The Murderer in the Wine Cellar!

The 1996 White Burgundies are dying young.

As Tim Powers demonstrated so well wine is an excellent source of fantastic possibilites, one I've used successfully in the past (my best LARP is still the occult wine tasting I ran ten years ago -- wow that was a longtime ago I should do something like that again). So whenever I hear stories like that I immediately want to get out my notebook and scribble some ideas down for a game.

A quick google tells me that 1996 was the death of former President François Mitterand. Now Mitterand was the president who was in power when France's socialism experiment pretty much up and died and the crazy French conservatives started getting power. Mitterand had a pretty monarchial flavor and one could simply tie the death of the wine to a memorial of his kingship. Or maybe its something deeper....

Wiki woes

Both Tantaene animis caelestibus irae and Age of Paranoia are regularly hit by wiki-spammers, but recently they seem to be getting more and more inventive in it. Its getting very annoying the amount of times I'm doing page restores.

I wonder if this is endemic to all wikis or if bryant really pissed off some spammers at some point and they come gunning for him.