We've entered the final few days of the campaign! It's been a wild ride, and I've one last surprise yet for y'all tomorrow.

Also, hah, I thought I'd already shared the Underthings art, but I was wrong! Compare and contrast the Mothership and Cloud Empress versions of the cybernetic weird lil guy faction:

In a few short hours, Mothership writer and radio host Joshua Justice is launching his first solo crowdfunding project for their zine Last Light Station.

Gear up with new cybermods and equipment, experience new downtime Shore Leave, and even sing some sultry karaoke on Last Light Station. In this tight zine, a conflict is brewing in the Hekate Sector, and the crew can tip the balance, one way or the other.

Check out Last Light Station on BackerKit!

Chris Airiau

We've hit the Stretch Goal for more map tiles from Ripley Matthews! She's been hard at work on the Flatline on the Blocks maps (a collab Mothership project I'm part of), and it'll be cool to chain those maps with these new map tiles, thanks everyone, :)

The next Stretch Goal is a digital-only Cloud Empress RPG conversion kit for Twisting Unseen. And now, I'm excited to announce that if we hit this Stretch Goal, the kind and kickass HodagRPG will illustrate the cover! Hodag's art fills The Unseen City, and so I'm very much looking forward to hitting this new Stretch Goal to have him back for the Twisting Unseen Conversion Kit.

As I mentioned in my last Update, among stat conversions and faction reflavoring, the Underthings are the faction that change the most. Underthings are a gnome-like cybernetic people from another world/reality that was sucked into Kagami by the first portal disaster, millienia before. For Cloud Empress, I'm taking the Underthings to their Mystling roots in The Unseen City as the Gourdlings. Gourdlings have the same abilities as the Underthings, but are a much more gentle people than their Mothership counterparts.

Ngl, Waco Matrixo is a true homie, and I'm excited to share Cain Sun for Mothership RPG with y'all:

In Cain Sun, players take on the role of parasitic brain worms who all control one human: Dr. Abelsson. On the unexplored planet of Cain 615, and like a certain scientist in Prometheus (2012), the good doctor put his nose where it did not belong to disastrous (for him) consequences.

This is Waco's Mothership take on the game Everyone is John, except Everyone is Worms. Each player has not-necessarily mutually exclusive goals, and you'll want to accomplish that without tipping off to Dr. Abelsson's colleagues that he's infected by you. Like all of Waco's games, it sounds like a riot, so go check out Cain Sun!

Chris Airiau

For those that might not know, I host a podcast called Ansible Uplink where I invite ttrpg creators to review a sci-fi module with me. This week, Cloud Empress RPG creator watt joined me to review Picket Line Tango by Emily Weiss.

I was very glad to have watt on the show because Twisting Unseen is linked thematically (and physically) to my Cloud Empress RPG biome, The Unseen City, which is part of the Unseen & Sleeper Crew bundles. Since this module has portal technology at its heart, I felt it'd be a great way to send a table into another game, too.

It's a bit of a "spoiler" but the next Stretch Goal after Ripley's art is to make a digital bifold conversion guide for all backers for folks wanting to run Twisting Unseen in the world of Cloud Empress. This includes simple alterations like stat blocks, but also a major alteration to the Underthings and tonal shifts for the main human NPCs and their motivations, all to be more in line with the themes of Cloud Empress RPG and The Unseen City.

 

And I can't write an Update without spreading the Zine Month love!

In Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between for Shadowdark RPG, the mountain bleeds potent arcane ooze from the long-abandoned Brackenhoorg mines, and now fey lords feed upon its power. In this puzzle dungeon, characters manipulate a powerful magical substance, the ooze, through a 30+ room dungeon.

This is Jesse Winter’s second crowdfund campaign, after last year’s successful Shadowdark showing A Haunting in Glass, which was featured on Between Two Cairns.And for all first 48-hour backers, Jesse is delivering a free one-page dungeon!