Café de Nuit

(Excerpts from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Mountains of Madness, Darkon, Aug. 6, 742 BC)
Two days of searching turned up a tiny cave inside the mountainside expertly hidden by dyed linen covering, though it was remarkably lacking in any clues. Even postcognition turned up nothing beyond ...

Not wholly related to this thread, but I believe this site has been getting scraped by LLM (it's not AI) because at the time of this post there are >6,000 "guests" visiting. "Scraping" is where the glorified chatbots scour sites for art and text to "train" AGI. It's also what causes the same to ...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Draper, UT, Oct. 3, 2011)
I admit, I needed that break from everything. When Kyra and I weren't reaffirming our love for each other, we were just being...normal. No OSA, no BSAA, no supernatural or existential threats, just living like normal ...

Ugh, finally got around to editing the entry on the Rainbow Serpent. I'll give credit where it's due: my discovery of the Apollonian oracle Trophonos originally came from the Vampire: The Requiem book Mythologies . Some basic research online uncovered his apprentice, Trophonios. I do believe they're ...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Draper, UT, Sept. 11, 2011)
Winters has ordered me to take a vacation. As a medical officer, she has the authority and I can't disagree with her decision. After another day of yet another UN bureaucrat trying to convince me to back a motion that ...

I won't watch. Not just because I don't have a Netflix account but because I've been sorely disappointed by every adaptation the company puts out. Even if they start out good, they fall apart under "executive decisions" to change things to "increase mass appeal" within one or two seasons at most ...

Okay, something wonky is going on with this site. I posted a new entry into The Lost Journals three days ago and the site has since deleted it, yet not deleted the draft I used to finish it. Then there's all those Russian spam posts lately. Is everything okay on the backend?


I think we have ...

Okay, something wonky is going on with this site. I posted a new entry into The Lost Journals three days ago and the site has since deleted it, yet not deleted the draft I used to finish it. Then there's all those Russian spam posts lately. Is everything okay on the backend?

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Draper, UT, Aug. 29, 2011)
I feel like I've spent the last three weeks in a total haze. Paperwork, meetings, home. Every single day, the same thing: fill things out, tell the bureaucrats what they want to hear even if it means absolutely nothing ...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Draper, UT, Aug. 2, 2011)
In looking at what we did and didn't do in Nohoro, Kyra and I came to the same conclusion: we've had it too easy in this world when it came to confronting the supernatural. When it's just us or with Brianna and Maxine, we ...

(Excerpt from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Nohoro, Japan, July 31, 2011)
It's been two days since I last wrote and we've been busy searching every building in the town, as well as shutting down anything left on and otherwise cleaning things up out of respect for the dead. The authorities ...

This post is in response to some yahoos on YouTube who keep trying to argue that writing prompts for "AI art" makes them artists. Especially on Den of the Drake's videos. I post there under the name Ernest Lemmingway and I wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that using LLM to create the end ...

I can't believe how long it's been since I posted here.

This post is in response to some yahoos on YouTube who keep trying to argue that writing prompts for "AI art" makes them artists. Especially on Den of the Drake's videos. I post there under the name Ernest Lemmingway and I wholeheartedly ...

(Excerpts from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Mordentshire, Mordent, July 12, 742 BC)
The stellae I found turned out to be legends of the "Blade of Endless Woes." When their craftsmen first discovered how to smelt iron they began experimenting using it to bind spirits, noting how "some forms ...

(Excerpts from the journals of Alexander Dreamfire, Mordentshire, Mordent, July 10, 742 BC)
Research into the creature hasn't been as productive as I'd hoped. When I'm not treating various wounds that the farmers suffer in their daily work, the town's records are severely lacking while even the ...