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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 11h

This is your one week* warning ahead of Arbor Point Antiquity launching on Friday the 16th. Anyone looking to get up to speed quickly can check out the new setting primer i've just put together all pretty like ✨ *(okay like slightly less but i was busy yesterday and the primer wasnt done yet :P)

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This absolutely is neglecting a huge number of immensely formative books from my early childhood that are just lost to my truly shocking memory. Notable omissions likely include things like warrior cats, eragon, the inkheart books, the darran shan series, and likely way more I dont recall.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

my players are already stiching them together from known info im so proud 😊

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Massive Arbor Point Update, the pre-game scouting for all four areas of military activity on the planet have just dropped. This involved like, a week of pouring over mechanical interactions and map stuff to get it just right and pulls data from like three different systems to work. Im proper chuffed

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

fucked up that in the rush to get all the setting stuff drafted for APA i have described sand as "lone and level" no less than 3 fucking times

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The last heading of that section is maybe the single best bit of writing on the whole damn wiki too.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is in part why the Arbor Point character guide ends with a lengthy lists of things your character isnt. Its already produced some minor friction for some peoples onboarding, but once folks get past it the results has been a cohesive feel to a player base in a game that hasn’t even started yet.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Going to take a beat here to cynically say I am actually running an o/u like shortly after the anniversary starting October 16th. Its 10 days with minimal live order processing, so shouldn’t devour your life quite as much, if you want a little ltrp as a treat. thegardenbelow.blot.im/apa-1/so-im-...

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of my favourite bits to come out the Arbor Point Antiquity pregame channels is the Mauran Standard Crate, an entirely tautological unit of measurement used to describe all in game quantities in a way that stops people doing fuck ass maths to poke holes in the world buildings.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The full unedited version of the new pfp, for anyone who missed it the other week.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Did a lil profile update given its been like a year and I wanted to use the new demure deer thing i painted the other week as my online visage for a while.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last (for now) and certainly not least the Eschatog’s Gambit are a religious organisation who carve out the brains of corpses fill them with computers and send them off as corpse soldiers against an evil basilisk that they made up to bust unions. arborpointantiquity.blot.im/the-eschatog...

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

&SCARR! is a retirement home for shitposting arms dealers who suck so so so so so so so badly but do kinda go off with their psychedelic Philip K Dick inspired futurist adjacent poetics. arborpointantiquity.blot.im/scarr

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

KLB is a bunch of media circus clout chasers imitating the aesthetics of rebellion to secure broader control on behalf of state run intelligence agencies. arborpointantiquity.blot.im/kalia-lang-b...

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Its actually legit kinda fucked how much a bunch of disparate wiki pages can suddenly be a whole ass books worth of writing if you throw it in affinity. The power of the blog really is in tricking yourself into thinking its not that much writing.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Playing around with laying out a few wiki pages in a fully laid out PDF on a bit of lark, and decided to give myself a little treat and write a fuck ass disclaimer at the front. Love a creepy clandestine monolith of all caps text. Its so soothing.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

managed to get my APA writing for the day done early, so I mocked up a little theoretical cover for a book version of the wiki that I might try and get sorted once season 1 is done. Popping that up on my itch might be a nice way to take donations for running it to? Much to think about.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I fucking love writing for &SCARR!, as a faction they just let me go whole hog on my bullshit so hard. Horrible bastard evil weapon manufactures who grew up terminally online while injecting philip k dick straight into their veins. My awful evil terrible bastard sons.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also featured in the update is this little visual primer on the faction. These were some of the first bits of key art I made for the game, and are intended to serve as the digital equivalent of things like costume briefs at more typical larps

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sorry if APA becomes everything I talk about for the next month but there’s like a dozen or so blog posts worth of my normal writing in this thing. Its been a real labour of love.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And because I like showing it off, here is a bunch of the key art i've been holding back from sharing for the last however long.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Best part of using an online whiteboard for ttrpgs is the shitty lil graveyard you can make for NPCs. Makes getting overwhelmed by fungi totally worth it :P

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always fun revisiting this idea when it does the rounds.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

okay i gave more of the level a shot and i think i just need to rotate the basement beneath the bonfire 90 degrees and its actually pretty good??? I know this shit too well lol.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

talking through some early game ds2 stuff and realising that despite my aphantasia i have an eerie recollection of specific fromsoft shortcuts. Idk how my brain manages to parse that much spacial awareness without being able to picture anything

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A little bit more play with the same vibes as the deer-girl-thing. Its such a warm and particularly charming colour pallet. Earnestly considering picking out this one as a new PFP.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A few lil work in progress shots, to give an idea of the physical process that goes into thinking through and refining ahead of the final properly scanned piece.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She's sort of like if a deer was a wolf was an antelope was a tree was a witch. Its just nice to be painting without a goal for a bit tbh, and im so fond of the warmer pinks and cool lilacs i've discovered 🥰

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

still thinking about these little tamagotchi ass lil guys. Deeply enamored by them.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What if there were three witches. Some kind of triple goddess. A sort of mother/maiden/crone type situation? Three sisters perhaps. Has anyone ever done this before? I think I might be the first to crack it.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not quite sure I parsed everything perfect, but I think this is close?

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If i learned one thing from Empire Larp, its that you gotta gotta gotta have a wiki page chock full of religious schisms for your players to chew on.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Feel like im hitting my stride on writing for APA. Hoping to have enough of the wiki built that I can be sharing pages and open up the discord before the end of august. If anyone is keen to get a peak at APA, its my big upcoming Live Text project and you can drop me a DM for the discord invite. 😊

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Seriously, check these things out, they're portentous as hell.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Was starting to get tired of working everything out in one long text doc, so I decided to finally get the WIP rules and setting doc ported over to a blot site. As per usual I've been sort of needlessly maximalist with the perhaps 2 bits of CSS code I know.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

my mum always lovingly referred to it as "the place health and safety goes to die". Its sort of crocodile branded but is also full of giant metal statues in various rust laden poses.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Consider: the utterly obscure British version of this is an attraction in Chester called The Crocky Trail. A sort of Total Wipeout gauntlet made Scrap Heap Challenge style that you are taken as a kid to do battle with rubber friction burns and fall in a river.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Scanning in a few old bits and bobs from my back archives to plunder for textures. Expect a new lil batch of them up on my itch some time in the next few days.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A phoenix hangs low over anvil, and my second Empire character rolls on into the laberynth

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sojus dangerous fr fr, woke up to this in my living room.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Worked out what I need in the core rules for Arbor Point and hot damn its not that complicated but its certainly not simple either. Hoping to get a draft up before I sneak off to Empire later this week.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If anyone wants an insight into why im Like This, heres a big stack of my old books im looking to bring home with me from this visit to my folks.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

From personal experience: Ranked competative trad actually ends in the winning team all flipping their genders after graduation and most of them wondering why we were even ranking things in the first place.

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Something something mechsplo has always been tapping into an existing theme in mech fiction

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I want to say these doodles are from shortly after I played the banner saga for the first time?

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

SHE WAS KIND OF COOKING BACK IN 2017 THOUGH

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Juniper Harper Lark @juniperhl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nothing more humbling than visiting your parents and looking at sketchbooks that are now a decade old and realising that holy fuck you have actually been learning to make things for a decade and its not a fluke and theres stuff in there that has direct lines to stuff you're Still Doing

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