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Session structure rules for Oneiroi.

It’s not required, but it provides an episodic format for those who want a guid in Session planning.

Magical girl adjacent urban fantasy psychological/cosmic horror.

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CRASH

Episodic show where the main character has a secret identity as some sort of hero (superhero, magical girl, etc)

And in it, there is a time loop episode. But the main character isn’t the one stuck in the time loop. One of their classmates is. This episode follows that classmate, who has to figure out the hero’s secret identity so they can work together to break the loop

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*How much time had passed? How much longer was he supposed to stay inside this place? It was bad. Everything felt bad. Like he shouldn't be there at all. Why were they keeping him in? Why weren't they doing anything? They'd enter, look at him, try to talk in a voice that was too loud, leave him some food and leave. He was hungry but the food looked nauseating. He basically forced himself to eat. Just in case these people would turn against him and let him starve.

Now he layed on the bed, looking at a wall. No thoughts, if there were any they would be too hard to organize, too confusing.

Then.

Sound. Steps. Metal. Rustling. Spray. Cloth.*

what. ...are you doing..?

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Lately I've been thinking about formulaic shows like House or CSI.

The streaming era gave us high end shows that had better production value, that didn't relied on step-by-step narrative and could stretch a plotline for a whole season rather than tackle it in parts. And I like shows more like that to be honest.

But we were too quick to dismiss formulas. I've been re watching house clips and they're just clips but I still remember the episodes, the phrases, the patients, and the moments. Using a formula lets you tackle many separate aspects (theme, character moments, world building) without having to blend them into each other. It's probably not organic but I am very against media trying to feel like real life. And yeah you need good characters and interesting situations to carry an episodic show; otherwise it'll feel boring.

I'm saying this because I'm on Fallout ep. 5 and I feel like they're loosing steam. Like, the war of the Anclave is taking too long to get started, We haven't seen what's Lucy's dad doing. Norm and the vaulties have only appeared like twice and I was more interested in that than what happened with the Caesar's legion.

The point is, *puts on old man glasses to shout at cloud*, Shows these days are shorter but they stretch plotlines for more episodes than they should; complications and turns don't happen as often and so, progression feels slower. Or they could use the padding in exploring the worlds or the characters, I'd be okay with that.

Again this is all due to not knowing if they will be renewed, so they become more cautious with what they can show and tell. And maybe bigger productions just make shows so expensive that there's too much risk for the writers to stray into weird territory that could be more interesting. Or said another way: