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Anica Cihla
@atticus.haus
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Game designer (Sin Eater, The CryptID Show, psych: the ttrpg) • Dark Souls 2 apologist • muay thai freak • almost pathologically obsessed with Age of Origins mobile ads
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I haven’t had the time or headspace to do the seasonal shoot I’ve been wanting to do this winter, please instead enjoy this mockup of what my holiday smut WILL look like when I get around to it
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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and so begins the annual tradition of the cats slowly figuring out ways to fuck with the tree
Cat hiding under Christmas tree skirt with face peeking out
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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bonus glow-in-the-dark stickers featuring amazing alt cover art by Geoff Tice that we’re including in all the BackerKit copies of The CryptID Show. we maaaay even have some available at the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at #PAXUnplugged
👁️👄👁️
Photo of a mothman and Fresno nightcrawler plushie holding stickers depicting mothman behind a microphone
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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if you are a person living outside NYC going “why should I care who the NYC mayor is???” that’s totally fair, no hate to you! here is a very good comment from u/current_poster that helps explain why it matters, and why Mamdani’s win is notable
There's about 8.5 million people in New York City. There are 38 whole states that have lower population than that. -Its GDP is about $1.3 *trillion* just for the city itself. The one city carries about half of NY State's economy. It makes 60% of Canada's GDP in an average year. (Including the metropolitan area, it handily out-earns Canada) It also takes in about 57 million tourists a year, in a good year, from here and abroad (so when the tourism industry takes a nosedive due to, say, COVID or international boycotts, it matters.) There's also a less-obvious thing: When things go sour economically in NYC, people stop spending money. with THAT many people, even small changes in spending habits are going to make a difference, and just through 'that group of 8.5 million people is spending less, we're gonna have to start laying people off' or "a lot of people moved here from NY because they can't afford to stay there", that affects the entire US. -If, instead, you're interested in the Democratic Party, NYC is a good indicator of where at least part of that party's head is , right now. (NYC politics is so in the 'blue column' that the party's primary is considered an unoffical mayoral election unto itself- that is, since it's assumed most people will vote Democrat, the contest then often becomes "who will the Democratic candidate be?"- Cuomo losing and then running Independent was news. (Because the Democrats are so dominant on sheer voting base, there have been open attempts by actually-Republican candidates to run as Democrat just so they get any sort of attention. Like, they weren't even making a pretense.) Mamdani became candidate up-and-over the Democratic leadership's wishes (everyone they had for endorsements seems to have backed Cuomo- Bill Clinton came out to endorse Cuomo, back in June. And even after Mamdani won the primary, the Democratic leadership were lukewarm at best toward him ('vote blue no matter who' being disabled for this one apparently.) This signals something's going on with the Democrats' base vs the party leadership, which is also news. -There's a bunch of little things that tie the President to NYC. Not just that a lot of his history, legal record and buildings are here, but that he endorsed Cuomo, not even Sliwa (the actual, official GOP candidate for Mayor)- but I'll leave that for someone else. This isn't to say you should be interested in New York mayoral politics if you're not. (I actually get it- while I live in NYC now, I grew up in New England and somehow knew who NYC's mayor was by osmosis... doesn't mean I liked that or cared, at the time!), but there are reasons that other people might.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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oop 🤑
Signed Riftbound card
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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getting an ultrasound to figure out where my IUD wandered off to. i say let the girlie roam, she’s a free spirit 😠
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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longer post tomorrow but thank you all so so SO SO SO much for the support and for believing in this wonderful little game. it means the world to me
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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only 12 hours left to back this little scene-building game about cryptids and 90’s drive-time call-in radio shows. easy to lean, fun to play, a low bar of entry for anyone looking to hone their improv skills, and SICK CRYPTID ART.

back it here! ttrpg.link/cryptidshow
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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don’t miss your last chance to back The CryptID Show on BackerKit! i’d love to try to break 250 backers, so please consider supporting this silly, spooky little game if you haven’t yet.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
A yellow image with orange text that says last 36 hours! Below it is the Cryptid show logo and the text ttrpg.link/Cryptidshow
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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55 BIGFOOTS
55 MOTHMANS
55 GOAT SUCKERS
55 FLATWOODS MONSTERS
55 FRESNO NIGHTCRAWLERS
55 NESSIES
55 JERSEY DEVILS
55 SKUNK APES
55 OGOPOGOS
55 DOVER DEMONS
55 MICHIGAN DOGMANS
55 HOURS LEFT TO BACK THE CRYPTID SHOW ON BACKERKIT
Imagine of Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave’s drive thru/pay it forward sketch Screenshot of the BackerKit page for The CryptID Show
October 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The same image as the original post but the word “necessities” has been removed
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The first recorded sighting of the Fresno Nightcrawler was in 2007, when an unnamed witness reported seeing a walking pair of legs standing approx. 60 inches high. And if you’re looking for the height of 2-player TTRPGs, you only have 60 hours left to back The CryptID Show on BackerKit!
GIF of CCTV footage showing two pairs of disembodied pants walking on a trail
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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icon behavior
Screenshot of a Wikipedia page for James Price. The text says he was an English chemist and alchemist who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. One challenge to perform the conversion a second time in front of credible witnesses, he instead killed himself by drinking prussic acid.
October 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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In 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin set out to find evidence of the elusive Bigfoot, and on October 20th of that year, they succeeded in capturing the most iconic cryptid video of all time. Much like that fateful day in ‘67, you have only 67 hours left to back The CryptID Show on BackerKit!!
A still from the famous Patterson-Gimlin film showing Bigfoot walking across a creek bed
October 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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picked up 270 lbs of trash on the side of the highway with this cadre of cuties as my first outing as a Parks Canada volunteer 🍁
photo of volunteers standing behind large white bags full of trash
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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only five days left to back The CryptID Show! i’d love to break 200 backers, so please check it out/back it/share it with friends and family and frenemies and enemies and enemies-to-lovers and just regular lovers and colleagues and collaborators and coworkers and co-conspirers and
A screenshot of a backe kit page for a game called the Cryptid show, being published by plus one experience & friends. It shows that there is a total of 169 backers who pledge $7285, and that there are five days left before the backer kit page closes.
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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MORE STRETCH GOALS
MORE STRETCH GOALS
MORE STRETCH GOALS

Featuring expanded game book art from @choochoobear.bsky.social, a companion website with more prompts and SEVERAL SOUNDBOARDS, and at $10K, a whole ass foundation to help support other game designers?!

7 days left to back The CryptID Show!
An image featuring Randy Milholland’s head shot in a frame composed of severed hands holding each other. The text says “ my next stretch goal guest is… $75,000… More art! A picture is worth 1000 words and to help illustrate these illustrious critters. We’re adding even more art to the book. Courtesy of the singularly talented Randy Milholland not only will you get to see an all new array of abominable animals you’ll also be able to feast your eyes on some beautiful scenes with hosts and callers galore and even a conspiracy board keeper or two.” An image featuring a 90s computer with Bigfoot on the screen. The text says “ my next stretch goal guest is… $8500… The Cryptid show site! At $8500 your studio just got an upgrade in the form of a companion website! Level up your hoop snake hunting with a brand new batch of show formats, fake sponsors and caller and host traits All randomly selected through the click of a button. And if that’s not enough, we have just two words for you: sound. Board. Anyone backing at the ghost in the machine level will also have the recording up on the site too.” An image depicting, a humanoid creature made out of rotting vegetable matter. The text says “ my next stretch goa is… $10,000… The Cryptid foundation. To show our gratitude for the amount of support we’ve received to reach an incredible $10,000. We’ll be creating a fund called the Cryptid foundation which will allow us to help financially support other indie game designers to bring their dreams to life.”
October 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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self promo is exhausting so i’m giving myself a break by PROMOTING THE CRYPTID SHOW by playing a terrible janky video game called Bigfoot that i love very much. anyway WE ARE LIVE NOW
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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this was about 1/4th of the total amount donated by one family who ran a food drive in their apartment complex! it was at least 200 pounds of food!
October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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went apple/squash picking today. made butternut squash soup with red curry paste and coconut milk and an apple crumble. not the most interesting life update but do you guys remember when that was all we used social media for? god i miss those days
October 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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STRETCH GOAL TWO UNLOCKED

I am beyond overjoyed to announce that we’ve officially unlocked @catieosaurus.bsky.social as our second guest cryptid crafter on The CryptID Show, and we’re already fast approaching our third guest writer, @ifycomedy.com!
An image that says “stretch goal guest is” and features Cate’s headshot, their credits, and the dollar amount that is required to unlock them as a stretch goal An image that says “my next stretch goal guest is” and features Ify’s headshot, his credits, and the dollar amount that is required to unlock him as a stretch goal ($5,500)
October 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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BREAKING NEWS, an anonymous source close to McConnell reports that his recent fall was due to his shock at how good The CryptID Show is. while this story is still developing, you can learn more at the link below
image of Mitch McConnell falling, with a person holding a phone in the foreground. The phone screen has been photoshopped to depict the BackerKit page for a game called The CryptID Show
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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if you back both Black Flies and The CryptID Show on BackerKit, you will get EXCLUSIVE content, sneak peeked (snuck peak? snuck peeked?) below.
An image that says “a very Cryptid crossover: a brush with the black flies. Something foul is a foot or afly in the town of Evergreen Maine. The townsfolk are torn; some are fearful, sensing an evil writhing just under the surface of their sleepy mountain town, while others drift peacefully through their daily routines, a look of rictus euphoria on their face. A shadow flickers at the corner of your eye… an eye that will remain securely non-compounded. If you’re lucky.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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STRETCH GOAL NUMBER TWO:

I’m overjoyed to announce our next stretch goal writer, the truly incomparable @catieosaurus.bsky.social. I’m so stoked to see Cate put their cryptozoology degree to good use in the creatures they come up with if we can hit $3,500!
Stretch goal announcement image depicting Catieosaurus and their credits
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM