Moe Lane's Blog, page 162
October 16, 2024
‘Rest In Peace.’
Rest in Peace, Once More With Feeling
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10/16/2024 Snippet, NEVER RETURN.
Getting there.
Patreon!Grimoire House
The Next Morning
“You will forgive me for not explaining my meaning until the sun was in the sky,” I told Curwin. “It is bad, when the dead kill the living. It is even worse when you talk about their crimes where the dead can hear.”
“So that’s what this is, then? A murderous ghost?” Curwin looked dubious, and for good reason. “I am given to understand that such creatures would need to be extremely powerful, and extremely angry. Souls are not supposed to linger on this plane, are they not?”
“They are not.” I suppressed a smile. Marsh had arranged last night to have Curwin liaise with me in this investigation, and I was glad for both the company, and the help. The good lieutenant might not have had any significant magic on his own, but he had a useful grasp of theory. “It is no simple task to resist the pull to Eternity, and no sensible necromancer will allow a soul to linger overlong, for exactly this reason. With the power comes a certain recklessness, and spite. It’s not really the soul’s fault. Well, except for deciding to stay on this plane, I suppose.”
Chapter 11, Part 3 of THE BOLD MARAUDER is up!
My books are good. Buy them, please. (No, seriously).
I’m running numbers today on trying to get into the Annapolis Holiday Market, which is an excellent place to sell stuff… and has table fees to match. I can maybe swing a single day table… but if I want to do all four days, I need more liquidity. A good deal more.
Begging is beneath my dignity, and yours. I will not miss any meals, credit card payments, or even a chance at a future if I don’t do this venue. But: if you like my books, they make great Christmas Day presents. If you haven’t read my books yet, please try them. Thank you.
[EDIT: Just can’t make the numbers work, after all. Ah, well.]
Did college visit stuff with my eldest today.
…So that’s a thing, huh? Yeah, my kid – the one I used to bring along in a stroller to Dizzy City things – is gonna be college-aged next year. Because time, man. Every day, we all get a day older, only it piles up without us noticing.
Ach, well, beats the alternative!
The BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Honest Trailer.
Huh. Apparently BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE wasn’t the load of steaming dung that I was more or less expecting it to be. I mean, Honest Trailers pegged it as being absolutely nostalgia bait, which it was. And they noted that it had been in Development Hell, which it was. And yet, they thought the movie… did what it came to do.
Go figure.
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October 15, 2024
10/15/2024 Snippet, NEVER RETURN.
This wants to be more than 3K, but I shall be firm. For now.
Patreon!At least we had one clue: the identity of our murder victim. “You came damned close, Sunshine,” Marsh told me as he pulled a sloppy folder out of his filing cabinet. “The dear departed was one David Shane. You can probably guess that he was known to the police.”
“If not quite by name,” I observed while opening the file. “Ah. He had an alias.” My eyebrows raised. “Many, many aliases.”
“He was in the sort of business where he’d need a few. Ghostlegger. You familiar with them, Lieutenant?”
“A bit,” Curwin admitted. “We’d get the odd addict from far foreign, looking for their fix of spookweed. Tobacco mixed with ghost-stuff, isn’t it?”
“Yes. Not souls, although ectohuffers would smoke them too, if only the perverts could. Strip a ghost of its old memories, mix the stuff up with whatever street-sweeping baccy’s around, and smoke somebody else’s life away. Hell of a high, I’ve heard the poor bastards say.” Marsh’s frown showed teeth. “Even more of a low, when you haven’t gotten any for a bit.”
The Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition Backerkit.
One of the reasons I can’t afford the Discworld Kickstarter is because I can barely afford the Trail of Cthulhu Backerkit. Which is also a reason why I didn’t try to suck up for money, or anything. I’m picking which toys to save up for!
Again, though: but if you want to buy my books as Christmas gifts for people, well, that would be awesome.
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Tweet of the Day, They Ain’t Wrong edition.
I’ve heard worse coping strategies.
I believe. pic.twitter.com/g3UQoN0X9x
— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) October 15, 2024
Link. The DVDs are expensive, btw.
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The Terry Pratchett’s Discworld RPG: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork Kickstarter.
I link to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld RPG: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork, but I do not back it, because I simply do not have the money at this time to do so. I’m not in financial trouble, but we had extensive and expensive electrical work done last month. Austerity is thus the rule of the day.
Shame, because it looks fun.
Moe Lane
PS: I’m not asking for money, either. I’m not shy about asking for money when I need it. I don’t even remotely need it. But if you want to buy my books as Christmas gifts for people, well, that would be awesome.
