#396
May 3, 2026
Books
This week I read:
The Living Stone: Stories of Uncanny Sculpture 1858–1943 a collection from Handheld Press
All pretty good really, it’s hard to pick a favourite. Most were ghost tales, but there was some weird fiction too. I think the weakest of the bunch was Hypnos, by Lovecraft, which is barely about a statue so I’m not really sure why it was included, as there’s another (much better) Lovecraft story (The Man of Stone) also included and the introduction said that some worthy stories had to be left out for space.
Roleplaying Games
One Shots
This week I ran Operation FULMINATE from the Delta Green rulebook. I had a bit of difficulty with the timing of the adventure, because as written the player characters arrive at the mystery location in the morning but the meat of the scenario doesn’t begin until night.
The players knew something was up, so they were trying to investigate, but there wasn’t really much for them to do. So I just brought everything forward and had the action kick off back at the primary location when they were out investigating somewhere else: they heard an explosion, ran back, and got caught up in the action. But the first half of our session was a bit slow and in hindsight I should have handled it differently. We had fun, though.
Miscellaneous
Since GitHub is having multiple outages a week at this point, I’ve decided to check out Forgejo. This weeknote is published by Forgejo Actions!