Broad Cloth Almanac

   

The Structure

An almanac is a regularly published set of current information, most often used in farming or astrology to track things like the weather.   The Broad Cloth is a piece of theatre, and a game, but it has no script.   Instead, it has this Almanac that contains the current basic structure of the story/world, and the way the journey, the experience, progresses. This includes a handful of core characters, described in a very basic way. It's called an Almanac because it develops and changes over time.   Within this framework, characters are created by participants, and a story unfolds in many layers and along many paths, all leading to one key event: the waulking of Kai Skylark's broadcloth.    

Key Components

• the setting of an island with a population of about 300 people, whose main industry is the traditional manufacture of a fabric called 'broadcloth'
• the core characters: the Chief of this clan, an elder in the community, and someone who is soon to come of age
• the traditional coming-of-age ceremony of the waulking of a bolt of broadcloth and the singing of blessings into it, and everything which goes with that tradition
• the islanders' belief that their Ancestors were magical, and everything which goes with that belief, including The Ancestors as characters
• the island's traditions for choosing a Chief to lead the clan
• the details of The Copenhagen Interpretation, a system of new and existing methods for access, support, and interactive storytelling

 

Copyright

The contents of this website, except where noted, are also part of The Almanac, the whole of which is the copyright of Jenifer Toksvig (c) 2016-2023 All Rights Reserved.   Player's original characters and associated creations such as locations on the island remain their copyright as noted on this site and as played on the Discord server or at in-person gatherings.   Click here for more about Skylark Island
Click here for more about characters