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Christian Sorrell - ENNIE Award-Winning TTRPG Writer & Editor
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Running Dead Weight for a bunch of the Marlowe's Rest crew tomorrow. Excited! It's been a bit since I've run Mothership.
A pic of a home print of Dead Weight with a printed map in the background
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Oh yea, this is the good stuff. I'm getting real good vibes off this game already (just took me posting that first message to have a flood of cool knightly shit going on in this open RP channel).
Sir Lorelai, The Silk Knight — 5:26 PM A ethereal young woman draped in fine silks and woven armor walks silently into the Gathering Hall as her tongue twirls along the edge of her mouth, swirling a silken strand between her teeth. She rests her delicate, orange halberd against the inner wall and looks around the room, speaking to herself as much as anyone nearby. So, this is the Gathering Hall? A fine space indeed... Solid stone walls always put me at ease. Gauwyn, The Key Knight — 5:52 PM A young man enters the hall, but it would be easy enough to mistake him for a boy, slight and malnourished as he is. The clothes beneath his gambeson are dirty and ragged. He drags a kite shield, scrapping along the stone floor. He glances furtively around, unconsciously hugging the shadowed edges of the hall. a f- fine hall, tis' true. his voice is hoarse and breathy and ends in a coughing fit that makes you think this man-child may have the consumption. Sir Lorelai, The Silk Knight — 6:01 PM Lorelai looks over at the young Knight with a kind smile and walks - slides is perhaps more apt a word - towards him. You have the look of a fellow newly-Knighted one, like myself. I don't say that to insult, only to suggest we may find ourselves equally treading unfamiliar ground. I am Lorelai, though I suppose I am to introduce myself as Sir Lorelai or the Silk Knight or is it Lady Lorelai now... It's all still so new. She bows slightly in Gauwyn's direction Ogan, the Chain Knight (Markus) — 6:57 PM You hear a creaking as the large main doors open once again, a faint smell of smoke fills the air. A rattling of chains echoes through the Gathering Hall, as a dirt-covered figure enters, he looks as if he was buried alive and came back. A rasping voice: I heard. There was to be a gathering of Knights. Gauwyn, The Key Knight — 7:01 PM Gauwyn practically skitters away from the imposing golden figure as @Mister Couth, The Gilded Knight enters only to be started by Duncan as he decends the wall. Ah! oh... um, right then, Gauwyn, the Key Knight. he takes the clawed gauntlet and his slender hand disappears into it. He fights a grimace of pain as the larger knight shakes his hand. He looks over at rattling of chains and moves behind Sir Duncan, peering out around at @Ogan, the Chain Knight (Markus) Mister Couth, The Gilded Knight — 7:01 PM You, my dirty friend, need a bath. Mister says taking a step back. Hygiene is very important and your appearance is unbecoming of a knight. Ogan, the Chain Knight (Markus) — 7:03 PM The dirty figure looks up, his eyes cold as steel And what know you, of becoming a knight?
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Another day, another new RP discord server profile - lots of exciting stuff continues to be happening in the post #OVER/UNDER bubble!
discord profile screenshow showing Lorelai, the Silk Knight
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Finally giving Keep Driving its due.
Keep Driving start menu Screenshot of Keep Driving. Really nice pixel art of a car driving down the road. With a dashboard menu system.
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Here is the mole hunter thread tag-in and my response, lol.
Babak Sun, aka big_dog beefstink — 10/14/25, 7:26 PM 100% that was the mole lmao i'm cultivating relationships with the papers one of them asked if i knew the rates of the other one so i'm asking for them to owe me a favour Image that's denk 14/10/2025 22:57:10 @Denk "Freaky" Fontaine, CISO Following the datastreams, eating noodles, games here and there Aries Fuck off, I don't believe in made up nonsense! 5'11" (so close, I know) Hazel No Yes No Yes 201-250 Yes Yes 25,02 I'm just another cowboy looking for my pony Honestly, I'm very open - it's lonely out here. Solarian Church, Canyonheavy Collective No - but I'd love to be. Yes! ofc it might be fake Babak Sun, aka big_dog beefstink — 10/14/25, 7:26 PM 100% that was the mole lmao i'm cultivating relationships with the papers one of them asked if i knew the rates of the other one so i'm asking for them to owe me a favour Image that's denk 14/10/2025 22:57:10 @Denk "Freaky" Fontaine, CISO Following the datastreams, eating noodles, games here and there Aries Fuck off, I don't believe in made up nonsense! 5'11" (so close, I know) Hazel No Yes No Yes 201-250 Yes Yes 25,02 I'm just another cowboy looking for my pony Honestly, I'm very open - it's lonely out here. Solarian Church, Canyonheavy Collective No - but I'd love to be. Yes! ofc it might be fake [[ooc hope you know this is all just game stuff and not like, personal]] Denk "Freaky" Fontaine, CISO — 10/14/25, 7:53 PM [[oh yea, it's actually been very fun - same to you both as well!]] Babak Sun, aka big_dog beefstink — 10/14/25, 7:54 PM [[i cannot fucking believe i didn't check if you'd be tagged lmao]] Solarite I.T. Ramel Ebanks — 10/14/25, 7:54 PM What happend to Discretion Above All Else? Engineer Seraphin, Demiurge — 10/14/25, 7:54 PM OpSec? Never heard of her Solarite I.T. Ramel Ebanks — 10/14/25, 7:54 PM [[dying of laughter, omfg]]]
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I've got ideas. It would be a pretty different thing but the RP would be there the same way if folks buy in. Less wargame, everyone can do mechanical actions (like 1 every 72 hrs or something) and a bit more GM RPing (I think). I'm cooking on it!
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Hey, a home print!
A home card stock print of Dead Weight, sitting on my desk.
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Looks like I'll be running DEAD WEIGHT this weekend - a module I've seen so much love for over the last few months.
itch preview image of dead weight print copies showing a skeleton crushed by a large sphere
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Today's lunch break reading material - long overdue!
A print copy of Warped Beyond Recognition by Quadra, a Mothership adventure
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Here's our final map! Note the weird gap in the northwest - that's from where we frantically ran from the stone dragon and didn't track anything! Thankfully, I was able to invert my "Evading Death" spell into "Inviting Life" on the vault doors - to open it, for a moment, to us but not the dragon.
A maze like dungeon map with a big blank space and then another smaller maze like dungeon
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Stoked to finally have gotten this game to the (virtual) table, even if it took a few years! Plays very smoothly and the magic/ritual system is super fun.
Hardback copy of Chris Bisette's A Dungeon Game with a partial set of DCC dice on top.
November 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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CanyonHeavy Cowboys (and friends) ride again - in an entirely different world in entirely different bodies! Keeping the #OVER/UNDER enthusiasm alive, we're playing A Dungeon Game, led by @loottheroom.bsky.social. Will we live? Will we die? Will an even worse third thing happen? Probably!
screenshot of a 10 person Discord video chat a partial dungeonmap
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Wrote my final goodbye post on #OVER/UNDER before the server locks for good tomorrow. The end/shutdown still feels very bittersweet - and like it was too much and not enough all at once. Definitely the most I've ever experienced "bleed" in a game, mostly in wonderful ways. See you, space cowboys.
Since the server seems to well and truly be going silent tomorrow, I wanted to drop one last goodbye and thanks to everyone who made this game so weird and wild and captivating and utterly memorable. I feel like I may never get to play anything else quite like it in my entire life - so I'm very happy I was here with you all to experience it together. Denk is maybe my favorite TTRPG character I've ever played. He was a dweeb who thought he was cool and wanted to be a disconnected shitposter, but the more he got attached to the Dream, to his fellow cowboys, and to everyone at the Rest, his assets in other factions, and every beautiful, strange soul on the station, the more serious he became - feeling a need to not let any of this wonderful life he'd found go up in flames. **Thanks for playing with me, and thanks for just making the Dream feel alive.** If you'd like to follow my real life exploits, my name is Christian Sorrell or, as I'm often known online, MeatCastle GameWare. If you are an indie TTRPG nerd, you may have a book with my name in it on your shelf. You can find me on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/meatcastlegameware.com You can find my digital game stuff here: https://meatcastlegameware.itch.io/ My website and physical print shop here: https://meatcastlegameware.com/ And lastly my monthly-ish newsletter (which is unfortunately still on Substack, but I'm gonna try to change that soon): https://meatcastle.substack.com/ **Life, much like the Dream, just keeps spinning so if we don't cross paths again, stay safe and keeping playing - whenever you can.** Second screenshot of the end of the message
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Here's probably my favorite non-joke quote as Denk Fontaine I wrote in all of #OVER/UNDER. It totally bore out to be true as well - most of us thought far worse of each other than any of us actually were. Lots of paranoid scheming and little malice in the back half of the game especially.
@Metropolitan Sampsa O/U As far as you know, are you and the rest of the cowboys committed to peace between all factions on the station, as was Denk "Freaky" Fontaine, CISO O/U 10/30/2025 4:57 PM I and I believe most if not all of the cowboys are committed to peace. As I said earlier - every violence is an intelligence failure, and I don't like to fail. There's no reason, with the right knowledge in the right hands at the right time, we can't find a better way forward.
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Wow, Del Toro's Frankenstein rocked. I love a movie that feels like a really high-budget, stylized play.
A montage of cool shots from the movie. A ship stuck in the artic ice, a flaming angel of death, etc.a
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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#OVER/UNDER is now OVER - and I'm teary-eyed and emotionally drained. The post-game decompression channels have opened... and I still can't RPing.
Christian Sorrell snaps fully awake, sweating in his bed. Where.... what was that? A grinning dweeb with goggles and a faux leather jacket drifts around in his head, growing distant like a dream. He grabs his phone off the nightstand and, almost instinctively, opens Discord - opening this channel. Um.... hello?
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Dropping my own thank yous and goodbyes in the battlestations now - wow, what a month. What a game. What a bunch of amazing players - both inside and outside of my faction. #OVER/UNDER
HOWDY COWPOKES The last several weeks have been incredible. Funny, nerve-wracking, scary, exciting, and a bunch of other adjectives. I went from a wannabe cowboy to a suspected mole to a mole hunter to a capo to a boss and now, I’m coming to you as just another member of the collective (and future co-spouse of a Solarian Cardinal). Together - despite our opsec-focused cell structure, we took the Dream by storm. Filling newspapers and living rent free in everyone’s head while keeping the peace. We are the shitposting guardians of this place. The heroes they didn’t ask for and honestly may not even want (cus we can be quite annoying). When I first came to the Dream from years on Blackstar, I had no idea where to go or what to do. I had no family. No partner. Nothing - but I happened on a bit of early intel and, thankfully, got brought early into the CHC fold (Thanks Ramel - unlike most cowboys, I feel I know you quite well). Day in and day out since, we’ve gotten better and better at what we did and how we did it. Our ops grew, our shitposting expanded, and hell - we even pivoted into being the outwardly fun folks running amazing events and having the coolest damn bar (and butthole) on this station. To my fellow Bosses, there's nothing like instantly finding your Ride or Dies - and knowing we had each other's back and were willing to mind-meld our decisions so often may have been the only thing that kept this whole thing from blowing up when the powder keg was closest to the fire. In a world where we're told to trust no one, being able to trust y'all made all the difference. I’ve got too many memories to write them all here and too many tears in my eyes from the “CHC Boss VONC” thread to keep this up so I’ll fall back into my background role as “the Reasonable One” again - it’s familiar here, a warm blanket of intel ops and private threads, of making sure all the cowboys have the creds and connections they need to stay alive and have fucking fun. Thanks for alway…
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Can you tell which station the Canyonheavy Cowboys got to name? #OVER/UNDER
a metro map with stuff like "Sanyang Terminus Station" on it and then one station called "Pissfuck Mountain"
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Flatline on the Blocks only has ~16 hours left! We've unlocked loads of stretch goals and now the core bundle has a VAST amount of stuff in there. Time to explore this weird, wild district of the Dream. #TTRPG @mothership.bsky.social Check it out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
a screenshot showing the SPINAL CRUX BUNDLE for just $37 USD that includes a 56 page FLATLINE ON THE BLOCKS zine, a 12pg ORGAN FAILURE zine, a MIN'S UNENDING BOWL pamphlet, a NERC iron-on patch, a digital asset folker and all mainline and bundle stretch goals
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Mothership Month and #OVER/UNDER both end today - so I may be having an Emotional One. Finally went through and backed some projects after putting it off all month, here's what I went with! You should check them out and get backing if you haven't: www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
a screenshot showing I backed HUNTERS, GRIM MERCHANTS. CERTAIN FATHOMS, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, and PROSPERO'S DREAM
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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There's a beetle fighting ring in #OVER/UNDER and the flyers all say "IF IT FIGHTS LIKE A BEETLE, WE'LL THROW IT IN THE DAMN RING!" That funny motto has been rattling around my head for weeks. I can just imagine the monster truck rally-style commercials. Credit to Radiane (blissking) on the server.
BATTLE OF THE BEETLES flyer - featuring the motto
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Just got into the Mork Borg: Heresy Supreme alpha demo which I'm VERY interested to check out soon.
title screen of Mork Borg Heresy Supreme with it's yellow, black and pink
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I really love the aesthetic of Arc Raiders - there's been so much post-apoc stuff over the years but this like 60s NASA meets Simon Stalenhag thing is really working for me, plus I like that the world has history to it when the apoc isn't recent and people are just living. Cool game.
a screenshot of my old man character in an orange apollo mission-looking space suit with external radiator and radio and stuff
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Kyle Ferrin! The amazing artist behind games like Root, Arcs, and more!
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM