kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

Spiritist's Net ("web")

It looks like silk gauze while it's folded, so fine it could be drawn through a finger-ring.

In truth it's even finer, fine as spider silk once unfurled, and nearly as difficult to see.

Spread across a doorway or any surface, it can hardly be detected. A drop of blood renders it nonexistent for all but the donor -- and wandering spirits, who leave dewdrops of plasm behind as they pass.

A way to identify shades?
A way to glean their power?

Yes.

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

This aged well.

イグゼキュター

#アークナイツ #Arknights #明日方舟

Binding Mirror ("chain")

Oh, it's not what it sounds like; no restless dead is pinned or trapped by the Mirror.

It's more useful and more dangerous than that.

Hold your Mirror up, see the spectre in its face; see the slender shackles of longing, silver and rose and blood and black, writhing around them?

Look, until the Mirror shows you exactly what it is that keeps the spirit from rest --

Of course, a secret is a secret. The shade may not appreciate the intrusion.

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

ワンドロで描いたシルバーアッシュ
#アークナイツ  #Arknights #明日方舟

スチュワードとアドナキエル
#アークナイツ  #Arknights

「――本当に感謝しています。」／イグゼキュター
#アークナイツ  #Arknights

Henry ("quack")

Henry is a duck.

Henry ... was a duck?

No duck should live -- could live -- as long as Henry. If Henry is alive. And that part is highly dubious.

Some folks, spooked to their bones, say Henry has eight round beady eyes on one side.
Some folks say you can see straight through him.

Everyone says he quacks like a human laughs, like a madman laughs.

And you never see him arrive.

Maybe Henry wasn't always a duck?

He likes to follow folks around ...

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

The Cave Man ("prehistoric")

He's been waiting a very long time.

So long, his shade looks like no one who lives near this dark cold cavern; not for centuries, millennia, more.

But he's still waiting.

Waiting for someone to climb down, down ...

Past the skulls far larger than any wolf in memory.

To the place where his bones, and shell palettes, and fur brushes, rest on the clay.

Waiting for someone to finish the painting of deer, of horses, guided by old cold hands.

#AuGhost #ttrpg #osr

writers and artists, mutuals and strangers!

do you have any short writing (4000 words max) or black and white artwork that i could hand bind into a booklet?

i want to practice my bookbinding with saddle stitch more, and wouldnt mind making a few gifts! 🖤 ✨
i can also mail the booklet if youd like within the US for free, international ill likely need to ask for at least partial shipping cost

#BookBinding (boosts appreciated!)

There's so much of cultural shame around having non-productive time, and we need to end that.

Having time when you're struggling to get started is normal. Having time where you're off-task is normal. Having time when you're lost in thought is normal

"As a knight," the king said, "it is your duty to kill dragons."
"Very well, my liege," the knight said. "Um. May I ask why?"
"Because they hoard wealth without sharing, and people live in fear of their capricious moods."
"Very well, my liege," the knight said and drew his sword.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#BloomScrolling