Mothership Month 2025

Yes, I'm absolutely using my disused blog to try and ram one last Mothership Month blog post in under the gun to unlock a stretch goal. I'm not above it.

Last year I was introduced to Mothership through a shockingly well-aimed campaign tabling at PAX Unplugged. Hello, Omendrome, don't think I don't see you there, lurking.

This time around, I somehow missed every single BackerKit email about the event. All twelve thousand of them. I don't know, it's been a weird year. (Hello, Blogosphere! Nice to see you! What's been up since, uh, the wholeass pandemic?) So here I am, with twenty minutes and no budget to go. Here's what I'm stoked on:

The lynchpin of this year's campaign is Prospero's Dream. I don't know if "butchers" is about meatpacking or murdering. I'll be honest: I want it to be about meatpacking in space. I will mod this out and make there be a kosher butchery in space. Do not dissuade me from this. I have PLANS.

My immediate second choice was Drink From Hippcrene. Corrupt cult? Say less. I'm in. I was unsurprised to learn that this is from the same crew that brought us last year's excellent Dose Makes the Poison.

Next, you can sign me up for Cleaning Crew, a janitor's handbook for Mothership. Yes. Tell me what's in the pipes. Let me set a whole scenario unclogging a jagged up toilet. Let's go.

I went with White Heat, which bills itself as a body horror kitchen crawl for fans of The Thing and The Bear, which is the mashup I knew I'd get to eventually. There's an infection, which is never a good idea for a kitchen. I am inevitably going to just want to NPC around this kitchen and cook things.

And since five unlooks some sort of special hootenanny, I'm here for Rites of Renewal. You wouldn't think you'd find neo-pagan folk horror in space, would you. WOULD YOU. I would. I absolutely would. Weird me out with your haunted space garden, you moss ridden rastabouts.

I backed at the physical level for each of these, because I simply cannot consume a PDF of an RPG. Can't do it. The format makes the content unknowable. I'll spin that in to an SCP antimemetic when I have the time. Til then, there we go. A blog post where I name all five things I backed, which should fit the brief. Let's see if I can feed it in to the machine in time.

**Note to self, me, an idiot: Set a calendar reminder and pledge EARLY. You know what motivates you? Free swag and cool patches. Early Backer rewards. Don't frack this up next year.