Category: RPGS

Group Seed: Ultimate Sanitation Services.

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Ultimate Sanitation Services

 

Ultimate Sanitation Services (USS) is headquartered in Washington, DC, with a second office in London and a fairly extensive online presence.  They are an exclusive company, but not in the typical ‘you will pay lots of money to use our services’ sort of way.  Instead, they are very selective over the clients that they take on.  As for cost, don’t worry about it: clients simply give USS everything except the clothes on the client’s back and whatever can fit into a standard briefcase. Part of the selection process, in fact, is weeding out the people who don’t need USS’s services that badly.

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Musical history of the 1980s book bleg.

I need one that’s not particularly partisan, neither a collection of hagiographies nor hit-pieces, and was written by somebody who doesn’t have his head up his a*s all the time. Oh, and eclectic: I will probably need to read up on the genres, but I need a good general primer. Which means, not one written for musicians.

I know, I know.  Simple, right? But surely something like this must exist. People love to argue about music.

Item Seed: The Evil Survival Crash Kit

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The Evil Survival Crash Kit

 

This distinctly unattractive, not to mention absolutely repellent, metal box weighs 23.643 lbs, has a handle and carrying straps that are clearly not designed for human hands and backs, and smells mildly like socks that had been used to crush grapes, then left in a dark, damp room to ferment for a few weeks.  ‘Evil Survival Crash Kit,’ by the way, is the name that human investigators have given it: presumably its ‘official’ name is spelled out somewhere in the disturbing, writhing sigils and designs that glow in and out of sight on the box itself.  Given the contents and the entities that typically carry a Crash Kit, the translated name is probably highly unpleasant and almost certainly blasphemous.

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Adventure Seed: Alien grave in Mississippi!

Man, but I miss the print edition of the Weekly World News.

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Alien grave in Mississippi!

 

There is a corpse waiting to be dug up in Mississippi.  It’s currently somewhere among the up to seven thousand corpses currently buried on University of Mississippi Medical Center property (said bodies dating back to the 19th Century, when the land was part of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum), and nobody at the moment is particularly looking for the corpse. Not that there’s much reason to, given that almost the only records involving the corpse were part of the batch of papers quietly burned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton after Lincoln’s assassination. Including a 1863 handwritten memorandum by General Sherman reporting success in removing all details of the corpse from the asylum’s own records (a copy of this memorandum can still be found in Sherman’s papers at the Library of Congress, albeit physically misfiled among some papers from a 1866 diplomatic mission to Mexico that General Sherman had participated in).

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Item Seed: Galvanized Bouquets.

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Galvanized Bouquets

 

The alchemists never really went away; they simply decided to go off by themselves for a while.  Also, it should probably be noted here that virtually nobody in the magical community with real power minded the dawn of our current rationalist-secularist era at all.  Why should they? Thanks to modern science and technology, the number of superstitious peasants desirous of burning magicians — or, worse, desirous of constantly importuning and begging busy magicians for an endless stream of tawdry love spells and petty curses — keeps ever-shrinking.  Books are cheap enough that mages no longer have to go to war with each other for the last remaining grimoire on a particular subject. There are such things as dentists. Indoor plumbing. Blessed, blessed anonymity.  Plus, magic still works! But now that mages no longer have to suck up to rich patrons to get funding, it can now get to be a bit more baroque.  

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Creature seed: Carnideer.

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Carnideer

They were to be Doctor Ampersand Relentless Struggle’s (let us just say that the man had a complicated upbringing) finest creation, and a fitting revenge for human intrusion in the woods!  Behold! The CARNIDEER!  Genetically engineered with lupine DNA to give it a taste for meat and blood! Quake before its serrated Antlers!  Tremble at the thought of its heightened senses!  Fear the wrath of Mother Gaia, fools!  Fear, and DIE!!!!!

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Guthorga [GURPS 4E]

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Guthorga (7/24)

This particular fantasy martial art is taught to those pursuing the bardic lifestyle. At its most general levels, it is mostly concerned with teaching how not to draw blood in a bar fight: Guthorga practitioners practice with batons instead of edged weapons, on the grounds that it’s usually easier to explain away a broken arm or two to the City Watch afterwards than it is to justify a slit throat.  The school does not typically teach how to talk your way out of trouble, however. If you want to be a bard, you should already know the basics of that!

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Tweet of the Day, I’ve Never Gotten Into Audiobooks… edition.

…but I know that people who read me do get into audiobooks.  And I did read and like Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies. Heck, I’d hope that I would; I did the Kickstarter for it. So check this out.

Moe Lane

PS: I’ve actually wondered from time to time why I don’t get into audiobooks. Maybe I like going back and checking the text too much? It’s hard to do that with audio.  At least I perceive it as being hard.