Moe Lane's Blog, page 154
November 1, 2024
The Dropbox link to the v.80 copy of the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION RPG.
I was talking about my FERMI RESOLUTION RPG to one of the con goers at Doxicon today, and I told him I’d put a link to it up on my website. Here it is! It’s not ready for commercial release yet, but maybe next year. Enjoy!
11/01/2024 NotAWriMo, BANSHEE BEACH: 1710/52164.
And so it begins. This is going to jump around ferociously, by the way: I have whole sections that go [write this later]. Well… it’s later.
Patreon!Earl knew his stuff; and what he didn’t know, his wife had picked up for him. Between the two of them, and their apparently endless supply of kids, we had the coach unpacked and hidden away in no time. And I mean unpacked, and I definitely mean us. I didn’t wait for somebody to help with my bags, and neither did David and Patricia. I even grabbed Lucas’s for him, since he had gravitated towards helping get the horses back all the way down to just a little crazy.
His frown got bigger and bigger as we all worked, especially when Lucas noticed how we were all just a little frantic about it. “Y’all were looking in the wrong places,” he murmured to me as we pushed the coach the rest of the way into the barn. “The broomers landed twenty minutes ago, but you kept looking up, instead of south.”
“And what does that tell you, Lucas?”“That I was looking in the wrong place. You gotta take it seriously when the locals do something you don’t expect, Tom. They always know the area better than you. That’s why they’re the locals.”
I am at Doxacon!
BEHOLD!
…Behold? pic.twitter.com/ToSnZlbxQn
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) November 1, 2024
(Second try on the tweet.)
October 31, 2024
The Chapbook Halloween Kindle Sale ends Saturday!
Two more days at 99 cents! Five four-story chapbooks, each with illustrations. Perfect for Halloween! Pick them up today!
…By the way, I got reminded today that I’m very lucky to get to do all of this. Thank you.
#commissionearned
The ‘negative interest now’ VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE BLOODLINES 2 trailer.
Yeah. The mantra is ‘no preorder,’ and I can sorta see why. This game screams ‘development Hell,’ the character faces and skins would have looked good in 2016, and there’s just something obnoxious about trying to make a Nosferatu look winsome. I don’t even mean the transgender thing. The World of Darkness has incorporated that stuff since long before it was trendy. But male, female, nonbinary, whatever: Nosferatu are supposed to be ugly. It’s the bloody, ha, point of that Clan.
I’d be looking for a refund from Steam, except I don’t think I can get one without wasting yet more of my precious time, which is worth more than the money I’d get back. Which basically would make my playing VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE BLOODLINES 2 an example of the sunk cost fallacy. I’d be better off just writing the whole thing off as a gambling expense, except that I can’t even do that.
So, hey! I guess they win. Well done, folks. Well freaking done.
The October Patreon stuff is up!
Yes, we are going a bit early today. As the poet said: “Prepare the viands, prepare the foods, prepare the strange wines, for tonight is indeed a great night!”
…Well, hopefully nothing so dramatic as what happened after, but still.
Patreon!Behold!
Short Story: The Goblin. Fair warning: it’s both short, and fairly horrible. I’m not really sorry about either.RPG Material: The Cunning Land: Introduction. This is the start of the new project. I wanted to see if I could fit the entire premise of the game world in a children’s poem. Let me know if it worked!Poem: Halloween 2024. Just for fun.#commissionearned
I am in the SPSFC 4 contest!
SPSFC being the Self-Published Science Fiction Contest. I have entered GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND for it, as it is in fact science fiction (also, cosmic horror). Do I expect winnage? I have no idea! I am proud of this book, though, and I hope it does well.
Also, that this whole thing drives a few sales, but you knew that going in.
#commissionearned
Happy Halloween!
It’s gonna be eighty degrees here, which is disappointing, but at least my kids won’t freeze. Eldest will be giving out candy, youngest will be out getting it. I’ll be… probably finishing up stuff and doing the odd bit of spooky-related activity. I should also figure out dinner. Maybe we’ll do takeout…
Light posting this weekend. Doxacon looms.
