You can go there even though it doesn't exist.

Long story short, I have to vacate my apartment due to the need to tear up the floor and replace a sewer line underneath it. The building was going to put me up in a vacant unit for the duration but I've somehow parlayed this into being allowed to move into the new unit permanently. It's still a studio but approximately 3x bigger than my current one, is on the 13th floor and has a bomb-ass view of Capitol Hill. All for only $165 more per month than I currently pay and my deposits all roll over.

The downside of course is that I'll be without internet for a few days but I'll be available by cell.

Find the Fish

http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/

Interesting site, I'm thinking about submitting. Maybe some kind of fisherman's almanac as a Monster Byte or something. I should probably have my head examined thinking about taking on more freelance (that doesn't even pay) but what the hell.

Also considering getting a saltwater tank. 20 gallon nano-reef setup, couple of fish, some crabs and snails, maybe a coral or two. I've wanted to do that for a while and the cost of the hobby has dropped significantly in the last few years.

Finally, I'm on a Ladytron binge for no particular reason. Apparently everyone is calling Velocifero their weakest album but they are dumb babies. Black Cat fucking rules and has the sickest bass line I've heard in a long while.

i really think i should've gone to bed tonight but...

The Best of the Lovecraft Film Festival this past Saturday was a good time despite the fact that I did not actually view any films. Here are some pictures taken by the illimitable and inimitable Angel Ceballos, one of which will reassure any of you who may be concerned that I am not drinking enough.







Angel has done photo work for Unhallowed in addition to her non-gaming photo career as well, I recommend everyone check out her stuff http://www.robotangel.com/

A small objectivism

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "

Anyone not already doing so should be reading Kung Fu Monkey blog if you're interested in screenwriting, politics and tabletop gaming.

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/

Now I'm off to the film fest where I will try not to spill whiskey on my expensive new suit.

Oh fuck another blog

Due to the sad reality that I should probably take part in the Unhallowed livejournal community I've finally broken down after many years of occasionally violent resistance and made a god damn livejournal. In the unlikely event anyone here wants to read that blog instead of this one it can be found at http://godsawayonbsns.livejournal.com/
All my posts there will be cross posted here so don't feel like you need to read both. Ain't nothing to it, gangsta rap made me do it.

Unhallowed Metropolis & Hallows Eve Design

Hallows Eve Designs is proud to announce it is the future publisher of Unhallowed Metropolis™ , the gas mask-chic roleplaying game of Neo-Victorian horror. Written by veteran game developer Jason Soles (Privateer Press, Eos Press) and Nicole Vega, the book details a world set two hundred years after the advent of the zombie plague. Inspired by the works of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and other Victorian-era visionaries, Unhallowed Metropolis™ details London as an apocalyptic Neo-Victorian dystopia.

The first publication will be Unhallowed Necrocopolis™, a supplement to Unhallowed Metropolis™, available in May 2009. Unhallowed Necropolis™ narrates the secret history of the Paranormal in the grim future of 22nd-century London. It will include complete rules for psychics and spectral entities, new sciences and technologies as well as providing five new character Callings. Unhallowed Necropolis™ is a painstakingly researched alternative historical setting designed to provide a rich role-playing experience.
Unhallowed Necropolis™ is a 260 page, black-and-white book that features an elaborate interior design with photographs and illustrations by Melissa Uran, Eliza Gauger, Robert Tritthardt, Aron Dittbrenner, Chris Walton, Angel Ceballos, Marc17, Bloodengel Photography, David Russell, and Colleen Mathis with cover art by the incomparable George Higham.

Hallows Eve Designs has a quarterly release schedule for 2009 that includes new scenarios, settings and backgrounds, Callings and Character options. ”We are excited about our partnership with Hallows Eve Designs and have all faith that they will provide the support necessary to take Unhallowed Metropolis™ in amazing new directions,” said Jason Soles.
Unhallowed Necropolis™ and Unhallowed Metropolis™ will be available in hardback and downloadable PDF from hallowsevedesigns.com beginning May 2009.

Free PDF downloads are currently available at hallowsevedesigns.com

Unhallowed Metropolis Index - A complete index for Unhallowed Metropolis. Helpful for Players and Narrators alike.

Unhallowed Metropolis Errata - Minor corrections and revisions for Unhallowed Metropolis.

Blood Legacy: The Dhampir Revisited - Refined and revisited, the Dhampir Calling gains new Stunts and other powers of the blood.

At last, the 1998 Show

Unhallowed Necropolis release party, April 24th.



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Because not everyone is sick of Cthulhu yet...

Lovecraft comes to Seattle next month at the Grand Illusion Theater!

Gala Opening is Saturday, March 21st
Doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm - $10

Guest appearances from Andrew Migliore (founder of HPLFF) and David Prior (director of AM1200).


Should be fun, I was at the screening for a bunch of these back in November. Cool Air is an oldy but goodie and Late Bloomer is one of the funniest short films I've ever seen.

Radio Free Nerd

Just a quick plug for fellow RPG writer and podcast talker or whatever, Ross Payton:



Roleplaying Public Radio: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/

How to Dissapear Completely

Just stop posting anything but image files and youtube links.

I have not been posting anything of real note because I've been writing at least 500 words per night on weeknights followed by 2,000+ words per day on the weekends for the last six weeks. In the past three weeks I've written a new module for Unhallowed (details soon), all the fiction for the next Call to Arms league dispatches, and now I'm wading through a very large No Quarter article that I got handed at the last possible moment. Basically, I seem to have become Privateer's "Break Glass for Writer in Case of Emergency" auxiliary backup emergency writer.

This is a good thing but my free time is largely consumed by writing so it is difficult to summon the energy to write yet more words. Words for which you cheap bastards are not paying me.

Other than that Temple Con was very successful and I did not succumb to alcohol poisoning. I'll probably post a little more about that when I get some pics back from Grant and Ximon.

Also, I am totally obsessed with The Knife again, after finding Karin's solo album, "Fever Ray." That album deserves its own post and accolades, so in the meantime here is a live performance from The Knife.