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February 11, 2021
The ONE RING RPG Kickstarter.
So, my wife asked me about the ONE RING Kickstarter, Weren’t you grumbling about it a couple of days ago? And I was, Yeah, but it’s my birthday (it’s not actually my birthday yet, but it will be, next month), and I wants it. So… we went with the fancy version. And that’s my birthday (again, next month) present sorted, too. At this point my wife and I more or less just find out what the other person wants, and signs off on it. Neither of us are addicted to surprise.
I just backed THE ONE RING
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) February 11, 2021Roleplaying Game, Second Edition on @Kickstarter https://t.co/K5dxWjOkFm
February 10, 2021
Some folks dealing with a NICU visit could use some help.
I was angry today, at people who were being cruel and nasty because they could be. So I… am not going to do that. I’m going to do what I can for these folks, instead.
https://t.co/3dkhYMZh8J
— P2Start (@conorquerin) February 11, 2021
Maaaasive longshot, but a signal boost on this from @TychoBrahe or @cwgabriel would both help me a lot and mean the entire world to me. My VERY premature twins were born on Friday and we're stuck in a NICU 12 hours from my life, job, and son
In the Mail: THE GENTLEMEN.
THE GENTLEMEN is one of the last films I saw in theaters, and I was glad to get it in. Guy Ritchie keeps making movies that I like to watch, even when they’re… something else (KING ARTHUR comes to mind). Don’t expect it to be anything except what it already is, and everything will be fine.
02/10/21 Snippet, [Title TBD]
Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!
Patreon!Luckily, the farmer’s canopy where the bad smell was coming from effectively had only one exit; the sides were lined with plastic tables featuring the foodstuffs now beginning to appear in the PECZ with some frequency. Anybody wanted to get out, they’d have to go through Elizabeth and Janet. Or duck under the tables, Janet thought, but at least then we’d know who to chase.
Janet didn’t have many things left from the Before Times, but ‘cop voice’ was one of them. “Everybody stop!” she shouted. “Council emergency! Possible contrabrand! Nobody move!”
Everybody stopped. Nobody moved. That was good; but everybody in the tent was now looking at each other suspiciously, which could end up being bad. For a lot of people, being in the PECZ felt like winning a lottery where ninety nine out of every hundred entrants died. It made people… territorial.
02/10/21 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Calmness amid horror!
Patreon!“The colony had been scoured. That is the best way to put it. Something had come down and ripped apart every bit of organic Terran life that existed in the colony, if it had to chew through metal, eternaplastic, or solid rock to do so. There had been one temporary survivor, who had lived through the initial attack by being ‘lucky’ enough to don a sealed environmental suit in time; several others had tried, and failed. Her air and water supply would have failed her about a week before we arrived.”
“Would have?” I didn’t really ask. “I guess she decided not to wait.” Rubicon’s shake of his head told me I had guessed right. “What did her Final Transmission say?” There’s always one.
“The usual: a first, panicked outburst; an attempt to take control of the situation via self-identification and a half-rational description of events; and then a semblance of a daily log. Followed by the usual descent into poetic madness and hallucinatory terror. There was mercifully little agonized screaming at the end, though. She had managed to rig her medical systems to dump all of its painkillers into her at once. It was very ingenious, really. We might try to duplicate the effect as a last-resort option.”
Netflix picks up REDWALL for animated series.
I am mostly surprised this hasn’t happened already.
Brian Jacques’ beloved “Redwall” books are being adapted into a feature film and TV series thanks to a new rights deal between Netflix and Penguin Random House Children. The fantasy novels have sold 30 million copies globally and have attracted an avid following with their tales of heroism, villainy and derring do all played out by mice, moles, hares and badgers. Think J.R.R. Tolkien with cuddlier protagonists.
Although… ‘cuddlier?’ Well, okay, everybody in Middle-Earth who was a viewpoint character was also a stone-cold badass*. But I digress. It felt like I was just a little too old to read Redwall when it came out; was I mistaken?
(H/T: GeekTyrant)
Moe Lane
*I would fight you over arguing Samwise Gamgee was an exception, except I can’t believe that any of my readers would be likely to disagree.
February 9, 2021
The ‘Retro-Seventies, Full-Contact Exorcisms’ THE SEVENTH DAY trailer.
Like GeekTyrant, I am down for this.
Insidious demon armies and in-your-face exorcisms: THE SEVENTH DAY knows what I like. No idea when it’s coming out, mind you. If that even really means anything, anymore. It’s still looking pretty danged cool.
02/09/21 Snippet, [Title TBD]
Post-apocalyptic living! With restaurants!
Patreon!In front of them was what was becoming an impressive enough bustle. The parking lots surrounding the college had long since been stripped of whatever cars that hadn’t been melted down to the asphalt or imploded into heavy metal balls in the first days of the return of magic; now the spaces were hosting something that was halfway between a collection of tents and shelters and actual streets of shops. There were more people around then there had been, too; most still dressed in garments from the Before Times, but the salvage was starting to run out and work was a lot harder on your clothes.
But everybody was clean and nobody was obviously starving, which was something Janet took some personal pride in. Meetings or not, the Emergency Council was doing the job. There were a lot of places where people hadn’t, starting with uptown Portland itself. But Janet didn’t like to think about that. It was too easy to end up thinking about all the horrors implied in the phrase ‘the end of the world.’
Her thoughts were interrupted by Elizabeth. “Hey! Janet! Lunch?”
Janet blinked. “Sure. Try the new BBQ place?” Venison had been the first red meat to go off the emergency ration list, and still the most common.
