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what I do remember is that there was a junji ito collection some years ago that included a soundtrack by the pinballs. do you think their involvement was a deliberate nod by someone who remembered the machine? maybe even an easter egg by junji ito himself?

what’s weird is that the post isn’t even up on the sub anymore. wonder who (and why) locked it in the first place…

huh, that’s news to me. then again, I haven’t been too deep into junji ito stuff besides the manga for some time now.

That’s very kind of you ^^

Seeing your lovely writing and illustrations, I can only imagine people lining up to work on projects with you – are you around on any of the discord servers connected to the jams you participate in? There’s usually lots of interest in collaboration🤞

If you click on one of the J-cards on the site you linked, you get to a PDF that tells you the exact size of you card after it’s been cut. With that, you can create an area of that exact same size (tables, text boxes, tab stops – knock yourself out) and write your copy text in there. Just be sure to extend any artwork beyond that line (so that you get no ugly white borders after cutting it down to size) and keep in mind the margins of your printer. For the reverse side, just mirror the area of the other side (assuming you centred it, so it’s always the same distance from both sides ) and duplex-print.

It might be a bit of a pain do do it in Word but should be doable 🤞

Best of luck ^^

Excellent, I’ll get both then 🤞^^

I really wanna take advantage of this launch discount, but I’m also still holding out for the physical release of Herd. Would it be possible to order now but hold off on the delivery until the latter is available?

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I’m not really active on tumblr or Mastodon, so it’s probably best to just link my itch page 🤞

(I can also be reached on Discord but I wouldn’t necessarily share that account on socials 😅)

Thanks for the consideration, I'd love to ^^
Will talk more on Discord  🤞

Fantastic flavour, what a perfect fit for The Bay both location-/setting- as well as time-/era-wise  👏

And that custom character sheet is just *chef's kiss*
(as well as the cute pixel font on here)

Oh, sure thing ^^

Finally got around to reading this Vibe. Fantastic flavour, what a perfect fit for The Bay both location-/setting- as well as time-/era-wise  👏
And that custom character sheet is just *chef's kiss*

I don’t know how it took me this long to discover this entry 🙈

Marvelously evocative setting and a lovely escalation of doom and dread 💀

I wonder what terrible plans players might come up with if they manage to abscond with the device—and what nefarious powers might offer them for it…

I've been staring at my keyboard for 5 minutes straight, trying to come up with something clever to say, but words fail me…

Lovely soundtrack and pure emotion/perspective 💜

I started reading this and went “All those smells seem rather on the nose—bit cheeky, no?”
Then I read on and didn't find it too funny anymore.
Finished the short story(?) and now I hope I won't have to smell either in the near future  🙈

Gets straight to the point and evokes a terrifying, actionable scenario.
Can't wait to see others go through the same progression of emotions ;)

Happy to have had a (human) hand in it ^^

Haha, thanks ^^
You're cordially invited to dream up a disturbing incident involving the tape ;)

Oh wow, those are some twisted little toys 😬

I love how the items’ mechanical impacts still work without going further into the gory backgrounds, yet those are available in abundance for anybody interested in the details, along with strong worldbuilding 🔥

Glad you like it ^^

That’s very kind of you, but I think I already have a lot of your stuff in my library 😅

Don’t sweat it—maybe, if you’re fine with that, just add a few community copies to stuff that’s still missing them, so others can enjoy it as well?

Sorry if this is too straightforward, but, in the interest of furthering human made efforts, if you still want a rougher die instead of the current vector template,  here is a quick one I just sketched for you.
100% human made, free of charge, no strings attached 🤞
(Obviously also means I won't be disappointed if it's not what you're looking for—I have no idea how long the imgur link works anyhow and I'll delete this message if you want me to)

Ooh, there’s some excellent world building going on here 👀

Besides being a great grab bag to pick and choose individualt signs from, this feels like an excellent jumping-off point for people to add their own as they see fit—the style and “language” you’ve employed works super well as guidance in this regard ^^

Bonkers how complete this feels without even the slightest bit of instructions or talk of mechanics. Artefacts, bestiary/encounters, map, adventure hooks…

I commend your dedication to the handwritten medium, really works wonders for immersion in this case 👍

Love that attitude 💪

The way you match the weird™ of your art to its context (the Bay in this case) is great!
Can't wait to see what's next ^^

 🤘 💀 🤘

Top notch presentation, really captures the old-school hand-made feel 👏

The way the perspective of the booth descriptions kind of frames everything as by/for an outside observer is a really nice touch adding to the whole thing’s weirdness.

Can’t wait to drop Azrael on some unsuspecting players 😈

I don’t know how and why, but the way your poetry frames these urban legends feels like it can speak to everybody at the table in wonderfully different ways. Like, a GM could use one of these as broad inspiration for a mystery, read another to the party and drop yet others into the game world as found flyers and each time the effect at the table would differ wildly. Truly makes me question how the format/medium influences what people get from something  👍
I hope some PCs try to find out who penned these dark prophecies in-universe…

Wow, this goes really hard with how far in-universe players are invited with the magazine handouts. I love how these kinds of entries build a whole new level of reality on top of The Lost Bay’s initial fiction, weaving exponentially deeper stories with each new addition.

Also, I absolutely dig the style 🤘

Oh dang! What a perfect way of anchoring the weird to the real 🙌

While there’s some fun actual story-telling and possible interaction already baked into the text, what I’m much more interested in is the possibility for story to emerge simply from players asking questions about a quirky little phrase here or there. This catalogue reads like it could fuel a whole campaign just by the power of curiosity.

Ooh, I love that concept. 

I must admit that amount of preparation sounds like more effort than I thought anyone would ever apply to this fragment 😅
Though I remain open to surprises ;)

I’m blown away by the “realness” of this entry. Everything about it feels like something I’d expect to find a grainy picture of posted onto some tiny county’s obscure local forum, asking who had been hanging these all over town.

Like, I have no doubt in my mind that this poster is exactly what people would put up around The Lost Bay once the first few kids go missing around the old folks’ home. And you even managed to make it actionable for the actual game!

The systemic premise alone—a life insurance doing everything in its power to circumvent payment due to their customer’s premature departure—is an excellently grim extrapolation of today’s capitalism. The writing and presentation you added to that feels like an extra juicy cherry on top 👏

What a fascinating little piece of lore, excellently presented 🤘

Somehow, it being in a style that reminds me of my childhood makes it all the more palpable and believable. And, imagining I could’ve come across something like this for real makes it even creepier to me 🙈

Skin crawling. I love it!

While I'm sure a certain reading is implied, I quite enjoy just how many questions are left unanswered.
Like, did the demon or the human write and hang up the poster and hence, whose skin is nailed next to it?

I love the concept of taking something familiar and with minimal modification fundamentally changing the way you interact or think/feel about it. Having finally gotten through House of Leaves for the first time recently, these bookmarks come at the right time for me to have similar fun with seemingly innocuous books ^^

Classifieds!

Skillfull genre mix of weird, whimsical, funny and disturbing. Great use of the medium’s format.

Code: XCLLNT

That's some excellent old document noise and the slight tilt hurts my brain the exact right amount  😵‍💫

Sounds fair enough, that's why I thought I'd ask beforehand.

With all those cool small indie TTRPG servers on Discord and my scatterbrain I tend to lose sight some of the time, but I guess the TLB community seems like a fun new addition to my roster—see you over there ^^

Love the way you portray the progression of whatever poor Bill is going through 🤘
(Also, had to edit to say I really dig the GIF thumbnail)