Dead Suns: The Gate of Twelve Suns (Starfinder)

Hey there, folks, looks like the long-range scanners have picked up another Starfinder session.

.....

Wait, wait, come back, I'll never make that joke again, I swear!

But anyhow, all kidding aside, we've begun the fifth volume of the Dead Suns Adventure Path, The Thirteenth Gate.

So let's get on with it!

(again, as often happens, this is a combination of multiple sessions, so characters may appear or vanish, etc.)

Conversion 8: The Ocho

Alright, so in case you're at all interested in my ongoing furry cyberpunk story, I've got another chapter of it up. I've done something a little different with this one (I mentioned as such in my last post), and while eight chapters in is probably a bad time to do anything like that, eh. If you don't like it, complain to my publisher.

So without further delay, here's...

Conversion Chapter Eight: Change of View

Here's links to prior chapters, just for easy of access:
Chapter One (for which I still need a proper chapter title)
Chapter Two: Coming and Going
Chapter Three: In the Light of Day
Chapter Four: Couriers
Chapter Five: Familiar Spaces
Chapter Six: Allies
Chapter Seven: Measures


I also have a side-story in the same setting that I posted after spending a while trying to get it published. It stands well enough on its own, though it does serve as something of a sequel to a story I had published in FANG Vol. 8 a year and a half ago (knowledge of the earlier story isn't necessary, but it does feature the same characters). And here it is:

Renegotiation

In case it needs to be said, these stories are more or less safe for work. There's some swearing and some violence, but nothing you couldn't see on network TV past a certain hour. (Though Chapter 7 does imply some particularly unpleasant violence off-camera, it's still nothing you couldn't have gotten on, say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) Now, of course, if stories featuring anthropomorphic animal characters aren't your thing, feel free to give it a pass.

Dead Suns: The Temple Found (Starfinder)

It's been a while, ain't it? A couple of my players have had notable schedule problems, which has held up sessions (this is also why there haven't been any Borderlands write-ups in a while). Also, I tend to do these write-ups once the group has progressed through enough story to be worth telling, and we had a couple of sessions that were mostly taken up by combat that would result in a write-up too short to bother with.

So this write-up comprises three sessions, covering the last act of the fourth volume of the Dead Suns adventure path. As such, between that and the aforementioned scheduling issues, the usual disclaimers about members of the group seeming to fade in and out apply.

Also, in case you missed it, the Gencon event catalog is currently open. While you can't sign up for it just yet, the game I'm running on Saturday, Space Brigade's Legacy, is currently available to view. Even if you can't get into the game, feel free to seek me out at Gencon if you're going to be there!

Status Update

So I've put up a version of this post on a couple of different spaces, realized I should post it here too.

So this is just a quick update as to writing projects and other stuff.

First, the writing:

Conversion: I've gotten to a point where I can start spending time and energy on this, and I'm working on the next chapter. It's a little slower-going than I'd anticipated, though -- I'm doing something a little different with this one, and it has its own obstacles.


Song in the Dark: As you may or may not have noticed, I've posted the second part. I haven't started on part three yet, as I'm trying to get a little more progress done on Conversion so it's not totally neglected. (I do have part 3 roughly outlined, so I at least have a plan and once I get back to this the writing should be relatively smooth, knock on wood)

I've got a couple of other things I poke at when I'm blocked on the other stuff. Most of it's gone unfinished and abandoned because I have a real bad habit of mistaking 'that's an interesting premise' for 'there's an actual story here.' Anything I have finished hasn't really been shared or posted anywhere, largely because every now and again I beat the metaphorical bushes looking for someplace where I could submit it. (Biggest issue there: This is stuff I wrote with the mindset of 'I'll write this for myself and if it's worth submitting, I'll submit it,' but the word count is too high for short fiction and too low for novellas, so I'm a little stuck there.)  If either of those things ever changes, I'll let you know.


And now, the other stuff...

If you haven't heard already, I've been accepted into this year's Regional Anthropomorphic Writers Retreat. So I'll be spending a week in June with a bunch of other writers in South Lake Tahoe, hopefully uncovering some insights into stuff I've been doing wrong and building some confidence in networking and the like.
(And if anyone's got any ideas or suggestions on stuff I could do or see in that area before or after said retreat, I'm all ears while I'm still in the 'looking at plane tickets' phase of the trip.)

In July, I'll be hitting Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, as per usual. If anyone's going to be around there and wants to hang out, let me know.

And in August, I'll be in Indianapolis for Gencon. Saturday, from 6pm to 10pm, I'll be running an Æon one-shot. (It'll be a sequel to the game I ran last year, though knowledge of that game won't be necessary.) The game's called "Space Brigade's Legacy," and when the event catalog goes live the Game ID will be RPG19156461. I may or may not submit a late event to run another game over the weekend, I haven't yet decided. Part of me wants to run something but I don't have any great ideas at the moment. But as with AC, if anyone's going to be around (either at the convention or just in the area) and wants to hang out, let me know.
Heads-up: This might be the last Gencon I attend for a while, as it's becoming harder and harder to get affordable hotel rooms downtown and as much as I enjoy the convention the frustration of dealing with the hotels' gouging is finally reaching a tipping point.


And that'll probably be it trip-wise for the rest of the year, but who knows. We'll see. If anyone's got any questions, feel free to ask here or in all of the various places you can find me online.

Song in the Dark, Day 2

Welcome back, folks, for the second installment of my Night in the Woods fanfic. In case you missed it, the first chapter can be found here.

It occurs to me that I should point out that -- in case it wasn't obvious by the first chapter -- events of the story will overlap with events in the game. And while I'm not going to be rewriting game events to confirm to my story or anything like that (though there is a 'canonical' set of story choices I'm sticking with for the sake of this story), that does mean that future chapters will spoil certain events of both the main game and the Lost Constellation 'side' game. Eric Hostetler and Mae Borowski are having somewhat-parallel adventures, but their individual stories diverge enough that this story won't spoil all of the big reveals in the game. At the same time, while Song in the Dark draws upon Night in the Woods for its 'mythology,' it will delve into places the game doesn't go.

So after that unnecessarily-long disclaimer, you'll find the second chapter under the cut. If you want to read the story on other sites or find a PDF download (on the FA page), you can find it on FurAffinity and SoFurry (note that both sites are generally considered NSFW even though you have to sign in to see anything like that).

Dead Suns: Voices of the Ancestors (Starfinder)

Okay, so it's been a little while. I'd make some pun here about sidereal time or some such, but nothing's coming to me at the moment.

So let's get on with a write-up of my last couple of Starfinder sessions. (usual disclaimers apply about multiple sessions being stitched together meaning that individual characters may suddenly seem to appear or disappear from the narrative)

No Rest for the Wicked: Lambda

Helllooooo, minions!

So we've got a bit of a hat trick here, three No Rest for the Wicked sessions in a row. That's scheduling weirdness for ya. (Next week will probably be Starfinder, though, just a heads up.)

So not much has happened since my last write-up, so let's just jump right in.