Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Gathering (Exalted)

Hoi again, folks. I know it's been quiet, but circumstances led to us having to take last week off, so I took the time to get some progress on some personal projects. I don't think I have anything new to report, and I don't want to get too redundant by repeating all the recent stuff, so if you need to refresh yourself on what I've got available, I've got my game writing and fiction indexes to peruse. (Though as a special mention, I will point that my fiction index has links to my recent story reading on Spotify.)

And with that, the crew of the Moonlight Maiden begins a new year and a new adventure!

(This is a 'talky' one, so the usual disclaimer applies. Also, this story follows up on Port in a Storm, so it might be worth going back and reading/rereading that one if you haven't yet.)

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Final Round - Fight! (Exalted)

Hey there, y'all. So this is, again, behind. It's partially intentional, as there are two sessions typed up here and the first one is mostly a dramatic boss fight and follow-up confrontation and the other is denouement. So I let the blog post for the first one slide because depending on where the 'episode' cutoff for the second was, I might've divided that up between a couple of different posts -- one to cap off the tournament, one to kick off the next story.

And just as a reminder before we get into it, the PoD version of Realms of Magic & Mystery is available. Also, my two-part reading of "The Kit Gloves Are Off" from Samhain Secrets: World Premiere is available on Spotify: Part 1, and Part 2.

And I haven't offered up this disclaimer in a while, but there are some talky bits and I didn't get every word down so I'm probably mangling quotes, misattributing lines, and I know there's stuff I had my NPCs say that was good in the moment but didn't write it down and didn't recall later.

Tales of the Moonight Maiden: Shenan-again (Exalted)

Hey, folks, sorry this is so late. Stuff got away from me, and in trying to get things back in order other stuff slipped, and... yeah. I still have one more post to do after this and then I'll be all caught-up, but this has taken long enough I didn't want to try and add a third one on and make it take even longer.

Also, I apologize for the groaner of a title. I came up with it early on because this write-up features some out-of-tournament shenanigans again, and I simply could not think of anything better even with the extra time I had.

Anyhow, in terms of personal announcements, just a reminder that the Print-on-Demand edition of Realms of Magic & Mystery is available. Also, in the last couple of weeks, I've read both halves of "The Kit Gloves Are Off" from Samhain Secrets: World Premiere on Blackwarren Books' podcast, Allora Public Radio. You can find the first half here, and the second half is available here.

And let's get to it!

Reminders about books and other things

Okay, what order to do these in...

Let's start with the time-sensitive thing. Reminding folks that this Friday, April 14th, at 8pm Eastern time, I'll be reading the second half of "The Kit Gloves Are Off" over at the Blackwarren Books Discord. As a reminder, you can pick up the anthology in which it appeared, Samhain Secrets: World Premiere, at this finely-crafted link. (It's always best to buy direct from the publisher, but if you must go through alternate storefronts, you may find links to those over on my index of published fiction.)

Now, the more recent thing. Realms of Magic and Mystery, a Scion Second edition supplement I worked on, is now available in print on demand. If you bought the advance PDF and you're getting Onyx Path updates via DriveThru, you should have a link to a coupon for a discount on the POD as if you'd bought the PDF-POD bundle (as well as a notification of an updated PDF).

Last, and most certainly not least, the Trinity Continuum Player's Guide crowdfunding campaign is going into its final week. "Falling Into Place," a piece of fiction I wrote, was posted as a preview here, and as of this post the backer-only manuscript previews have included most of the material I wrote for the book, with some mechanical bits still yet to arrive this coming Tuesday, the 18th.

And I think that's it. Enjoy and take care!

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Group Effort (Exalted)

Greetings again, folks. Sorry I got a little behind on last week's post. Sun willing, I'll be able to get myself together to get a little better about that in the future. 

Before I get into it, if you haven't seen/heard elsewhere, this past Friday (the 7th) I did a reading of the first half of my short story "The Kit Gloves Are Off" from Samhain Secrets: World Premiere. I'll be doing the second half this Friday (April 14th). It'll be over at the Blackwarren Books Discord at 8PM Eastern time. It should be noted I'm not simply doing some character voices, but narrating as well.

And on a less personal note, just another reminder that the Trinity Continuum Players Guide crowdfunding campaign is live over on Backerkit. They've already publicly previewed the fiction I wrote (for the record, you don't have to know the game or the setting for the fiction to make sense), and this Tuesday backers should get the actual game content I wrote as well. Which has me quaking in both anticipation and dread.

Anyhow, considering that is sending me down a mental rabbit hole when I should be getting us into this week's Exalted session!

Fiction available: Falling Into Place

Quick update, while the book isn't out yet, the fiction I wrote for the Trinity Continuum Player's Guide has been previewed as part of the crowdfunding campaign! Go check it out!

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Moving Forward (Exalted)

Greetings, my... okay, I don't wanna say 'peeps,' that sounds stupid.

...

Yeah, nothing's coming to me. Anyhow. Hey, folks. Sorry this is a little late, sleep schedule's been screwed up for reasons best not gotten into here, and while I was able to get this written up in time, I didn't have the time or energy to get it posted before the following session.

So, announcements and updates before I get into it:

This Friday and the next (April 7th and 14th) at 8pm Eastern US time, I'm going to be doing a two-part reading of my story "The Kit Gloves Are Off" from Samhain Secrets: World Premiere. It's going to be over on the Blackwarren Books Discord.

Also, the Trinity Continuum Player's Guide crowdfunding campaign is still going strong. I've already talked about the book elsewhere on the blog, but at this point if you don't know about it you may as well go to the campaign link. You can pledge and get a preview of the 95%-complete manuscript, being released in stages (and no, in case you're wondering, my material hasn't come up yet). As of this posting, the first half has been previewed and the entire manuscript will be available for preview by the time the campaign is over. Also, the Onyx Pathcast has devoted a pair of episodes to the book so far, with the first serving as an overview and the second focusing on creating characters with material in the book.

And now, with that out of the way, let's roll that beautiful bean footage.