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We’re Being Silly On the Forums!

For about a week, there’s been a new game on the forums and this one doesn’t involve any rules at all! Instead we’re roleplaying as posters on the DU’s PrelateWatch website and all the weird, interesting and fannish things that would go on there, from trolling to shipping to flame wars. Come join in the fun!

In other forum news, a new Play-by-Post game is coming, this time using the completely free Mutants and Masterminds rules. The game will take place in Quinn Bluffs, Florida and the players...

This Old Trope I

I know I should probably do another ‘ This Old Monster ‘ before diving into this, but… I had the idea after watching some fellow writers describe one of the tropes dealt with below and I had something to say. Of course, they were talking about it in glowing terms and the specific place I was haunting is… less than friendly to disagreement, so I’m doing it here rather than getting arbitrarily banned.

Now, on the outset, I am a big fan of the Fantasy genre. While I’ve complained and mocked a lot o...

Magic Club 5 #1 – Bad Moon on the Rise

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Magi Club 5The Rappahanock River was beautiful in the light of the full moon. Silver gleamed off the waves and currents swirling around the rocks, and glittered on the light mist rising into the cool, October air.

It was, he thought, the perfect setting for night swimming.

Dangerous as the practice was, he had nothing but confidence in his skills and strength, and he wasn’t overly worried about injuries her might get banging into submerged rocks. He was c...

Descendants #74 – Bit Part Bad Guys Chp. 6

This entry is part 46 of 46 in the series CurrentCodex, perched on a rooftop across from the former children’s clinic scowled as she surveyed the building through her binoculars, then looked down at what her palmtop was showing her. “It never occurred to me just how good a fortress a non-emergency medical facility can be.”

“How’s that?” Asked Chaos over the comm. He and Darkness were on other rooftops, keeping eyes out for any new comings or goings at the building.

“Well,” Codex started, “becau...

Look At All Those Idiots

Occasionally, you will sit down and read a book, watch a show, play a game or go to a movie and come out of it wondering how the hell the plot even managed to happen given the reasonable assumption that most humans have basic simian common sense. Looking back at the story, you find that every step of the way, every decision made by almost everyone in the story was the wrong one and not due to poor information or bad luck. When you stop and think about it, the only reason the story even exist...

Rune Breaker: Chapter 45 – Arunsteadeles and Ridsekes

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Evil Unto Evil (Rune Breaker, #4)“Right in here, Mr. Arunsteadeles.” The half-elven woman in charge of the university’s communications building pulled open a heavy door whose materials Kaiel could only guess at. Whatever it was, it had done an admirable job keeping the cool air that rolled out of the room beyond the moment it found egress at bay. In comparison to the humid heat of Rivenport, it was downright chilling.

“Thank you.” Kaiel said, inclining h...

Descendants #74 – Bit Part Bad Guys Chp. 5

This entry is part 45 of 45 in the series CurrentA few minutes later, Alexis and Ian returned to the main floor of Club Heavy with two injectors: one of Gold GYW and another of a supplement Froakie said would allegedly make sure ‘Natasha wouldn’t have to eat more than usual to keep her Gold-provided powers active. They left the dealer with almost two thousand dollars in old, paper currency.

What Froakie didn’t know was that more than a dozen of those bills were tagged with microdots that react...

Missed Potential

I imagine that most of us have seen this old gag in one form or another: someone discovers gold and goes off the deep end with gold fever, probably getting lost in day dreams of wealth, or flipping out over the need to protect their claim. Then in the end, as having a character get rich threatens the status quo, it turns out that the ‘gold’ was actually pyrite, AKA: Fool’s Gold. In fantasy stories, it might also turn into rocks or leaves instead because fairies are jerks.

The same sort of thin...

SIMaS Chapter 15 – The Guardian Spirit of Megardia

This entry is part 15 of 15 in the series So I Married a SupervillainUnsurprisingly, almost a dozen members of the Sovereign Elite had been mustered to accompany Link and the King’s Guard on his fact finding mission. They very visibly covered the arched entryways to the exhibit: a permanent installation in the Megardia National Museum of Wold History, with the grim and determined ferocity of rebels awaiting the coming of a vastly superior force.

And Link found himself somewhere he never expect...

Descendants #74 – Bit Part Bad Guys Chp. 4

This entry is part 44 of 44 in the series CurrentAlexis emerged from the commuter pod. Even through the walls of the pod station, she could hear the thumping beat from the club; it stirred up memories in her that made her smile. “I wish we weren’t just going here for ‘business’.”

“Really?” Ian climbed out of the pod after her, but he wasn’t smiling. Mostly, he was trying to keep the white leather trench coat Laurel and Alexis were making him wear closed over the rest of his ‘club-wear’. His ha...