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Michael Van Vleet (he/him)

@signalstation.bsky.social

Writing type person. TTRPG work: Ennie award-winning Wassailing of Claus Manor; Devil, Aim For Me; DIE, GRAVE ROBBER, DIE!, writer on Trophy, Brindlewood Bay, Public Access, Planet Raygun etc. etc. | signalstation.itch.io

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wow!

seriously?

wow!

02.03.2026 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yeah! I appreciate the support (and kind words)!

02.03.2026 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha ha!

Luckily, monster mouth noises are entirely optional at the table.

02.03.2026 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yes yes yes YES YES YES!

02.03.2026 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People need to start being less amazed when writers "predict" current events simply because they used a model from history and more depressed that as a species we're so repetitiously stupid.

02.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

I'm in this! Favorite playtest moment was probably when a poet got stricken with "tongue crawls out your mouth like a slug with a mind of its own" disease

Check it out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

01.03.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So close to unlocking this stretch goal featuring incursions written by someone who practically redefined ttrpgs and has made many hugely influential games plus also Avery Alder.

01.03.2026 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Monster Mouth Noise Fans, your community really stepped up.

01.03.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow we're already on the path to unlock the "Jason Cordova monster mouth sounds" stretch goal.

Fans of Jason's Actual Play performances, you know what to do! Fans of monster mouth noises who are unfamiliar with Jason's work in this realm are also more than welcome.

01.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cultists and frogs, they go hand in... paw? flipper?

Oh, it's hand. Frogs have hands.

One more thing they have in common.

01.03.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
4. "My tongue is meat and your ears are meat. You understand? Meat talks to meat and meat hears meat. And together... we meet. You understand? Let me put my tongue in your ear."

5. "Say the word steam with me. Steeeeeeeeaaammmmmmmm. The air that leaves your lungs carries all your worries out into the world, leaving behind... what? That's right: space. Where god dwells."

4. "My tongue is meat and your ears are meat. You understand? Meat talks to meat and meat hears meat. And together... we meet. You understand? Let me put my tongue in your ear." 5. "Say the word steam with me. Steeeeeeeeaaammmmmmmm. The air that leaves your lungs carries all your worries out into the world, leaving behind... what? That's right: space. Where god dwells."

The most fun I had writing this incursion, Pentah's Rest, was writing a bunch of cultist babble the GM could read aloud to players.

01.03.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Stew horror" is an underutilized subgenre of horror and I'm excited to see it expanded.

01.03.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

Ruin takes Trophy RPG's brief and deadly tales and makes them even briefer and deadlier.

These are short, truly one-shot incursions crafted by folks who write and run Trophy games a lot.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

01.03.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

But from the works in progress I've seen, this book is a BARGAIN.

The most exciting rogues gallery of writers, crafting delightful little danger boxes for your players.

01.03.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're not sold on me, don't worry, there's 13 other amazing creators AT A MINIMUM. Check out the stretch goals, there's some exciting names waiting in the wings to join.

01.03.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

If you're a fan of the material I've written for Trophy, then you're in luck: more of it is available as part of this collection of incursions.

I contributed a 3-set Trophy Gold scenario set in a fallen hot springs that has both a cult AND frog problem.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

01.03.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
"Hey there! Would you like to make an exquisite corpse with me!" RAPIDPUNCHES avatar below is waving. An example of half letter folded into quarters is shown.

"Hey there! Would you like to make an exquisite corpse with me!" RAPIDPUNCHES avatar below is waving. An example of half letter folded into quarters is shown.

Open call for exquisite corpse pieces! We are gonna make ZINES together! Take a section (provided below somewhere), draw a part, and send it back to me for assembly (as a zine) and display (online)! #zine

01.03.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
"You can draw 1 part or, a whole, and I will piece it up for the mix and match!" Half letter folded into quarters. One quarter of the paper with a drawing next to all four parts still in half letter. Followed by different sections pieced up and folded.

"You can draw 1 part or, a whole, and I will piece it up for the mix and match!" Half letter folded into quarters. One quarter of the paper with a drawing next to all four parts still in half letter. Followed by different sections pieced up and folded.

Draw whatever you feel like up to the end of the section, or draw a whole figure!

01.03.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Knitted frog wearing a shrimp hat, and a white teeshirt with an embroidered crab on it

Knitted frog wearing a shrimp hat, and a white teeshirt with an embroidered crab on it

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🦐 SHRIMPIE! ❀️

#whimsical #cottagecore #frog #handmadewithlove #cozy

28.02.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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The Isle Beyond the Mists is a Carved from Brindlewood ttrpg set in a supernatural version of the Caribbean. The players are the crew of a privateer ship and they are after a legendary treasure protected by the ghost of Henry Morgan. They must overcome supernatural threats to reach the treasure.

28.02.2026 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An array of six personal weapons designed in a retro sci-fi style, with wood and brass and chrome and coils and whatnot.
The first gun is a loooong rail gun. It has a wooden moukala butt stock with copper wire decorations, while the rest of the gun's body is bronze and chrome with 28 copper coils arranged on its sides. It has a cog-toothed lever action and many scope lenses.
The second gun is a Whitney Wolverine pistol with a heat-colored chrome finish and brass slotted grip slabs. The serrations on the slide are cut following flowing organic lines reminiscent of a mackerel's stripes.
The third weapon is a truncheon with its grip shaped like a knuckle duster and its head being made of a ribbed glass electric insulator capped with a large bolt cap.
The fourth gun (ignore the numbering system switching from gun to weapon and back) is a short bolt action carbine with another ribbed insulator used as a forend. The glass for these is a nice deep green. The bolt action is that of a LiΓ©geoise 1888 rifle, whereas the stock around it has been modified to have a semi pistol grip as well as a target rifle hand rest right in front of the forend. The brass fittings have strange bubbly shapes, and the front sight blade has a very tall swept figure.
The fifth gun is a machine pistol of sorts with a fixed brass skeleton stock emerging from a cut out slot in the grip slabs and being held onto the gun with the same screws, and its frame houses a copper coil like that from an alcohol still. The gun's frame itself is chrome plated with a rear bustle and a straight grip like a Borchardt 1893 pistol, with a couple of bronze recoil compensator fitted end to end featuring helicoidal grooves.
The last gun is boxy four-barreled break action shotgun, with all four barrels held in a square cluster and heavily discolored at the muzzle. The stock features a knob and a large copper speaker.

An array of six personal weapons designed in a retro sci-fi style, with wood and brass and chrome and coils and whatnot. The first gun is a loooong rail gun. It has a wooden moukala butt stock with copper wire decorations, while the rest of the gun's body is bronze and chrome with 28 copper coils arranged on its sides. It has a cog-toothed lever action and many scope lenses. The second gun is a Whitney Wolverine pistol with a heat-colored chrome finish and brass slotted grip slabs. The serrations on the slide are cut following flowing organic lines reminiscent of a mackerel's stripes. The third weapon is a truncheon with its grip shaped like a knuckle duster and its head being made of a ribbed glass electric insulator capped with a large bolt cap. The fourth gun (ignore the numbering system switching from gun to weapon and back) is a short bolt action carbine with another ribbed insulator used as a forend. The glass for these is a nice deep green. The bolt action is that of a LiΓ©geoise 1888 rifle, whereas the stock around it has been modified to have a semi pistol grip as well as a target rifle hand rest right in front of the forend. The brass fittings have strange bubbly shapes, and the front sight blade has a very tall swept figure. The fifth gun is a machine pistol of sorts with a fixed brass skeleton stock emerging from a cut out slot in the grip slabs and being held onto the gun with the same screws, and its frame houses a copper coil like that from an alcohol still. The gun's frame itself is chrome plated with a rear bustle and a straight grip like a Borchardt 1893 pistol, with a couple of bronze recoil compensator fitted end to end featuring helicoidal grooves. The last gun is boxy four-barreled break action shotgun, with all four barrels held in a square cluster and heavily discolored at the muzzle. The stock features a knob and a large copper speaker.

Raygun gothic arsenal !
#art

16.12.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1482    πŸ” 320    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 4

They should make a Shadow movie based on that Shadow comic where he has to go undercover at a carnival so he disguises himself as a β€œcigarette fiend,” a guy who astonishes and delights audiences by smoking a lot of cigarettes.

27.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on April 28th (and maybe shipping earlier if ordered direct) on Blu-ray in the US from @severinfilms.bsky.social: #Suzzanna: Empress of Darkness (1988-2024)!

6 FILMS ON 3 DISCS FEATURING THE NORTH AMERICAN DISC PREMIERES OF 4 SUZZANNA HORROR CLASSICS PLUS HER FINAL

27.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Toby Jones talks about the de-aging technology used to allow him to play Atreus in the new God of War tv series

"First they scan you head to toe and cover you with ping pong balls. Then the changes take place"

(Source: tinyurl.com/ksrfy9ru)

27.02.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.02.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 986    πŸ” 590    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 12
A screenshot from Reno: 911! Two Reno sheriffs are crouched by Terry, a roller-skating youth played by Nick Swardson. He is sitting in the shade of the tree. On-screen text (from Terry) reads: "I was murdered"

A screenshot from Reno: 911! Two Reno sheriffs are crouched by Terry, a roller-skating youth played by Nick Swardson. He is sitting in the shade of the tree. On-screen text (from Terry) reads: "I was murdered"

if a bookmark hurt my feelings, you couldn't waterboard that information out of me

27.02.2026 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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on the way down 2

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26.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS T-REX ON THE USA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT HE’S A MAGA DORK featuring a t-rex in a red USA hockey uniform on the right he has a stick in his hand. on the left is a ladybuck giving a thumbs down with a frown. they are in a hockey rink

cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS T-REX ON THE USA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT HE’S A MAGA DORK featuring a t-rex in a red USA hockey uniform on the right he has a stick in his hand. on the left is a ladybuck giving a thumbs down with a frown. they are in a hockey rink

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26.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2081    πŸ” 665    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 41
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