In this version of the story, his all-seeing minions have names like Gestapo or KGB, and bad children get taken to Gulags or are disposed of in gas chambers. An unaccountable Führer rewards the "good" children and removes the "bad" ones with no legal recourse for either. Back to the ...
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The next day, however, precipitated us delightfully into the heart of the Arabian Nights atmosphere; and in the winding ways and exotic skyline of Cairo, the Bagdad of Haroun-al-Raschid seemed to live again. Guided by our Baedeker, we had struck east past the Ezbekiyeh Gardens along the...
The party tries to bluff, but learns they won’t be able to move farther south anyways because there’s a battle brewing for a toll house a short ways to the south. The marionette recruits them to his force and away they all march with Toad-faced Larry asking why the party wanted to ...
This forced the players to retune their expectations and come at the problem in different ways. In one game, where they wanted to interview a shop owner, they asked if there was an apartment upstairs that might be the residence of the owner. There was indeed a residence, and a successful...
“It also changes in predictable ways, with extra harmonic spikes clear in the waveform. Here, and here.” He let out a long breath. “It’s interesting, but I don’t see where it gets us.” “I thought that too, at first, but then I studied the sound alterations some more. Both...
The media landscape was particularly weird, with no live football on and broadcasters desperately scrambling around looking for ways to fill airtime while the entire country was stuck inside. You might recall those social media trends, particularly on Football Twitter, like that one of...
I loved some of the spy stuff they put in there, though I don’t know if any of it is at all accurate. I liked the creative ways the bad guys’ plans were foiled, and I liked how most of the time if you really paid attention, you could figure out the bad guys’ plans for you...
When the protagonists of these stories do get into Arkham Sanitarium, their ways and reasons for doing so are refreshingly different and interesting. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation may sound like a really fantastic name for a band, but it’s far less appealing when they’re also a condui...
Either way, it was not practical to spell it ‘frig’ or ‘fridge’, and therefore the letter d was added by analogy with words like ‘bridge’. Just as with most abbreviated words, it is believed that the word fridge was already popular in spoken English before it was used in print....