5 Million Worlds Rokaner Report #26, Zine Month Livestream: Feb 25th
RR#26 February 2026, Splashdown, Tulaqua
Calling all Avatars,
The shortest month rounds the bend to its end. Even when I’m not running a crowdfund, February feels like a marathon, and the nearby Winter Olympics (less than 300km from where I live) def contributes to that high-octane vibe. At least Zine Month is way more collaborative and convivial!
On Wednesday, February 25th at 5pm EST I’ll be joining indie ttrpg YouTube channel Weird Place during their all-day Zine Month livestream-a-thon to chat about Twisting Unseen. Gabriel and Le are hosting game designers and special guests between noon and 8pm EST. I’m slotted in for the 5pm-6pm EST window, as is my pal Waco Matrixo. We hope to catch ya @Weird_Place this Wednesday!
Five More Days for Twisting Unseen
The BackerKit campaign for Twisting Unseen ends this Friday, February 27th! The big highlights of the month are hitting the Stretch Goals, and closing in on the Cloud Empress Conversion Kit with cover art by HodagRPG. Here’s the story in images:
Check out Twisting Unseen on BackerKit.
Ansible Uplink
Ansible Uplink continues on its semi-weekly pace. I’ve sent out the first round of backer stickers (we’ll see how fast La Poste is), and I’ve got a steady schedule of shows organized through April. Here are the episodes that have released this year since I last updated y’all on the show:
Wrath of God & Meatgrinder, with Norgad
TIME WARP: Prison Planet, with Luke Gearing
Picket Line Tango, with watt
And for folks who prefer, find the show’s RSS here.
The next episode is on Wednesday, Feburary 25th with a review of Amanda P.’s Resonant with Dave Kenny, Mr. Hardlight of MagnumGalaxy Games himself, haha.
The February Grind
Perhaps I’m a little odd, but when I have a big heavy stressful thing ongoing in my life (e.g. a crowdfund campaign), I like to bury myself in work. Luckily, a good handful of folks have asked me to work on some Mothership Month editing!
In February, I edited three adventures for SpicyTunaRPG including Breathe Easy, and completed the first dev pass on Ryan Creedon & Joshua Justice’s Sunlit Path. Last week, the first manuscript for Rites of Passage and the final manuscript for All on Red came in last week, and I had a development meeting with Andrew C. Manson digging into the adventures for Drink from the Hippocrene. It’s been very exciting to see all these pieces from the same playground of The Dream come to life.
For Flatline on the Blocks, editors Jordan Boschman and Jet McFin completed their copyedits, and now I’m working with the authors on layout copyediting, getting all their wonderful work to fit onto those single spreads:
And if that’s not enough, I’ve started sketching the city of Bohème on Marseille V, and writing location tables for the adventure I’m co-writing with Josh Domanski for Orbital Blues, Paramour. Marseille V is a world of faded fame and failing terraformation towers, turning into snowball planet. Folks call Bohème Slushtown now, but your space cowboy remembers the good old days…
I’m getting to put a lot of myself into the writing for this one, of what it feels like to come “home” to a place that treats you like a ghost, and seeing how all your old haunts have transformed in your absence. The city itself, dominated by Spinward Records, used to be a musical mecca, and I’ve been drawing a lot from French music, notably the city’s name.
Emmenez-moi
In a funny twist of fate, just like the dreams of another Aznavour song, life is taking me and my family overseas to Martinique. We’re moving this summer, and the reality of it all still hasn’t sunk in.
What has sunk in is how much we need to get done before leaving, hahahaha. My online community presence (i.e. Discord/Bsky) is gonna take a big dip for the next couple months as I work around the clock to wrap up in-progress work and prepare for a transatlantic move. But I’ll still post these Rokaner Reports, same as always, :)
Signing off,
Chris Airiau
Stoked to hear the final cut, Chris!