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Behind the Wheel

A Gentler Systems Analysis of Traffic Safety in Oregon Yesterday, Oregon woke up to a strange sort of compliment. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety released their annual “Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws” and put Oregon at the top of the heap. On paper, we were the traffic-safety honor

To All the Guns I’ve Shot Before: HK VP9SK

I found the VP9SK second-hand at the local FFL, a rebound impulse after the belated realization that Heckler & Koch truly is the Mercedes-Benz to Glock’s Toyota Auris. The epiphany arrived the moment I first handled a P30LS—ergonomics like someone in Oberndorf had spent an unreasonably tender amount

The Luminous Republic Gazetteer: Extra Edition

Special Civic Supplement for New Arrivals in the Furnace of Light Issued by Order of the Bureau of Renewal, Chicago, October 1920 A TiGGR One-Shot Set in the Republic of Madame Lumière FACILITATOR SIDEBAR: SETTING UP THE SESSION Before You Begin: Download and read the TiGGR rulebook. You’ll need

Complexity Is the Bassline

A Listener's Notes on Jazz, Complicity, and Not "Getting" It If jazz is the last refuge of the discriminating snob, then where does it leave the listener who enjoys the music, thinks about the story behind the albums, and readily admits that he doesn't

A Playable Folktale: The Gallian Autumn

After the armistice, the harvest still comes. So does the cold. Tone: Melancholic hospitality. Harvest light fading into frost. Beauty that knows it's temporary. Length: 2–4 hours (single session or 2–3 session arc) THE WORLD Gallia is an alternate Europe—composite of French villages, Alpine valleys,

Did the Mouse Read Our Blog?

When Your Satire Becomes Someone Else’s Strategic Partnership There’s a particular kind of vertigo that hits when the world doesn’t just catch up to your speculation, but does so with the bored efficiency of a corporate earnings call. It’s not prophecy fulfilled, and it’s not

No Niin: When the Chickens Come Home to Roost

And the roost is about to collapse There’s a Finnish expression—no niin—that captures resignation, inevitability, and dry acknowledgment all at once. It’s what you say when the thing everyone knew was coming finally arrives. It’s what you mutter when the roof leaks again, or when

A Playable Folktale: The Patch

In a town that outlived its own future, the archives remember too much. Tone: Melancholic resilience. Fog and sodium light. The quiet after loud noise.Length: 2–4 hours (single session or 2–3 session arc) THE WORLD A coastal Oregon town once hosted server farms for Pacific Node West.

Soft Targets: A De-escalation Supplement

System-Agnostic Conflict Resolution for the Armed Citizen Compatible with reality. No dice required. Consequences permanent. "This doesn't need to go that way. But if it does, I'm not lying about what 'that way' means." — The unspoken doctrine of every competent person who

The Box Set and the Ledger

Frankie, ZTT, and the Accounting of Survival One simply does not write about Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome in 2025 without confronting mortality. Doesn't happen. The music is too bright, too decadent, too confident in its own futurity to hear it now without