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DaveL bought me a copy of The Fuller Memorandum.
Not just signed by Charles Stross.
It is signed to me by Charles Stross.

This week gaming was almost curtailed with the presence of Dave only. So very quickly I grabbed my newly printed copy of Delta Green and with some already genenrated characters I started "Puppet Shows & Shadow Plays." I was running this a little by the seat of my pants, but the most part, the scenario is initially quite linear (and having two copies of the rule book helped with the handouts) and easy to run. I created three members of the FBI, a Special Agent,a Forensics Specialist, ...

We were up early to head for Leicester forContinuum, the convention sequel to Convulsion. The game can roughly be divided into three parts... Catching up with people -- old friends (Paula and Steve Dempsey, Mark Booth, and of all people, Madeline Eid!) and people you only meet at conventions. Most of these at Continuum are connected with Call of Cthulhu fandom, and the fanzines, The Whisperer and The Black Seal. I already knew both of their editors from having reviewed the various issues, but it ...

Having travelled across the Arabian Peninsula by train and car, the quartet of investigators arrives at the port of Jidda. Here they take the opportunity to rest at the hotel. Maximilian Thorpe has other reasons to be in Jidda, as he is here at the invitation of his commanding officer during the Great War. He and Major Wilfred Cuttingham served together in East Africa, and the Major, a hearty, hale, and bluff kind of a man, is the British Vice-Consul here in Jidda.

In part, the stay ...

After a long absence, we picked up my Call of Cthulhu campaign set in the years of the 1920s. It came off the rails somewhat with the scenario, “Thoth’s Dagger� from Curse of the Cthonians. This failed, and was too long for several reasons. First off, there were too many breaks between sessions; secondly, I should not have subjected the character of the player new to Call of Cthulhu to the curse at the heart of the scenario -- despite it being a solid motivation; and third, there was a problem ...