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Roleplay Challenges: A Roleplay challenge is a small self challenge that we have developed to help us all overcome small bad habits, and tropes that we have developed over years of gaming together. Some of these are just word choices, but language defines thought, and effects our...

Maelstrom is always trying new things, to try and bring you a more immersive, and rewarding experience, and to break old habits, and shake off tired tropes. To that end over the past year, and a half, and more we have installed “Roleplay” challenges, small things to focus on per game to help...

The Lantern Bearers, Mystwalkers, and a handful of the Resurrected gather in a cramped Vaeltarii “fishing village” underneath the heart of the Biata kingdom deep in the once held territory of the Iron Hand. The past few weeks have passed in a blur of preparation, underground patrols...

(The Empress waits for a lull in the conversation during a morning meal, stands, and clears her throat. Then speaks in her heavily accented trader tongue) Good morning...everyone, I will not take up much time today. Quick announcements. First, the Three gulls trade guild is sending carriage...

***Quick edit*** Please stay out of the Cooks room if you are not currently in the act of going through logistics. A radio to contact staff will be left in the kitchen.

Hey Everyone! It’s that time again! A few pertinent things to share with all of our Maelstrom players so please read on. We are always trying new things, and changing things up to try and get the most immersive experience we can. So, with that here are some much needed announcements, pass them...

The snows begin to melt, and the spring season approaches. The season of war. The double hammer blow struck against the foes of Fortanis still echoes through the caves. Bear has been saved from the maw of Dream Eater, and the Dread Pride of Stone laid low. Plans of the Outsiders have, for now...

Hey gang the due date for our post opener Downtime Action is set for March 2, 2018 @11:58pm. Please check with the previous post regarding our updated policies for a template and guidelines. Also, stand by for day event dates. Thank you very much. -Maelstrom staff

!Updated! Maelstrom Downtime Policy 2019 What is Downtime? Downtime is the time "off camera" that typically takes place in between events. It is a time for rest, reflection, investigation, patrols, and other, more mundane, tasks from the characters day to day existence. Your Downtime may...

Oh good I can turn off the ice machine, and not feel bad, as it is the single loudest thing on the planet next to a spaceX rocket taking off

Hey everyone! Hope you are excited for our season 2018 Maelstrom opener! We all have packing, and last minute stuff to do, so i will try and be quick. This wouldn’t be a Maelstrom game without setup, and immersion shenanigans. So here we go We are at Camp Cutter this time around, and so...

Cast Characters (npc's, I hate that term) Those of you interested in showing up to the Maelstrom's season opener Feb 9-11, please, please, please. Also, please, please, please pre-reg, or contact me off via pm so I we can have a quick conversation. We would LOVE to have you, and help make this...

The Cold Dawn of realization... Strikes like a hammer blow echoing through the caverns, as well as the forgotten passages of the mind. The past year saw great, though contested, progress in the lands known as Maelstrom. Realizations of the scope of the undertaking, as well as solid...

Hey everyone, some of you may have gotten a bunch of auto response emails from Maesltrom@alliancesf.net. Sorry about that I was trying to set up some rules, and apparently iMail decided to apply those rules.... to messages already received. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Important announcement for Maelstrom.. Hey gang, I know holidays are almost upon us, and with that, the Maelstrom plot team is gearing up for our 2018 Season opener. This year we are taking a page from some counterparts in the North and our team will be absconding away to have a...

Due to staff fatigue, jet lag, scheduling conflicts, potential weather, zombie apocalypse, and corgi summoning spells we are going to wave off, and cancel the potential mod day/tavern night that we had been talking about for this weekend. We will be discussing the potential of having other...

(((Dreams have been, less troubled since the last gather, there is still.... something... not quite right, but it feels distant, easy to forget. Except those nights of too much worry, too much drink, or too much spicy food. Then those less than fantastic feelings come back))) (((...but not...

Hey everyone, As some of you may know I am the head of plot for the San Francisco Alliance Maelstrom campaign. This stories season closer is October 6-8. We could really use some hands to swing sticks, roleplay intensely, setup plastic blanket forts, and build cool immersive structures with...

Hey everyone this question has come up before, so here is some clarification... What is RSVP, Pre-Reg, Downtimes, why do I need to do them separately, and what is the point? RSVP, is a quick email sent to the plot team that tells us roughly when you expect to arrive, and leave. What things...

Hey everyone!!! It's that time again right around the corner... October 6-8 is our Season closer and there is a lot of work to be done. The plot team will be working hard these next couple of weeks to get downtimes done, encounters written, and all that jazz.... but we are nothing without...