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Obojima: Songs from the Tall Grass

A Field-Recording Folktale of Memory, Melody, and Meanings Nearly Forgotten Welcome to the Archive This is not a game of conquest. This is not a game of mastery. The spirits of Obojima do not obey. Their songs may linger or fade. You are not here to fix the world. You

Songs from the Tall Grass: Ultraviolet Grasslands Edition

Overview Songs From The Tall Grass is a UVG module for 3–6 players, where a caravan chases a mythic melody—the Tall Grass Shanty—across the Ultraviolet Grasslands. The song, a fragmented archive of lost stars and bone dust, promises revelation but risks biomagical corruption. The journey spans three

The $3,700 Pistol and the Life You Could Build Instead

I recently saw a 2011-style pistol priced at $3,700. Beautiful. Balanced. Optic-ready. Also: the cost of a reliable used car. The Staccato XL, with its crisp trigger and sleek lines, is a marvel of engineering—a race gun that promises precision and prestige. But as I admired it, a

Beyond the Prompt: Hiring AI-Literate IT Talent in an Age of Drift

In the age of shallow AI graves and accelerating cycles of try, fail, forget, hiring IT talent requires more than just a scan for buzzwords or tool familiarity. It demands an attunement to how people think with machines—how they experiment, reflect, and adapt under pressure. At the edge of

A Playable Folktale: The Polling Core’s Silence

A Playable Folktale for drifters, hyperpigs, and a core that lost its vote. This is not a system to save or a core to conquer. It is a mirror for what voted, what silenced, and what hums in the Glitter Band’s cracks. What You Need * 2–6 participants * A

The Cheeky Art of Saying Nope

Mic Drops, Misfiled Forms, and the Communal Dance of Refusal Refusal isn’t always a megaphone or a middle finger. Sometimes it’s a sly wink, a sidestep, or a polite “hard pass.” The Ledger of Refusal is a scrapbook of these rebellious moments—when folks ditch the script and

A Ledgered Meal: Farina Bakery, Portland

Filed under: Gastronomic Correspondence, Companion Tables, Soft Rebellions Location: Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025 Companion(s): Present. Caffeinated. Glorious. We arrived under sunlit skies, the kind that glint off windshields and pastry cases alike. The door to Farina Bakery swung open with the gentle creak of

The Hue Directive

A Playable Folktale of Color and Return Premise In a world drained of color, where joy is inefficient and emotion a risk, workers drift through cubicle wastelands under humming fluorescents. Beige is the law. Beige is safe. Beige forgets. But you remember—something. A feeling. A shade. A song not

The Cart in Yellow

A Carcosan Annotation of The De Minimis Lament Introduction: Welcome to Neo-Carcosa Neo-Carcosa is not a place. It is a mood you scroll into. A realm of velvet glitches and half-priced selves. In Neo-Carcosa, your daemons are not metaphor. They are customer service avatars who know your traumas by SKU.

Valthorne: Resonant Play Toolkit

A guide for collaborative, reflective, and improvisational RPG storytelling Jam Table TL;DR Session Structure (The Setlist) Phase What It Is What to Do Tuning Opening stillness One minute of silence. Listen to the room. Arrive together. Invocation First offering A player begins with a word, image, or memory. Movement