Alex Kelly

Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art

Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

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You can play The Investigations as part of GenFest in Northampton next month:
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I really enjoyed being able to recognise the influence @jmstar.bsky.social's Fiasco, @johnharper.bsky.social's Blades In The Dark and Free League's #Vaesen on my current thinking and playing.

Big thanks too to Michael Pinchbeck and Zodwa Nyoni for the invitation and excellent hosting.

Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art

Really pleased that my Bunker Talk about Playable Theatre is now up online. I talk about the crossover between boardgames, Tracker Gamebooks, #TTRPGs and my theatre making/story swapping practice, in particular my new project The Investigations.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...

We had a lorra, lorra fun playing this.

Vaesen: The Man Who Was Too Lucky - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG.com The Society receive an enigmatic Invitation from a wealthy young businessman in the village of Olsnäs on the shores of

My #Vaesen scenario, The Man Who Was Too Lucky is in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale until the end of the month... Johannes Wallėn recruits the Society to investigate his suspiciously happy life.
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GenFest 2025: The Investigations - Royal & Derngate The Investigations is a performance-making game from Voyager 3, delivered by In Good Company. Exploring the details of everyday life, this is a ‘make a show in a day’ devising workshop, presented as a...

The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...

with your help we can change this

GenFest 2025: The Investigations - Royal & Derngate The Investigations is a performance-making game from Voyager 3, delivered by In Good Company. Exploring the details of everyday life, this is a ‘make a show in a day’ devising workshop, presented as a...

The ace @ingoodcompany.bsky.social are running my theatre-making-kit-meets-storytelling-game THE INVESTIGATIONS at @royalderngate.bsky.social as part of GenFest this year. You can take part and/or watch what they make with it:
royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app.

It’s hidden under Welsh news.

Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times.

Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️

13/14

So you want to write a system flexible adventure

Great fun talking to @irny.bsky.social about how to write system flexible scenarios, using the brilliant examples of her Darkened Hill & Dale and Terminus Kickstarters!

You can still late pledge for Terminus until 1st Oct, see www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

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Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

“Urban myth”. Hiding in plain sight!

DAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNN! 👏

“The USA, where you can pick up eggs, milk and lethal ammunition in the same supermarket run, in case you want to make a pancake and then shoot someone in the head, considers people who like trains a bit too much to be its society’s deadliest scourge.” 🤣

‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of being homeless. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive show

Great to see the excellent gobscure getting the recognition they deserve with this interview in The Guardian, alongside Jason Williamson.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

only over a screen! (so far)
discord rpg pals.

Wait... do you two know each other IRL?

It's has been so rewarding to run #Vaesen for the last (nearly) 4 years. I started with a couple of the published scenarios to get a feel for it, then began writing my own stuff - which the rules really support. We'll come back to it - perhaps one of the other Societies - next year.

Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art

Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester.
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Should be fun and insightful, a few of us have converted and run Sarah's system agnostic Darkened Hill & Dale scenarios. They are wonderful and we have all pondered how you go about writing something without a specific system in mind... now we'll find out!

Link in my bio, then look under Events.

Before Fighting Fantasy, before Choose Your Own Adventure, there were Tracker Books. I had these three and was obsessed with them. (Still got 'em, and have acquired a few more from the series recently).

"Previously On..." but for the 800 page novel you haven't had a chance to pick up for two weeks.

Aw shucks! Thanks :)

It is indeed a great game and game world to explore.

IKR? I couldn’t tell if they didn’t understand what would happen or they just didn’t want to leave their bags somewhere?!

Yes I did this. There was a young couple in my group who had their weekly shop in 4 carrier bags that they had to lug with them the whole time.

Profoundly unhelpful and flat out untrue. No parent would endure the misery of the ECHP system unless they felt it was really necessary.

Alex Kelly – Bunker Talk #154 – Manchester School of Art

Some how this is suddenly 'this month'... Looking forward to talking to the brilliant Zodwa Nyoni for this Bunker Talk, 5.30pm on Tuesday 23rd September, at the Salutation pub in Manchester.
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/...