Honest Trailers had virtually nothing bad to say about DUNE: PART TWO. I can’t blame them for that: it was a really freaking good movie. DUNE MESSIAH’s gonna be… well, there are no guarantees, but what the heck.
Also: they did a nice deep dive on one of the actors. You’ll know it when you see it.
Very cool: “For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.” Read the article for details, but the gist is that they were able to troubleshoot a bum chip, then work around it. From what I can tell from the article, ’twas very cleverly done. The programming seems extra-cool somehow when you’re dealing with a significant light speed delay…
Via Facebook.
Fighting!
It unsurprisingly hurt like a son of a bitch. Any pleasure that the bravo might have had from his opponent’s shout of pain was probably cut short when Gregor’s staff cruelly slammed up and into the man’s groin, though. Another vicious jerk (this time, sideways), and suddenly the bravo was on the ground, howling in his turn while clutching himself.
Gregor absolutely meant to cave the bastard’s skull in, at that point. He absolutely did — but his would-be coup de grace instead ended up solidly in the pit of the bravo’s stomach. His opponent stopped howling and started wheezing, instead; Gregor decided he didn’t care, and whirled to see if anybody else was up for a fight.
None of them were, except maybe the former victim; he was getting to his feet, and glaring at the three groaning figures on the ground. “My thanks, stranger,” he told Gregor, the strain in his voice obvious. Or maybe it was age; the guy had more white than brown in his beard. “But we need to go. No!” he said with well-controlled panic as Gregor started to stoop over one bravo. “No time to cut purses, or throats. More of their friends will be coming.”
I decided I wanted a little more art for the RPG project, and I didn’t have any representatives from the Second Republic anyway… So. ghulman, merman, and oldman. Or, you know, Ghoul, Deep One, and Necromancer. But they’re all really very nice people*.
And what of the RPG project? …Well, I’m trying to set up more playtesting. Then there’s the vignettes to incorporate, and more art. After that? We’ll see. I may decide to crowdfund. People crowdfund RPG stuff like nobody’s business.
Moe Lane
*I was unambiguous about the necromancer. Perky Goth with magnificent hair, I told Ben Fleuter. Heaving-capable bosom, said me. Clearly, Ben understood the assignment.
Here we go.
Based on the trailer, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE did not get much in the way of restraint from Disney. I’m surprised… and yet, not. Disney ain’t in that great of a bargaining position right now.
I read somewhere or other recently that 96% of authors don’t sell more than a thousand copies of their individual books. Which means, obviously, that I need to get cracking.
FROZEN DREAMS is my first novel – post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective, for those keeping score – and I’ve sold about six hundred copies or so, including the Kickstarter. But now is the time to get all of your friends to buy a copy! It’ll be good for them, and it’ll be good for me.
Once we have that one checked off, we can work on MORGAN BAROD. Hey, it’s a goal I can visualize…
Finally. I know this is going to sound weird – and it’s certainly not Atomic Overmind’s fault – but the USPS hijacked my copy of REIGN for an entire month and used it to play a bizarre game of Pong between Minnesota and Texas. I have no idea why. The address was fine. AO reused it when sending out the book again, no problem.
Ach, well. At least it’s here now.
PS: “At long last, Greg Stolze’s game of Lords and Leaders returns! Reign: Rules and Reign: Realms together form the second edition of this One Role Engine-powered fantasy game in which your characters can can defend and bring prosperity to threatened lands–or, if you prefer, conquer and pillage on a vast and awesome scale.” In case you were wondering.
The next Novice Tourney, too. I won’t have to do nearly as much for that as I did as autocrat for the event, thankfully. But it’s something that’s got to be done. At least I’ll be able to get plenty of fresh air, which is frankly something I need more of…
