Right now, the guy who happened to pick a new wiki farm when the
original Fairfield Project was spammed has free reign over the
presentation of shared content. That presentation does not seem to
have the approval of the community. Two (?) complaints have been
addressed (bright green headings, translucent background), others
remain from the conversation back in July.

http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/

I'm wondering how this is supposed to be handled. Obviously Jürgen is
not paid to keep our small community serviced with the impossible task
of "web design by committee", but the wiki is important. The dated
official site does little to pull in and inform new players, yet it
looks better than the wiki.

Take the header/banner for example:
http://jhtest.wdfiles.com/local--files/admin%3Amanage/aeer.png -- In
my opinion: Too big by half, and I don't even have a smart phone. The
mixing of typefaces doesn't work. The DG logo just looks crammed in
there, with its inconsistent padding. And there is a spelling error in
the first freaking word, replicated on every page.

We should give strangers a better welcome. If I thought there was a
reasonable, democratic, functional process for changing the banner, I
would happily submit a new one for consideration. But right now
there's just one guy, Jürgen, last seen on the list two months ago,
with all the rights and no clear agenda.

Is anything happening?

Is there a plan?

Am I the only one who wants to know?

Uh, and happy new year.

Viktor

Here's the story:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/03/why-did-thousands-of-birds-drop-dead-in-the-\
arkansas-sky/

2,000 birds died in Beebe, Arkansas, northeast of Little Rock. This isn't the
first time this has happened, either.

The birds were healthy (sick birds apparently don't fly) and suffered trauma,
which could have come from damage (like from hail) while flying, or from hitting
the ground.

The prevailing theory is that fireworks scared the birds, killing them. I
suppose concussion could also kill them.

Of course _we_ know better. It was due to a summoning that could only be done on
the turn of the New Year!

Oh, yeah, and 100,000 fish died on a 20 mile stretch of the Arkansas River.
Couldn't _possibly_ be related...

Its looking a lot better than the last time that I saw it. Great job Hun :)

--
_____________________________________________________________________
Bree Orlock
Managing Editor,
Stardust Publications
bree.orlock@...
http://stardust-publications.com
_____________________________________________________________________
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own
devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other
players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch
dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell
you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
-Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge problems of
memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big chunks from it, but
has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere he goes to keep the
damages minor.
Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more original.
In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with eidetic memory: he
will remember everything, even the smallest details, of everything he lives
through and witnesses.
Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you lot
were even more cruel than me...

On 2 January 2012 22:23, kikoolz <come.martin@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge
> problems of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big
> chunks from it, but has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere
> he goes to keep the damages minor.
> Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more
> original. In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with
> eidetic memory: he will remember everything, even the smallest details, of
> everything he lives through and witnesses.
> Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you
> lot were even more cruel than me...
>

An obvious and simple thought. What would happen if on the first day he
woke up with his eidetic memory, his memories differed from his notes?

--
Nick Meredith
nick.meredith@...


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> One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge
> problems of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big
> chunks from it, but has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras
> everywhere he goes to keep the damages minor.
> Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more
> original. In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up
> with eidetic memory: he will remember everything, even the smallest
> details, of everything he lives through and witnesses.
> Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if
> you lot were even more cruel than me...
>

One thing would be to maximize SAN loss - that's almost too simple though.
Instead, how about a simple daily check for 0/1 Sanity loss as the character
realizes that his memory of what happened yesterday or last week or last
month or ten years ago is just simply subtly different from what the rest of
the world? His memory allows him to notice the cosmic drift" that the rest
of humanity simply misses through inefficiency?

You may very well end up with him taking just as many notes trying to make
sense of the things that he notices are different, trying to discern some
pattern that may or may not be there. If you want to meta this through
rules, let him make Knowledge checks occasionally to let him "figure
something out" (with an appropriate SAN check and loss as well), and end up
being a fantastic, ever-so-slowly going crazy, resource for the cell.

Right up until the Fate recruits him.

D.

> Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if
you
> lot were even more cruel than me...

Some of his memories are of things that haven't happened yet, or are of
events and things that no one else remembers.

--- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, "kikoolz" <come.martin@...> wrote:
> Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you lot
were even more cruel than me...
>

Some of his memories are 'seen' from the perspective of other people. He may
know them, he may not. They could be seen from the perpective of a simple
passer-by on the street. They might be seen from his colleagues/friends/loved
ones points of view. These may be skewed with unpleasant emotions attached to
the memories "God how I loathe this person" (The PC) "This person knows too
much" etc.

E.g., he sees his own happy childhood birthday party (8 today!) through his
mother's eyes, yet secretly she is wishing he had never been born.

--
Julian

--- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, Jim Clunie <jim.clunie@...> wrote:
>
> Got it! My copy arrived in Australia on Friday.
>

Autographed?

Yrs
Martin

These are going out on a day to day basis starting again today, a bunch went out
before the holiday and now they're moving out again. Yay!

-D
On Jan 3, 2012, at 8:24 AM, magister76se wrote:

> --- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, Jim Clunie <jim.clunie@...> wrote:
> >
> > Got it! My copy arrived in Australia on Friday.
> >
>
> Autographed?
>
> Yrs
> Martin
>
>

_____________________________
Dennis Detwiller
Design Director/IP Creator
t. 415.999.7402

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill



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--- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Detwiller <dennis.detwiller@...> wrote:
>
> These are going out on a day to day basis starting again today, a bunch went
out before the holiday and now they're moving out again. Yay!
>
> -D

Yay indeed! :D

Yrs
Martin (also scanning the horizon for DELTA GREEN: STRANGE AUTHORITIES)

http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/03/new-yorks-lost-subways/

"The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, making it the largest
in North America. And there's even more to it than riders see: dozens of tunnels
and platforms that were either abandoned or were built but never used. They form
a kind of ghost system that reveals how the city's transit ambitions have been
both realized and thwarted."

Interactive map: http://project.wnyc.org/news-maps/lost-subways/

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jeffrey Ewing <ambjpe@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
>
> http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/03/new-yorks-lost-subways/
>
> "The New York City subway system has 842 miles of track, making it the
> largest in North America. And there's even more to it than riders see:
> dozens of tunnels and platforms that were either abandoned or were built
> but never used. They form a kind of ghost system that reveals how the
> city's transit ambitions have been both realized and thwarted."
>
> Interactive map: http://project.wnyc.org/news-maps/lost-subways/
>
> In my campaign, I've had the PCs dealing a lot with the ghouls under NYC,
and I hadn't even considered using NYC's abandoned subway tunnels ... until
now, anyway. I wonder how the warrens might end up connected to the
abandoned tunnels.

Chris


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--- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, "kikoolz" <come.martin@...> wrote:
>
> One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge problems
of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big chunks from it, but
has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere he goes to keep the
damages minor.
> Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more
original. In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with eidetic
memory: he will remember everything, even the smallest details, of everything he
lives through and witnesses.
> Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you lot
were even more cruel than me...
>

<delurk>

Okay, I'll play.

The PC's memory problems were a defensive mechanism.  He suffered an unspeakable
and horrific psychological trauma, possibly Mythos-related, and his mind
attempted to block it out, with the side effect of continuous problems with
long-term memory.

But now he remembers it.  All of it.  Roll for SAN loss, please.

Hmm.  Too obvious?

</delurk>

What if his notes start to read like letters to him from someone else, warnings,
taunts or clues but all written in his own distinctive and unmistakable
handwriting.

From the virtual desk of Michael R. Smith
"Per Aspera ad Astra"

On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:23 PM, "kikoolz" <come.martin@...> wrote:

> One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge problems
of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big chunks from it, but
has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere he goes to keep the
damages minor.
> Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more
original. In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with eidetic
memory: he will remember everything, even the smallest details, of everything he
lives through and witnesses.
> Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you lot
were even more cruel than me...
>
>


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He didn't remember his three years at a certain alien library?
Is he perhaps starting now to remember everything from those years, what he
read, what he wrote, his funny conical shape?

2012/1/3 Last Free Human <lastfreehuman@...>

> **
>
>
> What if his notes start to read like letters to him from someone else,
> warnings, taunts or clues but all written in his own distinctive and
> unmistakable handwriting.
>
> From the virtual desk of Michael R. Smith
> "Per Aspera ad Astra"
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:23 PM, "kikoolz" <come.martin@...> wrote:
>
> > One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge
> problems of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big
> chunks from it, but has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere
> he goes to keep the damages minor.
> > Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more
> original. In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with
> eidetic memory: he will remember everything, even the smallest details, of
> everything he lives through and witnesses.
> > Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if
> you lot were even more cruel than me...
> >
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>



--
Rodrigo J. Lozano (aka WiNG)


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If he happens to catch some back-spray from the indicator solution from the
Groverville(?) investigation, is he going to register a pattern of spots that
could indicate drill-holes on his noggin?

Or did he happen to begin a whirlwind romance with a woman who occasionally
changes her personality completely, a la Asenath Waite?

~Pete
> >
> > > One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge
> > problems of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big
> > chunks from it, but has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere
> > he goes to keep the damages minor.

Well, this is actually what I was originally planning, since it's in keeping
with the PC's backstory.
To keep it short: had an uncle well-versed in occultism. Uncle summoned the
wrong sort of stuff. Nephew (PC) witnessed The Stuff. Uncle erased Nephew's
memory to keep him from suffering from having seen The Stuff.
Oh, plus the PC has been abducted by the Great Race once, while searching for
the cause to his amnesia. Great Race basically said: don't dig further, man, or
it will end badly.

I have read with delight all other suggestions, which are rock-solid so far.
I'll probably end up using a mix of those, and won't forget to keep you updated
on the upcoming demise of the PC, of course.

--- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, "that will be revealed on a need-to-know basis"
<The_Crimson_Permanent_Assurance@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, "kikoolz" <come.martin@> wrote:
> >
> > One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge problems
of memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big chunks from it, but
has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere he goes to keep the
damages minor.
> > Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more
original. In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with eidetic
memory: he will remember everything, even the smallest details, of everything he
lives through and witnesses.
> > Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you
lot were even more cruel than me...
> >
>
> <delurk>
>
> Okay, I'll play.
>
> The PC's memory problems were a defensive mechanism.  He suffered an
unspeakable and horrific psychological trauma, possibly Mythos-related, and his
mind attempted to block it out, with the side effect of continuous problems with
long-term memory.
>
> But now he remembers it.  All of it.  Roll for SAN loss, please.
>
> Hmm.  Too obvious?
>
> </delurk>
>

> --- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, Jim Clunie <jim.clunie@> wrote:
> >
> > Got it! My copy arrived in Australia on Friday.
> >

Alas! Still nothing in France. I'm beginning to think the ill reputation of our
post service is well-deserved.

The headline immediately caught my eye:
"Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says"

(full
article: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-earthquake-not-natural-event-expert-says-002\
703764.html)


CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New Year's Eve did
not occur naturally and may have been caused by high-pressure liquid injection
related to oil and gas exploration and production, an expert hired by the state
of Ohio said on Tuesday.


So...is that what A-Cell is telling people now when the Cthonians start rumbling
around?

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Fracking is the new sunspots or swamp gas.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Tom Lynch <tlynch999@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> The headline immediately caught my eye:
> "Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says"
>
> (full article:
>
http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-earthquake-not-natural-event-expert-says-002703764.ht\
ml
> )
>
> CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New Year's Eve
> did not occur naturally and may have been caused by high-pressure liquid
> injection related to oil and gas exploration and production, an expert
> hired by the state of Ohio said on Tuesday.
>
> So...is that what A-Cell is telling people now when the Cthonians start
> rumbling around?
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>



--
James Knevitt
jknevitt@...

Today things move so fast, if you think you're living in the future, you're
living in the past.


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All I have to say is "Yeti Crabs"



http://gizmodo.com/5872900/lost-world-discovered-under-antarctica
_____________________________
Dennis Detwiller
Design Director/IP Creator
t. 415.999.7402

"You are the music while the music lasts." - T.S. Eliot



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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/time-hole/

"A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s
out-there research arm, managed to hide an event for 40 picoseconds (those are
trillionths of seconds, if you’re counting). They’ve published their
groundbreaking research in this week’s edition of the journal Nature."

This has MAJESTIC's fingerprints all over it!

Neil.




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Agents...

The Devil's Book

http://liten.be//Co8w1

_____________________________
Dennis Detwiller
Design Director/IP Creator
t. 415.999.7402

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs." - Salvador Dali



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>Uncle summoned the wrong sort of stuff. Nephew (PC) witnessed The >Stuff. Uncle
erased Nephew's memory to keep him from suffering from >having seen The Stuff.

The Stuff is a great movie, very Lovecraftian, in a wacky, zany sort of way

On 01/04/2012 09:58 AM, Tom Lynch wrote:

> CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New
> Year's Eve did not occur naturally and may have been caused by
> high-pressure liquid injection related to oil and gas exploration
> and production, an expert hired by the state of Ohio said on Tuesday.
> So...is that what A-Cell is telling people now when the Cthonians
> start rumbling around?

It's what happens when a hydrofracking operation accidentally wakes a
Cthonian up and it gets cranky...

--
The Doctor [412/724/301/703]

PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F  DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1
WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/

It's too useful, interesting, and helpful.  It'll never last.

/delurk

Draw source material from Memento. =)

Howard Taylor has had a long-running (years) false memory storyline at Schlock
Mercenary that is now wrapping up with cognitive surgery by a super AI gestalt.
Make the AI more Mythos and scarier than a koala... And voilà!

The recent TV series "Unforgettable" deals with a policewoman with "perfect"
memory. You'll find a number of interesting plot elements which can be
challenging, even with perfect recall.

I don't recall much of the TV show Dead Zone, but having a perfect memory of a
narrow slice of the future could be hugely frustrating for players. The future
is someone else's past... Is it really mutable?

/lurk


DarthReed@... is rocking Windows Phone 7!
________________________________
From: kikoolz
Sent: 01/02/12 14:24
To: dglist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dglist] The Eidetic Man

One my players is currently playing an agent from the FBI with huge problems of
memory. Basically, he wakes up in the morning missing big chunks from it, but
has taken to carrying notebooks and cameras everywhere he goes to keep the
damages minor.
Messing up this routine would be too easy; I'm planning something more original.
In our next session, due to a big crash, he will wake up with eidetic memory: he
will remember everything, even the smallest details, of everything he lives
through and witnesses.
Now, I already have some ideas to mess him up, but I was wondering if you lot
were even more cruel than me...



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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Dennis Detwiller
<dennis.detwiller@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> All I have to say is "Yeti Crabs"
>

Have your Yeti been sexually irresponsible? Do you worry about their
genital health? If so, then Delta Green can help. Delta Green's proven
formula will cleanse your Yeti's nether parts with our tried and true
methods. Remember, if you have Yeti, it's your responsibility to keep
their crotches free of crabs.

The Man in Black is : Kenneth Scroggins
Novus Ordo Seclorum : Annuit Coeptus : E Pluribus Unum
__________________________________________________________________________
Negotium perambulans in tenebris

Well done, this prompted a spittake!

-PL

> Delta Green's proven
> formula will cleanse your Yeti's nether parts with our tried and true
> methods. Remember, if you have Yeti, it's your responsibility to keep
> their crotches free of crabs.

--- In dglist@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Detwiller <dennis.detwiller@...> wrote:
>
> Agents...
>
> The Devil's Book
>
> http://liten.be//Co8w1
>

The entire book has been scanned in detail by the Royal Library and can be
viewed here: http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/

Yrs
Martin

P. S. I've seen a great old photograph taken when the "new" Royal Library
building was built -- the Archbishop himself transported the book in a
hand-drawn sled from the Castle to the Library.