Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Careful Positioning (Exalted)

Something something still catching up.

In case you missed it, an urban fantasy anthology to which I contributed is releasing October 31st, 2022! I've got some pre-order links for Smashwords and Amazon, and I'm not going to copy-paste it here again but on my last post I put up the book blurb.

And, um... let's go, then.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Reviewing the Board (Exalted)

Alrighty, still playing catch-up here (and there've been all sorts of delays on this post specifically). I'm going to try to get the rest of my backlogged posts done soon, as I have all of my drafts and things turned in and my arm is doing a lot better. But between resting my arm and other stuff I've been dealing with, I've fallen a little farther behind than I'm comfortable admitting. Though the other stuff led to me having to cancel a session, so the backlog could be worse. But I'm babbling.

Though before we get to it, a quick announcement. One of the things I had to turn in is already available for pre-order! It's a story in an urban fantasy anthology called Samhain Secrets: World Premiere. It's currently available for pre-order on Smashwords and Amazon.

Here's the back of the book blurb:

In the Argent City, where supernatural creatures like dragons, fae, and tricksters live alongside blissfully unaware humanity, Halloween Night remains the craziest night of the year. A dragon who would be king struggles to establish his identity and find his passion in hosting a popular radio show, while the wily Kitsune seek to unmask a conspiracy against the feuding Tricksters of the City, where anyone could be the culprit. Across the City, a pair of Fae entrepreneurs stake their future on cleansing a murder site for the police, but a nosy Brownie can't accept the given cause of death and suspects murder. And finally, a hopeful actress takes a chance at scoring the lead in the reboot of a much-beloved vampire action series, only to find the audition process far more bizarre, and deadly, than even the most committed actor would expect.

Featuring contributions from Chris Shaffer, David DeMar, Vaughn R. Demont, and special guest Sierra Dean, the Argent City is explored through the eyes of the different denizens that call it home, and the one night a year where the brave and curious can discover the secrets lying just beyond the human eye.

Remember, the above links are for a pre-order. The book will be available on October 31st, 2022!

And with that, let's delve in.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Setting Up the Pieces (Exalted)

Hey there, folks. I know these are still erratic, still working on yada yada yada.

Assuming I don't think of some reason to come back and add to this intro (such as it is), let's get to it.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Smoldering (Exalted)

Hey there folks, it's me again. As opposed to whom, I couldn't tell ya. But it's me.

Y'know, not that I'm gonna make it one, but it occurs to me that if this were a podcast I could get away with a generic intro. Just thinking.

Anyhow, I'm slowly trucking with trying to get these posts on track. But I'm still having issues with my arm and typing for long stretches is difficult, which isn't helped by the fact that I have multiple typing-related obligations going on at the moment. So I have to pace myself, as much as I'd love to just sit down and bang one of these out every night (heh, phrasing) until I get caught up. But at the same time, doing these gives me a bit of a mental buffer so I don't get burned out on the other stuff.

Speaking of which, let's get to it.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Back into the Fire (Exalted)

Greetings, my peeps. What? Okay, I'm being told by my people I'm too old to say that. Anyhow, hi.

So here's the next one of my 'catching up' posts. We'll see how far I can get in this one before my arm tells me to stop or I lose my ability to focus. And, um, okay. Lets go.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Catching Up (Exalted)

I wanted to start off on some joke on what you folks have been up to while my back was turned, but I can't think of anything clever that doesn't also make me sound like a bit of a jerk. Ah well.

So yeah, I'm behind on Exalted posts. This is largely due to my having had some issues working on a freelance assignment and pushing through a combo of mental burnout and some minor physical issues to get drafts done and just not having the time or brainspace to devote to blog posts. The only reason we've been able to play at all is that my preparations carried us a little farther than I anticipated (not complaining!). 

(And as I'm sure there's someone who'll think that running a game session is irresponsible when a deadline is breathing down my neck, I'd argue that pressuring myself into a breakdown because I refused to use the relief valve would have been worse.)

For the record, I'm not gonna even try to cram what is four sessions (as of this writing) into a single post. Long stretches of typing are a little uncomfortable right now so I'm probably going to just keep it to four individual posts and get caught up ASAP, but we'll see how I feel as I go. I doubt I'll be fully caught up before the next session, as I have other things to do, but hopefully we'll be squared up by the next session after that. I don't have any sort of outline on that, though.

The delay also means more instances than usual of fuzzy details because I didn't think to attribute a line or something like that in my notes, and for that I apologize. If you're in my game and I badly mangle something, let me know so I can fix it. 

So let's do this.

Tales of the Moonlight Maiden: Brawl on the Beach (Exalted)

Hello again! This isn't late or anything; I should have pointed out that the combat begun in the last post stretched across two more sessions and I didn't want to write a blog post that literally stopped between rounds of a big fight. I probably should have said something, and I apologize if anyone was concerned.

I can't think of anything else to add to this right now so let's get to it.