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EVERYONE IS SEAGULLS
🕑 Added 2023-02-21 17:17:02 +0000 UTCPhysical backer update: Hello! Will be sending out your physical copies in March. At present I'm trying to work out a more efficient way of making it happen than doing it all myself by hand. Hopefully I can come up with something, which would mean you'll get your games faster from this point on.
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Long ago, back in the mists of the early 2010's, I wrote a game about playing Warhammer 40,000 orks. (I can't find the rules anywhere; they're lost to time.) It had some fun rules but chief amongst them was the WAAAAGH! rule, which was:
You can, at any point, shout WAAAAGH. If at least two other players join in, you all gain +2 Fightin' but must immediately fight something. If fewer than two players join in, you immediately run out into danger and fuck everything up.
(To the uninitiated: the WAAAAGH is a sort of communal yelling-powered psychic field of energy that orks in 40k create unconsciously, and it can power them up into killing machines.)
I wanted to make something with that kind of rule again. Also, I wanted to see if I could write about a game where you play a swarm of something, because I haven't done one of those.
So please enjoy: EVERYONE IS SEAGULLS. It's profoundly stupid, even by my standards. If a session lasts longer than 45 minutes I'd say you're doing it wrong. Have fun.
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EVERYONE IS SEAGULLS marks my 75th one-page game, with only - what - two months missed in six and a half years? Which is pretty good going, I think. I'm glad to see that my work has matured, and I've discarded such fripperies as bears in hats stealing honey and embraced mature, serious topics like thirty seagulls all fighting over the same chip.
I'd like to thank you all, new and old patrons alike, for your support over that time. Thanks to you, I have a space to experiment and try out the sort of new and frankly dangerous ideas that would never make it into a long-form work because Chris and Maz wouldn't let it happen. The income you provide (up front!) allows me to operate with a dizzying lack of supervision and oversight, and I'm so happy to have made so many strange things with you.
I think I'm going to keep going until I hit 100 games. That's about two years from now, with good luck and a following wind. I don't know what I'll do after that but I wager that 100 games is enough for anyone.
Anyway. Enjoy the game where you play four idiot trash birds.
Ad astra,
- Gx
Comments
Going to run this with five teens, who are already the human equivalent of angry seagulls.
tiny-mudking
This timing is so convenient — my boyfriend and I just saw the worst adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull. We will now be playing as that specific undead seagull out for revenge on the director.
