Unreal Worlds: Seeing Shadows
Mar 25
So the other day, my good friend Ruth (the Arkham Archivist) was complaining that there were no extant conspiracy theories “tying reptoids and Machen-esque little people to Punxatawney Phil,” I suspect in a fit of pique over the increasingly winterish weather assaulting the mid-Atlantic United States this week. Not one to let so blatant a challenge lie, I picked up the gauntlet and...
Unreal Worlds — Antarctic Adventures
Feb 27
We’ve previously established at some length that — at least allegedly — there are things happening at the bottom edge of the world that could be good fodder for a game. The problem, however, may be that there’s just too much happening in Antarctica to make a plot hang together: a tidy bit of irony considering that the place is supposedly nearly devoid of sentient life....
Unreal Worlds — Mystery Served Cold
Feb 10
It’s like something out of a bad horror movie. An isolated team of scientists working under drastically harsh conditions suddenly stop communicating with the outside world. It’s unclear if their communications equipment is malfunctioning, or if something has happened to the team itself to prevent them from calling out to the rest of the world. Even before they lost contact, their...
Unreal Worlds – More Mayan Madness
Aug 17Still hungry for information on lost cities in North America? Good. Because I wrote some more (with a lot of assistance from our own Lucky Duke) about it this week. I have previously suggested that abandoned city-scapes can be great gateways to high weirdness. That makes the city now called Chichen Itza even more interesting, because it’s been abandoned more than once. You’d think...
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