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Image: Saga of the Swamp Thing #40 Vol. 2 “The Curse” “Echoing into the night, beneath the bulbous moon, issued forth from a throat not quite human. Terrifyingly it was answered by another in kind by another unseen beast. God’s Wounds, there were two of them out there! Were they prowling after game or after… Read more
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Wrist-Dagger This is no ordinary tattoo. It is in fact a relic in the form of a dagger that has burrowed into your forearm, only coming out when coaxed by singing the same song as the one you sang that dark night when you used it to carve a single long cut into your flesh.… Read more
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“It was naught but an enormous gaping maw, slowly spinning, a rushing whirlpool of water being sucked into that yawning orifice, plunging past rings of jagged teeth and down into the unimaginable guts below.” For Pirate-Borg, “Maw” seemed the perfect opportunity to bring in Charybidis, the classic sea hazard / monster mentioned in The Odyssey,… Read more
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Frog – Plague of the Fear Frogs “They came as a hideous wave of thumb sized pale frogs, spilling forth from the bubbling birthing pool, a squirming mass chirping in a riotous cacophony. Soon they engulfed Phillipe, his flailing quickly turning to mere twitching as his skin was poisoned by those numberless spawn. Their skin… Read more
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I was very excited as I read the plot description of Play Dirty, realizing that this was going to be a Parker novel adaptation. Parker was created by Richard Stark, the anti hero of several noir heist novels, adapted into movies like Payback, Point Blank, The Outfit, and Parker. The quality has varied and I’d… Read more
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Once again I managed to get folks together for Pirate Borg! Last time we did the semi-sandbox Buried in the Bahamas (recommended as a good starting place, with some combat, exploration, and a dungeon puzzle). We were less dark and gritty, more weird and wacky, but still worked just fine. If there was a lesson… Read more
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