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You Found A Scroll: The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman

2011-12-12T22:35:00.003-06:00

The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman is a steampunk recreation of a Western. The world is literally half made, the East being like old Europe staid in its ways, while the middle is full of mixed and actively warring ideologies, and the West is unmade, i.e. animals are not animals and land is not land. It describes, through its protagonists and antagonists, the war between the two major factions;

Castle Brave

2011-10-09T00:07:00.008-05:00

After defeating Azerack, Boris the necromancer, the wonderous Warrick, and the brothers Warbreed had semi-retired to a suddenly vacated large keep near the village of Bump. The villagers appreciated the more laissez faire tax laws of their new landlords and threw them a festival. At the festival a minstrel sang of Castle Brave, a mystical palace of marble and onyx created by the gods to test

Of Eleves and Dweorgs

2011-08-30T00:59:00.001-05:00

When old was new and ancient young, the Elemental Forces collided and the World was made. The World was fertile and rich, vegetation and plants grew. Over ages, one of the plants began to walk and millennia later gained sentience, they called themselves eleves. As these eleves became wise and powerful they sought more knowledge in the depths of the earth. However dependent on the rays of Father

Chapter the Seventh, Part the First: A Throw's Challenge

2011-08-14T23:45:00.011-05:00

As the furious white wyrm froze the central core of the orrery, the stones cracked and the heroes breath was stolen in crystalline shards. At the base of the frigid tomb Tyrian and Ulmo rushed through an ornate door which they slammed behind them as the central spire of the orrery froze shut behind them. The brave companions found themselves in a chamber of well fit stone, an ancient but well

Chapter the Sixth: Small But Deadly Heavens

2011-03-14T23:36:00.001-05:00

From the Cathederalisle of Drouss, Ulmo and Tyrian sailed back to the Mother Enclave of the Roeblini to find passage on to the Monastery of the Masterminds. With Tyrios help they secured passage with a "trade" vessel headed near the forgotten psychic order's retreat. The Monastery proved to be a great sphere of some otherworldly material perched precariously and dwarfing a small island rising

Orrery of the Monastery of the Masterminds

2011-03-13T15:06:00.001-05:00

Chapter the Fifth: No Time Like the Past

2010-12-20T23:04:00.001-06:00

As the party exited the tunnels of the Lowcitadel of Khavash they came upon a storage area and the voices of a busy harbor. Dock workers speaking in the old S'suman dialect drew closer and the party withdrew back into the tunnels, now strangely lit by torches. The workers spotted the party and ran for the guards who arrived as the group took a fortified position on the beach despite being

Chapter the Fourth: Escape Through the Lowcitadel of Khavash

2010-05-09T00:39:00.000-05:00

The brave party made ready their plans for escaping the city and returning to New Roeblini City with information about the Condraconacy's incursion into Roeblini territory. One-Eye Morgrin provided the doughty companions with the address of a ruined Godslayer Imperium villa, alleged to access the sewers and the Lowcitadel of Khavash, as well as sketches of these tunnels drawn by the eladrin

Grey's Picture Album: On Vacation on the Prime Material -- Lowcitadel of Khavash

2010-05-08T02:26:00.000-05:00

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Chapter the Third: An Unexpected Toll and a Less Expected Ambassador

2010-03-16T01:37:00.000-05:00

Tyrian and Ulmo wroth at their ill intentioned exile from New Roeblini City rode with their companions along with the lumbering reptiles of the caravan. They climbed the narrow roadway of the Griffon Cliffs to the main thorough fare running to Khavash, carefully winding between the reptile infested jungles and the cliffs overseeing the Forest Sea. The first days travel was uneventful but on the

Solomon Kane

2010-01-22T11:12:00.001-06:00

Howard's Solomon Kane comes to the big screen!Technorati Tags: fantasy, movies

Chapter the Second: An Earthquake, the Swallower, and A New Friend

2010-01-19T17:03:00.000-06:00

The two friends had their early morning slumbers disturbed by a ferocious shaking as the very roots of the city shook themselves in a fierce earthquake. When they took their morning repast at the Last Good Time Tavern they noticed many urchins surrounding a large crevice in the firmament of Whores and Harlots Street. Paying this no mind they enjoyed their grog porridge, until their gustatory

Grey's Picture Album: On Vacation on the Prime Material -- Temple of the Swallower

2010-01-19T11:27:00.000-06:00

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Chapter The First: Deeds at the Duelist, Too Many Rats, and a Dog Named Grey

2009-12-21T15:26:00.000-06:00

In this first installment of our tale two unrelated brothers met, a mad halfling sorceror one Ulmo the Lucky and Tyrian Morgankin. Ulmo had but recently been banned from the Tunnelwebs of the Dwarves and forcibly evicted into the sordid gem that is New Roeblini City. Meanwhile Tyrian the last survivor of an ill fated sea raiding party sought out his distant uncle, Morgrin, within the city's

Kingmakers and Godslayers: Introduction

2009-09-25T17:09:00.000-05:00

Four score years ago, the Roeblini Armada lay siege across the Forest Sea to the Empire of the Godslayers. Under the eternal bloody twilight of the great Southern imperium, the barbaric raiders and the decadent savages made war. In the end the Roeblini were victorious casting down the ancient emperor and destroying the capitol seat. In its stead rose New Roeblini City which soon became a

The Road Trailer

2009-05-15T12:41:00.000-05:00

"The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition)" (Cormac McCarthy) serves as the story for the movie that comes out in the fall. I don't remember a cause to the calamity that sets the scene for the road, also the boy's mother is only seen in flashbacks and based on the trailer would have a greater role to play in the film. Time will tell.

The Last City: House Rules

2009-05-13T23:03:00.000-05:00

Character GenerationRoll 4d6 and discard lowest roll, player arranges scores to suit.Toll of PowerAll spell casters are subject to the economics of arcanium. In some form or another they will expend arcanium to fuel their spellcraft. Failure to do so can have dire effects for the caster. The effects of paying more arcanium than required can sometimes work, but is unstable, wild and dangerous

Starship Enterprise Destroyed by the Death Star

2009-05-08T17:05:00.001-05:00

This is pretty cool.

2009-05-04T17:39:00.001-05:00

is trying ping.fm to update...well...everything

The Last City

2009-04-11T11:55:00.001-05:00

The Last City is a vast and motley collection of dark gray stone buildings, manors, merchant halls, arenas, libraries, homes, and warehouses that sits on the End of the World Sea. The Last City has no graveyards, no mausoleums, and no way to keep the dead. The answer to this mystery is simple, because the Last City is the final mortal transit point for the deceased. The citizens of Last trade

The Fortress of Conclusion (or Fragging the Apotheosis)

2009-04-05T18:00:00.001-05:00

The abhorrent phantom flyer deposited the mad adventurers at the doorstep of the Fortress of Conclusion, the yawning maw of the Devourer anchored in the sepulcher darkness of an infinite cliff face. A great rusted iron door was dimly illuminated by the sickly green glow of a nearby lantern. Lextra examined the door and the Warbreed wrestled it open, only to gaze into an accursed room adorned

Back to the City That Waits

2009-03-08T12:12:00.000-05:00

Tower of TestThe warhorns of the Exalted sounded and then keened their deathknell as the party entered the Tower of Test. Here they found the grisly trophies of the brave who had dueled for the rank of the Lord High Exalted, greatest warrior of the Moilian Empire, their silent heads a grim tribute to the prowess of this office. At the entrance to the test they found the still animated head of

Terminator Salvation

2009-03-03T18:35:00.001-06:00

It's like crack to me.

The Towers of Discipline, Health, Treasure, Webs, and Confusion

2009-01-20T23:29:00.000-06:00

The Tower of DisciplineEntering the tower they came upon a tall hooded executioner standing behind a scarred chopping block. He hissed in Moilian which caused Goldune to begin to walk toward the chopping block with the intent of placing his head on its much bloodied surface. As the battle raged Dorun engaged his brother, dragging him back from the block, the necromantic and arcane might of

The City That Waits

2009-01-04T00:01:00.000-06:00

The Brothers Warbreed, Boris Devilboone, and Warrick Sinister found themselves teleported to a deserted city on the edge of the void, fierce electrical mayhem cascading overhead. The air was dead and bitter cold, and a thick layer of frost covered the towers and thin walkways. Before them, engraved in malachite was a challenge from the lich-god Acererack, daring them to face him in his lair.

Wolverine Trailer

2008-12-15T23:50:00.001-06:00

And I'll cut someone's head off if they screw this up. With a spoon.

Golemechs One-shot Introduction

2006-08-18T18:40:00.000-05:00

Fiendsguard is a carved, ruinous dark city seemingly sculpted out of and tacked onto a huge stalagmite deep within the planar crevasses of the Blood War. Strangely, Fiendsguard is not a city of demons and devils but a decaying prime material city-state besieged by both. This misplaced city is the result of a tear that allowed the Blood War to spill into the Prime Material world of Frazeel. The

Battle of the Burning Tower

2006-06-07T16:31:00.001-05:00

The hardy party awoke the next morning and as they began their morning absolutions a distant keening rapidly gained in intensity. As they scanned the dim horizon the Hand noticed the flat grey waters of the Unconscious Sea being thrown aside by a rapidly approaching cube. As the group scattered from the center of the platform an ornate box of exotic woods and heavy metal clasps some three feet

Mindsgate: The Fall of Hive Town and the Burning Tower

2006-04-03T12:21:00.002-05:00

"Silence, I am Grimspyne," spake the giant ebon wyrm. Lucien and Hurth returned the great dark dragon's cruel eyes as he related the tale of being drawn into the Midnight's Hunger when he faced the Emperor of Mellas. He spoke how he had prodigiously fornicated to create his dracobold cohort. Grimspyne claimed to have battled them previously. He finished his tale and demanded that the party, "

Mindsgate: The Undead Tree

2006-03-26T19:41:00.000-06:00

Drakkar, Kai, and the Hand spent the night under Weemag's protection and the following morning began to climb the knotted vine ropes to the next level. Here several of the young Sprayspawn men sat in a crudely contrived guard post, hiding behind a rubble barricade sheltered by a simple lean to. This 60 foot diameter chamber was a shambles, a twisted and broken mess of rubble and broken stone.

Star Wars Miniatures: Despite bloody losses, Fett's Force emerges victorious!

2006-03-19T02:30:00.000-06:00

Miko Fett's (Boba Fett) elite mercenary squad faced stiff opposition to emerge victorious in a grand battle royal between General Grievous' Separatist droid army, Grand Admiral Thrawn's Imperial troops, and the battling Jedi duo of Kenobi and Skywalker. Fett led the villainous droid bounty hunter 2-KYL (4-LOM), the cunning Avaricio (Greedo), Drarish Naelen (Devaronian Soldier) and

Mindsgate: Genesis

2006-02-25T18:03:00.000-06:00

Three lost souls with no memories prior to their waking awoke to the drip of moisture on their face, a dimly illuminated pool with ponderous shapes wriggling through its heavy contents hung suspended in the dimness above them. The three figures stirred, gazing in the foggy light at the large wet rough stone slab that had been their bed chamber. Above them, above the menacing tank, a black stone

Mindsgate: Introduction

2006-02-25T01:48:00.000-06:00

Many years ago the Empire of Mellas was faced by devastation and collapse, enemies both internal and external worried its borders with war, ravaged the city-states deep within its territories, and allowed monstrous denizens to maraud its lands. The good but young Emperor was beside himself and knew not what to do, until one day a bent cloaked figure was admitted to the Imperial court. The