#outside us nothing

[thefiresontheheight]

Trying out some tentative layout for Outside us Nothing

Everything subject to change, art by @arachnophonia and everything very much a WIP, but still AHH how exciting is that to have a sort of page of a TTRPG you wrote, RIGHT THERE?

[super-ion]

Lisa's story

Part 3

Part 1 | Part 2

Context: this is my ttrpg character from the homebrew system Outside Us Nothing. Lisa is a giant squid/fungus/tentacle monster that lives in the walls of the ship. The ship has just arrived at an enormous space whale that is infested with members of her species, including her long lost sibling. At the very end of the most recent session, she links up with their sort of mycelial network and finds herself in a sort of dreamscape in a (presumably) human mental projection. I can't stop thinking about what if a Lisa was a people, so I ended up spending a couple hours on picrew trying to figure out what she would look like.

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She is standing alone in the void, surrounded by stars.

She has the stereotypical build of a born freetraveler, suggesting a childhood spent in low gravity and an occasionally sparse diet. She's a bit too tall, a bit too skinny, her limbs are a bit too long for any planet born Terre.

She very unambiguously resembles the woman from the picture she keeps next to her orchid collection, with bright blue eyes and a splash of freckles across her face, but there are subtle hints of others mixed in. If you've spent any time looking at her group photos with the various crews of her childhood home, you might see features from the various human presenting individuals. Looking closer at her face, you even see hints of Kara, mercy and Order.

The roots of her hair are a dirty blonde, but most of it has been bleached and dyed a bright purple. It's shaved on one side and the rest is slightly ragged, as if she had cut it herself. Her nose, her brow, both her ears are pierced with various rings and studs. One shoulder pokes out from her oversized hooded jacket to reveal her twined roses interwoven with the beginning of that old Terre poem, suggesting that she bears all of Lisa's tattoos, rearranged to fit a human body. Around her neck is the chain you've seen her wearing in the common area, the one holding the tag from her first ship and the pair of Teuth fangs, one from each of her siblings.

Logically, you know she's never worn clothes in her life, but her wardrobe has every appearance of being both well worn and well cared for, somehow utilitarian and flashy all at once in the freetraveler style you see at least once in most ports you visit. Beneath the extensively patched and repaired jacket, she wears a tank top bearing a faded logo of an obscure entertainment vid series. Her pants have too many pockets and the torn knees reveal fishnet tights beneath. Finally, to complete the ensemble are a pair of scuffed, sturdy workboots that wouldn't be out of place set alongside the boots belonging to the rest of the crew (at least, the crew members who wear boots).

She's staring down at her hands, her fingers, her chipped and mismatched nail polish with an expression of mixed wonder and horror.

Something catches her attention and she looks up. From whatever vantage point you have, you can't make out what she sees, but the wonder and horror on her face intensify at the sight of it.

She swallows nervously. She knows exactly who it is that wants to talk to her and she is dreading this conversation.

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It is picrew, so the styles are all over the place, but I feel like each one captures her vibe.

[terminallytwee]

comms are tentatively open 💕🌞💕🌞 I'll be putting together a price sheet later but for now, enjoy this finished piece for @stilllynnthecloset 🥰

[thefiresontheheight]

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Hi, I'm Sable/Sam Sy (They/Them), writer and creator of Outside us Nothing, an anarchist science-fantasy rules-light ttrpg about being poor in space, which you can play a draft of FOR FREE right here, hosted in my discord server right here!

I also write books and post other things, but that's neither here nor there. At the moment art is being made for Outside us Nothing, and I am going to be posting more about it, hopefully leading up to a kickstarter of some sort at ??? time in the future. Welcome and have fun.

[thefiresontheheight]

A perfectly normal playsheet for perfectly normal people. And also, for maximum weirdness, choosing what type of alien you are is only a third of the options in character creation, you also need to choose a background (like a corporate citoyen) and a role (like SPACE WIZARD!) If that sounds intriguing, check out the Outside us Nothing discord. Everything tentative and subject to change during the beta, layout by me, art by @arachnophonia

[thefiresontheheight]

I don't know how to make Outside us Nothing seem more interesting (hey, check my pinned post, I made a frickin RPG) than by saying a robot wizard powered by blood and formerly serving a giant interstellar corporation is a fairly mundane character concept.

[thefiresontheheight]

An INFINITE COOK is offering average pay to deliver A LOVE LETTER to A PIRATE STRONGHOLD -or-

A quick combo of two of the random tables in my RPG for making an NPC and a quick, preconstructed contract for the players to complete.

Outside us Nothing is an upcoming, rules-light, statless science fantasy ttrpg about survival and vulnerability in a strange and hostile universe, borrowing from the stylings of Cowboy Bebop, Space Sweepers, Firefly, and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet currently being written by yours truly. You can find out more about it and talk with other people interested in playing or currently play testing it here: https://discord.gg/Q569jt8htP

[thefiresontheheight]

I am not proud of many things, but I will admit to being proud of running a one-shot of the system I wrote and created which featured a giant cancerous mass of organs living in a spaceship growing a new organ to keep a bug warm on a gas station planet. Utterly heartwarming. Also that cancerous mass of organs used to me an office worker but that’s neither here nor there, now they voyage the stars. Love that character a player created.