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Latest — 28 Sep 2026

Mance Lipscomb: An Appreciation

Or, Notes From Someone Who Just Got Here Credit where it's due: Nancy found him. Earlier this year she came home from Goodwill with a copy of Mance Lipscomb, Volume 5 on Arhoolie, five bucks or thereabouts. She has the ears in our house. I first heard the

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At an Office Pace

A setting for TiGGR. A branch office. Not headquarters — a satellite, three or four hours from anyone who matters, in an industry that has been described as declining for longer than most of you have worked here. The product is unglamorous and the margins are thin and the branch has

The Signature

She cannot tell you whether she read it. That is the part nobody puts in the brochure. Marilyn will say she reviewed the file, and she will not be lying, and the sentence will not be worth much. The psychologists who study this have a finding that ought to be

Chain Home Low

Mike Babb and I go way back in the world of teeny tiny independent bands and record labels that released 7" singles (and the occasional compact disc when budgets permitted) once upon a time in the 1990's. We had CD and vinyl collections, MP3 audio compression was

The King's Own

Nest-clearing by royal decree. The King's Champion is indisposed. The task falls to the Hunters. A table, six-sided dice, a ruler, a string. Any models you like. THE CORE The core is physics and does not change. Cards say what a figure is. Scenarios say why

What Happens When You Unzip “End Times Fascism”?

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism offers a phrase that arrives prepackaged and compressed. It binds prophetic religion, technological transcendence, extreme wealth, militarized borders, climate breakdown, and dreams of escape into one political story: the shared world is being abandoned, and the important question is who gets

What the Story Lands On

In November 1820, a sperm whale stove in the Nantucket whaleship Essex and the crew took to three open boats in the middle of the Pacific. They had islands to leeward. The Marquesas and the Societies were within reach, downwind, and the officers knew it. They steered instead for South

The Sump

An introductory five-room cavern for The Black Hack Three rooms present combat, each showcasing one class's signature tool — though another class's ability may bypass it entirely, and that's a feature. Two rooms teach the rest. Room Spotlight Lesson 1. The Grate Thief Tests,

The Probable Barrier Operator

What I Think I Know About What Delia Thinks About Us After seven in the evening, Delia will sometimes sit and stare at me. Not Nancy. Me. And cry. There are plenty of things a dog might accomplish by staring at a human, but more often than not this particular

Corpse Run: Onboarding the New Hires

A TiGGR Setting Expansion — here, the future has weekends. Touchstones: a certain grim darkness (you know the one) • Corpse Run • For personal use Getting Started Touchstone A second portal event in Receiving. A second displaced adventuring party — except these five aren't refugees from a game built around enjoyable