Ah, fuck I miss the goons, too. I still log in every couple of years or so. It’s sort of like walking down a street you used to live on. It’s all still familiar, but nothing is really the same.

Yes! And the ambiguity means the DM doesn’t have to decide which it is until the players have deduced certain facts.

I feel like there might be interesting ways to deal with it. Perhaps the mass killing of neutrals only ever happened the first time, which could have been many generations ago and under singular circumstances. Since then, only the odd one here or there ever dies during the purge. Perhaps it’s been decades or centuries since anyone died to the purge, reinforcing belief in it’s effectiveness as a basis for a pure society. It may have been so long that people wonder whether the purge is even real, or just a traditional ceremony carried out annually based on old myths. Then one year, it wipes out half the city. The party investigates?

Girlfriend at the time noticed this on my phone and had some choice questions for me.

It’s a bit before my time, but I believe this is microfilm. I still see these at the library but I’ve never had any reason to use one.

“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true…”