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Gnosis
I have circled this book for literally years now. It is an albatross but I'm finally gonna eat it. That's what you do to albatrosses, you eat them up.I am working at a rate that hasn't been matched since Troika got written. Since the beast is a list, finite, calculable, I can estimate that it'll be on t...
It's a map
If you hadn't noticed my approach to work is to do everything at once and sometimes things escape. This is a map for one of my chapbooks. It will be an adventure/GM guide.It's an adventure in so much as there'll be content to play, it'll be a GM guide in as much as it'll explain how to use it. Each ...
Crunch
So here's how it is. Since Troika released I have been stuck doing maintenance. Post, emails, post, accounts, social media, marketing, project management, more post etc. I kinda hate all that stuff, but it's what needs to be done. It's been a year now and I have someone doing my post, someone doing social m...
You're all too kind
Getting Troika moving has been a slog. I've been working away on everything except creative endeavours for almost a year now. This has resulted in 11 books for Troika being put in motion. One is already out (Fronds of Benevolence) 2 are written and illustrated, 3 are written, and 5 are in various drafts states.Troi...
Some small contents
These should be universally applied to all possible encounters regardless of attitude or anatomyPROCLIVITIES Keeps a bit of dried alzabo brain in their cheek. Voice changes slightly as they talk Chews fragrent bark Licka the back of their hands while thinking Keeps all their change in their mouth Visits their mother re...
Structure of Gnosis
I have this issue with messing with structure. I'll fiddle and fiddle for months and months and nothing much happens. But then a form appears and the writing just pours out into it.Gnosis may have arrived at a form. Random generation is not what Troika is about. It's about partial creation. Reactive imagination...
Social Combat
Social combat like physical combat is merely an impasse.I want your things, you don't want to give them, impasse. Fight.I sneak up on a guy, stab him in the kidney, dead. No impasse no fight.I want them to tell me where the shops are, they don't want to. Impasse, pry.I ask them to follow me, they don't mind...
The Siblings
I've been sitting on this map for a long time. It's time to use it.One of the chapbooks will be about two extra dimensional towers leeching a sphere dry to the point of crumbling away across the Horizon. The party will try to do something about this.This map is Cecil Howe's rendition of my scrappy map. In b...
ENnies & Tanks
TROIKA! Numinous Edition has managed to scrape up a Best Writing nomination in this year's ENnies. Right here: http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2019/If any of you feel like voting that would be very sweet of you.I'll have some chapbooks for you quite soon, and I have to give this place a facelift. Some of the s...
Blogs and Initiatives
Blog post over here regarding what's up at the moment, including some possibly interesting Troika stuff. All good news I hope.https://whatwouldconando.blogspot.com/2019/05/not-dead-fungus-and-printing.htmlAlso chapbooks are teetering on the edge of viewability. Eeee!
Look what turned up!
Hello long-suffering patrons, we've finally got to a milestone moment: Troika turned up! We'll have them up for sale either tonight or tomorrow.Without wasting time, simply put, use the voucher ABOUTBLOODYTIME at checkout on www.melsonia.com for free postage. Because of the overlap with the Kickstarter I can...
PAINTED WARRIOR
PAINTED WARRIORYour body is a canvas. When you left your home you left it covered in goodbyes, since then you have been painted in hellos and destinations and peoples. You are a a spray-paint golem, freely following the commands as you interpret them. Some of the goodbyes can still be seen, faded between newer more viv...
Spider Financier
SPIDER FINANCIERMetropolitan travellers might remark on how strange it is to see a Spider outside of a bank teller’s window and you might remark in turn on how insensitive that is. Indeed, the thought that someone could hurt the feelings of a 6ft tall spider never crosses most people's’ minds, but a spider-hear...
LIMITANEI
LIMITANEIThe daedal borders of the commonwealth are largely forgotten by the Phoenix Throne, maintained only by inertia and the institution of the limitanei. You were one of the young volunteers of these rural militiae, received the ancient weapons and armour invested in the town since before the Autarchs looked inward...
SISTER-BROTHER OF THE MENDICANT ORDER OF St. SELFRIDGE
SISTER-BROTHER OF THE MENDICANT ORDER OF St. SELFRIDGEYou wear the bulbous and ballooning habit of the Order of St. Selfridge, you don the many layered wigs, you paint your skin in the Adequate Hue, you receive every donation with an “as it ought to be”, and you buy only the finest oils and dried fruits. To some yo...
GIANT KILLER
GIANT KILLERThey never stop growing. The limitanei can get them young, while they’re wild and reckless with their head still below the treeline, but for anything more they are outmatched and far from the Green Palace. Whole towns are abandoned when a cunning and fertile family dig deep into the hillside, unless of co...
Tumere
TumereTzarina Dunwicket IV, upon learning of her long expected pregnancy, took to wearing dresses with the a hole in the front through which all could witness the ongoing gestation. It was eventually revealed through a series of public miracles that the occupant of her womb was not in fact a child but a reincarnated ar...
Illumiere of the Worshipful Company of Lamplighters
Illumiere of the Worshipful Company of LamplightersTroika nights are brief and have the habit of sneaking up on a fellow, much like the Lamplighters themselves. As night descends so too do the Worshipful Companions, brandishing their polehooks and multicoloured phlogiston torches (each flame’s hue befitting a member&...
Piscimancer
PiscimancerYou are a student of the Unweighted Scale and can see beyond the firmament to the piscean creatures that float amongst us, transposed on our dry reality. With effort you can reach beyond and whorl the ethereal waters, but are prone to becoming lost in watching these eidolons when you think no one is looking....
Dodgy pdf links all round
Troika is at the printers. I've hopefully linked you all a raw print document minus endpapers and covers. The finished pdf (which you'll all get) will be hyperlinked and fancy.Over the next week or two there is going to be a mad dash for content ahead of the books arriving. Brace yourselves
Matross
Mate of the Matross’ GuildYou sat days and nights at the ancient controls of the Autarch’s sky shattering artillery, ready for the word to pivot the canons and fire. At your hands those sleeping machines could wake up and split the world in two, but instead you sat in the dark and monitored the blinking lights that...
Decolator
DecolatorSchoom off with their head. Woosh watch it go. No one ever took as much joy in their job as you. If the crowd stormed the stage and removed your mask they’d see your beaming face right to the end. But that was then, now you’re out on The Road where no one appreciates a craftsman. Blunt axes and dirty block...
Owl Bagger
Owl BaggerYou would pull on your welly boots just as the sun is rising, every day. You’d walk the quiet streets of Troika with your ladder slung over your shoulder, tapping on doors and asking “bag your owls, guv?”. With a coin you’d climb up your ladder and stuff your sacks with tired owls clogging the gutters...
Landscape Sculptor
LANDSCAPE SCULPTORYou need only run your hands over the undisciplined edges of a stone to feel the land within. It almost flinches from your touch, it recognises your protean powers. You are fond of collecting rocks with potential, who resist you, or show willingness to change and are prepared at any time to throw them...
Horizon Knight (repost for tidiness)
Horizon KnightYou are the disciple of a roving monastic order committed to the preservation of reality. You once sailed from sphere to sphere inside your hermetic fortress, plumbed the depths of non-existence, fusil in hand, engaging in highly abstract combat with the forces of entropy and psycho-oblivion. However one ...
THE STAR TYRANT
STAR TYRANTYou crossed the sky on flaming horses, you fought Lord Quasar on the shores of Titan and toppled his Blue Glass Conservatories, you fled the War Sphere with an army of brain-broken star-bastards at your back. You stole the Bridle of Aeons, you touched the Eye of God, you saw it you took it you lost it all ov...
Backgrounds
Some of these are new, some of these are old, some of these are double dipping. It's all getting poured in. My records on what's where are pretty bad, and some backgrounds just get lost entirely, so I'll treat it all the same for now.Pile in.
Beast Hunter
Beast HunterYou are a freelance monster hunter. “Monsters are killed by all sorts of people,” you might say, “anyone with a sword can do it.” Well yes, anyone can do that, just like anyone can step on a rat, but one rat does not end your troubles. Will you then crawl into the thatch and find the mother rats and...
Boiled Egg Trader
Boiled Egg TraderUp and down the market you go, up and down with your your pickling pot, your jars and jars and jars hung from colourful cord and clanking. You fancy yourself the finest example of the market’s spirit, a true peddler in the old methods, a visiting saint in this rough parish, shouting your sermon from ...
Modicum of Bythos
Modica don’t recognise the distinctness of the universe from the matter of the Monad, believing that each person, aeon, rock and stream are equal parts of the divine body. When confronted with the violent disharmony of reality they engage in intense didactics. What knowledge has the hair on your head of the hair on y...
