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Rose Skye
@vorpalcoil.bsky.social
Actually a living doll. Author of fiction and tabletop RPGs. There is a cat sleeping on my lap as you read this.

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https://vorpalcoil.itch.io/
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https://ko-fi.com/roseskye
The first sentence of METASTRUCTURE, a novel of simulacra and the system that sustains them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Went to a post-Halloween party with the theme "Haunted Ballroom", so I put together a Rondò Veneziano outfit.
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories, eldritch creatures called "dragons" lurk in hyperspace, waiting to drive humans to insanity and death. In these vulnerable, liminal moments, only cats – who see the invisible monsters as simply rats – can protect us.

Much wisdom in this.
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Watched Sorcerer (1977) and this film was robbed of its accolades by its proximity to the release of Star Wars. That bridge scene was scarier than most horror movies I've seen.
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My short story, "Alignment", is in this anthology, just in time for All Hallows' Eve!
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#booksky #horrorsky
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October 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Protoplastic was originally going to be a squarecrawl (because bricks, get it?) but then I remembered Marshall Islands stick charts and realized that I had to make a pointcrawl instead. Besides, I have some thoughts about making path choices meaningful that I want to explore.
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Appropriately for a game inspired by modular building toys, Protoplastic has so much crafting in it. Each of the nine character types has their own unique form of crafting, and downtime is almost entirely devoted to the pursuit of making things.
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In Protoplastic, you roll a pool of d6s in advance, then choose which one you want to apply to a given check when the time comes. You still have to take the good and the bad rolls, but the timing becomes a meaningful decision. Many thanks to Citizen Sleeper for inspiring this system!
September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Version 0.3 of Protoplastic, the plastic robot building RPG, drops on the 30th!
September 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The noble Hanno, seated upon his comfy throne.
September 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I made a key lime pie yesterday to celebrate the vestiges of summer while it lasted, and behold: for today is it misty and overcast, the first truly autumnal day of this year. The seal has been broken.
September 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Artwork by @nornnoszka.bsky.social of characters from their session of my space necromancer romance RPG, 'Til Death (link below)! In the end, the mage Luna (of House Luna) ascended to the throne after the tragic sacrifice of her sworn knight, Gaia. I'm so pleased to get to share this~
September 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I still don't wear my glasses most of the time (I reject my chains) but I'm trying to incorporate them into outfits more often.
August 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's blackberry season, and the bushes are bountiful.
(If this doesn't look like a lot, it's a trick of perspective: my stocks are now 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦.)
August 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Someone said I looked like I was from Blade Runner.
August 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Even though it's a direction the games have been slowly sliding for years, it's still wild to me that Pokemon Champions is going to let you directly alter stats. It expends a currency you acquire for winning battles so it's not utterly dissimilar to traditional training, but still!
July 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thank you~

I'm not sure what it translates into gameplay-wise just yet, but I'm vividly reminded of a passage from Pale Fire:
July 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Working on a game for this year's Lego jam and accidentally (intentionally) made Orange Transparent Chainsaw best-in-slot apex gear.
July 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
June 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
From "A Suggested Remote Viewing Training Procedure" (published in 1986, declassified in 2000).
June 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This Strategist ability inspired the basis of an entire character, despite never actually being used in play. With this sort of thing, sometimes the threat itself is enough.
May 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Black Iron Engine drops in two days! Which would technically give me a point of experience - I experimented with some nonstandard ways of handing that out.
May 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Your level in Black Iron Engine is called your "pay grade", and I will forever be chasing that triumph of RPG nomenclature.
May 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Quite proud of how the Black Iron Engine character sheets look. You will fill out that government documentation and you will like it.
May 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yes, ARPANET is a thing in Black Iron Engine, in their timeline it grew into a public-servicing Minitel-esque proto-internet, such that what we know as the internet never came into existence.
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM