You see an orc armed with a battleaxe…

This great shot was taken by @Hishgraphics and comes from Cubicle 7’s The Laundry RPG.

Gareth Hanrahan’s tabletop isn’t a D&D fantasy at all, but a game based Charles Stross’ The Laundry Files in which a secret British agency battles to keep the world safe from Cthulhu like forces. It uses the Basic Role-Playing (BRP) system and has that dry sense of humour you might well expect.

The orc is moved by your rhetoric. Casting his battleaxe aside, he sits down on the chest and invites you to join him in a brain-storming session about ways to revitalise the decaying subterranean infrastructure and society of the dungeon, perhaps with a –