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January 11, 2021
In the Mail/Email: Bring Me the Head of the Comte de Saint-Germain (UNKNOWN ARMIES).
The print version of Bring Me the Head of the Comte de Saint-Germain is making its way to me even as we speak, but Atlas Games reminded me that I got the digital version, and I actually sat down to read it. It’s for the Unknown Armies underground occult RPG, and I am pleased that the game line is being supported, at least a little. So many good ones no longer are.
Moe Lane
PS: Pretty much what it says in the title, really. Although admittedly the head is stone, and weighs 600 pounds. But that’s mostly because it’s really, really funny to watch four to six intelligent people try to figure out how to move something that ridiculous.
Ganymede has Wi-Fi.
How many bars?
SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) – The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has discovered an FM radio signal coming from the moon Ganymede. The find is a first-time detection from the moon.
“It’s not E.T.,” said Patrick Wiggins, one of NASA’s Ambassadors to Utah. “It’s more of a natural function.”
Juno was traveling across the polar region of Jupiter — where magnetic field lines connect to Ganymede — when it crossed the radio source. Scientifically, it is called a “decametric radio emission.”
Here on Earth, we know it as Wi-Fi, and we use it every day.
…That’s it. That’s all the joke there is. Sorry.
(Via @disclosetv)
01/11/21 Snippet, THE FALL OF THE KINGDOM OF COAHUILA.
I think it’s a working title.
Patreon!The Fall of the Kingdom of Coahuila
Chihuahuan Desert
Contested Lands, Kingdom of Coahuila/State of Houston
June, 1861 AD
It’s never colder in the desert than dawn. As the sun pulls itself over the mountains a man can fancy he can hear the frost puff away into the thirsty air. Everything’s thirsty, in the desert. Even the purples and golds you only see at daybreak and dusk look soft and crumbly, like a can of paint left out in the sun to half-dry. The desert craves water, and it doesn’t care how it gets it; and so it was with no real surprise that Hank Bailey saw how quickly Jimmy’s blood had sunk into the desert ground.
Jimmy Chestnut had been a bad man, with a full canteen. The first earned him a bullet from his killer; the second made sure Bailey had shot nice, and careful. He didn’t want the thirsty dirt drinking anything except Jimmy’s blood. He certainly hadn’t wanted the dirt drinking his blood, which was why Bailey hadn’t wasted time talking before shooting.
That traitorous son of a bitch was lucky I ain’t low enough to shoot a man in the back, Bailey thought as he reloaded his gun. Bailey’s shot had echoed through the lightening dawn, probably alarming nobody except the coyotes and vultures, but there was no reason to take chances. Maybe Jimmy had had a compadre. Or maybe just a minion. There must have been a reason Jimmy rode out here, after all.
Tweet of the Day, I Read @SeaLionPress Generally edition.
I would, given that Sea Lion Press is a publisher dedicated to alternate history. The article below is also interesting in its own right; there’s an interesting counterfactual there that’s not normally examined when it comes to the French Revolution. I don’t always agree with Sea Lion’s stuff, but it’s usually worth reading.
The Coup of #18Brumaire ended the first phase of the #FrenchRevolution and led to #Napoleon seizing power. But that was not the plan of the leading #Directory member the Abbé Sieyès. AB Harwood's first article explores what might have been. #FrenchHistory https://t.co/3G2OcnL5Wc
— Sea Lion Press (@SeaLionPress) January 11, 2021
January 10, 2021
Bundle of Holding revives its classic Traveller offers.
Final Pass-through for TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is done.
Going to work on the conversion process this week. We are rapidly approaching the point where I will have to lock orders on the Backerkit pre-orders, so keep that in mind, folks. Gonna be weird when TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is no longer a project…
Patreon Microfiction: All That The Market Has Borne.
With regard to ‘All That The Market Has Borne:’ look, it’s just market forces at work. You have a valuable product that can be produced by multiple sources, thus making it difficult for even a cartel to form; and the production values are both high and restrictive, so strip-mining the resource isn’t going to work. That pretty much means high wages for the specialist laborers who have the most critical role in the enterprise. Straightforward, really.
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! MCDONALDS! edition.
I agree with one of the people who responded to the tweet: this is an incredibly accurate chart.
This still cracks me up
