Writings and Thoughts and So Forth: November 2022

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Approaching Endgame (Exalted)

If not for the last minute, I probably wouldn't get anything done, as the old saying goes. Anyhow, unless something goes horribly wrong as I'm typing this, this should get us fully caught up now and with any luck I can get back to the pace I had before things fell apart a while back.

In case you missed it in my previous post, the Kickstarter for Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course, the next Exalted 3rd Edition 'fatsplat' supplement, is live and doing nicely. Fun fact, according to the Onyx Path Monday Meeting Notes, Sidereals is the fastest-funded OP Kickstarter at 9 minutes!

Oh, on a fun note, the session I'm describing here is the fiftieth session of Tales of the Moonlight Maiden. I just wanna take a moment to thank my players for sticking with me this long, and to thank anyone who's reading this for taking the time to do so.

And with that, let's dive in for the rest of last week's session.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Dreams and Abstractions (Exalted)

Originally I was going to start this off with a 'now I'm caught up, now to see if I can keep up to date' thing, and then it took longer to get written than I'd like, and I got waylaid by a massive headache one night and now this is late and I owe you two sessions' worth of material. Whoops.

I'm doing something a little different with this write-up. I'm not going to combine two full sessions into a post because it'll get too damn long. However, there's a point where the group splits up, and that split carries through from the first session into the second. For the purposes of narrative flow I'm folding some of the second session into the post for the first. So really, rather than two sessions in two posts, I'm doing a session and change in one and the rest in the other. Hopefully it'll be seamless enough that you wouldn't even notice, but I believe in transparency and setting expectations with stuff like this.

In related news, the Kickstarter for the next Exalted 'fatsplat,' Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course, has gone live! I didn't work on the book, but still promoting it anyways because I can.

(And before we get on with it, I just wanna say that I know this story arc's been a little slow. I'll be bringing it to a climax soon, Luna willing. It was meant to be kind of a 'filler episode' after the recent bigger plot stuff, and for a couple of reasons it's come out a little more low-key than I expected. The people responsible have been sacked.)

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Three Boards (Exalted)

This week's Exalted session had to be pushed back a couple of days, so to the best of my physical capacity to do so I'm seizing the opportunity to get caught up. That's right, as long as this goes up before Thursday afternoon, then I'll be officially caught up on these posts. So let's see if I can pull it off!

(And it appears I was successful, huzzah!)

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Careful Placement (Exalted)

I'll be honest, at this point for the titles I'm just making shit up that sounds like it could be a good chess (or another tactical board game) expression. I mean, I'm sure these are perfectly valid, just don't assume any special meaning in them. Anyhow, as I write this, I'm nearly caught up, knock on wood.

And, again, one more reminder that I'm in an anthology that's come out called Samhain Secrets: World Premiere from new publisher Blackwarren Books. For more info/purchase links:

Direct from publisher

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Opening Moves (Exalted)

Alrighty, here we are again. I was hoping to have this up sooner, in my quest to get caught up, but my arm has backslid a bit. It's frustrating, and when I get a chance I'm going to call my doctor's office an probably get a specialist to look at it.