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23rd March 2019

DELTA GREEN // CHOPSTICK HEADCOUNT (Part 1)

// CHOPSTICK HEADCOUNT // Authored By: Special Agent Susan Fields (code name HARKONEN) Date: 12th March 2019 Special Agent Nick Daniels (HEFFALUMP), Lilia Fox (HORUS) and myself were briefed in New York by our usual contact, Supervisory Special Agent Marcus Neil on operation CHOPSTICK HEADCOUNT.This operation had come out of FBI investigations into the involvement of foreign powers into our...

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22nd March 2019

Eclipse Phase 2 : Morphs and Gear

Previously I looked at building an ego for a new character for Eclipse Phase 2nd edition, and now I’m moving on to selecting a morph for her. Alice Langston is an information broker, an ex reporter on the glitterati who since the Fall has turned her talents to seeking out more serious threats than slipped nipples or bad hairstyles. She...

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21st March 2019

The Fathomless Sleep

Cthulhu Confidential: The Fathomless Sleep One of the RPG books I picked up as part of the Bundle of Two back in February was Cthulhu Confidential. This is a game published by Pelgrane Press and written by Robin D Laws, designed specifically for a game involving one player and one GM. First of all a disclaimer: I’m not a...

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19th March 2019

Dreams of the Yellow King – Part 19

The Terrors of the Dreamlands I write this whilst cowering in the desert some distance from the Caravanserai where we hoped to meet with the Yellow King again. My sister has been driven from me, banished to the ethereal by the terrors that dwelt within until she can gather herself back together and reform at my side. Most of us...

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13th March 2019

Dreams of the Yellow King – Part 18

Diary of Costian Raduva, Part 18 – The Green Idol Our final quest was to find a green stone idol of a water lizard. Our reading of Lowls’ notes provided us with the information that the lizard in question was actually Bokrug, a Great Old One that was venerated by the amphibians of the city of Ib. That...

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10th March 2019

Eclipse Phase 2 : Building an Ego

Eclipse Phase is a science fiction RPG by Posthuman Studios about playing agents in a secret organisation (called Firewall) trying to save the remnants of humanity from destruction after the fall of Earth (due to rogue AIs known as TITANs). Humans have colonised the solar system, and through the use of alien gates also started exploring other worlds. In this...

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6th March 2019

Special Agent Susan Fields

Born Poppy Susan Fields in 1986, in Gravesend England, she had her name changed to Susan Fields before attending Oxford University where she studied languages and psychology. She immigrated to the US in 2013 and joined the FBI National Security Branch (NSB) as a field agent, her fluency in Arabic, Russian and Chinese being seen as a considerable benefit at...

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5th March 2019

Dreams of the Yellow King – Part 17

Diary of Costian Raduva, Part 17 – The Isle of Arenway The day passed uneventfully on the Sellen Starling as we sailed down to the Isle of Arenway, a refuge of the Green Faith. Our captain noted that there were fewer trading ships here than usual, but the docks were heaving with people in either tattered well worn robes, or...

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3rd March 2019

Space Hermits

The next stage of Worldgen is to flesh out the framework for generating settlements in a Traveller-like game setting. I’m starting with some simple options – low population settlements with relatively simple economic structures. Broadly, these are classed as Hermits – colonists who have sought out a quiet place where they can be alone, or at least left alone by...

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