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Zedeck Siew
@zedecksiew.bsky.social
Writer of small fictions. Creator of "Creature of Near Kingdoms", "Lorn Song of the Bachelor", and other SEAsian fevers.

Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/
YES! That was my thought, also---that it be an interlude in an Oath of Moment / Deathwatch campaign. A kind of upstairs-downstairs style contrast
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Outlaw merchant was invaluable as a reference when I was writing this---so thank you! (I made sure to shout you out in the credits)
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Welcome! (Btw: reading your blog got me to pick up the new Old World RPG)
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Glad you like it! I'm mostly a 40K fan by way of the TTRPGs, so am sticking squarely to my wheelhouse here, ha!

(Is Milton on here, btw?)
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
(yes please!)
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
(Very thrilled you like it! Oath of Moment is so good)
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"Squire doing the nasty stuff knights don't want to worry about" is exactly the analogue I was thinking of!

"Oh the peasants are suffering from a drought right now? So sad. The castle needs grain. Sort it out"
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Satanic mills, yes!
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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still regularly go back to the notes and plans I had for my short-lived campaign where the PCs' patron was a Port Commander aboard a hub station for a strategic promethium-rich system, like a Gothic Deep Space Nine; if the game had gone on longer we would've been cooking, tellyawhat
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Thank you for the rec! Imma check it out
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I don't think I got the exact font---but yes! The opening text for the adventure is me aping the "HMS SURPRISE 28 guns 197 souls N. coast Brazil" opening text in Master & Commander

(<3 Maturin <3)
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
(is it still inaccessible for you? The internet has been spotty because of a cloud flare outage in Singapore)
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm surprised how earnest CHAPTER SERF turned out, tbh. I'd thought it would be all jokes and memes.

But why not take it seriously? The peon, the clerk, the mutant, the youth warming a Space Marine's bed---the little people, crushed by grimdark. Why not make a game about them? Subaltern 40K.

3/3
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Spent the last two weeks working on this, missing deadlines and not answering messages---but this thing was in my mind like a psychic worm; I just had to get it out, you know?

Process notes and extra thoughts here: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...

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CHAPTER SERF
CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the art. Full PDF downloadable...
slowlorispress.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Am really gratified that it worked for you! Always I try to make sure a TTRPG text both works as usable for play and as a piece of storytelling pleasurable to read ...
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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coming soon!
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM