Anybody else?

So this morning, I’m cleaning my glasses like always, and PLINK! the left lens falls out!

Not far to fall, just a couple inches into the sink, so it doesn’t break. But it also isn’t fixable with stuff I have around the house, because the screw holding the templepiece together has snapped. Not a tremendous problem; most places that sell glasses will fix this sort of thing for free, and there’s a LensCrafters on the way to work. I go upstairs and get my old glasses that I keep as a backup.

They’re filthy from not having been worn in five years, so I take them downstairs to the sink and wash them, and PLINK! the left lens falls out!

At least this pair is fixable with the small screwdriver in my Leatherman. So, fix, eat breakfast, get dressed, go into Manhattan, stop off at LensCrafters, go to work, tell my co-worker about it.

Turns out that his left contact lens had fallen out that morning.

“Pretty tasty, but — crazy!”

Thanks to lumpley, I’ve heard about The Shab-al-Hiri Roach, a narrativist RPG set among the faculty of a small northeastern college in 1919, that asks the question Are you willing to swallow a soul-eating telepathic insect bent on destroying human civilization if it will get you tenure?

Not cool enough for you? How ’bout this: No gamemaster. Also, you can play a full campaign in a single session of three or four hours.

Still not enough? OK, check out this two-page ad in comic form: Page 1, page 2.

Or just go download the draft version in PDF format for free. (The final version should go on sale in a week or two from Bully Pulpit Games.)