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11/19/2025 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH (88K words)

We are getting there!

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The rest of the day was a whole bunch of nothing, but the useful kind. There was an Old American philosopher that once said that the worst kind of unknowns were the ones you didn’t know you didn’t know. After checking around the seamier sides of town, the beach, and the backs of the hotels (a waiter’s gotta smoke somewhere), at least we knew more about what we didn’t know.

“No signs of monster attacks, not really,” Lucas summarized as we betrayed Dory’s trust some more with another round of room service. “At least, nothing like yakopvils. No rash of disappearances. Nobody else getting a whammy thrown at them, either.”

“See, that last one’s the scary part,” I told him while answering the door. Speaking of room service. I hoped Dory would appreciate how I was giving her something new and exciting to yell at me about. “People don’t just wake up suddenly knowing how to throw a whammies,” I pointed out as I wheeled the cart inside. “You gotta train up for it. If there’s somebody out there doing it…”

“…then when did they learn?” Lucas nodded. “And who did they learn it on? Most importantly, why were they trying to use that learning on you?”

These were all good questions, and I didn’t have any answers to fit. “It might have been a Sonoran,” I suggested. “A lot of them decided the other side of the Gulf was great place to be during the invasion, and they haven’t all moved back yet.”

“Maybe,” conceded Lucas. “Do they throw whammies?”

“Not really. But if one of them was doing it, only in somewhere like Guaymas, we’d never know, right?”

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Feeling better, looking worse.

Icky worse, not sicky worse. Anyway, the drugs are working, and it’s time for bed. But buy some books, will ya? I’m forty two bucks and change away from a sales milestone on Amazon.

The Distinctly Odd STARBRIGHT trailer.

The STARBRIGHT trailer was… not what I was expecting. They’re calling it action fantasy, and I was assuming that meant flashing swords and whatnot. Not automatic weapons fire.

Mind you, I’m not saying no.

11/18/2025 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.

Finally figured out how to loop characters back in.

I was surprised that Lucas was willing to go with me to City Hall and look up the records about St. Joannes Mission, until we got there and I realized the joke. There weren’t any. There was barely a City Hall.

Oh, sure, there was a building, right next to the police station. It was very pretty, and very, very empty. “Red Beach does things different here,” Lucas told me, as smugly as if he’d known all about it himself for longer than a couple of days. “No baron, no mayor, not even a local warlord. There’s a board of three people who meet once a quarter, agree that everything’s going fine, then have a nice meal on the taxpayer simoleons before going home.”

I looked around the board/dining room. It was all very tasteful, very solid, and blander than a Mormon pudding. “Gotcha. Who’s the rich bastard who actually runs this town?”

“Ha! That’s what I said.” Lucas shook his head, grinning. “That’s the funny bit. There isn’t anybody. At least, not anymore. The rich bastard who was running things died a few weeks ago. You’ll recognize the name, too.”

Check out OPERATION: CRIMSON GIFT on Backerkit [Night’s Black Agents]

I’m not getting this, because I already have this in hardcover.

Check out Operation: CRIMSON GIFT on @BackerKit! https://t.co/jEeZebv6uo

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) November 18, 2025

It’s the base game KNIGHTS BLACK AGENTS (think Cold War spycraft meets vampires), the main book for the DRACULA DOSSIER campaign setting (guess what that’s about), and DRACULA UNREDACTED (Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, suitably… expanded). Good stuff. Good stuff. And I already have it all.

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PS: THE EDOM FILES and the EDOM FIELD MANUAL are also part of this.

Sites are slowly recovering, looks like.

Mine is back up from the Cloudfare outage. Coincidentally, I’m also back from the doctor’s. Yup, it was pinkeye. I may have to wait a bit for the prescription, though. The medical office’s internet went down, which is probably related.

We maybe need to make this system a bit more robust.

I am a little under the weather.

Good thing I’m seeing the doctor Thursday about getting a prescription for the wonder obesity drugs, because while I’m there he can also give me one for pinkeye.

…Oh, relax. You’re perfectly safe. It can’t travel through the screen.

Tweet of the Day, Pluto Is A Savage edition.

I dunno if Tyson felt the burn, but I sure did.

Actually, fact check: true. pic.twitter.com/iEqfyY7EcD

— Ayn Rand's Dog (@AynRandDog) November 17, 2025

‘Arthur MacBride.’

Arthur MacBride, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady

Looking at the BALTIMORE graphic novels.

Has anybody read Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1 already? Is it any good? Because it looks very relevant to my interests.

(I’m also wondering whether I should buy it myself or tell my wife about it so that she doesn’t have to try to figure out what to get me for Christmas.)

#commissionearned