The ingredients for a revamped game chef challenge have been announced - the theme is intrigue, the ingredients fleur-de-lis, dividers, seabird, and star.

These brought to mind a game concept that had struck me several months back from reading Charles Fort-

things that fall from the sky – rockets sent up in 1930s experimental launches literally get stuck in the sky, proving the truth of charles fort’s theories that space is gelatinous, that interplanetary vessels sometimes unload ballast above the earth, that carrion from the clash of alien dreadnaughts have rained upon us, that invisible planets roam the solar system like tramp freighters, that organic and inorganic materials from on and off earth hang suspended in the sky in a high sargossa sea of variable gravity, that the earth -contra Galileo – does not move, that the moon and planets are small and alarmingly close, and that stars are pores in a substance leading who knows where

star, divider (between worlds), and seabird (stuck in gelatinous upper atmosphere?) seem to fit well. Depending on what/ who characters are and what they do, intrigue could work as well.

I haven’t thought about a game system much so I’m almost starting from scratch, just the concept and a page of quotes from the complete books of charles fort.

I’ll need to look at more of the game chef badges to see if I want to shoot for any.