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?