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March 27, 2022
VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE SECOND INQUISITION PDF now available.
H/T: GeekTyrant. The print version of VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE SECOND INQUISITION isn’t available yet, but Modiphius has released the PDF for it. And third-party vendors too, I guess: at least, I ordered mine through Renegade Game Studios and I’ve downloaded and am reading the PDF right now.
I’ve wanted this one for a while. SECOND INQUISITION is not for playing vampire-hunters in the World of Darkness; if you want that, go play NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS*. Which you should do anyway, because it’s a cool game. And as I’m sure Ken Hite would readily tell you, too.
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*Well, that turned out to be an expensive link for me. #commissionearned
Patreon Microfiction: Manifesto of the Urban Druid.
Personally, if there were druids, then the protagonist of ‘Manifesto of the Urban Druid’ would be perfectly perfect. ‘Nature’ is an opinion. …Well, except in cosmic horror. Which this is not.
Patreon!March 26, 2022
Book of the Week: Conan – Blood of the Serpent.
SM Stirling’s Conan – Blood of the Serpent isn’t available until October. I have it on pre-order anyway. In hardcover, which should tell you how much I’m looking forward to it.
Tweet Thread of the Day, This Is A Very Good Filk Of Gilbert & Sullivan edition.
I want it understood that I hold this piece in the highest regard.
I used to have a tank brigade but now I have lost several
— Andrej (@AndrejNkv) March 25, 2022
My fresh assaults are faltering with battleplans extemporal
I can't recover vehicles but farmers in a tractor can
It's all becoming rather reminiscent of Afghanistan
My ordnance is the best but only half my missiles make it there
— Andrej (@AndrejNkv) March 25, 2022
I would have thought by now that we would be controllers of the air
But at the rate the snipers work my time here is ephemeral
I am the very model of a Russian Major General
…I just felt it needed a coda.
For my military's structure, tho' deemed fine for this adventure-y,
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 26, 2022
Was copy-pasted poorly from the 20th's Red Century.
But still in matters at the front, in operations tactical,
I am the very model of a Russian Major Gene
March 25, 2022
Holiday Weekend posting!
The holiday being my birthday, of course. Which is actually Monday, but when you have kids you don’t usually go to breweries on Mondays. Well… I guess you can? But we’re going to do the sensible thing and do the ‘Moe has some beers’ on the weekend.
Also, to be honest about it: I’m kind of burned out. Unproductive and too-busy is a darkly potent combo. Some steam release sounds appropriate. So… reduced posting this weekend! Everybody go get a beverage.
March 24, 2022
Looking again at GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Might as well: I haven’t gotten the first chapters back for TINSEL RAIN, so I can’t work on that. And I shouldn’t move forward on the other projects until the money clears on the Kickstarter, which usually will be about two weeks. GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND currently clocks in at just below sixty thousand words, so I need to add about another twenty thousand or so before I go find an alpha reader for it.
Yeah, a new alpha reader for this book. It’s science fiction horror, you see – and it would drive my wife up the wall to see how bad the science is. She won’t alpha read my space opera serial novel, either, assuming it ever finishes.
Anyway, I suspect that the first three chapters of GoaAW will be this month’s Patreon story. The current short story’s crapped out, too. Dunno why. I should give it a month or two to cool down.
This deleted THE BATMAN Joker scene is good, but…
…yeah, it doesn’t really flow with the rest of the movie. Besides, given how people were already complaining just how long THE BATMAN was, it seems reasonable to cut at least this. Still, I’m not gonna begrudge an actor his chance to put on the clown makeup and give it his best hyena laugh. I’m not cruel that way.
CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT on pre-order tomorrow.
CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT was written by SM Stirling, so naturally I’ll be pre-ordering it on March 25th. It seems like a reasonable response, given that I buy Stirling* in hardback and have a fondness for Conan novels**. Details on the book itself are light, but I assume there’ll be Conan, at least one serpent, and blood. That seems like… a reasonable foundation to build upon, yes?
CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT will be published in October.
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