Category: Fiction
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Meet Moon Wag, Werebear
Waking up from a dream where you hear yourself pleading, “choose the wolf? Choose the WOLF?” has always been a bad sign. Moon pulled his thinning wool blanket closer across his shoulders and watched the diffuse light of pre-dawn slowly illuminate the forest outside the hollow log he slept in. He had slept in better…
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Welcome to Bone Marrow, Magical Emporium!
Near the marina of Burati bay, one of the many warehouses is painted a nearly brown color of orange. The paint is flaking off, exposing dark cedar planks below. Brighter patches of orange paint cover up what one might assume are charred spots on the siding. Swinging from a cast bronze brace above a very…
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(D&D) Pushing a Lion with a Donkey
The orcs that razed Sing’jar quickly took the mayors manor on the north plateau overlooking the north bay, smashing the porcelain and hording the silver. The art on the walls was thrown in a bonfire to celebrate the conquest of the civilized peoples of Sing’jar. To bring the rejoicing destruction to its pinnacle, Scabwart Blaktooth,…
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Pre generated characters
The Faroth adventure players will be given pre-filled character stats and the equivalent of a level two city townsfolk. As such, they can pay their way with jobs/labor in order to acclimate to their new town. Now I know some of you will know how to roll a character, and you can do that on…
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Escape Pod 304
http://escapepod.org episode 304 is a very apropos of the current politics. We have a population eager for justice and fair living, but largely supplicants to oligarchy. The superheros are analogues of our morals: unpaid, exploited by their own marketing division, unaware of their own enslavement. It might be comic fiction, but its not a pulp…
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Mighty Good Story: Shannon’s Law (Escape Pod)
Episode 291 of Escape Pod is Mur reading Shannon’s Law, by Cory Doctorow, a chapter from the Bordertown anthology. I love the idea of actually building a TCP/IP network using carrier pidgeon, ogre’s laundry lines and the dust on the wings of a butterfly.
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Game Play and War
This NPR episode delves into discussion on the difference between play fighting and actual fighting. Apparently this difference is wired into people and dogs and presumably many other animals. So when you see your kids play fighting, think about when dogs play fight. Surprise–this same instinct is engaged during video game play. The non-gamer video-game…