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Luke Gearing
@lukegearing.bsky.social
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consumed by 1d6 normal rats; thinking adventures thought leader; lead writer at Tuesday Knight Games (mothership etc); vernacular rpg enthusiast; email at lukegearing.games@gmail.com; 4⁄3

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the cowboys pulling this shit fucked me up
meatcastlegameware.com MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 2d
The Canyonheavy Cowboys unveiled a thread called "CHC Boss VONC" which stands for Vault of Nice Compliments where they all wrote thank you and nice memories about us from the last month in #OVER/UNDER. There's dozens of post like this...😭
whats#MINE#is#yours — Yesterday at 10:27 AM 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 A Cowboy's Dream Verse 1 Seraph' in the wiring, ghost in the walls, Forks in her pockets and confusion in the halls. Datamommy musing while she sips a pumpkin drink, She shows up when she’s needed, and she’s gone before you think. And Big Dog Beef is laughing with a dirty cigarette grin, Saying “holy shit, fuck it, fuck ’em, let the funniest thing win.” He keeps Concoctions flowin' and the Dream spinning free, Knowin' long as there are Cowboys, there’s family here, see? Chorus So raise up your glasses, you Canyonheavy souls, To the bosses who fed our fire and kept us from the hole. From the blocks to battlestations to the bar where we all rest, Discretion Above All Else, and Marlowe knows best. The Dream keeps spinning. The Dream keeps spinning. Verse 2 Denk Fontaine saw the knife-edge, he didn’t blink, didn’t break, Turned a mole-hunt on its head, built trust from a mistake. From the whispers in the dark to the boss chair in the light, Kept the Cowboys movin' quiet and safe throughout the dangerous night. And Ramel with the memes, with the sermons and the schemes, Went off-station for a little while, came back burnin' with new dreams. Kept a hand in the slickbays and a hand in the choir; If you’re CHC-born, then you know, our shitposts take us higher. Chorus So raise up your glasses, you Canyonheavy souls, To the bosses who fed our fire and kept us from the hole. From the blocks to battlestations to the bar where we all rest, Discretion Above All Else, and Marlowe knows best. The Dream keeps spinning. The Dream keeps spinning. The Dream keeps spinning. The Dream keeps spinning. 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 Junie Briccs — Yesterday at 7:16 AM for all the bosses (with a special shout out to Denk - my Capo - who got their well deserved promotion): It's been an honour and privilege. Truly. I'll try keep it short because I'm literally crying; I think the last 4 weeks is catching up to me hard, but I'm so happy, and I never would have had the patience and investment to experience everything I have within this game without the work you put into CHC. I came into this as a fan of your games and writing, got a bunch on the shelf to my left (and PDF folder) as I type this, never thought I'd play games with you, couldn't believe my luck when I saw all the names/profiles of the C17 players, never imagined anything like THIS could happen. Thank you so much for everything you've done to make this wild ride what it is and has been, for me and all the other cowboys. You've been brilliant, funny, clever, welcoming, patient, incredible players of the game and you brought the best out of all of us too. d/ae. WWKMD. CHACHACA. yeehaw. forever. ~~ Junie Briccs / edmo Z3R0 — 12:20 PM Well, I have to say, as the first pbp i have done, or anything like it. This was a blast to be a part of. I had the goal to joined CHC before the game began, and succeed in that the first day. I figured Id do a few ops and do a lot of mining. Well, not soon after I join Bratva as well and that flipped my game upside down (in a good way). I thank you bosses for not killing me for doing that, but i thought the intel gained from having someone inside was to valuable to pass up. (I do hope it was helpful, I certainly burnt myself out for the first two weeks trying to get as involved as i could with Bratva without doing so publicly.) You bosses made this faction feel like it actually meant something. I could see how other factions kept their members in the dark, but even with the strict D/AE policy, you all made sure to include the cells and help them with their ops. The cowboys truly were the best faction. Rule #1: Is it funny? That’s how we lived, and somehow it worked every damn time. Seraphin, thank you for inviting me into the CHC ranks. Being a part of the faction since the beginning really shape my game. I have to say, your humor and timing are unreal. Every time you popped into a thread, it made for some of the funniest scenes. Beef, you’ve been so chaotic I could not image how this game would have turned out if you were never elevated to the role of boss. Loud, chaotic, and somehow still organized. You ran laps around other factions and still managed not to die somehow. Denk, I swear half of what you did went unseen by most of us, but I know you were doing a lot behind the scenes. What most of us cowboys saw though was how you were always joining the chats in battlestations and around the Dream to back up all cowboys. Ramel, you were like the ghost. I interacted with you to a smaller extent to most. Yet, still somehow got caught up in your weird pyramid scheme of For Whom the Bell Tolls. (It tolls for thee). CHC was a wild ride.
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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calebzane.bsky.social
my character, the young pope Metropolitan Sampsa, is now marrying big_dog beefstink, leader of the hacker collective, in the final hour of the game. it's all gay drama in #over/under turns out
calebzane.bsky.social Caleb Zane Huett -> PAX U 4234 @calebzane.bsky.social · 4d
"toxic gay drama in #over/under will never come for me" i said. "it is out there somewhere but my poor sampsa will never get roped up in it." i was wrong. it comes for all of us
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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despondere.bsky.social
many are saying this
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
lukegearing.bsky.social
i won #over/under big styles
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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meatcastlegameware.com
I'm about to be honestly very, very sad to see #OVER/UNDER end but also very glad to see it out. An incredible, time-consuming beast of a roleplaying thing that managed to hold basically every type of player and style with surprisingly few bad feelings. A lifetime TTRPG highlight for me. Wow.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
lukegearing.bsky.social
KIT SPEAKS
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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duskwitch13.bsky.social
I've got something cooking. An opportunity, for those who want it.

One last bullet in the chamber. One last performance before the big bow. One last labor of love for all the great people that made this a fantastic game and fantastic month.

#over/under
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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MOTHERSHIP "GRADIENT DESCENT" ONE-SHOT
⏰: Tue 2pm ET (1st one-shot 11/25)
💵: $28/one-shot, $10 off campaigns joined later
🎲: Sandbox + exploration/crawl one-shot of the sci-horror system Mothership, set in the psychological horror of the Gradient Descent module!
🔗: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
lukegearing.bsky.social
playing a shithead spymaster/disinfo agent that people try and redeem is so much fun lmao #over/under
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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chrispwolf.bsky.social
#OVER/UNDER is the biggest W for System Doesn’t Matter since some guy in Wisconsin picked up a miniature Dragoon and gave it a funny voice.

i’m jokin around don’t kill me pls
sean.tuesdayknightgames.com Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 13d
Officially the meta in #over/under has shifted from war game to lesbian romance simulator.
tjslotus.bsky.social Tangent @tjslotus.bsky.social · 13d
So I went quiet on #over/under posting for a bit, but now people are saying that a war ended because someone was in love with me; to which I say

YEAH? MAYBE? YOU CAN'T PROVE A THING. THIS STATION RUNS ON YURI AND SPITE, AND LEMME TELL YA, I'M RUNNIN DAMN LOW ON YURI.

@juniper-c.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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csdip.bsky.social
Finally spent a night in a fake space station bar and woke up feeling hungover irl #over/under . Strange. Thanks a lot, beef
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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vinegarsyndro.me
#OVER/UNDER a bit proud of this one
it's the "hit da bricks" meme but OVER/UNDER, there's a skeleton with redden the union liason's head running in the background with OVER/UNDER magenta behind it. the text reads: JUST WALK OUT *you can leave!!!* work roleplay scene stratemeyer syndicate beefstink encounter faction vote battleblocks league trade dealz too fancy token mine tempwst officers if you're quick tha whole game o² tax IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!! *real winners quit*
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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ratbastardgames.bsky.social
A play in two acts
#over/under
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November 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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principiadiscordia.bsky.social
There is no governor anywhere. Things happen because conditions are ripe for them to happen; waves in the ocean of time-space.
November 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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discodan.bsky.social
RIP Vor Veljko Tanumafili #over/under
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
lukegearing.bsky.social
anarcho-cia sweep. woke 4chan can't be beat. chc 4 lyfe #over/under
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
lukegearing.bsky.social
nah never mind lol #over/under
voxvalentine.bsky.social Vox Valentine @voxvalentine.bsky.social · 14d
son of a bitch we're going to war I guess. #OVER/UNDER
voxvalentine.bsky.social Vox Valentine @voxvalentine.bsky.social · 14d
Weekend Three: the maid has opened an import/export business; selling the pharma didn't go well.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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personable.bsky.social
This just in: the faction that self-imposed a bedtime in #OVER/UNDER has followed it up by enshrining 6 weeks PTO, on top of parental leave, as well as mental health leave.

And I'm not even joking.
samsorensen.bsky.social sam “under and over” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 28d
a faction of #OVER/UNDER players (who at this time shall remain nameless) recently passed a referendum to self-impose, upon all faction members, a bedtime
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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loottheroom.bsky.social
Today in #over/under: I introduced "Porridge Or Soup" to The Dream, with predictable results.
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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meatcastlegameware.com
In #OVER/UNDER, the Cowboys now have a by-permit-only special drug-filled VIP area called the Awesome Metal Butthole in their bar, Marlowe's Rest. The room is called that because it has one of those circular metal Star Wars doors. It's a magical place.
A discord transcript of the cyber hacker types fumbling about for drugs and snacks More looking for snacks
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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eldritchbee.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
lukegearing.bsky.social
everything was very cool and normal last night #over/under
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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tonytranrpg.bsky.social
WOW #OVER/UNDER
Woke up to Stratemeyer Syndicate gone. closed out the production room; RIP to the great mini game of @duskwitch13.bsky.social

The last product we made was Big_Dog Beefstinks: Cigarettes That Are Good For You ©️ before the fall of the Syndicate.

(Yes I did take boxes full of these.)
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM