{"id":21024,"date":"2023-02-13T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?p=21024"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:48:52","slug":"streaming-with-sense-siblings-brought-inara-friends-and-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/blog\/streaming-with-sense-siblings-brought-inara-friends-and-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming with Sense siblings brought Inara friends and adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-intro\">Inara, age 9, is one of our budding Dungeons and Dragons masters! She\u2019s gaming with us through the Sense Siblings service and loving it. She\u2019s joined us to talk board games, online adventures and new friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love gaming! For me, it\u2019s a way to unwind and relax \u2013 you kind of don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening in the real world. I guess it\u2019s a bit like reading; we use our imaginations to go on an adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/our-services\/support-for-children\/support-for-young-carers-and-siblings\/\">Sense Siblings sessions<\/a> for nearly a year and a half now. We do lots of gaming stuff together and there are loads of new games I\u2019ve tried now. But I have some favourites \u2013 like Dungeons and Dragons. That will always be my favourite board game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We can be silly \u2013 that\u2019s why it\u2019s great!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Dungeons and Dragons sessions, at the very start we all create characters for ourselves. These are who we are in every game. Mine is Nova. I put \u2018they\/them\u2019 for the gender. They\u2019re a Tiefling, which means they\u2019re a thief and, because most people don\u2019t like Tieflings, they\u2019re looking for a trusting team to accept them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-small\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nova-edited-500x553.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21078\"\/ style=\"object-position: 49.58% 39.95%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nova-edited-500x553.png 500w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Nova-edited.png 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Inara&#8217;s character in Dungeons and Dragons, Nova. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We play for an hour each time, using Zoom. Someone from Sense is our Dungeon Master and they do our moves on the actual board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sense have given us all our own 20-sided dice, so we can all roll for our turns. If you get a high roll, you can do what you want \u2013 absolutely anything! It\u2019s a very imaginative, fun adventure game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like, one time we were clearing out the Zombies from Tesco! There are some very silly things that happen. That\u2019s why we love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve loved D and D for a long time because my dad used to play when he was younger. He got me into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s nice to be with people who understand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I like being on the Siblings project. It\u2019s nice to get to be with others like yourself, who understand how you\u2019re feeling. I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/blog\/sharing-magic-moments-with-other-siblings-like-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a new friend who I met called Angel<\/a>. She\u2019s done lots of sessions with me and we always just make each other laugh so much. Sense said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/our-services\/meeting-people\/virtual-buddying-befriending-service\/\">we could become Buddies<\/a> too, so now we hang out with each other even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the sibling sessions we get to do all of these fun things. I\u2019m looking forward to the Among Us gaming session! Angel and I especially like the gaming. We can talk about our favourite games or play together. I have two favourite games I think, both on Nintendo. Harry Potter Lego game \u2013 I\u2019ve completed the full story now \u2013 and Animal Crossing New Horizons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to thank everyone who helped to make Angel and I be Buddies. Round of applause for everyone \u2013 or a big sign language wave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"wp-block  box  ctaBox    is-style-textured-primary-tint-10\">\n    <div class=\"ctaBox__row\">\n      <div class=\"ctaBox__content\">\n        <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p><strong>Will you Stream it for Sense? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a virtual space to share hobbies, jokes and moments of joy is a great way to build friendships and communities. It&#8217;s also a great way to raise money! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to get involved? Host a live online video to share your hobbies whilst fundraising for Sense.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ctaBox__cta\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/get-involved\/fundraise-for-sense\/your-own-way\/stream-it\/\" class=\"button  button--primary\">Find out more <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inara, age 9,  joins us to talk board games, online adventures and new friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"display_author":[490],"class_list":["post-21024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","display_author-inara"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21024"},{"taxonomy":"display_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/display_author?post=21024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}