I have been doing this for twelve years now. Writing against RPG-a-Day. Against. Again and again. Every day, every August, since 2015. Most often on my own, sometimes collaboratively with others here on d6ideas or across different (German) blogs.
2015: ArtifactaDay
2016: Loot-a-Day
2017: Rival-a-Day
2018: Ad-Blog
2019: RPG+Ally+a+Day
2020: Not One Step Back
2021: Veteran-a-Day
2022: The Thousand Titles of the Cat Emperor
2023: Sommerverdichtung (German only)
2024: CampaignConceptaDay
2025: A-Piece-of-History-Every-Day / Calculating World(s)history
And now? The German next door neighbours at Kritischer Fehlschlag have issued the rallying cry “Crime Scene” (German).
But here? After twelve years of doing this dirty work? There is but one possible answer:
The Dirty Dozen.
Interpreted via the lense of the so called Dirty Dozen of persistent organic pollutants such as DDT and dioxins (although an earlier thought was the likewise so called Dirty Dozen of biological weapons and this might still colour some of the entries).
One-hundred-and-fourty-four poisons and pollutants (in the widest, freest sense). Twelve each for twelve systems. Thirty-one days. Twelve years. Against RPG-a-Day. Again.
Sorcery in The Red Star is an industry. The below are its industrial waste.
- Protocol Component Residue – PCRs can be found in the containers of used protocols, in protokasters and protocol weapons, and in high concentrations they can disrupt other sorcery
- Protocol Energy Build-up – PEB is an issue mainly in machinery intended to work in conjunction with protocol systems (such as some weapons) by transforming wase heat into usable protocol energy, if such transformation is not properly calibrated, more protocol energy can build up than can be safely used by the protocol systems, affecting the surrounding
- STROBE Imprint Syndrome – the existence of STROBE/IS was initially denied by the West, then it was talked down, but the fact is that Western STROBE shields, despite the wearers being immune to their immediate effects, can lead to long term vision loss up to and including permanent blindness
- Supply Protocol Penetration – SPP or SUPPEN is the spontaneous coming into existence of tiny extradimensional bubbles or pocket spaces in areas of heavy and prolonged Supply Protocol usage, the bubbles might gradually fill up with parts of material transported via protocol and they may also suddenly and uncontrollably void into other transport streams or onto their original target spaces