Last night's game:
Druid: During my watch I'd like to do a drawing from the Deck of Many - no the other one
Veteran players: THE WHAT
Me, DMing: The tarokka deck?
Druid: That one!
Veteran players: OH THANK GOD we were like HOW LONG HAS SHE HAD THAT
Needing to drive across Salem on Friday the 13th for meds from the vet is a HARROWING experience, even at 9:30 in the morning.
What if Disneyland allowed tourists to drive cars and the streets were built before the Revolutionary War?"
(The city does a remarkable job
keeping things safe but tourists looking for parking in an old New England city is adventures in fender benders)
Giving away Blood & Bone today to kick off Halloween in Salem, superhero nordic noir with werewolves and vampires. I really should revisit the Titus solo stories again soon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDQBVM8
Been trying for months to figure out how to stop my neighbor's windows from melting my house and it has come to my attention there are nine-foot-tall inflatable lawn dragons that would look AMAZING peering out from that side of the house for Halloween that might just become permanent
"My superpower is if I get extremely invested in a character, that character WILL inevitably die tragically."
"Do you think this might have anything to do with the fact you fully admit you have always had a low-key death wish so you identify with doomed characters?"
"...sh*t."
I'll be joining moderator Sara Sheckells and fellow panelists Petrea Burchard and Stephanie Willing for a Salem LitFest panel on authors who narrate this weekend, 9/10 at 11 a.m. EST. Figured I should give this some love here. Virtual and free!
http://salemlitfest.org
Salem Lit Fest
Bringing Readers and Writers Together
Being a writer is a hell of a lot closer to a service industry job than a white collar job, especially for the constant ration of sh*t you take from stranger who don't respect the industry you're in despite making use of its services every f*cking day.
Seeing all the "writers don't deserve a living wage" still happening and I just blurted out to myself "ENTERTAINING PEOPLE IS IN FACT A SERVICE" and I feel like I need to put that on a coffee mug or something.
I think every author could enjoy running a TTRPG because sneaking in an NPC with a familiar surname for players you've GMed for long-term means you get the instant gratification version of an easter egg in a book.
Watson is afraid of the rain, so his morning ablutions in this weather are generally miserable, but today we learned that the only thing that makes him forget he's being rained on is seeing a rabbit he will then spend ten minutes trying to capture in the back yard (the rabbit was already across the street, but Watson the Mighty Hunter didn't know that.)
