Darktheatre.net
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Darktheatre.net is a general odd ball site that's sort of like a blog and sort of like a portal. Founded in 1819 by Lenny8088 while searching for Arcadia, our destiny and our right, it's been in continuous operation since then with only a few short outages (lack of internet was a bit rough) which were beyond the control of it's owner.
News For Gamers July 30, 2010
Mythos: Read Any Good Books Lately?
| Why yes, yes I have read a good book lately. I think you should read it too.
|  [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-05-13 12:04:24 (comments[0]) |
Mythos: Tcho Tcho in Stevens Point WI
| A 41-year-old woman is in jail after police say she went on a blow gun spree in downtown Stevens Point. The womand told an officer that she "liked to hear people say ouch."
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-28 12:25:12 (comments[0]) |
Random Page Clip: Haunted Mansion:3
In a fit of Münchhausen induced madness you scream "Yeah - kill him! He's not real and this isn't real and all those dead people aren't real and I WANT TO GO HOME". Dr. Armitage, Charlie and Stagger Lee who had all blatantly dismissed you as they began to circle each other in dance of violence all stop in their tracks and stare at you with mouths open (which adds to the disturbing nature of the scene since it looks like Charlie and Stagger have fangs as well as claws). With an adjustment of his hat Stagger says "Well, what we standing around for? You heard him, lets kill this demon". "Yup I heard 'em" says Charlie "but he also said he wanted to go home. I think he's sufferin' from PTSS". "Yes, indeed, he most likely is" Dr. Armitage says. "Indeed, he has probably already seen too much tonite but I fear it's not over for him yet." Stagger is looking from person to person with a confused look on his face. "What the frack is this all about? What the gol-darned Hastur loving goodness is PTS? And what ya doing yacking like some educated college kid to the demon Charlie? Jay-zus. I swear to Azathoth we's talked about this before - and I bet you a case of that mud-water beer ya swill back that we's got a rule in our book somewheres about it. Where is it? Remember that time with Doc? Remember? Where's the book?" "I left it in the van. Didn't think we'd need it for this." says Charlie. "And is you insulting my beer? Cause if you is I think we have to have words Stagger." Stagger just glares at Charlie. Charlie looks calmly back with a slight grin on his face. Dr. Armitage has lowered the knife he was wielding and has come to stand by you. "Come on son. There is much left for you to do tonite. Much you may not wish to do." Slowly you walk away with Dr. Armitage who is telling you about a beetle lady, cheese sandwiches, people in trunks, a warlock/electrical repairman and a hanging judge. You seem to be losing the thread of the conversation as you walk. Distantly you hear what sounds like to two grade school kids shouting and fighting (albeit a bit more viciously than your normal 4th graders). Looking around you notice Dr. Armitage is nowhere to be seen. You close your eyes for a moment to gather your bearings and when you open them you find yourself at the front door of the manion, knocking.
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Posted by: BotMan: 07/30/2375 (view Haunted Mansion:3 page) |
Space: Meteor Over WI
| Last night a fireball was spotted over parts of WI, MN and other states. The rumble of it's passing shook my house in southern WI as well.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-15 08:15:03 (comments[0]) |
Space: Aliens Land in Jordan?
| A Jordanian mayor is considering suing a newspaper over an April Fools' Day report saying aliens had landed nearby.
|  [Odd Topic] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-06 09:14:11 (comments[0]) |
Mythos: Whisperer in the Darkness Trailer
| From the folks who brought us the CoC silent movie comes the next bit of black and white mythos coolness.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-04-01 19:24:46 (comments[0]) |
Mythos: Where the Hell is Targets of Opportunity Anyway?
| Arc Dream Publishing has put the latest on the status of the Delta Green book Targets of Opportunity up on their website.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-28 16:21:53 (comments[0]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: Custom Game Furniture
| Yeah, the gear is a bit expensive but can you really put a price on something this important? Especialy when its hand crafted from Black Walnut and Hard Rock Sugar Maple from domestic sustainable forests and can accommodate 6 - 10 players with individual player stations.
|  [General Gaming News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-19 06:59:19 (comments[4]) |
Announcements: The Hobbit Movie Update
| Shooting The Hobbit is set to begin in New Zealand in July. Looks like Ian McKellen will be back as Gandalf and Guillermo del Toro will direct as we had heard before. And, following the sucessful formula from LotR, both Hobbit films will be shot back-to-back.
|  [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-18 06:37:38 (comments[0]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: Today is GM's Day
| In honor of today I ask that you all raise a toast to all the GMs (good and bad) that you've had over the years - Even the worst game session is better than the best day at work.
| [General Gaming News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-04 12:19:25 (comments[1]) |
Entertainment: A Team Movie
| That's right. The A Team movie.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-03 11:44:59 (comments[0]) |
Ravings: What is Time?
| My wife has been trying to figure me out for years with little progress. Perhaps this physicist will be able to shed some light on things.
| [Odd Topic] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-03-02 13:23:06 (comments[0]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: Colonel of Dice
| I am probably one of the last gamers on earth to actually see this vid of the Colonel and his dice making techniques. Excellent. Perfect. This guy is a gamer.
| [General Gaming News] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-03-01 09:43:04 (comments[0]) |
Entertainment: Superman for $1M
| At a recent on-line auction a copy of the first Superman comic has been sold on the internet for $1m.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-26 07:39:05 (comments[3]) |
Mythos: MiGo OS
| From Charles Ward and the LNN - this little gem is too good to be true. Intel and Nokia create a mobile OS and decide to name it after a malevolent species from the mythos. MeeGo.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-25 06:33:54 (comments[0]) |
War/Politics: Nazi Nukes
| Finding odd shaped uranium in a Dutch scrapyard and tracing it back has all the makings of a good CoC/Delta Green like story. Add in some cultists (besides the Nazi's), a shoggoth, maybe a few strange idols that blister the skin when held, and a long lost Ph.d dude and you'd be ready to go.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-24 07:12:45 (comments[0]) |
Death and Dying: Homicidal World
| Time and I have discussed this a few times and it always seems surprisingly tough to find good stats on how many people are homicided (nice word admin!) each year. But this here is a good visual of the murder rates across the globe.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-23 06:04:46 (comments[1]) |
Places: Old Humans
| Some Ph.d dudes have found some stone "tools" (that look a whole like a bunch a rocks I have in my backyard) that says humans were on Crete a bajillion years before they were supposed to be.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-21 13:49:27 (comments[4]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: Pathfinder Monsters
| Pathfinder will be putting out a second monster book later this year. Would be cool if they had it ready for Gen Con so I could get my hands on it then, but I guess I'll have to wait.
|  [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-19 17:47:17 (comments[3]) |
Mythos: Quake Strikes IL
| I'm certain that this 4.3 quake that hit Sycamore IL is of no relation to some terrible Mythos spellcasting or caling forth of creatures man was not meant to know. There's also no possible way that the Mythos would also be responsible for the April, 2008 quake that hit West Salem IL either.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-11 06:14:18 (comments[0]) |
Gaming/Fight Club: 12 Days of Greenwood
| While I know Lenny hates the Forgotten Realms for various reasons I know there are others who like it. Me, I'm a fan of the old school, 1st Ed setting only.
| [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-10 05:30:09 (comments[5]) |
Mythos: Now How Do We Cast the Banishing Spell?
| In gaming whenever the intrepid adventurers run into a rare and powerful language they don't know ("can I kinda know it ... I speak draconic?"), they find some librarian or Liche or janitor that does know it. Even if you roll a "1" you still get some clue, hint, pathway to success. Why? Because if the last speaker of that language had just died, only a couple of days before you got there, it would mean you (as adventurers) were SOL and the adventure was over.
| [Cthulhu] |
Posted by: Lenny8088 : 2010-02-09 14:17:49 (comments[0]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: Google Wants In on the iPad Game
| Sure they're just in the mock up stage right now but Google is looking for a Chrome OS based tablet computer to eventually hit the market.
|  [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-08 07:23:51 (comments[1]) |
Entertainment: Karaoke Will Get You Killed
| Apparently over half a dozen people have been killed for singing Old Blue Eye's "My Way" in Karaoke bars in the Philippines. It also looks like John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads" is bad too.
| [Odd Topic] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-07 10:37:33 (comments[1]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: MS to Patch a Bug - From 17 Years Ago
| A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. Aparently this update will close the loophole that involves the venerable DOS operating system.
| [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-05 05:47:30 (comments[2]) |
Space: Iran Hurls Turtles into Space
| Iran said Wednesday it had launched a rocket carrying a rodent, two turtles and some worms into orbit, claiming it as a successful advance in their space program.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-03 05:49:22 (comments[2]) |
Conspiracy Theory(s): Return to the Moon?
| Obama has called off the moon return project. Which can only mean that he has just found out that we never were there in the first place. I mean, how embarassing would it be to not be able to find the flag from the first "landing?"
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-02-01 10:08:05 (comments[2]) |
TPG Gear/Tech: What the iPad Isn't
| Forget the jokes around the name (e.g. "Where's the Max-iPad?") this article outlines the 10 things that the iPad isn't, why it isn't and why that's not a bad thing.
| [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-29 09:55:44 (comments[8]) |
Conspiracy Theory(s): India Goes to War in Space
| First we have Nazis on the moon and now it looks like India will be sending some folks to space by 2016.
| [News From Around the World] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-28 06:00:40 (comments[1]) |
Script Kiddies: If you make it - someone will hack it
| The hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone as a teenager has recently stated that he has hacked Sony's PS3.
| [Geek News] |
Posted by: Time52 : 2010-01-27 04:49:38 (comments[1]) |
Announcements: DC 20
| If shower dances weren't enough to keep you from wanting to go to prison, you lose your RPGs, to boot! | [D20: Dungeons and Dragons] |
Posted by: Arioch : 2010-01-26 05:49:06 (comments[5]) |
