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March 18, 2009: Richard Is Illuminated

Where do old pyramids go when their time on Earth is done?  This one indulged in one last bit of farewell mind control, channeling itself through Richard Kerr. By energizing the latent powers of his brain and reflecting the resultant highly tuned cerebral rays off a piece of conveniently located space junk (and here you all thought that satellite collision was an accident), it was able to reprogram the genomes of all the hamsters in the northern 40% of Utah. Its reasons for this have not become clear.

Then Richard put it in the dumpster.


-- Steve Jackson


Warehouse 23 News: 101 Ways To Keep On Travellin'

If you've got a Traveller game going, you've got a whole galaxy to fill. And all it takes is one wrong turn in deep space to throw your group of intrepid space travellers off your beaten path and onto the road to the planet "Um, Now What?" Problem's simple, but the answer's simpler: BITS. The British Isles Traveller Support line is filled with encounters and cargoes and . . . well, just lots of things you can use to populate an area in a hurry. Best of all? It works with darn near any version of Traveller. Heck, it even works outside the British isles!



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