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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 4d

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When You Realize It's a Horror Campaign

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

(ooh, let me know if anyone wants to see the Sigil I keep talking about, I'd be happy to share it!)

Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't end up with any kind of hard and fast rubric other than, "Well, that image is super duper tiny and I need to get this episode out before those snow storms roll in." But who knows! Upcoming episodes have EVEN MORE LORE. So I'll get really good at it sooner rather than later haha

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

So take the Sigil scene for example. I put so much effort into that Sigil. I did research (hence the Eliphas Levi pdf)! So when the PCs were investigating it, I was left with a question, do I just ... keep zooming in and out of the Sigil PNG? Do I put it in the corner and leave it there really tiny?

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

And besides, this is a Magnus Archives crossover, babeh! There are three things you need for a TMA crossover: spooks, a long-running mystery, and enough documentation to overwhelm an unwitting Avatar to the Buried <snark snark jargon jargon>

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

So why did this episode make my life difficult? Because it's the start of a gauntlet of lore. I mean, I cut my teeth on the best (FromSoftware) and worst (FNaF) lore-heavy franchises (that's a story for a different thread)

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but when I try to incorporate my PNGs into my project timeline it gets ... so ... slow. I once tried exporting just the map transition to save time later and an 8 second map transition took 20 minutes to export 😱

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

Since we're playing on discord I can't live out my dream of being an unnapreciated prop master (I studied theatre in college) I make up for it with *so* many digital props. Documents, letters, journals, maps, images. Any excuse to fire up Photosho (damn you Adobe). But that creates ... issues.

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 6d

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So yesterday we premiered episode 10 of "The Gods of A" right around the time YouTube had a massive outage, so I'm resharing it! Editing this one was a *unique* challenge

Monsters, Mysteries, and Math | Gods of A | Episode 10

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, Gang! Check out our brand new episode of "The Gods of A" over on the Youz and the Tubez (assuming it's back up 🙄). Come on down--we've got it all! Invisible monsters, arcane sigils, ... math. What could be scarier?

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Monsters, Mysteries, and Math | Gods of A | Episode 10

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 9d

I dunno, I liked it when Alan Wake 2 did it

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 12d

I like to think deckard recoiling was just harrison ford's natural reaction to leto

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 21d

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Hey, Gang! We're premiering our ninth episode of "The Gods of A" our horror actual play, RIGHT NOW! So exciting! As is the #TheMagnusArchives reference in the title!

The Road to the Hilltop Hotel & Resort | Gods of A | Episode 9

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 27d

Did I somehow think this post related to the crew of the Enterpise D?

Yes.

Did I get enoigh sleep last night?

No.

I was like, "Data would never! Riker possibly," but now I see we are talking about the youngin's. Steady on.

Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 28d

Got to the end, good sir, and I want to sit with it for a while. But. The highest praise *I think* I can offer is I wanna send copies to--well, my group. We weren't the Covenant, we called ourselves the EoS "Embodiments of Stuff". Bunch of wannabe writers, theatre kids, and undiagnosed traumadumps.

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · 28d

Dunno if @chuckwendig.bsky.social will see this, but it's 1:30 AM and I'm so close to the end of "The Staircase in the Woods." I just can't stay up any longer to finish it. I've loved a lot of your books but I just...feel this one differently? Deeply. I haven't gotten to the end yet but thank you

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Shane Zellow @shanezellow.bsky.social · Sep 19

This was a fun and wild moment for me as a GM for "The Gods of A" where I literally sat back and ... did nothing. On one hand, I had no idea what Chapman was going to say, on the other, Stan is rarely right about anything he says so it didn't really matter xD

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