As part of the Warmachine/Hordes Narrative League that I’m helping to host at The Rogue’s Roost this summer, everyone gets to create a character and write that character’s narrative throughout the league. My character, Adrik, is one of the Defiers – a group of beings brought forth from Urcaen to wreak havoc on the living. Each Defier is part myth and part fact, the myth built up from a grim parable of what happens to a man who tries to take a stand against a God.
I recently got an e-mail that AOL Instant Messenger would be shutting down on December 15, 2017. I look at this with mixed emotions – on the one hand, it’s just a chat protocol, one that I don’t really use much anymore (nearly all of my AIM friends have moved on to other chats). On the other hand, it was a chat protocol that had a lot of features that I liked. Continue reading Goodbye AIM→
For the second month of the Narrative League, I’ve been working on painting up my Grymkin. I’ve been keeping up the pictures as I paint everything, but saving everything up for a post on the week between the second month and the final month. Be prepared for lots of pictures, just after the jump. Continue reading Warmahordes Narrative League Painting 2→
With Ascendance out of the way, I was actually looking forward to reading Transcendence. Where Ascendance had mostly characters I didn’t much like, even Transcendence’s villain was interesting to read about. Between this and my planned travel, this book went very fast – I finished it within a week of starting it.
Adrik had slowly been urging the Grymkin toward the Pelligan Shards, as he sensed more than deduced the destination of the enemy forces. Once there, however, he had to fight hard with the warlocks to venture inside – though the fear of the unknown was the Grymkin’s playground, in the Shards it cut both ways. In the end, he convinced only two warlocks, the Child and the Dreamer, to follow him inside. Continue reading Warmahordes Narrative League – Week 8→
Between Riverworld novels, I decided I would give a shot to a selection of DemonWars short stories that I picked up from StoryBundle. If you’ve been reading this blog a bit, you’ll know that I quite like the DemonWars saga, so this little collection was quite a treat – especially since I didn’t know it existed beforehand.
With the violence of the flagstone played out, The Dreamer sought out the nearby village of Orin’s Respite, to better understand the stance of the local people. When they arrived, they found the village burned, the people dead, and the Harbinger of Menoth waiting for them. It mattered not whether it was the destruction wrought by the flagstone or the wrath of the Harbinger that destroyed the town; the Grymkin needed no excuse to attack their most hated enemy. Continue reading Warmahordes Narrative League – Week 7→
While I wasn’t initially planning on listening to the Second DemonWars Trilogy, I found myself listening to Ascendance when next I got a chance. The reason that there’s a hesitance for me in picking it up is really that the Second DemonWars Trilogy is really a different kind of story compared to the first, one that, though I enjoy the telling, I’m not sure I enjoy the story quite as much.
Ascendance, in particular though, was a bit difficult for me to get through – and that’s something I’ll discuss after the jump. Continue reading Ascendance→
Now that the alliances had more formally organized, it was once again time to send the Child out. This time, she would be attacking a nearby vale that was strategically important to the valley. Before they even had eyes on the valley, she knew there would be resistance; she could feel the presence of one of the cauldron’s chosen. She also knew that they would be ready, as the enemy could just as certainly feel Adrik… Continue reading Warmahordes Narrative League – Week 6→
I recently finished Dark Designs, the next Riverworld novel. Of the three I’ve read thus far, this one is far and away the best – primarily because it keeps things moving in the middle. There’s a lot going on in this book, and while there are certainly spoilers below, I’ll be looking at it more in broad strokes. Continue reading Dark Designs→
Thoughts are stripped of their texture to form words that they might be colored by the mind of another.
