Session Report: Tumbling

This is the first in our new series of Gauntlet session reports, short and standardized reports of some of the hundreds of games that we are playing through Gauntlet Hangouts.

Campaign/Session Title
Tumbling / This Is the Story of Evan and Illina

Date
11/5/2018

System
Tumbling (third playtest)

GM
Sid Icarus

Players
Sid Icarus, Barry Cook

Session Recap
After a bunch of friendly interactions with them on Twitter, Sid invited me to playtest Tumbling - a laundry-based game of meet-cutes. Through character creation we learned that my character, Evan, was still hanging onto his time in college, and tailors his own clothes to fit him perfectly. We learned that whether Sid's character Illina is working in cafes, or possibly getting fired from working in the hospitality business, she uses up every moment in a day without wasting a one (except maybe on laundry). The two had a few awkwardly sweet encounters after a pretty rough start before sharing a kiss that surprised them both.

Highlight
At about 56 minutes into the recording, we enter Tumbling's epilogue scene where our cards let us use specific prompts like "I've moved too fast. Show me if you slow me down." before hitting our ending, which was very fortunately, "I have shown you I want you. Show me if you accept me."

Moment of Insight
The tightly-focused lens through which we saw our characters in this game really helped me see each of them as real people.

Actual Play