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Malls, Memory, and Mala

A Helsinki Dérive, Part Three The Metro ride from Kamppi to Itäkeskus takes less than twenty minutes, but it’s long enough to feel yourself being pulled into suburbia. We navigate our way out of the subway station, more by random luck than any smartphone guidance, and eventually I'

Electric Eden: The Tomb of Acetate

An Electric Eden Expansion: Alan Lomax, Lichlord of the Archive Premise Beyond the House of Canon lies a deeper dungeon: a labyrinth not of stone but of wax cylinders, acetate discs, and endless reels of magnetic wire. This is the Tomb of Acetate, where the folklorist-lich Alan Lomax waits—not

Freed. Like That Bird.

A Helsinki Dérive, Part Two On my third full day in Helsinki, I find myself on the second floor of Piilo café, perched over a slice of quiche and a coffee, still suspended in the haze of caffeine and jet lag. The chatter all around me washes together into a

A Ledgered Meal: Whataburger, DFW, Texas

A Helsinki Dérive, Part One A “world traveler” is the last thing I’d call myself, yet I find myself occupying a table at Hakaniemen Kauppahalli in Helsinki, attempting to tame hunger pangs and jet lag with a Pepsi Max and an apple-filled Munkki, the Finnish donut isotope, while questioning

Exiled on Couch Street

A Micro-Setting for Paint the Town Red “Every necropolis is a party that ends in fire. The trick is to own the matches. And to start organizing the next party before you strike the first match. But remember: You're not organizing with equals—you're shepherding a

Electric Eden: The House of Canon

A multi-wing dungeon module for Electric Eden Premise Cecil Sharp House has become a living dungeon, an institutional labyrinth where Folknet's power is strongest. Its halls are lined with display cases, curated exhibits, and polished versions of unruly traditions. Within each wing, an overlooked collector is imprisoned, their

A Ledgered Meal: Devil's Dill, NE Portland

Portland’s late night staple Devil’s Dill has opened a new outpost on Killingsworth, and we finally got around to giving their sandwiches a try for an early lunch to-go. Eating on an empty stomach is one thing; contemplating a nosh with a head clogged with the day’s

The Portal Commons: Designer's Notes

From Fountains to Fasteners: How a Trip to the Bay Area Became a Game About Community Infrastructure The Portal Commons started decomposing in my head while waiting to board a flight home from Oakland in early June. Not decomposing in the sense of decay, but like organic matter breaking down

What We've Been Doing in the Shadows

A field guide for practitioners learning to collaborate with LLMs in the real world If you've ever dropped container logs into ChatGPT at midnight, or asked an LLM to analyze Terraform diffs so you could see what really changed, or had it skim a PDF you didn'

From Elixir to Pop: Distilling JRPGs Down to Their Essence

Or: How we went from critiquing 300-page "baby toon grind" simulators to creating a complete JRPG in two pages The Problem with JRPG Adaptations Picture this: You love Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Tales of Symphonia. The stories of friendship conquering impossible odds, communities rebuilding after disasters, heroes