Alaskan Tinker Marathon

50-mile road-running legs are broken up by workshop projects involving tiny toy mechanisms.

Objects I Have Kicked

… a grapefruit the size of a soccer ball wrapped in duct tape.

PGC

Procedurally generated cows eating procedurally generated grass in procedurally generated pastures on a procedurally generated farm in a procedurally generated videogame.

Sightseeing Philadelphia

Start at the Paramount Hotel.

Walk about 10 minutes to the underground shopping district, near the train station.

Browse the shops - many stalls are closed this early in the morning, as are the midway games and arcade machines.

Exit the mall and decide to head back to the hotel.

Readjust my trenchcoat awkwardly and realize I lost my backpack.

Notice a man in a khaki coat awkwardly adjusting a suspicious bulge; underneath is my black backpack.

Strip him of my backpack after spying my black wallet, cash and ID within the folds his coat.

Yell and accuse him of stealing my belongings, threatening to call security and waving my ID around.

Confidently storming back through the mall, stopping to play a security-monitored Simon-says videogame where I hold my ID up to the camera.

The thief fails the game and sits down.

Further on down the mall the shops are opening up.

A VR classroom dodgeball game catches my eye.

Cold Dark Conference Room

I found where I left my coffee.

I remember holding a door open for coworkers, among the halls all painted white.

It All Happened So Fast

Bass testing at the lake with an underwater subwoofer.

Driving and parking an off road golf cart.

In line at Disneyland cosplaying Cinderella showing receipts and identification, face-swapping makeup.

Kids singing The Lion King songs.

On my birthday.

Cube Deconstruction

While demonstrating the mechanics behind the skeleton of a Rubix Cube, JD empties the contents of his pockets onto the table.

I offer to buy the 1963-D Kennedy Half Dollar.

Changing Diaper

A toddler has a green reptile eyeball marble embedded in its navel.

Storyteller’s Gap

A Traveling ________ smiles broadly at your approach. Colorful goods are spread before you.

You travelled through the ________. The path turns treacherous. You twist your ankle on loose stones. (-1 HP)

You hear a faint sound ahead. Nearby, a ____ its phylactery pulses with cold light.

Reclaimed Wood

One of my neighbors pushes an upright shopping cart full of reclaimed wood from the local Walmart.

The boards are 10’ long and longer so they’re precariously loaded onto the top of the cart.

I eye the boards covetously.

Island Getaway Security

DN was running right behind me when I heard an electric energy sizzle.

I knew his security credentials had not been set properly and that his body had been vaporized against the hotel’s security force field.

I knew he would also respawn momentarily so I quickly updated his credentials and readied an apology.