Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Science Fiction
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And down there somewhere among the noise The magazine dolls and the big money boys Move silently on their easy heels They move silently on their greasy wheels This town has turned me into what I have become This town dresses you up like a stranger This town hangs around in the doorway and tells…
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We join our PCs for the beginning of the Coriolis campaign in the third observation deck on their ship the Beast of Burden, in the docks beneath the Ozone Plaza on Coriolis station. The Beast of Burden was undergoing her final refit, so below decks, in the hangar and in the crew cabins deckhands and…
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Tomorrow my Coriolis campaign begins, and in preparation the players have generated their ship, and their group concept. Here I describe both. The Beast of Burden The Beast of Burden is a reconfigured Class IV luxury yacht, built in the Harima shipyards. After 15 years of faithful service she was sold off by her owner…
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I have just completed a three day trip to Chengdu, China, where I was visiting an NGO that provides HIV testing and counselling to men who have sex with men. There’s not much to report about the trip itself – the NGO is doing well and we came up with some interesting research opportunities, and…
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Avengers: Infinity War is essentially a terrible movie. It’s about an hour too long, it has too many characters and too many plot threads running at once, and most of the characters are either not introduced or barely introduced, get very little dialogue and don’t get any development. If you haven’t watched a long train…
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[Our Degenesis campaign has had two sessions but I skipped a write up of one, so here I give a brief overview of the events of the last two sessions. We are heading into the campaign In Thy Blood…] In session 3 the PCs had raided an underground bunker and recovered a transceiver of some…
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Recently I had the opportunity to watch three movies in quick succession: Solo, Death Wish and Pacific Rim: Uprising. Solo was kind of fun but overall these three movies were pretty ordinary, and none of them is really worth its own separate review. I thought I’d put reviews of all three in one post, as…
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I got plans for more than a wanted man All around this chaos and madness Can’t help feeling nothing more than sadness Only choice to face it the best I can When the war is over Got to start again Try to hold a trace of what it was Back then You and I we…
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So to all you feelers and fumblers Waiting for the fireworks to start Do it now–blow it up yourself Unbutton the butcher in your heart And if I don’t come home before midnight And I can’t find the keyhole in the dark You’ll know, you’ll know that I’ve been tempted You’ll know, you’ll know we’re…
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I never thought that I would find myself In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men Begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves All cats are gray In the caves The textures coat my skin In the death cell…
Compromise and Conceit 