It’s just gone midnight here in New Zealand, so, from the Couch to our Audient, Happy Holidays, Merry Gaming, and have a good one.
Craig.
Hope you are all having a nice, relaxing day, with plenty of healthy and unhealthy treats and drinks to keep you through the season.
May your coming year be full of stability, joy, love, togetherness and all that jazz. May your dark moments be short and easily dispelled. May your needs be met and your wants be few.
Tonya.
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Educating Children and their Monsters together, in the hopes that it’ll socialise them.
How do you re-integrate supernatural prisoners with society, and what happens when things go wrong?
The social ramifications of schooling in a world where the D&D monsters have emerged.
Psychic Children, Regular Schools.
Tonight on “The Quest For The Next Big Horror Icon”, …
Refugee surface-dwellers try to make a new home in the Dungeons.
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Ben thinks about Norse Gods having personal responsibility for the days named after them, and how that can’t possibly go wrong.
Tonya imagines “Moon-shining With The Stars”
Craig considers who you call when you find something really strange on a battlefield, and what that call might be.
Kev suggests a pirate radio station in a world of super-heroes & super-villains, trying to make the world a better place.
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Craig imagines a traveling band, Gulo T. wonders about finding & transporting a much-needed specialist who might not want to go, Kev tries to find a safe place for crypto-boffins in a post-serpent world, Tonya looks at the Convention industry, and Ben goes Meta.
Really Meta.
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We got together to read & talk about ideas from BRC Foreign Correspondent TAZ, who had some thoughts about Space-Wreck Exploration & Goblin Paradise.
Planetes
Memories (a.k.a. Otomo Katsuhiro’s Memories)
Hospital Station, by James White
World War 2.0, by John Birmingham
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Craig is spectacularly unimaginative, looking at young Graboids wanting to tread the boards & see their names in lights.
Tonya imagines a world ruled and changed by Graboids, with scattered pockets of humanity making their homes in zoos, the last islands of non-graboid life.
Kev considers a Graboid-infested New York in The Days After Ragnarok, then moves on to the strange events aboard the colony ship “Manhattan”.
Ben, who has been working All Of The Hours, suggests The Graboids Take Las Vegas, and has some thoughts upon the difference between pitching a game and spoiling an idea.
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Craig imagines a strange & injured messenger arriving on a stormy night with a call to action, Ben thinks the video itself is a doorway to change & revolution in a stark & sterile future, Tonya sees the music video as the first part of an Alternate Reality Game, and Kevin wonders what happens if very determined & resourceful people see non-existent hidden messages in your communications.
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Kev mixes The Goonies, The Dirty Dozen, & a dash of Gremlins, all while wondering what, exactly, a Goblin Paradise might look like, and how you’d find one if you needed to.
Craig heads for the movie Labyrinth by a roundabout route, and contemplates both massive political upheaval and the Terrible Madness Of The Goblin King.
Ben starts with the French cinema during World War Two and ends up with an all-Goblin theater troupe.
Tonya traces the roots of the word ‘Goblin’, and takes us, through household gods and mine-spirits, to the last desperate search for a home for the scattered members of the Goblin diaspora
{Tonya sez:- I did a web search on this phrase when we drew the card, and as a result watched the movie ‘Legend’ for the first time. There is a reason that the movie is not mentioned in the show. There are parts of Tom Cruise and his Magic Pants that I never need to see again.}
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The Big Red Couch’s Foreign Correspondent, Taz, had a few ideas about the President’s missing Earth Chakra.
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In which Kevin imagines the Stargasso of stranded ships, Craig wonders how to rescue colonist stranded by the march of progress, Ben contemplates asteroid-hopping miner-archaeologists, and Tonya has some thoughts on what you might find in a spacecraft graveyard.