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Old 10-22-2024, 12:41 PM   #2971
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Following up on the new Mozart, we now have new Bram Stoker: a short story called Gibbet Hill, found in a collection overlooked by his catalogers.

People familiar with D&D's "Ravenloft" setting, with its many Domains arranged around the central Domain of Barovia focused on the vampire Strahd von Zarovich, might find it amusing to have Gibbet Hill be a brand new Domain suddenly appearing themed around this story. What mystic ties there are to the writing of an author in some distant world (and the awareness of a given work by the general public) would, of course, remain mysterious.
Bah, the vulgar fiction of a demented Irishman.

Mystic ties and travel between worlds should involve the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft, with liberal thievery from Indo-European mythology, in particular the Poetic Edda, Lord Dunsany, Edgar Alan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Cervantes, Fritz Leiber, Clark Ashton Smith, R.E. Howard, the less well-known Arthur Machen and the inimitable, almost-unreadable, but incredibly imaginative Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Stephen King and Dean Koontz have both done more modern versions of the same, with King's forays into the genre generally far superior, and depending on the players, a bit of Cormac McCarthy might or might not improve the flavour. It's strong spice and an acquired taste, to be sure.

For instructions on how to prepare the meal, turn to the incomparable Ken Hite and his Suppressed Transmission, still the greatest guide to worldbuilding and concepts for campaigns. Of course, you know about the Suppressed Transmission? You'll probably not regret buying anything else written by Hite, such as GURPS Horror, in case you like Horror, GURPS, or just any kind of gaming where horrific things might occasionally appear.
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Old 10-22-2024, 05:35 PM   #2972
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Bah, the vulgar fiction of a demented Irishman.

Mystic ties and travel between worlds should involve the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft...
Bah, the vulgar fiction of a demented New Englander. :)
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Old 10-26-2024, 12:02 AM   #2973
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It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!
It's in the section titled, "Methods of Meat Tenderization."
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Old 10-31-2024, 12:54 PM   #2974
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Major cheese heist in the Netherlands

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/w...therlands.html
Have another one, this time in the UK. Apparently the thieves managed to pose as a French wholesale distributor and tricked them out of 22 metric tons of high-quality cheese. I like to think they discovered the heist when they reached out for payment and got a response of "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" in a ridiculous fake French accent.
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Old 11-03-2024, 02:21 AM   #2975
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What happens, now that they've removed the skeleton from the coffin specially equipped to keep her from rising?
https://www.zmescience.com/science/n...olish-vampire/
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Old 11-03-2024, 12:35 PM   #2976
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What happens, now that they've removed the skeleton from the coffin specially equipped to keep her from rising?
https://www.zmescience.com/science/n...olish-vampire/
They buried her with the padlock and sickle to make certain she'd never come back to life in any form, and the fact she was buried in such a way compelled researchers to bring her back to life [obi-wan]from a certain point of view[/obi-wan] (remaking her face). Classic self-fulfilling prophecy, that.
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