Update 2 - Surveys Sent!
10 days ago
– Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 06:48:31 AM
Calling all Tunnelers, check your emails, your backerkit surveys have been sent!
Two key notes on those,
First and foremost you’ll notice that what Kickstarter charged as shipping is in your backerkit as credit.
This is for one key reason, the original shipping was charged based on how much shipping cost me at the time of the campaign using the distribution method I normally do. But I’ve been actively trying to lower those costs - especially for my overseas backers so just incase this makes things cheaper when it comes time to ship I want to make sure those savings come back to you.
What this actually means is once it comes time to ship, I will either be using that credit on your account (and refunding the remaining balance) OR charging you shipping (if you spent that credit on add-ons). Note that shipping prices laid out during the Kickstarter campaign are still the max, you WILL NOT be charged more than that, only less if I am able to secure a cheaper distribution method.
Now, a little peek at the add-ons!
Besides the final hardcover copy of “The Sky is Falling”, you can get your gauntleted mitts on…
“Smörgasbörg - The all you can eat CANNIBAL rpg.”
Smörgasbörg is an RPG supplement of gruesome proportions. packed inside 120 pages of art splattered goodness is all you need to add cannibals to your RPGs, and all the consequences that come with. MUNCH AND CRUNCH AND I LIKE LUNCH ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S PEOPLE! Grab your bibs and bone saws you’re in for a treat…. - 17 pages of cannibal classes. From the humble Humanitarian to the devoutly devouring TEMPLE TO WURM! - 46 pages of Dungeons, Drive-ins, and… dies? Crawl your way out of the gullet of the colossal Critic, or enjoy dinner and a show at Hell’s Kitchen. - 7 Restaurants fit for all, from the ghoul to the gourmand. - “THE HUNGER” addiction-style cannibalism rules fit for any game. - Arm to Table rules for harvesting fresh corpses! - And aaaaaaaall the recipes, items, and treats your primordial hunger could hope for. Designed for Mörk Borg, but rules light enough to fit any system with minimal effort.
120 pages, hard cover.
“To Worm.”
Eat dirt, and burrow in this choose-your-own-adventure story. Staring you, as a worm.
80pg, softcover.
“HEADS!”
Wish your 1v1's had the high intensity, high lethality, nail biting drama of their cinematic counterparts? HEADS is designed to be used in any and every game where you want your duel to be solved in 1-3 dramatic rolls instead of comparing initiatives and spending 10 turns bonking back and forth to tension simmering eternity. So whether you take one swift swing of your katana, a corpse-splitting power strike with your axe, or trick them with a dagger to the heart... grab your dice and let the HEADS roll!
And debuting to the Flagellant & The Fool store during this campaign - my first two comic books!
“Trickle Down”
What goes up, must come down. Join the mud-caked peasants of Podwater in a revolt against the Goldenboys. Prep the guillotine.
44 page, comic book.
“Today's Torture”
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. At least that’s what our titular torturer claims! Step into the battered hood in this day-in-the-life story of workplace torture.
36 page, comic book.
And on a related note, F&F made their first appearance at NOVA OPEN!
We were running all sorts of horror in THE ROOM OF DOOM! Which nearly sold out all seats at during our 10 games. It was a whirlwind and a blast, F&F will definitely be running more con games in the future.
Shout out to those who made deals with the darkness during our TSIF runs, and the guy who ordered room service because Smorgasborg was making him hungry!
Wish THE ROOM OF DOOM would run horror by you? Let me know some of your favorite cons so I can add em to the wish list!
-THE FOOL
Update 1 - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
about 1 month ago
– Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 04:53:53 PM
Hello Tunnelers! The Fool here with our first little update. Although we've been hiding in the dark since our campaign ended, we've been busy cutting, gluing, and scribbling away at our madness.
Below you'll find a mix of pages you've seen, and pages you haven't to remind you of the tunnels to come. And while for this first update I want to let them do most of the talking lets hit a couple of key development point.
Backerkit / Late Pledges
Our Backerkit will be live soon* I am sending out the smoke tests this week and then a full late backer store will be open shortly after. You'll notice our full range of zines from the campaign, plus a few new ones never before seen.
Book Progress
I split my progress into 3 phases,
1 - Brainstorm and writing.
2 - Art & Layout (with writing tweaks)
3 - Edits / Test prints.
We are making steady progress and are deep into phase 2. The only sections of the book I don't consider "fully" written are Chapter 2 and 6, these being the character classes and adventures. Those are constantly tweaked and sharpened until finally put to paper. But I am happy with the progress.
TLDR on Book Progress
Stage: Phase 2
Chapter 0 - 55%, Chapter 1 - 100%, Chapter 2 - 60%, Chapter 3 - 70%, Chapter 4 - 88%, Chapter 5 - 64%, Chapter 6 - 43%
Delivery Date
Campaign estimates got this book in your hands in November, currently, we're looking late November early December. So a slight shift but nothing troublesome yet. There was debate and interest over whether our Smorgasborg minis & teeth dice would be added to the backerkit store but I have officially decided to keep this as a zines-only campaign to keep us on track.
Chapter 4: Surviving the Dark is a favorite. Encounters and hazards are not the worst of what you can bump into deep underground. Pure, absolute Darkness is. Light your fires in fear or heed their whispers and make deal.
48 pages of all you need to play as, or against the Dark. What you find within could easily be a mini zine used to attach this primordial entity your pre-apocalyptic games so those looking to add a little Darkness to their games will be flipping through these pages often!
-The Fool
Update 0 - The Darkness is coming...
2 months ago
– Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 07:47:26 PM
In the deepest pits of the darkest tunnels, something stirs....
The Sky is Falling - DARKNESS UPDATE - coming this August...
Pencils have been scribbled bare, papers have been cut and torn, and under cover of darkness the book has been in progress but soon it is time for our first post-Kickstarter reveals.
-The Fool
KS ENDED - Thank you all!
5 months ago
– Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:17:41 AM
Just a quick moment of celebration!
Thanks to everyone who backed.
I know there's a lot of books running campaigns right now so it means a lot that you chose such a crazy crafted book like ours. I'll make sure it was all worth it!
We also hit our last content adding stretch goal, so expect to see EDEN added to the adventures section of the book! stretch goal
Now I wait for Kickstarter to send over the funds, I buy some more supplies and get going. If you want to follow the progress of the book follow us
@theflagellantandthefool
on Instagram for regular streams / time-lapses of the pages as they are crafted. In addition, to help keep a steady update supply I will be coming back here once a month untill the books are in hand to keep you all up to date with what's going on and even get some full reveals of pages as they are good to go.
Thanks again, here's to life after the death of the surface! Long live the tunnelers!
-The Fool
6- Add-Ons & EDEN
5 months ago
– Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 06:54:37 AM
We have 4 days to go and are almost at our next stretch goal!
To help us move closer to that, let's talk a bit about our add-ons and what hitting that goal will add.
We have 3 add-ons this campaign..
** Note: In your pledge manager after this campaign you will be given the option of having your add-ons shipped early (and will be charged shipping for them) or having them bundled in your final package for no extra charge. **
First up was our first book!
Smörgasbörg
The all you can eat CANNIBAL RPG!
Smörgasbörg is an RPG supplement of gruesome proportions. packed inside 120 pages of art splattered goodness is all you need to add cannibals to your RPGs, and all the consequences that come with.
MUNCH AND CRUNCH AND I LIKE LUNCH ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S PEOPLE!
Grab your bibs and bone saws you’re in fora treat….
- 17 pages of cannibal classes. From the humbleHumanitarian to the devoutly devouring TEMPLE TO WURM!
- 46 pages of Dungeons, Drive-ins, and… dies? Crawl your way out of the gullet of the colossal Critic, or enjoy dinner and a show at Hell’s Kitchen.
- 7 Restaurants fit for all, from the ghoul to the gourmand.
- “THE HUNGER” addiction-style cannibalism rules fit for any game.
- Arm to Table rules for harvesting fresh corpses!
- And aaaaaaaall the recipes, items, and treats your primordial hunger could hope for.
Unlike The Sky is Falling which functions more as an entire setting/region guide for use with Mörk Borg, Smörgasbörg is a splattered plate of samplings from all over the Mörk Borg. Dine with the Shadowking, attend live butcherings in Galgenbeck, or worship the tapeworms within your gullet!
Smörgasbörg by relation is fully compatible with The Sky Is Falling and is a perfect choice for those who want to add a little cannibalism to their tunnels.
This is a 120 page hardcover book.
Next up is
HEADS!
A system-agnostic dueling minigame
Wish your 1v1's had the high intensity, high lethality, nail biting drama of their cinematic counterparts? HEADS is designed to be used in any and every game where you want your duel to be solved in 1-3 dramatic rolls instead of comparing initiatives and spending 10 turns bonking back and forth to tension simmering eternity.
So whether you take one swift swing of your katana, a corpse splitting power strike with your axe, or trick them with a dagger to the heart... grab your dice and let the HEADS roll!
This pamphlet was designed to replace the *melee* duels in RPG’s & miniature games when drama or tension was needed. It also doubles as a fast and fun minigame to play on the go. (I like to play it when I’m stuck behind a table at a con or waiting with others at the airport)
This is a pamphlet fit to tuck into your game of choice!
Last but not least, our Earthday 2024 release
To Worm.
In this adventure, you will take on the role of a worm.
As a worm, you will live your life doing two things…
crawling, and eating dirt.
This earth day, and every day after live your life, like the worms.
By tunneling your way through the pages, and learning what it means…
To worm.
Eat dirt, and burrow in this choose-your-own-adventure story. Staring you, as a worm.
This is an 80 page softcover zine.
EDEN
our final content adding stretch goal
The brightest minds have all gone missing. Called to the sea by the enigmatic LeVine. Called by a promise. Leave the brutish hellscape of mortal living behind and join us in our palace of glass and reason. A haven so deep that none but the enlightened can reach, a heaven on earth for those bold enough to dive, a paradise adrift somewhere… beyond the sea.
This adventure is fit for those who want to use mechanics from our book, but set it pre-apocalypse as many of the dangers of the tunnels can be replicated within the glass tunnels of the air-starved ocean floor.
As with Oubliette 666, this adventure aims to add a little fan favorite twist to our book, by setting everyone's favorite Raptured sea city in the Mork Borg world by sinking it at the bottom of the endless sea. Strange tinctures, twisted sisters, and the hulking mass of armored shells that are the Angels of the Deep will all be included in the Eden section of the book.
What of your subnautical scum? Did you heed the call of LeVine having been invited personally? Or do you aim to dive on your own and loot this supposed paradise?
-The Fool
