Month: August 2017

Creature Seed: Oso, the God of Cocaine.

Oso, the God of Cocaine – Google Docs

Oso, the God of Cocaine

 

Unholy Symbol: a Grateful Dead-style dancing bear, with white paws, and white lines descending from its nose and mouth.

 

Why does he take the form of a black bear?  Because when you’re a dark theurgic engineer, you work with what you have.  If you have a bear that died from eating 40 kilos of cocaine, got stuffed, put in a museum, stolen, pawned off, bought by Waylon Jennings — hold on, it gets weirder — gifted to a friend of the guy who originally accidentally gave the bear the cocaine (not to mention posthumously, as the cocaine’s owner had ejected the cocaine just before he died in a tragic, yet somewhat satisfying, combination skydiving/drug-running incident), displayed in a Reno mansion for a decade, then sold to a Chinese-American apothecary who needed a display for his traditional medicine shop — look, you apotheosize the damned bear into the God of Cocaine, all right?  The mystical charge on this one was so strong that the woman who nominally owned the bear couldn’t stand it, and wasn’t able to throw it out.  It was almost irresponsible not to turn it into a god.

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Lemme lay down a marker: we’re gonna see those unfinished Terry Pratchett novels eventually.

What’s that I hear?  The drives containing those novels got run over by a steamroller, then thrown into a stone crusher?  Yup!  Yup, they were.  At Sir Terry Pratchett’s own request, no less.  I understand.

I also understand this. Continue reading Lemme lay down a marker: we’re gonna see those unfinished Terry Pratchett novels eventually.

So they want to do a girl-only version of Lord of the Flies.

I am simultaneously intrigued and cynical about this.

Bee Season and What Maisie Knew directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel are set to write and direct a female-centric film version of the iconic 1954 William Golding novel Lord of the Flies for Warner Bros., according to Deadline. The duo will reportedly stay true to the novel, except that the children who are stranded on the island will be girls.

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Tweet of the Day, Lucille Ball Was A Bit Of A Overwhelming Media Force edition.

First, this.

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Dug Two Graves [Unknown Armies]

Dug Two Graves [Unknown Armies] – Google Docs

Dug Two Graves [Unknown Armies]

Power: Significant

Description: A gravedigger’s shovel, old, hard-used, but still sound.  It smells faintly of sun, mud, and blood.

Effect: You activate Dug Two Graves in just the way you’d imagine: you dig two graves, complete with markers. One for you, and one for the person that you’re going to kill. Dug Two Graves won’t work if you’re not truly ready to kill somebody in particular, by the way.  You’ll know if it won’t work: more than one person who has held the artifact has dug the graves, and then discovered (usually to their secret relief) that they’re not really ready to go through with it.

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Tweet of the Day, It’s Good Advice edition.

I sometimes wonder what our pets think of our habit of constantly hitting the clicky board that’s in front of the weird light and sound window.  I don’t wonder enough to go actually look up articles on canine or feline cognitive abilities, mind you.  That sounds entirely too much like work.  But I do wonder a little.

The ‘Killing Gunther’ trailer.

…Well.

It’s a Schwarzenegger movie that’s about a step and a half above direct-to-video. But it’s apparently being done in documentary(?) form?  Either that, or it’s routinely breaking the fourth wall. I’m going to assume documentary, or maybe reality TV show.

Which admittedly makes all it more interesting than I expected it to be.  Or perhaps ‘quirky.’  Quirky pseudo-documentaries operate under their own rules.

So, you know that RPG world for Patreon I’ve been thinking of for the last six months?

Yeah.  I’m delaying it at the last minute, because I had an entire new campaign world just drop into my head this morning. It’s a combination of D&D and Space Colonization: various fantasy races settling an alien world.  There will be magic, there will be active deities, and there will be technology (there just won’t be much in the way of electronics, because the industries needed haven’t been built yet). Throw in a helpful colony-wide disaster or two, and the world will be at just the right enlightened early-Renaissance level that I’ll need to sustain this.

Plus, I know just the OGL I can use to, you know, sell this puppy under. It’s time I started thinking about how to sell stuff.

FunCom suspends players who bought stolen Secret World Legends currency.

Well, I guess it’s an indication that Secret World Legends is succeeding: gold farming is alive and well. From Facebook:

Over this past weekend, our systems identified a number of accounts that were involved in purchasing Marks of Favour from third-party sites. These accounts are now suspended, and we will continue taking action against similar accounts moving forward.

Please be aware that we are taking a no-tolerance approach to this matter. Currency that these third-party sellers offer comes from purchases made with stolen payment information. This is the case for nearly every instance of this we’ve come across, and this is considered fraud.

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