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[kaaramel]

Heart Up Your Sleeve by Karma Chameleon

A secrets-themed blackjack roleplay for 2-5 outlaws.

my partner @windienine​ and i recently released a Lupin III-inspired tabletop roleplay, titled Heart Up Your Sleeve! gamble with secrets, confessions, and romance, retelling the tales of your legendary heists over a crooked game of blackjack!

if you enjoyed the blatant homoeroticism of part 6 episode 0 as much as we did, i encourage you to check it out~

what have YOU got up your sleeve?

[kaaramel]

in celebration of the Lupin III anime’s 50th anniversary, i’m putting Heart Up Your Sleeve on sale this weekend! as a matter of fact, the vault door’s been left open, sneak in and get yourself a five-finger discount - name your price, as low as free, from 10/23 through noon (EST) on 10/25!

windie and i are incredibly grateful to everyone who’s read our game or promoted it! we have more games in the works, heist-related and not, and i hope we get the chance to show them to you

[kaaramel]

various goemons

[alexis-royce]

When a popular illustrator is found dead, disgraced demonologist Harold Ludicael is hired to summon her ghost. But he’s hiding a secret:

Demons may exist. Imps? Sure, everybody's got one of their own! But ghosts? Those are as fake as all the other lies coming out of Ludicael's mouth. I traditionally painted all the backgrounds and characters. Please play it! https://alexisroyce.itch.io/murder-mystery

[kaaramel]

miscellaneous dragons variety pack incl. one ritho

[kaaramel]

sorry to report @windienine was the tiebreaker and we are bullying yata more

[kaaramel]

miscellaneous

[kaaramel]

I've recently gotten into lupin iii and read the blabkbird fic and saw your art and goooood its so cute and i adore all of your art, its so.. alive! If that makes sense.

Just... gosh blackbird is cute and i feel you captured it perfectly

thank you for the kind words!! sorry for the late reply

[kaaramel]

Oh phew, I thought you were gone for good. Er, anyway, welcome back to this hellsite.

cant get rid of me that easily

[kaaramel]

the root of all leviathans vs. incorrect quote generator

[kaaramel]

various astielle by kitty @unpretty fanarts

(the socks’s pronouns one is of course parodying this comic)

[kaaramel]

Heart Up Your Sleeve by Karma Chameleon

A secrets-themed blackjack roleplay for 2-5 outlaws.

my partner @windienine​ and i recently released a Lupin III-inspired tabletop roleplay, titled Heart Up Your Sleeve! gamble with secrets, confessions, and romance, retelling the tales of your legendary heists over a crooked game of blackjack!

if you enjoyed the blatant homoeroticism of part 6 episode 0 as much as we did, i encourage you to check it out~

what have YOU got up your sleeve?

[kaaramel]

hello im back and it’s about to be everyone’s problem

[kaaramel]

[bananapajama87]

@dying-suffering-french-stalkers is right as always.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

(via @the-golden-ghost)

[kaaramel]

*sobs gently into my hands* uniquely among this cast I think his genuine deepest down character motivation is *belonging*

like obviously all the other characters need connection on some level too (even if poor zenigata isn't getting a lot of it :') ) but I don't think any of them has it as this fundamental desperate right-in-the-core drive like jigen does it's so sad that he spent so much of his life in a world where you can't trust anyone when one of his most defining character traits is a just... IMMENSE capacity for loyalty and devotion

and not in the fear-based 'you know what happens if you aren't...' way OR mechanical thoughtless way of that violent world but the real deal babey with his whole chest; quietly and undramatically and steadfastly as much in the silly little background moments of day to day life as in the great crescendo of a heist

and like when you think about it he really needed so little! he literally just needed someone to treat him decently! for just one (1) person to not repay that capacity for loyalty and devotion with stabbing him in the back when he isn't 'needed' anymore! he fascinates me so endlessly as a character who at one point very nearly died psychologically if not physically (though when you're that dead inside I feel it's only a question of time before even professional pride ain't enough to keep you from that) doing things he didn't much care for for people he didn't much care for for reasons he didn't much care for

(he doesn't seem to like... care that much about money really? even when lupin loses them a score to fujiko it's more anger that he's devaluing what he and jigen did together just like that. no one in the lupin gang really cares that much about the money in and of itself except possibly fujiko which is probably why she usually wins lol) and then lupin shows up with all his joyful nonsense and it wakes him up and he saunters back into life again. I mean. hmng ;___;

I know I joke that lupin iii is fundamentally the 'we must imagine Sisyphus happy' central of fiction but I think jigen is the Most in finding contentment in pushing that metaphorical boulder b/c he's doing it with the people he loves (which is why it's both so funny and sweet to me that 'where you go I go'. like 'yeah I'll go wherever as long as it's with you' *shrug*) and it's a hell of a lot better than being dead while still having to walk around and breathe

like he doesn't care as much about where he's going as the fact that he's not going alone. that finally something loved him back. ...all my jigen feels spilling out of my chest on a tuesday morning lol

(via @vaguely-concerned )

hi, OP here! just came off hiatus! thank you SO much for this Jigen Essay Series, truly, genuinely, every one of you

[kaaramel]

posts that get my account terminated i guess

hi i have my account back so hi for real! i'll post in the morning! but in case you were wondering! tungle simply said, oh, coming back from hiatus? no you will NOT use our blogging platform until you ask nicely to have it back

[kaaramel]

(knocks cobwebs off the ceiling of the blog with a broom)

i am finally coming up for air on a busy life and i want to draw more and post art again. hows the hellsite been

[xavidotron]

One week left! If you’ve been thinking about telling your friends about Dreampunk, or considering adding any add-ons to your pledge, now’s the time! Help us reach more stretch goals before it’s too late!

Curious how you interpret the surreal art cards in Dreampunk if they don’t have set meanings? Check out our latest update, where I give a plethora of examples of what you might do with a card!

[penguinkinggames]

Jellyfish. Few would suspect that these fragile bags of transparent goo are the most dangerous thing in the ocean – and that’s just the way you like it. Take advantage of your unassuming appearance and the hidden wisdom of the depths to lie, cheat, swindle, defraud, embezzle, and prove that you don’t need a brain to be a criminal mastermind!

Jellyfish Felonies is a semi-competitive tabletop roleplaying game for three to five players, plus an optional Gamemaster, and is available on a pay-what-you-want basis via itch.io:

https://penguinking.itch.io/jellyfish-felonies

[prokopetz]

Finally decided to pull the trigger on this one. Eventually you reach a point where you realise that continuing to fiddle with it isn’t actually improving matters – so here we go!