The Hat Stand

The head of an advisory body has been forced to resign today, after the Home Secretary, speaking in the Commons, condemned Professor Jasper Looney for conducting committee meetings while wearing a toga, and insisting his colleagues address him as "Editor".

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Despite the unusual circumstances of their meeting, Enosh and Gygax resolved to remain in contact, intending to continue comparing notes on what they now called the Synthesis Field Theory.

Later that year the first unsettling signs of what Enosh would describe as "exterior transmissions" appeared. Soon convinced he was being followed round by a talking crow, eager to impart to him the wisdom of the Meso American Ancients, Enosh transcribed the crow's croaked pronouncements in early notes for The Great Deception.

The buffet browsing of D'n'D
The strange constraints of D&D
The sudden unease of DandD
The constructed chaos of D+D
The astral travel of D'n'D
The touchy feely part of D&D
The relentless cartography of DandD

The constructed trumpets of D+D
The astral trumpets of D'n'D
The touchy constraints of DandD
The sudden trumpets of DandD
The strange chaos of D'n'D
The constructed browsing of DandD
The touchy cartography of D'n'D
The buffet chaos of D+D
The astral constraints of D+D
The relentless chaos of D&D
The strange browsing of D+D
The sudden feely part of D+D

...on his only ethnographic field trip amongst the Jibaro (Shuar) of the Marañon River in Ecuador. Jaded by incessant inter- and intra-tribal warfare, in Jeans' account warriors would relax by moving shrunken heads around a map drawn on a palm frond, representing battles of the past and future.

On publication of his masterwork The Parboiled And The Frankly Overdone, his graduate students began playing the game in the Jardin des Plantes, where they were seen by engineering students from the Ecole des Mines, and the whole sorry tale unfolded with an awful inevitability.

...like everything else. As they were all members of the  same odd little clubs, all the woo woos swore up and down it went back to Ancient Egypt, Atlantis, Lemuria and the stony desert of Leng.

The Demiurge didn't actually create the Cosmos itself: it got consultants in to harrass a management structure it had put in place to execute the business plan. That's how you know the Demiurge was evil

Disaffected members of the technical and management grades of angels implanted a structure into the human brain, the Laxus recumbans, which would make the development of D&D inevitable.