Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

Today I wish for everyone who has a birth family to find peace and togetherness with their birth family, and everyone else to find welcome and peace and togetherness with a found family.

For me and mine, my later-in-life family are about to set out for as much extended family togetherness as we can stand, and possibly a little more.

I’m thankful for my kid who expected to be in the hospital having surgery today, but is instead recuperating from their surgery at home with their family. Yay!

Dungeon 23 is something I think about every day, and I think about it as that, even though I intend to create a #facility23 instead.

To recap, this is the brainchild of @seanmccoy, who posted about it here: https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23

I told myself I wasn't going to start until January 1. I mean, I don't even have a Japanese notebook yet! (Santa might bring me one tomorrow.) But I can't stop thinking about it, so I started to list some ideas. Not full room descriptions, just ideas. And then I added some themes to consider. Which led to some questions I had to think through, which...

Now I have a Scenario, The Brief, and some Warden's Notes, all for eventual players, as well as Implications, Room Ideas, and a "Think about" section for me as I create the facility, all of which led naturally to a list of "Baddies" and a growing "Backstory."

I don't have quick notes for a mega-dungeon, I've got extensive notes for an entire module!

As of right now, eight days before I'm "starting," I've got notes for a future MegaCorp (Chan Hong Co) that won salvage rights at auction for an ancient crashed alien ship that they, in their MegaCorp way, dubbed "Chan Hong Facility 23," and where they promptly set up shop for a combination of manufacturing, research, and salvage. Can you guess which of the three areas ended up sparking a cult? Or why?

I think I need to keep *some* things to myself for now, to avoid spoiling eventual game play. But I'll try to post what updates I can that don't spoil anything beyond early game play here on a semi-regular basis.

I'm also thinking about how I want to eventually present this. I'm a writer, not an artist! I do live with an artist, though. Still, I'm a writer. How narrative can I make this while still giving Wardens the flexibility they need to run games?

#dungeon23 #facility23 #ttrpg #MothershipRPG #Mothership #mosh

My understanding is that mastodon itself supports so-called "quote tweets," but they aren't implemented on most servers. They're implemented on the server I use, though, so this should appear to be quoted.

#nerdery #mastodon #QuoteBoost

I’m beginning to think that signing up for Cinemark’s movie club might have been a mistake. Not just because it's a bad deal, although movies in theaters have seemed to be somewhat rubbish since I signed up, or unsuitable for reasons peculiar to my family. I was excited when the Black Panther movie was released… but found no passes were allowed, which I think left me out. (Although maybe not, I only realized today, since I have credits, not passes. Oops!)

Finally today, we decided we’re going to see something, anything, because it's Christmas Eve. We picked a 2:55 showing of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and… because it’s a matinee showing, it’s cheaper than what I paid for the saved-up credits.

So here I am with six stored up credits for free movie tickets, paying $30 for three people to see a movie I could maybe have seen months ago but was scared away from.

I'm not saying Cinemark's movie club is a bad deal, I'm just saying it might have been a mistake for me to sign up for it specifically.

#blog #cinemark #BlackPanther #WakandaForever