Moe Lane's Blog, page 34
May 30, 2025
Welp, KING OF THE HILL is back.
You can get a lot of hints of what’s happened since KING OF THE HILL ended from the opening credits. Will the new show suck? Geez, what are you asking me for? I mean, sure, probably. Revivals usually do.
05/31/2025 Snippet, TOM VARGAS AND THE CASE OF THE MEDDLING PRIEST.
Got to finish this up.
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The first one we found was dead, but it wasn’t our fault: he was like that when we got there. He was looking pretty tattered, too. He must have been fighting things made out of claws and teeth, and hadn’t quite won.
Lacy visibly stopped himself from pushing the corpse around with his foot. “What do you think?” he asked. “Chupacabra?”
I shook my head. “Wrong kind of cuts. Wild chupacabras do puncture wounds. These were made by claws.”
“We have clawed monsters down here?” asked Mike. “When did that happen?”
“It didn’t,” I told him. “We got the chanecks down here, same as always.” I squatted to get a better look at the corpse. Might as well: these pants were going to need cleaning, anyway. Maybe an exorcist. “Ehh, that might be from a chaneck’s fingers, or mouth. But they don’t go after people.”
“Even people who were cultists?” asked Lacy, as he looked around, and visibly decided not to light a cigarette. The fumes down here… “Maybe they started something.”
“Who?” Mike asked. “The cultists, or the chanecks?”
“Yes.”
Tornado Watch!
Well, that was exciting. We didn’t get many tornados in New Jersey – and almost none at the Shore – so moving somewhere that gets more of them took some getting used to. Not that Maryland is a patch on, say, Texas or Iowa, obviously.
Anyway, we piled into the basement, and now we have all piled out of it.
Tweet of the Day, You Laugh So That You Do Not Cry edition.
Ain’t this the truth. It could be worse, though. I could be bad at writing.
— Raconteur Press, LLC (@raconteur_press) May 30, 2025
Via @davefreersf.
PS: Books here.
#commissionearned
May 29, 2025
‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes.’
I may have mentioned this already, but I was playing Paul Simon in the car once, and my wife got a puzzled look on her face. “What’s that?” she asked me. “It sounds like Simon and Garfunkel, only happy.”
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Paul Simon
#commissionearned
This has been a less-than-productive month. (Not really)
Sort of. I have to remind myself that I published a freaking RPG game this month and did two outside festivals. Both of which I should keep in mind. You know how it is, own worst critic and so forth…
Tweet of the Day, La France Est Tombée edition.
…Mon Dieu.
#BREAKING France to ban smoking outdoors in most places: minister pic.twitter.com/8Kpy9KCxZN
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 29, 2025
Via @Strangeland_Elf.
05/29/2025 Snippet, TOM VARGAS AND THE CASE OF THE MEDDLING PRIEST.
Got less done today than I’d like. Must do more tomorrow.
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Of course they went down into the sewers. I knew they were going into the sewers, even without Mike sniffing out their trail. If he hadn’t been there to track, I’d have gone down there anyway. Shadowy cults are one of the reasons we have sewers in Cin City.
Okay, that’s not true. We have them to keep the crap under control. They’re big enough to wander around in because… well, our illustrious ancestors figured that it made sense to have places that were out of sight of prying eyes, or scrying spells. The Universal Dominion can do a lot, but even their Archmages can’t keep track of what’s going on underground. That’s gotten important, the last few centuries. Still, everybody who needs to get a good skulk in likes having the sewers around, so go go city planning.
It was me, Mike, and the Lieutenant. Lacy wanted to bring more cops, maybe even get a couple of Flatfoots, but he didn’t really have the manpower to spare. Besides, the ones he did have weren’t the sneaking type, not that a Shamus, a former Guardsman, and an orcish priest were gonna be much better.
I still wish we had the extra manpower. Every little bit helps.
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Savage Fest in a week! I am far from the bits that go boom!
I will not be near anything exploding this time. I checked. Savage Fest is June 7th; I’ll have my books, and my new TTRPG The Fermi Resolution Worldbook! Come on by!
May 28, 2025
‘Drake’s Drum.’
Drake’s Drum, The Revels
#commissionearned
