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#Mörktober the eighth. WAIL. A nice simple one today after the struggle of yesterday.

Monochromatic image of a vaguely luminescent pearl sitting in a clump of grass, seemingly watched over by several bright white fungi.

The text reads:
The Wailing of Stars

The first mockeries were naught but failures. Those that came after were frail, too reflective of dying humanity. The last-so few in number-were each granted a memory of the stars. Yet a grit of humanity remained within them and the stars soon perished.

These stones form within certain FRAIL MOCKERIES like pearls. Whilst they can rarely be found already removed, one can always be found within those so clearly touched by the dead stars if one knows to dig for them.

Produces 2d4 dense motes of light formed during the death of a distant star. The first 4 projectiles hit a single target of your choice. The remainder hit indiscriminately. Each deals 2 damage, ignoring armour.

Each pearl contains enough power to produce 20 points of light and collapses to nothing when the last is used.

Sacrificing an omen recharges the pearl by d20.

If the stone gains more charges than it can contain it explodes, dealing all of its newly contained damage at once.

Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 07/10/2026

#Mörktober the seventh. Surely not a worrying number in The Dying Land. Today's kicked my ass. Writing a module like this—out of sequence, in layout, trying not to think ahead (or backwards...)—gets hard when you're writing one of the final places without knowing what's come.

Monochromatic image of four kneeling individuals openly weeping and in despair around a strange effigy of an alien creature with branching feelers, a conical trunk and a curled tail, all standing upright on a small rise. Mycelium strands connect the weepers to the effigy.

The text reads:
Effigy of Despair
It used their bodies to construct the effigy; those that killed what they could not understand. In time they too perished, and it made frail mockeries to continue the work.

It must surely know that this will never succeed.

The FRAIL MOCKERIES bring bodies to the effigy-be they alive or dead-and place them in a ring before it. Lambent threads of mycelium reach from the soil to pierce the bodies, and spread through bone and sinew to pose them in a mimicry of lamentation.

Thus posed, they are fed from the soil to sustain them and in turn-acting as conduits-the effigy, as the land is drained of life to revive what was once taken.

Freeing the weepers only kills them. Yet without this constant source the effigy will eventually fall apart.

The frail mockeries long ran out of villagers.

If any of the characters are captured they're brought here to become one with the effigy.

Dead characters-regardless of if they were buried or simply left where they fell-are seen once more, positioned around the effigy.

JOINING WITH THE EFFIGY

Those connected to the effigy find their consciousness displaced to the SHARDS OF THE COSMOS.

Those who have been forcibly joined find their minds imprisoned in the SANCTUM to suffer eternal grief for a mother they have not themselves lost. Their physical bodies will feed the effigy and be fed until they perish.

Those who have partaken of THE BODY and accepted its gifts and demands can accept the mycelium's embrace and travel willingly to THE SHARDS OF THE COSMOS. Their bodies only perish if they let them.

IF THE EFFIGY IS DESTROYED

However it is destroyed, the Branching Worm is inconsolable. The ground shakes violently, and Silver Fog…

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 06/10/2026

What is it, but #Mörktober the sixth! Today was Fog.

Monochromatic image of a landscape of bare trees becoming hidden—perhaps consumed—by a fog filled with tiny lights.
The text reads:
Silver Fog

Memories of a place shift upon their recollection. Elements erased—hinged—altered. Grief finds release as tears turn to vapour, bearing with them the remembrance of the stars.
Silver vapours rise from the ground like morning mists. Constellations of cold light dance slowly within the fog, drawn together to merge and die and be reborn once more.
Where the silver fog lays thickest, recollections of that place become more arduous.
Or perhaps this is all a mere memory, the land itself erased—hinged—altered.
EFFECTS OF THE FOG
Unmark any one of the previously visited SHALLOW LOCATIONS. This place can no longer be simply PEREGRINATED to, and must be found again by chance.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 05/10/2026

Artist! Quote with your art with the best shadows! (I don't actually consider myself as such, but I saw this again recently and like how I managed to get it looking like it was caught in sudden lamplight in an otherwise pitch dark abyss.)

A jellyfish like creature with a hardened shell... Bell? Bioluminescent rings glow from its skin, as a hundred thin, spiraling, curling, reaching tendrils drift below it.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 05/10/2026

#Mörktober the fifth. Cape. The Branching Worm just waving all the red flags.

Monochromatic digital drawing of a skeleton in a faded black hooded cape sitting cross legged. All around him pale long thin mushrooms grow.
The text reads
Saprophytic Shroud
The eremite wore this threadbare hooded shroud the day his Godhead revealed itself to him. He swore his life to it, plucked the threads that grew from the mulch and the soil, and sewed them into the cloth to bear the Branching Worm for the rest of his days.

Those who wear the shroud whilst in the lands touched by the Branching Worm feel no hunger and no thirst and need not eat nor drink to sustain themselves. They cannot be surprised nor ambushed, and can always go first in combat.

The wearer sees the familiar faces of loved ones where the Frail Mockeries have none. Test PRESENCE DR14 to even want to hurt them.

Those host to the nymphs of the marrow tick see that the branching luminous threads revealed by their bite reach from the soil to touch and connect with the threads in the shroud, passing nutrients.

Removal of the shroud is seen as a betrayal, something the Branching Worm cannot handle in the depths of its grief. It cuts you off, and before long you will die of thirst and hunger, waiting an eternity for the return of its gifts.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 04/10/2026

It's not been seven days yet, sure, but tomorrow is a Monday and the start of a new week, so here's the first week of #Mörktober in one post. CW: ticks, arachnids, spider-like appendages in the fourth image.

Monochrome square image with a black furred ghost sprouting fungal bodies. The text reads: Capra Sporelings. Even long before these black-hearted goats began consuming the fruiting bodies of the Branching Worm the herder feared them. If he still had the capacity to do so-so eaten away has his brain become-he would wish only for their slaughter.
HP5 MORALE 8 MYCELIUM HIDE -d2
RAM d4 and BITE d2 SPECIAL each group of capra sporelings have been re-molded by their fungal infection.
HOW HAVE THE GOATS BEEN RE-MOLDED

I. SHARED MIND: The goats each follow the same decision each round.

2. RUPTURING BODIES: Spores fill the air upon their death. Test TOUGHNESS or become infected.

3. FUNGAL MIMICS: Not actual capra sporelings. I HP, NO ARMOUR, but otherwise identical.

Image depicts a silhouette of a farmhouse on a low rise. All around it grow fields of severed limbs. Mycelium and fruiting fungus encroach on all sides, held back by the farmhouse somehow. The text depicts a comforting place, cursed to cause those who rest here to regrow lost limbs like a hydra. Apparently, the accused farmer is still here, locked in the basement, and wanting to murder the one who cursed him.

Image of a white crystal or mineral shard bearing a glyph featuring a triangle with circles branching from it.
The text reads:
Found embedded in a pile of rot and fungi.
Above it, its last carved glyph still sheds a cold and distant light.
Born from the memories of long dead stars, the shards bear the glyphs of beloved gods and forbears.
The Branching Worm still grieves for its mother, and so this shard was formed.
THIS A PERSON KNOWS UPON FIRST HOLDING THE PALE SHARD:

Pierce your flesh with the shard to displace yourself and those around you to the most recent location this shard was used to carve its Glyph.

The shard deals d2 damage, +1 for every creature displaced.

THIS REMAINS UNKNOWN TO THOSE WHO USE IT:

The pale shard can only displace twenty living creatures before it shatters, instead sending those in that final displacement to the Shards of the Cosmos.

This pale shard has already displaced d10 living creatures.

Image is of a monochromatic landscape, a tree silhouette framing the left edge of the image. A bloated and monstrous tick the size of a calf crawls over its roots accompanied by its nymph young.

The text reads:

Marrow Ticks.

These bastards have always been here, drawn by the trees of the ossuary. They were-until of late-poisoned and driven back by those who live and work in the woods.

When encountered, roll d666

For every 1 and 2 rolled, an adult marrow tick is encountered.

For every 3, 4 and 5 rolled 1d4 nymphs furtively latch onto a different character.

Every 6 is a lucky escape.

Those latched onto begin to see branching threads of ephemeral light reaching from the soil.

The DR of all tests is increased by 1 for each tick, and the character cannot heal from resting.

A visual check will always reveal a marrow tick nymph. Removal of the parasite hurts like hell; d2 damage per tick removed.

ADULT MARROW TICK

HP 12 MORALE 10 IRON BITE d6 SPECIAL bursts upon death. Those coated become INFECTED. Uses its incredible bulk to pin victims. Test AGILITY DR12 to avoid. Once pinned, its next IRON BITE deals d12 and shatters bone on 10+.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 04/10/2026

#Mörktober the fourth; Marrow. Spending my morning coffee time researching tick mouths was not the best time I've had. I hope this one gets picked up by any filters for those that need them. CW: ticks, arachnids, spiders.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 03/10/2026

For those who maybe want to play this but would like co-op as an option, this is a good time for it.

Promotional image of Demon's Souls (a figure in armour facing off against many foes with a burning castle wall in the distance) with white text reading: "Return to Boletaria 2026 .

Play online on ps5, ps3 or PC emulated version.

Create a new character.

Engage in co-op and PvP.

Help with character and world tendency.

October 4 - October 18."

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 02/10/2026

Of course sometimes I want to assault the eyes and all subtly goes out the window lol. At which point /break those words to pieces too/.

An example of text all broken up and disjointed at odd angles, sometimes by the word, and then by the letter.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 02/10/2026

Again, thanks! 1 or 2 taps on the arrow keys to move boxes, & an angle shift of like +/- 0.1 or 0.2 is all most things need. I really love breaking a line of text into 2 text boxes at two slightly different angles. Adds just enough chaos for the eyes to see something is wrong, but not be assaulted.

A line of text underlined by two separate lines to indicate where an angle change occurs.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 02/10/2026

Day the second of #morktober 2026, and it's Curse. And it's a nasty one (like others aren't). More vague lore and people I don't yet know anything about. Looking forward to finding out who Jenny of the Shroud is.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 01/10/2026

Made some minor changes to the text for clarification and a forgotten numerical mechanic and some positioning, but done now.

Very nearly the same image above, but a DR of 12 was added to the toughness test.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 01/10/2026

Day the first of #morktober 2026, and it seems I've settled on a fungal theme very early on. Looking forward to finding out what the Branching Worm is, if the Herder is still around, and whatever else comes out from the prompts.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 30/09/2026

The Ghostlight moon is suddenly a pumpkin. Truly one of the many fucked up moons.

A grotesquely carved pumpkin that bleeds green light from it in 5 strands. The pumpkin is under lit by this light giving it a green hue. A heavy halftone filter has been applied.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 15/09/2026

I've gotten so so many more since this was taken that I still need to sew on. And I still. Want. More.

An old, well used backpack adorned with sewn on patches

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 21/08/2026

My birthday is coming up, so here's a sale. Another year, another sale, and the same old repurposed image! The number went up, and so therefore does the discount. I'm coming to terms with getting older now. I'm sure there'll be another number that feels shocking. #ttrpg #soloRPG #sale

In big bold magenta the text says "The 'holy shit I'm gonna be forty' Sale", yet it has been edited so that over the word 'gonna', white text now reads "okay with the fact that I'm gonna", and the word "three" has been added to 40, so that the whole thing now reads, "The 'Holy Shit I'm okay with the fact that I'm gonna be 43' Sale."

Beneath it also says "43% off everything from 21/08 to 04/09"

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 12/08/2026

Found a much better way to view it

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 08/08/2026

It's ugly as sin, but helps me see my progress at a quick glance. This is all rough as hell first draught ideas on the page stuff and for my eyes only usually, but here you get to suffer the colours with me for a moment.

Screenshot of quick Google docs first draught document of something I'm working on. The text is either red, amber, or green depending on how far along the first draught I think it is. The text here isn't relevant, just the colours.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 04/08/2026

One day I will have to write a sci-fi setting for Ghostlight.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: moon's haunted

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: "loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship" moon's haunted

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 17/07/2026

This is probably my favourite besides either of those above. The ENERGY of the fight, as the air rushes around you is incredible.

Silhouette of Colossus #5, called Avion by the fans, a large bird like colossi with a long tail.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 17/07/2026

These two are most people's favourite Colossi, but without saying either of these, I wanna know which one is yours.

Silhouette of Colossus #3, who the fans call Gaius, who wields a sword like appendage.

Silhouette of Colossus #13, who the fans call Phalanx. They fly through the air, gliding on wings and held aloft by sacs of air.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 09/07/2026

Forgot to post last month's complete daily dungeon #d26. Inspired by a certain area of Hollow Knight if it had human body parts as elements of its construction.

Photograph of vertical cutaway map of a dungeon called The Abyss, drawn on a calendar day by day, room by room. All of the negative space has been filled in with black ink. The rooms are a mix of human body parts, insects, teeth, liquid shadow, and spirals.

A close up of the left page of the previously described dungeon.

Close up of the right page of The Abyss.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 08/07/2026

Sometimes, the algorithm is just funny.

Two YouTube video thumbnails side by side on a recommended feed. One video is about the true size of Elden Ring's map without the fog and such and features the statement "it's smaller than you think", and the other asks the question "is Elden Ring TOO BIG???"

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 30/06/2026

Just a few of my new friends.

Shadow
When the Sisterhood were put to the sword, they took with them the knowledge needed to sever the shadow from the dead, and so too did they take the knowledge needed to destroy them.
HD 2, AC6, # 2d6
Special: Damage as small melee weapon. If Defence Save failed due to rolling under the Shadows HD, permanently reduce STR by 1. Cannot be killed, reforming once more in 1d6 days.

Carcass Scavenger
Fused flesh, twisted spines, hundreds of thin, human limbs reaching out to snatch away corpses. Grafts what it can to its own body.
HD 3, AC 2, # 1d3
Special: Attacks deal no damage. STR Save or paralysed for 1d6 Rounds. When all threats are gone or paralysed, they begin to pull off limbs, one by one.

Severed Hand
These things are everywhere, now; a fancy of the old king who drew enjoyment from watching the punishment.
HD 2, AC 0, # 1d20
Special: If rolling under HD on a Defence Save, the severed hand begins to strangle its victim, dealing 2d6 damage per round automatically until removed.

Severed Hand of a Giant
Size of an ox and adorned with bands of beaten metals. Giants of their size have long been wiped out, and only these grizzly reminders remain of them.
HD 4, AC 3, # 1d3
Special: If rolling under HD on a Defence Save, the severed hand begins to crush its victim, dealing 3d6 damage per round automatically until removed.
Variant: Two such hands stitched together through hexes. One hand can cast a random Spell twice.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 27/06/2026

Also check out The Book of Gaub if you've not already.

A spread from The Book of Gaub with two spells detailed. One is a curse that causes actual horrible wounds that no one around the victim can see, and the other is a curing spell with more ways to suffer as a result of it than just heal up.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 27/06/2026

We're going down into the dungeon, who are you bringing with you?

Character creation rules for a system I'm working on.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 17/06/2026

Oooh. Full Send from @laurieoc.bsky.social arrived this afternoon. The book feels really nice! Plus, new patch to go on the backpack

The physical book for the TTRPG Full Send by Laurie O'Connel. A pack of themed tarot cards have been placed atop the book. A green and orange sew/iron on patch depicting a climber and the text Full Send rests upon it.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 07/06/2026

How does everyone feel about a dungeon room that's like a mould of a giant foetus that you have to climb through the umbilical cord of and clamber around the inside of this negative space to claim it's discarded sclera to use as a shield? All good?

Daily dungeon room that is shaped like a foetus. The text says, "The SHADE was born here, leaving behind a negative space where it's body grew. In the socket where the eye once grew is the Sclera Shield."

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 07/06/2026

I was like, "No that timeline can't be right," but yeah he's how I went to one 12 years ago. I am distraught.

Matthew dressed up as Earl Harlan. Wearing a beige/tan shirt covered in a collection of patches with a purple necker chief held by a painted yellow iris eyeball. Unseen are vivid purple trousers.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 06/06/2026

The last two months I have basically drifted away my #dungeon26 entries during the letter half of each because I wasn't feeling them, but I'm really enjoying this nasty place. In play it's pitch black and torches don't pierce the gloom at all. Today's entry; a dungeon mouth and throat.

3 sections of a dungeon cut-away map. The rooms are made up of fossils and bone and beetle shells. It's called The Abyss. The negative space of the dungeon is coloured in black.

3 sections of 4 of a dungeon cut-away map. The rooms are made up of fossils and bone, beetle shells, and in the latest, a fully working mouth and throat. The negative space of the dungeon is coloured in black.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 06/06/2026

Here's a free revenant for your #MörkBorg games.

The silhouette of a dead soldier with sword and shield creeping towards you through a blizzard.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 06/06/2026

I had forgotten about this mock cover preview I had fucked around with. Might have a system to go with it soon, who knows.

A quick and dirty mock-up of a front cook for a book. A cracked and broken moon hangs heavy over the silhouette of a city on a hill. It bleeds Ghostlight like heavy mist through the streets. The title Ghostlight drips like a bad Goosebumps title.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 31/05/2026

Could explain it, but I'd be less surprised if it was my PS3!

The Spider-Man 2 and PlayStation 3 logos, one above the other. They use the same font. Both owned by Sony.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 29/05/2026

I don't know if it is there, but if anyone sees a copy of The Cold Dark at UKGE, respond with a picture of it and you will win a free Nod of Thanks from me. Take a picture of you having bought it, then that Nod of Thanks includes a bonus Look of Approval.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 29/05/2026

@acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social @navidrake.bsky.social We fucking did it. We defeated the waves. Placed them up with their siblings.

Two TTRPG hardback books, Fe Borg and Hedge, both written by A Couple of Drakes, placed on a grey blanket.

A section of a bookshelf showing a fair few TRPG books, but the focus is on the previous books placed next to others by the same creators; Dead Belt and 2 copies of Court of Blades.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 24/05/2026

Reminds me of my old mate, Brin. The negative correlation of speed and brain size in lurchers is fun and worrying in equal measure. Glad your boy is safe and hope he learns from this (hint: don't count on it).

Light brindle coloured lurcher chewing on a green and yellow knotted tug toy.

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 22/05/2026

I don't think you'll survive. Do you?

Digital mock-up of an internal spread explaining part of the rules of The Cold Dark, partially covered by another copy, turned to the front cover (which displays a black treeline and dark purple sky and the title in large bold and gold letters).

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Boogie-garon @yuigaron.itch.io · 20/05/2026

Am example of what's within the video. Tilt your phone or laptop (probably best not doing this with a monitor I dunno) and cross your eyes until the images overlap in the center.

Near identical side by side images of the moon through the grime smeared, dusty window of the Artemis. In the foreground of each there is the reflection of the photographers hand, and behind the moon the earth and then the stars. The effect for sighted individuals when they cross their eyes is that they can see this in 3D due to the slight differences in the distances between both images.

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