Last night in a dream I was playing an interesting (possibly) RPG. Again it was one of these modern-style restrictive one-off systems, designed solely for whodunnits, for a GM and one or two players. The general idea was that the players (who are detectives along the lines of Poirot etc) advance through various predefined scenes and encounters, ( Read more... )

In my dream last night I was preparing to go to a party with a Pale Fire theme. I was uncomfortably aware of not having read the book for years, and not being up to speed on the busy world of its exegesis and explication. Also, I had no idea of what to wear as costume. My tentative plan was going to be to ask the other, more knowledgeable, guests " ( Read more... )

(I can't draw, so you'll have to imagine this in the style of Slow Wave.)I am a corporate predator. I've invited my latest victim to dinner to seal the deal ( Read more... )