Niclas (@nicjar) — Bluesky Profile

1 year ago

We had just bombed on the markers and as we turned away we were caught by one searchlight and in a matter of four, five or six seconds about ten searchlights had come on us. We were in this 400 or 500 feet band of light. All of us were immediately blinded; it was quite terrifying. The German fighters above us at 23,000 feet or so were just waiting for planes to be coned. There were a handful of us lit up and they swept down. You couldn't see them coming until they were right on top of you. They fired incendiary bullets into the plane which set our aircraft on fire in six or eight different places in the fuselage and on the wings. The rear gunner and mid-upper yelled 'Corkscrew!'

As we became a flaming beacon more fighters came round and made a beeline for the rear gunner and mid-upper gunner and killed them both. The pilot said: 'Don't bale out' as he was corkscrewing, but the navigator, engineer and wireless op only heard the 'bale out' as the plane was obviously doomed and went out. I went up and sat with the pilot. It was quite obvious we weren't going to make it, but then the terrifying thing was that as the plane twisted and turned we couldn't get to the escape hatch. We were being tossed around in the nose of the plane

A terrifying account of being shot down by 158 Sqn bomb aimer, Alan Bryett (from Bomber Boys, by Kevin Wilson, p323)

Remembering men like this is part of the reason I’m creating Tail-End Charlie, a solo journalling game of life in Bomber Command. Last 5 hours! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pla...

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1 year ago

The Words We Leave Behind Rewrite history as you fight an endless war across time and reality by unleashing the butterfly effect in this duet RPG

The Words We Leave Behind - a duet time travel RPG about the butterfly effect and the control of history - is live! Please check it out, I think it's neat!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

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1 year ago

Photo of a booklet titled “Knight Forlorn”, featuring a gothic-style cover with a lone armored figure in a crimson, desolate landscape. The tagline reads: "A Storytelling Game About a Lone Wanderer on a Futile Quest in a Withering World."

Photo of an open booklet spread from Knight Forlorn, featuring a gothic-style layout. On the left, the text is framed with dark, ink-like patterns and titled "Acquaint Yourself with the City". On the right, there’s a grayscale illustration of a desolate cathedral under a crescent moon.

Photo of an open booklet spread from Knight Forlorn, featuring a gothic-style layout. On the left, there’s a grayscale illustration of a knight kneeling in defeat with a massive moon behind them, plus text framed with dark, ink-like patterns and titled "Ending the Game". On the right, there’s a card based random table with the heading “Encounters”.

Knight Forlorn is on Kickstarter for #ZineQuest!

A Soulslike, roguelike story game, it uses procedural generation, rotating roles, and punishing battles to wave tales of a lone wanderer on a futile quest in a dying world.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

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1 year ago

Know your D8s from your D12s? 🎲
Know your modifiers from your bonuses? ➕➖
Know your destiny points from your story points? 💯

Check out 'What Am I Rolling?': a twice-monthly RPG one-shot podcast, hosted by gamemaster, Fiona.

Available wherever you listen to podcasts!

linktr.ee/wair_podcast

#rpg

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1 year ago

Drawing of a stylised butterfly with a blue outline and green / yellow highlights that extend past the wings

Unleash the butterfly effect in The Words We Leave Behind, launching 4th February as part of Zine Quest 2025

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

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2 years ago

Hopes and Dreams of the Orbital Bound by LunarShadow Designs Slice of life sci-fi

Living in space isn't all that it seems and eventually the extraordinary fades into the background as you push to achieve your dreams. Explore the world of Tau Ceti in Hopes and Dreams of the Orbital Bound, a slice of life sci-fi RPG

lunarshadow.itch.io/hopes-and-dr...

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2 years ago

I wish I was...

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