Two teams walk onto the field, only one makes it out alive…
Welcome to the second annual Bowl of Decay! You thought that the race to the Superbowl was brutal… If this year is anything like last, we’re in for a show!
using our brains to save yours
Something interesting to note about Hugh Chees is not his name, although it’s memorable and when I first heard it, I thought someone was exclaiming “hoochies” and that alone is comic gold. No, the interesting thing about Hugh is that he’s a best-selling author.
Not under his own name, of course. Hugh’s nomme de plume is really Amelia Rosewylde, the best-selling romance writer. He writes some of the wittiest, blush-worthy, romance novels this librarian has ever read. It’s a shame that the stuff written under his real name didn’t take off like he’d have hoped for. It was all interesting, but it didn’t have the sparkle that his Amelia stories have.
While Hugh has lived in Marshall for five years now, he was what we lovingly call a recluse. It’s unfortunate that it took the zombie apocalypse to bring him out of his house and his shell, but as a community, we’re glad that he’s with us. Not only is he happy to haul stuff around, but he tells a really good zinger of a tale to boot. Here’s one of them.
Below is a page from the personal diary of the Trumbull County Librarian Jamie McCraren.
Cecily Gunderson (No relation to the park ranger, I checked) and Aaron Hampton are leaving the Valley.
They’re young, “in love”, and more importantly, Cecily thinks that they’ll be able to find a thriving human civilization outside of the Valley, if they just go far enough. Thankfully, she’s not naive enough to believe that Danforth is the answer. We’ve gotten those reports and they aren’t pretty. So, that’s the good news. The bad news is that it means they’re going too far to make it easy for them to come home.
It started casually, as every completely bonkers thing does. One of the players (who’d been part of the community for another game I worked on, many years ago) asked if my tattoo policy was still in place.
“Of course it is,” I said.
Another player asked what that policy was. I replied, “Oh, if you’re crazy enough to get a tattoo related to the game, I’m crazy enough to give you a free copy of each game we do.”
And here we are. That’s really all there is to it, but for those of you asking, here are some guidelines: