#veilOut

Sudden deaths linked to mysterious beverage not suspicious: Sask. RCMP RCMP issued a warning about the liquid on March 3, saying it could be linked to multiple sudden deaths in the Battlefords area.

RCMP exonerates mysterious liquid

I would say recognition of potentially fatal brand damage rather than shame but hey let's take what we can get

Ford government to sell $28.9M private jet, dubbed 'gravy plane' The so-called “Gravy Plane” has been grounded before it even took flight. Just days after revealing the purchase of a nearly $30 million private jet, Premier Doug Ford says his government is now selli...

The moment he heard “gravy plane” he knew he had to sell it

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Not WW2 - note the birthdate. Apologies for the error.

Magician, WW2 vet, Dixieland jazz musician, raconteur, inventor of precision polyhedrals — truly a many-sided life

Today’s exhibit in publishing production work making reading for pleasure harder: the novel I put down for having some dialogue in double quotes, some in single, and at least one instance of one apiece.

Other Ink Thursday - Tristan Zimmerman YouTube video by Wet Ink Games

In this appearance on the @wetinkgames.bsky.social Youtube channel, we talk about Ballad Hunters from @pelgranepress.bsky.social and about a pirate-infested road in Panama. But we also talk a bunch about my career and the way I approach game design. It was really fun! youtu.be/1XjrvZtQQpo

Well he was pals with Robert W. Chambers

Looking forward to the Scorsese film about this.

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Santa.”

Episode 695: You’ve Clearly Never Dealt with Balloon People « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin talk encumbrance rules if they were fun, Princess Caraboo, installation horror, and Elizabethan magician Simon Forman.

The cognitive dissonance of this app is loading too slowly

Urn Bearers A scenario premise for 13th Age A while ago a news item about a pharaoh’s sarcophagus shuttled off to a lesser tomb inspired thoughts of a Trail of Cthulhu

How to add a family tomb to your 13th Age game:

How you wind up booking a one-way on the Demeter

Had to do a search to make sure someone had posted this

'SantaCon' organizer accused of pocketing more then $1 million earmarked to charities Stefan Pildes, a 50-year-old New Jersey man, facing one count of wire fraud, feds say.

SantaCon aptly named, indictment claims

an unopened packet of M&S 6 Gooey Teacakes. The packaging is coloured with red, pink and pale green bands. Next to a photo of a cross section of the teacake is an arrow which points towards the teacake's centre. The arrow is labelled "Jammy Centre".

M&S has drawn a helpful diagram for those of us who thought this was blood, not jam

[Studying shelves of fairy potions]

“Let’s think and then drink.”

#quoteOfGame #Merryshire

“If I had illusion magic I’d disguise lots of things as donuts.”

#quoteOfGame #Merryshire

Cobweb, a fairy: Do you want cinnamon rolls?
Phingall, an investigator: Do they have raisins?
Cobweb: We have them with or without.
Barstow, an investigator: You bastards!

#quoteOfGame #Merryshire

In Gumshoe You Are Sherlock Holmes #rpg #ttrpg

Today’s headline sponsored by the Importance of the Serial Comma Foundation

Ken and Robin Consume Media: Deathstalker, Two Thrillers by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and the Queen of Indonesian Horror « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin Consume Media: Deathstalker, Two Thrillers by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and the Queen of Indonesian Horror

Who Should Play Investigative RPGs? #gmtips #gaming #rpg

French government says it's ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push 2026 is set to be l’année de Linux.

Now when we mention tech issues there’ll be an entire country to tell us the solution is switching to Linux

The success of Péter Magyar in Hungary suggests a path to victory for Democrats, which would be rallying behind a candidate named Dave American

I went to a history museum with my 11 year olds today and they had an exhibit where the kids could play around with a Windows XP operating system.

A creature that is human from the waste up and somewhat like a lizard from the waste down is standing at the top right of the left-hand page in a manuscript. He is wearing blue and firing an arrow from a bow at a similar creature at the top left of the right-hand (i.e. the opposing) page of the manuscript.

A creature that is human from the waste up and somewhat like a lizard from the waste down is standing at the top left of the right-hand page in a manuscript. He is wearing orange and firing an arrow from a crossbow at a similar creature at the top right of the left-hand (i.e. the opposing) page of the manuscript.

Two creatures firing arrows at each other on opposing pages/folios in a late 13th-century Belgian Psalter.

(Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.155, fols. 6v-7r)

People do not ask me this but in downtown Toronto the answer is “half a block that way.”

As a teaser, here's the last time we did something like this - watch @robindlaws.bsky.social play his own @atlasgames.bsky.social Feng Shui 2 in an all-action #TTRPG #ActualPlay
youtu.be/_Fmme-8ahxo?...