David Irving (no relation)

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• Elderly Cynic commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  You (and DeMarquis) have given me a truly horrible brainworm - a Discworld/Laundry crossover called With Strange Aeons....
• AJ (He/Him) commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  I want to read this now....
• Heteromeles commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  A youkai is a spirit, usually evil but not always. The usual plot of youkai stories is that you mustn't engage with the youkai which can at first encounter appear human and even alluring. Refuse their attention, run away and you're normally safe. They can take odd physical forms like a folded umbrella with a single foot that hops after you, or a moving wall. Hmmm. The more general point about yokai versus kami is that kami are more often real in the sense that there are shrines set up for them and they are worshipped. Yokai more often are...
• Howard NYC commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Sack of hammers. That's what comes to mind as I read the last twenty or so entries. Nice to have a non-Western mythos as source material. But it's still a bit elitist. Why not make it something we've had hands on experience? What's missing is eldritch horrors taking over a key aspect of the American identity, that demographic of white male tool user prone towards buying every silly thing sold by the big box stores (Home Depot, etc). So now I want the next entry in the New Management and/or Laundry Saga to include enchanted hammers. A sack of enchanted...
• Heteromeles commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Why not make it something we've had hands on experience? Well, if the Brit-American yokai--gremlins--make a organized break for Freedom* From Cthulhu in America, should the laundry support them? We've got plenty of hands-on experience with gremlins, I think. But would you ally with them against an eldritch horror? Would winning be better? Or worse? *Gremlin Underground Freedom Front, of course....