A Musket Can Contain a Sword: What’s New @ the Table

There’s lots of clowns in the world! On Thursday we ran a live premiere of the intro to Realis, the game Austin’s been working on over the past few years. As you may already know Realis is the base for our next patrons-only campaign (not to be confused with our next main season, which is using Fabula Ultima.) The character creation episode is already up for $5+ patrons, but the first arc will also be going up free for everyone in the main feed one week after each episode is released on Patreon. More Realis updates at the end of this post, but for now let’s keep things moving.

DING! A new episode of Media Club Plus is out, covering Hunter x Hunter episodes 110-112. Some real existential nightmares in this one, but what else is new. As always don’t miss Keith’s curated screencap gallery here.

It could only ever be a hypothetical. Sunday’s Twilight Mirage stream was Guaranteed Events, Or: An Accounting of the Time When We Built the Machine, a piece of short fiction contextualizing the four-part finale that kicks off this coming Sunday. (Quick shout out humanmorph on tumblr who made this extremely cute Figure a art in anticipation of the stream. We love a stylish robot over here.)

Baby contemporaries. Jack, Keith and Art manned the very normal advice phones in Home Safety Hotline on Twitch last week. It was a great reminder that unless you actively see something eating your child it’s probably just black mold.

My favorite non-conventional 2D shape. Last but not least, part 6 of Sylvie and Keith’s playthrough of Virtue’s Last Reward is now up on our YouTube channel!

Bonus! Austin talks Realis:

Thanks to everyone for checking out Realis, both the game and our new campaign! It's been an incredible first week, and I've been so excited to see folks sharing their reactions and ideas. Also, special thanks to folks who have been sharing typos with us over on the itch.io page. We've pushed a bunch of tiny updates to the PDFs since launch, and later this week I'll write up a little post about what all's been fixed and what's next for the game. 

Oh, and in case you missed here, please go check out the two interviews Chase Carter of Rascal did with me about the game for Rascal, here and here. And shout outs to Rowan Zeoli for writing a bit about Realis (and a lot about what an "ashcan" is) over on Polygon.

And of course you can buy Jack's incredible Realis theme over at notquitereal.bandcamp.com.