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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2h

Night 13. Prey … It’s hard to imagine a day being worse than running into French fur traders, but here we are.

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🔪b. narr🔪 @sassylich.bsky.social · 12h

heyyy everyone! it's my first ever #hauntalong entry, and it's indigenous peoples day, so we're gonna talk about PREY (2022), the coolest movie in the predator franchise

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 12d

Weeeeeee're baaaack.

#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.

This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.

Come haunt along with us.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 12h

Oh wait. Did you plan it like that?

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 12h

One of the great weird indies, and only getting greater and weeeeeeeeirder.

Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 17h

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

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Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

Night 12. Dave Made a Maze … To get out, you’re going to need someone who knows about cardboard.

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 1d

Happy #hauntalong! Today I have a movie for you that isn't really that scary (unless you are a creative person who starts a lot of projects and then never finishes them... but we don't know anyone like that do we, pals?)

Dave Made a Maze (2017)

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

IT and all the Stephen King TV series/movies.

Jaws, The Birds, Arachnophobia. The Blob!

Unsolved Mysteries. The many, many horror episodes of Star Trek TNG.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

They know who they are.

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 1d

SOMEBODY STOLE THIS JOKE AND DIDN'T EVEN LIKE IT, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO NAME NAMES …

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 1d

Trophy Occupation roll table

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe it's that Fire Emblem has messed up my brain real bad, but this connects a lot of dots for me.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

A little bump (in the night) for the #hauntalong thread as we cross the 1/3 threshold.

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 12d

Weeeeeee're baaaack.

#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.

This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.

Come haunt along with us.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Night 11. The Exorcist III … If George C. Scott, Samuel L. Jackson, and Fabio being in the same movie isn't enough to get you to watch this one, Wes makes the rest of the case.

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 2d

Third time is the charm and it's my third #hauntalong entry!

This week I get to share the gospel of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist III.

It's a Wonderful Life!

(This is the second time I had to write this thread because this app sucks)

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 3d

Night 10. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires … You think you’ve seen vampires? Those are not vampires. THESE are vampires. And these are gold.

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Devin, Again @doctorteeth.bsky.social · 3d

It’s my turn up to “bat” for this year’s #Hauntalong and since it’s my first year I figured I’d come out swinging. Are you prepared for the combination of Dracula and kung fu that is…The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires?

(Is anyone?)

Poster for THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974). Title in red text on a white poster; below are drawings of figures and characters most of whom are not in the film.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 3d

You pretty much can't go wrong with a Ramsey Lewis record.

Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 3d

For anyone who frequents their local record store, the term “cheap heat” is likely a familiar one. Ramsey Lewis’ 1970 funky soul jazz gem Them Changes, a record we’ve never seen priced higher than $10 that burns hot.

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Ramsey Lewis :: Them Changes - Aquarium Drunkard

For anyone who frequents their local record store, the term "cheap heat" is likely a familiar one. Often its own section, the cheap heat bin usually contains copies of iconic records in dubious condit...

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Night 9. Fire Walk With Me … Yeah, so that whole mess with Laura Palmer? Pretty bad, hunh?

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

Hi friends! For my first ever #hauntalong, I want to shine a (flickering) light on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (FWWM). Released in 1992, a year after the titular TV show's cancellation, David Lynch took a beloved setting known for its charming characters and said: "it's worse than that."

The cover of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, featuring a burning half of a heart-shaped "best friends" necklace with a photograph of Laura Palmer, a young blonde woman, smiling. In the background, red curtains line the walls of a room with a zig-zag black and white floor. Toward the bottom is the text, "In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent."

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

What.

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Played soooooooo much of it in high school. Looking back I’m astonished the games just didn’t break from the manufactured rules … I wonder how much of the game premise instills implied boundaries in the play culture vs. how much of that was in the particular social sphere I played with.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

The established rules are never stated: You just play as if everyone should already know them.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Mao works both ways!

There are established rules (which can vary regionally) that exist at the start, and then players create in additional rules to make the system more byzantine even to the “insiders.”

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Inductive games / inductive logic games

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Portland Frog, if you are reading this, please know you are often the highlight of my day.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

I keep hoping that we’re nearing a more widespread breaking point … My biggest fear is that the cities/communities that have been on the front lines will be depleted by the time everyone else witnesses the threat first hand. But I think we know this is going to be a long haul.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 4d

If it’s any encouragement …

I live in the same town the late-night show is hosted. And I live about a block from the ICE detention center in said town. And the amount of outrage and activism around the second is vastly larger.

Changing the outcome is just a lot fucking harder. But we’re out there.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Night 8. Creature from the Black Lagoon … Fin. (No, not really, we still have a long way to go.)

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 5d

It's my second (of many) entries for #hauntalong this year and I'm surfacing one of my favorites of the Universal Monster movies for the morning crowd!

Today I present you:

Jack Arnold’s 1954 creature–feature The Creature from the Black Lagoon!

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jex thomas @lastpinepress.com · 5d

Can I suggest

If you are stuck on a project

Talk to another fucking human being about it

I guarantee whatever solution you come to will be better than anything "AI" could spit out

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Still wake up in the middle of the night embarrassed about that incident with the cave moss and the elder blood even though it ended up being no big deal. Haha lol. Human brains are so weird. 😳

Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

Pros of knowing @jesseross.com:
Thoughtful support, inspiration and overall friendship from one of ttrpg-land's most studied and open-minded designers.

Cons:
Annual required sacrifices to the old gods that power him, which have brought about some AWKWARD situations.

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 5d

On this, presumably his birthday, I can reflect and say it's been a net positive.

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