Luke 🦆

@aethercorp.games

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Tabletop board game and RPG creator. Maker of: Field Agent Handbooks, A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG, Double D6, Coiled.Spæce, and Orchidelirium Also a UX designer (and a bit burnt out) May contain swears. www.aethercorp.games

A screenshot of the Pages per Side dropdown with the Print as Booklet option sneakily ensconced at the bottom of a list of selectable numbers (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16)

IPR home page with the two newly-arrived Handbook listings clumsily circled in red

Large pink daisy-like flowers with yellow centres

Watercolour sketch of sun-dappled trees held up in front of the sun-dappled in the sketch

Fronts and backs of three business cards (illustrated worksheets on one side, game rules on the other) labelled 'Relationship Map' (illustrated in a mushroom theme), 'Solo RPG' (illustrated in a snow theme) and 'Tracking All The Things' (illustrated in a retro-digital theme)

A small watercolour of fields being held up in front of the fields in the picture

Watercolour painting of a pond and some trees in a sketch book being held up in front of the pond and trees

A boy looks puzzled at the ground while a man in a black turtle neck side-eyes the kid with the caption 'I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you Warren.'

Board game laid out on a table with black& white wooden discs, colourful square cardboard tiles arranged around an illustrated circlular cardboard track

A slim metal magazine rack packed tightly with RPG zines hanging from the end of a set of a set bookshelves packed tightly with RPG books (alongside some fiction books and LPs)

Checkered tablecloth with playing cards from Communist Cats lying on it with one being held up and labelled as The Chairman with a picture of a cat

A playing card tuck box titled Arsenic & Lies with woman pictured dropping poison into a glass in an Art Nouveau style lying on a black tablecloth. Cards, a magnifying glass, gold stars, empty glasses and cocktail sticks surround it. One card has 'secret' emblazoned across the back, another looks a bit like a newspaper with the headline 'You Are The Killer'.

A tower of folded playing cards with pictures of sweets on them balancing on the back of a board game box on a carpeted floor

Table of books and zines on a stall with Kristen and Kayla behind the table

Brown wooden shelves with a ginger cat perched above fake apothecary drawers and a mess of fairy lights in the background

Map of the Pax Unplugged exhibition floor with the IPR book circled on bottom end in Hall A. Below the map are the front covers of Orchidelirium, Coiled.Spæce, Advanced Double D6 and six differently coloured Field Agent Handbooks

Stack of 12x24" calendar posters with months running vertically in twelve columns showing the phases of the moon in white with a black background and the words 'Observancy Department' at the top. The stack is lying on some open brown paper wrapping.

Text from a job listing with the words 'and hit deadlines' highlighted. Full text reads: —products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can design and write innovative and high-quality RPG material, and hit deadlines, this role is for you.
We're looking for passion and professionalism in equal measure.
What You'll Do:
• Conceptualize and design substantial portions of D&D products, including game mochanice with quidance from...

Record player with a picture disc on the turntable. Photo on the vinyl is a person shining a torch on a field of pumpkins (a shot from Stranger Things)

Model Tiger Moth plane flying in front of my desk before spinning around my living room then crashing into an orchid above the desk

Brown metal door with a brass handle and black pieces of paper with white handwriting in four rows.

First row: BACKBURNER, Cælia & The Malfeasant Mushroom, Secret 'Field Agent' Missions, Orchidelirium Vol. II & III

Second row: SNEAKY SIDE PROJECT, Peepers, A Wonderfully Small & Terribly Unexpected RPG Oracle

Third row: Reducks

Fourth row: NON-GAMES, I Want To Play... Games!, Get books in shoppes, Coiled.Spæce website

A page of text that reads: Distance
It can be difficult to gauge an exact distance from yourself to the creatures so please use one of the following two simple methods of estimation instead.
DISTANCE TO HORIZON
When at a height of 6 ft horizon is ~ 3 miles away
... Io ft ~ 4 miles
... 25 ft ~ 6½ miles
... 50 ft ~ 9 miles
... 1oo ft ~ 12 miles
...200 ft ~ 19 miles
...500 ft ~ 30 miles
... 1,000 ft ~ 32½ miles
... 2,000 ft ~ 60 miles
... 5,000 ft ~ 93½ miles
HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL
Split the distance to the horizon into thirds. The first third is NEAR, the second is MID, the third is FAR (as illustrated on page x & x1).
Circle the appropriate distance.
Your perceived distance to the horizon changes depending on your height above sea level (as shown in table).
There is quarter-circle in the top left corner of your page, above the label: DISTANCE.
Use a map to find your elevation (or estimate if confident) and note that number in the quarter-circle.
EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION
When you don't have a clear view of the horizon or are unsure where the creature might be in relation to the cloud, note 'P' for PERCEPTION in the quarter-circle and employ your pendulum:
Hold it over each distance designation: NEAR (N), MID (M), & FAR (F), on the DOWSING BOARD, circling the one that exhibits the greatest swing.

Six Field Agent Handbooks and one Orchidelirium lined up on a table

Three very large boxes covered in paper packing tape on a carpeted floor in front of a bookcase. Sadly, no banana included for scale.

A community book exchange in a red telephone box with a copy of Orchidelirium, a copy of Advanced Double D6 and two Field Agent Handbooks nestled on one of the shelves

A whole set of Field Agent Handbooks with ID card, button badge, handbill, red string with key and a red button badge spread out on a grassy mound

Sixty stacked brown boxes worth Field Agent Handbook labels

An art print of a flying whale and a more impressionist painting of a sky whale chasing birds alongside a selection of RPGs, two board games and one card game:
The Long Road Home
Which Familiar?
MINIGODS
Dungeon Delvers!
Litter Detective!
HAUNTED HEIST
Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop
GRAB BAG JUNGLE
Soulaween
COMMUNIST CATS

Two business cards stuck in sand with a melting ice cream design, one titled Role Playing Game, the other Story Guide

A phalenopsis, a dendrobium, and an air plant mounted on a lump of wood with a heavy covering of moss

Both sides of the business card RPG above a sea background

Two black fluffy, expectant looking cats on either side of a laptop on my lap

Upward photo of my green checkered shirt sporting a 1" red Field Agent button badge with my face in the background looking off into the sunny distance

Two men looking awkwardly at you while start sat at a messy table covered in index cards and zines

Timelapse of an ink and watercolour painting of a fish

A plant pot with a leafy plant in it that's painted to look like Robert Plant from The Cure

Mock up of a blue tape cassette and jewel case emblazoned with Coiled.Spæce logos and named 'Sounds from Spæce'

Unfinished painting in a book with sketch of a duck and "re-ducks" emblazoned on it next to a set of watercolour paints

Corner of a green book with orange tape and a sketch of what is most likely to be a duck but it's a little difficult to tell easily because of the angle of the photo

Corner of a cardboard box with an ink stamped rectangle with the letters 'ÆC' and words 'Stay Watchful' in an art deco style. The corner of an international post label is just visible and the box appears to be on top of another in the background.

Closed corner shop with a Twitter sign above the window and a dumpster fire in front on one side and signs to other socials bathed in sunlight, flowers and grass on the other

Six booklets of differing colours, with a different circular symbol on each cover but all bear the title 'Field Agent Handbook' on a wooden table. There's obviously a cat lying just in the corner of shot because it wouldn't move its bloody leg.

One hand trying to flip through the pages of a blank notebook (whilst the other hand holds the phone that's taking the video so it's a bit shaky)

A small pallet of boxes wrapped in clear packing tape on a path next to a red car with a red lorry in the background

Text: It will come a pallet on Wednesday

Second page of a book with text that starts with "Because stories are important." — book is "Witches Abroad" by Terry Pratchett

Me in a Jack Skellington costume throwing my arms wide while stood in the middle of a darkened stage surrounded by crouching children who are mostly acting scared

Leaflets promoting the Field Agent Handbooks emblazoned with the words JOIN TODAY

Ginger cat with two black cats sleeping on a blue sofa

Button badges in a metal yellow box

Front cover in front of a page with a grid to be filled in with trees in the background

Closed corner shop with a Twitter sign above the window and a dumpster fire in front on one side and signs to other socials bathed in sunlight, flowers and grass on the other

All six covers, each with different colours and circular symbols

Three Field Agent Handbooks on a table with a key dangling Ona string over the dowsing board printed on the back cover