Sunday, 20 November 2011

Throwyourkeysintoadungeonmania

200 years on from the events of Oblivion and once again a terrible shadow threatens to bring Tamriel to its knees. The shadow is known as throwyourkeysintoadungeonmania, called so because of its apparent bizarre fascination with brainwashing ordinary citizens to trek the world in search of bleak monster infested cesspits and throw into them their most valued possessions.
Will a hero rise to conquer this returning shadow? Or will the Chosen One get distracted by pedestrian chores such as dragon slaying and resolving the Civil War, things which are frankly unimportant and could be undertaken by the average Level 40 citizen?
Only one man can foresee Tamriel's future. One man, with one vision, destined to bring light or chaos to a desperate world.
Unfortunately he's stuck at the bottom of Deadman's Respite with some rather horrible monsters.
Um. Help?

Thursday, 17 November 2011

The Fallouts for free

A few years ago I wrote a story to answer a question: what do you get when you take a big wet bucket of post-apocalyptic time-hopping sci-fi, a gentle cup of supernatural problem solving, a cornucopia of personality disorders, and smash them together in a particle collider?
The answer was the Fallouts, a four volume series with a lot of obvious referencing to all manner of comic, science fiction story, fantasy tale, anime and game - and a whole lot of obscure referencing as well!
 It's kind of a weird story, and certainly a long one. My main character defected his intended plot line effective immediately and set off on an escapist's dream of his own.  He's always been a bit of a dick. Soon after, the rest of the cast followed suit, dragging the story from its questy beginnings, into a world-spanning romp of guitar duels, death races, pirates (ninjas too, of course), giant yaks, onmyo mystics, explosions, sex, violence and insanity.
 If you think this is at all your kind of thing, here's the entire first half (and a bit) of volume 1.


Two WHAT?

This
+
This
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Snow White?
  What do you get when you mesh popular pretty boys with popular dragons?
 Two Snow White movies in one season.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Skrim

Playing Skyrim, reading ghost stories, learning a language, waving my swords around, painting and writing like a baws and teaching the dog to do the grocery shopping.

Also suffering from a few first world problems. I can't afford to buy a copy of Skyrim for all the consoles I own. :C
The supermarket has stopped stocking the grapes my male harem likes to eat as they lounge around on the sunbathed marble steps of my manor.
Yesterday as a joke I cut the head off my swordmaster, and he was the best in the world.
I'm afraid the Dogs manga will be too good, so I'm not going to read it.
The Sims Social wouldn't load in Chrome, so I had to download Firefox instead.
My father disowned me because I have too much money, and now I won't get his inheritance.

Such is life in these difficult times.