Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
10 May 2024
I got to do some cool art for this game — it was a pleasure to cook up some fun ideas for this with Nick, and to watch @chaibypost's writing truly bring the playset to life. Check it out!
a lineless vector illustration of figures exploring an abandoned environment. the image is cropped, but it shows a cluster of glowing mushrooms, and a body of water containing a submerged building
Nick Bate@ickbat
8 May 2024
The updated and improved second edition of CHIRON'S DOOM, the storytelling game about an ill-fated expedition to explore a mysterious monument, is out now!

Good for solo journalling, or up to 3 brave (probably doomed) explorers.

ickbat.itch.io/chirons-doom
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Apr 2024
Replying to @SeaExcursion
THE QUICK HITS:

🚂 GMless, self-contained one shot
🚂 Brisk gameplay in roughly 3 hours
🚂 Resources for online and in-person play
🚂 Art by @thebadbucket, editing by Weaver Walker
🚂 Make up some shitheads and stick them on a horrible train
In an old-fashioned playbill style, header text reads, “We now humbly present, for your edification / A modest introduction to the rules of the game / Liar’s Dice”. The header is flanked on both sides by icons of a crow and a fox. Underneath, text reads, “Liar’s Dice is a class of bluffing games where players roll pools of dice and place wagers about the number of dice that share a particular face value. It is an old game with many names and many variations — but for the purposes of playing Last Train to Bremen, the rules are as follows:”
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Apr 2024
Four musicians. Thirteen dice. One final, desperate shot at immortality.

LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN: A Tragedy for a Doomed Quartet, now available on itch
Drawn in an iconographic woodcut style, illustrations of four animal heads: a cockerel, a cat, a hound, and a mule. Each icon is inside of a square box, and the boxes are arranged neatly from left to right on the page.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
27 Mar 2024
coming soon to sea excursion dot itch dot io
on a grainy black background, text that reads "4.13.2024" along with a string of dice. the dice are spaced out and arranged so that each die corresponds to a digit of the date (a four, then a one, then a three, and so on). the die in the zero position in "2024" has a devil's face on it.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
9 Feb 2024
Replying to @SeaExcursion
And just for kicks, a second round of valentines as well — some tabletop games that are not yet fully published but which have each been drumming up hype for their eventual releases in their own ways
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BAD BAD BAD: colorful playing cards with delinquent punk teenagers wielding lots of accessories. Text on the right side of the card reads, “Let’s be bad bad bad together”Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BLADEBREAKER: a large, geometric mech, and three silhouetted figures wielding weapons against it. Text in the bottom right reads, “I’ll watch your back!”
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game, art from the tabletop game REALIS: a glowing red sun and a planet surrounded by hundreds of moons. Text on the right side of the card reads, “I’m always in a golden age with you, Valentine”Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game TEN THOUSAND DAYS FOR THE SWORD: a figure in a suit kicking a robot through a glass window, superimposed on a stock photo of a techno cityscape. Text along the top reads, “heyy hows it going hahaha heres a question for you would you happen to have any sort of interest in swearing some kind of oath of sworn siblinghood?? a devout pact to right the wrongs that plague this citys essence??? hahaha jk... unless????”
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
9 Feb 2024
its time once again to prepare for valentines day with that beloved seasonal tradition: cheesy grade school valentines, tabletop rpg edition
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game DINOCAR: cartoon dinosaurs driving cars through a colorful background. Text along the top of the card reads, “You drive me wild!”Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game LIKE SKYSCRAPERS BLOTTING OUT THE SUN: lines of text layered over each other in dense footnotes. Text on the left side of the card reads, “You and I speak¹ the same² language³”
Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game BLOODBEAM BADLANDS: a vampire dressed like a cowboy, and in the background, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a gun for a head. Text on the right side of the card reads, “Valentine, I’m burning up for you!”Arranged like a grade school valentine’s card, art from the tabletop game YAZEBA’S BED & BREAKFAST: Monday, the fairy dream merchant, offering an unsigned contract with lots of fine print. Text on the left side of the card reads, “You’ve stolen my heart… can I have yours?”
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
20 Sep 2023
Replying to @SeaExcursion
blades in the dark guy next to the text "stabhanded liker" which is styled to look like the blades in the dark cover text
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
3 Sep 2023
the best worst streamer in the twilight mirage #friendsatthetable #palisade
An illustration of the character Mustard Red from PALISADE, doing a tiktok live. Her caption reads "Everyone's favorite #NPCstreamer! #fyp #Glint #HamSlurper #NoSpicy #WeirdGirl #ArbitRAGER" Comments from @ParisFrance read "people are dying mustard / please answer your phone". One comment from @joe.of.life reads "i KNOW she at a ham!!!" The account @Arbitrage (verified) has gifted her two ham slurpers (slurpees that look like hamburgers) and one stellar combustor (a red sun with metal rings surrounding it).
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
17 Jul 2023
Replying to @rileyrethal
The sickos "Yes... ha ha ha... yes!" meme from the Onion, as drawn by Ward Sutton. The titular sickos man is looking at the card backing design for the Folk Engine spindlewheel booster pack
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
8 Jul 2023
chipping away at some work this morning
a screenshot of a word document, with the word count listed (page count 25, word count 7304, character count 41,455, characters without spaces 34437). the title of the document is "street magic expanded edition". on the left column is a section of table of contents headers reading "ephemera" (with variant rules for longform play, circles, and solo play), and "notes & advice" (with subheaders for good practices, worldbuilding for other games, and teaching the game)
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
30 Apr 2023
station arrival
vector icon illustrations of various traincars. from left to right: locomotive with steam, coal car, oil car, two passenger cars, boxcar, lumber car, caboose
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Apr 2023
Replying to @SeaExcursion
shoutouts to @teacabbage for the invitation to contribute a booster pack to the deck. Folk Engine is some of the best games writing + art i've ever done, and i hope that people enjoy these cards as much as i enjoyed making them
cards from the spindlewheel booster pack Folk Engine, arranged so the card backs form a wheelcards from the spindlewheel booster pack Folk Engine, a mix of face-up and face-down
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Apr 2023
it's here and it's better than ever before #spindlewheel
physical edition of spindlewheel deck with box
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
10 Feb 2023
Well folks valentines day is right around the corner which means that it is time once again for more cheesy grade school valentines day cards, indie tabletop rpg edition
Art from the cover of the tabletop game Exquisite Biome, by Caro Asercion, in the style of a grade school valentine with “to” and “from” labels in the top left corner. The body text reads, “You and I are like second nature”Art from the cover of the tabletop game Anamnesis, by Sam Leigh, in the style of a grade school valentine with “to” and “from” labels in the bottom left corner. The body text reads, “Valentine, you’re unforgettable”
Art from the cover of the tabletop game A Mending, by Shing Yin Khor, in the style of a grade school valentine with “to” and “from” labels in the top right corner. The body text reads, “You’re as cute as a button, valentine!”Art from the cover of the tabletop game World Ending Game, by Everest Pipkin, in the style of a grade school valentine, with “to” and “from” labels along the top. The body text reads, “I think we should see other people.”
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
14 Jan 2023
Replying to @vidityavoleti
fixed that for you
the same tweet as above only text has been blacked out and added so that it reads "the real cool Viditya Voleti games wombo combo everyone should do is you play [all] of my worldbuilding games and then […] play […] 6e GMless [&] The Goblin Pulls Out a Gun!"
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
14 Jan 2023
homemade quesadillas for dinner. this meal is compatible with the OGL (organic guacamole with lime)
two plated quesadillas with homemade salsa and guacamole. theres a spoon handle sticking out from behind one of them
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
9 Dec 2022
happy ten year anniversary to a fashionable legend
stylish but illegal monkey found roaming toronto ikea, sunday dec. 9 2012
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
26 Nov 2022
Running an itch creator day sale through the end of monday — 40% off select games, or $20 for the bundle itch.io/s/83111/sea-ex…
excerpts of art from select itch games — Dwindle, Exquisite Biome, The Long Shift, augur, and i'm sorry did you say street magic
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
24 Oct 2022
welcome to the Metaverse
a screenshot of frogchorus.com
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
29 Sep 2022
The deer with the oil slick antlers #UnsetMotel
a lineless vector illustration of a white deer with antlers that drip upward as if made of floating oil. above its head floats an abstract symbol; beneath it, on the ground, a motel with a lit sign. the image is colored like a sunset, with deep violets, reds, and warm orange golden tones.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Sep 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
The quick hits:
🐾 Works great as a solo journaling game or a gmless one-shot
🐾 Breezy gameplay ranges from thirty minutes to an hour
🐾 Use it to generate creatures or encounters for other games!
🐾 Bonus game variants included!
🐾 Illustrations by the inimitable @SiFSweetman!
three playing cards illustrated in a painterly style: a five of clubs, king of spades, and ace of diamonds. the face on the king of spades is drawn to look like a creature or beast
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Sep 2022
A new creature to be discovered around every corner.

EXQUISITE BIOME: A game of speculative biology, now available on itch.
In a painterly illustrated style, a symmetrical drawing of an amphibious creature with wings in front of a nature background. Text reads "Exquisite Biome: a game of speculative biology"
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
11 Sep 2022
Coming soon to itch dot io
"A platypus is a duck designed by committee.", a quote attributed to various sources. It is flanked by accent decorations on the top and bottom, on a textured paper background.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
14 Aug 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion @jessereisman
— If you want to see how it might be used to start or accent a longer tabletop campaign, @indoorrecesss used it as a session zero/worldbuilding tool for their Generation Fantasy series: youtube.com/watch?v=bsI9ME…
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
6 Aug 2022
millennium break? i hear those villagers are kind of weirdos #friendsatthetable #partizan
characters from friends at the table's PARTIZAN, drawn as animal crossing villagers in a lineless vector style. in the first row: kal'mera broun (frog), valence (wolf), thisbe (sheep). in the second row: exeter leap (alligator), ver'million blue (rabbit), clementine kesh (hamster), sovereign immunity (bull), gur sevraq (spider). in the third row: kalar anakalar (eagle), phrygian (octopus), and the figure in bismuth (horse).
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
3 Aug 2022
my beautiful son who has every disease #PokemonScarletViolet
an illustration of Paldean Wooper, from the upcoming Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. it sits in a patch of dirt and grass with a dour expression on its face.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
29 Jul 2022
Today is #CreatorDay on itch, which means that the site is waiving its cut on ALL sales and purchases. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to pick up any of my tabletop games, this is a perfect opportunity to do so!
An image split vertically into five parts, each with an excerpt from the cover of one of my tabletop games. From left to right: two figures sitting on a balcony in a sunset-colored cityscape (Dwindle); a heron in a submerged bus stop (i’m sorry did you say street magic); a diner with planets and a shooting star overhead (The Long Shift); a basketball court applied through a pixellated dither filter (Full Court); a series of sketched-out birds (augur)
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
18 Jul 2022
the swedish chef, from the muppets, pointing a halberd at two pumpkins.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
18 Jul 2022
outlining a new project with @roswellwrites
a discord screenshot from caro (thats me), including text that has been redacted. Text reads, "i think that's a great call / okay my initial impulse here is like / 1) [a short section of text has been redacted] / 2) [a longer section of text has been redacted] / 3) [a longer section of text has been redacted] / 4) muppet arc"
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
14 Jul 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
another "we need an american girl doll who" meme, with text that reads "we need an american girl doll who", followed by excerpts of text that read "has decided to undertake a long and perilous journey to broker an alliance with a distant power", and "has chosen all of you, and no one else, to be her retinue, and accompany her on this journey" — excerpts from the rules for the game For The Queen. The background is a crushed red velvet texture.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
14 Jul 2022
Friends, after ten days of sales, the @itchio Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds has come to a close, raising over 380 thousand dollars for @AbortionFunds' Collective Power Fund. I'm blown away by the support that we've received for this bundle.

Thank you all so, so much.
A screenshot of the itch.io page for the Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds. The bundle is over, but raised $384,141.30 (out of a $400,000.00 goal). 23,609 people bought the bundle; the average contribution was $16.27; the top contribution was $3,000.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Jul 2022
is this meme still hot. am i too late to get on the bandwagon with this one
a "we need an american girl doll" meme, with text that reads "we need an american girl doll who", followed by excerpted text: "convinces many to help her with an elaborate scheme. What is it? Who joins her endeavors? Start a project to reflect. / or... / tries to tempt many into sinful or dangerous activity. Why does she do this? How does the community respond?" The background of the image is the cover of The Quiet Year, the game the text is pulled from.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Jul 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
a steep and foggy hill, with two deer in the far distance on the lefttwo narrow prongs of a lifeboat launching station jutting into the water. the handrails are bedecked with pelicans and seagulls
a grey and overcast shoreline with waves rolling ina paved road flanked on either side with rows of tall, gnarled cypress trees
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
13 Jul 2022
got out of the house for a bit yesterday
a fuckoff big curved concrete dome with a raised platform jutting off of the side. i have no idea what this was used for. some sort of storage perhapsa whale skull on an outdoor display, weathered by sea air
cliffs on the coastline with a few large rocks jutting up in the distancea very large gnarled tree, with a trunk that is cantilevered and leaning at a steep angle
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
10 Jul 2022
Friends, together the @itchio Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds has raised over $300k for NNAF's Collective Power Fund. We’re so grateful for the groundswell of support and donations.

The bundle is still live for 3 more days, and you can pick it up here:
itch.io/b/1472/indie-b…
Bold red and white text in all caps underneath the itch.io logo reads, "Indie Bundle For Abortion Funds • 1100+ works • 850+ creators • $5000+ value • $10 minimum cost • all proceeds donated"
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
7 Jul 2022
The @itchio Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds has NEW PROJECTS ADDED!

400 additional games, albums, comics, and projects added from all across itch. There's still plenty of time to pick it up if you haven't already: itch.io/b/1472/indie-b…
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
3 Jul 2022
The Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds: 600+ creators, 750+ projects. All proceeds donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Now available on @itchio: itch.io/b/1472/indie-b…
Red and white bold text in all caps that reads "Indie Bundle For Abortion Funds • 750+ works • 600+ creators • $3000+ value • $10 minimum cost • all proceeds donated"
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
29 Jun 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
Good news, though: the upside of switching to a jam on itch? We can extend the deadline — and we’re doing just that!

The NEW deadline to submit your project to the Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds is EOD July 5th, 11:59pm Pacific Time.
Underneath the itch.io logo, red and white text reads in all caps: “Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds / Call for submissions / Deadline extended”
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
29 Jun 2022
INDIE BUNDLE FOR ABORTION FUNDS UPDATE:
(If you already submitted your project, PLEASE click through — there’s critical info inside!)
Underneath the itch.io logo, red and white text reads in all caps: “Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds / All proceeds donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds”
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
25 Jun 2022
Good afternoon, friends, and THANK YOU to all the folks who have expressed interest in the itch bundle for abortion funds. Since putting out the call yesterday, we have received OVER 100 submissions!

Want to get involved? Check the thread for details ⬇️
bold red and white text that says “Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds - Call for Submissions
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
21 Jun 2022
the greatest crossover in cinematic history
the same image as above, except that the word "echo" has been replaced with "ECH0", the tabletop game by Role Over Play Dead
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
16 Jun 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
A screenshot of an itch.io page reading "Suggest description for tag 'lyric-game'". In the text box i have written "​where do i even start with this one. how much time do you have. okay so in 1964 Yoko Ono published Grapefruit, which is widely considered a seminal text in the the Fluxus movement for its radical exploration of poetic form—" with the text getting cut off at the bottom.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
3 Jun 2022
the "peach time" meme, except that the word "peach" has been replaced so that the text now reads "deific time"
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
1 Jun 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
Jokers of Puppets, Chairs, Wheels
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
1 Jun 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion
Roamers of Knives, Cards, Bread
A vector illustration of Marn Ancura, from Sangfielle, as a face card from a deck of playing cards. She is a capybara wielding a dagger. Her card is the playing suit of Knives.A vector illustration of Hazard, from Sangfielle, as a face card from a deck of playing cards. They are a masked devil wearing a cloak, reaching for a coin. Their card is the playing suit of Cards.
A vector illustration of Es, from Sangfielle, as a face card from a deck of playing cards. She is a well-dressed woman holding a fan, obscuring one eye. Her card is the playing suit of Bread.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
1 Jun 2022
Six Travelers #friendsatthetable #sangfielle
A 3D rendering of a falling deck of cards, with six face cards visible. The face cards are characters from Sangfielle; each card corresponds to a suit from the deck of the Wrights of the Seventh Sun. The suits on the cards are Knives (Marn), Puppets (Lyke), Cards (Hazard), Chairs (Duvall), Bread (Es), and Wheels (Pickman). More cards fall in the background, all with the same card back: a central letter "Z" made of two interlocking sevens, with a floral border.
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
15 May 2022
once again ive got to give a shoutout to @vidityavoleti's Space Between Stars, not only for being a great tabletop rpg in its own right but also its pocket universe builder (which you can download and play literally right now)
A deck of cards and a postcard labeled "Make A Universe! Draw from a deck of cards, compare and answer!" There is a table with twelve questions for four suits — corresponding to aliens (odd valued cards), space (even valued cards), and Whales & Fish (face cards).
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
14 May 2022
Replying to @mousewifegames @_sulcata
i could do this all day
Black text on a white background reads: "AUSTIN: Regardless of what the rest of the world says… you all know what you did. How many you saved. You all know the rocky territory you came over to get here. The names of those you lost. And the weight of the mission you all carry in your hearts. You know the lyrics to the songs you sing when you win, and when you lose. The right way to apply tourniquets. To fire a pistol. To plant a seed. To hold prayer, or space, whichever is needed. And so - it doesn’t matter what *they* call you now. Because you know in your hearts, that when it is all said and done... they *will* remember you as friends at the table."
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
12 May 2022
Replying to @SeaExcursion @ehronlime
thinking about frogs. sometimes i bought a lego set SPECIFICALLY because it had a frog, i didnt care about the functionality but i loved these little dudes
a green lego frog. not a frog made out of lego but just the singular frog piece
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Caro Asercion 🌊🌞🌇@SeaExcursion
2 May 2022
a six pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade. The word "mike's" has been replaced with "lyke's". The flavor is "Hard Rose", with a picture of a rose added to the corner. the slogan, “more refreshing than ever”, has been edited to say “more ravening than ever”, and the tagline, “cold. hard. refreshing.” has been edited to say, “for the beast inside you”
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