Chris Airiau (5MW Press)
CREATOR
15 days ago

Project Update: Twisting Unseen, Week One Report

Howdy-hey folks,

After one week live, Twisting Unseen is +250% funded! With the first Stretch Goal complete, now the zines will be printed with matte lamination covers, a substantial physical quality upgrade to the zines.



Not only that, but we only need about 30 more backers to hit our second Stretch Goal, adding more map tiles from acclaimed illustrator and cartographer, Ripley Matthews. Reaching this stretch goal upgrades the physical map tile inserts and the Digital Assets folder, for all backers.

Kagami Arcology factions

I also wanted to share some more with y'all about the factions the crew is likely to run into during their delve through the twisted Kagami Arcology, with art from Paul Enami.

Character art by Paul Enami, Faction logos by Jean Verne

 
  • The Shawl: Military arm of Kagami. They answer to Admin, and hunt the Underthings and other Incursors. Their coup against Admin set off the events of the module.
  • Admin: Techno-priestess rulers of Kagami, they maintain an iron-clad grip on all technology, its distribution, and the ritualistic means of its reproduction.
  • Teknik: Remaining medical and scientist clan who don't truly understand their technology, and maintain systems through religious rituals and recitations.
  • Kagami: The "normal" denizens who live in the skyless Substrata. Many are missing, as the town has been lost in the Twisting. Most don't know Oldspeak.

There are also the Underthings, the longest lasting Incursors. Like the cybernetic horrors lurking in the depths of twisted Kagami, these ~1m tall cybernetic beings are from another world. We can dig into these strange denizens next time when I share more art and info on the Incursors!

Thanks for spreading the word on Twisting Unseen, and it's my turn to do the same:

Reservoir, a horror puzzle dungeon

by Cameron Maas
Check out Reservoir for Shadowdark RPG on BackerKit for Zinetopia

I feel like folks should know by now that I love body horror nonsense, and Reservoir pulls no punches there.

Incredible icky art, and a scenario that propels players into grappling with the Elemental Plane of Flesh (c'mon how awful/awesome does that sound? haha), Reservoir is the first crowdfunded adventure from Cameron Maas, a newer designer to keep an eye (or three) on, for sure.

That's all from me for now, catch you soon!

Signing off,

Chris Airiau

This goal gives this project the budget for Ripley Matthews to create unique map tile illustrations for the four different configurations.
Goal: €10,000 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
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