Another RPG Bundle - Indie Treasure Trove 2022

Another bundle of indie games from a wide variety of small-press sources. These are usually interesting and cover a wide range of genres - in this case SF, fantasy, "magitech", duelling fops, etc.:

( Indie Treasure Trove 2022 )

This looks to be an interesting selection - I think that the one that interested me most was Girl Underground, which sends a young girl on a quest inspired by Alice, Labyrinth, and other sources, with all of the players taking turns to play her or the creatures she meets. Duelling Fops of Vindamere is a fun system for players who want to play irresponsible idiots with swords. Mage to Order's version of magitech reminded me of the novel Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove. And so forth. All of them are well worth a look and I recommend this one - but as usual have to point out that I get freebies if I want them, if you don't you may prefer to go for individual titles rather than these bundles.

Fanfic - Worm / The War of the Worlds - The Martian Chapter 2

The first chapter is archived on these sites:
On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=33872
On AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/39112812
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14083560/1/The-Martian

See chapter I for disclaimers.

( II: Not Quite Total Recall )

Update - made a couple of small changes to the last few lines, for plot purposes in later chapters.

Comments please before I post to archives. Before anyone asks, I'm deliberately using US English spelling for dialogue etc.