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Julian Kay ⁕ Neurodiv TTRPG Designer/Writer ⁕ Designer: Mutants in the Now, Faith & Sails ⁕ Freelancer: WotC, Green Ronin, Pelgrane, and 2x Ennie-winner Planewalker! ⁕ TMNT SME, FYI ⁕ Avatar by @retrodynamics.bsky.social ⁕ linktr.ee/juliankay

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ARBco @j-k.games · 7h
Reminded I need to write a sidebar noting there isn't a "Nazi dimension" in Mutants in the Now. I don't even have anything remotely like a book to put it in. I just want to write it.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 28/09/2026
This episode had me wondering if the creators were taking inspiration from a certain other role-playing game. #tmnt
Donatello and Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 cartoon examine the rubble of an attack in trenchcoats. Donatello holds up a blasted piece of debris, saying, "Look, a mini-missile."From the same episode, the "Destructor X" robot enters an apartment, looking like a muscle-bound robot where one arm and leg are skeletal and the other two are muscular, it has a masked skull face, spiked shoulder, and a large storage tank on its back.The "Destructor X" opens its chest to reveal a large cannon that basically fills its entire torso, and says, "Commencing destruction sequence."
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Molly @mollymetroid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
End of month, bills accumulating higher than I can manage without help. Need to replAny assistance is greatly appreciated, this shit never ends. #helpsky #mutualaid #transcrowdfund paypal.me/mollymetroid
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ARBco @j-k.games · 28/09/2026
A reminder that the TMNT are revealed to the world and celebrated for saving it at the end of Season 1, and are back to hiding at the start of Season 2. Beyond a certain point they're clearly writing with the attitude of "it's just a show, you should really just relax."
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ARBco @j-k.games · 28/09/2026
I avoided doing things like an option to select a species in Mutants in the Now for just that reason; people who are gonna feel strongly enough to do the thing will do it, you don't need me to tell you to do it. (But I would still suggest trying your hand at letting randomness do its thing.)
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
 
Characters
 
Hannah - Goat - Daryl and Seth's Daughter

Daryl - Bear - Hannah's Papa
 
Seth - Otter - Hannah's Dad
 
Panel 1
 
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
 
Hannah's family is having dinner.
 
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
 
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
 
Panel 2
 
Seth puts on a cute happy face. The backgrounds shifts to a pink color with hearts floating all around them.
 
Seth: Is it LOVE?
 
Daryl's face remains emotionless.
 
Panel  3
 
Daryl looks at Seth and responds.
 
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Panel 4
 
Daryl looks away.
 
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
 
Seth: I DID!
  
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
 
Seth: NO!
 
Daryl: Yes.

Hannah is ignoring this and just browsing on her phone.
 
Hannah is ignoring all this and has pulled out her phone.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 28/09/2026
On the Patreon this weekend for backers, the next mutable species for Mutants in the Now is the shoebill, a popular modern theropod! #ttrpg #tmnt #furry #scalie
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Sunday Species Sampler: Shoebill | Julian Kay
Reminding us that every bird is also a literal avian theropod dinosaur. Shoebill Often standing patiently on the hunt, this bird's massive b
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ARBco @j-k.games · 25/09/2026
What Facebook is like now:
A "Sarah's Scribbles" cartoon posted to Facebook where a faceless representation of AI tells Sarah "My outputs look just like yours now." The remaining panels have Sarah say, "I think- you missed- the point.", ending on her enjoying herself while drawing flowers with physical implements.

Below all that, Facebook's generative chat function, unprompted and unwanted, promises to answer "How can AI complement human creativity?"
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ARBco @j-k.games · 24/09/2026
And today on a Throwback Thursday, it's time to talk about how heartbreakers are rad, actually?! Free for all on my Patreon! #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign #dnd
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Throwback Thursday: Ludosophy! - In Defense of Heartbreakers | Julian Kay
Original Commentary - December 4th, 2020 I was doing a little bit of research looking up heartbreakers and then was reminded of Five Moons R
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ARBco @j-k.games · 23/09/2026
Today as a Special Species Sampler on the Patreon for backers, it's the tilcayo, ready to mutate! Maybe you've heard of it? #ttrpg #tmnt #furry
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Special Species Sampler: Tiger Cat, Tilcayo | Julian Kay
Freshly picked. Tiger Cat, Tilcayo Only recently discovered, this cat went unnoticed due to its close similarity to other “tiger cats”.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 23/09/2026
Borrowing and copying game books as a means of piracy here in the states wasn't that unusual back in the '90s and '00s, at least in my experience. My strat was to pick and choose only the parts I felt were absolutely necessary for what I needed to play to save money on the overall copy costs. #ttrpg
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ARBco @j-k.games · 23/09/2026
"Study the deadliest martial art known: Craw Wurm Boxing. Gain the fighting power of four to six men!"
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ARBco @j-k.games · 23/09/2026
"Shredder and Krang are a bickering couple" is a recurring gag I do rather enjoy. #tmnt
In a screenshot from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Krang, an alien brain in a robot body, threatens his villainous compatriot with "If those two bumbling cretins spoil my plan-"And Krang finishes with "- you're gonna pay for it big time!"Shredder, a blade-covered and armored ninja, replies with, "I never realized how purple picks up the lavender in your eyes."Krang is taken aback, saying, "Oh, thank you. Do you-"
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Kamala Kara A 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @covok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... We have launched a Quickstart for the game, so people can get a taste before we go live! #TTRPG #Digimon #Tabletop #RPG #Roleplaying #Game #Pokemon #PbtA #Fate #SavageWorlds #Dungeons&Dragons #D&D #Kickstarter #Crowdfunding
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apparently it's Fat Bear Week 🐻
A bear viking holding an axe
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ARBco @j-k.games · 22/09/2026
I didn't mean to make a #tmnt- themed slushie, it just kind of happened.
A top- down view of a slushie that's mostly green but with a bit of yellow in the middle.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3348 finds a creature out of time
Four bunnies encounter a microraptor, a small dinosaur with colorful feathers. They are standing around the microraptor, who regards them with a curious bird-like grin
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unseenlibrarian @unseenlibrarian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Unfortunately, electric bill was about 160 dollars more than last month, which was about 100 dollars more than it had ever been before, which has put us in a position of "Choose between power and groceries". I really just need enough to get through till next Friday, so 100-200 would cover us.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026
It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS.
Fox News headline: Starbucks agrees to DEI overhaul after blockbuster Florida legal showdown. The coffee giant will pay $1M and submit annual compliance certifications for four years under the agreement
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ARBco @j-k.games · 20/09/2026
This week on the Sunday Species Sampler for backers on the Patreon, it's the black swan for Mutants in the Now, ready to mutate! Impossible? It's less impossible than you think- #ttrpg #tmnt #furry
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Sunday Species Sampler: Swan, Black | Julian Kay
I read the 2007 book, not sure it really had a strong thesis, tho- Swan, Black Once used as a metaphorical device for the rare or impossible
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ARBco @j-k.games · 20/09/2026
They used to be there. Now they're here.
An old storefront and apartment building seen from the street, with "Furry's" as a faded "ghost sign" on the front.A newer brick storefront with most of the windows bricked up, but with a clear sign that says "Furry's" on the front.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 19/09/2026
For backers on my Patreon, I went ahead and started toying with converting the SRD 5.2.1 to Mutants in the Now! This lets me play around with some planned fantasy elements for the game while having a structure to do it through. #ttrpg #furry #dnd
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Mutants in the Now: Fifth Edition Adventures | Julian Kay
Every campaign is its own reality. First off, don't panic. As an indie creator, I can work in things that I just find amusing. Doin' it for
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats
Digital illustration of a Leopardus tilcayo with two images of the cat in profile and in a crouched pose
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ARBco @j-k.games · 18/09/2026
Today on Throwback Thursday on the Patreon for Riffs, I look back on the introductory adventure for Rifts, how it falls down, and how I would improve it! (It will not actually improve.) Free for all, have a look! #ttrpg #rifts #rpgdesign #palladiumbooks
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Throwback Thursday: Riffs - Programmed Adventures | Julian Kay
Original Commentary - December 2nd, 2020 To peel back the curtain a bit, I have a backlog of articles prepped in advance. The one slated for
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ARBco @j-k.games · 17/09/2026
Also, of course, this is why D&D has had to traditionally italicize their spell names all over , because you have *shield* and shields and *darkness* and darkness and sleep and *sleep*, etc.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 17/09/2026
After declaring Mutants from the Archives: Pet Shop Blues had every member of the genus *felis*, I had a moment of mild panic when I saw this before relaxing once I saw it was a member of *leopardus*. (A genus that also includes the ocelot from Pet Shop Blues, but, ironically, not leopards.) #ttrpg
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Will Munn @ Adept Icarus @adepticarus.com · 15/09/2026
WORLDBUILDING IS PLAY!!! People who've played Arium know it's true! It's not too late. We have 48 hours and a couple of stretch goals hanging in the balance. Join us. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ade...
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Arium Complete Box Set
3x Ennie-Nominated Collaborative Tools for Any RPG Group.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 16/09/2026
Going over D&D spells and the thing that really I struggle to accept in their construction is... naming. "Darkness?" "Shield?" "Message?" Dammit, wizards, work on your name game. "Magic Missile" at least alliterates. Dr. Strange or Pandelume could never utter something as pedestrian as "Aid."
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Sylvan Lawrence Is Carfunding @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure who here heard already, but Nic from IPR was in a really bad car crash two weeks ago, and his car is completely totaled. Anything you can give would be immensely appreciated, and even if you can't, please please please spread the word on this! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
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Donate to Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement, organized by David Gales
I'm raising funds for my dear friend Nicholas, who was recently in a ter… David Gales needs your support for Support Nicholas's Recovery and Car Replacement
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かねこともみ @kotomoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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ARBco @j-k.games · 13/09/2026
You know, I'll just bring up that close peer @nekoewen.bsky.social did a cozy, cooperative dungeon fantasy game (using the translated TTRPG Golden Sky Stories) well before it was ready to trend. It's due for another look! #ttrpg #dnd #cozy www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...
The cover to "Fantasy Friends", an expansion for Golden Sky Stories featuring a cover with rimming hills next to a shoreline,  with several adventurers chatting as they walk with fishing poles. A fluttering banner and trees can be seen in the distance.A sample page from the interior where a kindly beholder describes herself and tries to dispel some myths regarding the monstrosity of her kind.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 13/09/2026
All the Mutants in the Now books and (excepting *Map*) have now had Mutants in the Ooops! entries added on @itch.io, @drivethrurpg.com, and @rpgtrader.bsky.social covering errata and updates for every physical printing! Or you can grab them all at j-k.games! #ttrpg #tmnt #furry #scalie
The first two pages of Mutants in the Ooops! for revised copies of Mutants in the Now, showing the intro and a variety of terminology corrections.
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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 12/09/2026
I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Imagine trying to sell your soul to Satan and he just sounds like this.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 12/09/2026
You think you've seen everything, but then you stumble across the existence of a comic series created and published to promote a TTRPG that I don't think was ever actually released. #comics #ttrpg
The cover of "Battlearmor #1" from Eternity Comics, which proclaims "Now a role-playing game!" and "Armored warriors versus alien invaders in the 21st century!" The cover features a silver robot armor with one fist raised as flames ripple behind it.The cover of "Battlearmor #2" from Eternity Comics, which proclaims "Now a role-playing game!" and "Armored warriors versus alien invaders in the 21st century!" The cover features a samurai-themed armor fighting a a large, ogrish alien with a seemingly biological spiky staff weapon. The alien looks a bit like a tusked panda with the way it's inked.The cover of "Battlearmor #3" from Eternity Comics, which proclaims "Now a role-playing game!" and "Armored warriors versus alien invaders in the 21st century!" The cover features a woman in tight pants and a tank top sitting on rocks and working ong a samurai-looking helmet as a figure in red armor creeps up (or is just watching?) in the background.An advertisement for "Battle Armor: The Role-Playing Game of Armored Combat in the 21st Century", featuring a name in white armor putting his helmet on as  we see a stylized background with a woman's face, an armor technical readout, some kind of leaping mechanical walker, and the cat-eyed brow of an alien superimposed upon it all.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 12/09/2026
AAA games in lyrical form-
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The Beatles - The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show)
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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ARBco @j-k.games · 12/09/2026
Pre-Launch Page; an innovation developed by crowdfunding sites to add an extra needed step of tension, horror, and doubt to the crowdfunding process.
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Molly @mollymetroid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week multiple parts of my 3d printer gave up the ghost, and I can't afford to fix or replace any of this shit. Please help, I am a disabled trans woman on a fixed income without the printer to sell prints. #helpsky #mutualaid #transcrowdfund paypal.me/mollymetroid
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Kamala Kara A 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @covok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Petmon's Pre-Launch Page is Live! If you want to be updated when we go live on our kickstarter, please hit the notify button here! Petmon is our diceless, digimon-inspired TTRPG. #kickstarter #digimon #tabletop #roleplaying #TTRPG #TRPG #RPG #Game www.kickstarter.com/projects/cov...
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Coming soon: Petmon TTRPG
The Diceless, "Digimon Inspired" TTRPG
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unseenlibrarian @unseenlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My new one-page Epistolary game: Steampunks, is up at itch and rpg trader. It's a game of being mad about genre to the point that you write into a magazine letters column. unseenlibrarian.itch.io/steampunks-a... rpg-trader.com/products/930...
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Steampunks: An Epistolary RPG by unseenlibrarian
A one-page TTRPG of being angry about genre
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ARBco @j-k.games · 07/09/2026
Remember to save your work, folks.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 07/09/2026
Did you know on my Patreon I've been adding species on a weekly basis for backers for Mutants in the Now? This week, it's the red-crowned crane! We've had "Crane Style" in fighting styles for awhile now, it's time to have a suitable animal to perform those kicks- #ttrpg #tmnt #furry #scalie
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Sunday Species Sampler: Crane, Red-Crowned | Julian Kay
I've had "crane style" for the last four publications, we're past due- Crane, Red-Crowned Recognizable by the red spot atop its head, this i
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ten US states now ban puppy-mill sales in pet shops. Delaware recently became the 10th barring retailers from selling dogs and cats bred in high-volume mills. The measures build on 530 local ordinances across 31 states, backed by Republicans and Democrats alike. buff.ly/tFRiqsf #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Big win: 10 US states now ban the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet shops
Pets are not commodities. And now 10 states have made it illegal to sell puppy mill puppies in pet stores.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 05/09/2026
There was an issue with the most recent digital version of Mutants in the Next (arachnid-free version) still being infested! I got a quick fix now up (on @itch.io, @drivethrurpg.com, @rpgtrader.bsky.social, and Bits and Mortar) until the larger upcoming revision, so it's now safe from spiders.
The cover to "Julian Kay's Mutants in the Next", featuring a polar bear in rough rags with a propeller for a weapon, a punk bluebird hacker, and a shark tough in worn business casual along with a shark kid in a hoodie. The subtitle says "arachnid-free", along with "companion 1 for the retro-modern mutant-animal rpg!"
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ARBco @j-k.games · 02/09/2026
Folks trying to reinvent homeopathy with tool-assisted plagarism, only 0.01% of our game uses it, our work becomes more creative and ethical through a ~mysterious process~
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Scott Harrison @8bitliv.es · 01/09/2026
I did a test character roll for Mutants in the Now for a Human Born Mutant - turning my Hrothgar WOL into a Human mutated into a Tiger...because it is canon that in my character's lore she was a Half-Orc barbarian who took Hrothgal HRT. @j-k.games games are good. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Mirini original D&D character sketch by Miss Genki Art.Mirina Cenasch - only safe for work image of her.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 31/08/2026
Looking forward to about seven years from now when we can all finally call them hobbits again.
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ARBco @j-k.games · 29/08/2026
"Well, claws should cost a lot because unlike a knife, you can can get captured and they take your knife!" "Or, worse, they could clip your claws..."
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