The Big Empty

Laugh it up

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no one told me they were making a grendel movie and jim henson was making a huge wonderful beautiful grendel puppet to star as the lead character

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i made fanart of my friend at work

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the tyrant

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Empty Mask @ Midweek Market, July 17th '24!!

Howdy!! It's pardy here, just posting about us attending this coming week's Midweek Market @ Golden Cactus!! We'll be there from 5pm to 8pm, so be sure to hit us up if you're in the area!! Things have been chugging along behind the scenes for us, and while life has been pushing on us, we've been pushing back. We're looking to have a couple cool things prepared for these next couple markets, so keep an eye out!! Stay Cool, -P

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Empty Mask @ Midweek Market!!! (June 12th, '24)

Howdy!! This is Pardy again, sorry for the radio silence! Life has kinda been kicking us around these days, but I'm making this post just to let y'all know we'll be at Golden Cactus' Midweek Market this Wednesday (June 12th) from 5-8pm!! While we're cookin' up some fun new stuff in the meantime, we've prepared some fun pride flag variants of our Branch Insignia Stickers!! :) Hope to see you there, and stay tuned!! -P

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Our new game, PSYCHOPOMP, is now available!

FREE on Steam and Itch.io!

Check it out, links below!

[ Steam ][ Itch ]

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A Brand New Game from Fading Club is coming!

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Your entire life has been a lie. There are catacombs under every home and building, stretching down for miles. Something calls you deeper into the labyrinth. Delve into the depths, and discover the monstrosities below.

Coming to Steam and Itch.io!

WISHLIST HERE!

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Remastered B&TSM PDFs, and Update 1/8/24!!

Weird to be posting again within another six months of the last one, but hey, here's to a new year, right? Since the original Blondie & The Smokestone March PDFs were made back during the stone age when we had no idea what we were doing, we decided that we'd put our experience to use and remaster them! Additionally, BOOK 5 IS FINALLY ON ITCH!!! Links, details, and a small update below!

[ BOOK 1 ] [ BOOK 2 ] [ BOOK 3 ] [ BOOK 4 ] [ BOOK 5 ] Funny thing, the remasters didn't take that much time to do. Just was a matter of pulling away from other projects to get it done, haha. Update time. Uh. We're going to be continuing how we've been operating, but we're also going to be prioritizing connecting with our local community here IRL. I (pardy) don't think this blog'll really be for anything but thoughts, updates, and announcements, so don't expect it to be anything more. Thanks for being understanding. -P

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The Granary V2.1.2, and an Update for 12/31/23!

Hi, it's Pardy! It's been approximately six months, and my life has changed more than it has in the two and a half decades I've been on this bitch of an earth. First thing's first, though-- THE GRANARY V2.1.2 IS OUT, AND BOY HOWDY IS IT A BIG UPDATE!!!

The Granary V2 has received a massive update in the form of 1.2, and it's something we're all immensely proud of. Lots of fucking rad character art, lots of fantastic world lore that we've been building up and refining for a while now, lots of important tiny revisions and cleanup that wouldn'tve gotten done otherwise. Be sure to give it a look if you're interested! Otherwise, uh. Yeah, me and Vamp moved out, and have been learning to live on our own for the past six months. I'm medicated now, he's medicated now; god, there's just too much to list (and a bunch of shit that I'm not going to). Life has been crazy. I personally will be taking a bit of a break from working on The Granary V2 directly, since I burnt myself out a little in the process of pushing out this update. But, who knows how long that'll last. I can't keep myself away, and neither can Cav or Vamp. So, with that being said, we here @ Empty Mask hope you've had a wonderful holiday, and we hope you enjoy the newest update to The Granary V2!

[girls--complex]

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Update, 6/17/23

Howdy! This’ll be quick, since we’ve got a bunch to do– Val (@vampireprostate) has “officially” joined our team!! He’s been helping us a lot not just with development stuff but with lore stuff too, and so, we decided to make it as official as we possibly could! Give him a warm welcome, folks!

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The Granary V2.1.1, Our First Expansion, and an Update for 6/12/23!

Wow, that sure is a title, huh? Hey y’all, it’s Pardy. It’s been roughly four months, and as you can tell by the lack of biweekly updates, life has been standing in the way of any obligations we could’ve established. For more on that, read below– but for now, let’s talk about the exciting stuff!

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Book Five, Chapter Five (Epilogue)

CW: Strong Language, Sexual References, Graphic Violence, Fantasy Bigotry, Smoking, Alcohol Use, Light Body Horror

Returning to Black Hill both a conquering hero and a failure of a hunter, Piper collected on Blondie’s bounty by tossing his severed head, which had long since cooled down to the appearance of a grisly, fur-covered amber statue, onto the desk of Penelope Hickory. Her achievement in taking out such a large liability earned her an audience with the board members, and subsequently a sizable raise. And though in that moment she was tempted to try and spark an all out war against the ten escapees, she simply couldn’t bring herself to admit to her superiors that the bounty was still technically active. Instead, through gritted teeth, she told a little white lie to save face— their quarry had fallen down into the old Gutter’s Glade Mine crevasse after they had fled into it. And, as it turns out, the way down had completely sunken in, rendering the bodies completely irretrievable. Unless they were to send a search and retrieve operation up into the equivalent of enemy territory, there was no chance in hell to bring those damned miners to corporate justice. And sure, this sentiment brings upon some disappointed sighs and annoyed grunts from her superiors, it’s nothing the money she makes didn’t almost immediately dampen. By that point, she earned equal to the amount of Blondie’s salary, which is enough to keep her and Janet afloat so long as she’s on the grind. So, in a way, she walked out of that board room with a little extra wisdom. Battles you can’t win now were battles you might as well not fight, especially if you could wrangle up some cash in the process.

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Book Five, Chapter Four

CW: Strong Language, Sexual References, Graphic Violence, Fantasy Bigotry, Smoking, Alcohol Use, Light Body Horror

Honeysett isn’t the largest or most notable town in the world, far from it; if anything it’s something of a nowhere patch of suburb that just happens to exist on everyone’s map, nestled between the politically polarizing Pickman’s Hope and a more financially prolific series of towns that dot the Eternal Autumn up and out of the perpetual season’s territory. It exists, but it doesn’t necessarily exist in the same capacity as a place like Smokestone, Kiln, or Fusillade. It doesn’t have any great or notable exports, and by all means is something that Cherry has very recently started to appreciate— calm and uneventful, save for that lingering memory so long ago.

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The Granary V2 is now available for purchase!

Howdy there, folks! As you might remember, back in July we released a TTRPG called The Granary to the public! Well, after some internal testing and endless game design conversations, we ended up basically completely revamping the original game!! Everyone, meet The Granary V2!! Health and Damage have been completely revamped to bring more impact to taking / dealing damage, the entire Grain Catalogue has been overhauled to bring more interest to all 120 Grains in addition to some additional descriptive fun, and honestly, everything’s gotten a touch-up at the very least. You can purchase it on Itch.io [[ BUY IT HERE WHOOOO YEAH BABY ]]. Additionally, The Granary (the original one) is now free to download. You heard us right– previous versions of our TTRPGs are going to be entirely free, and we eventually want to offer discounts to those who bought them in the first place (once we figure out how to do that, haha). Thanks for the support y’all, and we hope you give this new version a try. We’re goddamn proud of it, and we’ve got quite a few things planned regarding it :). -P.

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Book Five, Chapter Two

CW: Strong Language, Sexual References, Graphic Violence, Fantasy Bigotry, Smoking, Alcohol Use, Light Body Horror

Azariah and Meat both stand a little straighter as a glowing claw knuckles its way through what stray rubble dared to stand in Blondie’s now much, much more open path; without skipping a beat the beast has stepped over the still collapsed android, and Meat barely processes the way that the other claw is moving before their own hand darts up to block a flaming rock before it can strike the Hare dead in the chest.

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Jack’s got a toughness to him. He might just be a match for Blondie after all! Here’s the first teaser for Chapter 2 of Book 5!!