DRAK

@drakoniques.itch.io

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He/They | #TTRPG streamer & writer | Freelance TTRPG #ActualPlay Producer | Producer of award-nominated "Beyond the Brook" | drakoniques@gmail.com | http://drakoniques.carrd.co | Anti-AI/Anti-NFT

AUTHORS Logan Bonner, Luis Castro, Carlos Cisco, Amber M. Davies, Alice Grizzle, Laura Lynn Horst, Jason Keeley, Aaron Lascano, Monte Lin, Stephanie Lundeen, Derry Luttrell, Jacob W. Michaels, Jamie Reyes Mondragon, Zac Moran, Daniel “Drakoniques” Oleh, Jessica Redekop, and Erin Tierney
A screenshot of the section of the Daggerhearts Hope & Fear team. It reads: HOPE & FEAR TEAM LEAD GAME DESIGNERS: Spenser Starke, Rowan Hall, Rob Hebert ADDITIONAL GAME DESIGN: Spencer Campbell, Carlos Cisco, Jeremy Crawford, Drakoniques, Joey Haeck, Mikey Hamm, James Introcaso, Matthew Mercer, Christopher Perkins, Cass Rea, Mike Underwood ADDITIONAL WRITING: Rue Dickey LEAD EDITOR: Sadie Lowry DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR: Amber Litke ADDITIONAL EDITORS: Megan Boatright, Lauren McManamon SENIOR RPG PRODUCER: Elise Rezendes GAMES PRODUCER: Madigan Hunt DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATOR: Dani Gage ART DIRECTOR: Shaun Ellis LEAD GRAPHIC DESIGN: Matt Paquette & Co. ADDITIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN: John Harper CONSULTANTS: Rue Dickey, Drakoniques, Cai Kagawa, Pam Punzalan, Sarah Helen Slovak, Liam Stevens, Christian Yetter CARTOGRAPHER: "MarcoMaps" Bernardini CORE COVER: Mat Wilma LIMITED EDITION COVER: Dominik Mayer CARD BACKS: Simon Pape INTERIOR SPLASH ART: Cybercatbug, Daarken, Wesley Griffith, llya Royz, Richard Whitters ARTISTS: Juan Salvador Almencion, Eliot Baum, Cybercatbug, Luisa Costa, Daarken, Bear Frymire, Letícia Freitas, Laura Galli, Kristina Gehrmann, Arturo Gutiérrez González, Wesley Griffith, Katerina Ladon, Richard Luong, Morgane Magloire, Dominik Mayer, Reiko Murakami, Tamara Osborn, Ilya Royz, Chris Seaman, Crystal Sully, Jenny Tan, Brian Valeza, Richard Whitters, Mat Wilma, Maciej Wotala, Zuzanna Wuzyk This game was built by a diverse team of various races, ethnicities, genders, faiths, sexualities, and identities.
A photo of Drak’s Tomodachi Island. It seems to have 4 residents at the moment.
A screenshot of the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream personality chart for Miis.
Polaroid photos of a Black femme person with big curly hair, a white man in a trenchcoat with a cigarette, an older white man with a beard, a young white person with long brown hair, and a black and white photo of a woman in a cowboy hat. Over the images, like a torn piece of paper, is D.U.M.
A screenshot of The Defect, a robot character from the game Slay the Spire 2, with 63/80 health and almost two full rows of buffs underneath their health bar. The space where the final boss would be is empty, as they just beat it.
A logo for ECOS, the organisation. It is circular with three squared edges. In the centre is a rose-like pattern. Behind it is the image of trees, likely Pando.
Screenshot of the hacked account messaging Drak "hey there? :(" and Drak responding with "I know you hacked the real owner of this account. Fuck off". The hacker immediately blocked Drak after being called out.
An image of Pando, the largest tree network in the world
Polaroid photos of a Black femme person with big curly hair, a white man in a trenchcoat with a cigarette, an older white man with a beard, a young white person with long brown hair, and a black and white photo of a woman in a cowboy hat. Over the images, like a torn piece of paper, is D.U.M.
In the original quoted tweet is a video of adjectives quickly flitting by. This image is a screenshot of one of those adjectives. The word “sloppy”.
A screenshot of a Google doc I am working on with my WIP of a TTRPG titled I Who Remains. It reads: I WHO REMAINS You survived. Maybe the great threat fell. Maybe it didn’t. Maybe disaster was averted. Maybe it wasn’t. Maybe the war ended. Maybe it never truly did. Regardless, the world continued. Your friends and comrades aged, died, or moved on. Stories ended. Names faded. Places changed their shape. You remained. This game is not about saving the world again. It is about what happens after, when life stretches long, when memory begins to thin, and when meaning must be chosen rather than claimed. You will watch cultures bloom and fade. You will meet people knowing they will not stay. You will decide when to step close, and when to stand apart. You will carry grief, and you will carry hope, often at the same time. You will forget things you once swore you never would. You will be shaped by moments you barely remember. Love and loss will leave their marks whether you invite them or not. And still, you will live. I Who Remains is a game about being shaped by time and the people you meet, even after memories fade.
A very unstable Jenga tower being used to play a game of Dread.
Polaroid photos of a Black femme person with big curly hair, a white man in a trenchcoat with a cigarette, an older white man with a beard, a young white person with long brown hair, and a black and white photo of a woman in a cowboy hat. Over the images, like a torn piece of paper, is D.U.M.
Knuckle tattooed across both hands that, together, reads “Your Next” using the wrong you’re homophone.
A photo of the Beyblade X and Marvel collab. Its a photo of two beyblades, a Spider-Man one and a Venom one
A drawing of a man bursting into a room with a young kid cowering from him. The face of the man is covered by the Hello Games logo. The man is yelling “It’s free update time!” with image of the No Man’s Sky promo graphic in his hand. The boy is poorly edited to look like he’s holding a realistic wallet with money in it while yelling “No, Sean! No! I have money!”
A screenshot of the “AI Generated Content Disclosure” Steam header.
A vignetted image of a dimly lit forest trail with a few rays of sunlight making it through the canopy in a painterly style. In the center stand 5 characters, a young White girl with ginger hair dressed up as a witch, a young adult person who seems to be made of orange and purple honey, a scruffy young adult with tanned skin and brown wolf ears and a tail, a grey translucent young kid who seems to be made of wind and smoke, and a Black young adult woman in a dress made of leaves and flowers with a fox laying by her side. On the right-hand side, cloaked in and made of shadow is The Fiend, watching the kids with glowing white eyes. The image reads “Beyond the Brook"
A promo graphic for the TTRPG actual play Higher Education. Top center is the official Higher Education logo which is made to look like an antique book cover, surrounded by pink stylized roses, gilded lines, a pink downturned sliver moon with stars falling out of it, and a small pink book laying open beneath the title. The player's characters are lined up across the center of the image, from left to right: Stag, a Chinese goliath barbarian with warm, medium beige skin, wielding a giant axe that doubles as a guitar. Ecstasy, a red Dragonborn-tiefling rogue/ranger gilded in gold. Cirro, a Black faerie with a warm complexion, translucent teal wings, and a short blue bob. Baru, a Black gorgon inventor with black and purple snakes for hair. Jaisha, a Pakistani Earth Genasi with dark brown skin and blue crystalline vitiligo, and long sea foam green hair.
A screenshot of the latest Sacred Machinations episode on Spotify. The episode name is “Flesh & Steel”
At the bottom of the poster is the logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font with a powder blue blow around it. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. The other character is a well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls and a straw hat. Their hands are covered in bandages. One of the characters has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, and a lean muscular build. They're wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders and a green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. Another character is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf. The other character is a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides and gelled professionally, though a little messily. She has a slender build and is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth. The other character is an elderly White person a scar across their face, and a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket over rusting pilot armour.
Ifunanya, Drak’s Sacred Machinations character. He is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf.
A screenshot of the latest Sacred Machinations episode on Spotify. The episode name is “No Rest”.
Ben Hargreeves from The Umbrella Academy
At the bottom of the poster is the logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font with a powder blue blow around it. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. The other character is a well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls and a straw hat. Their hands are covered in bandages. One of the characters has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, and a lean muscular build. They're wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders and a green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. Another character is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf. The other character is a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides and gelled professionally, though a little messily. She has a slender build and is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth. The other character is an elderly White person a scar across their face, and a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket over rusting pilot armour.
At the bottom of the poster is the logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font with a powder blue blow around it. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. The other character is a well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls and a straw hat. Their hands are covered in bandages. One of the characters has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, and a lean muscular build. They're wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders and a green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. Another character is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf. The other character is a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides and gelled professionally, though a little messily. She has a slender build and is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth. The other character is an elderly White person a scar across their face, and a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket over rusting pilot armour.
At the bottom of the poster is the logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font with a powder blue blow around it. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. The other character is a well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls and a straw hat. Their hands are covered in bandages. One of the characters has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, and a lean muscular build. They're wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders and a green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. Another character is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf. The other character is a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides and gelled professionally, though a little messily. She has a slender build and is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth. The other character is an elderly White person a scar across their face, and a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket over rusting pilot armour.
At the top of the poster, it reads "Premieres April 29th". The logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font with a powder blue blow around it. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. The other character is a well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls and a straw hat. Their hands are covered in bandages. One of the characters has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, and a lean muscular build. They're wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders and a green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. Another character is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf. The other character is a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides and gelled professionally, though a little messily. She has a slender build and is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth. The other character is an elderly White person a scar across their face, and a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket over rusting pilot armour.
Art of Nemesis, a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides, gelled professionally, though messily. Has a slender build, in a black & crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it, a cigarette in mouth. Body text: Dr. Nemesis Zhong is a consulting xenogeneticist specializing in pre-Dark Age Remnant biohistory. They previously worked at [REDACTED] after a brief stint with [REDACTED]. Across her 7-year tenure with the Resistance, she has submitted four research projects for discretionary spending regarding remnans-sapiens genome sequencing and editing technologies. There are no project approvals on record. LOG FILE NOTE 2924-01: Discreet surveillance on subject recommended. Please advise.
Character art of well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls & a straw hat, hands covered in bandages. Brown hair is in a long braid with a daenggi at the end. The art glitches to a photo of Stellaluna. Body text: Tagged in the Resistance database with the potential designation of a Frontline Asset. Examinations of mech piloting and heavy tech have cleared with full marks. Currently employed by F.E.E.D. as a Senior Agriculture Specialist. Seems to have a propensity for collecting… rocks? Mentioned “The Song”?
Art of Sirin who is an elderly White person, a scar across their face, a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket & rusting pilot armour. The image glitches to an image of Sea Thomas. Body text: Sirin Wolfe is the last surviving member of Squad #602 and one of two living Resistance Pilots from the era of Blood and Steel. After being forcibly ejected from her mech during the Battle of the Dark Age, she requested to be listed amongst those petrified in their units. Her wish was granted, and her existence within the Resistance is classified. A highly skilled tactician with unrelenting endurance and a knack for aerial ambush and stealth missions. Logs of their time with Squad #602 can be found in the [ARCHIVE]. Sirin Wolfe abandoned their post after several decades with the Resistance. Her last known location leads to an unmarked farmstead in the jungle beyond the city's walls.
Art of Yazrin, who has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, lean muscular build, wears a black crop top with orange suspenders & green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. It glitches to a photo of Hamnah, who has brown skin, black hair with bangs, septum & nostril piercings & a choker with barbed wire aesthetic. They are wearing a beanie & a black top. Body text: “Yazrin Wali (none/they), born & raised within the Resistance. They have displayed considerable loyalty to the cause & have been amenable to all assignments. Yazrin was assigned to the MECHAnics Collective, where Yazrin has excelled in working with mechs & bioware. Log file note 8749-91: Yazrin has been given an additional assignment— Mech Pilot. Observe for aptitude and potential for frontline assignments.”
Art of Ifunanya, a Black femme with dark skin, short, powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face & red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white & grey leotard, a burgundy single-sleeved, cropped sweatshirt & an orange scarf. Art glitches to show a photo of Drak, a Black masc person with black hair, shaved at the sides into a high top & black floral shirt. The body text: “Ifunanya he/she/they is the result of groundbreaking advancements in bioengineering & bio-mechatronics, developed by FORMIS. They molded him into a skilled fighter & mech pilot, however this training appears to have taken a toll on his psyche. Little is known about Ifunanya’s past before her time with FORMIS. Since arriving at the Resistance, she has been on a path to recovery, participating in biweekly check-ins with her assigned counselor. Log File Note 2933-02: Subject has been cleared for frontline assignments."
The image show Lexi, a Black femme with long silver locs. The image glitches to show the text “The Resistance has failed to acquire significant information about the voices in the machines.” It glitches back to the image of Lexi. Below is text: “Lexi, he/they/she. Lexi is the GM for Sacred Machinations. A trailblazer in both the roleplay & Magic: The Gathering world, she is a professional game master, writer & performer who specializes in making engaging stories that make people laugh, cry & ask questions about the world we live in. A musician, storyteller, screenwriter & coder by day, she has appeared on channels like Good Time Society, The Command Zone, The Dungeon Run, Tabletop Jocks & has been in several award-nominated actual plays such as Beyond the Brook & The Fourth Age. She strives to make the world a better place through story.” Below is player character art.
The logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font with a powder blue blow around it. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. The other character is a well-built Korean person in brown patched-up overalls and a straw hat. Their hands are covered in bandages. One of the characters has deep brown skin, long wavy brown hair in a messy bun, and a lean muscular build. They're wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders and a green baggy jumpsuit tied around their waist. Another character is Black with dark skin, short but powerfully built, clearly bionic with EMP wiring along their face and red lights under the corner of their eyes. They are in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf. The other character is a Chinese person with light brown skin, short black hair with shaved sides and gelled professionally, though a little messily. She has a slender build and is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth. The other character is an elderly White person a scar across their face, and a weathered cybernetic arm, in a well-worn purple tracksuit jacket over rusting pilot armour.
A screenshot of an article about InZOI. It reads: It’s very open about its motivations, as well – throughout the various blog posts and videos from the studio that I’ve looked at, representatives repeatedly say that generative AI is used to make games with fewer people involved and less cost incurred. Obviously, this means that the company is using generative AI tools instead of hiring employees to do that work, which highlights that this is a larger pattern within the company that probably extends deeply to inZOI.
A poster for the Netflix series, The O A. It is a photo of a landscape. The night sky is bright with stars and the Milky Way. Silhouette against it is the rocky terrain, a woman looking up, and structures that makes a O and A shape.
A screenshot of a Discord video call with Lexi (@blackgirlmage.bsky.social), Connie (@byconniechang.bsky.social), Drak (@drakoniques.itch.io), Sea (@seaplaysrpg.bsky.social), and stella (@stellaluna.tv) all pointing finger guns playfully threateningly at a jokingly terrified looking Hamnah (@lilithttrpg.bsky.social).
An image of 5 blurred colourful characters. Over it is the logo for SACRED MACHINATIONS. The logo reads “Sacred Machinations” in a stylized serif font. “Sacred” is powder blue while “Machinations” is white. White geometric designs glow behind the words, alongside black silhouettes of mechanical, mech-inspired figures. One of the characters is wearing a black crop top with orange suspenders, another is in a black and crimson hanfu with white lab coat over it with a cigarette in mouth, another in a white and grey leotard with an orange scarf, another in brown overalls and a straw hat, and the last character in a purple tracksuit jacket over pilot armour.