Now that the week of appointments and transitions is over, it’s time for a normal week where I have to work late on Mon-Tue, but also WFH Mon-Tue. So far, so good?

Listened: I keep meaning to listen to more podcasts, so I started with Ludonarrative Dissidents, which is famous game designers analyzing games chosen by the Kickstarter backers to see what they are trying to do and whether they succeed. Episode 1: Blades in the Dark. If I didn’t already know about the game, I guess it would have been useful, but they did not have a lot of insights I had not already heard. Wum.

Read: Stillfleet Quickstart: So far in the future that Earth’s continents have changed, scavenging among the semi-comprehensible ruins of advanced and extinct civilizations. Fairly abstract system. It’s more focused than Numenera, though, in that the all the PCs start out working for the Honourable Company, which is trying to rebuild its network of teleportation routes to trade partners and exploitable hulks after a multi-decade technical difficulty. The Co is also the primary antagonist, because fuck capitalism. This game is apparently being both written and released in small chunks, so who knows when the full thing will be available.

Words: check, even though listening to podcasts is somehow not the same as writing.