The Poetry Corner - The Strangest Pages

The paper robots are under construction, Daniel has written multiple half finished pieces and the blog lives. I assure you that all these promises we've made you still stand true. It is just a matter of time before we shower you with this promised material.

This drought of content makes me even happier to introduce a new feature; The Poetry Corner. Bringing you some wicked-sweet verse from our new resident poet Parr, The Poetry Corner will set to lift you up, bring you down and everywhere in between.

The Strangest Pages

there are too many secrets
in this house, hiding under unsuspecting
Doormats, and clasped between
Dusty pages of books we have not touched
For years
They linger mischievously between sheets
And pillows and the words whispered
Between my parents in the dead of night
They lie in the words of my grandmothers'
Poetry, flashing like beacons
Waiting to be seen.

'Phantom Capsule' - Striking right at my mecha / papercraft orientated achilles heel.

A bit of a shift of tone from the ultra seriousness of previous posts here. As the title suggests, I have something of a weakness to anything involving giant robots or working with card and although I've never considered the possibility of tabletop gaming in the past, I've stumbled across a little something called 'Phantom Capsule', a cutesy table top strategy game that involves making all the pieces, getting your team of freshly made (minature) giant robots out there and beating up (minature) giant monsters using gameplay mechanisms so simple you can drag your ever humouring other half into it and she might just enjoy herself.

'cuteness' is an appealing factor thrown into the already unusual crossover of interests

Hopefully the experience of making and playing will live up to my childishly giddy expectations, so look foward to a review if I can drag some people to a kitchen table covered in a little, paper battlefield.