ALT A graphic that states “official selection essence film festival 2024” between two laurels at the top. Below the laurels is a poster, mostly in black-and-white with gold flecks. On the right side of the poster is half of Aliza Pearl‘s face drawn in smudged pencil. Filling the left and center of the poster is a black background with white chalk-like drawings of lots of equations in a jumble. The background of the entire graphic is purple, and the poster sits on top of a grayish silver circular platform.

ALT Photo of Aliza Pearl at Lumley Castle. She is half sitting on a table, looking into the camera, which is at a low angle on top of the table. She’s wearing a purple pirate hat with black lace trim, and holding up a D20. She is wearing a green and white gingham dress with puffed sleeves. Next to her on the table is her DM screen, which has a colorful underwater theme with fish and coral. On the table are lots of dice that are out of focus. She’s sitting in a an ornate, beautiful room at Lumley castle.

ALT Photo of Aliza Pearl onset at Geek & Sundry. She is sitting behind a long table that has images of floating islands painted onto it. She leans over the top of a GM screen that says “Overlight” on it, and has beautiful, colorful art of characters from the Overlight game. She is smiling, and her face is leaning on one fist.

ALT Picture of Aliza Pearl in a room with wood paneling and gray carpet. Behind her on the wood panel wall are turquoise framed photos and Star Trek adventures books and dice set up on a low coffee table. She is wearing a red Star Trek original series uniform dress, and holds the Modiphius Star Trek adventures Tricorder box slung over her shoulder. She is holding out a small red token that says “Alert” on it.

ALT “Do not throw cigarette butts on the ground. The cats come out at night to smoke them and we are trying to get them to quit.”

ALT A game of Ascension, with over 5000 points scored so far, and still over 1000 runes and 200 strength.