this world might be, uh, and my vote of my motivation
Erik:rather is I often suffer from nightly terrors caused by a bench full of mare,
Erik:which keeps me on edge constantly.
Erik:Uh, additionally, I find myself at odds with the other, uh, logical characters
Erik:of the party as Klaus is not logical.
Erik:He is driven purely by his feeling and this empathy towards people,
Erik:which often comes out as him being rather fiery, to say the least.
TeaCat:Hey, I'm TKat.
TeaCat:I, uh, I paint miniatures and play TTRPGs as well as D& D.
TeaCat:I've been playing TTRPGs for about six years now, and you can find
TeaCat:me on Instagram and Twitch at
TeaCat:LLTCatLL.
TeaCat:Hey guys, it's TCat again.
TeaCat:Today I'm playing Tova Beck in this TTRPG, who is a 60 year old maid,
TeaCat:elderly, gray, salt and pepper hair.
TeaCat:Who's a maid to the Dr.
TeaCat:Thomas.
TeaCat:My trauma is I have been bitten by a brook horse and my motivation
TeaCat:is to protect my master.
TeaCat:So we'll see what comes up.
TeaCat:Terry Dana Jachimiak II: And that is our party for our first
TeaCat:actual play using the system.
TeaCat:Vason, I hope you tune in and stick around and enjoy what we have to offer.
TeaCat:If you ever want to get in contact, you can check us out at role for perception.
TeaCat:com or head over to our discord discord.
TeaCat:com.
TeaCat:At Gigi rfp now tune in for the beginning of the Dance of Dreams.