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As they move against the enemies of their society’s psychic overlord, his agents must balance their own misgivings and their team’s allegiances with the needs of the mission.
The city is enveloped by a choking malaise, an invisible force sapping it’s inhabitants and industry. Is it an conspiracy, a twisted secret, or something even darker?
Book – Five on Brexit Isle
Place – Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain
Theater – Pirates of Penzance
The Smugglers What? – There are about a half dozen “The Smugglers X” in Cornwall. What’s THAT about?
The NZ Earthquakes – Animated Timelapse Maps and some rather calm geologists standing next to rather alarming things.
The Fortunate Truck Driver (and those bloody cows.)
Satire – The Civilian – Civil Defence evacuates whole of New Zealand after engineers discover structural issues with the country
Unhelpful Person – Brian Tamaki and the petition to have his organisation stripped of it’s tax-free status.
Satire – The Civilian – God deeply frustrated Auckland’s gay people live nowhere near a fault line
RPG – Paranoia
Styles of Paranoia from “Paranoia XP Edition” – Zap!, Classic, and Straight.
Cartoons – Adventure Time – Ancient Tandem Psychic War Elephant
Secret Service Codenames – Trump’s is actually “Mogul”
RPGs Powered by the Apocalypse
RPG – Dread and Jenga
YouTube – CGP Grey – “Rules for Rulers”
Film – Equilibrium (2002)
Podcast – Fear the Boot Episode 423
Boardgame – Junta
Film – Under Siege (1992)
Youtube – YouTuber playing Surgeon Simulation on a Treadmill
Boardgames – Illuminati
Boardgame – Thunderstone
Boardgame – Pathfinder Adventure Card Game
Boardgame – Dominion
Film – Vertigo (1958) – Hitchcock
Film – High Anxiety (1977) – Brooks
Film – Airplane AKA Flying High (1980) – Abrahams and Zucker
History – White Elephant
Winston Peters – Minister of Foreign Affairs (19 October 2005 – 29 August 2008)
Film – The Shadow (1994)
Comics – The Authority
RPG – Noirlandia
TV – Stranger Things
TV – Warehouse 13
RPG – Trail of Cthulhu
Convention – KapCon 26 in Wellington on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of January 2017.
Jewish History in Cornwall in Penzance
Just listened to the latest show, and I wanted to chime in about a podcast that is just wrapping up, but had items from both sides of the conversation today.
The actual play podcast is done by the people over at the ‘Gamers with jobs’ podcast. They usually do video game talk, but last year part of their donation drive had them running an RPG this year. Called ‘The Unmarked’, this podcast was a home brew system using tarot cards as the resolution mechanic. Low cards being worse, but the meaning of the card in tarot defining just why things went poorly or well.
There was also something about rings or something in the discussion today, but I plead brain fatigue. I listened to the podcast at two times speed in the car headed to work, so things have fuddled now in the noggin.
Interesting. I’ll have to give them a listen. Gamers with Jobs
2x speed? I’m impressed/scared. I often boosted longer conversational / news shows up to 1.1 or 1.2 but leave audio drama pacing as is. Any more and I’d worry about head exploding.
Likewise! Because the tarot card thing sounds like a really interesting twist to things.
(and 2x speed? Wow!)
I believe High Anxiety was the Mel Brooks parody of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Ack! Hit “Post” before I was done editing. I believe High Anxiety was the Mel Brooks parody of Hitchcock’s oeuvre, taking its name from Vertigo.
That *would* explain a few things, …