Narrative Damage Pod
#MonthOfDarkness Day 8: No One Will Believe You.
Month of Darkness Day 9: The First Betrayal
Month of Darkness Day 10: Awakened
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:When secrets are kept, some will do everything they can to keep that hidden. For day 8 of the Month of Darkness Challenge, a Salubri's secret has been exposed. As someone who has always kept what he is secret, Theo will do anything to ensure no one remembers he's Salubri. Even when its a Fledgling. This is No One Will Believe You.
Prompt: The First Betrayal Featured Character: Vanessa Roux World: Vampire: The Masquerade For Day Nine of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella steps into the final night of Vanessa Roux’s mortal life. At twenty-two, Vanessa was preparing to return home to Paris to be named French Artist of the Year. Her bags were packed, her speech was ready, and her fiancé Lucien was supposed to be beside her. Instead, the man she planned to spend her life with decided forever wasn’t long enough. Vanessa never made it to Paris. She woke instead to discover her fiancé had become her sire. Sometimes the first betrayal comes from the person you trusted with your future.
For Day 10, Nella shares a letter written by Fae to her sire, Lucien Devereux. After leaving home for London, Fae finds herself doing something unfamiliar: building a life beyond Lucien and House Devereux. But even as she begins to grow on her own, her love, loyalty, and devotion to her sire remain deeply rooted. For Fae, awakening doesn’t mean letting go. It means discovering that perhaps she can grow beyond the garden she came from without loving it any less. This is “Awakened.”
Welcome to Narrative Damage—the TTRPG podcast where the dice are unpredictable, the characters make terrible decisions, and the emotional damage is always part of the story. In our first episode, meet your hosts, Nella and Lucio! We’re sharing how we discovered tabletop role-playing games, the stories and characters that pulled us in, and what inspired us to create this podcast. We’ll also give you a taste of what’s coming, including player interviews, in-character conversations, chaotic campaign stories, weird questions, hot takes, and plenty of narrative damage.
We could’ve been normal about these characters. We were not. This week, Nella and Lucio are talking about the TTRPG characters who moved into our brains, changed the locks, and never left. From our own PCs to NPCs we got WAY too attached to, we’re unpacking the fictional people responsible for some very real narrative damage. Expect character obsession, questionable decisions, emotional attachment, and at least one moment of “why did the GM do this to me?” Welcome to Narrative Damage. We’ve been victimized by fictional people again.
This week on Narrative Damage, we’re dragging someone else into the hot seat. Nella and Lucio sit down with Linken to talk about the player behind the characters: how he got into TTRPGs, the characters he can’t let go of, his favorite moments at the table, and—most importantly—the questionable decisions he absolutely needs to answer for. We’re talking character creation, emotional damage, player habits, favorite campaigns, table dynamics, and the moments that permanently altered his brain chemistry. Because sometimes the best way to understand a character is to meet the person responsible for all their problems. Welcome to Narrative Damage.
We could’ve made the smart choice. We did not. This week, Nella and Lucio are talking about the TTRPG decisions we knew were terrible and made anyway. From ignoring obvious red flags to trusting the WRONG person, we’re unpacking the bad character choices that somehow became some of our favorite stories. Expect terrible judgment, questionable plans, consequences we absolutely saw coming, and at least one moment of “I knew this was a bad idea when I did it.” Welcome to Narrative Damage. We’ve been victimized by our own decisions again.
This week, we’re doing something a little different. No character breakdown. No behind-the-scenes discussion. We’re stepping directly into the World of Darkness. Dante, Brujah and Hound of London, has been summoned for an interview with two Archons. What follows is an entirely in-character interrogation about his loyalty, his usefulness to the Camarilla, and exactly where he stands as London becomes increasingly complicated. Questions are asked. Answers are judged. And somewhere in the middle of it all, Dante has to prove that keeping him around is worth the trouble. Welcome to Narrative Damage. This time, we’re not talking about the story. We’re playing it.