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hey. moved the blog. new spot is https://spooky.blot.im/ this blog can rot or whatever.
Spooky Rusty
A blog dedicated to Weird RPGs
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My Spooky Life S2 E1: A Liminal Horror Documtary Mode Funnel
CHARACTERS Player One is Matthias Pias. German cop procedural actor. First time on American TV, brick-thick accent, always tossing out half-assed ideas to make his role feel “real,” like yeah dude, nobody gives a shit. Player Two has Annie—camera operator, baddie, e-girl, hot as hell. Eve, audio tech, whatever. Third mess: safety officer Bum. Player Three’s got a loose-cannon location scout,…
the truly liminal dunge0n
room 1 a, able, and, any, are, area, at, away, badly, be, board, burned, by, cadillac, cellist, charity, collector, composed, crypts, dance, dart, deaf, doorways, each, fizzle, full, great, hanky, harnesses, if, if, inflict, insect, inside, inspect, irritation, is, it, it, must, no, not, oaken, obscured, obstruction, of, open, opened, or, overbids, overpass, palisade, paste, planetarium,…
are you still in love with the thrill of the live music experience? a Troika zine review
(there's an audio recording of myself reading this post on my substack ) Gremlin Energy Drink now sponsors this blog. Meaningful days are built around concerts. Do you remember when you used to feel alive? When you were young and excited about seeing your favorite band play live. Excited about all the predictable/unpredictable possibilities that might come your way. Venturing to the city, or…
VIOLENCE, SNAKE-WOLF
Game: Violence Luke Gearing. 2021 # Additional Resources: Terror of the Stratosfiend - Cycle of the Snake-Wolf Orbital Intelligence. 2020 Terror of the Stratosfiend - Cycle of the Snake-Wolf 2 - Return to the Shattered Woods Orbital Intelligence. 2022 Terror of the Stratosfiend - Cycle of the Snake-Wolf 3 - The Scales of Hyper-Visor God or The Final Voyage of the Crab King Orbital Ingelligence.…
our new adventure for liminal horror has been released!
Fuck Time Fuck Space by Spooky Jaguar
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Fuck Time Fuck Space by Spooky Jaguar
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Smogg
Dr. Smogg is a rich bitch industrialist who made his fortune in heavy manufacturing. Still, his methods are wasteful and produce many toxic by-products, which he disposes of in environmentally irresponsible ways. His next scheme is to pump massive amounts of toxic smog into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of his factory. Once airborne, the pollution will condense into solid waste particles and…
unpublished blog post
in an attempt to declutter my ttrgp space at home i've decided to burn some old campaign books and transcribe some bits i may reuse. the following is from a small thousand thousand islands campaign. i'd link to their zines online but i'm pretty sure everything has been removed by the creators. The zines require a lot of preparation to run smoothly so here's some shit I prepped for the sessions I…
the signalwave series part two: Top "Signalwave" Albums to "Liminal Horror" to (2024)
My best guess is that the album cover is a YouTube screenshot. tracking by antenna decay (released February 21, 2024) Is there a constant beeping in the background, or is it tinnitus? I take my left air pod out, and the beeping stops, but now track two is playing, and I still hear the beeping. I checked my surroundings and removed the air pod again, and I realized it was the album’s heart monitor.…
i ran the chair by zach hazard vaupen ask me anything!
Play reports are so exhausting to write. This will be brief. Two friends and I met up and played Liminal Horror the last two days for about an hour each session. It was my first time running Liminal Horror, and it was their first time playing. I didn't prep anything and hadn't even read all of the rooms prior, but I invited Bolt Neck Possum to play, who joined the call but just as a listener while…
Top "Signalwave" Albums to "Liminal Horror" to (2024)
Warning: reading this post may result in spending money on cassettes, vinyl, CDs, and MINIDISCS. “Signalwave” and “Broken Transmission” are subgenres of “Slushwave,” which has been one of the best musical discoveries I’ve made this year. They’re the soundtrack to decay. I think of them as concept albums portraying memories of good days long gone. It’s what Liches listen to when playing Second Life…
codex r review
I recommend reading high. The attention span is shrunken, but the focus is heightened and very intense. For me, the reading experience becomes more vertical. In this case, I like to read books of a certain depth. You want to avoid reading something you've seen before because you're absorbing things more sentence by sentence. It will be a smooth ride down if you do, and it will lead to no exciting…
Audubon Zoo
i feel like a rundown dog useless and poor so i call my friend megan ask to borrow her children so she can do the things she doesn't have time for anymore i take the kids to the zoo we get pretzels, hotdogs, and icees we find the monkey cages but the monkeys are asleep "sorry" i tell the children i bang my head against the glass one of the monkeys cracks an eye open the monkey signs to me "taking…
1d4 levels of greatness a ttrpg writer can achieve in america
1. giant centipede in the darkness: Has published seven books. One on Lulu, two on their personal blog, and four "self-printed" via Mixam. Gets more hits on their blog weekly than has sold zines in five years and makes enough money off their zines to get drunk once a year. Will likely die alone of something easily treatable if they'd had money or motivation to go to a doctor. Will be forgotten in…
I’m talking game prep this week.
Prepping session one... hOw AbOuT wE pReP a TaVeRn / InN XD but let’s do it with RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY “Margaritas & Parrots” Boom, we’re done. I bet you can envision the tavern. What it smells like inside. The texture of the floor. In two words you can prep most of your session needs. Now go forth and write with purposeful ruthless efficiency.
Crapland is a game. (SPEED-RUN) Session twoo.
召喚 by 妖女 · 天火見 ✿.｡.- ☆-. d uring this actual play I listened to the album .-.☆-.-｡.✿ (catch up on the previous session here ) 1. Shark-8 caries Tela under an arm. He thinks about how Mel will beat his ass. He says Mel is good to kick our asses. Mok doesn’t say anything and then says let’s just get home already. Shark-8 wonders if the rumors about Mok are true. Supposedly, whenever Mok dies, they…
Guest Blog 1 With Evey Lockhart
Evey Lockhart has one of the coolest TTRPG blogs ( Index Cards in the Rain ). Each new post eats its predecessor. If you haven't checked it out, her latest post just dropped. It's about an evil cult selling powerful weapons in the name of a vile lord. It's gun pr0n, Evey style. Evey also recently released an adventure called " The 2nd Annual Goblin Singles Weekend at the Nice La Quinta across the…
Alaska Violence 1986 (writing process part 4... featuring Haha I'm Using Violence)
*update* 04/08/2024 1986 just so happened to be when the National Firearms Act was implemented and was the last year machine guns were able to be registered with the federal government so I asked my friend to help me come up with a d66 list of machine guns for Alaska Violence. Federal Machine Gun List: 11 = .41 Action Express Uzi, 10 round mag, full auto 12 = 5.56 NATO Ak 5, 30 round mag, full…
Session 0 Violence
I find Violence exciting I've shared Violence with all my online friends, and they love it. (Some already knew it [and love it]). In mid-2023 , when enough of us were available to meet over Discord at the same time, we would test-play each other's settings for Violence, usually once (sometimes twice) a week. Now, in 2024 I invited four friends over, gave them RPG Preference sheets to fill out…
looting the gobllin corpse
1. scrunchies 2. a slice of pizza 3. nothingness stones 4. virgin crud 5. poem eraser 6. hex ointment 7. fishnet stocking 8. the eyelash of a cyclops 9. a lemon 10. townes van zandt record 11. clamp 12. beautiful cinder block 13. mushrooms 14. troll doll 15. cigarettes 16. white peach tea 17. one glove 18. matches 19. a book titled "butterfly life decoded" 20. cyclops eyebrow ring 21. clarissa…
Rolling Your Own Cigarettes in the OSR
this is where i blog from (the record pictured in my photo is The Boston To Little Rock Connection Split 7" by The Shyness Clinic / Everyone Asked About You , the latter being a legendary female-fronted 90's emo band.) my friend said his first character sheet for Troika was written on a rolling paper. this got me thinking about magical cigarettes in games ( for the second time ). settings should…
babbling plasma; a troika city story, chapter 2
before you hit play (the audiobook is only available on my substack , or read chapter 2 or go back and read and/or listen to chapter 1 ) i want to mention something first… my friend Bolt-Neck Opossum (featured on the blog before: we wrote 36 graveyard encounters and i reviewed one of their zines ) has new zine live on Kickstarter right now. you should totally check it out! (click) it’s called…
original + exciting / remixing adventures
this blog is now sponsored by boxed hawaiian pineapple juice in the next spooky jaguar international adventure, i would like to copy and paste one of my own short stories into the adventure; a character would pick up a book and read it, and it would show what was read, and what was read will be my short story when people buy our zine they will also have one of my short stories; if my friends write…
the spooky review is back... (with Skullboy)
it's been 7 posts since i did a 'review' i know yall be missing dem some of yall may find my last 'review' helpful it's called how to review a zine re writing 'reviews', another post you may find helpful is called if you like someone's writing tell them or put it on the internet somewhere that you like their writing and they will live longer and write more it's probably the best blog post (i've…