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Chris Airiau
@chrisair.itch.io
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https://chrisair.itch.io/

🇫🇷 sci fi til i die. game writer, ttrpg designer, cyclist, neurodivergent (ADHD/BP-III). he/they.

As 5 Million Worlds Press, I publish modules for Mothership RPG, The Lost Bay RPG, Cloud Empress, and my WIP space game 5MW RPG.
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Had a great game this evening with my partner, thanks @byodinsbeardrpg.com !
Midnight of the Century Primer by Colin Le Sueur, alongside a mao of Seattle and handwritten PC sheet and notes
January 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Me, tired?
Nahhhhhhh
Chris, napping on a red couch, baseball cap over his eyes, glasses on belly.
January 14, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Ok, cool, I got into #Zinetopia, and got my flair up already, check it out!

Follow the campaign launch for Twisting Unseen, a facility-building adventure for @mothership.bsky.social: discord.com/channels/@me...

#ZiMo #Zimo26 #TTRPGs
A big, mean looking robo-centipede coming out of a blue teleportation portal
January 13, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Ripley is working on Flatline on the Blocks, and my upcoming Twisting Unseen for #ZiMo / #Zinetopia : www.backerkit.com/c/projects/5...

Highly recommend working with her, :)
Black and white top-down dungeon map illustration. Four square chambers. One makes a horseshoe shape. One of the portal doorways glows blue. Color map illustration of a cyberpunk city block, in purples, yellows, and magentas. A winding F-Zero-like racetrack runs over and through buildings. A color map illustration of a cyberpunk city dump Block. Teal-green and dark purples, with a yellow gunk lake. Black and white top-down dungeon map illustration. One massive square chamber, a cylindrical descent with bridges of greenery overlapping the hole and a rectangular city square area, with a portal doorways glowing blue.
January 13, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Board game night with the Player of Games
Skull glass with orange-pink liqour, and board game in the background
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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My complaint about Metroid Prime 4: it is not Jayquaysed, at all.

Analysis provided for comparison.
Node map of Super Metroid's zones. Crateria is split by "Wrecked Ship" into two nodes. A nice loop with Crateria 1 to Brinstar (with detour to Norfair) to Maridia back up to Crateria 2, and a lil Tourian off of Crateria. Metroid Prime 1 node map. Again a split overworld, Tallon, this time by a crashed space station. The node loop is Tallon 1 to Chozo Ruins to Magmoor Caverns (detour to Phendrana) to Phazon Mines to Tallon 2. Tallon likewise has a lil shoot off to the endgame Crater. Metroid Dread Map. The nodes are all interconnected like crazy, here. Plus there's at least five different teleporters in this game that I didn't mark. All zones loop (sometimes with two branches), except for weird lil Elun, and the endgame zone Itorash. Metroid Prime 4 map. Dead center is Sol Valley. The five main areas all connect to Sol Valley. None of them connect to each other. Also, the endgame zone (which I jokingly call "Big Ben" when its real name is Chrono Tower) is off of Sol Valley. Sol Valley is also a hex map. On the hexmap, you can find six boring Zelda BotW knock-off Shrines and a fuckton of green crystals.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Bonus is the bubble chart for who I interacted with most that totally doesn't make me feel like a creepy stalker.
Bubble chart visualization showing accounts I interacted with, sized by total interactions across all engagement types in 2025. Top interacted accounts: @meatcastlegameware.com, @peregrinecoast.press, @emo-sludge.com, @alfredvalley.bsky.social, @lurnoise.bsky.social. This makes me feel weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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This tool is pretty fun. Apparently I am very offline which is a great laugh.

Funny bit was my Top Posts list. The top three were for my birthday itch sale, the Twisting Unseen (premature) Pre-Launch, and a random, thoughtless post last week about Flatline development work.
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "game" (58×), "haha" (45×), "mothership" (41×), "folks" (30×), "games" (27×), "ttrpg" (26×), "check" (25×), "adventure" (24×), "album" (24×), "unseen" (23×) Activity patterns, shows line graph between Online / Balanced / Offline, and my account is near the end at "Offline" with the title Grass Touching. Empirical evidence of my lurking. Image alt text stats for 2025: 187 total images, 100% have alt text, 0 missing alt text, 145 character average alt text length Engagements Received. Monthly bar graph shows 500+ engagements for Jan-Mar, with a huge dip in April and May when I was deep in Not Enough Scoundrels layout. June & September are 500+, but the rest is between 350-450.
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Well shucks, for a starting in late October, this is a pretty fabulous start for Ansible Uplink:
A 2025 Most Shared Show. You received more shares than 89% of other shows. A 2025 Instant Hit Show. Your debut season was more popular than 72% of other new shows.
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Give me a 1d100 roll, and I'll give you a Past Life:
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/5mw-...
5 Million Worlds Space Adventure RPG: Far-Future Transhuman Contact. A spaceship approaches a megacity planet.
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Guy really nailed it. Also each Block is getting a map by @queerwizard.co.uk, check these out:
Scraphive Block spread. In light greens, details the Scraphive block. On the right page, a big ol' square map by Ripley Matthews of the block details and keys the locations. Trak-Blok Block spread. In light magenta, it details the Trak-Blok block. On the right page, a big ol' square map by Ripley Matthews of the block details and keys the locations.
December 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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The more I go through this Flatline dev edit, the more I am aware of the possible interconnections and the slower I proceed.

I am just now figuring this out.
four-layer block map by Guy Pradel, and table of contents of the 21 map locations.
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Ran an impromptu IRL Cairn session on Saturday, and the folks have asked to play a campaign.

After 90mins with the Warden's Guide, got the factions and region map:
Sketch map on lined paper, hills around a lake to the south, dunes following a hanging valley to the north.
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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The Trade Hall at Dragonmeet is open!

Come say hi to me, Laura, and @peregrinecoast.press at Booth L-15/16!

(also highlighted: other cool places to visit)
Map of the Dragonmeet convention hall, showing how to get to Booth L-15/16 with purple squares. A few other "Friends" booths are added with orange squares: Lost Pages Booth F/G-19, Haus of Valley Booth L-32, By Odin’s Beard and Stout Stoat Booths L/M-22. Gorgeously set up, game-filled Peregrine Coast Press Booth.
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Can't really see the building outright, but got a good view of the new Dragonmeet locale
View of London and the Thames, with an arrow pointing to a big long building that says, "Dragonmeet at London Excel"
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Getting on an early flight into London tomorrow for Dragonmeet!

I'll be lending a hand at the @peregrinecoast.press Booth L-15/16. Very much looking forward to seeing a whole bunch of folk, and setting up the booth tomorrow!
Map of the Dragonmeet convention hall, showing how to get to Booth L-15/16 with purple squares. A few other "Friends" booths are added with orange squares: Lost Pages Booth F/G-19, Haus of Valley Booth L-32, By Odin’s Beard and Stout Stoat Booths L/M-22.
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Some new space graffiti nearby
Graffiti. "MARS." A cartoonish flying saucer sucks up the "A" from a Martian surface Street Art. A wacky 50s-esque cartoon spaceship. Graffiti. A wild, desert monument-esque Martian surface with an Ancient Alien beacon in the background.
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Reading assignment for the next Ansible Uplink: Complete.
West End Games, Star Wars module Tatooine Manhunt, printed out in black and white. pg. 10 of Tatooine Manhunt, with multi-colored pen markings on it, including, "Is this an actual EU thing, or just lazy?", "Scripted Encounter!", and "Boooo." pg. 11 of Tatooine Manhunt, with multi-colored pen markings on it, including, "real thing?", "How about an encounter table, instead?", "coooool", and "NAMES??". pg. 23 of Tatooine Manhunt, with multi-colored pen markings on it, including, "very polite rats" and "fuckin' Bounty Hunters want to LIVE. Come on."
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Final 12 hours for Flatline on the Blocks!
two zines, a pamphlet, sticker sheet, patch, and digital pamphlet
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I conducted mini-interviews with seven new @mothership.bsky.social designers last week. Find them all here:

5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
Seven Mothership Month title cards.
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Just needed to listen to some Metroid Prime music while I work today. Idk why, the need just strikes sometimes...

metroid.retropixel.net/games/mprime...
An old early 2000s style website called Metroid Recon. The banner is Zero Suit Samus with her stun blaster against a pixelated background of green nebulae and space pirates. The main header reads Music, a sidebar has the Metroid Prime logo.
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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For your labrythinian pleasure, as the cap to my Halloween night, haha

(everyone's fine, a few just stitches)
A hand drawn maze, big text over top reads, "Halloween Hospital Maze"
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I should be asleep, but I am glad my obsession with OVER/UNDER allowed me to I catch this:

bit.ly/3KP9uOU
666 backers on Flatline on the Blocks, a Mothership Month project.
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Back this and Flatline at the physical levels, and you can get a pair of bonus pamphlets!

Each of these add a new race course for the monocycle Trak-Blok and slicksim Beach Breeze Rally DX.

Check it out: bit.ly/3KP9uOU
A split of Flatline & Breathe Easy title cards. Two Rival Racers pamphlets, in Magenta and Turquoise editions.
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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For the Flatline on the Blocks pre-launch, all followers can nab a free digital copy of the postcard adventure, Sabotage on Sater's Redemption.

Not only that, we're running a raffle to win physical copies!

Follow the campaign to fill out the survey: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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"Free Digital Postcard Adventure. Follow on BackerKit for the PDF link! And Enter a Raffle to Win a Postcard from the Author" (of the postcard, me, Chris Airiau). A postcard mock-up in magneta, black, white and grey is set against a concrete background with a teal+white splash of paint across it. The quoted text is set on top of this, too.
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM