Moe Lane's Blog, page 118
December 6, 2024
Well, *that* was an unexpectedly generous cocktail crawl.
I didn’t drink (well, except for the margarita, but that was just one drink anyway) much, but the restaurants doing this cocktail crawl thing weren’t shy about giving you a plate of food. Good stuff, too, not pigs-in-a-blanket or anything. Clearly they wanted us going, Hey. We should come back here and have a real dinner, and they will no doubt be pleased to hear that it absolutely worked.
Just not tonight: the thing ended at 8 PM, and I am morally certain that every restaurant in that little complex we were at is still packed to the gills, rafters, and/or the bursting point.
Moe Lane
PS: Part of me is now wondering whether I should have a little whiskey, since I’m home and don’t need to drive anywhere. Another part of me is wondering whether I should have a rather larger whiskey. It’s a puzzler.
Doing a food/drink walkabout thing tonight…
…which we will of course have to pace ourselves on, because I am not twenty-five anymore and neither is my wife. But that’s all right. When we were that young we couldn’t afford stuff like this. Remember your advantages, is what I say.
But expect a quiet night here.
Tweet of the Day, I Suspect Nobody Ever Explained This One edition.
I’m with @ZODIAC_MF that there are more immediately and genuinely traumatizing things out there, but the scenario presented in the video below made me laugh out loud. So there’s that.
I think Mr Sunday Movies description of this scene was the best. Couldn't stop laughing. pic.twitter.com/REmS6Fkf0u
— Stu Miley(@Thank_you_Herb) December 5, 2024
December 5, 2024
Doing prices for the FERMI RESOLUTION WORLDBOOK TTRPG.
These are the numbers that I’m thinking of for the FERMI RESOLUTION TTRPG:
Softcover, Large, Regular Color$29.95Hardcover, Large, Regular Color$34.95Digital File$14.95I have to think of them now because I need to come up with pledge levels for the Backerkit (it’d be awesome if you signed up for notifications for that, by the way). The book will be about 150 pages, and have a bunch of art. Do these numbers feel right to you? It’s a self-contained book using the GUMSHOE rules.
12/05/2024 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.
Information!
Patreon!“Depends, compa… Shamus. I mean, maybe there’s some simoleons in it for me if I figure it out?”
“Maybe there would be,” I promptly agreed. “Lucas?”
The look Lucas gave me at that was anything but blank. Dirty as hell, in fact. He still didn’t bobble as he pulled out a bankroll and peeled off some monroes. But when Bananas reached for them, Lucas smoothly raised his money-laden hand out of reach. “So, hey, friend. Do you know what happens when an Adventurer pays for information and then somebody tries to welch out of it?”
“Ah… no?” offered Bananas.
Lucas smiled. Technically. “Are you eager to find out?”
12/05/2024 Snippet, PICKMAN’S MODELS.
We really need to get this one to bed. The other one, too.
Patreon!He wasn’t the only one disquieted by their surroundings. “Twisty passages, all alike,” he heard Buckley mutter at one point. “Bo– sir, I think that a lot of this is fresh.”
“Fresh?” asked Reithner. She was still steadier than Tobias had expected. Possibly even steadier than he was. “You think these people still have enough energy to dig? Without machines, no-one would waste calories on that.” She sniffed. “Even with machines, what would be the point?”
Tobias’s light unfortunately found a metal plate that had been hung on the wall. Dimly-remembered and particularly unwelcome memories let him recognize the stylized features of Madam Corpse-Mask.This etching had been done by somebody with real skill, somehow managing to evoke both her skeleton body, and the flayed sacrificial face she wore. The outlined horror almost glowed, even after he hastily moved his light elsewhere. Was there a hint of it still on his retinas? Surely not.
“If these people are Red Imperial cultists, Lieutenant,” he managed to say calmly, “then we should try not to understand their point. We might succeed.”
IF YOU LIVE ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST MOVE YOUR ASS EAST *NOW*. [Updated]
[UPDATE: Alert canceled. Not a ‘false alarm,’ mind you. The West Coast just got lucky, that’s all.]
Just go.
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 5, 2024
#BREAKING: Tsunami Warning has been issued for the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast
“YOU ARE IN DANGER. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now.”
Reports of sirens sounding… pic.twitter.com/Eb64NhHp6s
Via @iowahawkblog. It looks like mostly Northern California is in trouble but DO NOT GO LOOK AT THE WAVES.
8 minutes from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM.
I will not lie: this matches my aesthetic. I make no judgements if it does not match yours. What I like is what I like, and what you like is what you like, and it’s all groovy. My wife and I are still gonna go see THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM as soon as it comes out. It will be a whole thing.
December 4, 2024
It’s the last hours of the Tom Vargas Mysteries Kindle sale!
Now is the time to grab the deal! Ninety-nine cents each of postapocalyptic fantasy detective goodness, until tomorrow morning!
#commissionearned
