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June 13, 2022
06/13/2022 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Been going over the manuscript, wanted to get this bit down. Like you do.
Patreon!We smelled the not-cows before we saw them, although not before we heard them. At least I smelled not-cows: Oft and the Anticipant just started gagging from the reek. “What in the name of the Hunter is that?” Oft asked, as he hawked and spit.
I sympathized, and kept the grin off my face. Trying to get the rotting-grass stench of ripe not-cow out of your nose isn’t fun, the first time you come across it. But eventually you get used to it. Besides, it doesn’t stick to your clothes or hair. “Remember the not-cows? That’s what they smell like. The herd we saw earlier must be nearby.” I frowned. “But they don’t normally come too close to human encampents” — and that’s when the Anticipant tackled the both of us. Actually, that makes it sound too professional, or something. What she did was dive at our lower legs, knocking us both off-balance and leaving us sprawled on the grass.
But that was a good thing, because not two seconds later a God-damned tree went whirring through the air, at what would have been just above head-height. Maybe it would have missed our actual heads. Maybe. Just as happy not to have to find out, you know what I mean?
Thinking about this as my Adventurer’s Guild logo.
Thoughts?
Basically, it’s a grappling hook being stuck into one of those heraldic symbols, with the other end being held with a (red) hand. Needs some work, but I think there’s enough bad heraldry and/or jokes to be worth pursuing. Again, thoughts?
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The Filmation Star Trek Voyager… parody? Joke? Pitch?
It’s pretty good as a single-use gag, I have to say. And God knows they picked an episode from STAR TREK: VOYAGER which was sufficiently silly to warrant the treatment. I do admit to wondering how many people out there are going to get the full effect of the joke, though…
(Via Do-Gooder Press)
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The STARFIELD: Official Gameplay Reveal trailer.
Alright, Bethesda. Let’s see if you can wow me.
[UPDATE]: Well. That seems almost insanely ambitious. Not that I’m complaining, yet.
Tweet of the Day, It Ain’t Bragging If It’s True edition.
Everything worked out for Gabe pretty much the way he wanted it to go, and that’s just fine with him.
Going for max value in today’s Penny Arcade:https://t.co/eMNr9100NP#pennyarcade
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) June 13, 2022
June 12, 2022
You know something? It was a quiet day.
I didn’t do much, beyond a bunch of laundry and burgers on the grill. It was a peaceful, not-much-important nice day in June. I slept in. Oh, and I installed Bioshock 2, just to see what it was like. They don’t have to all be eventual days.
The PREY Hulu trailer.
It looks better than I thought it would.
I’m just not real fond of the premise, honestly. My rule of thumb has always been, If it raises a hand to a human, it dies. I want to see the movie where the humans teach the Predator species to find somebody else to hunt. Preferably somebody nonsapient, because humanity can get real ridiculously sentimental about that sort of thing…
Patreon Microfiction: Chosen Reader.
It’s not that the wizard in ‘Chosen Reader’ is a bad wizard, in any sense of the term. The apprentice has heard the horror stories about how awful an apprenticeship can be, but this guy? This guy is a solid teacher and mentor. They click, and not in a creepy or co-dependent way, either. Shoot, she could walk out this morning – with his blessing – and ace her journeyman test.
Well. The written part, at least. Incantations require practice until they’re in muscle memory, so that’s what they’ve been working on.
And she’s not gonna keep this secret from her mentor forever. She just wants a chance to do a little of her own research, first. She’d hate for things to get weird.
…Anyway.
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