Calum Novak-Mitchell

(She had a good time. I don’t think she knows what a skeleton is yet)

I may have slightly misunderstood the vibe at the Blenheim Palace Halloween trail. Prob wouldn’t have brought the toddler if I knew it was going to be this intense!

Haha, amazing, hadn’t clocked the bucket was coming down from the flat above the shop. to be honest I reckon Mister Eyes would be unbothered by that? Which is boring for the roleplay but with the station in turmoil and the Evil Book in the back of the shop, I reckon he’s got other things on his mind

Converted garage for “Code Breakers Club”

Stairwell with vending machines

Stairs that lead to a wet room.

Bookshop at the end of an alley

The #over/under fever has been possessing me, it will only break once I’ve mapped the entire station I think, or I explode…anyways heres my latest batch of pieces. 🫡

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else

(In Character, Mister Eyes is not best pleased about his assistant setting up a business on company time. Out Of Character I *really* want to see all those illustrations)

Yeah it’s wonderful - I love the fact that this and the wet room incorporate the bits of graphic design sign/poster work other players have already done. I‘ve seen he’s got his own thread now and like… eight people have asked him for illustrations? And are paying him Big (pretend) Money for it

And this portrait of my character, by Kyle Ferrin

I know most people I know on here will be baffled by my continued posts about thousand-player ttrpg/wargame #over/under , but I’ve been commissioning real art with pretend money and it’s amazing.

See this picture of my imaginary space bookshop, by Atlas Costa Aguilera

#over/under conducting a job interview in my imaginary bookshop

You can add me to that list. More “being on the station“ than “being my guy” but I think that difference is moot.

Bizarrely accurate simulation of what it feels like to switch between apps and channels during a real-life major news event.

Too early to tell, but I reckon Electric Nebraska is better than normal Nebraska.

Come join the space mafia, we have a sauna.

It’s not too late. We’re not yet halfway in! discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm

I reckon if there were codified rules for it we’d be seeing *even more* romance subplots. Probably a good thing for station productivity that this isnt the case.

More #Over/Under stuff - I’ve acquired a logo for my imaginary bookshop.

(Credit to @tonytranrpg.bsky.social)

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT

Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage

More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age

bizarre how the last ten days have sufficiently rewired my brain, that my first thought on seeing this was “oh wow, famous celebrity Big Dog Beefstink”

In games where the main mechanical lever is violence, people spend all their time doing violence.

In games where the main mechanical lever is money, people spend all their time hustling

So despite this thing being authored by literally hundreds of hands, it ends up being a really interesting distinctly modern piece of 21st century science fiction.

The modern internet as a hell party

But it *does* feel like a reworking of cyberpunk for the 2020s: a vision of the future not as a unified aesthetic but as this crazed sensory overload, a hundred different stories and worlds fired at you at once, leaping between crassness and warmth, insincerity and sincerity.

And this huge, chaotic melange is fired at you through single messages on a discord server: this huge writhing mass of instability blasted at different angles, too fast to read, too big to keep a handle on. And so no, this doesnt feel like classical cyberpunk, classical space horror…

Except - with hundreds of active players it doesn’t feel like that. Everyone is running around their own genres: cosy romance, mob stories, corporate satire, memey jokey nonsense. And it’s full of anachronism and an unstable sense of what the setting even is.

Bizarre thousand player discord rpg #over/under has been consuming my time recently, and I’ve been trying to work out the weird texture of it. Because, theoretically, this is set on a cyberpunk space station in an SF/horror universe.

Haha yep that’s me!

We’ve got a good vs evil bookshop plotline going on. Which is not what I expected when I opened the pretend bookshop.

“Charity attempts to maintain integrity while powerful forces attempt to co-opt and corrupt it“ is probably the most interesting/sophisticated story I’ve seen played out in an rpg.

Hope it’s not too unpleasant to play - the scenes I saw were *fantastic* drama.

Multiple points when I considered wandering in, but it did feel like Mr Eyes would ruin the moment.