Laurie's House

home is a place. a people. a memory. a home with open doors to those who need them, 1471 Thomas Sloane Avenue, better known as Laurie's House, is, has been, will be a place of becoming. but it is too late. 1471 Thomas Sloane Avenue, Laurie's House, is gone.

// CREDITS:
Executive Producer: Hamnah Shahid
Co-Producer: Cai Kagawa
Dramaturg: Sea Thomas
Podcast Editors: Jordon Moses & Navaar Jackson
Theme Music: Lexi McQueen

// CAST:
Cai Kagawa as the Architect
Hamnah Shahid as Eira Yousef
Gwendolyn Kelly as Dione Cook
Amir/Nada Alami as Deen Sabat

// SPONSORED BY:
Frivolous Bear Studios
Blackbird Revolt
Hero Forge

What is Laurie's House?

home is a place. a people. a memory. a home with open doors to those who need them, 1471 Thomas Sloane Avenue, better known as Laurie's House, is, has been, will be a place of becoming. but it is too late. 1471 Thomas Sloane Avenue, Laurie's House, is gone.

// Laurie's House is a TTRPG Actual Play, produced by tendervicious studios. Using The Home We Remember as its system, Laurie's House tells a tale of memory, identity, and community.

Sea: Take a step forward. Walk into a different room. A different building. A different part of town.

Cai: Take a step forward.

Hamnah: Take a step forward.

Gwen: When—

Sea & Hamnah: When—

Hamnah: Are you?

Amir/Nada: Look around you. Where are you? When—

Cai: Memories are held in places. In rooms. In buildings. In parts of town important to us.

Hamnah: The act of remembering is a rewriting—

Cai: Rewriting—

Gwen: Rewriting—

Hamnah: Rewriting of our personal histories coloured by the moment we’re in, by who we are right now.

Cai: Memories are not perfect snapshots of places, people, emotions, experiences.

Gwen: They are paintings, recreated every time we step foot into the past.

Hamnah: Every time we step foot—

Hamnah & Amir/Nada: Into the past.

Sea: Recreated every time we step foot into the past.

Amir/Nada: Time—

Sea: Time is a—

Amir/Nada & Sea: Place you find.

Sea: When you find it, you remember.

Gwen: You rewrite.

Hamnah: You erase.

Cai: You relive. What story will you tell about yourself?

Sea: And how many times—

Hamnah: And how many times—

Gwen & Amir/Nada: And how many times—

Cai: How many times will you tell it?