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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 9th, 2025 09:07 am)
I'm working my way through Outgunned: Adventure. Pulp adventure. Indiana Jones stuff.

So I have an idea for an adventure, in which our brave action archaeologists try to locate and retrieve certain invaluable historical relics so they can be preserved and studied in proper museums.

Not only are the locals curiously reluctant to let the adventurers do this, even though they cannot possibly understand the artifacts on as many levels as civilized people, post-WWIII US is a dangerous place what with the unstable ruins, ancient unstable warheads, and radiation.

But if anyone can find the secret vaults containing the lost Smithsonian loot, dissuade the locals from objecting, get the goods across a hostile continent, and off to Kuching, it's the heroes.
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([personal profile] lexin Nov. 9th, 2025 01:53 pm)
In Flanders Fields
The poem by John McCrae

In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.
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([personal profile] lexin Nov. 9th, 2025 01:26 pm)
I had a really rough night - yet another stomach upset, which may (or may not) be a bug that’s going round. It came on in the night, but at least this time I got out of bed and my sheets survived without being pooed. So there was that. I am not playing DnD today as I just can’t manage to think that much.

Cats

I took Opal to the vet on Tuesday because she’s chewing the fur in front of her tail and on her left back paw. They have prescribed Metacam, some more Gabapentin and a capsule called Cystaid. I told her she was a very expensive hobby - it cost over £150, not including the taxi fare there and back.

Teeth

I’m going to have to cancel tomorrow’s dentist appointment because I don’t know the cause of this bug, and I don’t want to give it to the dentist.


Six books new to me: two fantasy, one science fiction, one that seems to be a mix of both, one horror, and one non-fiction.

Books Received, November 1 - November 7

How is it November already?


Poll #33815 Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz (January 2026)
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35


Which of these (mostly upcoming) book look interesting?

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Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz (January 2026)
5 (14.3%)

Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison (June 2026)
14 (40.0%)

Letters From an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss (November 2025)
15 (42.9%)

The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale (October 2025)
4 (11.4%)

Fallen Gods by Rachel van Dyken (December 2025)
7 (20.0%)

The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes by Conevery Bolton Valencius (May 2024)
21 (60.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.9%)

Cats!
26 (74.3%)

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([personal profile] watervole Nov. 7th, 2025 08:47 pm)

 One of my friends posted links to a really good selection of Lord Peter Wimsey fics.

I've been happily reading through them, and I've lost the link back to the collection.

 

Help! Which one of you provided the list?



Discovering what she expected to be a lucrative new job is instead an internship, Ropa Moyo tries to pay her bill by resorting to her avocation of detective.

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, volume 2) by T. L. Huchu
This is a bundle of the 2019 Third Edition of Jonathan Tweet's RPG Over the Edge, from Atlas Games, possibly THE classic weird science / weird conspiracy RPG

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OTE3E



This is a comprehensive revision of the system and setting, making big changes to characters, locations, and conspiracies, with huge amounts of weirdness in the introductory adventures alone. Even if you already have tons of material and a long-running campaign based on earlier editions, it's worth getting this just to mess with player expectations and show them that the world doesn't even stay the same sort of weird indefinitely.

As may be obvious, I'm a big fan, and this offer gives you plenty to play with. Definitely recommended!
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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 5th, 2025 02:04 pm)


The Third Edition corebook, scenarios, and 18 music tracks

Over the Edge 3E
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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 5th, 2025 03:25 pm)
Invested too much time statting out a character I will probably never use.

Evan Mason: Captain Jetpack!

Read more... )


Hinako Yaotose is saved by certain doom... by a monster who wants to let Hinaka ripen a bit before eating her.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa
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([personal profile] ffutures Nov. 5th, 2025 01:49 pm)
For some time now my web site has experienced frequent outages due to excessive traffic. As an experiment I've taken the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM zip file off the site. It was by far the biggest file on the site, and it's possible that repeated downloads were causing the problem.

Instead I've uploaded it to archive.org as a zip file, about 658mb - open the link in a new tab or page!

https://archive.org/details/ffcd-8-zip

This takes everything that was on the last release of the CD-ROM plus a lot of extra material that would have been on the next release if there had been one. It won't all fit onto a CD-ROM any more, but if you unzip it into a subdirectory of your hard drive it ought to work well.

Note - Links to Empire of Earth, which would have been Forgotten Futures XII, do not work.

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 4th, 2025 11:14 am)
Because both shows feature a red-haired teenaged girl with a monosyllabic name and a troubled relationship with their family, my brain merged the continuities of Son of a Critch and Stranger Things.
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([personal profile] muninnhuginn Nov. 4th, 2025 02:50 pm)
Lets make it three posts in a day....

[Yes, I've taken a week's holiday!]

So, cancerwise, it's been a drag and then a whirl, and then, hopefully, a new, settled (for a while) normal.

First, the drag. Going back to work was great. Fought to go back up to my 4-day week as soon as I could as three days wasn't enough. Tiring through the summer, and cost any energy for reading or knitting, but worthwhile. As the months have gone on the fatigue has crept back more and more. I'd started joking about bedtime getting so early I wouldn't have got up yet! Getting home in the evening and not being aboe to eat dinner due to exhaustion is, however, no joke.

Second, the whirl. This treatment regimen started in slight confusion and it continues that way. The 3-weekly infusions stopped six weeks back, several months earlier than I'd expected (especially with appointments scheduled until the end of the year). Entirely correctly, it turns out. So, having got over my crossness (understatement, that) at suddenly and unexpectedly changed plan and the usual changes in medications hiccups (removing is just as unbalancing as starting), I'm feeling less achy and a whole lot less tired. I'm even staying up after 7.30 in the evening! What larks! (Or owls?)

I'm getting my knitting mojo back too.

Another year like this doesn't seem like a bad proposition. I'm intending to retire in a year too.
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([personal profile] muninnhuginn Nov. 4th, 2025 02:35 pm)

October 2025

Read: 
Shorts:
 
Non-fiction
 
Attended:
  • Al Stewart (farewell tour, The Empty Pockets supporting)
  • Motorhome and Caravan Show
  • Merlin Sheldrake 2025 @ The Barbican (online)
 
Jabbed:
  • ‘flu
  • COVID 19

ETA: Bought:
  • Pebble 2 Duo
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A trading voyage leads to first contact and a delightful process of mutual discovery.

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh
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([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:54 pm)
Tried to move my dinner time in just two days, ate too late, crashed my blood sugar, and had to cancel gaming.

(It's not diabetes. It's just that I am incredibly intolerant to eating late)
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