4 AM in the Cabin: Tidying the Digital Frontier
There is a specific kind of silence that only exists at 4:00 AM. In the Shreveport cabin, the world is still, the coffee is black, and the only light comes from the glow of the screen as I navigate the back-end of the website.
As we approach the final days of 2025, I found myself looking at the archives—the maps of Zimrala, the scattered stats for Monsters! Monsters!, and the growing chronicles of the Tiger Force Shadow Saga. A website, much like a wizard’s workshop, tends to gather dust. Links break like brittle parchment, and files get misplaced in the digital equivalent of a junk drawer.
Cleaning the Slate Today is about precision. I’m recalibrating the Scope of the True Meridian to make sure every post and every page serves the story we are building. I’ve been scrubbing the code, fixing the grammar that slipped through in the heat of a creative burst, and ensuring that when you come here to find an Ether Dragon or a Tygerian map, the path is clear.
I’ve made some executive decisions during this deep clean: if you find a missing page, it is because it is gone. I am stripping away the clutter to make room for the new. However, if you happen to stumble upon a broken link while you’re exploring, please let me know in the comments below so I can get in there and fix it.
It’s more than just technical maintenance; it’s about respect for the narrative. If I’m going to be your Royal Cartographer, the maps need to be legible, and the ink needs to be fresh.
Looking Forward With the decks cleared and the website polished, we are ready for whatever 2026 throws at us. Whether it’s a cosmic apocalypse or a deep dive into the Vietnam-era shadows of Tiger Force, the foundation is now solid.
The Ink of Anticipation is wet, the Compass of Lost Things is set to North, and the workshop is finally clean.
Yours for now,
Earl C. Hedges Jr.
Product Identity & Legal
The following items are designated Product Identity of Arthur Earl C. Hedges Jr. / The Adventures of Captain Hedges: The world of Zimrala, The Tygerian Isles, The Ether Dragons, The Tiger Force Shadow Saga, The specific "Hedge Wizard of the Shreveport Cabin" persona, The "Royal Cartographer" archetype and the character "Emperor Rajah." Unique Items: The Ink of Anticipation, The Compass of Lost Things, Parchment of Echoes, The Scope of the True Meridian, The Rod of Infinite Spanning, and The Plumb of Gravity’s Anchor.
Monsters! Monsters! and Humans, Humans (1st Edition) are trademarks of Ken St. Andre and Troll Godfather Press and are used with permission. The statistics and game mechanics provided herein are designated as unofficial playtest material for the Tygerian Isles campaign setting.
Note on Intellectual Property: Legal protections and Product Identity designations pertain strictly to the content present within each individual post; if an item or concept is not explicitly included in a post, it is considered excluded from that specific entry's designated protections.
© 2025 Arthur Earl C. Hedges Jr. All rights reserved.
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