#MÖRKTOBER

[franciscolemos]

MÖRKTOBER 17. Disguise

[goblincow]

#MÖRKTOBER – 01/31

Day one of WAIL OF THE ROT KING, an adventure playset for Mörk Borg.

["ai" art theft is not the same as collage]

:// Welcome to GREEN MILK, the GOBLINCOW newsletter and this very special 8-part series entitled SAVE VS DESPAIR, a holistic retrospective of the cultural object that is Mörk Borg that will be publishing every 4 days over the course of October.

A release calendar, for the sickos among us (thank you kindly):

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:1 — What is Mörk Borg? (01/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:2 — Interlude I of II — Rules Light, Vibes Heavy (05/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:3 — Cultivating Mörk Borg (09/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:4 — Digging Deep in Graves Left Wanting (13/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:5 — The Vigorous Undeath of Mörk Borg (17/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:6 — Interlude II of II — A Funeral Playlist for the End of the World (21/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | 7:7 — Life Locked and Failing in a Dark Fort (25/10)

GREEN MILK | #007 | ?:? — Burn the Book (29/10)

GREEN MILK | #008 | Save vs Despair — Mörk Borg: a Holistic Retrospective (02/11)

[padingo]

im entering my draw anything fuck it we ball era

[progressordecay]

⚔️🖤 Enter the World of Mörktober 2024 🖤⚔️

Get ready to descend into the brutal imagery of Mörk Borg! Through my art.. hosted by @exeuntpress Posting in batches of 6.

[beftrast]

My late piece for Mörktober 2023 day 1, the theme was 'teeth'.

The text reads: Crown of Teeth

Should any who count themself among the living bear this crown of gums and iron, rip out one of their own teeth and place it upon the crown they gain control of the dead whose teeth adorned the crown before (Presence + d4 Skeletons initially).

These warriors crave death, each day they have not taken part in any killing the crownbearer must test Presence DR 14. On failure the undead warriors attack the bearer and their group at night, specifically focusing on the bearer.

[goblincow]

GREEN MILK | #008 | save vs despair — mörk borg: a holistic retrospective

:// A little over a month & 14,000 edited & well-considered words later, SAVE VS DESPAIR is complete to read in its entirety.

If you have any interest in TTRPGs or ever wondered what Mörk Borg's whole deal is – this is for you.

I approached it as a writing exercise & design analysis to understand what's so special about this game and art object, and I'm really proud of both this piece and what I learned for my own practice.

If you're invested in the TTRPG scene I'd appreciate it if you shared this with anyone who might enjoy it.

Our artform deserves as much high-quality analysis as we can cultivate, and the fact that I stumbled into writing what is currently the most thorough analysis I could find (which still has huge gaps in its perspective & approach) of one of the most successful games to emerge from the scene in recent years indicates that there is a need to encourage more writing like this.

In a perpetually collapsing digital infrastructure where so much of our design writing is ephemeral and lost to time (I've heard ancient tales of The Forge & Google+ eras, Discord is an unreferencable void & I really hope someone wiser than me is archiving all these podcasts) I hope that longer form writing might represent an opportunity for the ideas we have now to still be accessible (in one form or another) in years to come.

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Too much patting myself on the back? Maybe.

But it's good writing and I think you'll get something out of it.

Personally I learned that cross posting on multiple platforms is exactly as fun as it sounds (I thought the whole point of starting a newsletter was to avoid this crap in the first place) and by the end of the month I just wasn't posting the illustrations I was making or sharing the last 2 (?) individual parts here as they went up after burning myself out on instagram.

So for the sake of my poor microwaved brain, if any of this interests you:

[franciscolemos]

#MÖRKTOBER

07.Pig

[franciscolemos]

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31.Pumpkins

[goblincow]

#MÖRKTOBER | 09/31 | the red vineyard

A rat gnawing on WORTHLESS BONES, left for dead by his so-called "friends" whose acid stripped all the flesh from his bones.

Death Museum & Art Gallery:

dead people, acid scars;

experimental autopsy;

a human head in a velvet bag.

In collaboration with a church near the highlands, THE RED VINEYARD:

cascades of acid turn blood red as they fill a towering bath;

ruby jewellery;

giant bed;

wall of corpses pinned by the neck, wearing a slight smile;

HYBRID MIMIC held in a vial, downright rowdy;

Lady Cruella Darkness, Matron of the Convent of our Consecrated Carcass

[collage: second-hand novelty books, festival flyer, paper bag, stamps, ink]

[franciscolemos]

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12.Serpent

[franciscolemos]

MÖRKTOBER 08.Tome //

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13.Chain

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[franciscolemos]

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15.Cuirass

[franciscolemos]

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11.Thirteen

[franciscolemos]

MÖRKTOBER 01.Skeleton

[franciscolemos]

#MÖRKTOBER05.Venom