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This is Version 1.0.5 of the Groovelet: Portable Mythology.

It was last updated July 13, 2025.1

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Despite its apparent age, I'm sure it's still relevant FAR IN THE FUTURE, when you're reading it. Hello, from the past! I hope you are enjoying your fun future things, like food pills and flying car that turns into a suitcase and a stable and competent government without even a hint of encroaching fascism. I'm rooting for you! Or dead! Definitely one of those two things!

Update Notes:

  • July 11, 2025: GENESIS! CREATION! IT'S ALIVE! (there were lots of updates before this, but this is the first tracked update)
  • July 12, 2025: Tidied up for formal launch. Spell-checked. Shared with co-workers, Mastodon.
  • July 13, 2025: Attempted to post to r/worldbuilding. Rebuffed because this document doesn't constitute "real worldbuilding", as it's a general characterful framework rather than a concrete WORLD with, like, locations and what-not. Pfft. PFFT I say. No tolerance for abstraction. Cleaned up the chapter containing the concrete worldbuilding based on Groovelet's mythology to resubmit.
  • July 13, 2025: The intro - first three chapters, describing what's going on - are described to me as dense, meta, difficult to understand how to use, and so self-effacing that it obscures the value and message. Rewritten and reorganized with more concrete examples, and more "here's how this book works".
  • July 14, 2025: Editing & tightening pass on the Harmony and Element chapters.
  • July 15, 2025: At a loss for things to do, added a "sample RPG classes" section to the Homework.

Generative AI Use Policy

None, zero, nada, zilch percent of this document was generated by AI2, but I did ask ChatGPT to check it for obvious spelling, grammatical, or consistency errors, and bring my attention to areas that were potentially unclear or confusing, so that I could rewrite them.

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I would hope that would be obvious, from the tone.

Who Are You?

I'm Cube Drone, because I'm from an early age of the internet when everybody was pseudonymous all the time.

I've been a lead backend software developer at VRChat since 2016. I write comics, fiddle with software, write, and consume life-threatening amounts of coffee.

Groovelet is the sign of a deeply diseased mind that loves systems a little TOO much. The sort of person with a battered collection of Prima strategy guides for games he doesn't own. The sort of person who has read Fever Knights. The sort of person who's favorite game is the Dwarf Fortress wiki. Not the game. Just the wiki.