This is Chaos in Kansas (1989), a scenario for GURPS Cliffhanger or GURPS Horror, depending on how you’re feeling. The cover doesn’t even come close to telling you what amazing things lie in wait inside, but it’s a start. In truth, the title alone is gold. Say it with me, Chaos in Kansas, Chaos in Kansas, Chaos in Kansas.

There are two scenarios and some source material on the setting, a town called Liberty. The first involves a kidnapping by a coven of witches who worship the horrible sorcerer monster that’s trapped in a cave outside of town. They’re led by a teen flapper, the girlfriend of the kidnapped victim, who she intends to use as a human sacrifice to free the Dire Dreamer. She has a goat mask with crystal eyes in the trunk of her car. The cave is guarded by a horrible humanoid spider creature. The Dreamer itself is a mummified head on top of a pile of human intestines. I suspect that the phantom on Miro Sinovcic’s cover is meant to be the Dreamer, but good taste prevailed against depicting the pile of intestines. When the players defeat the Dreamer, the head explodes in a splash of goo, which should happen at the end of more RPG boss fights if you ask me.

The second scenario has the players investigating strange goings on at the local cement factory. And by strange goings on, I mean getting hired by the boss to root out the “Bolsheviks” who have been disrupting the work. Except it isn’t Bolsheviks, its the ghost a Wobbly who was murdered on the site. When he came back as a ghost, he just kept on agitating for the workers, adopting the guise of the Demon of Capitalism to terrorize and sabotage the work site. He can’t be exorcized (he was an atheist, lol) and he won’t rest even if his killer is brought to justice. The only way he’ll depart is if the workers organize a union. The scenario includes lyrics to “Solidarity Forever” and other labor movement songs, presumably so you can sing them to the players in the character of Joe the Ghost. Joe’s my hero.

Happy Friday. Ann Widdecombe is dead.

Obsessed with the concept of dinosaurs as hunting dogs

I am constantly thinking about this

It's a mark of UK politics that one of the people the previous prime minister had to defend his seat against was this guy:

His policies include:

Making Piers Morgan zero emissions

Free broadband

Nationalising Adele and model railways

I prayed that you might be saved

and took every breath with me in the leafy shade

If you don't have one of those, imagine that you do.

Made the mistake of buying a bag of spinach as a person who lives alone so now every single meal I eat for the next 2 weeks is gonna about this damn spinach. We are on 24/7 spinach lockdown. Last time this happened, I made 3 salads and a spinach curry and spinach pasta and STILL half the bag turned to green rot in the fridge. My conception of "what meals require spinach" is rapidly expanding into "what meals COULD conceivably include spinach." I am considering recipes never before seen outside the realms of vegan mommy blogs. By day 10 I anticipate I will probably just do a Land Before Time and take the rest of that shit raw

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.