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Cryptic writings of Lemuria » I Remember Lemuria » 10/05/2026 10:26 am

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We usually play every Sunday, but I was ill yesterday and spent a lot of the day in bed. Feeling fine today, so Alison ran the third Charlie Flint game today (you can do that on a Monday when you are both retired).

I'm writing the 8th 'Wild Nights in Ulthmar' game for this coming Sunday. Stealing lots of magical texts is great - they are worth a bomb! - but you then discover that your average friendly fence can't shift them for you. So you have to find a specialist dealer in rare (stolen) magical books, which is not exactly easy.

Cryptic writings of Lemuria » I Remember Lemuria » 10/05/2026 10:07 am

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Are you off on another great saga soon?

Cryptic writings of Lemuria » I Remember Lemuria » 10/05/2026 10:05 am

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One of the hardest parts of role playing - making sense of your notes! 

Sounds like a climatic end to a saga. I trust everyone is going to relax on a nice holiday after that.

(At the end of a Heroes of Hellas campaign that ended with the Greek takeover of Minoan Crete, my players wanted to go on a holiday. So I sent them off to relax in Troy... Sadly, we never got to play the 'holiday'.)

Everywhen Settings: Sword & Sorcery, Space Pulp, Pulse-Pounding Pulp+ » A New Game » 9/30/2026 11:07 pm

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So do I - Alison is running the third game in this series this coming Sunday! I must try and find time to write an AP of Flint game no.2. Also, I must finishing the half written report on the last Ulthmar game.

And by the way, nice to see you back Narmer, don't be a stranger!

Weird lands and forgotten islands » Wild Nights in Ulthmar » 9/26/2026 3:00 am

I'm putting the finishing touches to tomorrow's game, just a simple map to draw and some pictures to find. It will be Wild Night 7, one of a series of games I run in Garnett Elliott's Ulthmar setting from the Codex.
 
After freeing a sorcerer from three years of being held captive while being transformed into a songbird, Sparrow, Raven and their dangerous boyfriends are trying to help her find the sorcerer who did that to her. She wants to kill the sorcerous lover who betrayed her. The gang are welcome to anything he possesses (almost certainly worth a lot of money) in payment for helping her.
 
The game is called 'Best Served Cold'.

Scroll of the Ancients » Sorry for the interruption! » 9/26/2026 12:37 am

Great to have you back. As Paul said, I like this place and the people here.

General discussion » Inspiration crushed! » 9/21/2026 5:16 am

Only kidding, but...

To add further joy to my twilight years, BBC are showing the latest series of the French show, Paris Police. This third series is Paris Police 1910 (previous series were 1900 and 1905.) Great, gory stuff. Virtually all the characters are compromised in some way and it looks fantastic. For mature viewers only, as it features nudity, sex and grim violence - however, none of this is (in my view at least) gratuitous.
 
It's making me want to run my 1907 Parisian detective game again, but Alison said, "I'm not finished with Ulthmar yet!", in a way that brooked no argument!

Everywhen Settings: Sword & Sorcery, Space Pulp, Pulse-Pounding Pulp+ » A New Game » 9/16/2026 10:33 am

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Actually Paul, I don't think I was too clear in my write up. I think I was getting a bit tired myself at the end.

Just to say that in our games we tend to have a theme tune played at the begining and the end of each session. We are using Bix Beiderbecke's 'Somebody stole my gal'. Also, we try to find pictures of the main 'cast'. Charley Flint is played by Michael Shannon in his role as Nelson Van Alden in 'Boardwalk Empire'.

Everywhen Settings: Sword & Sorcery, Space Pulp, Pulse-Pounding Pulp+ » A New Game » 9/15/2026 11:09 pm

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I'm pretty sure the husband is the victim of the gangland slaying.

So did the wife arrange his murder? Was he involved in something else Charley hasn't come across yet?
Or did Parker Edgers just not pay his dentist bills?

Everywhen Settings: Sword & Sorcery, Space Pulp, Pulse-Pounding Pulp+ » A New Game » 9/15/2026 11:59 am

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This is the AP of a 1 GM 1Player game my wife ran for me last Sunday. It's just over 1400 words long, so you don't have to read it if you don't want to.

The first of the new Charley Flint games went very well. It was Monday February 19th, 1923. Charley’s boss at the Frisco Detective Agency asked him to go and see Mrs Dorothy Whitman Edgars, heir to the successful Whitman White Line Shipping Company. She suspected her husband was having an affair with some ‘floozy’. Her house was a mansion on Nob Hill and was more like a palace than a house.
 
Her husband, Parker Edgars, was a vice president at the company, and as well as that he received an allowance from Mrs Edgars. His family was also an old established family, but they had fallen on hard times and Parker Edgars had little money of his own. He worked “very hard” at the office, from 10-4.30 each day. Mrs Edgars said Parker went out with his friends to a ‘cultural club’ every Tuesday evening, where they discussed the latest novels, met writers and discussed current affairs. However, lately he had also gone out on Wednesday nights, and this past week he had pleaded for a large raise in the allowance his wife gave him. Mrs Edgars was convinced her husband had a mistress and expected her to pay for his floozy’s upkeep.
 
Showing Charley a picture of her husband, Mrs Edgars said she loved him but would not be made a fool of and would divorce him if Charley found evidence of a mistress.
 
Charley spent the next few hours at the library, checking city newspapers for stories on the Edgars. The society pages detailed the couples support for the arts, going to opening nights at the theatre and the opera. The Whitman Foundation, founded by Mrs Edgars father, was a supporter of various artistic venues throughout the city and the Greater Bay Area. Parker Edgars was also pictured in a few newspapers in the company of the famous author Wyndham Standing. A waspish comment about Standing gave Charley the idea th

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