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Back to the Dungeon

  Blogs are once again in vogue, and that works for me. I started this blog before I created a hobby Instagram account, and I'm happy to return here. I've had a love-hate relationship with Instagram, and often, I don't actually care if anyone is reading what I write or seeing what I work on. Most of the time, it's just the act of creation that means something to me. At this current moment in time I'm in between houses and don't have all of my hobby stuff, so a place to write and post ideas is a great cathartic exercise. I'm also coming to the end of the 2nd annual One Page Game Jam, which has been getting a great response just like last year - but once that's done, I think it will be time to delete IG off my phone again. Having a place where I can potentially reach some of my friends (even in this belaboured form) helps me feel like I'm still connected to the zeitgeist. So, this is just a little post to kick things off. I've got a few ideas for p...
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Solo Mork Borg - 2

I have returned with another few sessions of solo Mork Borg. Things are starting to get a little weird, and I have a feeling they are about to get a whole lot weirder. I should note that my tenses are fucked up in these journals, and I'm too lazy to fix them right now - the goal is to eventually have all the writing be in the present tense. It makes things feel off-putting, and makes the narrator seem unreliable and a little crazy, which is what I'm going for. He seems a bit too lucid in these posts, but I'll fix that eventually. So far I've been using Mork Borg, Feretory, Solitary Defilement, and some tarot cards, but I've recently got my hands on a PDF copy of Mythic Bastionland, and I could not be more excited. The tables and characters in that book are going to be excellent for what I'm doing. I've been digging around and looking at a lot of weird fantasy source books, and we'll see where this whole thing takes me. You may or may not have heard that ...

Solo Mork Borg - 1

Hello friends, I am experimenting with a Mork Borg solo play campaign. I am using an unholy combination of the core rules, Feretory, Solitary Defilement, and a deck of Tarot cards to guide my play. I'm also only leaning on the rules very loosely, and striving for a more narrative and journal-oriented game. Below you will find the first three days of my adventure, captured in two sittings. I hope you enjoy!   The Saga of Belum Grittr Day 1 My name is Belum Grittr. That’s all I remember. My broken body judders nervously and rhythmically as the pain shoots through my body like lightning bolts toward a steel rod. I bear the scars of a great violence, though I know not what harmed me – if I did, I would surely destroy it. I would bring heaven and earth and the whole firmament down on any fool who would wrong me so. I know nothing of the world now, only this meagre and pallid forest where I awoke scant few days ago. The trees here speak to me and I to them. Sometimes they whisper s...

I’m making dungeon synth now? I’m making dungeon synth now!

 I think dungeon synth is the best catch-all term for what I’m doing – though I think dungeon synth is becoming a broader umbrella genre for everything from ambient black metal, to medieval folk revival, to synth soundscapes with a vaguely creepy feeling. And that’s what I think I like about it the most. I’ve been a performing musician since I was about 14, playing in folk, punk, and metal bands, and later becoming an electronic music producer for a number of years. Throughout those years I had lots of little solo recordings or projects that didn’t fall neatly into a genre, and I always hesitated about releasing those under whatever band name I was using at the time. I think this project gives me more freedom to experiment with genre and form – I’m also just older, and I care less about what people think about my creative work – and now I have a place to consolidate that work together.  I am calling this project, Glass Candle. That’s a reference to the world of occult magic ...