Subject: Random March Adventures - Musical Mountaintops & Role Playing Games!

Hey Friend,

Welcome to your monthly Random Adventures newsletter from Story City. As spring is approaching, we're excited to dive into the first of these newsletters for adventurers!

You signed up to our newsletter on our website in the past, and while we’ve been a little quiet over the years, with the launch of our brand-new app and our creator tools we’re hoping these monthly newsletters both entertain, delight, and provide experiences for you to enjoy with friends and family. Particularly as more creators join our ranks and make more adventures in a city near you!

Each newsletter will include highlights on some of our creators and their stories for you to try, and some fun, random things we’ve found on the internet that we thought you’d like.

And we do mean random.

This edition includes recipes you can make with an empty pantry, indigenous TikTokers, and musicians playing from mountaintops. Enjoy!

Creator Spotlight – Writer, Dimity Powell

The author of award-nominated Story City adventure, The Chapel of Unlove, Dimity Powell has written many books for children. Her words appear in school magazines, anthologies, online, and in junior novels and picture books. Congrats to Dimity on her new book "This is My Dad" set for release on March 15, celebrating families of all shapes and sizes.

Have you checked out Dimity’s comedic adventure The Chapel of Unlove on the Story City App yet? In this adventure your godmother is about to marry the man of your nightmares, an Elvis impersonator named, Barry. Will you help them make it to the chapel on time or sabotage this clearly disastrous match? Download the App and head into the streets of Hope Island on the Gold Coast to play! Or hit it up in Spoiler Mode from your favourite comfy seat at home.

Creator Spotlight – Musician, Jed Walters

Jed A. Walters is an award-winning composer and musician with diverse abilities on multiple instruments along with a vast understanding of genre and film scores that set him apart from your everyday musician. A big congratulations to Jed on starting a music school “Make Noise Music School” in the Gold Coast to share his knowledge with enthusiasts keen to discover the joy of music. The school offers training in acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and music production. You can also explore his music at Instagram and Facebook

He created the scores for Story City adventures the Book of the Sun, The Chapel of Unlove, and the Hokey Pokey. Will you choose to become a wizard using Australia’s first book of magic? Or perhaps go back in time to get your grandparents together in the surf-culture of the 50’s? Or do you choose to save (or sabotage) your god-mother’s wedding? Download the App and take one of these adventures in person, or enjoy them via Spoiler Mode from the comfort of your home!

Random Things We Found That We Think You’ll Like

Apps We Love

Supercook

This intuitive app allows you to select what's in your pantry and provides suggested recipes for it. We love that it helps you clear out your pantry, and not waste food!

Creators We’re Diggn’

Musical Mountaineers

A musical initiative started by Allison (violinist) and Anastasia (pianist) out of their mutual love for mountaineering and playing music outdoors. Their first concert “Ashokan Farewell” was performed at 10,781 feet on Sauk Mountain. We love the Musical Mountaineers goal of motivating people to dream big and spread goodness in the world. Check out their cool mountain top music videos at Instagram

Indigenous Canadian Content Creators to Watch

The article introduces some brilliant indigenous Tiktokers in Canada that are leveraging social media platforms to share their culture and inspire youth. We’ve been enjoying everything we see out of them.

Actual Play Podcasts

We love a good choose your adventure and when it’s combined with role-playing *chefs kiss!* This article gives a great summary of some of the best role-play podcasts out there.

Things That Made Us Think

Your Life in Weeks

How do you spend the weeks of your life? This piece made us think HARD about that. With amazing visualisations of the human life span and gentle questions on how you spend your time on planet earth, we highly recommend this oldie-but-a-goodie reflective piece. Particularly as we look at life after the pandemic and how all that craziness affects our happiness.

Hey adventures… Do you have an awesome random cool thing on the internet you think should get featured in our next Newsletter? Feel free to write us an email and we will give you a shout out for the suggestion in the coming Newsletters.

Your Questions, Answered!

This week's question: But I looked at the app and there are no adventures near me. What do I do?

It’s true! Each story on the App starts in the physical location in the city it’s set and where you visit depends on the path you pick through the adventure.

But hey, for our adventurers who like to armchair travel, Story City’s Spoiler Mode feature enables you to explore adventures around the world. To activate Spoiler Mode on the App:

Simply click on your profile image on the upper left corner on the Explore tab map,
Tap the Settings option and toggle on the spoiler mode option,
Once spoiler mode is active, you can select any story on the map and click ‘Start Story’ on the overview page to armchair adventure throughout the world. Open the map on the reader view to see where you would be standing in the real world.
Once you’re done with the chapter, scroll to the bottom of the page to select the next chapter you wish to visit.
Keep going until you reach the end!

Did you know, if there are no adventures in your city, you can also create one of your own?

Sign up as a creator and create adventures for your own city! Our community mentors and producers will make sure your story is of the highest quality to draw in paying users from our-ever expanding global community of Adventurers. And if you’re the first to create a story in your city, the Story City team will help you market it. You can sign up here.

We look forward to bringing you more fun and interesting topics in our next newsletter, until then we hope your month is full of adventures!

Warmly,

The Story City Team