[ratqueen]

Character: EMMA, THE ALL-KNOWING
Event: The Forgotten Brother

Responsiveness: It was a bit of a slow going event, but that's partly the fault of us, the players, who didn't emote in the conventional call-and-response DM-goes-then-players-go style. It takes a lot longer if the DM posts, then a player or two posts, then another player or two posts, and then the last player posts, but it can permit the scene to fill more grounded. So the slowness was on us, but I don't mind slow events at all. ~8-10 hours is my preferred length, that's what we got, about.
Balance: Fair enough that I just barely scraped by on a character with—quite literally—14 vitality by playing a dodge game and having allies tank injuries. Final boss post-EMMA's death looked like a bullet hell simulator, which was very fun to watch.
Storytelling: Peak. A lot of careful attention to detail. As someone who went on the event this was a callback to, I noticed a lot of nice, subtle nods to it, like the trap-hall that no longer worked with so much time having passed. It managed to be its own thing as well, with an unexpected twist at the end that all of the players leaned into nicely. Keen enough to want to experiment, courteous enough in approach, and with enough humor to tonally balance the otherwise grimness.

Overall: Good stuff. Would be more than happy to go on another from this DM.