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Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1964The Beast of YeleninThe town of Yelenin sits secluded in the vast sea of reeds that makes up the delta of the Jabberwock. The people there fish,...Linked by the ring
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Roses only grow in one place in the world - the dividing mountain range that separates the Barony from the Empire to its north (they actually also grow in the dreamlands, but...
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Garamondia just hit 150 posts, 200 posts! Phlox mentioned that I should do an index, Semi actually did an index, and I have some other creative projects that currently really...
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Kwaidan, Masaki Kobayashi, 1965BelovedGear: none.Skills: one civilian profession.You must have at least CHAR 16 to take templates as a Beloved. A Beloved, The BargainB Folie a...
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If you can be seen, you can be targeted. The same is true of your enemies - if you can see them, you can target them. Tenet, 2020.Some additions to this rule set:Getting to 10...
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BalistigaeThe Balistigae were the largest and most powerful of the old state-sanctioned mystery cults, in the unnamed polis that would eventually birth both the White City and...
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Hell, painted by Botticelli after Danté.Human AdversariesMilitias, civilian security, rookie vigilantes, concerned citizens. Given the state of things, there are literally...
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And it destroys your ability to think coherently. Angels won't talk about this at all, except under extreme duress. A demon might, and it will probably be with sadness, fear,...
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Source unknown.University DonYou are one of the exquisitely civilised ape academics of University. Your caste is revered by all genteel islanders, and you are famous for your...
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I recently redid the Damosel class for the GLOG, which is what I write in nowadays, but old hands will remember that the class was originally written years ago for Cloak and...
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Mithraeum in PompeiiWhen you see its streets and walk its sunlit arcades for the first time, the impression is of scale. The doorways are ten feet tall, the ceilings of the...
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The Southern Nomads trade hard boiled sweets for fantastic sums of money, which makes many of the Southern houses extremely wealthy. The secrets of the manufacture of these...
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It would be rude not to.Gear: an exquisite jacket and expensive clothing, a rapier, a thin knife, a +1 pistol, cosmetics. Skills: formal etiquette, informal flirtation, the...
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It is like you are sick. It is no longer possible to hold something clearly in your head and to make a decision one way or the other. There are great machines, hidden, drumming...
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Some more bits of skeleton for this weird xcom game.You are a combat squad, but you are also a self-sufficient outfit, operating without external support. As important (or more...
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UPDATESCampaign ProceduresDreamersEnemiesMore Procedures, Death and Dismemberment, PanicThis is technically a Glaugust post because it has a HPless combat system. It's actually...
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The Sea PeopleLarge, well-formed humans, with bright red skin and bright blue hair, which they wear long and wild. They have a single eye in the centre of their foreheads - a...
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Imagine the public spaces of the hotel— most clearly the lobby, gym, and restaurant areas— as a type of stage; a series of strictly bounded spaces through which various bodies...
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It was during dinner that conversation turned to the work that they had done before they crewed the machine. Captain and Signaller were sitting alone in the cramped mess but...
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Following on from here. If you are accompanied by the White City Genocide Squad, they will take all Old Capital artefacts and technology for themselves, and try to kill you if...
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I just posted a new class called the Star Seed, but forgot to write up any context for it. This post aims to rectify that grievous error. The Southern NomadsThe Southern Nomad...
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NB: In the far south, the winters bring a 3 month night and the summers bring a three month day. The time of year has repercussions for your access to your templates. Gear:...
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I wrote here about food, including food in the White City. Writing about food and the pleasures of eating and drinking (and coffee, and alcohol, and smoking) was, I think, the...
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Another quick one - one of the reasons I haven't been as active on this blog this month is that I've been writing fiction commissions for a few different places. One of the...
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Loch asked me a while ago about what he named The Old Chaos - the time before the world was divided into its proper orders via the radical separateness of language. I've...
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Beloved Vayra asked me to blog this so that it never gets lost in the murk of the discord server.Unsure if this is currently a thing that exists in Barony, I could be...
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The duel with Loch continues, blows rain down with extraordinary ferocity... Today's prompt:Quixotic PursuitsThe Old ErrantNormally when an errant from the steppe has journeyed...
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Herron, MasterA tall and unsmiling man - unsmiling because he is an introvert, and finds people difficult, not because he is unfriendly. He likes the sea and the wind, and...
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Princess MononokeGlaugust is here, one of the prompts is from Vyra is about food. I have had a hard time writing anything good for the blog recently, partly because I've had...
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Somewhere in the butchers' district of the Capital there is a nondescript iron door in the side of one of the meat processing warehouses. The local bravos (the 52 Girls) know...