Wings Over the Pyre

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Current Music: Insomnia Radio Podcast

This is a little vignette for Jared A. Sorensen's Darkpages project. I love a good excuse to write vignettes.

The way Harry's fingers were itching, he had the vague feeling he'd just been messing about in the middle of the world's largest poison ivy patch. That was pointedly not where his fingers had been, as attested by the thin trail of red which led from the door to the street, up the stairs, and into his apartment, but that wasn't really on his mind much anymore.

In fact, nothing much was really on Harry's mind much anymore except the continuous gnawing hunger, the vague discomfort that he felt that others were ignoring him, and an increasing interest in getting out of his situation as soon as he could. This wasn't due, as some thought, to the decreasing portion of his cerebral tissues still needing oxygen to survive so much as simple boredom.

( More Beyond the Gate )

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: The Rasmus - In My Life

"Spare me your 'meatware' morality" very well may make its way into my lexicon as one of my most loved phrases ever.

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Coverville Podcast

I love to attract attention to games which deserve it. Frankly, there are fewer products every year that really feel like they deserve my talking them up, because an ever-increasing pile of them are absolute crap, without the guts to challenge the status quo.

Solid! is not one of them.

From the site:

blax·ploi·ta·tion n.

1. A genre of American film of the 1970's featuring African-American actors in lead roles and often having anti-establishment plots.
2. Role-playing genre with soul, R 'n' B and disco music soundtracks, characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, outrageous hair, and some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way onto a character sheet.

Solid!: the d20 Blaxploitation Experience is the most righteous book of 70's action role-playing to make it past The Man's censors. For use with d20 Modern, Solid! allows players to experience the soul, power, and action of the movies that defined a generation. Features include:

• New characters classes like the Private Dick, Foxy Lady, Hustler, Preacher, Hoodlum, Police Detective, and Politician.
• New feats and equipment designed specifically to help create the feel of over-the-top action!
• Enough style and attitude to empower any d20 Modern game.

Come on, my soul brothers! You know this is just the thing we need to get more of in our daily existences. I can finally have a system tuned explicitly to capture the nuance of Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon! Is there any greature measure of solid gold entertainment? I think not.

My regular readers know that a piece of work would have to be beyond impressive to be both D20 and get my recommendation. Go from there.

Right on!

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Damned - Sanctum Sanctorium

There's been a lot of abyssal bellyaching about violent reaction to a "holiday" rooted only in as much of the productive corporate environment can convince you to care about it. So, me, I'm untouched by either ire or pleasure at the event.

But, hey, I know a lot of you out there are without SOs to be with tonight (including myself), for various reasons -- so, in a fit of sap, I bring you this. There just aren't enough squiddy valentines in the world.