There’s a tacit agreement in place, in the ‘Ghost From The Machine’ universe: you don’t ask scientists about why you need one particular bit of android to transfer consciousness and memory, and scientists don’t feel obligated to make a fuss over the entire thing. This is just something that happens. It’s a Mystery, everybody accepts it, and gets on with the war.
Category: Patreon
Patreon Microfiction: “The Girl With the Sensible Boots.”
So, I took a look at “The Girl With the Sensible Boots,” and decided that it could make a suitable short story. So I made it into one. You can find it here.
The January Patreon stuff is up!
It is a measure of this week that I wrote that out originally as ‘December.’
- Fiction: The Girl and the Garrison Job. New Fermi Resolution story, for everybody who liked “The Last Raygun in the World.” I also need to stop giving away the plot in the title.
- RPG Material: Hex Nation, Part 5a: Troubles, Foreign. Originally ‘Foreign and Domestic,’ but I realized that I had enough material for two parts.
The full ARTIFACTS RPG setting is up on Patreon! For free!
ARTIFACTS is a post-time travel setting, system-agnostic, and dedicated to the proposition that time travel sucks. I’m doing this group discussion thing now with folks who do RPG-related Patreons, and some of ’em signed up for free memberships today, so I figured I’d finally get it up there on Patreon. Click the link above to read it for free! Click the link below to sign up for money!
Patreon Microfiction: Season’s Greetings.
What is the true message of ‘Season’s Greetings?’ Easy. Angels are terrifying. Sure, there’s some stuff about Christmas in there, but take this away from the text, if nothing else: angels are terrifying.
Patreon Microfiction: The Seam In tHe World.
I wonder if the spelling in ‘The Seam In tHe World’ bugs people as much as it bugs me. Probably not. That’s why I added the bit about hearing the Capital H. I figure the scream would bug people in-universe just fine.
Patreon Microfiction: Salamander.
I don’t really want to do much with ‘Salamander.’ Sharon’s doing fine, and the worldbuilding involved sounds really, really… well, dull, honestly. I don’t have the chemistry and biology I’d need, sorry.
So. The official changes to the Patreon.
I’ve decided to keep the video, for now. I need to work on the Kickstarter video anyway. There are going to be two major changes, going forward:
- The Collections feature is going to get a heavier workout. In particular, my RPG materials are going to get collated so that people can actually access them easily. I’ll also be collating the short stories that I’ve been writing for the world of GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND, because that’s overdue.
- But the big thing is this: I’m committing to regular installments of THE BOLD MARAUDER. It is going to be paywalled, but it’s a buck. I want to see how much I can sustain a month, but I think that a monthly installment around the middle of the month is doable. We’ll see how it goes.
That’s mostly it. It will still cost only a buck to join up, and I hope that people do!
I have made some long-overdue improvements to my Patreon.
The biggest change to the Patreon is that I have increased the number of Collections. You will now be able to see all the Fermi Resolution story links on one page, the free RPG game worlds have all gotten their own collection pages, you can find the poetry and Timmy stories, that sort of thing. I’ve also cleaned up the text a bit to reflect the fact that Patreon no longer offers goals. I’m keeping the current schedule of content and actually adding something to it, but the old language probably confused people.
Next up: a new video, and the aforementioned new content. Keep your eyes open! And sign up!
Changes coming soon to the Patreon.
Nothing bad or cut back; it’s just that some things need to get revamped. I’ve never really updated the Patreon to reflect the fact that the old model of ‘get to this level, and stuff unlocks’ is dead, and that I need to come up with something more enticing. I suspect that this will at least mean more regular Bold Marauder serial updates, which is something I kind of want to do anyway. I also have to decide whether anybody really cares about the RPG materials. I hope so – I like writing them – but the goal is to grow the site, not shrink it. It’s a new year: time to make some changes.
In the meantime, feel free to check the site out, if you haven’t already.