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Update: the setting author gave our GM a shout out and he's very excited about this whole thing. Cigeus is a great GM.

https://twitter.com/stratometaship/status/1437608963575463937

Could you let me know if you'd like transcription of the quoted tweet? It's basically the GM describing in a little more detail our last session.

So, our Ultraviolet Grasslands adventuring group has a wandering farmer character who's been with us since the beginning of the game.

We're in final boss mode now, and he's still with us. As a part of his journeys, he learned one spell: explosive legume growth. He's never used it.

He spends most of his time looking at beans and running various racketeering schemes involving beans. Plus, he's not a bad hunter.

Anyways, the party is in an elevator, headed to our quest destination, but we got stuck part way up. A final boss emerged, and did a ton of psychic damage after some plot talk.

The next round, our healer did not heal the PC, but brought to life a whole sack of dried pea rations. We then shoved them through the holes in the grating of the elevator, and the legume farmer cast his only spell.

This shoved our elevator all the way up to the top floor (where we needed to go for our quest) and we sprinted the magical item into place.

If we fought this dude, we totally woulda died. Instead, we got our asses saved by a legume farmer.

Ultraviolet Grasslands is so cool.

We've decided on Wednesday at 6 pm in Lyn-lake/uptown! Message me for the address!

If you think computers are cool, you belong in Cyberia. Especially if other tech spaces haven't felt welcoming in the past. We'll have vegan options and plenty of very tasty food, so please do stop by if you're local! 💙

This is a neat essay on the political nature of games and puzzles and TTRPGs. It touches on some colonialism and other problematic things, but only lightly and in a very approachable way.

> Any game worthy of the moniker of ‘game’ must transform the player into a subject by forcing them to desire, that is by telling them what they lack.

> The game gives the player(s) a desire, the rules dictate how they can satisfy it.

https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/apolitical-rpgs-do-not-exist

Please boost! 💙

Access-wise, the barbecue space is outside in uptown Minneapolis in a yard near an apartment building. Although the yard is a little small, it's right next to a parking lot, so if you'd be comfy with a little more space, we should be able to work something out. The hosting household has a small pug (who is very well behaved and can stay inside) and there may be some beer or similar. Mobility-wise, there is a flight of stairs up to the main door and the railing isn't weight-bearing, so if stairs are a challenge, you might not be able to access the bathroom/sink. If you need an accommodation, please let me know, and we can see what we can do. :)

We're hosting this so we can meet new folks before showing y'all around the new space, because we're a little shy and wanna verify that strangers from the internet are real people, and sharing food is a pretty good way to do that.

Also, Forest is a really really good cook, and I really hope you'll come. Like, we're all very cool and work on very good stuff so you want to meet Cyberians anyways, but uh, I am always really impressed by what this man cooks up. Delicious, beautiful stuff, and he really likes to cook for others.

Anyways, if you've got any questions, let me know. No assholes, no nazis, but this is Cyberia, so you already knew that. If you didn't, check out https://cyberia.club to learn more.