I’m with @ZODIAC_MF that there are more immediately and genuinely traumatizing things out there, but the scenario presented in the video below made me laugh out loud. So there’s that.
‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.’
Doing prices for the FERMI RESOLUTION WORLDBOOK TTRPG.
These are the numbers that I’m thinking of for the FERMI RESOLUTION TTRPG:
| Softcover, Large, Regular Color | $29.95 |
| Hardcover, Large, Regular Color | $34.95 |
| Digital File | $14.95 |
I have to think of them now because I need to come up with pledge levels for the Backerkit (it’d be awesome if you signed up for notifications for that, by the way). The book will be about 150 pages, and have a bunch of art. Do these numbers feel right to you? It’s a self-contained book using the GUMSHOE rules.
12/05/2024 Snippet, BANSHEE BEACH.
Information!
“Depends, compa… Shamus. I mean, maybe there’s some simoleons in it for me if I figure it out?”
“Maybe there would be,” I promptly agreed. “Lucas?”
The look Lucas gave me at that was anything but blank. Dirty as hell, in fact. He still didn’t bobble as he pulled out a bankroll and peeled off some monroes. But when Bananas reached for them, Lucas smoothly raised his money-laden hand out of reach. “So, hey, friend. Do you know what happens when an Adventurer pays for information and then somebody tries to welch out of it?”
“Ah… no?” offered Bananas.
Lucas smiled. Technically. “Are you eager to find out?”
12/05/2024 Snippet, PICKMAN’S MODELS.
We really need to get this one to bed. The other one, too.
He wasn’t the only one disquieted by their surroundings. “Twisty passages, all alike,” he heard Buckley mutter at one point. “Bo– sir, I think that a lot of this is fresh.”
“Fresh?” asked Reithner. She was still steadier than Tobias had expected. Possibly even steadier than he was. “You think these people still have enough energy to dig? Without machines, no-one would waste calories on that.” She sniffed. “Even with machines, what would be the point?”
Tobias’s light unfortunately found a metal plate that had been hung on the wall. Dimly-remembered and particularly unwelcome memories let him recognize the stylized features of Madam Corpse-Mask.This etching had been done by somebody with real skill, somehow managing to evoke both her skeleton body, and the flayed sacrificial face she wore. The outlined horror almost glowed, even after he hastily moved his light elsewhere. Was there a hint of it still on his retinas? Surely not.
“If these people are Red Imperial cultists, Lieutenant,” he managed to say calmly, “then we should try not to understand their point. We might succeed.”
IF YOU LIVE ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST MOVE YOUR ASS EAST *NOW*. [Updated]
[UPDATE: Alert canceled. Not a ‘false alarm,’ mind you. The West Coast just got lucky, that’s all.]
Just go.
Via @iowahawkblog. It looks like mostly Northern California is in trouble but DO NOT GO LOOK AT THE WAVES.
8 minutes from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM.
I will not lie: this matches my aesthetic. I make no judgements if it does not match yours. What I like is what I like, and what you like is what you like, and it’s all groovy. My wife and I are still gonna go see THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM as soon as it comes out. It will be a whole thing.
It’s the last hours of the Tom Vargas Mysteries Kindle sale!
Now is the time to grab the deal! Ninety-nine cents each of postapocalyptic fantasy detective goodness, until tomorrow morning!
#commissionearned
Today was a *complicatedly* busy day.
No writing done, but I had to run around with errands, deal with medical visits (nothing bad), work on the crowdfunding stuff for next year, and debug an Oculus Rift. That was the annoying one. Those VR helmets are very cool, but Meta is horrible when it comes to troubleshooting them, or even explaining what the problem was.
Oh, well, guess it was a bye day. The good news is that I had to do a lot less in the way of writing new stuff for the RPG than I thought I’d have to. That gives me some room to maneuver in the schedule.
Some updates on the vending front.
It looks like I’ll be doing a local event on the 14th, and I finally heard back about another event in April. The wrinkle on that one is that it’ll be the day after an event I’m doing already, but that’s… well, I’ll just have to soldier on, bluntly. I mean, at least I won’t have to unpack the car all the way.
Moe Lane
PS: I’m always looking for new venues, mind you. I’m starting to think that maybe local craft fairs and so forth may be more fertile ground. We’ll see!