I need one that’s not particularly partisan, neither a collection of hagiographies nor hit-pieces, and was written by somebody who doesn’t have his head up his a*s all the time. Oh, and eclectic: I will probably need to read up on the genres, but I need a good general primer. Which means, not one written for musicians.
I know, I know. Simple, right? But surely something like this must exist. People love to argue about music.
Evil Survival Crash Kit – Google Docs
The Evil Survival Crash Kit
This distinctly unattractive, not to mention absolutely repellent, metal box weighs 23.643 lbs, has a handle and carrying straps that are clearly not designed for human hands and backs, and smells mildly like socks that had been used to crush grapes, then left in a dark, damp room to ferment for a few weeks. ‘Evil Survival Crash Kit,’ by the way, is the name that human investigators have given it: presumably its ‘official’ name is spelled out somewhere in the disturbing, writhing sigils and designs that glow in and out of sight on the box itself. Given the contents and the entities that typically carry a Crash Kit, the translated name is probably highly unpleasant and almost certainly blasphemous.
Just in time, too: there’s a Villain in there that will be useful for the game I’m running now. Alas, it does not have the writeup of my wife’s character in it, but it’s early days yet. Nowhere near soon enough to even thinking about grumbling..
Man, but I miss the print edition of the Weekly World News.
Alien grave in Mississippi – Google Docs
Alien grave in Mississippi!
There is a corpse waiting to be dug up in Mississippi. It’s currently somewhere among the up to seven thousand corpses currently buried on University of Mississippi Medical Center property (said bodies dating back to the 19th Century, when the land was part of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum), and nobody at the moment is particularly looking for the corpse. Not that there’s much reason to, given that almost the only records involving the corpse were part of the batch of papers quietly burned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton after Lincoln’s assassination. Including a 1863 handwritten memorandum by General Sherman reporting success in removing all details of the corpse from the asylum’s own records (a copy of this memorandum can still be found in Sherman’s papers at the Library of Congress, albeit physically misfiled among some papers from a 1866 diplomatic mission to Mexico that General Sherman had participated in).
Continue reading Adventure Seed: Alien grave in Mississippi!
Galvanized Bouquets – Google Docs
Galvanized Bouquets
The alchemists never really went away; they simply decided to go off by themselves for a while. Also, it should probably be noted here that virtually nobody in the magical community with real power minded the dawn of our current rationalist-secularist era at all. Why should they? Thanks to modern science and technology, the number of superstitious peasants desirous of burning magicians — or, worse, desirous of constantly importuning and begging busy magicians for an endless stream of tawdry love spells and petty curses — keeps ever-shrinking. Books are cheap enough that mages no longer have to go to war with each other for the last remaining grimoire on a particular subject. There are such things as dentists. Indoor plumbing. Blessed, blessed anonymity. Plus, magic still works! But now that mages no longer have to suck up to rich patrons to get funding, it can now get to be a bit more baroque.
Carnideer
They were to be Doctor Ampersand Relentless Struggle’s (let us just say that the man had a complicated upbringing) finest creation, and a fitting revenge for human intrusion in the woods! Behold! The CARNIDEER! Genetically engineered with lupine DNA to give it a taste for meat and blood! Quake before its serrated Antlers! Tremble at the thought of its heightened senses! Fear the wrath of Mother Gaia, fools! Fear, and DIE!!!!!
Guthorga (7/24)
This particular fantasy martial art is taught to those pursuing the bardic lifestyle. At its most general levels, it is mostly concerned with teaching how not to draw blood in a bar fight: Guthorga practitioners practice with batons instead of edged weapons, on the grounds that it’s usually easier to explain away a broken arm or two to the City Watch afterwards than it is to justify a slit throat. The school does not typically teach how to talk your way out of trouble, however. If you want to be a bard, you should already know the basics of that!
…but I know that people who read me do get into audiobooks. And I did read and like Delta Green: Tales from Failed Anatomies. Heck, I’d hope that I would; I did the Kickstarter for it. So check this out.
5 free audiobooks for @DeltaGreenRPG by @HPPodcraft and yours truly (DROWNING IN SAND is my favorite.) https://t.co/vCWwGRdMzd
— Delta Green (@DeltaGreenRPG) May 4, 2017
Moe Lane
PS: I’ve actually wondered from time to time why I don’t get into audiobooks. Maybe I like going back and checking the text too much? It’s hard to do that with audio. At least I perceive it as being hard.
First off, let’s watch this clip.
Continue reading OK, I think I have a lead on what rankles me on the Captain America Hydra thing.
Porlock Solutions, Ltd – Google Docs
Porlock Solutions, Ltd.
This particular company is difficult to hire, mostly because the services it offers — the removal of irritating people from one’s personal history — are equally difficult to bill for. Let’s say that somebody employs Porlock Solutions to ensure that a crusading district attorney about to get a conviction against the client’s company is not assigned to try the case. Porlock Solutions arranges the switch. How does Porlock actually get paid for that? After all, from the client’s point of view the case was now always being handled by a fumble-fingered idiot.
