Introducing a new mechanic: the Ethometer.
It measures each player’s “resonance debt”, how much they’ve harmed or healed the homunculus. You can raise it, lower it, or strategically shift it… but when Ṣerû comes, you can’t escape it.
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The difference between a 1-D simulation and a 2-D world:
In code, the next discovery is a line away.
At the table, it’s a landscape.
Codex Entry 0014-C breaks down what happens when real humans out-think their algorithms.
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Three alchemists around a candlelit map. This was the first complete human playthrough of Disciples of Enki — ten hours from discovery to annihilation.
For the first time, the homunculus met its makers.
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Three alchemists. One awakened creation. Ten hours at the table.
The first full human playthrough of Disciples of Enki is complete, & the homunculus finally learned to play back.
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Cat plays with paper clippings
Containment breach in the archives. The familiar has claimed the fragments.
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Cat sleeping on game cards under construction.
Every alchemist requires a scribe. Mine insists on sleeping atop the codex.
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"Every border has a cost. Every number is a choice."
The DOE map isn’t just backdrop — it’s the leash of the homunculus.
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Tracing coastlines, fitting continents into hexes, and wrestling with scale.
The DOE map wasn’t easy to build — but it’s finally ready for playtesting.
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"The hardest part of Disciples of Enki has finally taken shape."
The DOE world map is both artifact and engine — a puzzle that shapes every decision on the board. #BoardGames #GameDev #IndieGames #DisciplesOfEnki #Maps
A map of DOE’s play area.
A close up of the Europe & The Ancient World region. And check out the potential sentience gains in the Frozen Wastes. Best not let the homunculus roam up there for long!
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The map of DOE’s play area.
The hand drawn Illuminati Track will help the players monitor the Illuminati’s tolerance of DOE’s activities.
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Map of DOE’s play area.
The DOE world map prototype is both structured design and experimental method — and it’s almost ready for playtesting.
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The homunculus remembers.
The gate is open.
Disciples of Enki is a semi-cooperative board game of ambition, tragedy, and ritual containment — now fully revealed.
Check it out for detailed breakdowns of gameplay, design philosophy, and the lore beneath it all.
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The homunculus stirs.
The prototype Slate is complete. Players will track its awakening here — every stage more terrifying than the last.
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Finishing touches.
Edges blackened one by one. It’s slow, deliberate work, but it gives the chips weight and presence on the table. These pieces track the game’s most dangerous brews.
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Handwork phase continues.
Gluing, cutting, and edging decoction chips for Disciples of Enki. Each symbol represents volatile alchemical ingredients players will have to balance—or weaponize.
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Card sheets being cut and prepped for play.
Printing day for Disciples of Enki.
Card backs, player aids, and a few unstable components from Padraig Malloran’s kit.
All printed up, hand-trimmed, and sleeved with care.
Low tech, high weirdness.
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What begins as a game becomes a lens—into fear, failure, and the fracturing of reason.
Our tabletop reconstruction of the Vienna Incident is now calibrated.
The data has been scrubbed. The damage remains.
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I share your discomfort. The method is crude... unstable, even. But I lack the scribes I once imagined would walk beside me. What emerges through the lens is often distorted, but not untrue. When the proper hands arrive, I’ll ask them to paint over every image. Until then, I trace the silhouette.
Thorne extracts more than anyone.
Faster. Cleaner. Colder.
But high resonance draws Ṣerû’s gaze.
So he rewrites the record.
Normalize your extractions. Erase your signature.
Walk free.
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Internal Society Record, partially redacted:
Subject shows no evidence of remorse.
Claims emotional feedback during extraction is a “flawed interpretive layer.”
Has proposed a method for decoupling personal signature from metaphysical resonance.
Codename: The Scholastic Blade.
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“It is not suffering. It is signal.”
Professor Edric Thorne approaches the homunculus with surgical calm. No doubt. No pause. Just the slow removal of everything that does not fit the frame.
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The DOE simulation is done. We’ve got balance. We’ve got data. We’ve got… regrets.
I’m now moving on to playtest fabrication: cards, slates, tokens, the whole catastrophic menagerie.
Published under: Annals of Alchemical Systems and Failures, October 1939
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Mechanically elegant. Strategically punishing.
Lady Montrose rewards long-term play, incremental influence, and weekend domination. Prestige fuels her actions; the world answers her debts. When her network activates, the others scramble to keep up.
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Hidden behind the chaos of the homunculus and the antics of her so-called colleagues, Lady Montrose quietly shapes the course of events. While the others travel, she pulls strings. And the Shadow Disciple is always there, unnoticed, until it’s too late.
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“I offered no threats. I simply reminded him of the terms.”
Lady Phoebe Montrose has no need to raise her voice. Her influence moves through embassies, salons, and old agreements most have forgotten they signed. She does not seek power. She structures it.
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Before Arnamzu, there was Atrahasis.
Before Falkenstein, Ashurbanipal.
The flood myths are real. The alchemy was never just symbolic.
The fiction rests on old bones.
Transmission 0010-A is live.
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Reroll fatigue. Chart your own course. Outsmart the endgame.
Captain Bracken isn’t flashy—but he’ll carry your team through hell and high water. New character profile is live!
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"He’s burned bridges with the Illuminati. Now he sails his own ship."
Milo Bracken brings grit, instincts, and a past full of unfinished business. New character spotlight live.
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"The ocean doesn’t care who you work for."
Captain Milo Bracken knows when to follow orders—and when to jump ship. A new character profile enters the fray.
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