Just Imagining Lenin Confused But Ultimately Accepting It Watching A Play Through Of Disco Elysium

Just imagining Lenin confused but ultimately accepting it watching a play through of Disco Elysium

That line from the new Doctor Who trailer about "things turning more and more... Supernatural" would have set this website on fire a few years back.

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There's a big silence in today's episode around 26:00 where there should be some music! I'm fixing it as soon as I get home!

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Some of the galaxy’s (best?) event planners have gathered to plan the celebration for the Gantrofax’s final moulting. Of course, we have limited time and budget. Everything is fine, though. Happy moulting!

This season, we're playing a selection of individual micro-roleplaying games from The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D'Amato! Look out for:

Hero Dog Saves Town by Alex Roberts

Wild Rovers by Shanna Germain

Summer Break! by Joey Barranco

Wonders by Alex Flanigan

Follow us on your usual podcast app - search Merely Roleplayers or head to www.merelyroleplayers.com

FACILITATOR: Ellie Pitkin

STARRING:

- Ellie Pitkin as Madame Flux

- Josh Yard as Chef Octo-Ramsey

- Natalie Winter as Dee-mar the Vee-spar

- Strat as DJ Clorox

- Matt Boothman as Gravalax the Living Company

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Event Planning in Zero G by Jenn Martin, published in The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book, edited by James D’Amato

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst, inspired by Horse Elevator

SEASON PLANNED BY: Strat

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

mini haunted house roundup of some of my faves!

get these illustrations and more in the HAUNTS artbook, funding on kickstarter until april 19th!

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HAUNTS: A Haunted House Artbook (2nd printing!)

A 60-page book of haunted illustrations by Kaylee Rowena, now on its second printing.

I don't know if you've ever been to Paris before, but I recommend going. Normally, I would not have gone, but I made a really rich enemy on IRC and he spent a lot of money to have me kidnapped and brought to his home country. While I was there, I got to try a bunch of restaurants (they're hostage-takers, not barbarians) and came away impressed. Something was missing, though, and herein is my genius idea.

In Paris you can get any kind of food. Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai: and it's all good. All of it. You literally can't find a bad restaurant. At one point, I walked into a convenience store and got a plate of one-Euro nachos that made me cry at the beauty of the arrangement.

Everyone around me was taking this for granted. Having lived there for years, their quality threshold had crept invisibly upwards until nothing could impress again. They needed something to re-calibrate their sense of truly bad food. That's where I came in. After I got kicked out of the country, I decided to come back with some investor support. I can burn cereal, usually by roasting it gently with a blowtorch on the top of an old gas can. Investors were easy to find.

Our first week of opening was tremendous. Hardened Parisians were discovering their first taste of truly incompetent food. The novelty of it all had captured them. There's just one problem, though: after making an entire lunch rush's first of poorly-cut toast in reheated canned soup, my cooking skills began to improve from sheer experience. The complaints began to change tone. You got too good, they cried, you're not the same bad chef we once loved. Again, I was deported.

I looked out the window of the plane as it left De Gaulle, staring down onto the beautiful streets of Paris. Down there, I imagined, real gourmets were now eating food out of trash cans out of desperation to recapture what they had experienced with me. If there is one nice thing to be said, I now have two Michelin Stars here in my homeland of Canada, where my consommé-and-grilled-cheese recipe is now so much better than most of our restaurants that it made the Prime Minister Herself come and spit in my face for ruining the economy, before awarding me an Order of Canada. It's not the same.