Social media posts for tabletop RPGs

Everybody in a modern game posts, and nobody posts carefully. Hand the table the missing woman’s last post and let them read the replies: somewhere under the jokes and the worried friends is the one account that should not have known.

What the screen shows

The status bar and the app’s own bar across the top; the author’s picture, name and handle; the post, its hashtags in the link colour and a photo if you give it one; the time it went up, with a pinned or an edited mark; the counts of replies, reposts, likes and views, each with its icon; and the replies beneath, faded out where the screen would scroll. A reply comes from a palette as an ordinary reply, a reply from the author with a badge, or a deleted one that leaves only its notice, and drags into order on the screen. An edited post whose replies answer something it no longer says is a clue in itself.

Three phones

Light mode and dark mode are the same modern phone at noon and at midnight; the cyberpunk handset shows a corporate feed in neon. The page is 71 × 150 mm, the size of an ordinary smartphone, at 300 DPI. In a world without phones, what a whole town is meant to read goes up as a Poster or into the small notices of a Newspaper.