The Bored Ghost storygame podcast invited me back on to play Icarus, a game about the fall of great civilizations. We wove a story about a towering Martian city brought down by hubris, whaling, and experimental music. In this game, I play Sarta Morningstar, the winningness lobbyist on Mars. (Warning: Rated RG-13 for allusions to sci-fi sex and violence.) Listen to both parts of the story at the links below: Part One (49 min) Part Two (41 min) #Podcast #BoredGhost #Games #Sci

"The red jumps off the page. You’re in the middle of a letter from Father Christmas to the Tolkien children, when all of a sudden, there it is—“Goblin” leaping out at you, crimson and clawed. It’s a trick Tolkien seemed to love, as another plaque in the exhibit explains that he’d wanted the inscription on the One Ring (“to rule them all …”) to be printed in red as well. We see him developing the script for those famous fiery letters, and imagine how he wanted it to blaze from