Victor-linked prisoner / background continuity
Is identified as Victor’s prisoner and remains with Victor in background continuity.
Status: Exaba/Victor thread moves offscreen
Knowledge: Players know Exaba is tied to Victor’s post-game background.
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Whisperstep
Exaba
AliveSatyrVoid Manifestation
Bio
Exaba, known as Whisperstep, is Trixie the Gamemaster’s paragon and collector, sent to gather Witchborn for the sadistic games of Trixie’s realm. Her work is made stranger by the time warps she is thrown through to find victims, repair paradoxes, or clean up disasters caused by the games themselves. After so many temporal detours, Exaba no longer remembers her own age. Gertie the Collector once cursed her so people forgot her whenever she left their sight, keeping her errands nearly invisible. Victor Shaw broke that curse, but not the damage it left behind.
Notes
During Trixie’s Game Master Spectacle, Exaba Prime hosted the game while a thinner, terrified Exaba was revealed as Victor Shaw’s captive prisoner, creating an Exaba/Exaba Prime variant or impostor mystery. After Djeebus’s rescue, Victor chose to remain with Exaba rather than return immediately to Jericha.
Session Appearances
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Final-round host / game escalator
Opens the final round on a volcanic shore and offers relic prizes for each broken dragon chain.
Status: Pushes the game beyond earlier rules
Knowledge: Players know Exaba Prime escalates the spectacle beyond normal competition.
Host / elimination controller
Oversees the second vote and Victor’s removal into the void viewing room.
Status: Elimination-as-captivity confirmed
Knowledge: Players know Exaba-host controls the transition.
Victor-linked prisoner / Exaba double
Appears as Victor’s prisoner, thinner, terrified, and in tattered fighting clothes.
Status: Creates Exaba double mystery
Knowledge: Players know Victor’s prisoner resembles Exaba but is captive.
Host / identity mystery source
Reveals prisoners after the obstacle round while another thinner terrified Exaba appears as Victor’s prisoner.
Status: Host/alternate Exaba mystery becomes explicit
Knowledge: Players know one Exaba hosts while another is captive.
Host / round controller
Oversees the second round’s obstacle course and banked-loot standings.
Status: Second elimination standings created
Knowledge: Players know Exaba-host controls the spectacle’s round transitions.
Host / stakes revealer
Reveals every contestant has a prisoner suspended above the arena who suffers when their linked player fails.
Status: Hostage mechanics revealed
Knowledge: Players know the game stakes are personal captives.
Host / rule enforcer
Oversees round one as prizes, trap explosions, and anti-cheat rules are established.
Status: Game enforcement escalates
Knowledge: Players know Exaba-host controls or announces the rules.
Host / announcer
Appears as host and announces the Game Master Spectacle and stomach-prize rule.
Status: Introduces Exaba-host mystery
Knowledge: Players know Exaba appears as the game host, but later prisoner reveal complicates identity.
Referenced captive / continuity figure
Remains part of the rescue aftermath and later Victor background continuity.
Status: Exaba captivity thread remains unresolved/offscreen
Knowledge: Players know Exaba remains important after the game.
Overruled host / failed game runner
Has the final round canceled by Trixie after Maine breaks the arena and Jonah signs Jebus’s contract.
Status: Loses control of the spectacle
Knowledge: Players know Exaba Prime is not above Trixie.
Messenger / warning figure
Briefly warns Victor of an attack before the group converges on Room 3B.
Status: Exaba links Walter’s restlessness to the wider crisis
Knowledge: Players have partial knowledge of Exaba’s warning.
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Dorm Assignments & Introductions
2098 MB / Student Affairs Hall / VQU Dorms
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2098 MB
The student affairs hall looked like a cathedral that had been bullied into bureaucracy. Vaulted ceilings arched like wings mid-flap, and stained-glass windows filtered daylight into shifting shapes—magical symbols, academic crests, and a faint caricature of N
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Act 1, Episode 2, Scene 5
Everything is so Sketch
2098 MB / VQU Dorm Floor 3
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2098 MB
[NARRATION] It was late. Not midnight, but the kind of hour that felt borrowed. Floor 3 of Von Queef University was, for once, quiet.
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Act 1, Episode 3, Scene 7
Episode 3 – Scene 7: Victor
2098 MB / Room 3D / Room 3B
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2098 MB
The egg was restless again. Every eighteen minutes, it shivered inside its disguise — just enough to remind Victor that whatever was inside it was not interested in patience.
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Session Log / VQU survivors / Gravenhurst / Void Realm / Queefdom / Act 2 framework
Act 2 Planning
Post-Act 1 / Act 2 framework
Recap StoryUnplacedPost-Act 1
Act 2 will need to be reconstructed from session transcripts and audio rather than prewritten scenes, using Act 1 scene logs as the formatting template.
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Act 2, Episode 6, Scene 2
Welcome to the Game Master Spectacle
2025-03-13 / Surviving Survivor Lee arena
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2099 M.B. / recorded 2025-03-13
The party enters Trixie's game arena, meets Rifleton Rob and Araspinn, and watches Exaba announce the Game Master Spectacle.
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Act 2, Episode 6, Scene 3
Prizes in the Stomach
2025-03-13 / Goblin prize field
Recap StoryCurrent Campaign2099 M.B. / recorded 2025-03-13
Round one forces contestants to kill goblins and search their trapped stomachs for gold, scrolls, rings, and other Game Master prizes.
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Act 1, Episode 1, Scene 3: Dorm Assignments & Introductions
The student affairs hall looked like a cathedral that had been bullied into bureaucracy. Vaulted ceilings arched like wings mid-flap, and stained-glass windows filtered daylight into shifting shapes—magical symbols, academic crests, and a faint caricature of N
storyAct 1, Episode 2, Scene 5: Everything is so Sketch
[NARRATION] It was late. Not midnight, but the kind of hour that felt borrowed. Floor 3 of Von Queef University was, for once, quiet.
storyAct 1, Episode 3, Scene 7: Episode 3 – Scene 7: Victor
The egg was restless again. Every eighteen minutes, it shivered inside its disguise — just enough to remind Victor that whatever was inside it was not interested in patience.
storyAct 2 Planning
Act 2 will need to be reconstructed from session transcripts and audio rather than prewritten scenes, using Act 1 scene logs as the formatting template.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 2: Welcome to the Game Master Spectacle
The party enters Trixie's game arena, meets Rifleton Rob and Araspinn, and watches Exaba announce the Game Master Spectacle.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 3: Prizes in the Stomach
Round one forces contestants to kill goblins and search their trapped stomachs for gold, scrolls, rings, and other Game Master prizes.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 4: The Prisoners Above the Game
Exaba reveals the prisoners above the arena, exposing I.J. and Emmy as captives before the first vote removes Rifleton Rob from active play.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 5: The Obstacle Course Wants a Show
Round two sends the contestants through a prize-filled obstacle course where speed, sabotage, and magical hands reshape the elimination standings.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 6: The Exaba Behind the Glass
Maine confirms Jeff is alive, Victor's prisoner is revealed as a terrified Exaba, and Nick's question to I.J. leaves their relationship unresolved before Victor is voted out.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 7: Victor in the Viewing Room
Victor's elimination sends him to a void viewing room, proving that being voted out means becoming another captive part of the show.
storyAct 2 Episode 6 Session Notes
The party entered this session at level five after their first long rest in several sessions. Key mechanical discussion included Revivify diamond costs, level-five features, Haste, Fireball, Extra Attack, Pass without Trace, attunement limits, and magic item tracking.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 8: The Dragon on the Cracked Shore
The final round opens on a cracked volcanic shore where Exaba Prime demands the party break chains from a bound dragon while Dhaz and Jonah influence events from void tables.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 10: Trixie Cuts the Show
Maine's empowered blast tears open the dragon arena, letting Trixie interrupt Exaba Prime's finale and eject the party from the Game Master Spectacle.
storyAct 2, Episode 6, Scene 11: Jebus's Lamp and the QII Deal
Jebus rescues the party into his lamp studio, explains Victor stayed behind, and turns their return to Jericha into a contract with the new QII.
storyAct 2 Episode 7 Session Notes
Post-session clarifications established each prisoner: Victor had Exaba, Ash had Eveline, Maine had Jeff, Dhaz Pelosh had Emmy, Nick had I.J., Jonah had Podon, Araspinn had an unmet NPC, and Rifleton Rob had Orenthal James. Victor remains in the background with Exaba while a new PC is introduced.
storyAct 5, Episode 2, Scene 38: Victor Leaves the Password Tsunami
The party finds a magically protected chest left by Victor Shaw, with TSUNAMI as the password and graffiti pointing to Maine's old disaster.
aspectVoid Manifestation
Void Manifestation is an imported aspect from the Jericha Aspect Data sheet. Its full lore and named powers can be expanded here as the canon text is added.
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