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August 1, 2020
(RPG) Book of the Week: Absinthe in Carcosa.
A slight stretch of the category, but Absinthe in Carcosa did just win an ENnie. It’s for The Yellow King RPG, and it’s gorgeous. I have it in PDF already, and I should have picked it up in print a while back.
Chapter 6, Part 2 of the Bold Marauder up on Patreon for free!
New sign-up, so new entry of the Bold Marauder for everybody to enjoy. As usual, free for everybody until we get to $200/month in Patreon. Sign up today!
Patreon!08/01/2020 Snippet, MORGAN BAROD AND THE ELDRITCH TOME.
Multitasking! This is a short story that can also be put into the new book. Huzzah!
Patreon!Morgan Barod ghosted through the ruins of the university. At least, he hoped he was ghosting, but he’d settle for just being pretty quiet. ‘Pretty quiet’ would, hopefully, be enough for the mission at hand.
He hadn’t been in the business long, but Morgan thought that Rutgers was pretty firmly in the ‘dangerously lovely’ abandoned ruin category. There were plenty of half-destroyed buildings that looked promisingly unlooted, and the overgrown clumps of trees were coming along nicely into becoming actual forests. There were birds chirping, various woodland critters doing their thing, and it really was a lovely morning to break into a shuttered library and retrieve an arcane tome. He didn’t trust any of it for a second.
At least he wasn’t stealing anything. When Morgan had shown up again, back from the salt-towns and carrying an official writ from the University, the officials behind the Line had been happy to countersign his salvage orders. They even gave him what intel they had on the site, which unfortunately wasn’t much. There were no really big monsters, probably.
And there weren’t any bandits operating out of the ruins of New Brunswick, either. “It’s too close to the Line,” Major West herself had told him. “We patrol that far out, pretty regular. Anybody or anything that messes with the patrol learns real fast how bad an idea it is.”
Tweet of the Day, Time For SCIENCE! edition.
(Via @EsotericCD) Basically: start the video below, CLOSE YOUR EYES IMMEDIATELY, and listen a few times. Then tell us what you hear. I tried it myself, but my brain’s been contaminated by expectations at this point. You’ll understand after you watch the video. But CLOSE YOUR EYES the first few times! SCIENCE! demands it.
This just broke my concept of reality pic.twitter.com/hUPBvpBKX6
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) July 31, 2020
July 31, 2020
ENnie Awards tonight!
Didn’t know many of the games, but Absinthe in Carcosa (The Yellow King RPG) and The Labyrinth (Delta Green) both definitely deserved their awards. Good times on the Gen Con panels generally, although I forgot to point out to Ken Hite that Emperor Norton would make for a particularly pathos-horrific Tattered King*. Maybe if it comes up again organically in tomorrow’s panel…
*He’s doing a San Francisco supplement for TYKRPG! This made me simultaneously cheer, and groan. Cheer because it’s gonna be cool, and groan because there goes my Hastur Mythos steampunk concept right down the tubes… ach, well. His is gonna be awesome.
SpaceX continues on with space corvette tests.
Oops, did I type out that in the title? I meant ‘space tourist vessel.’ Silly me:
SpaceX just fired the engine of its latest Starship prototype, paving the way for a test flight in the near future.
The company conducted a “static fire” test of Starship SN5 today (July 30), letting its single Raptor engine blaze while the vehicle remained tethered to the ground at SpaceX’s South Texas facilities, near the village of Boca Chica.
Via Glenn Reynolds. I mean, what possible non-civilian use could there be for a vehicle that can support up to a hundred people for at least a week, with an operational range that can stretch all the way to lunar orbit? …Yes, I’m joking. But am I?
Moe Lane
PS: No, I’m fine with Space Force having rocket-frigates to play with. Like, obviously. Come on.
@PelgranePress is doing a GUMSHOE Community Contest.
Details for the Pelgrane Press GUMSHOE Community Contest here. Interestingly, I have something already in mind for both Ashen Stars (gritty reboot of 1960s science fiction series) and Timewatch (time travel). One of them is even already written down! So, no reason why I can’t put them both together for this…
A good full month for FROZEN DREAMS.
Sales have dropped down over the last week, alas – but between Amazon (buy it here), Backerkit pre-orders (take advantage of the preorder store here before I get rid of the specials), and Smashwords (get non-Mobi formats here – and it’s on sale, too!) I’ve hit my target number for the month. I’ve also saturated the market at this point, probably, but starting tomorrow the next two books get prepped* (and, of course, the RPG worldbook will get playtested, and the audiobook is in final review). So, hey, successful month all around.
Moe Lane
*Short story collection and novel. Trying to figure out how many stories to put in the former.
‘Job Along the Borderlands’ short story is up on Patreon!
The Tom Vargas story was rapidly becoming a novella. Job Along the Borderlands is a Fermi Resolution story that will appear in the short story collection, mind you. So: feedback is welcome.
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