skyworthy | wrapped
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the final episode of the skyworthy series just went live! i love these episodes so much. caleb & connor both told incredible stories & i’m so grateful for them!!
guests
caleb zane huett | pick up triangle agency at shop.hauntedtable.games or hauntedtable.itch.io | @hauntedtable [ bluesky ]
connor c | support your local library & take a little walk
process
the attached video is absolutely the silliest thing i’ve done musically so far in the show: turned a little ditty caleb sung while setting up into the music for the series
while editing i realised at a certain point that my current “uniform from a restaurant i used to work at” pajamas were very thematically appropriate & it DID make me laugh out loud
data
tags overall
caleb’s ship’s journey was the least daunted. mine was the sleekest. connor’s was both the most balanced & the most swift
choosing vs rolling
as i’ve mentioned before, i offer guests the first little bit of my playthrough to optionally listen to as they’re preparing. i don’t want to influence anyone’s games too much, but i do want to give people a sense of what i’m looking for when i give them the somewhat odd task of “sit down & play a game out loud by yourself & don’t worry too much about pausing to think or taking your sweet time with stuff.” it really delighted me when connor called out the fact that i immediately pulled out dice when asked to make a choice & decided to do the same for the most part, providing at least the gesture of balance between caleb & me:
it tickled me that, in all of the wonderful delicious prompt overlap, nothing was ever chosen twice or rolled twice– anything that appeared more than once appeared exactly twice: once randomly & once on purpose
of the overlaps:
as said above, all four were chosen by one person & rolled by the other, but also specifically
caleb did all of the choosing, unsurprisingly, but i do think it’s cool that 66.6% of his choices ended up overlapping with something rolled in that round
connor & i split the rolling– balance!
which also means connor & i never shared a prompt– balance?!!
all four were repeated in the same era
- event tables change per era so that isn’t a surprise, but the “time passes” tables are consistent across three eras so they COULD have come up at different points of the game
both double “events” were by caleb & me (“no friends in high places” & “we’ll get ourselves a little further”)
both double “time passes” were by caleb & connor (“mind yourself, she’s particular” & “painted with care”)
captains
overall, our captains had a very even spread of tags:
individually, caleb’s captains were dauntless but not sleek, while connor’s captains were distinctly unpowerful
both caleb & i pulled double suits once while determining captains, so we both had one more captain card than connor
refits
caleb was absolutely correct that he was the luckiest with getting refits, but i wasn’t that far behind– connor, on the other hand, stayed physically the same almost the entire way through despite the constant changes of name
when looking for a refit, dauntless & powerful tags were the most likely to come up:
i was curious if one particular tag or another was more likely to have ended up in a successful refit. sort of!! 100% of swift refits were successful, but all of the others hover around 50%
events
we each pulled three event cards, & despite their narrative power, the tags weren’t particularly powerful-heavy
that singular powerful tag was pulled by me:
sorry the all-blue charts are so hard to read in instances like this– i’m still figuring out the best way to present data without just defaulting to my personal aesthetic, which eschews colour almost entirely, so it is EXPERIMENTAL
time passes
so ok. imagine this in the cadence of “how does fruit fly” “like a banana”: how does time pass? sleekly
ok i think that’s it
these episodes are really, really dear to me. i’m pretty confident in my abilities as a player & storyteller, which i bring up only to assure you i’m not being self-effacing when i say i think connor & caleb both blew me entirely out of the water (ha ha) with their narrative throughlines & continuities in this series. it made me really happy to get to showcase them like this & i think it made an incredible series. thanks everyone! see you in the sky & all of that!!