Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After three revisions over three years, it was not enough to equalize the work. I love the work, and I will finish it because i have honor. But $4800 over three years in towns that charge $1500 a bed for a month, committing, say 5% of my working hours, is still low, though it sounded insane. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Part 2: when we all transparently declare how much we charge for things, harmonize into a pragmatic range for newbies, and move forward having made manifest concrete numbers, with caveat that life is flexible and so to allow wiggle? I charged 9.25c a word to ghost write a novel out of screenplays. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You want a song, it’s Portishead’s “We Carry On” . Also glad that I slowed to see the car make on the license plate “N 8YOND” matched my expectations today. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Couldn’t quite encapsulate what falling down the feed of your last some months meant in comment form so it just became a follow, but a follow felt something like ‘a fellowship with intent to say something someday’. Glad to read you, glad to hear you read this. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Got some time to be myself on an airplane and remembered what happens. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Awesome. That multi room djinn or whatever is spectacular and unexpected. 000
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you haven’t gone to print, that L7 in the key caught my eye as out of alignment. If you have, worse things have happened by a long shot. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Immediately tangent to “The Big Chill”, a movie I saw long after the soundtrack which was a family staple, and remains damn good. Here however, a much different circumstance. And yes, confirm, the sentences lick nicely, the way a candle flame might. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Failed to do this the other day. Suspend disbelief juuust right. Have been installing electric conduit, digging trenches. Blah blah blah, hands-on-build-shit. Session demanded we rig out of a natural chimney. The thing drummed up by Player C would not have worked. DM applauded. Wish I had. 000
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026whole video color palette is gold too, which speaks well of where and how you live. always pleased to see your art(s) and those of those around you. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Give me time. Finishing building house. Then I can start drumming up work for the Book. And these bold things are top of the list. Your bold things. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Gorgeous. Reminiscent of a series of books by Peter Pauper Press back when that did reprints of some oldies but goodies. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025An old haunted nest. I walk past it sometimes on my way to work. I'll keep watch on your scavengings and support intermittently, as seems to be the best approach to anything in these ever-flowing spaces. Best of luck. 020
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025These are each in them rich nodes to be exploited. I pick only the recent one to react to or leave a whisper behind because it's here and easy. It scares me how much material you've littered about to explore, only as I stare at the sand in my hands falling down to the wet mud at my feet. Go go go. 120
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Bro, @lukegearing.bsky.social : To Reveal the Secrets of the Anatomy... . . . Me proper birthing an abomination to gain the spell extension on this one over and over, don't care what it takes or what my womb looks like after. The organs will delight, and best believe there will be witnesses. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025also, fukit. a rangu treehouse; —orangehaired, apelike creatures with toolmaking & weaving capacities—, practicing sketch to digital photoshop transfers for someday, maybe. 020
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Hesitate to call it a 'playlog', as ToC = / How AI will fails you / Making imprisonment complex / The fear of darkness / Faeries have entered my weapons auguryinmud.blogspot.com/2025/08/sess... @davidhoskins.bsky.social @lukegearing.bsky.social if use of be-riddled Swyver is sacrilege, say so.auguryinmud.blogspot.comSession 10 - Playlog - CorrhéoAs it worked nicely last time and I'm forever a creature seeking habit, I'll offer another ToC. Working Player's Survey of Corrhé... 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025docs.google.com/document/d/1... fodderdocs.google.comLanguage of Corrheo.docxLanguage I've struggled with a development in language that several new characters have brought to my table. Two of them have five starting languages. One wants to learn an immigrant tongue. Too: I'v... 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Coo. Cut it up. Glue it in. I'll post you a .doc version so you don't have to rewrite it. First a shower tho. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025@grinningrat.itch.io — yo, read your anti-frictionless memo on the Rat, and was already thinking about language because of some new characters to my game. they rolled in with 5 languages and all I could think was I GOTTA ATTACK THAT. so I wrote this: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ec5n...drive.google.comLanguage of Corrheo.pdf 211
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025You're on point with interviews. Most people buying games regularly also make -something- on the side. People who make something on the side like to know others are doing the same. One four-page effort at making the effort less lonely. These interviews will reveal what's going on by their nature. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Whims do work only if followed. Stunning form. Very like my home. 000
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025More from Big Dave, @lukegearing.bsky.social I took your Grand Unified Theory and applied it. I couldn't hit so many dice pools and stay sane so I tightened it to only d8's. Re: the Wé, here— drive.google.com/file/d/1txdU... And thanks for the seed. Implemented this eve. 1 success.drive.google.com 210
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Ah. The shirt tightens around my chest. I scratch at a bit of chest hair. I enter through the exit at the shopping market and ignore the old man grumbling as he exits. I even ignore the way the basket hits the sliding door. I tell you now because I don't care. This haircut has me. This pink skin. 020
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Dog day aside: @lukegearing.bsky.social, the fact that Big Dave of Swyvers example text fame showed up at number 6 in the Random Affairs table behind the Duke of Shalshrop sent me absolutely sniggering this eve. Kudos. Sincerely hope there is a real Big Dave out there. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Great subject matter for lichdom, if you're looking to saturate enemies with a basis in reality, yah? "You enter the chamber. Lots of oranges with the fuzz of rot around. A teenager lounges nearby, shirtless, in the same pants as a tight-skinned man who does not appear to blink as he looks at you." 000
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025@lukegearing.bsky.social, it was this particular Mien table when I hit my stride with the poetry of Acid Death Fantasy. I know that's a long way in, but it prompted me to go back and back again. 130
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Not the first time I've felt strange when someone from back when says 'remember when it was cool to be here' as I actively try to make the space cool to be in. Same trouble one faces with gentrification, methinks. 000
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Good review. I was ten pages in feeling similarly. Captured my sensations with a healthy balance of fairness. Review of a review says won't read it again but it met all my expectations and filled me up, early in the morn. 010
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025whats this execution? whats these fingerteeth playing around greedy tongues like bits of anemone? and did anyone deserve it? 100
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I realize you said sessions, not combats. I'm not sure what an intense session entails. Intensity is the gauge of good sessions, so I seek it by avoiding multi-tasking. Me looking elsewhere for things to throw at characters usually is me not remembering whats prepped that's most exciting. 000
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Don't use initiative, increase speed of my voice, become very demanding, make enemy death a single strike, use AC as measure of difficulty. Favor sensing who cares the most to find who to involve most; reward involvement with being called. I imagine those who don't speak prefer other aspects. 110
Hugh Bongo @hughbongo.bsky.social · 15/07/20251d4 misfortunes on those who desecrate that Skull 1 water to dust, 10', repeats thrice 2 anything touched it becomes bone 3 rations sour nightly 4 smellable by undead - a DM reader who wanted it 010