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May 1, 2021
Book of the Week: Motivation: Justice Wing Halcyon Days.
Motivation: Justice Wing Halcyon Days is written by Eric Burns-White, who is my dude. I believe that this is how the youngsters put it these days, right? Yeah, he and I, we go back. And I’ve been telling him to publish his stuff for years.
05/01/21 Snippet, FROGMAN PRINCE.
This one is gonna need a definite rewrite, methinks.
Patreon!I took another look at the castle. Even from my inn window the damned thing looked just ridiculous as before, complete with gargoyles, weathered battlements — and, according to the War Office, half-submerged catacombs below. I couldn’t see those, but even in my current form I half-fancied I could smell the stagnant water.
Although that might have been the town. Bremerhaven is a dreary place, still picking itself up from the War; alas, it’s a dreary place with an excellent harbor on the coast of what used to be Great Bavaria. Match that with the usual mad Baron von Barking Madman that seems to crop up regularly in post-War Middle Europa, complete with plans to spread his particularly malignant influence through the region, and you end up with what could be one Devil of mess on your hands.
And, really, why was there even a castle here to begin with? This town is barely older than I am. Honestly, that someone went to the trouble of building an actual castle should have itself long since convinced the sages in the War Office that something was up. Then again, that was why I was here, wasn’t I? Mother’s Little Helper, what-what?
In the mail: My Concellation coin!
Concellation 2021: a virtual convention that started as a joke and is now a Facebook group. And admittedly, a lot more jokes. And a dealer’s room!
It’s a nice coin, too. It’s got a good heft to it without it being too heavy. I like it.
April 30, 2021
Wow. It’s almost May. Plans continue…
A bunch of things happening in May. Mostly they involve the next novel, but there’s going to be an announcement next week about a quick project that I’m doing while other stuff is going on. I still think I can get both MORGAN BAROD and TINSEL RAIN out this year with generated income, but everything past that is going to probably require funding. There’s nothing like self-publishing to make you appreciate the value of cash reserves, let me tell you…
Patreon!Bundle of Holding now offering permanent starter RPG packs.
These are PDF starter packs, mind you: and Bundle of Holding seems to be offering them at a 25% discount from list price, instead of their usual super-sale. But the offers don’t expire, either. I recommend NIGHT’S BLACK AGENTS and TRAIL OF CTHULHU, obviously. Fourth Edition CHAMPIONS… actually, I’m not sure about 4th ed. I think I skipped between Second and Fifth editions, there. Certainly it’s been a while since I did any Hero System games…
PRC’s Long March 5b incompetently put in orbit, likely to irresponsibly deorbit.
I understand that the People’s Republic of China labors under the limitation of a third-rate political and economic ideology, but really, orbital mechanics are hardly new: “China launched the first module for its space station into orbit late Wednesday, but the mission launcher also reached orbit and is slowly and unpredictably heading back to Earth.” One does hope that it doesn’t land on anything populated.
But hoping is all I can do, mind you. Given that it wasn’t us that imprudently put a twenty-one ton hunk of metal in an unstable orbit, and all that. I mean, you can’t expect the oceans to always cover for an inability to do complicated math right…
(Via Instapundit)
Moe Lane
PS: Damn right I’m being snide. Like a large hunk of the planet, I’m currently in a potential impact zone: “The Long March 5B core stage’s orbital inclination of 41.5 degrees means the rocket body passes a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand, and could make its reentry at any point within this area.
Patreon Exclusive: sample chapters from my upcoming novel MORGAN BAROD!
Vampires! Adventure! Obscure regional-based jokes!
There has never been a better time to subscribe to my Patreon!
Patreon!The end-of-April Patreon posts are up!
This month we have:
THE ELMERITE ORDER, PART 8 AND LAST: A new campaign world starts next month. Haven’t decided what it’s going to be, yet. Anyway, this month is the last installment, discussing campaigns in this Mage-but-the-Technocracy’s-not-horrible-esque campaign world.PICKMAN’S MODEL: My shameless companion piece to the original! Edited, expanded, and improved for… something. Something to be discussed soon. Keep watching the skies!
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