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Obojima: The Long Grass Route

An Obojima Delivery Tale of Soup, Spirits, and Sentimental Machinery Morning arrives with the hush of a tea kettle just before its song. Mist coils lazily through the tall grass, and dew freckles the delivery ledger left on your doorstep—folded three times, tied with red string, and smelling faintly

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.