thingness

I’ve revised the secure and stress shifts for the nine types of aliens so that they fit on an enneagram diagram: the Exterminator views humans as pests. Secure type is Epicure, stress is Watcher. the Helper views humans as potential (for improvement & uplift). Secure becomes Watcher, stress overlord. the Agent views humans as pawns [...]

I’d like enneagrams to represent 5 things/ relationships in things that fall from the sky. nine different character types, and how they shift under stress/ security to act as other char types. I’ll post a list of the nine char types in another post. nine different alien types, and how they shift under stress/ security [...]

I visualize a list of unanswered questions, perhaps in fill in the blank form, helping pace the game (or just serving as a repository of revelations). Maybe characters have to fill in one via research/ wild conspiratorial guesswork during the fortian phase to unlock the contact phase; generate two answers to reach the solar system [...]

When contact is made – or, if they’re already here amongst us, hidden: now – how will aliens treat us? To Fort,  there’s a predominantly paranoid worldview, a kind of implied subtle gloating that the true powers up in the sky are at best indifferent to us. In things that fall from the sky I [...]