Recent content by Cordwainer Fish

My character, recently and much simplified: "It is just possible that you are thinking of doing something that, by my allegiance, I absolutely cannot countenance. I'll be in my stateroom; let me know when you've finished not doing what I'm definitely not talking about."

Even if you never play GURPS - or don't know thing one about the game system - their books are great sources for Traveller and Charted Space. Long live His Imperial Majesty Strephon!

Chill.

Debrief (interview? interrogation?) went well.

What next: reward? Prison? Both?

Okay, who else saw "Alexandrian pantheon" and thought Alexandrian Wicca?

Oh gosh, now ya got me wantin' ta make a Sword Worlder character who talks like Marge Gunderson. (Or Lawrence Welk. Uh vun und a too und a...)

"Five stars! Would shop again!"

It's supposed to be Procrustean; it's emulating computer games, where you cannot even attempt to do anything the programmer didn't think of.

This is my dragon. There are many like it but this one is mine.

"I've sent boys younger than you to the gas chamber. I didn't want to do it... felt I owed it to them." - Judge Smails, Caddyshack

cheat. Have more than the other guy. Have it where the other guy doesn't expect it. Be where the other guy doesn't expect you. If even remotely possible, don't even be there at all. If you are in a fair fight, you have only yourself to blame.

I saw Dick Tracy with my Traveller referee.