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Yesterday on the Realms feed, we announced two thrilling new projects that are going to see Realms of Peril & Glory through to the end of 2024!

Return to Liminal London!🔎 The inimitable Johnny Chiodini! joins us for this haunting mystery!!🥳

🧚The Fey courts of the Hidden City and the uneasy peace between them are put to the test! Glass Houses, Liminal London Mystery Six arrives this autumn!🍂 Get caught up on Liminal London before our latest mystery!

🩸This December is Solemn Vale: Of Oak & Holly! GM Fiona Howat utilises the folk horror system by Dirty Vortex! 🗡️

When a group of school friends reunite in their home town decades later, all their old grudges start a cascade that could lead to their demise😱

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Realms needs your help! We are asking our audience for feedback on where we should take the show in the future!

As thanks for your feedback, you can get 15% off Realms merch and a free copy of the Vael soundtrack!

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"Do you think Bags cares about us? I didn't program that."

Character Name: Pyrex

Fandom: Realms of Peril & Glory (@realmspod) , CY_BORG campaigns [Podcast]

Played By: Shamini Bundell

Yarn Used: Skin: CraftSmart Value - Coffee Clothes/Hair/Bags: Loops & Threads Soft and Shiny - Onyx Rainbow Circuits: DMC #G168

Basic pattern here.

Our beloved little orphaned gearhead (NOT a hacker). Pyrex is just one of those characters you instantly want to wrap up in a warm blanket and keep safe from everything - including, let’s be realistic, herself. She’s so delightfully awkward and earnest and I just love her. (I don’t think Shamini is capable of playing a character I hate.)

Pyrex differs from the base pattern as follows:

Trousers: I gave her stirrup pants. I don’t know why. I just felt very strongly that Pyrex would have stirrup pants and bare feet for some reason. So I stitched the first round of the leggings in the front loops of the last round of her feet, then slip stitched to a point that looked like the right place and did a chain until it was long enough to go under the foot and slip stitch back into the other side of the cuff, at which point I chained one and continued as normal.

Tunic: I was going for a baggy, sort of oversized top for her, so I did the ridge at the waistband like I did with Mini and Azu. After I finished the rest of her torso, I went back with the yarn and added the long part. I took a week off in the middle of working on Pyrex to make a baby blanket for a friend who was moving and wouldn’t have a fixed address for a while, and because when I went back to her I still had the stitch I used for that in mind, I decided to do a Catherine’s wheel stitch for the bottom (which is a bitch and a half to do in the round, just FYI). The pattern was as follows: R1: Join yarn to loop produced from flo/blo stitching in center of back. Ch 1, sc in each st around, sl st in first sc (38 sc). R2: Ch 1, sc in next 9 st, 2sc in next st, sc in next 18 st, 2sc in next st, sc in next 9 st, sl st in first sc (40 sc). R3: Ch 1, [sc in next st, skip next 3 st, 7 dc in next st, skip next three st] 5 times around, sl st in first sc (5 sc, 35 dc). R4: Ch 1, 4dctog. [Ch 3, sc in next dc, ch 3, 7dctog] 4 times. Ch 3, sc in next dc, ch 3, 3dctog, sl st in first 4dctog (5 sc, 5 7dctog, 10 ch3 sp). R5: Ch 3 (counts as first dc). 3dc in same st. [Skip ch3 sp, sc in next sc, skip ch3 sp, 7dc in next 7dctog] 4 times. Skip ch3 sp, sc in next st, skip ch 3 sp, 3dc in first st, sl st in first ch (35 dc, 5 sc). R6: Ch 1, [sc in first dc, ch 3, 7dctog, ch 3] 5 times, sl st in first sc (5 sc, 5 7dctog, 10 ch3 sp). Fasten off.

Head: Pyrex was described as having filaments and wires across her face, presumably wiring her RCA (and, as we later found, her connection to Bags). And, well, I had a whole bunch of leftover metallic thread from a cross-stitch project I did for my brother that I swore I would never use on aida again. (Someone on the Old Gods of Appalachia Discord server referred to it as “the devil’s asshair” and I have not been able to think of it any other way since.) Except that I ended up buying silver metallic thread specifically for this project that worked a lot better. Anyway, I really like how that came out. For her pigtails, I used the same method I’ve used since Alice to put hair in around the outside edges of her scalp, then also in two lines down the middle back for the part, and then looped a few more in the middle to fill it out. They turned out cute!

Arms: I used the same technique I used for Mini’s hands - just stitching around the magnets - for Pyrex’s. Partly that was because I forgot to bring any stuffing with me when I got to her arms and I didn’t feel like going top down, but mostly it was because she just struck me as the skinny sort.

Bags: What would Pyrex be without her spider robot companion?

I probably overcomplicated this a lot, but basically I just crocheted a rectangular cube, put a big red eye on one end, and made his legs with sculpting wire and yarn. I crocheted a line of single crochet around the wires, then stitched them to Bags’ body. He doesn’t stand up as well as I’d like, but he turned out pretty good!

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if you've ever used the London Underground you might have noticed that it often gets uncomfortably hot. the reason for this is actually that its builders dug too greedily & too deep and as a result the trains are very close to the fires of hell. hope that helps.

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NEW EPISODES OF A GAME OF ONE'S OWN!

Members of the Snazzy Tapir Patreon get EARLY ACCESS to the latest episodes of A Game of One's Own - my solo/duet TTRPG podcast - RIGHT NOW!

Parts I and II of Pitcrawler with @zackfg are now available, ahead of public release next week.

Pitcrawler is a fantastic duet game by @macguffinandco, and is inspired by classic choose-your-own-adventure stories.

As this is a special crossover between A Game of One's Own and @realmspod, Part I will be released on the Realms feed on Mon 17 June, while Part II will go up on the AGOOO feed.

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Happy Pride from the Great Pod 💅

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Help I think Edge Impulse is hacking this train

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Ah! So good!

"We'll all go and be fucking wombles, aye?"

Character Name: Declan Buchanan

Fandom: @realmspod, Liminal London campaigns [Podcast]

Played By: Pip Gladwin

Yarn Used: Hair: CraftSmart Value - Taupe Skin: CraftSmart Value - Mushroom Antlers: CraftSmart Value - Coffee Shirt: CraftSmart Value - Grey Ombre Trousers/Soles: CraftSmart Value - Wine Shoes/Belt: CraftSmart Value - Dark Chocolate

Basic pattern here.

Everybody’s favorite pathetic wet cat of a man depressed alcoholic fae-cursed private investigator! While I was frantically crocheting Monty to get him ready in time to hug him when he really needed it, I was not expecting Declan to need the hugs more. Damn the shiny math rocks, but holy hell, what a way to play that. Anyway, before Series 5 drops and we find out who’s going to destroy this man first, Zack or Pip, I wanted to get him done. (And I did - with a whole four days to spare! Go me!) He varies from the basic pattern as follows:

Shoes: Hey, I remembered the different colored soles again! Declan is described as tall and thin, so like with Mini, I did another round of decrease at R7 of both shoes (sc in first 7 st, inv dec 3 times, sc in next 2 sts, join) to make his legs twelve stitches around. I then did R8 as straight stitching with the shoe color before I switched to the trousers. (The other thing I did, which I should have been doing long ago, was the round before I changed color, I did the sl st to join in the color of the next row.)

Trousers: Again, tall, thin Declan. Mostly I worked his legs the same as usual, just in rounds of twelve instead of fifteen, but I also made them longer, so they went from R9 (the hdc row for hem) to R34 before I joined them together. I only used a chain of three to connect his legs, too, giving his waist a circumference of 30 stitches as opposed to the usual 38. For the belt, I went five rows above the…well…groin, switched to the belt color, and did a round of fpdc around the round two below like I did with the hem of Joseph’s hoodie. Then I switched back to the trousers color and did a round of sc in the back loop of the fpdc and front loop of the last round of trousers. For the belt loops, every four or five stitches I inserted the hook into the row below the belt, drew up a loop, and then pulled the next stitch through both that loop and the loop already on the hook. (I was kind of pleased with that, actually.)

Shirt: Hey, kids, know what the difference between variegated, self-striping, and ombre is? Ombres go FOR-FUCKING-EVER before they change color! (: Oh, well, it worked out, I guess. I didn’t really vary him all that much here except that I just went straight up with rounds of 30 (and also made his torso a bit longer) before decreasing at the shoulders.

Head: I frogged it. Several times, actually. I wasn’t happy with my stitches and I definitely wasn’t happy with my initial color choices and I also did what I consider the worst attempt at “a sort of perpetual five o’clock shadow” in the history of crochet, and the second time I accidentally added an extra round of increases and several extra rounds in between the increases and decreases - as I put it in the official Realms of Peril & Glory Discord, “He head too big for he got damn he” (remember this meme, guys?) - but eventually I got it right. (Visit his page on my website to see rejected progress pics.) I added one (1) extra round between increase and decrease in the final version as well to give him a slightly longer face, and I think it worked. For the five o’clock shadow, I just used the hair color for part of his face in a pattern that looked and felt right to me, leaving space for the mouth. Once again, I used safety eyes; the pack I bought has basically clear eyes and a bunch of discs you can put behind them to customize the colors, so I decided to give him pink eyes like they’re bloodshot.

Hair: I tried a new technique here. For each stitch beyond the hairline, I did a two-strand puff stitch (insert hook in next st, yo, draw up loop, yo, insert hook in same st, yo, draw up loop, yo, draw through all loops on hook), and I really like the effect!

Arms: There was just enough of the next color in the ombre to make it almost all the way up both arms and I’m trying not to be annoyed about it. Anyway, I started his arms on a base of four sc instead of five, then otherwise proceeded the same way I did for Joseph and Monty’s except that I made them longer (29 rounds total, I believe).

Antlers: I can’t share the exact pattern here because it’s copyrighted, but I used the pattern for jackalope antlers in Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend by Megan Lapp (and if you click that link, check out her other patterns - they look AMAZING and if I wasn’t already approaching PELE I would be buying some of those). Declan usually grinds them off as soon as he wakes up, so this is just-woke-up-from-a-nap-and-can’t-find-his-angle-grinder-yet Deccy Boi.

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SPOILERS!

OH MY GOD ITS DECLAN!!!

There are two magical coins in your pocket, detective

Can't wait for the final season of Liminal London on @realmspod! I'll miss the feral detective squad

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Welcome to Realms 2024 👀

WELCOME to a brand new year with Realms of Peril & Glory! We have an incredible lineup of games for you this year, and I would love to take you through some of them now!

LOOSE CHANGE, Liminal London Mystery Four

Loose Change, Liminal London Mystery Four, arrives on Monday the 5th of February 2024!

When the crew is tasked to uncover the truth behind one of Declan’s old cases the team are faced with their most harrowing mission yet, taking them from car chases, tourist busses and mortal peril at the hands of the fey…

This Mystery is SEVEN EPISODES LONG! This is our wildest mystery yet, nothing will ever be the same as the status quo of Liminal London is altered forever.

Blood Pressure, Liminal London Mystery Five

We have all been waiting with bated breath for the return of Shamini’s Doctor Annie Walker, the newborn Vampire thrust into a nocturnal life by an unknown maker to return to our show. Now it’s finally happening.

After Liminal London Mystery Four’s explosive ending those that remain will attempt to pickup the pieces as a key moment to strike presents itself.

Blood Pressure, Liminal London Mystery Five will debut in Spring 2024.

CY_BORG II

After the INCREDIBLE reception to our first series of CY_BORG, we immediately put a plan in motion to return to Cy. Recording officially wrapped on CY_BORG II  last week. With a cliffhanger ending like the one at the end of the first season we knew we couldn’t leave you hanging any longer than absolutely necessary and that is why  CY_BORG II will arrive in Summer 2024!

CY_BORG II pickups up mere moments after the end of the first series as things go from bad to worse for Edge, Blythe, Kei and Pyrex.

This series runs for a whopping TEN episodes, jam-packed with all the cyberpunk goodness you could ever want!

YOU CAN HEAR CLIPS FROM ALL OUR UPCOMING GAMES REALMSPOD.COM!

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😱 We unveiled our slate for the first half of 2024 this morning with exclusive clips!

Place your bets now for what's coming next 👀

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A sound from the microwave? A Pause. A Voice. 👁️

Shamini Bundell is Pyrex, CY_BORG is out now! 💀

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Jasper William Cartwright (Dimension 20, 3 Black Halflings) is Andos Vir Sindarin, conspiracy theorist and professor!

Jasper leaps into Realms of Peril & Glory to tell a new story in our Vael setting!

A mysterious carnival has appeared, and a party member has vanished! Time is running out to find the truth and stop a murder! Check out the first episode of Carnival du Vael NOW!

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You didn't think we'd miss the Fall of Jasper did you?!

We have one of the stars of Dimension 20's Burrow's End, Jasper William Cartwright, leaping into Realms of Peril & Glory to tell a brand new story in our Vael setting!

A party member has vanished, a mysterious carnival has appeared, and time is running out!

Check out Realms of Peril & Glory's Carnival du Vael TODAY!

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This is so nice! Someone posted this in our group chat, and it made our hearts warm ❤️

im a ttrpg, cyberpunk and podcast nerd and realms of peril & glory is an absolute fuckin masterclass in the zone of rpg liveplay pods. just finished their cy_borg run and god they are just an absolute pleasure the listen to, Insane production quality, got the charm of the setting n system in one. mwah. beautiful.

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beware the smiling GM...