I made a BlueSky to joke post tonight’s AMS Council Session. Also, a recap of my most recent Draw Steel session, and a solicitation for some important information for Sam Low.

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As we did in Two for the Price of One!, we are once again doing recaps of my TTRPG campaigns because apparently I don’t do them unless they also get published on the Twice-Weekly Daily Nightly Buzz.

Click here to see the full wiki for this campaign (I’ll get through the back log one day Harry, I promise).

Darken the Skies - Session 06

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Number 1 Link from Last Issue

Elena, I just want you to know that your gif was the most clicked link in the previous issue of the Twice-Weekly Daily Nightly Buzz. Icon behaviour :).

Oops Aisha isn’t fully leaving

She’s gonna be the Editor-in-Chief of The Ubyssey, but still. Not at council as often :(. Anyways, she’s gonna slay. And not that she needs a bee to white knight for her, but I am gonna fistfight r/ubc whenever they say mean things.

(Also Aisha, would you be willing to sign my candidate profile that I cut out of The Ubyssey and stuck up on my wall? 🥺👉👈 I want it to match my signed stickers from Riley and /u/sasamats and my signed business card from Drédyn and my “Vote for Nobody” shirt from Nobody)

Oh thank god

The Ubyssey’s Year-in-Review issue is out and — best I can tell — it didn’t include the words “Most kissable organization.” Which honestly I’m very thankful for. Just logistically, it would have been a little tough to kiss every Ubyssey person who wanted to. Like… is it all Ubyssey people (Ubyssey forever?), or just current people? Is it any contributor? Or just staff? Or just editors??? What about the business team and web development team, do they deserve the opportunity for kisses??????? These are all questions I thankfully do not need to answer.

I will say, though, not having a section for since lines in the Year-in-Review absolutely robbed us of the chance to see “my girlfriend said she’d fuck your mom since 1918” in print again. Which is a travesty for all of us. A+ since line with A+ context.

I guess I’m joke tweeting council meetings…

We had an AMS Council meeting this evening, which at the behest of [REDACTED], I joke posted on BlueSky. I made a parody icon and banner based on the UbysseyHumour X.com (the everything Nazi app) account that I’m very proud of (they’re so fucking bad lmaoooo)

Here’s a subset of our posts tonight. I honestly had an incredible time joke posting to 0 followers. Made the meeting way more bearable.

This is actually not a joke: https://jakesawatzky.liberal.ca

Wait y’all Sam Low likes my code…

Also Sam et al., here’s the pitch for tomorrow’s session:

SAM LOW: Character Info

Hey Sam, before our game tomorrow, I need some information about what type of character you’ll be wanting to play. You can respond in a manner of your choice (Mastodon, GitHub commit, email, post on your blog).

Full Pregen or Some Choice?

Firstly, do you want me to handle all the choices and make a full character for you, or would you prefer to make some basic choices (ancestry and class)?

If you just want me to handle everything, you can ignore the rest of this section :D.

Ancestry

Basically, what kind of cool fantasy creature are you? I’ve given some light elaboration on the less intuitive ones. Choose one among the following:

• Devil.

• Dragon Knight. You’re a dragon person.

• Dwarf.

• Wode Elf. Naturey elf with an innate glamour that helps them stay hidden.

• High Elf. Artsy elf with an innate glamour that makes them seem more attractive.

• Hakaan. Big stone person who experiences visions of their death

• Human. Presumably like you, Sam

• Orc. 

• Polder. Short humanoid with ability to merge into shadow. Copyright-conscious hobbit.

• Revenant. An undead with unfinished business. If you choose revenant, also decide what ancestry you were before your death.

Class

This is what kinda of cool shit you can do! Ones marked with an asterisk are a little more complicated, but honestly not by much. You’d definitely still be able to figure them out. Choose one among the following, then follow the additional instructions. My suggestion is to basically just choose which ever one of the bolded words sounds coolest. (also if you want a recommendation, Black Ash Shadow really fucks)

• Censor: A censor is a trained warrior devoted to a saint or god. They hunt down forces of evil using melee weapons and magic granted to them by their divine patron and specialize in locking down one enemy during combat and hunting the wicked.

  • Choose which Order sounds the coolest: Exorcist, Oracle, Paragon

• Conduit: A conduit is the devoted priest of a saint or god. They wield divine magic that smites enemies with holy energy and supports their allies. They are the best healing class in this book.

  • Choose two of the following for what domains your deity represents: Creation, Death, Fate, Knowledge, Life, Love, Nature, Protection, Storm, Sun, Trickery, War 

• Elementalist: An elementalist studies the elemental forces of the timescape and controls earth, fire, the void, and more with magic. Many of their abilities cover wide areas of the map and they have a versatile array of tricks that allow them to control the battlefield and accomplish tasks outside of combat.

  • Choose one of the following as your elemental specialty: Earth, Fire, Green, Void

• Fury: Coursing with the rage of the Primordial Chaos in their veins, a fury is a mobile warrior who gets up close and personal with enemies to dish out lots of damage. If you want to leap around the battlefield felling your foes and breaking down walls, then the fury is the class for you.

  • Choose one of the following styles: Hit Shit Hard, Guerrilla Warfare, Turn Into a Mother Fucking Animal.

  • If you chose “Turn Into a Mother Fucking Animal,” choose an mother fucking animal you turn into: bear, wolf, rat, raven

• Null: Disciplined and calm, the null is an unarmed warrior who creates an aura that quells the supernatural and other special effects created by their enemies. They use psionics to make their body stronger than any steel and faster than any steed.

  • Choose your kinesis: chronokinesis (time powers), cryokinesis (ice powers), metakinesis (gravity powers)

• Shadow: Stalking foes from the darkness, the shadow is an expert assassin and thief who can use melee and ranged attacks to great effect if they get the drop on their foe. They also utilize magic to help them stay mobile on the battlefield and sneak up on their prey.

  • Choose which assassin technique you follow: College of Black Ash (teleporting all over the place), College of Caustic Alchemy (poisons), College of the Harlequin Mask (illusory magic)

• Tactician: A brilliant strategist and weapons master, the tactician excels at granting allies more movement and actions in the battlefield and supports their allies outside of combat as well. If you want to inspire your friends to greatness, then the tactician class is for you.

  • Choose your battle strategy: Insurgent(Asymmetric Warfare), Mastermind (Grand Strategy), Vanguard (Shock and Awe)

• Talent*: A talent is the master of psionics, manifesting powers that manipulate objects, minds, and time. These heroes can reach far into themselves to use abilities even when they don’t have enough heroic resources—if they’re willing to face the cost.

  • Choose your pathy: chronopathy, telepathy, telekinesis

• Troubadour*: A troubadour inspires their allies with storytelling and swordplay that is as much an art as it is an act of war. Their quips, songs, poems, and epic tales produce actual magic that harms foes and bolsters allies. They can even use their magic to tweak the campaign’s story in real time to better suit their needs.

  • Choose your performance: swordplay, music, stories

From the Web

• Where We Draw the Line (The Ubyssey). An article about ethics in UBC’s computer science department from a couple years ago that is super insightful. I’m in CPSC 310 right now, and the ethics module kind of scared me. It was actually just like “should you exploit a loophole in your privacy policy that allows you to sell a bunch of identifiable geolocation data to government/advertisment agencies? It’s betraying your customer’s trust and privacy, but it’ll make your company a whole boat load of money!” (basically all the ethics questions ended in “but it’ll make your company a whole boat load of money!”). The class’s responses did not instil me with confidence.

• UBC's Climate Action Plan 2030 progress to date (The Ubyssey). Very happy with our 2% CO2 emissions reduction 💪💪💪. This is a very in-depth article that also gives you basically all the context you need to understand the Climate Action Plan and how UBC is doing. You should actually click the link and read the article.

• Four UBC faculty members and graduate student initiate litigation to compel university to ‘refrain from political activity’ (The Ubyssey). Surprising no one, Spencer and Aisha cook again. Me when I don’t like being reminded that Canada did the whole “finders keepers losers weepers” thing to get 95% of British Columbia’s land so I take it up with the BC Supreme Court.

• One Year Later (Game Changer on Dropout). Holy shit y’all. The first episode of Game Changer Season 7 is out. It’s over an hour long and it’s an absolute banger. Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, and Lou Wilson are given a year to complete 15 assignments. It’s absolutely unhinged. A musical happens? Something gets sent to Antartica? There’s a kink therapist?!?!?! The amount of bits that get committed to… y’all, you’ve got to watch this episode. It’s very much worth getting Dropout for this (or asking me for my password :D)

From the Archive

Breaking for tradition, I am not including Ubyssey material but instead I present the three notes at the start of the 1942 issue of The Tillicum (The AMS Student Handbook).

Also, this is how I learn that The Ubyssey sits on a throne of lies. Anon (which became Anonymous (which became The Ubicee (which finally became The Ubyssey))) was actually founded in 1916, not 1918. In 1917 the AMS added a fee to increase The Ubicee’s budget, and once the paper resumed publishing in 1918, they finally took up the name The Ubyssey.

That’s All!

It’s been a fun couple days. I’m sort of not stressing about exams yet, so I’ve just been doing some pleasure reading and grinding out some Slay the Spire before its successor releases later this year (right now I’m Ascension 15 on all characters. I want to get to A20 before Slay the Spire 2 releases).

I’m sure I’ll get stressed later, but I’ve been very happy to give myself a bit of a break right now.

Until Sunday at 10:03 pm, buzz on, my busy bees!

Ubyssey wannabe since 1918 since 2025