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Danielle

@danielledoesdata.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy

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Data Witch. Hex Editor. Applied Math PhD. [bridged from tech.lgbt/@danielledoesdata on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I have been working on a story for the past couple months, and I finally worked up the nerve to submit it to an anthology. 😬 🤞 It was a very educational experience, going through multiple revisions of a draft, getting advice from an experienced author on each round. It really taught me the […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I've just posted v1.1 of A Year in Farm Valley to itch.io. There are only a few minor edits to the text, but the bit change is original art made specifically for the game by my nephew. If you've already downloaded the game, you can of course keep playing with the PDF you have, but feel free to […]

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Danielle @danielledoesdata.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

An insightful take on (not) interacting with generative AI ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html #noai

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I find myself checking copyright dates to determine if a human is directly responsible for these unsatisfactory puzzles. Instructions: ... No rare or incomprehensible words here... Easy-level puzzle includes spicery, subfix, obex #LogicPuzzles #CodeWords

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Promise: For today, I will share a picture of some RPG dice, my wedding cake. My marriage vows are the central promise of my life. RPGs played a role in our courtship and continue to be a significant part of our relationship. (It’s a good thing we were playing […] [Original post on dice.camp]

On a white table, alongside two silver forks and a stack of two plates, sit three cubic cakes. They are coated in green icing, and each side has black fondant pips. The tops of the dice cakes show 1, 1, and 2, a critical success roll in the GURPS tabletop roleplaying game. (Also a representation of two single people becoming one couple.) Unseen are the delicious layers of chocolate cake inside with creamy chocolate pudding between them.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Discipline: In a #GURPS game, I played Rafe, a street kid who eventually grew into a skilled swordsman working for a baron. My GM surprised me with a very moving knighthood ceremony he'd read about (in the Banestorm book, I believe). Rafe had to demonstrate the self-discipline required to stay […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Panel 1
Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside.

Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out

Panel 2
Caption: Confused locals find their conversations peppered with unexpected pauses and unwanted emphasis.

Image: Two people talking as punctuation marks float around them One says

This, is “very odd”

The other replies

…(Indeed)*

Panel 3
Caption: Naturalists note that the effect is not limited to human communication.

Image: A duck on a pond surrounded by punctuation marks says
Qu’ack?

Panel 4
Caption: Fortunately, a cloud of exclamation points drift into a district council meeting which proceeds with unusual efficiency

Image: Councillors talk in a cloud of exclamation points
Something must be done!! !
Close the windows! !!
Install air conditioning! !!
Immediately!!! !

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Worst part of going to a concert you're super excited about? Having to deal with Ticketmaster. >:v(

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Remember me asking about visibke mending for a L-tear in my linen pants? I combined the recs I got here with some crafts I already knew how to do (cross stitch) for a 🌻-result that makes me very happy today. Let's see how well it will hold! Previous post […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sunflower cross stitch on olive linen material.

Zoom out to see the criss stitch in the pant leg.

Back of the cross stitch with a brown linen patch.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

I swear, every day in this house we discover another little oddity that makes us wonder what the former owners were thinking.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

My wife unearthed the Kubb set she made for my parents a decade ago and we got it back out on the lawn today. Fortunately there was a shaded section of yard big enough to fit a small course. Later people had croquet out in the same area. Good to get some amount of physical activity in between […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Spent the afternoon playing a #ttrpg for the first time since moving in April. It was nice to be back at a table with some dice. We ported my cozy farming game A Year in Farm Valley to the least cozy setting we could (Warhammer 40k) and it still managed to work.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

This week's episode of #ttrpg #ActualPlay #RogueTrader: Escape from Nullia is Part 2: Timon and Corille acquire additional support to fulfill Jan’s request. diceystories.com/ds448-rogue-trader… In #podcast or #novelization form. #DiceyStories #genesys […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

The FIFA Prize for Literature

Following the success of their Peace Prize, FIFA establishes a literary prize judged by the footballers at the world cup.

(image of trophy)

All does not go well...

Players arrive at games exhausted by reading hundreds of novels and heatedly debating their merits long into the night.

(image of tired players on pitch reading)

The south American teams boycott the tournament when an official disparages Isabel Allende's use of magic realism.

(Image of players angrily leaving)

Seventeen plavers receive red cards after a discussion of radical honesty in the works of Karl Ove Knausgaard turns into a brawl.

(Image of players fighting)

However, all is forgiven as Joyce Carol Oates takes the thrilling final to extra time, before losing on penalties to Haruki Murukami.

(image of Haruki holding the trophy aloft)

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Today my #ttrpg #ActualPlay #podcast #DiceyStories starts a new campaign, Rogue Trader: Escape from Nullia, played with #Genesys and the #MythicGMEmulator. The planet Nullia has persisted for generations with little outside influence. Whispers of an “Imperium” are just rumors. When an […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

In this week's episode of Rogue Trader: Escape from Nullia, Timon and Corille slip away from their posts in search of off-worlders. diceystories.com/ds447-rogue-trader… In #podcast or #novelization form. #DiceyStories #genesys #genesysrpg #scifi #writing […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A cartoon about book festivals for @theguardian.com

Panel 1
Caption: The town is famed for its year-round book festival, but for one weekend in summer, it closes.
The literary people leave on a fleet of coaches and the tents are dismantled.

Image: Workers take down a tent. A bus departs.

Panel 2
Caption: The unbroken parade of bookshops on the high street move novels and tote bags to back rooms and fill their shelves with everyday items

Image: A bookshop with shelves containing eggs, loo roll, a coffee pot, a bucket, bleach, a pineapple, etc

Panel 3
Caption: With no talks, signings, or workshops to attend, the townsfolk gather on the green, conversing uncertainly on non-literary topics.

Image: people on the green with speech bubbles labelled "The weather", "Football", and "Proposed Ring-road"

Panel 4
Caption: Everyone enjoys the novelty, but agrees that one weekend is enough. On Monday morning the festival resumes with a kev-note address from Robert Macfarlane.

Image: A fascinated audience watches Robert talk, a projector shows a book with a bird on the cover.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

My #ttrpg #ActualPlay #Podcast, #DiceyStories, will be launching a new campaign in June played with #Genesys and the #MythicGMEmulator. Rogue Trader: Escape from Nullia is set in the universe of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40K. It takes its inspiration from the #WH40K #RogueTrader video game […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/

Title: Specialist delivery services available from local bookshops

A chart showing the services folowing this structure:
G. Genre
H. How To order
M. Method of Delivery

G. Romance
H. A trusted servant dispatched with a secret letter
M. A brooding Aristocrat on a Black horse

G. Murder-mystery
H. A telephone call from within a locked room
M. A bookseller/ gentleman detective

G. Science fiction
H. A robot bearing a holographic Message
M. Teleported from an orbital data platform

G. Horror
H. Screams. Awful, bloodcurdling screams.
M. An evil thing. Horrible beyond Comprehension

G; Fantasy
H. Runes engraved on an enchanted Elven sword
M. A postal goblin Riding on a talking raven

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Just finished a campaign, the first of a projected three-part series. Very happy with how it all turned out, even though my PC was completely overwhelmed with strain by the final encounter. We had some nice twists and turns along the way. This was originally a 3-hour module for a convention, but […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Not as many colors for this year's eggs. I did onion skins, red cabbage, and red wine. #eggs #Easter #dye #crafts

Dyed eggs in two cartons. They are a mix of colors and some have lines on them left by electrical tape or rubber bands that have since been removed. Yellow and red onion skins resulted in mottled yellow brown and reddish brown colors. Red cabbage made dark teal blue. The lighter blue are from red cabbage also, but I rubbed off the sediment. Red wine made a dark purple. You might not be able to tell, but they are glinting and sparkling due to the sugar deposits left by the wine.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

I set aside my embroidery this week to resume some darning.

A pair of blue and black toe socks on my wife's feet, their undersides kicked up into the air to be visible. Darned sections on the heels, the balls, and several toes create a riot of orange, green, red, yellow, blue, and white.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Thank you for joining us for A Year in Monsoon Jungle, and accompanying us for all the time we’ve spent on Alpha Centauri. This story is well and truly wrapped up now, and the Dicey Stories podcast will be taking a bit of a hiatus. Look for us to return to your feed later this spring with Rogue […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

Just lost a two-player Terraforming Mars game by one point. The deciding factor? The search for extraterrestrial life *finally* paid off for my wife. After half a dozen games and countless dollars, those tiny little microbes showed up at last! #boardgames #TerraformingMars

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Looking at other people's photos of Australian storks made me wonder if I'd ever gotten any good shots of one when I saw hundreds and hundreds of them near Darwin. It turns out, no, I didn't. But I did discover that 8 years ago I photographed this awesome Masked Lapwing! #WildOz #birds #birding

A Masked Lapwing in the center of a grass and dirt patch of land. The bird has long pink legs, gray wings and back, a white chest, and a black head top. The masked part of the name comes from the bright yellow jowls and ridge that surround the yellow eyes and beak. A second similar bird is off to the upper right, a bit out of focus.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Today #DiceyStories continues a small series that concludes our exploration of the #AlphaCentauri setting. Our Chronicles of Chiron characters have been ported to my very own #ttrpg, A Year in Farm Valley. This second episode is bushfruit season. Mariah and Fritz get their first products to […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Have you ever read a book set at a magical boarding school in England and wondered why the adult staff aren't doing anything about the supernatural problems the site faces? Well, then I recommend The Incandescent by Emily Tesh to you. Turns out competent adults can make a difference! […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

My wife got MegaCity: Oceania for the holidays after trying it out at the local tabletop convention. It involves some dexterity (you have to construct your building and then push it into place). We had a good time trying out the 2-player mode, and our scores ended […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A table with a boardgame set up. There are hexes of various colors to represent the building type. The buildings on the hexes are three dimensional, composed of irregularly-shaped pieces of plastic stacked precariously atop each other. The tallest one is over 120 mm (representing 120 floors). Small colored cubes on each hex represent who made the building. On the sides of the picture are visible some of the cards from the game, which are building requirements. There are also a few small blue hexes visible. These are scoring chits.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Over the holiday break, I had a chance to play Gibberers with friends who'd learned it at PAXU (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380109/…). It's great linguistic fun as you slowly build up a corpus of words to be […] [Original post on dice.camp]

A clipboard holding a sheet of paper with the alphabet along the left edge. In each letter's row, are made-up words along with a one-word English word for each. There are about 40 made-up words, culminating in the one for "attorney general".

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

A #ttrpg book I worked on is coming to game stores at last! I am excited to see the final product, as I last saw it in simple Word doc form. Ships of the Shattered Empire is a supplement for #Genesys, specifically of the #TwilightImperium flavor. So if you liked Embers of the Imperium, this […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

Just played #WinterRabbit. Technically we lost at the start of the fourth round when no one put out a task of a necessary color, but we played an alternate timeline with that color available and made it to winter with enough supplies for the village. Victory went to Opossum (consolation for not […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

Today marks one year of #ParkRun for me. I've managed to do the 5k 32 times and have volunteered 13 times, usually as parkwalker or as the barcode scanner. It's a great community and I'm really glad I have one nearby.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

Corvids *know* they look good.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

I did a drawing of a deep sea isopod

A drawing from a paint program of a realistic gray deep seal isopod looking at you with dark slightly intimidating unknowable but cute eyes. It has 14 legs, not all shown. It is resting on some books "Secrets of the sea" and "Mariana Trench Travel Guide"

Maybe if you ask nicely it will let you read its favorite books.

Danielle @danielledoesdata.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

"Experienced Lawyers" sketch from #SNL this week was phenomenal. Just the right level of unexpected #comedy absurdity without the bit going too long. ⚖️ 💼 🐢

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Phew! Just survived running my first network encounter using Android: Shadow of the Beanstalk for Genesys. It's definitely its own thing, but the mechanics are similar enough to combat and social that we picked it up pretty fast #ttrpg #sotb #genesys

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

My game A Year in Farm Valley is ready! You have inherited a derelict farm near a small town. Over the course of a year, you will settle into life there, improving the property, exploring the environment, getting to know the townsfolk, establishing a business, and celebrating it all […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books. p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at www.tomgauld.com

Macho editions: classics reworked for men!

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
33% more war!

In search of Lost time by Marcel Proust
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
Less remembering, more action!

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
More information about the cars!

Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
with a large bright yellow label which reads:
Jack Reacher Cameo!

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

My wife and I just watched Listers, and it was great. We're just the right level of birder for this comedic documentary — we like watching birds and know quite a few, but we would never go through the inconvenience of a "big year." This film was both highly entertaining and had lots of lovely […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

There's something very nice about being able to say to my wife, "Hey, you want to play another scene or two of our game?" as if our #ttrpg was a boardgame. No need to schedule with additional parties, no need for either of us to prep. We're using the Mythic GM Emulator alongside Genesys, and […]

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

If you're in #Arizona or the US Southwest (or want to visit there), the RinCon tabletop gaming convention is fast approaching. It's Oct 3-5 this year. I just signed up to run three sessions of A Year in Farm Valley, and my wife will be running a Genesys game and Sushi Go. There will be a lot of […]

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Dan Drake 🦆 @ddrake.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

After you've learned Discrete Mathematics with Ducks.... www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics… ...you can, it seems, learn Bayesian analysis with dogs. #math #dogs #ducks

The cover of the book "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis", which has pictures of dogs.

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

Here is my spark bird story: I’ve long enjoyed hiking, and I took a casual interest in the woodpeckers and blue jays in my local forest where I grew up in New Jersey. However, I did not become a birder until I stepped off a plane in Central Australia in 2017 and saw my first Galah. These pink […]

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nai :tranarchy_punk_lesbian: @handle.invalid · 18/08/2025

I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

My wife and I have started a WH40K Rogue Trader campaign played using Genesys and the Mythic GM Emulator. We play just one or two scenes at a time and then take a break. This is working out really well for us, since using the GME is a different sort of mental workout from both standard GMing and […]

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

Oh, you.... kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/…

kieranhealy.org

ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. Billed as “smarter, faster, and more useful,” OpenAI co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman lauded the company’s new model as ushering in a new era of ChatGPT. “I think having something like GPT-5 would be pretty much unimaginable at any previous time in human history,” he said ahead of Thursday’s launch. GPT-5’s release and claims of its “PhD-level” abilities in areas such as coding and writing come as tech firms continue to compete to have the most advanced AI chatbot.

Danielle @danielledoesdata.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Apparently, scientists are working on making artificial blood. But the person in charge of the project is named Dr. Doctor? What kind of comic book timeline is this? #pun #science #medicine text.npr.org/nx-s1-5477632

Scientists are developing artificial blood that could save lives in emergencies

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

Game time! Pulling out the #MythicGMEmulator to play some #GMless #Genesys. We're going to try out my wife's #wh40k #RogueTrader one shot with her getting to also be a PC. We'll see how far off the rails the GM emulator takes us compared to when she's run this #ttrpg traditionally. #roguetrader40k

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jendefer @jendefer.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

A Year in Farm Valley, my #GMless #ttrpg inspired by #StardewValley, is reaching completion. As I finish polishing it off, I'll be sharing session reports of the playtests. Today's is the first playtest, in #SoloRPG mode. Stella inherits a derelict farm near the small town of Cedar Cove from […]

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