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Neighbors

Play tonight. 1 GM, 2–4 players, 30–45 minutes. The city has always been shared. Most tenants just aren't on the lease. THE PITCH A city has cracks — literal ones, and the gaps between old agreements. Things live in those cracks: the accumulated residue of a city&

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A Milk Run: Part Two

Every roll below is standard TiGGR: 2d6 + stat vs. Risky 6 / Dramatic 8 / Climactic 10. Where a saver says "beat by 4+," that's the threshold for the great result. Failure always fails forward — describe the wrench, dock the Margin, keep moving. Scene 1 — The Pitch &

The Riflemen and the Hares

Notes on Building TALUS TALUS started as a pun. Porg Borg. Say it out loud once and you can already hear the problem: a doom-metal apocalypse engine pointed at a CGI seabird that exists mostly because the real seabirds on a real island wouldn't leave the set.

The Other F-Word

It started, unsurprisingly, with a long-overdue doctor appointment. High blood pressure. High triglycerides. Low HDL. Numbers on a patient portal, followed by the seemingly universal Mediterranean diet recommendation, as if every physician in America had quietly bought shares in hummus. A month and a few days later, the surprise

Grots & Gretchens

A Lasers & Feelings Hack · While Da Waaagh Rages · Many Dice · Few Answers YER GROT OR GRETCHEN Name your Grot or Gretchen. There is no reason for this. Do not ask. Pick a Trait. This is how you endure. Trait How It Helps What It Costs Bitter Rallies other Grots

A Milk Run: A TiGGR Scenario

Touchstone: Jacques Tati's timing comedy + Lupin III's competent-crew improvisation — dignified people versus an uncooperative system, with a deadline. Components: 2d6, pencil and paper, the TiGGR core rules, an LLM optional but encouraged. Players: 1 GM + 2–4 crew. Playtime: One long session or two short

Combat Log: OGRE Unit Mk. V

SERIAL CV-7 ("STEADFAST") Engagement Reference: WAAAGH/INDETERMINATE Transcribed from recovered memory core, condition: operational Classification: FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH [T+00:00] Mission parameters confirmed. Advance on Paneuro firebase designation CRESTLINE. Destroy command post. Eliminate resistance. Return for maintenance cycle. Estimated engagement duration: four hours.

Speaking from the SRE Lane

Cross-Disciplinary Observations on AI Engineering Playbooks Notes from a DevOps/SRE practitioner on where agentic-engineering playbooks land for work that crosses ownership boundaries. Written to stand on its own — you don't need the specific playbook it responds to. Why this exists A colleague recently shared an

Psychiatric Help $0.05, The Shoggoth Is In

A Kedamono Opera Character Study & Scenario Seed "The Doctor has been in for a very long time." Content Warning This scenario seed contains: a predator that means well; the slow accumulation of care as a form of harm; an entity that cannot refuse; one patient who cannot

Orks & OGRE

A pocket wargame about Orks trying to stop, loot, ram, board, dismantle, and/or die memorably beneath a cybernetic supertank. Based on the design chassis of Ogre by Steve Jackson Games. This is an unofficial fan hack. Warhammer 40,000 and all associated names are the property of Games Workshop.