{"id":10070,"date":"2006-09-11T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/09\/11\/roached.html"},"modified":"2006-09-11T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:38:43","slug":"roached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/roached.html","title":{"rendered":"Roached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning we went out for pancakes (etc.) with Jackie and Kaylee, which was fun.  It would have been more fun at home, but we were parlous short of supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, we went with Doyce down to Lee and De&#8217;s and, after oohing and aahing at their new place (which is nice and fun and has character in the air you could carve with a knife), we played &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullypulpitgames.com\/category\/the-roach\/\">Shab al-Hiri Roach<\/a>,&#8221; a dreadfully splendid (or splendidly dreadful) one-shot.  Set at Pemberton University in 1919, it combines turns rivalry in academia into something that Bergman and Fellini would both appreciate.  Oh, and there&#8217;s an Elder God roach out to take over the world, if only you agree to help it for the power it can give you.  I played a marvelously decadent Botany professor nicknamed Pansy who&#8217;s <em>raison d&#8217;etre<\/em> is seduction of undergrads (and not the co-eds) and backstabbing (figuratively, to date) his fellow academics.  Everyone else is even worse.  It&#8217;s great fun, and I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t have to play him for more than a session (or, given our gabbiness, as it turns out, two).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kitten and Rachel ran themselves ragged.  So they had fun, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning we went out for pancakes (etc.) with Jackie and Kaylee, which was fun. 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