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Player Sign Up: Ten Candles

Our Mission:
Whenever possible to promote and feature tabletop roleplaying games created by individuals or by independent presses. 
Across the channel people of color will represent at least 50% of the total cast members.
We aim to present a variety of stories and cast members from outside the US and will actively seek out these opportunities.
Storytellers are responsible to make their worlds diverse- representing NPC humans across the spectrum of humanity that exists in real life. This will be through coding and explicit description. This must be done thoughtfully, without racist representations and stereotypes.

We stand for the following, if you do not, please don't apply.
• Black lives matter.
• Trans women are women. Trans men are men.
• Love is love, all LGBTQIA+ are valid.
Game Information

Show Length: One shot as part of our June nerds with Pride charity event raising money for the TransLatin@ Coalition. Session Length: ~3.5 hours with break Game System: Ten Candles by Cavalry Games https://cavalrygames.com/ten-candles Genre: Tragic Horror Content Warnings: Character Death; Darkness; Deep Water/Thalassophobia; End of the World; Grief; Monsters; Occult Themes; Body, Eldritch, Existential, and Psychological Horror
Safety Tools: Lines and Veils, X-Card, Stoplight System, Stars & Wishes
Media Touchstones: The Lighthouse, Nothing Lives Under the Lighthouse, Still Wakes the Deep, Underwater

Game Synopsis

Ten Candles is a collaborative storytelling game, where all of us — including me! — will narrate and discover the story together as we go, until the final candle goes out and all of the characters will die. The only things we'll start with are characters and the following scenario:
Ten days ago, everything went dark. The sun vanished from the sky, and the stars followed soon after. Five days ago, They appeared. Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, mysterious, unseen creatures, hiding in the darkness, began attacking three Amarant oil platforms: Aurora Alpha, Aurora Beta, and Aurora Delta. All radio communications have gone silent. The last ship to leave the field never returned.
You are oil workers, sailors, mechanics, executives, divers, biologists, journalists, or refugees, and/or the family thereof, stuck on Aurora Beta searching for any semblance of safety. Last night, the moon — still shining dimly with an impossible glow — disappeared. There's no more light but what you have on your person and the blinking safety beacons of the platforms.
Though you know your characters will die, you must have hope that they will survive. Hope is all you have left.

About the Storyteller

Howdy, gang! I'm Jonas Tintenseher (they/them), writer, game designer, lover of stories, and TTRPG fanatic. I've been playing and running tabletop games for more than half my life, and by a wide margin they are my absolute favorite thing to do.

After many years of yearning, I finally got to run Ten Candles for the first time last Halloween, and I've fallen in love. It's a perfect fit for my GMing style: narrative, sensorial, immersive, emotional, and collaborative. I'm super comfortable with improv, I strive to let player creativity and roleplay shine, and I live for the moments when the story comes together in a way none of us could have planned alone. And of course, I love horror for how it pulls out those primordial lizard-brain fears from the background noise of modern life. The goal is to get as scared as possible — as safely as possible!

Session 0 will be June 4th at 6:30pm CDT

This one shot runs June 16th with a call time of 6:30pm CDT. Do you have any conflicts?

I have read all above information. Other than listed conflicts. I shouldn't any conflicts such as previously scheduled events that would prevent me from attending. I understand that Nerds With Dice doesn't require me to attend in the event of an emergency. Or at the sacrifice of my well being in anyway. (This includes but is not limited to my mental health, physical health, and comfort.)

I have read all above information. Other than listed conflicts. I shouldn't any conflicts such as previously scheduled events that would prevent me from attending. I understand that Nerds With Dice doesn't require me to attend in the event of an emergency. Or at the sacrifice of my well being in anyway. (This includes but is not limited to my mental health, physical health, and comfort.)
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Roles and Responsibilities

NWD is responsible for: • Programming decisions, including:
  -Which shows to run, and when
  -DM/ST selections -Graphics and Production -Assisting with Casting
• Ensuring safety & consent is followed and discussed at session 0, and regularly updated throughout seasons/campaigns • Providing uplifting feedback and support for all cast and crew
• Advertising, promotional materials
• Arranging Sponsorships & giveaways
• Financial Transparency

Storytellers are responsible for: • Table safety including:
   -gathering and updating safety & consent forms,
   -confirming red/yellow procedures before, during, and after each session
   -ensuring communication throughout game and during aftercare/through the week
• Being prepared before each session, including maps, session notes, character information etc.
• Arrive at call time 30 minutes prior to live stream for tech & connection building
• If the ST must miss a session giving at least a week's notice to players and channel so that other programming can be arranged. (Obviously emergencies happen, and your mental health and safety are primary concerns to us!)
• Checking in with players throughout the week for the length campaign to ensure that everyone is doing well and to nurture a safe relationship anchor for uncomfortable conversations.
• Bringing concerns to the table without throwing players under the bus or pitting players against each other.

* Whenever possible, ST are NOT responsible to produce or moderate their own stream- allowing them to focus on the game and players

Cast Members are responsible for:

• Table safety (including providing updated consent & safety forms whenever something changes)
• Arriving prepared to call time 30 minutes prior to live stream for tech & connection building
• Having honest conversations with the ST and other players about things that are going well, and when things aren't.
• Being respectful of all people at the table and in the audience.
• Reaching out to NWD staff when extra support is needed.
• Completing monthly safety checkins from channel & ST
• If a player must miss a session giving at least 48 hours notice to DM and other cast, and providing consent to a proxy for the character, or arranging with the DM for the character to be inactive. (Obviously emergencies happen, and your mental health and safety are primary concerns to us!)

Health & Safety

NWD values the health and safety of our community above all else. If for any reason you ever have concerns about a show, cast, player, DM, community member, or chancellor, please reach out to NWD staff. You will never be retaliated against, and we want to help you bring your best to your story with your strongest mental and physical health to every game. 
Speaking with a chancellor implies a certain amount of confidentiality. We will not share/disclose personal health or family situations to the cast or DM of your show. Where possible we will also keep your identity private as well.

Leaving the game

If for any reason you decide that a stream is no longer telling the story you want to tell, it's okay to leave that game. We ask that you connect with a Chancellor first so that we can work with you, the cast, and the graphics/production departments to make the necessary changes. 
Leaving a game never results in retaliation or loss of future opportunities with NWD. 

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Profit sharing

We at Nerds with Dice are currently reviewing our Profit Sharing model. You'll be notified about how the changes affect any show you're cast in.

Casting, Diversity, and Accommodation

In regards to our above policy that people of color will represent at least 50% of total cast members. We recommend that whenever possible STs make an effort to cast two or more people of color. NWD believes that no marginalized person should be excluded from a game due to bigotry. As such we ask that STs make their table a safe place for women, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and more.   

There is no obligation to cast any Chancellor or member of NWD staff. No retaliation for not casting a Chancellor or staff member.

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What's Next

We'll make initial contact by Email or Bluesky.

Acknowledgements

"This is adapted from the original work of Girls Run These Worlds, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License."