The Pool · public · everyone opts in

Rain Check: Everyone

18 people followed the link in our Discord server, gave the address of their own page, and said yes. Nobody else is here. Anyone can read this Pool; each person decides who may write to them, and anyone can leave in one action. Rain Check and its people are invented. Kindling has no affiliation with Discord.

The charter

Everyone in Rain Check, the Northwest board-game community, who said yes to being findable off the server: at a Thursday table, on game day, or in any app that reads this file. You are listed only with your own yes, from your own page, in your own words. This is not the server, and it does not copy it. No ranking, no attendance counts, nothing for sale. Leave any time.

Kept by: Fern AchterbergSigned in with OAuthkeeps it Rashid OmondiSigned in with OAuthco-keeper
Where it lives: raincheckgames.example/pools/rain-check-everyone.json, on our own domain. Not on the server, and not a copy of it.
Visibility: public. In our discovery file; any client may read it §3.2 §8.3.
Consent: universal-opt-in. You give your page through the link; the Pool asks you by email; you say yes or no §5.2.
Messages: Senders must be at least email verified, the Pool’s own floor §3.3. Past that, each person’s own rules §7.2.
Block lists: Kindling public list, and the Circular consortium list §7.3.
Status: active · updated 24 September 2026
The file: pools/rain-check-everyone.json

How it is kept

Two keepers, Fern and Rashid, so it never rests on one person. Co-keepers are first in line if a Pool ever needs a new keeper §9.3.
People are shown in the order they said yes, never by a score, never by how often they come.
The words on each card are that person’s own page, parsed after they said yes. Pictures stay on their pages §2.5.
A role on the server counts for nothing here. There is no field for one §3.2.
If nobody keeps it for 90 days it goes dormant, and nothing is deleted §9.1.

Listed

18 cards, in the order they said yes

A brass pip means the person said yes, and nothing else on this site is brass. Each card carries its verification level in words, the page it points to, and the tables its owner said yes to. Portraits are illustrations of invented people.

Fern Achterberg

she/her · Olympia

Signed in with OAuth

School librarian in Olympia. Started Rain Check in 2019 with six people and a folding table, and hosts the Olympia table on Thursdays. Keeps the Pool with Rashid, so it never rests on one person.

fern-achterberg.example

Olympia Thursdays · Big Game Day

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 1 September

Said yes

Rashid Omondi

he/him · Tacoma

Signed in with OAuth

Teaches middle-school math in Tacoma and hosts the Tacoma table on Thursdays. Will teach you any game in ten minutes, and lets you win the first one only if you ask.

rashid-omondi.notion.example

Tacoma Thursdays

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 1 September

Said yes

Lola Brandvold

she/her · Port Ellery

Signed in with OAuth

Retired ferry purser. Hosts the Port Ellery table at the Mariners’ Hall on Thursdays, with the crokinole board her father built. Keeps the kettle on and the rules short.

lola-brandvold.carrd.example

Port Ellery Thursdays

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 1 September

Said yes

Bao Tran

he/him · Portland

Signed in with OAuth

Civil engineer at the water bureau. Hosts the Portland table on Thursdays in a community center on the east side. Long strategy games, and short ones when it gets late.

bao-tran.example

Portland Thursdays · Big Game Day

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 1 September

Said yes

Imre Kovács

he/him · Port Ellery

Email verified

Crane operator at the harbor. Plays go most evenings, and will learn anything with a rulebook shorter than a ferry ride.

imre-kovacs.example

Port Ellery Thursdays

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 2 September

Said yes

Theo Lindqvist

he/him · Port Ellery

Email verified

Moved here in August for a remote job. Plays drums badly and enthusiastically. Looking for people to walk, eat and play with.

theo-lindqvist.carrd.example

Port Ellery Thursdays

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 2 September

Said yes

Pip Albright

she/her · Olympia

Email verified

Retired bookkeeper. Cribbage, hearts, euchre and any trick-taking game you care to name. Brings lemon bars to the Olympia table and a spare deck to everything.

pip-albright.carrd.example

Olympia Thursdays · Big Game Day

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 3 September

Said yes

Odalys Fuentes

she/her · Salem

Signed in with OAuth

Credit-union accountant in Salem. Keeps Big Game Day: the hall, the tables, the snack jar, and the note of who chipped in for the domain. Brings mahjong tiles and teaches anyone who sits down.

odalys-fuentes.notion.example

Big Game Day

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 3 September

Said yes

Mahlet Bekele

she/her · Tacoma

Email verified

Emergency nurse on nights, so my Thursdays off are sacred. Co-op games, where the whole table wins or loses together. Quiet tables preferred.

mahlet-bekele.notion.example

Tacoma Thursdays · Big Game Day

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 5 September

Said yes

Yumi Hatano

she/her · Tacoma

Signed in with OAuth

Payroll accountant in Tacoma. Tile-laying games, word games, and puns I will not apologize for. Has a car and a spare seat on Thursdays.

yumi-hatano.example

Tacoma Thursdays

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 6 September

Said yes

Oriol Puig

he/him · Portland

Signed in with OAuth

Architect in Portland. Draws the maps for one-shot role-playing games at the Portland table, and runs one most months. New players especially welcome.

oriol-puig.carrd.example

Portland Thursdays

Followed the link, signed in and said yes, 7 September

Said yes

Anouk Visser

she/her · Port Ellery

Email verified

Partner to Tamsin, friend to Gabe, metamour to a very good cat. Translator from Dutch. Here for friends first.

anouk-visser.notion.example

Port Ellery Thursdays

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 10 September

Said yes

Kiri Walsh

they/them · Tacoma

Email verified

Library science student. Hosts a house show about once a season, if the neighbors agree. Has forty folding chairs and one very patient cat.

kiri-walsh.carrd.example

Tacoma Thursdays · Big Game Day

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 12 September

Said yes

Felipe Arce

he/him · Portland

Email verified

Forklift driver on early shifts, so I leave the Portland table by nine. Brings the loudest party game in the building and apologizes to the next room. Learning my grandmother’s card games in Spanish.

felipe-arce.example

Portland Thursdays

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 14 September

Said yes

Ansel Moreau

he/him · Olympia

Email verified

Ranger at a state park near Olympia. Long war games and slow strategy games, the kind that take a whole Saturday. Happy to teach, happier to lose well.

ansel-moreau.notion.example

Olympia Thursdays

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 16 September

Said yes

Marek Dvořák

he/him · Eugene

Email verified

Retired machinist in Eugene. There is no Rain Check table in Eugene yet, so I drive north for Big Game Day with two empty seats. Would like to start a Thursday table here if four people want one.

marek-dvorak.example

Big Game Day

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 19 September

Said yes

Yusra Haddad

she/her · Port Ellery

Email verified

Arrived from Amman last spring for a hospital job. Would like to practice English out loud, and teach a little Arabic back.

yusra-h.notion.example

Port Ellery Thursdays

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 22 September

Said yes

Verna Coombs

she/her · Salem

Email verified

Retired seamstress in Salem. Mahjong with my sisters on Tuesdays, anything at all on game day. I don’t drive after dark, so I ask for a ride home.

verna-coombs.carrd.example

Big Game Day

Followed the link, said yes from the email, 24 September

Said yes

Juni Abernathy followed the link on Saturday and their question is waiting. Answer it as Juni, and their card joins this page.

Ask the Pool

Who teaches? Who has seats?

Ask in plain words. Only people who said yes are in the file, so only they can come up §5.1. Answers appear in the order people said yes.

Rashid OmondiSigned in with OAuthTacoma
Teaches middle-school math in Tacoma and hosts the Tacoma table on Thursdays. Will teach you any game in ten minutes, and lets you win the first one only if you ask.
Odalys FuentesSigned in with OAuthSalem
Credit-union accountant in Salem. Keeps Big Game Day: the hall, the tables, the snack jar, and the note of who chipped in for the domain. Brings mahjong tiles and teaches anyone who sits down.

The box answers; it does not introduce anyone. Nothing was sent. This is an example, answered in this page from the manifest.

Who can write to whom

Who can write to Pip, checked

Pip Albright takes messages only from people in a Pool with her, and this Pool asks every sender to be at least email verified. Each row is checked in this page with Kindling’s rules and the Pool’s two block lists, the way a compliant client would §7.

Who writes	Result	Rule	Why
bulk-intros@relay.example	Blocked	§7.3 §7.3	The sender is on a block list this Pool subscribes to: The Circular consortium block list (spam).
Someone unverified, not in the Pool	Held back	Pool minimum §3.3	This Pool asks senders to be at least email verified.
Juni Abernathy, before saying yes	Held back	§7.2 pool-mates-only §7.2	Only people in this Pool with them can write. Join the Pool first.
Juni Abernathy, after saying yes	Delivered	§7 §7	Allowed by their rules.
Imre Kovács, in this Pool	Delivered	§7 §7	Allowed by their rules.

Rows three and four are the same person. Following the link and saying yes is what lets Juni write to Pip. Being in the server lets nobody write to anybody here.

Five smaller Pools

A Pool for each table, and one for game day

Separate Pools where a separate yes makes sense: saying yes to Everyone says nothing about any table. Each table’s host keeps its Pool; being host is being a curator, because v0.1 has no field for a role.

Thursdays, 6:30 pm

Port Ellery Thursdays

The Rain Check table in Port Ellery: Thursdays at 6:30 in the evening at the Mariners’ Hall, upstairs, with the crokinole board and a kettle. Drop in with or without a game. Say yes here if you would like the others at this table to be able to find you, on Thursday or any day.

Kept by Lola BrandvoldSigned in with OAuthkeeps it Imre KovácsEmail verifiedco-keeper

Lola BrandvoldSigned in with OAuth
Imre KovácsEmail verified
Theo LindqvistEmail verified
Anouk VisserEmail verified
Yusra HaddadEmail verified

public · universal-opt-in §3.2 · status active · pools/rain-check-port-ellery.json

Thursdays, 6:30 pm

Olympia Thursdays

The Rain Check table in Olympia, where it started: Thursdays at 6:30 in the evening in a church hall on the west side, with lemon bars. Drop in with or without a game. Say yes here if you would like the others at this table to be able to find you.

Kept by Fern AchterbergSigned in with OAuthkeeps it Pip AlbrightEmail verifiedco-keeper

Fern AchterbergSigned in with OAuth
Pip AlbrightEmail verified
Ansel MoreauEmail verified

public · universal-opt-in §3.2 · status active · pools/rain-check-olympia.json

Thursdays, 7 pm

Tacoma Thursdays

The Rain Check table in Tacoma: Thursdays at 7 in the evening in the meeting room of a branch library downtown, until it closes at nine. Quiet games at one end, loud ones at the other. Say yes here if you would like the others at this table to be able to find you.

Kept by Rashid OmondiSigned in with OAuthkeeps it Mahlet BekeleEmail verifiedco-keeper

Rashid OmondiSigned in with OAuth
Mahlet BekeleEmail verified
Yumi HatanoSigned in with OAuth
Kiri WalshEmail verified

public · universal-opt-in §3.2 · status active · pools/rain-check-tacoma.json

Thursdays, 6:30 pm

Portland Thursdays

The Rain Check table in Portland: Thursdays at 6:30 in the evening at a community center on the east side, with a one-shot role-playing game most months. Say yes here if you would like the others at this table to be able to find you.

Kept by Bao TranSigned in with OAuthkeeps it Oriol PuigSigned in with OAuthco-keeper

Bao TranSigned in with OAuth
Oriol PuigSigned in with OAuth
Felipe ArceEmail verified

public · universal-opt-in §3.2 · status active · pools/rain-check-portland.json

The second Saturday of every month

Big Game Day

Rain Check’s Big Game Day: the second Saturday of every month, ten in the morning to ten at night, all four tables in one hall. October’s is Saturday 10 October in a grange hall south of Olympia. Say yes here to be findable for rides, seats and games to lend or borrow on the day.

Kept by Odalys FuentesSigned in with OAuthkeeps it Fern AchterbergSigned in with OAuthco-keeper

Odalys FuentesSigned in with OAuth
Fern AchterbergSigned in with OAuth
Bao TranSigned in with OAuth
Pip AlbrightEmail verified
Mahlet BekeleEmail verified
Kiri WalshEmail verified
Marek DvořákEmail verified
Verna CoombsEmail verified

public · universal-opt-in §3.2 · status active · pools/rain-check-game-day.json

A member’s own screen

Leaving is one action

This is Anouk’s own screen: each Pool she said yes to, and one way out of each. Leaving sends one withdrawal message, and the Pool must act on it within sixty seconds §5.3. Her page stays hers. Anyone she already wrote to keeps the thread, because messages go by email §6.1. Leaving a Pool does not touch the server, and leaving the server does not touch a Pool.

Privacy in a Pool comes from its visibility. kindling_noindex means something else: “do not include me in any Pool at all” §2.7.

Juni, in this demo

Juni’s question is still waiting. Answer it.

Rain CheckAnouk’s screen

Your Pools here

Rain Check: Everyone · kept by Fern and Rashid

You said yes from the email on 10 September.

Port Ellery Thursdays · kept by Lola

You said yes from the email on 10 September.