Lampblack Puns

Hi all, just looking for a little inspiration here.

I started with the War in Crow's Foot scenario and did the cursed relic score to start with. It went great but beyond some ideas I had about the truth behind the relic I'm kind of stumped as to what happens next with the war in Crow's Foot. I could leave it to my players to investigate but I'm also conscious that I've put the "Red Sashes destroy the Lampblacks" and "Lampblacks destroy the Red Sashes" on the front page of our Roll20 game. It would feel pretty silly if those clocks kept filling but the PCs had no way to really care about it.

If you have time, please tell me a bit about how you used this starting scenario and where it ended up going after that! Tell me your stories of how these factions did battle and your players got involved. Who did they side with? Who came out on top? What became of Crow's Foot?

Thank you for all your answers :)

My group, the Black Letter, just finished off Season One of their Blades in the Dark game. Early in the game they decided to get a printing press for a cover business. I decided that printing presses were highly controlled by the state and they stole one from a Bluecoat lockup in Whitecrown. They rolled so well during this score the Bluecoats helped them load the printing press onto their boat, and the running joke after this was that they were really an illegal print shop and the smuggler thing was cover for that.

After the printing press caper, the crew decided to throw in with the Crimson Sashes to help in their war with the Lampblacks.

About halfway through Season 1, they decided to get more involved with spooky stuff. One character has been cursed, another has a supernatural disease. They don't have a whisper, instead they have a leech with a sparkcraft fetish. This guy has a big tuning fork weapon he can use to de'ghostify' and electrocute people with. After an especially visceral critical he starts using it to explode people...on purpose. He likes the idea of supernaturally fueled explosions so he starts working on ghostfield grenade technology.

The crew wants the informants upgrade. This score is presented as a recuse mission for an imprisoned journalist. The journalist is being held by a serial killer. I started a clock to see how much of the journalist is left by the time they get there. The leech pulls out his ghost field grenade and throws it down into the cellar to 'spiritually awaken the house' as its filled with ghost field echoes from all the people he's killed. The journalist clock is all the way down, and the explosion goes off with consequence with the specific instruction of 'don't kill the journalist' (addressed to the spiritually awakened house). So now the house is growing teeth and trying to devour the serial killer inside of it, but before it does so it vomits up the journalist- who is now half a torso, an arm, and 3/4 of his head, being kept alive by supernatural forces. Instead of his intended purpose of knowing what's going on by being a muckraking journalist, he is now a supernaturally powered 'oracle of flesh' the group refers to as the 'clue zombie'.

They want to use this spiritual explosion technology to blow up the Lampblack HQ. The container for this explosion is a goat, an especially murderous goat that has eaten an entire family. They keep pumping him full of spiritual essence and drugs while they sneak him into th

Decants, partial or full bottle.

Or anything in the same camp of “odd/unique”

Would also like anything from Rusak greater than 2ml

I came upon The Perilous Wilds, Funnel World and assorted Lampblack & Brimstone DW books just before Google+ shut down. For a brief period G+ was a great way to learn what was going on and share info about this little family of DW hacks.

Recently found myself (like many of us) with more free time and noticed that the Freebooters 2e Playtest files had been updated presumably with Jason having found some time to work on it. However aside from recent YouTube streams of “From Funnel to Freebooters” I’m not sure how to re-engage with this sub-community (if one still exists).

Anyone know? Or has the DW-hack community moved on?

So. Bruno Fazzolari of Fzotic did a very lovely thing last month. He created a program to encourage sampling three of his fragrances and while also sharing those choices with a friend. In other words, Bruno shipped two Palette Sets for the price of one and included an $18 voucher for purchase of a full bottle. All in the name of connection during this period of extreme disconnect.

Never one to say no to a total bargain, I purchased four scent bridge sets for four of my best girlfriends and had them choose the fragrances. Across all four sets, my friends have chosen to sample the following: Five, Monserrat, Vetiverissimo, Lampblack, Au Delà Narcisse, and Unsettled.

This is the review for Lampblack.

Lampblack and I have a long-term love affair. In fact, it was one of the first recommendations made to me by a now .comrade on this very subreddit. Lampblack was in no small part the cause of my headlong, deep-dive into the world of niche perfumes specifically because I had never to the date of our introduction known that something could smell so dark, elegant, and so perfectly composed as to be almost impossible to wrap my mind around picking out individual notes versus how those notes are transformed, together, into an entirely different smell.

So, what are those notes, exactly?

>Top: bitter grapefruit, black pepper

>Middle: c/o Bruno, “spice and smoke notes that recall ink or tar mingled with the citrus in colorful darkness”

>Base: dry woods, nagarmotha, vetiver, and benzoin

Frankly, I have no touchstones for nagarmotha or benzoin. So if you asked me to tell you when they appear, I could not. I can, however, confirm the grapefruit and black pepper. The former is both lightly sweet as well as a touch skunky, in that way that peeled grapefruit rind can imitate marijuana or flop sweat. Lightly, sweetly animalic. The black pepper adds to the sparkling citrus, elevating it and adding an appealing spiciness that buoys these top notes above the surging and dark middle notes of tar and ink.

While this fragrance doesn’t send me back to any memories, it smells familiar (and was once compared by a friend and colleague to Hermes’ Eau de Merveilles) and it does spark my imagination.

To me, this scent creates an atmosphere that is verging on Dickensian: of a night-capped man handwriting a great work of fiction in a cold and drafty room with ink-stained fingers; foraged, creosote-treated wood burning in the fireplace; the room spangled wi

Lampblack or Yellow Pine charcoal for Senko Hanabi sparklers? Also, does anyone have any experience purchasing from fireworkscookbook.com? Thanks!

When I first heard the title “Lampblack,” I was expecting something bitter, smokey, soot-ridden. A dark, dry creation in the same vein as Nasomatto’s Black Afgano.

What I got instead was something rather more balanced, a fragrance that takes well-known materials and uses them in a deliberate, considered, intelligent fashion. Is it a masterpiece? No. But it’s definitely art. A sort of commentary on an idea that I have long held dear: a fragrance need not be radical to be beautiful. Instead, all that is required is the clear, thorough expression of a concept or idea. Lampblack certainly accomplishes that.

The fragrance opens with citrus, a kind of lemony grapefruit note that doesn’t really veer to far into cliché “yuzu” territory (thankfully). It then sinks effortlessly to a Russian leather accord, underlaid with a fascinating ingredient that I remember from when I first started working with natural fragrance isolates: the strange, smokey South Indian resin known as “nagarmotha” (perhaps less commonly known as “cypriol”). The stuff smells like pitch, leather, and dirty hair, and is one of those tragically underused ingredients in modern perfumery that saw a lot of use years ago when perfume consumers had rather less……….starchy tastes. The leather is coupled with what is either high-grade vetiver oil (or perhaps vetiveryl acetate) coupled with methyl cedryl ketone to create a woody, earthy tone that deepens the leather’s complexity and richness.

After the leather and nagarmotha fade to a more moderate volume, the perfume develops a peculiar, almost screechy norlimbanol note (used by perfumers to create the smell of dryness). I personally don’t care for the ingredient in large quantities as I find it almost always overpowering (which it is here), and it lasts for quite some time in the drydown of Lampblack. However, once it mostly burns away, we’re left with a pleasant, leathery, mildly peppery skin scent that lasts for several hours. Overall, the fragrance is a well-constructed, unpretentious, methodically-considered commentary on the use of various materials common in perfumery. Despite some minor shortcomings, it’s really well-done stuff.

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Hello! Hope everyone's having a nice weekend. This is my first post on this sub, but I visit it frequently. I've been wearing fragrance since I was maybe 14 or 15, but only began having more than one at a time in early 2020, around when the pandemic hit. My love for fragrance has clearly skyrocketed in the past year, and I've thoroughly enjoyed researching, blind buying, and sampling my way to finding the type of fragrances that I like. My first fragrance ever was Lagerfeld by Karl Lagerfeld, it was my dad's and I wore it for a few years. My first solo purchase was Comme des Garçons 2 Man, a beautiful incense vetiver, which I finished a bottle of and went on to buy Comme des Garçons Wonderwood which I LOVE (though I haven't finished it yet).

From there, I blind bought a lot of well respected cheaper fragrances such as Encre Noire and l'Eau Bleue d'Issey, and then started sampling more at department stores at the mall as things began slowly reopening. However, once I discovered two niche perfumeries in my city, I fell in love with the idea of fragrance as art. I haven't shaken the niche bug since, and I'm happy that niche fragrance takes up a lot of my collection.

In general, I love more unisex scents, but I don't have a specific type, apart from having a strong love for fragrances that resemble nature. I'll try anything though, especially unique ones!

I've come to find that some of my favorite notes are Cedar, Vetiver, Oud, Fig, Incense, Juniper, Anise, Floral notes, and Black Pepper. I'm still not the best at describing fragrances (currently looking for a way/place to smell essential oils of different notes), but if anyone wants to know my opinion on one I'll do my best!

Here's my collection (by section, back to front, left to right):

Left Section (my favorites):

Caron Pour un Homme de Caron

Caron Yatagan

Zoologist Moth

Balenciaga Florabotanica

Diptyque Eau Duelle

Diptyque l'Ombre Dans l'Eau

Tauer l'Air du Desert Marocain

Serge Lutens Le Participe Passé

Serge Lutens Baptême du Feu

A Lab On Fire Hossegor

DS & Durga Debaser

DS & Durga Cowboy Grass

Fzotic Lampblack

Kerosene R'Oud Elements

Also have a Diptyque Sample Set on the left! This is one of my favorite brands for sure.

Upper Right Section:

Etat Libre d'Orange I am Trash

Imaginary Authors The Cobra and The Canary

Etat Libre d'Orange Jasmin et Cigarette

Etat Libre d'Orange Une Amourette

Le Labo Santal 33

Tom F

Phil

As I have been running a Cult for a couple of weeks, and have found myself like many others in a "what the hell am I supposed to do with a Cult?" kind of situation, I searched but surprisingly did not find that many Cult directed Score ideas.

So I'm just giving the little stuff that I managed to gather and create, hoping it'll help someone else and maybe others can share their ideas too.

- Another cult or an enemy faction is spreading false (or not) rumours about your Cult. Already, a couple of your contacts have been arrested because bluecoats think the rumours true, or they've been bribed to do so, or some other reason. What do you do?

- Cults are social gangs. You need to promote your Religion, not too openly, since the Church of Ecstasy of the Flesh is the only legal church in Doskvol, but u still need patrons and followers. Maybe you make a demonstration of your God's power? You make a charitable event. You go around terrorizing the neighbourhood and making sure everyone comes to pay their protection money.

- A "friendly" bluecoat approaches you and says he knows that your Cult hates another one (Cult or Faction). He also has some personal grudge against them. If you manage to find some evidence, he'll make sure it makes its way up the ladder and into the magistrates' hands. This one works for any sort of Crew.

- Bluecoats or Spirit Wardens are investigating you activities because of your spirit related or other illicit actions. You need to cover up your activity or somehow get them to stop putting their nose where they don't belong.

- A masked person comes and says he's willing to pay a some good money if you sacrifice someone to your god/let him kill a usual patron to the temple while he expects it the least. You do not know that person's motives.

- Another Cult has in their head that your Religion is blasphemy to their god. You cannot coexist with their deity, and thus they attack one of you places, murder a bunch of you acolytes, burn your temple, make some propaganda. You have to deal with it.

- A gang comes back from the dagger isles and wants their Turf back. You're on it. They're tough, but you can't just let go of your temple and your place, can you ?

- A faction/person has some blackmail on you, and need a job done.

- A person wants your cult to do the death ceremony for someone (son, wife, daughter, etc). He is faithful, you know him. You need to find the materials to make the ritual of passage (if it fits), as well as

Does anyone else sort of fall for the factions in Blades in the Dark and not want any of them to be irredeemably evil?

Sudden Lee

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.