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August 16, 2020
The ‘How Did This Man Not Get Shot?’ UNHINGED trailer.
Don’t get me wrong; UNHINGED looks like it’ll be insane fun, if you like that sort of thing. Russell Crowe in particular is having a lovely time being gonzo for the trailers. But in the real world he’s in a country where CCW is a thing.
Just sayin’.
Moe Lane
PS: The movie that you may be trying to remember is DUEL.
08/16/2020 Snippet, MORGAN BAROD AND THE ELDRITCH TOME.
Fight! And the story/excerpt is in the can. Well, the first draft, at least.
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This close to the monster, even Morgan’s untrained magical senses could ‘feel’ where the magic was coming from ; a spot to the left and below the carpet shoggoth’s maw, and at a bad angle for a sword. Morgan dropped his without hesitation and pulled out twin knives a moment later.
The first stab ripped through the carpet shoggoth’s hide; and, as Morgan expected, the monster reacted immediately with the closest tentacle at hand. Makes sense, Morgan thought as he used his second blade to nail the questing tentacle to a handy post. Monsters that don’t react to being wrecked don’t last long. Heck, are they even really monsters?
With his newly-found leverage, Morgan pulled his first blade through the carpet-shoggoth’s body in an disemboweling stroke until he met resistance. On a hunch, Morgan let go of the second blade to reach deep into the foul hole of writhing fibers and strange, caustic fluids and pull out something hard and subtly odd to the touch.
The moment it popped free, the carpet shoggoth convulsed, writhed — and shriveled, its unholy tentacles desiccating and unraveling as Morgan watched. He flicked a look back to see Ben half-collapsing to the floor; Kiddo was already attending to him, pulling out water from Ben’s pack. The wizard looked like he wasn’t about to die on the spot, so Morgan went back to taking apart the odd growth he had extracted from the monster.Morgan wasn’t at all surprised to discover that inside the growth was a reasonably intact copy of Petit Albert. He could feel the power inside it, too. Guess I can figure out why somebody would want it. And I got to it before Ben did…
Morgan stood up, then turned to the other two. “Hey, Ben!” he said, waving the Petit Albert in one hand. “Guess where I found your book?”
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Still Here.’
…Geez, but ‘Still Here’ is weird. It’s sort of like the shell of despair, without the actual despair. I guess our heads just have too much trouble getting a handle of the concept of eternity.
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Be not afraid! MoeLane.com is just being updated.
We are undergoing some theme updates/replacements today to address technical stuff that’s going on. All will be well.
August 15, 2020
‘Greensleeves.’
Greensleeves, Baltimore Consort
08/15/2020 Snippet, MORGAN BAROD AND THE ELDRITCH TOME.
Coordination!
Patreon!It took the carpet shoggoth a remarkably long time to adjust to Morgan’s charge; he still wasn’t sure what spontaneous spells were running this thing, but it looked like there wasn’t any kind of automatic response to prey that wasn’t trying to run away. He was even starting to dare hope that he could get all the way to the carpet shoggoth without being attacked when the carpet shoggoth, in fact, attacked.
“Whatever you’re going to throw, get it ready!” shouted Morgan as three tendrils grabbed him and lifted him up while a fourth and fifth clumsily plucked his shield out of his right hand. The tendrils then moved to swing Morgan hard against a wall, to stun him, before lowering him inexorably into the monster’s opening maw…
Or rather, it would have, except that Morgan Barod was left-handed, and thus had a perfectly good sword to hack away three tendrils swinging him around. Not that falling to the ground afterward didn’t hurt like a bastard, of course. But it was the kind of hurt that he could ignore while ripping this thing a new orifice.
“Move your… Move your… Move your thing!” came a yell behind him as Morgan danced for a good position. It came from Kiddo, surprisingly.
“Move where?” Morgan yelled back. “Left, right, jump, duck?”
“MOVE!” Kiddo almost shrieked it. Crap, thought Morgan. She sounds serious. He did a side roll that was almost smooth and only a little over-enthusiastic, and risked a quick look back.
Book of the Week: Explorer of the Endless Sea.
Time to get on the Jack Campbell merry-go-round again. I dunno how I missed Explorer of the Endless Sea (second in the Empress of the Endless Sea series) when it first hit Kindle, but I did. Rectifying that error now.
Moe Lane
Doing a playtest tonight.
That’s likely to suck up all of my free time between now and possibly all of tonight; you know how this stuff goes. It’s a pretty straightforward adventure, although they might be surprised at how little combat there’s going to be. Unless they read this. Oh, heck, I should just tell them that it’s not going to be very combat-heavy anyway. This is a playtest, not the start of a five-year campaign.
August 14, 2020
The Stand Still. Stay Silent. Book 3 Kickstarter.
This would be the print version of the Stand Still Stay Silent post-apocalyptic magical webcomic, which is brilliant and absolutely worth your time to read.
…Hrm. I wonder if Minna does book covers?
