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‘Bring Back The Time.’

I know that there can be no forgiveness for this.

Just be thankful that this is not on Amazon. Yet.

(Via @JoePCunningham)

#commissionearned

03/04/22 Snippet, THE COLONY.

Time to get started up again!

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I was in the back room when Walter Frobisher announced his complicated presence in my equally complicated life. His arrival was heralded by the ringing of the bell over the front door ring; fortunately I was standing at the time, or else I might not have heard it. Then again, I was going to go back into the public part of the shop in a few minutes anyway, so it probably wouldn’t have mattered. But since I knew there was somebody actually wandering through the shop, I made my brisk way to the front.

“Good morning, sir!” I said to him, as brightly as if I actually meant it. We had all worked out what our public personas were, and I had decided upon ‘cheerfully polite, not quite manic.’ “Welcome to Surprising Things!”

Walter — understand, I did not know his name at the time — blinked at me, as if he wasn’t expecting politeness this early in the morning. “Ah. Yes. Thank you.” He then started looking around, almost as if he was looking for an excuse to have come in. I shifted my head to look past him and through the shop window: it was bright and sunny out, with no rumbles, ruffians, or riots going on in the street. Clearly he was not here to seek shelter. Then again, I would have been indifferent if he was.

So, I applied for vendor space at Balticon.

I dunno if I’ll actually get a spot, but I applied. The table fee was actually less than the last one I went to, and supposedly there’s going to be about five times as many convention goers. That sounds like there could be a reasonable chance I’ll make my table fee back, in other words. Also, the Balticon people seem to be on top of the ball, which is always nice.

So I guess we’ll see!

50% off PDFs over at Pelgrane Press for GM’s Day*.

This will not be expensive for me, because it has already been expensive for me: I caught up on Pelgrane’s back catalog a while back. On the other hand: if you’re looking for good, investigation-based games this might be a little painful. On the gripping hand: half of the proceeds from the sale will go towards Ukraine relief, so there’s that. Up to you.

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*I don’t get it, myself. Every day is GM’s Day.

Tweet of the Day, Watch This Thai Ad To The End edition.

Even for Thai ads, this is something else.

Thai ads hit different pic.twitter.com/iJnDi31ZLG

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) March 3, 2022

[This was almost an embarrassing post.]

[I am not perfect, alas. I had seen a juicy story, and had gone off on it – only, I had gotten a key detail wrong; and if I had hit ‘Publish’ I would have just had to shamefacedly unpublish it later. I mention this, not to tantalize, but to remind myself not to be too snarky before my second cup of coffee. Or possibly not at all.]

[…Well. Let’s not go crazy, here. Self-reflection is fine, as long as you don’t do too much of it.]

‘Love Is A Battlefield.’

Love Is A Battlefield, Pat Benatar

#commissionearned

Need to make a decision this weekend on Balticon.

Cheaper table than the last one and Balticon will have a good turnout, I think. But it’s gonna be in the Inner Harbor, which is going to make traveling there and back a pain. Then again, Baltimore is close enough I could conceivably day-trip it. But I dunno. Conventions feel like a place to sell books, but I’m not sure I’ve worked out how to do it.

Anyway, again: I need to decide this weekend.

In Nomine Revisited: Sicarius, Calabite of Lust.

Writeup aside, I suspect the full amusement value in a character like this is in making him an NPC that the party has to keep alive — and not kill themselves. Intelligence 1 in this game is cow territory. Add to that the entire ‘personified entropy’ thing and you’ll have endless entertainment as a GM.

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The slightly grating SLOW HORSES trailer.

There is something bugging me about this SLOW HORSES trailer, and I don’t know what it is.

The concept looks fine, the actors look fine, the dialogue looks fine – but the trailer is unpleasant. I can’t quite put my finger on it, either, which is maddening. Maybe it was where I first saw it? There were an unsettling number of expanding links and whatnot that made the video skitter around the screen a lot.