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mike j
@noseatbelts.bsky.social
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Western Mid-West storyteller, father, husband, soccer fan, and muppet of a man.

Design and play primarily with Cairn 2e. He/him https://noseatbelts.itch.io/
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November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Wouldn’t have gotten there without your art.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Day 31: Pumpkin. Overall, very pleased with my output for #mörktober. Going to clean them up, fix some mistakes I found along the way, and tie up a few loose ends. The full compendium will be released on my itch soon.
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Day 30: Star. For the first time this month, I was working down to the wire on this one. I still don't know if I consider it *finished* per se, but I finally have an idea I'm happy with. #mörktober
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Day 29: Hole. A little Lovecraftian Existential dread? Don't mind if I do. #mörktober
A black and white edit of a painting with a knight in full arms and armor, astride a horse, standing before a very dark cave. Yellow text says: "And there it was. A mere hole, nay, for no hole has ever been so vast. A chasm, perhaps, and yet it seems ill-suited to the thing I found. A tremendous nothingness. So voluminous I saw not the end of it. No light, no noise, no breath could surpass it. Dark it was, an Ink-black moonlit shadow. Empty and yet, it beckoned me closer. Its voice in my head I drew my sword, my horse reared, screaming in terror, and threw me to the ground. It fled. As I should have done. Alone now, I stared into the void and -on my solemn oath- it gazed back. I felt it. It could see me. It knew me. I know not how long I stared but when I awoke, it was morning. A night had passed, perhaps more. I walked from that place and even could I find it again, I would not. I feel its presence still. And, I fear, it me. "
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Day 28: Bloat. Surprised it took me this long to fit in a fart joke during this project. #mörktober
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Day 27: Ice. Pig faced goons in armor. Not sure how I got there from Ice, but :shrug: #mörktober #morktober #fuckice
in blackletter print: eishaufen, Ice Company. stormtrooping thugs who act with impunity, hired by an pretend king. the populace fears them as much for their ferocity as they do their ineptness & smell. they wear masks to hide their identities that only make them look like pigs, farming the humorous nick-name “scweinentrupen” or simply “pigs.” accompanying an illustration of a pig person wearing armor and holding an flintlock gun. Fuck ice.
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day 26: Torch. It’s armor! And it’s
on fire! That’s it. #mörktober
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Day 25: Hermit. Climb the tower if you dare, and see the guy with greasy hair! An all knowing, all powerful Hermit who will answer one question if you earn it. #mörktober
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The names! 🧑‍🍳😚👌🏻
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Day 24: Stump. Not entirely sure where the idea to make a tongue twister came from (perhaps reading Dr Seuss to my kids) but this was fun to write. A little puzzle for your party to kill some time. I wonder what happens if you ask the stump how to get off of it? #mörktober
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Once again flowers+mörk borg = ??? Great prompts this year.
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Day 23: Flower. A meadow of asphodels as a campaign/session starter, mood enhancer. #mörktober
while traveling, you come across a meadow of gray plants with pale yellow flowers. despite their drab appearance, the meadow is quite beautiful. familiarity with plants will recognize them as asphodels. make a presence check DR 12. success reminds you they are associated with death. as it begins to snow, despite the season, make a presence check DR14. a success makes you realize this is odd. continuing on through the meadow, you hear no sound. no chirping of insects nor song of birds. even the wind is still. make a presence check, DR 10. on a success you realize you have died and are now in purgatory. failure at any stage does not change this fact, but you can proceed knowing you died.
October 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Day 22: Thief. Often, when I prep for a prompt like this, I will just look up the word and then start following a rabbit hole of wiki articles or related words, anything that catches my eye until inspiration strikes. I'm not sure how I got there, I rarely do, but I really like this class. #mörktober
Grungy illustration of a man being crucified. it is titled "impenitent thief" in messy blackletter font, followed with a short description in a slightly cleaner serif font. "strung up alongside as a symbolic slight to a would-be martyr, you were crucified and then forgotten. you survived, somehow, but now you are different in ways that are hard to explain. "
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM