Throne of Salt

via NASA I love mashups, I love timelines, I’m certain I’ve mentioned somewhere that the ideal Alien franchise is Alien, Blade Runner, Predator, Avatar, and Halo.

I’ve been meaning to run my presumed default DG setting (which is more or less a version of Lighthouse’s).through Tariq Ali’s “Apocalypse Protocol” (as featured in Whispers of the Dead vol. 3) for a while now, might as well get it done.

Index In celebration of 20 of these damn things, I'm doing a throwback to the halcyon days of 2021 and Slushpost 8.5, where I shared a bunch of links from my Firefox bookmarks.

Part 1, Part 2 Last installment for a while, since as you'll see shortly I am really stretching what qualifies as the Mythos.

ProfDyer Some alternate takes on Cthulhu and its return 1.

Index Diaspora, Greg Egan Greg Egan loves Big Ideas and theoretical physics and wants to tell everyone about it.

cover art by Rob Turpin Congratulations!

Index Gravity Circuit Some games, you just know from the bleeps and bloops on the main menu: Gravity Circuit has some immaculate bleeps and bloops, and it lives up to that promise in being the best damn Megaman clone it can be.

CW: this post entails an excruciatingly-detailed breakdown of the SCP wiki’s systematic and years-long mishandling of a high-profile sex abuse case.

Ilya Repin Part 1, Part 2 Home stretch, let’s go.

Part 1, Part 2 This will likely be the last one of these for a while: got thoroughly burnt out on the whole thing as I was drafting it, and I’ve stopped listening to all of these in the months since I started compiling the post.

Nottsuo Agent Delfino leaves the car at the end of the driveway, right in front of the rusted gate and its corroded “DANGER - NO TRESPASSING” sign.

"The Unicorn in Captivity" from the Rochefoucould Unicorn Tapestries Sam Sorensen (plus Misha and Walid) did a review of Unicorn Meat over on the Dead Letters podcast earlier this week and I think it touched on some important points and quite a few bits w…

This started as list of replacement mission control nationalities for 60 Years in Space, which is why the distribution is uneven.

I've had an idea floating around in my head for a puzzlebox dungeon (system and setting indeterminate) centered on decipherment of the dungeon-builder’s language, Chants of Sennar or Heaven’s Vault style.

I mentioned at the end of She Sings At the End that I had a half-written essay about how I did it.

Slushpile Index Almost enough to do a random table of these.

Index The Apothecary of Trubiz A cute little three-dollar cipher-puzzle game that’s three dollars worth of puzzles.

Micro-reviews of video games I've played.

First installment THE TROUSERS OF TIME HAVE SPLIT AGAIN Aleister Crowley successfully summons his guardian angel at Boleskine House; it immediately reduces him to constituent atoms and irradiates over a hundred square kilometers of Scottish countryside by…

Slushpile index Part 1, Part 2 These posts accumulate quite fast. 1.

Arthur Rackham Part 1, Part 3 As before, I’m letting things grow organically.

Portfolio Index via NASA 60 Years in Space is an extremely crunchy space colonization simulator by Andrew Doull, based on the extremely crunchy space colonization boardgame High Frontier by Phil Eklund.

Like nearly everyone else in this hobby, I own more games than I'll ever be able to play.

crocutable [Heads up: this one goes a bit harder than usual, enough so that I'd rather be safe than sorry and stick a warning up front.