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🪼Jellyfishlines is almost 25🪼

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November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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More Augury in Litany work
This time: The Changed playbook!

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THE CHANGED PLAYS
Walk in Darkness
A strange gift from your benefactor. When you use Hollow Out, no matter the result you may take the following option: “I create a blanket of darkness only I and my target can see through.” If you do this on a 7- result, there’s something else in the dark with you. Take the Nomen: Prey.

The Other.
When you Stay Subtle you may take the option: You try to pretend to be normal enough to convince someone you’re alive. How does the mask slip?

Fox Hunt
When you Strike True, you may choose “You get in close and bite down on the adversary. You are both vulnerable to one another.” as an option if you rolled 11+.

Numbers of the Beast
Once a session when you Risk Yourself or Others, on an 8-10 you may choose one option from the 11+ list at the cost of marking 2 off your Stability track.

Survivorship Bias
When you Resort to the Art, even on a 7- you can pick “I can cheat death here and now.” When you do, regain 3 on your Stability track.

November 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM

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Draft character sheet for the Bee Teller!! I am not good at character sheets, but I can do some damn good layout otherwise!

A character sheet for my work in progress game, Augury in Litany. The text at the top reads “the Bee-Teller” with the rest outlining the Playbook themes, how the character Looks when Stability is low, character Bonds, and Titles the character can hold, as well as any Mementos they may carry with them.

November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM

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Working on my own Hollow and I’m just going to be evil to players honestly.

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Mirror Hall
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Obsession: twins and doppelgängers, unrequited lust, enclosed spaces.

Plays
Trap an Art Touched in a corner. They’re vulnerable and they’ll need to Strike True or make another play to escape.
Make a doppelgänger of an Art Touched. The doppelganger has access to one of their Plays and another from the Courtiers Plays.
When an Art Touched is vulnerable, Steal and Use their own Art against them…
Project who you think they desire… The Art Touched must make a Play to break the illusion.

November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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I love my boyfriend @chaoticblade5.bsky.social !!!!
(He wrote this :3 )

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To Pull Their Legs Apart…
When an Art Touched has their legs pulled apart by a Wyrm or the Nest, tell them to spend Gossamer and roll.
On an 8-10, they desire you, looking upon your body with lust. You have a moment. Choose one:
Half-heartedly fight, kick and claw. You harm them and unmark a non-Playbook Title.
You turn your attention onto the other that has brought in with you. Fuck them instead. You may make your sex Play.
You begin to cry, there is nothing you can do. Gain the Nomen: Victim.

On an 11+, they all see you. Spread open, and being bred. Choose one from above, and one from below.

On a 7-, everyone has a turn with you. Pick who goes first and ask the Keeper who goes second. You may be rescued after they all finish with you.
A member of your Lance, ask them if they were forced or if they chose to fuck you.
The smallest of the Wyrms, it crawls inside you fully, rubbing up against your guts. It won’t leave even when it finishes.
The biggest of the Wyrms, it rips and tears at your body. Far too big.
Several wyrmlings. You can feel them writhing within you even after you wake up.
Raw meat. It may still be alive.

November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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Shout out to Sage Anagogue of PTHK, you helped make Augury in Litany more evil.

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“LOOK (the less Stability you have, the more to your look. Remember, its absence is just as notable as its presence).
Honeycomb fingerprints
Wax looking skin
Dead behind the eyes
Proboscis tongue
Honey sweet sweat
Drone obedience
Repetitive movements”

November 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM

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The current mood for Impossible Landscapes night.

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November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM

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Bad sex with horrible people that gives you mechanical benefits in Augury in Litany is something I wanted to do for a while. You want to end a bad habit but the habit always seems to help you, so you keep falling back into toxic patterns.

Anyway folks—the Hive Track

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BEE-TELLER SEX PLAY
When you have sex or are intimate with another person, spend Gossamer and roll:
On an 8-10, you hardly feel anything and must recount a time you lost and grieved over someone. This can be from death, the loss of a relationship, or just drifting apart naturally. In return, the other Art Touched or Mundane may change an aspect of one of your Mementos. You must add their name to The Hive Track.
On an 11+, you feel alive, at least for a few seconds. Your Mementos remain intact. If you do this with a Fellow Art Touched in your Lance you lose -2 Gossamer and they gain +2 Gossamer. If you have sex with a Mundane you lose -1 Gossamer and they gain +1 Gossamer. No matter what, you must add their name to The Hive Track.

On a 7-, you feel nothing. Tell the other you’re with how they are nothing to you. If they agree in return, add them to The Hive Track.

No matter the outcome, you unmark your Title: Gravespeaker.

The Hive Track: Keep track of each person you have sex or are intimate with. Once all six boxes are marked you must choose one name from the list. They are now changed by trying to grow close to you. They’re not the same person, the same thing, they were before. How have they changed by trying to gain your trust? If another player is the person on The Hive Track, they narrate how they change and you grant them a Nomen.

November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM

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More from Augury in Litany!
Featuring: The (incomplete) Content Warning list!

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CONTENT NOTE
THIS GAME ASKS YOU TO PLAY IN SPACES WITH DEPICTIONS OF: nonconsensual sex and sexual violence, fantasy racism, slurs, monsters that dubiously pass the Harkness Test, manipulation, unhealthy power dynamics, frank depictions of medieval adjacent sexuality, murder, bugs, mindbreak, vore (by technicality), [MORE LATER].

Some parts of this game are violent, some erotic, and some are both. I am giving you a short list of content warnings here to help you make a decision on if you’d want to run or play this game now or in the future.

By its nature, this game will induce discomfort. The important thing is not whether or not your players are uncomfortable, but how you deal with it. Most of all, you should care for one another. Be open about your boundaries, trust people you play with, have a frank discussion about what you would like to explore in this game and any game you play.

November 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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If you want to playtest the game this is from message me :)

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Bleed
As long as you keep eye contact with a creature that also has vision, you are able to cause them to bleed spontaneously from small cuts that appear. This spell ONLY works if the creature can also see you. When you do this spell, spend Gossamer and roll. If an adversary can’t see you by nature, you take an auto 7- result.
On an 8-10, choose 2:
It’s bleeding and in pain
It’s bleeding and scared
It’s bleeding and angry
It’s bleeding and is losing Stability with every Play made.

On an 11+, choose 2 from above and 1 from below. 1 of these effects from above will affect you as well:
It will harm itself further as it attempts to not look at you
It will close its eyes to prevent further harm. It is effectively blind.

On a 7-, how long has your nose been bleeding? Why do you taste blood? Lose four marks of Stability and gain the Nomen: Bloodletter.

November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM

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I may reword the 11+ result but it’s shaping up nicely.

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Hollow Out.
When you channel the magic of the Hollow to increase your own powers and use it against the landscape and life within the space, mark two Titles, spend all Gossamer, and roll.
In an 8-10, the power within the Hollow can now be used against it. Choose 2:
Any nearby hostile creature will not see me as I move through.
I know exactly where our goal is within this place.
I am able to keep a hold of my spirit. (Regain a Title)
I recognize my [party].

On an 11+, something far greater than the Hollow fills your vessel of a body. Pick one from above and one from below.
A voice from within the Hollow reaches out. The Keeper will tell you what it says. Gain +4 Gossamer.
You lose touch with who you are. Lose all Nomens and gain the Title: Elsewhere
You have a vision of your death. What is it and how does it frighten you? You know a danger within the Hollow but you may not act without support for the rest of the scene.

On a 7-, something has noticed you and knows exactly what you’re doing. It’s coming to find you. You’ll be caught unprepared and with guard down. It’s best you do what you came here for and leave as quickly as you can.

November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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My current Big Game, Augury In Litany, explores many things that are deeply unpleasant headspace to be in that I’ve lived in for a very long time.
One of the things I’m playing in is a feeling of Empty. A pure hollow empty and how we put the pieces of our horrific experiences into us to survive.

November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Anyway Lich's exist in Augury in Litany and they are FUCKED UP!

i love them dearly.

text that reads: "A Lich is no mere Art Touched, no. Instead they are The Last Art. When an Art Touched becomes so in tune with the magic that flows through them, to the point that it becomes second nature, a second body, a twin anatomy made of something we can’t fully comprehend unless we become it, they disappear. The world that The Outlands is both the plane of which we reside in and incompatible with a Lich’s own existence. They cease to exist in the form they were in, and fade into the Lands of the Art.

Lich’s are Art Touched taken to the absolute end. They are not in touch with the Kin moralities that they grew up with and learned from any longer. The Art itself replaces what they know and are familiar with; magic becomes as familiar as their own bones and the air they breathe. You cannot cure Lichhood. You can only seek to contain and control it.

When the Art returned to the Outlands so did Liches in a way. To put it simply, when you are magic and magic is what you are and suddenly the world around you begins to be incompatible with your own existence, you’ll cling to something, anything, to keep surviving.

You’ll attach to objects. You’ll attach to a place."

November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Do you ever think they saw the aurora too and could see themselves in the shapes of the lights as they danced overhead?

A fossilized archaeopteryx, with its head and neck craning towards its back and wings outstretched. You can see the outline of where feathers once were in the stone.

November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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Here is The Scholar Playbook! People that love evil nerd wizards, this is for YOU!

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THE SCHOLAR
Knowledge is a power and power is dangerous, but maybe a simple touch will be enough for you.
You were not so blessed with the Art after the realities collided, at least not at first. Your magic was light. Only the faint thrum of energy in your veins, that power that coursed through now, it needed honing. You gathered what you could and, through many nights of study, you honed your powers. You became the best at what you do and are determined to keep that spot. The rising star will eventually burn out and fall to earth.

THE SCHOLAR BASE TITLES
Beloved
Dangerous
Strange
Learned

MOMENTOS
pick two Momentos and detail them:
A prototype weapon (Pick one: a flintlock, a falchion, a heavy crossbow)
A desire for knowledge of any sort
An old cloak with a family crest that isn’t yours
A book of false Art
A half singed stuffed animal

November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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ALSO Augury in Litany. I've solved the people ignoring the sex moves in Monsterhearts issue I have.

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TITLES
Titles are how the world sees you and in turn how you see yourself. It’s also the responsibilities the world puts on you, for better and worse.

When you act in a way that reinforces an unmarked title, mark it and gain 1-2 Gossamer as you choose. How you interpret these Titles and their meanings is up to you as the player, you may go about this as you please.

Each playbook has four slots for Titles. You may only hold four Titles at any given time. To gain another, you must replace an existing one. Three of the four Titles are the same to each Playbook with a single unique Title to each of them. While you can mark your Playbook Title, you may never erase it. You can unmark it by using your Sex Move.

November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM

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Back at it with a full gut of Augury in Litany. First on the docket: The Bee-Teller playbook.

$Text that reads: THE BEE-TELLER In the time after The Last Art affected the landscape, you found yourself in a cacophony of voices from seemingly nowhere. Voices of loved ones long passed, people lost in the dark, those of the lands where the Last Art is untamed, you’ve started to hear them. You’ve started to see them too. Your magic of the dead extends to controlling small fractions of life. Oddly enough, there has been an uptick of bees roosting around you, but it’s probably nothing. THE BEE-TELLER TITLES Beloved Dangerous Strange Gravespeaker MOMENTOS pick 1-2 Momentos and detail them: A gladius A wicker bee keepers mask and linen robes The last words of a loved one An old walking stick Coins from a country that no longer exists.$

November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM

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Man I wish my new windows laptop that I bought in February didn’t have issues from having 30% of the code being written by AI. I wish my Wi-Fi option didn’t RANDOMLY DISAPPEAR FOR NO REASON MICROSOFT!!!

My laptop screen. THE WIFI TAB IS MISSING. The text that is there says Bluetooth, studio effects, airplane mode, accessibility, energy saver, and live captions.

November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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@backwardsttrpg.bsky.social I can’t wait to lose my god damn mind over this. :3c

A photo of the Spine solo ttrpg on my bed. On the game book is a stylized human spine in a whorl. The text reads SIDERIUS PLUG’S SPINE. Immortality in 99 end notes. Revised edition. A red ink pen (red cap and end with a grey body) rest on the book.

October 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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Take my word for it. GIRL FRAME isn't just good, it's incredible. Go buy it, go play it. It holds nothing back.

text that reads "GIRL FRAME is a game alongside PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING" that I can fully see changings the PBTA scene. It's mechanically tight but has space to breathe, room for players to struggle against its rules to learn just how hard a game can bite back. It's erotic, disturbing, and takes an honest look at the dehumanization of lesbians and trans women by a fascist world taken to its absolute end. If games are a mirror, what does this say about us? Five stars. Go play this. We need games like this."

October 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM

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I made a meme for this. Grab TOWNIE(S).
jellyfishlines.itch.io/townies

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October 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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Gonna be streaming on my twitch channel to raise money for Roll 4 Wishes (the make a wish foundation) today!
WATCH at 4:15PM EST: www.twitch.tv/jellyfishlines
DONATE to affect plot: tilt.fyi/NnJdaDsZmQ

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October 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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Happy #PortfolioDay!
I'm Irving and I write and do layout for TTRPGs!

I've worked with Evlyn Moreau on Dead Orbit Mall and I do most of my own layout work. I hope to work with you in the future!

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