Project Spotlight — Providers 🤝

• Coarse illustrations. I've got a real soft spot for anything with an approach to artwork that isn't generic one-size-fits-all realistic. In an age of thoughtless and 'polished' AI-generated imagery, it's really refreshing to see projects that instead lean heavy into raw and emotive handmade art, warts and all. I was a huge fan of Joshua's previous piece of work, A Mansion Most Vile, specifically the illustration of Mr Lewis (the character is scratched in with such seething rage that you'd be convinced the killer android himself illustrated it). With Providers' 36 pages (compared to AMMV's two), I'm excited to get the zine into my hands and look through all the illustrations. 
• Mundane dangers. There's already got a lot of 'supernatural' threats in the Mothership line-up, so it's exciting to see a module that leans more into plain old human-engineered cruelty. A libertarian’s 'paradise' is a great idea for setting that can be both a great stop-off for some well-earned shore leave, or a man-made hell to slowly (or quickly) get milled against the stone.
• Catching heat. In base Mothership, there's no baked-in encounter mechanic or time tracking, which lets each module decide how exactly they want to ratchet up the tension and the stakes. Providers has an interesting 'heat' mechanic, which gradually attracts the ire and retaliation of the local law enforcement the more you bend or break the rules. Among other things, if you skirt the rules too far you'll be hurled into a hellish iso-chamber to serve out accelerated time. Extremely ghoulish (awesome).

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