{"id":47271,"date":"2021-04-22T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=47271"},"modified":"2021-04-22T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:42:12","slug":"i-at-once-hastend-to-providence-on-the-rail-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/i-at-once-hastend-to-providence-on-the-rail-road\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I at once hasten&#8217;d to Providence on the rail-road&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtbytheriver.net\/2021\/03\/an-interview-with-alan-warner\/\">there&#8217;s<\/a> an idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Men try to build model railways that are exact miniatures&#8230; &#8216;Crewe 1959&#8217; and so on. [But] there&#8217;s definitely more room for fantasy model railways. I would maybe build The H.P. Lovecraft Line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was never a practitioner in any serious way as a boy, but it&#8217;s still regrettable to hear that the tabletop craft is not being passed down from father to son in the way it once was. It seems destined to join the &#8216;Endangered Traditional Crafts&#8217; red-list. I imagine that one thing that might pep up the appeal for pre-teens would be to cross-breed it with tabletop fantasy-horror RPGs and card-games.  Many might also enjoy a few hours with a &#8216;Providence 1890-1937&#8217; model railway builder-sim PC game, if it&#8217;s chock full of enjoyable Lovecraftian horror elements. Kind of like Sid Meier&#8217;s <em>Railroads<\/em>, but with night-gaunts and tentacles and tunnels under College Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/loverail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/loverail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the meantime the kids have yet another story\/colouring-book heading their way this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/counting-colors-cthulhu-book-kickstarter-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/counting-colors-cthulhu-book-kickstarter-02.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-47273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slightly heavier in tone, there is also a major new tabletop game from the <em>Achtung! Cthulhu<\/em> guys. <em>Against The Gods Themselves<\/em> will be an easy-play story-driven game of time-travelling Nazis, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now there&#8217;s an idea&#8230; Men try to build model railways that are exact miniatures&#8230; &#8216;Crewe 1959&#8217; and so on. [But] &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/i-at-once-hastend-to-providence-on-the-rail-road\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}