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A hard hitting Togashi monk, a snooty Crane bushi, a loyal Phoenix yojimbo, and an inquisitive Kitsune yoriki...
...decide to leave Ginasutra and its strange attack on the governer's family, only to once more get soaked in the pouring rain; encounter a madman on the road who prophecises doom upon the sons of the town and claims to have been the man who visited this doom -- but is not now, and pays for the price of lunacy with his life; discover the burnt out ruins of the previous governer's

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A hard hitting Togashi monk, a snooty Crane bushi, a loyal Phoenix yojimbo, and an inquisitive Kitsune yoriki...
...visit Ginasutra and get very wet in the pouring rain; find that the Scorpion Clan really likes them after they helped oust the Shadow Tower; a fainting governor and his shocked wife; a horse groom with no memory with a bloodied knife, the ability to leap from roof to roof, and a way with throwing roofing tiles; and a quite snotty Crane magistrate!

What is going

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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.

In terms of Call of Cthulhu and myself, today has been a good day. After part of a weekend working hard at a review – to be published soon, I promise – the publisher seemed please with my comments and feedback. This is always good to hear, as not every publisher takes the time to get back to me.

Even better news is that Masks of Nyarlathotep was sent to the printer last year. It seems crazy not to have what is regarded as one of the hobby’s best campaigns be out of print, so the news

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DaveL came over and together we tried our hand at Campaign Manager 2008 from Z-Man Games.

This is a card driven resource management game that recreates the US Presidential Election between Obama and McCain 2008. It is surprisingly simple and taut. He controlled McCain's campaign and I Obama's. I trailed nearly all the way through until it came down to three key battleground states. As McCain, Dave needed 5 votes to gain the needed 270 Collegiate Votes, available from Nevada. I had

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