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Installment III: Rituals of the Kaleidoscope

Psychedelia, pattern-recognition, and AI as epistemic remix engine. “Psychedelia is to the human psyche what the black box AI is to the cultural fatberg.” You take the trip. You type the prompt. And suddenly, the walls melt. The canon swirls. The archive speaks in tongues. But here’s the thing:

A Lexicon of Resonance

A Glossary for Playable Folktales and Drift-Oriented Storytelling These terms shape the tone, not the rules. They are not definitions. They are invocations—words you may carry from folktale to folktale, from game to game. Use them as orientation, reflection, or ritual prompt. They are designed for the Playable Folktale

The Twice-Imagined Bookshop

A Bookstore, Brussels He hangs a handwritten sign in the window: “Closed Wednesdays. Open late for readings.” The shop smells of yellowed paper and Gauloises smoke. She curates a shelf called A Room Within a Room. He files poetry under Tremors, history under Wounds, and music biographies under Ghosts Who

TiGGR: Operation Glorious Bastards

On Tone, Tribute, and the Pulp Power of Playing with History War Is Hell (But Not This Week) Not every war story has to bleed. Not every mission needs to question morality or map trauma. Some stories take place in the Technicolor fog of war-adjacent adventure—and that’s exactly

Riff and Reckoning

Led Zeppelin moves me. Their riffs—molten, feral, ecstatic—hit like a pulse in the chest, a sound that feels eternal yet impossibly alive. But that thunder, as undeniable as it is, wasn’t born in a vacuum. It was built on the grooves of Black blues artists, often uncredited,

How to Turn Your Retro into a TTRPG One-Shot

Where the d20 meets the Kanban board. How to Turn Your Retro into a TTRPG One-Shot Okay, you’re sold on the idea—or at least curious enough to try it. But how do you go from sticky notes to slaying the Bugbear of the Broken Build? It’s simpler

The Bar Reopens: A Note from the Ledger (Installments I and II)

From the Phantom Bartender’s Lost and Found Shelf Some stories vanish not because they were unworthy—but because the system was too saturated to notice their signal. What you’re about to read is a recovered ritual from that moment: a serialized descent into legacy collapse, recursive spectacle, and

Echo in the Hangar Has Launched

“Fifteen minutes of terror. Twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes of waiting.” That’s what they say about flying a mission. But in Echo in the Hangar, it’s the waiting that matters. This is a tabletop roleplaying game about what happens after the sortie. Not the explosions, but the silence.

The Bells of Marienburg

A Playable Folktale in Five Candles For those who came seeking salvation, and stayed to see what else arrived. The Tale as It Is Told They say Greta Marienburg was taken by the forest in the days before Lent. She returned barefoot, eyes pale as ash, speaking Latin she’d

What If Your Next Retro Was an RPG One-Shot?

A different approach to "gamifying" Agile. You’re 38 minutes into a Friday retrospective. The burndown chart’s been shared. The “What went well” sticky notes are quietly optimistic. The “What didn’t go well” ones are tinged with tired sarcasm. The facilitator is gently herding the conversation