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The Making of The Monarch Papers – Episode Twelve

In this episode, CJ and Simon discussed Fragment 12: Aorthora, the last fragment of Phase Three. Simon recalled how this was a big fragment for the story, and he created an audio component to help enrich that. At one point, they wanted to do something with fake security footage, instead, but this proved to be…

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The Making of The Monarch Papers – Episode Eleven

In this episode, CJ and Simon discuss Fragment 11: Durkonos. They discussed The Last Oracular Eye, Consolatory Teatime for Misplaced Memory, and The Low Report, and Deirdre among other things. In this phase, the Mountaineers continued to face off against Teddy Fallon, the head of Kemetic Solutions, and assembled a drawing from a little girl…

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The Making of The Monarch Papers – Episode Ten

In this episode, CJ and Simon discuss Fragment 10, Gladitor. This was, according to CJ, by far the longest of the fragments. It was the culmination of a lot of things they had been trying to do. This was the first time a puzzle was completely related to a character. Everything puzzle-wise that happened in…

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March Publisher’s Diary

(Below are a collected month’s worth of posts from CJ’s private Publisher’s Diary, which is available to read live as a reward tier on Ackerly Green’s Patreon.) March 2nd, 2018: Summiting  Hitting the wall The Impromptu AG Summit Nor’Easter PRSFNE Project Management March 8th, 2018: Headaches & Secret Societies Migraines Birthday Ackerly Green Secret Society…

Wet Woolie

First, I barely got anything done this week, hoping every creak of the office was the ghost come back. Also, I feel bad calling him “the ghost.” I’ve taken to calling him Woolie (in my head) after The Path of Wool. Any objections? By Friday I’d overnighted books on summoning spirits from Amazon. Then this…

The Secret Society: “I looked across the cold and silver swirling sea.”

Nothing out of the ordinary has happened in the office since my last post, just the usual sounds (and smells every now and then, like flowers maybe? Perfume?) so just normal haunting, not full on poltergeist materialization. NBD. But… Something else has been happening. Something I hadn’t picked up on at first, but looking back…