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The Oddly Realistic WE BURY THE DEAD trailer.

Here is a truth about zombie movies: you have to really work to make shamblers deadly dangerous to the survivors. I mean… they’re dead. Yes, they’re walking around, but they’re slow, they’re clumsy, and it’s useful that they’re relentless but they’re also damned stupid. You gotta make their joints indestructible, have them only be vulnerable to headshots, or at least make the zombie virus super-super-infectious.

I dunno yet, but I don’t think WE BURY THE DEAD has really dangerous-to-civilization zombies in it. So maybe it’s just about how messed up the whole situation is? That sounds kind of interesting.

10/01/2025 Snippet, BRAVING THE MALSTORM.

Yes, I’m as surprised as you are to be actually getting work done on the first of the month.

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We didn’t get fireballed at that point, or ever, so I guess there was never a Dominion handler to cast mind-reading spells. Or maybe there was, and he got eaten on the way? That’d be a fine outcome, too. When it comes right down to it: we hate the Dominion so much, it’s not good for us. Especially since we don’t really feel bad about it, either.

But I, as they say, digress. The point was, I made the hole just big enough for the rampager to slam into it, right up to its armpits. From the way it started pushing back, it was now well and truly stuck.

That was when I discovered the flaw in my plan.

See, the rampager could still shove stuff around, and you can push a wave through solid objects. Sure, you’ll be breaking bricks and beams in the process, but so what? It’ll all be going away from you! …And right in the faces of the little bastards who ground you down into a warehouse when you were just trying to ravage a town in peace. So what’s the downside?

10/01/2025 Snippet, SEVEN FLAGS (Part 2).

I have a bunch of half-finished Fermi Resolution stories to work on… and when they’re done, I will have a new TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION anthology to crowdfund! That’s like getting paid twice. Getting paid twice is awesome.

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Liza was pleased to discover that she was wrong. Running them all of them ragged, then right into the ground the next day did work on Marcus, too. It was almost embarrassing, until she remembered that not every orc was up to Legion standards. If they had been, the Legion just would have raised the standards. You had to train hard, if you wanted to get the hard jobs.

She did take it easy on the two humans (Cabot actually kept up better than Marcus did), but not by much. This wasn’t legionary training, where you started out by screaming the stupid out of the new recruits. Everybody in the group was a combat veteran, and the ones who weren’t soldiers had still been trained in a very hard, unforgiving school. They just needed a shove or two in the rear to get their heads in gear.

And if there’s one thing that orcs were good at, it was shoving things.

‘Sinnerman’ (And THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR).

Re-upping this. Also: let’s make THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR the movie of the week, shall we? Yes. Let’s.

Sinnerman, Nina Simone

#commissionearned

It is the end of the month, and I am SLAGGED.

As is traditional for the end of the month. But, hey, it’s almost October! The first real month of fall, with two conventions and Halloween at the end. Huzzah!

Oh! I got some maps back for the Fermi Resolution RPG adventure.

That’s another thing I need to work on in October. Anyway, here’s one of them.

They’re not battlemaps; GUMSHOE isn’t a tactical game, honestly. A simple ruin will, as they say, do. You can buy the game here. Please do, in fact. I make a good bit of money off of selling them.

The September Patreon stuff is up!

Finally. It’s been a weird month.

Anyway…

Fiction: Ironghosts (Full). Finally finished this Fermi Resolution story! There’s a Liza story that I want to work on for next month, too.Roleplaying Game Material: Fall of the Twenty Realms, Part 2: Uncertain History. Setting the scene, as it were.Patreon!

The THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Honest Trailer.

Honest Trailers had precisely the same reaction that I did towards THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS: “It didn’t suck! It didn’t suck! Praise God in Heaven, it didn’t suck.”

…It is a measure of how bad previous Fantastic Four movies have been that we’re reacting like this. This wasn’t a bar to clear; it was an inset floor reinforcement to step over. And yet somehow nobody’s managed this before.

‘Drunken Lullabies.’

Drunken Lullabies, Flogging Molly

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