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October 18, 2022
The SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW Honest Trailer.
This one is more meta-interesting than their usual Honest Trailers, probably because SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW is itself very, very meta. I think they took a fair look at it, too. I’m not sure what I think about the show, myself. I haven’t stopped watching it, but I’m taking my time between episodes. Which may be damning with faint observation…
October 17, 2022
The Code Warriors RPG Kickstarter.
Code Warriors looks like fun: it’s basically Tron meets the apocalypse. Very retro look to it too, which is always a plus. Check it out.
http://kck.st/3UKNViX10/17/2022 Revisions, GHOST ON AN ALIEN WIND: 69200/80000.
Not as much as I wanted, but more than my usual daily.
Patreon!Back in the day, researchers going through what’s left of the Amalgamation’s archives found recordings of the major pre-historical fauna of Earth. We immediately duplicated the sound that a saber-tooth tiger on the hunt makes and made it into our standard alarm signal, because there’s nothing that’s better at immediately getting a human being’s focused attention, no matter how chaotic the situation. It certainly did the job here, letting me know that danger lurked; and a mere fifteen seconds after 4-9-43 had gone offline, too. That’s a good reaction time, for a mixed electronic-human warning system.
I had still beaten it, though; it had taken me a bare second of sudden BSOD and an unpleasantly empty telemetry stream for my reflexes to punch in a sudden burn… away from the cargo ship. Away was good. Away would give me space room to maneuver while I figured out what to do next, and what the cold equations of orbital mechanics would let me do.
Starting with: “Nur! Burn’s over. Strap off and get in the cockpit!” He accordingly got, shoving himself in an already powering up second seat. “You two, stay where you are! Nur, get me something better at seeing than my eyeballs.”
Right about then we got the debris shockwave, which was somewhere between ‘rattling the hull’ and ‘hope you had your spacesuit sealed.’ The Amalgamation had these really good force fields that could take a shot from a gamma ray laser and stay up, and that didn’t do them any good at all. We just have something that keeps hunks of exploded starships from turning us into Euro-cheese.
I’m not good enough to have been thinking about all of that at the time. Right then, I was too busy trying to straighten the Morrigan after a hunk of particularly broken spaceship smacked into my port engine and made it a demented variable thrust generator. I would have preferred it had just blown up, you know? I can maneuver a ship on one engine, if I have room. Maneuvering it one and a half’s a different story.
Group Seed: The Dissolution.
I keep trying to reach for the horror aesthetic in my head. I keep not quite managing it. This isn’t too bad on its own, though.
Dissolution-Google-DocsDownloadThe SLAYERS trailer.
Surely I’ve put this up already, haven’t I? – Oh, and rejoice, younger generations. SLAYERS demonstrates that your various age cohorts have finally been deemed bourgeois enough to be worth satirizing and/or made into cheap social commentary. You’re in the mainstream now, me hearties!
October 16, 2022
Stellar Con in a month!
Need to check on my table, but: I’ll be at Stellar Con in a month, selling my books! …After that, my schedule is kind of up in the air. Haven’t heard anything about Washingcon, and I won’t be doing either Farpoint or Balticon next year. The brutal truth of it is, I need to make back my table fees, and I didn’t for either convention. The comic-cons have a better track record for vendors, honestly.
Suggestions for other venues in Maryland welcome.
#commissionearned
No revisions today.
There was a drow, and giant spiders, and then I decided that a giant spider was the hitherto-undefined monster that made my flesh go cold and terrified me in a previous encounter (as per my background), and then I decided that the way half-orc Neutral Good priestesses of Tyr handle being terrified is to recklessly run towards the Bad Thing screaming while casting Divine Weapon (I try not to actually use spell slots unless I have to, or when giant spiders, I guess), and the DM had forgotten that the warlock had looted a scroll of Fireball, and then the DM had forgotten that I had a point of Inspiration which I then used to tell the warlock casting Fireball to read the scroll right. After that the fireball went off. Beautifully, so beautifully, killing all of the spiders except for the one that ran away, and after the thief backstabbed that one to death I kept hitting the corpse with both swords until it stopped being funny.
So, right now, I’m kind of creatively drained.
New THE BOLD MARAUDER (Chapter 7, Part 7).
Patreon Microfiction: Mutual Trade Benefits.
Note that all of the names in ‘Mutual Trade Benefits’ are translations. The concepts came across reasonably well, too. Which makes sense, because all of these aliens were enough like us to work out real estate deals.
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