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Inkus Alters

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I fear this travelling glitched circus may have become a favourite area of mine so far

It has all of the fun things: Horrors! Clowns! Theft! Trivia! Prizes! Performances! Dodging the lunges of a murderous jester! A fortune teller! Hidden secrets!

vekari.net

#VekariRB #puzzle #textadventure

Bucket, the jester who runs The Elysium Bazaar

Trivia

"STEP RIGHT UP, STEP RIGHT UP! ANSWER THE QUESTION RIGHT AND GET A SHINY NEW TICKET! ANSWER IT WRONG AND... *HONK HONK*"

What must you sacrifice to the glitched building on 16th?

Appendix
Newborn
Liver
Kidney

A purple, blue, and grey swirling hall with floating glitched dark mirrors sets the scene for a (very short) minigame! Similar to the google chrome dinosaur game, but instead of a dinosaur you are embodying the spirit of a clown by wearing their mask, and running from Bucket, the glitched jester that runs The Elysium Bazaar

A statue of an old woman holding a basket labelled GATHERER sitting in a forest of tall dark trees and glitched neon blue button mushrooms.

Vekari
Spores of Marrow

In The Alchemist's wake, there remain believers in the cause. Though reduced to legend over time, the spores will always remember.

November 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM

Inkus Alters

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Happy spooky everyone 🎃

Don't forget to check out the Vekari Halloween event! There'll be an event in the official Discord tonight as well, bring your costumes and your silliness 🤡

vekari.net

#VekariRB #thebandghost #papaemeritus

Inkus wearing Papa Emeritus 4 (the band Ghost) face paint

October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

I'm really not sure where to start with this 🤣

A Night with Nathan is an indie film that premiered on the 29th and I had the pleasure of seeing... and being invited to be an extra in.

It hit me really hard, in a good way. If you get the chance to watch, please do

Trailer:
youtu.be/Yi4Vd4a7ZUA?...

Me and my uncle Pete Comrie at Forest City Film Festival after the premiere of A Night with Nathan (which he co-wrote and played the role of Stan in *and* did most of the soundtrack for, since they used Tommyrot songs)

Cast & crew photo for A Night with Nathan at Forest City Film Festival

A Night with Nathan
Brent Baird
Pete Comrie
Jacqueline Godbout

October 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM

Inkus Alters

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Another Halloween means another year of #Vekari! The celebration is under way!

Stop by Edith's Gift Shop in Vekari: RB to start the Halloween event quest this year! You can also check out the Halloween sale on itch, which includes a new #TTRPG one-shot zine 🎃

itch.io/s/165871/vek...

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Spores of Marrow

A statue of an old woman in a hooded jacket carrying a basket and labelled GATHERER sits in a forest of tall, dark trees and neon-glowing blue button mushrooms

October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

So many things have been happening at once

#Vekari update soon though. Catch up if you need/want to over the next few days, because this year's Halloween event is going to be a little bigger than a scavenger hunt 👀🎃

Enter the glitched city of Faktoria by accessing vekari.net and stay tuned 🎃🤡

Neon blacklight painting of the glitched city of Faktoria viewed across a body of liquid. The buildings on the right appear twisted, leaning, and mangled compared to the buildings on the left. The lights dancing on the liquid mix to form every colour in the rainbow.

October 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Things will never be the same again. But by the light of the lives we could have lived, and those who didn't survive, we can make new homes.

We can mourn what we've lost, as well as appreciate the beauty in the colours painted by our pasts. We can remember, while also looking ahead.

#VekariRB

The city of Faktoria partial skyline across a body of water, lit by bright, colourful neon lights that dance across the ripples. A bridge connects two sections of the city, the right side containing buildings that appear twisted, rotated, and leaning. This half has been affected by The Glitch and will never return to what it once was. There is a morbid beauty to it. The painting is lit with a blacklight from the bottom left corner, which makes the neon lights literally glow!

October 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

New #VekariTTRPG one-shot coming up, in time for Halloween 🎃

Explore an ever-changing glitched forest, pick mushrooms, get chased by a statue, and discover untold Vekari history, all in the span of 2 hours on the clock.

The zine will be posted very soon 👀

#TTRPG #indiegame

Vekari
Spores of Marrow

Neon glowing blue button mushrooms illuminate a forest full of tall, dark trees and a statue of an old woman holding a basket, titled "Gatherer"

October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Inkus Alters

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It has been a wild ride from figuring out how to condense this down into a cassette case, to being featured in my LGS, and now the end of the conveniently timed jam and getting a shout here! I'm so glad everyone is finding this as cool as I do 😄

#VekariTTRPG #TTRPG

Vekari TTRPG cassette case with its contents laid out on a wooden deck. Contains a double sided world map, 8 instructional zines (with blank backs when unfolded if you need extra paper to write on!), a pair of RPG dice spinner stickers and paperclips, and a card-shaped USB containing backups of everything seen here as well as a PDF with more in-depth rules and lore

There is also an ever-growing source of lore on the official website, which contains an ongoing story you can participate in, like a virtual world/RPG/ARG/interactive story: vekari.net

Vekari TTRPG cassette cases next to Iliana DuNeotov art trading cards, Inkus Alters business cards, and Magic the Gathering Edge of Eternities boosters on a glass countertop at my LGS (local game shop)

October 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

#ScreenshotSaturday I am working on a text-based combat system that does more than just dealing damage/dishing out effects. Make the story an enemies to lovers fic. Find passwords in transcripts of old documents to defend against attacks. Manage the windows in your brain.

#VekariRB #indiegame

INCOMING TRANSCRIPT

heart had long stopped beating, his body continued on, stumbling through the overgrown rubble of where he once called home as a puppet on strings. The creature consumed the spoiled flesh of the people it once called family and used their broken bones to carve sigils into the walls, its guttural whisper carrying through the house. He became something more than a man that night, transcended from hated and forgotten hermit into something free of fear, something to instead be feared. What a beautif

October 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Art vs Artist

Maury Lyle from Vekari: Remote Bypass drawn from around floor level looking up, with him about to stomp on the viewer while wearing a devilish smirk. The base of his lab coat is stained with dark blood and the image is framed like a cyber-styled poster or magazine cover

Me, cosplaying Ash Vettek from Vekari: Remote Bypass (image credit: Mark Dustin Briones, glowy edit credit: Bri C.)

October 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Had to really dig for this because it has been a LONG time, but this one right here

September 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Obtaining a brain chip has let you decrypt missing sections of the Fernsmeet Adventurer's Guild encyclopedia, providing a new look at the world outside of Haloran and a unique Faktorian legend 👀

vekari.net/books/encycl...

#VekariRB #indiegame #booksky #textbasedgame #worldbuilding

Blue buttons found in one section of the encyclopedia linking to various pages about the history and geography of the country of Noxen.

Dawn
Memory
The Age of Discovery
A New Era
Asken
Ebril
Geo Tra
Oprus

September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Creature

#VekariRB

A wormy centipede-like creature with a pointed tail at one end, and a gaping maw with a long tongue and four dead eyes at the other. Something you can meet in Vekari from the safety of Korvak's taxidermy atrium after this set of story parts 👀

September 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Incredibly cool things came in from @neonrot.bsky.social today 👀

Easily my favourite tarot deck, and very excited to drag my friends into playing BDSM 😌

#TTRPG #tarot

Chorogaiden and Below Dwelling Sewer Mutants printed game manuals + Fukuzatsu tarot deck and a sticker from NeonRot

Six major arcana tarot cards from the Fukuzatsu tarot deck. The art is often brightly coloured, dark and creepy, or a mix of both. Cards shown are the hierophant, the high priestess, the lovers, the magician, the moon, and the star

September 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

I firmly believe tone indicators are important in game dialogue

#VekariRB #indiegame

"Not here for your tech, I'm here for you. [threat]"

"Not here for your tech, I'm here for you. [flirt]"

September 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Another perk of the new chip: it is specially designed to block out Alden's interference as much as possible! Lie to him! Gaslight him! Flirt with him (but I may judge you a little)! No more hidden dialogue options and more unhinged ones for your enjoyment

vekari.net/world/16th-s...

#VekariRB

"Earth? Is that a restaurant?"

Alden gives you a worried look, but the worry seems to be for himself. "Are you not...? Oh. Are you sure you aren't from there? It's a planet. Well, as much of a planet as we have a star, but... Well, I suppose you aren't who I thought you were at all. My apologies. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Response options:

"[act mildly offended] Not anymore"

"I was just wondering if you could point me in the direction of Gareth's Gears."

September 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Vekari players finally got a brain chip, which means how you play the game is shifting 👀

Starting with the first little feature: revealing secrets! This setting will automatically highlight secret text and secret links in a colour of your choosing so they stand out on the page

#VekariRB

Reveal Secrets

Enable and Disable revealing secret links and secret text. Revealing secrets will highlight these on the page for you. Highlight colour can be customized. Revealing secrets is Disabled by default.

Toggle switch turned on and colour picker colour set to a bright blue matching the dark site theme

You take a seat in the lobby, feeling as though you are still being watched (highlighted in blue to indicate that this word is actually a clickable link) despite being out of line of sight of the assistant.

September 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM

Inkus Alters

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Kori deserved this line as a little treat. Love the badass lesbian

vekari.net/story/enoch/...

#indiegame #textbasedgame #booksky #cyberpunk #horror

"EY, ANO," the small woman growls up at the creature holding Enoch, wielding the bloody rod as a blade and ready to throw the metal object, "STAB THIS, YA PIECE OF SHIT!"

September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Vekari:RB Part 9 has started! 3 characters, 3 short story parts to vote on!

Instead of an excerpt, which you can just get by quickly skimming vekari.net/story.php, have my reaction to Acro's part being unusually long this time around

#VekariRB

Ksawery at 5:33pm: 11.3 kib for what??? trauma?????

September 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

If you have not read this I am bringing this to your attention

Dark fantasy, included maps and glossary, morally dark grey main characters, gays 👀 and at a pace that my ADHD brain enjoys.

Contains great quotes such as "'The world is dying.' *And my fucking back hurts.*"

First verse of The Last Ballad

A Memory of Song

Scott Palmer

September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Shoutout to whoever this guy is because he is the only person in existence currently who has photos with both Acro and Ash whether he realizes it or not 💀 He is collecting my Vekari cosplays like Pokemon cards

And also seeing his cosplay upgrade since last year is so cool I'm glad I found him again

A pyramid head cosplayer with a custom made head and bloody arms standing next to me cosplaying Acro Kameko from Vekari: Remote Bypass. (London Comic Con 2024)

The same pyramid head cosplayer (identified by the same custom made head as before and later also by voice) now with a big rusty sword prop taller than I am and a substantially better blood effect on his fabric that is off white and worn-looking rather than last year's white, standing menacingly next to me cosplaying Ashton Vettek from Vekari: Remote Bypass wielding his glitchy guitar as a weapon with a pick in my mouth. This photo looks like a DBD killer lineup and I love it. (London Comic Con 2025)

September 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

It's a really good year for in character convention photos 😌

#VekariRB #cosplay #indiegame

Ash Vettek from Vekari: Remote Bypass riding Falkor from The Neverending Story with his guitar held high by its neck

Ash Vettek from Vekari: Remote Bypass in battle stance next to Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

Ash Vettek from Vekari: Remote Bypass with his guitar raised to fight Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village who is wielding her long claws (the cosplayer is on stilts and it is incredibly impressive)

September 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM

Inkus Alters

@inkus.ca

Presented for the first time ever (in our lifetimes at least)

Ash Vettek of @killingdolls.vekari.net 's guitar

Slim split body that has seen the damage caused to Faktoria by The Glitch and laughed, and wide neck for something sturdy to hold when swinging it with intent to slice and dice

#VekariRB