Moe Lane's Blog, page 2
September 7, 2025
Finished with the event…
…and drinking my first beer of the weekend. I never drink during a SCA event when I’m doing Field. Too high a risk of me telling somebody Sure, go ahead and put your pavilion there. What could go wrong?
Anyway, it was a nice event. No major problems on my end, and everybody got the space they needed for their stuff. We even got the list fence on-site and then off-site without heartache, so I’m scoring it all as a solid win and I won’t have to do this job again for at least another eight months. Huzzah!
Patreon Microfiction: “High Crimes in Helltown.”
The title “High Crimes in Helltown” needs a little work. And possibly a jaundiced look at its theology. But there are possibilities there.
Patreon!
September 6, 2025
Another long day.
Hot and sunny, right up to the point where the skies opened up. I’m about two-thirds of the way through this weekend, but thankfully the last part isn’t too onerous. We just have to police the site, and get a bunch of things into the storage unit. Hopefully it’ll be straightforward.
Book of the Week: The Hobbit.
Mostly because I have the urge to read JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit again. It’s been a minute since I had. I should indulge myself.
#commissionearned
September 5, 2025
A long day today.
Longer than expected. I think I’m actually going to be doing a bit more work than I thought this weekend. Ach, well, that’s how volunteerism works, sometimes.
September 4, 2025
SCA Event this weekend!
Doing field again, so will be available and not available all weekend. Hopefully won’t have too much to do this go-round, but we’ll see. No promises on posting, either.
Zach Cregger skipping watching RESIDENT EVIL movies before making one.
The man’s… maybe got a point? “Zach Cregger Is Making a RESIDENT EVIL Movie Without Having Seen One, and He Thinks Fans Will Be Stoked.” The RESIDENT EVIL movie series have not really been well received by critics, and the box office on them has been steady but not spectacular. More relevantly, WEAPONS got knocked out of the park, so Hollywood is gonna give him a bigger budget to see whether he can produce a four hundred million dollar movie.
As is the custom of the country.
#commissionearned
09/04/2025 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.
Filling in the blanks continues!
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Unsurprisingly, I didn’t get past the foyer of the Cochimi Ritz. They did send up a bellhop to knock on Banshee’s hotel door with only a minimum of snootiness. The concierge even lost some of the haughtiness when I made it clear I just didn’t care either way. He looked relieved, in fact, which I got. It kind of sucks to be ‘on’ all the time.
The bellhop returned in quick time to announce that “Administrator Wozniak” (I was mildly surprised at the title of nobility) would be descending shortly; it surprised the staff (but not me) to discover that Banshee was most non-aristocratically punctual. It surprised everybody when she gave the concierge a glare. “Was there a reason that Mr. Vargas is not allowed to knock on doors on his own?” she asked him.
I was impressed, honestly. She managed to make the man quaver even without having to threaten indiscriminate violence. “Ah, Dona, we endeavor not to let anyone pass into the guest spaces who is not vouched for,” he managed. “We do not make exceptions.”
“So there was a reason,” she nodded after a moment. “Understood.” The concierge relaxed. “But since I do vouch for Mr. Vargas, surely” (I wondered if I imagined the emphasis there) “such a rigmarole will not be necessary in the future?”
“It’s a foreign word,” I told the concierge as he looked at me in confusion, and I don’t know why, either. “Means ‘embrollo.’”
