I'm running #HeartRPG tomorrow, and I'm fairly confident this will be the session where I get to decide for definite, and reveal, who The One Who Waits In Ashes is #OpenHeart

I only realised in hindsight how Orphic this situation from last night's #HeartRPG session was. Orphic except that stumbling/wavering was the win condition, not the lose condition. Orphic except with more evisceration.

(In the way of these things, this was both a lesson and a cheat. A trickster's shortcut to the end of what should have been an aeon's arduous march. That's the Heart's sense of humour.) #OpenHeart #HeartRPG

On the way to becoming human, Teschio had first to become a nightmare of raw flesh, cracked porcelain and unmaking claws; and then to do a very human thing: to yield. To lose. To stumble on the way, instead of marching endlessly, automatically, tirelessly on. #OpenHeart #HeartRPG

Teschio fled from the house and into Heart. In Zero Station, he crowbarred open the gate to the Grail Road, the human afterlife. And in last night's session, Teschio walked the Grail Road backwards into the human life he dreamed of. #HeartRPG #OpenHeart

Now that I’m back in California, it’s time to gear up to run the Dagger in the Heart campaign for my Sunday group. #ttrpg #heartrpg