Escaped gaming meme: The Apollo Sandwich

[mithriltabby]

For Mage: the Ascension:

Some believe it is a powerful talisman that wards off Paradox.

Some believe that its mere presence can shatter the paradigms that define reality.

All we know is that other people are willing to kill for possession of it, so it must be worth all that bloodshed.

After all, it is the only remaining grilled cheese sandwich prepared with green cheese retrieved by an Apollo mission.

Comments

[palecur.livejournal.com]

That's totally more Unknown Armies than MtA. If you haven't read UA, I commend it highly. Greg Stolze is an amazing game designer -- read Reign if you haven't already for insane amounts of goodness.

[mithriltabby]

Unknown Armies strikes me as a more subtle, Tim Powers-like world, though I could see someone on an Apollo mission having done a ritual tapping the energy of the cliché while cooking a grilled cheese sandwich and the result having exotic properties. The notion of the Moon actually being made of green cheese is more of the “reality is up for grabs” world of Mage.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

A++, would ROFL again.

[mithriltabby]

One has to wonder if there are any interesting patterns in the grilling marks on the sandwich, especially given that Jesus has been known to make appearances on such food.

(Another item that would be fun: the Pareidolia Gun. You move the dial among choices like JESUS • BVM • ALLAH • ELVIS, point it at something, pull the trigger, and the next time a random event could produce patterns on the target, you get that apparition...)

[caprine.livejournal.com]

The Pareidolia Gun is an awesome concept. Permission to post this stuff to metaquotes?

[mithriltabby]

Sure, just link the post here when it’s up.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Here you go (http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/7550367.html).

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

You know...you can buy a kinda stencil mask for toasters that produces the image of Darth Vader on your toast [or grilled cheese].

I'd imagine you could have a set of them too...

[the-weregamer.livejournal.com]

Just too totally apropos a juxtaposition, I just read about the Atomic Cheeseburger...

http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/1956-the-birth-of-the-atomic-cheeseburger

[mithriltabby]

Now that is a tourist destination!

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I know of an engineer who, reputedly, grilled a burger using a parabolic mirror, a iron griddle... and a 20 megaton hydrogen bomb. [from about 20 miles away that is, one of the pacific island tests.]

I wonder if that wasn't where he got the idea though...