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A Ledgered Meal: Grasslands Barbecue, Hood River

Filed under: Gastronomy, Companion Tables, Pilgrimage of Smoke Location: Hood River, Oregon Date: April 2025 Companions: Wind, Memory, and a Portobello Burger with Gravitas Some meals you stumble into. Others, you prepare for like a minor rite. Grasslands Barbecue falls squarely in the second category. It doesn’t ask for

Echo in the Hangar: Universal Century, Part Three

An unofficial, fan-made adaptation of our favorite MS Gundam characters to the Echo in the Hangar game. Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO Oliver May – The Archivist Callsign: Tech (short for Technical Officer)Archetype Reasoning: As the 603rd’s engineering officer, Oliver is obsessed with documenting every test, every failure, and

White Plume Mountain: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Relics

Based on the classic D&D module by E. Gary Gygax, reimagined through Guy Ritchie's cinematic eye FADE IN: INT. MAGICAL CLONE VAT - NIGHT A bubbling, neon-green vat hisses under flickering arcane runes. NOX (30s, tiefling, sharp suit, sharper tongue) thrashes inside, half-submerged. BLACKRAZOR, a glowing

The Mirror Protocol

A Playable Folktale of Questions & Resistance A game for 2–6 players. 30–60 minutes. You’re rebels fighting a creepy app called the Mirror. It watches, predicts, and nudges. One of you is in trouble. Ask questions. Fight back. “Who’s really behind your screen?” Grab a pen,

Three Ways to Carry…

…That Might Land You in Jail, the ER, a Viral Fail, or All Three Carrying a gun for self-defense isn’t about looking cool—it’s about staying safe and staying legal. For regular folks like us—non-tactical “muggles” who just want to protect ourselves—how you carry matters. Bad

Echo in the Hangar: Universal Century, Part Two

An unofficial, fan-made adaptation of our favorite MS Gundam characters to the Echo in the Hangar game. Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance Preface: When the Gundam is Death Itself Requiem for Vengeance isn’t a story about winning. It’s a dirge—a mechanized elegy where war becomes entropy,

The Node That Refused to Vanish

A Playable Folktale from the Ledger of Refusal Premise (Invitation) In a memory-layered world of networks and ruins, there are figures—nodes—who refuse the flow. Their signals persist not because they’re loud, but because they are true. You are seekers, ghosts, archivists, or anti-influencers, following the murmurs of

Echo in the Hangar: Universal Century, Part One

An unofficial, fan-made adaptation of our favorite MS Gundam characters to the Echo in the Hangar game. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Shiro Amada – The Idealist Callsign: Ensign (later Lieutenant)Archetype Reasoning: Shiro’s relentless belief in doing what’s right, even in the face of war’s

The Ghost Story in the Glass Case

On Two Used Staccatos and the Cost of Clarity Walking into a gun shop and spotting two used Staccato 2011 pistols, optics mounted, tagged at $3,500 each, is enough to make anyone pause. The fact that both came from the same seller? That's not just inventory—it&

Budget by Bot: A Triangulated Experiment in Machine-Led Municipal Oversight

What happens when you feed the proposed 2026 budgets of Portland and Multnomah County into two different large language models — and ask a third to critique their reports? You get a strange kind of triangulation: not just of fiscal data, but of institutional priorities, public values, and the challenges of