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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/09/2026

Border Morris dancers & last of the summer sunflowers (well, the fake one in my car anyway)

Watercolour painting of very simple shapes vaguely resembling Morris dancers with top hats

An actually-not-awful watercolour of a sunflower head in front of a couple of leaves

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 27/08/2026

All the best packaging is hand stamped packaging. Stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp...

Close up of black, unfolded business card envelopes stamped with 'A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG, an ever-expanding card-sized experiment in _ parts, collectors edition' in white ink with the rubber stamps beside them on a wooden table

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/07/2026

I don't mean to brag but I've just found out there's a 'Print as Booklet' option under 'Pages per side' dropdown under the Layout settings when you go to print something in iOS My life will be split in twain with this moment as the mark forevermore

A screenshot of the Pages per Side dropdown with the Print as Booklet option sneakily ensconced at the bottom of a list of selectable numbers (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16)

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 26/06/2026

Field Agent Handbook bundles and Calibration Records have made it over to IPR! www.indiepressrevolution.com Get all five Handbooks in a neatly wrapped... well, bundle.

IPR home page with the two newly-arrived Handbook listings clumsily circled in red

A neatly wrapped bundle of Field Agent Handbooks

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 17/06/2026

Floofs have all disappeared into the night so have a plant I found on the headland the other evening instead— I thought its pink weirds the eyes

Large pink daisy-like flowers with yellow centres

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/05/2026

The next three ✨collectors edition✨ cards of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG just showed up! (Obviously it's because I ordered them; the exclamation point is more because I *got around* to ordering them rather than suggesting surprise that they appeared as if from nowhere)

Fronts and backs of three business cards (illustrated worksheets on one side, game rules on the other) labelled 'Relationship Map' (illustrated in a mushroom theme), 'Solo RPG' (illustrated in a snow theme) and 'Tracking All The Things' (illustrated in a retro-digital theme)

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 25/04/2026

Went camping, intended to write, did a paint sketch instead... it's like progress! But not. Slightly clearer head though so taking it as a win.

Watercolour painting of a pond and some trees in a sketch book being held up in front of the pond and trees

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 28/03/2026

Highly suspicious sighting!! Field Agent Handbooks spotted on the @ipr.bsky.social stand at Pax East! Booth 12109 if you're there and would like to go hunting for more suspicious activity.

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 12/02/2026

Keep chipping away at the to-play list — misunderstood the rules as written but enjoyed Nova Luna: nicely balanced with some light puzzling Do wonder if rule books now expect you to watch a 'how to play' video so they can avoid a couple more rounds of editing (might be a me problem though)

Board game laid out on a table with black& white wooden discs, colourful square cardboard tiles arranged around an illustrated circlular cardboard track

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 17/01/2026

Thought I'd solved my zine storage problem — I did not. But the theory's sound! Ho hum.

A slim metal magazine rack packed tightly with RPG zines hanging from the end of a set of a set bookshelves packed tightly with RPG books (alongside some fiction books and LPs)

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 31/12/2025

Chairman Miaow wishes you a happy new year (I do too, HNY you)

Checkered tablecloth with playing cards from Communist Cats lying on it with one being held up and labelled as The Chairman with a picture of a cat

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 30/12/2025

Arsenic & Lies by Karolina Soltys went down well last night though still unsure how much it's okay just to make stuff up in larps vs what's supposed to be canon... might be that grey space between improv & theatre that throws me. Maybe just need to try more larps to find out? Or read more books?

A playing card tuck box titled Arsenic & Lies with woman pictured dropping poison into a glass in an Art Nouveau style lying on a black tablecloth. Cards, a magnifying glass, gold stars, empty glasses and cocktail sticks surround it. One card has 'secret' emblazoned across the back, another looks a bit like a newspaper with the headline 'You Are The Killer'.

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 27/12/2025

Strong start in the 'must play more games' game with Gingerbread Towers by @dissentgames.bsky.social

A tower of folded playing cards with pictures of sweets on them balancing on the back of a board game box on a carpeted floor

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 29/11/2025

We're at Dragonmeet! Just to the right of the entrance. Come see our zine torture device!

Table of books and zines on a stall with Kristen and Kayla behind the table

Shelves full of zines & books with a spinning mobile of zines on top (though you might not be able to tell they're spinning due to this being a photograph but trust me, those zines are thoroughly dizzy)

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 26/11/2025

Almost finished making the shelves for #Dragonmeet — cat unlikely to be in attendance (sorry) Will be sharing space on the 12 Pins Press stand with @laurieoc.bsky.social, @ratwave.uk and @yanahn.bsky.social so do drop by and say hi

Brown wooden shelves with a ginger cat perched above fake apothecary drawers and a mess of fairy lights in the background

Top down view of map of Dragonmeet hall in a medieval fantasy town style showing 12 Pins Press just to the right of the entrance

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 20/11/2025

Many of my bobbins (alongside many other excellent works) will be at #PaxUnplugged this weekend on the @ipr.bsky.social booth 3701 for those that like riffling pages and looking at things (woop!). Send your friends!

Map of the Pax Unplugged exhibition floor with the IPR book circled on bottom end in Hall A. Below the map are the front covers of Orchidelirium, Coiled.Spæce, Advanced Double D6 and six differently coloured Field Agent Handbooks

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 14/11/2025

Woop! 2026 calendars have arrived! Just one-sided this year but! meteor showers are marked up this time around. Will pop 'em up on the shop this evening.

Stack of 12x24" calendar posters with months running vertically in twelve columns showing the phases of the moon in white with a black background and the words 'Observancy Department' at the top. The stack is lying on some open brown paper wrapping.

Close up photo of one of the moons on the calendar with three small shooting stars next to it

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 04/11/2025

Oh dear, who hurt you WotC? jobs.hasbro.com/job/Renton-G...

Text from a job listing with the words 'and hit deadlines' highlighted. Full text reads: —products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can design and write innovative and high-quality RPG material, and hit deadlines, this role is for you.
We're looking for passion and professionalism in equal measure.
What You'll Do:
• Conceptualize and design substantial portions of D&D products, including game mochanice with quidance from...

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 03/10/2025

Time to break out the seasonal music 🎃 starting with a Mood... kyledixon-michaelstein.bandcamp.com/album/strang...

Record player with a picture disc on the turntable. Photo on the vinyl is a person shining a torch on a field of pumpkins (a shot from Stranger Things)

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 22/09/2025

Been making props for a play we're running this week... been making silly plane noises too

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 11/09/2025

These calendars are far more organised than what I've got going on on my filing cabinet

Brown metal door with a brass handle and black pieces of paper with white handwriting in four rows.

First row: BACKBURNER, Cælia & The Malfeasant Mushroom, Secret 'Field Agent' Missions, Orchidelirium Vol. II & III

Second row: SNEAKY SIDE PROJECT, Peepers, A Wonderfully Small & Terribly Unexpected RPG Oracle

Third row: Reducks

Fourth row: NON-GAMES, I Want To Play... Games!, Get books in shoppes, Coiled.Spæce website

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/09/2025

I can absolutely help out with this (so long as you know your elevation (and why wouldn't you?!))

A page of text that reads: Distance
It can be difficult to gauge an exact distance from yourself to the creatures so please use one of the following two simple methods of estimation instead.
DISTANCE TO HORIZON
When at a height of 6 ft horizon is ~ 3 miles away
... Io ft ~ 4 miles
... 25 ft ~ 6½ miles
... 50 ft ~ 9 miles
... 1oo ft ~ 12 miles
...200 ft ~ 19 miles
...500 ft ~ 30 miles
... 1,000 ft ~ 32½ miles
... 2,000 ft ~ 60 miles
... 5,000 ft ~ 93½ miles
HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL
Split the distance to the horizon into thirds. The first third is NEAR, the second is MID, the third is FAR (as illustrated on page x & x1).
Circle the appropriate distance.
Your perceived distance to the horizon changes depending on your height above sea level (as shown in table).
There is quarter-circle in the top left corner of your page, above the label: DISTANCE.
Use a map to find your elevation (or estimate if confident) and note that number in the quarter-circle.
EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION
When you don't have a clear view of the horizon or are unsure where the creature might be in relation to the cloud, note 'P' for PERCEPTION in the quarter-circle and employ your pendulum:
Hold it over each distance designation: NEAR (N), MID (M), & FAR (F), on the DOWSING BOARD, circling the one that exhibits the greatest swing.

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 27/08/2025

All these games (and many other wonderful ones too) can be found at Pax West on the @ipr.bsky.social table, #Booth4320, THIS WEEKEND! If you ever felt you should have been a 1920s pendulum-dowsing investigator or an 1860s orchid hunter, now your chance...

Six Field Agent Handbooks and one Orchidelirium lined up on a table

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/08/2025

—and I've never been more worried about getting a package so carefully to its destination before (and I've sent some pretty ridiculous things through the post)

Three very large boxes covered in paper packing tape on a carpeted floor in front of a bookcase. Sadly, no banana included for scale.

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 12/07/2025

Right! since I've *nearly* caught up on my January tasks & so about to get them into US distribution channels— If you'd like to review the Field Agent Handbooks (a play always/everywhere solo larp with pendulum-dowsing) for your channel or blog give me a nudge! They could do with some eyeballs 👀

A whole set of Field Agent Handbooks with ID card, button badge, handbill, red string with key and a red button badge spread out on a grassy mound

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 22/06/2025

Celebrating six years of Æther Corp's incorporation by packing sixty('ish) boxes of Field Agent Handbooks and having a staff night out (woo!) 🎉

Sixty stacked brown boxes worth Field Agent Handbook labels

An empty bowl that had a delicious Thai red curry in it and a half-drunk glass of red wine on an outside table under a blue evening sky

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 04/06/2025

Belated UKGE haul of rampant consumerism (with special thanks to @juunikyuu.bsky.social, @goblincow.bsky.social and @montfordtales.com for extra bobbins!)

An art print of a flying whale and a more impressionist painting of a sky whale chasing birds alongside a selection of RPGs, two board games and one card game:
The Long Road Home
Which Familiar?
MINIGODS
Dungeon Delvers!
Litter Detective!
HAUNTED HEIST
Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop
GRAB BAG JUNGLE
Soulaween
COMMUNIST CATS

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 16/05/2025

Oh noes! I dropped my ice cream (edition of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG) in the sand

Two business cards stuck in sand with a melting ice cream design, one titled Role Playing Game, the other Story Guide

Front and back of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG stuck in sand at a beach

Front and back of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small Story Guide stuck in sand at a beach (the back one is inexplicably upside down)

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 03/05/2025

Have mounted a couple of my potted orchids onto a lump of wood. Looks great, feels risky. Wish me luck.

A phalenopsis, a dendrobium, and an air plant mounted on a lump of wood with a heavy covering of moss

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 01/05/2025

Happy May Day! You look like you need something refreshing. First expansion to 'A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG' is now on Itch—a 'Story Guide' to help you build adventures! They're ice cream flavoured because it's hot. Do not lick your screen. #TTRPG #IceCream aether.click/wuats

Both sides of the business card RPG above a sea background

Both sides of the business card Story Guide above a breach background

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 07/04/2025

Erm, I feel like these two might want something...

Two black fluffy, expectant looking cats on either side of a laptop on my lap

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 06/04/2025

Out on Official business

Upward photo of my green checkered shirt sporting a 1" red Field Agent button badge with my face in the background looking off into the sunny distance

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 25/03/2025

Late night last night but tea's on the way...

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/03/2025

At Beachhead — nearby gaming con — I got to playtest the thing I'm working on for 'WUAT'S This?'. This morning I reduced the number of dice needed for (optional) solo/dice play based on the playtest feedback. More to come at some point! aethercorpgames.itch.io/wuats-this-a... #ttrpg #microrpg

Two men looking awkwardly at you while start sat at a messy table covered in index cards and zines

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 26/02/2025

Just over 48 hours left to back Reducks on Kickstarter. That's more time than Jack Bauer ever had. Poor Jack Bauer. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aet... #cyoa #chooseyourownadventure #ttrpg #zinequest #zinemonth

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 16/02/2025

I made a playlist of Bandcamp tracks for Coiled.Spæce (coiled.space/playlist), *should* I put out an album for Reducks? I feel like the answer is obviously YES (but it'd heavily feature a kazoo)

Mock up of a blue tape cassette and jewel case emblazoned with Coiled.Spæce logos and named 'Sounds from Spæce'

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 14/02/2025

Right, TODAY at twenty-past noon for launch it is! aether.click/reducks An EXCELLENTLY illustrated choose your own adventure about YOU, a duck with existential dread, attempting to stop a bomb exploding on the other side of YOUR lake. You get a hat. There may be puns. #ZineMonth #ZineQuest #Zimo

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 12/02/2025

FINE, okay, it was me, I'm the disorganised one. It's coming on though! Might be your thing if you like ducks, string, bread, time travel choose your own adventures and existential dread. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aet... #zimo25 #zinemonth #zinequest

Unfinished painting in a book with sketch of a duck and "re-ducks" emblazoned on it next to a set of watercolour paints

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 12/02/2025

No, YOU only just started on the front cover for your #zimo25 zine even though you were hoping to launch last week but it now looks most likely that it'll be this Friday, probably around lunchtime assuming you can finish it later or tomorrow evening www.kickstarter.com/projects/aet...

Corner of a green book with orange tape and a sketch of what is most likely to be a duck but it's a little difficult to tell easily because of the angle of the photo

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 06/02/2025

Right, finally! That's last year's #ZiMo wrapped and ready to post. (Horrifically behind schedule but still... woot!)

Corner of a cardboard box with an ink stamped rectangle with the letters 'ÆC' and words 'Stay Watchful' in an art deco style. The corner of an international post label is just visible and the box appears to be on top of another in the background.

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 22/01/2025

Find me as @aethercorpgames on SOME of the socials! 🦣 Mastodon > Stray thoughts 🍿 YouTube > Moving pictures 📣 Bluesky > Noise maker ❤️ Newsletter > Irregular yet delightful updates (aether.click/newsletter) (The others are a bit shit)

Closed corner shop with a Twitter sign above the window and a dumpster fire in front on one side and signs to other socials bathed in sunlight, flowers and grass on the other

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 11/12/2024

Inside the first box is.... notebooks!

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 11/12/2024

Ahhh/awww, little baby pallet!!

A small pallet of boxes wrapped in clear packing tape on a path next to a red car with a red lorry in the background

A small pallet of boxes wrapped in clear packing tape on a path

Close up of two boxes in slices open packaging tape with a label that reads 'Field Agent Handbook Revolution, QTY per box=100'

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