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I Fly By Night: Yet Another Vignette From The Necklace
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Friday, May 15, 2015. Yet Another Vignette From The Necklace. Cassie found him tangled deep in the jungle ball. She saw the feet first, toe thumbs pointing in, curled. Ustin! She reached out and grabbed his naked foot. Nothing. No pulse. Oh, God! She called in on her comm, asking for medevac, gently untangling Ustin from the branches as she waited. Cassie knew better than to move him, but she could move the branches around him. She double checked when she could reach his throat. No pulse. Yet Another Vig...
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I Fly By Night: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. Technological Levels and Empire. Rasi settlements, on the other hand, differ only in detail. Their Tech Level encompasses and goes beyond radio and television. Their light speed communitcations are time lagged by at most a few seconds. Culture can be transmitted, and central control sustained, with that kind of time lag, even if it takes a few days to physically travel from either side of the Rasi nation to the center. Links to this post. When the builders constructed The Rive...
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I Fly By Night: Merchanters And Stationers Take #12
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Merchanters And Stationers Take #12. Whenever a character does certain things there is a list of these in the book, but it includes Jump, carries a weapon, combat, lies, etc. - or things like them, the character rolls a d6, taking that many points against their stress track. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Volant Vanilla - Status Report. Mechanters and Stationers - Take 13. The Necklace Print Delay. Marriage in the StarCluster. Merchanters And Stationers Take #12. Volant - Kin...
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I Fly By Night: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. We just ignore that. Why? We didn't feel comfortable with fusion drives! Albert Bailey, my co-author and plasma physicist - a man who knows tokamaks like google knows search routines - didn't feel comfortable designing fusion drives which would be as flexible and as useful as M/AM drives. We mentioned them - they are there in StarCluster 2 - but they are limited, slow, and inefficient. Links to this post. Friday, February 20, 2015. The 'Vanilla' Nation of Larain. These are t...
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I Fly By Night: Merchants And Stationers - Take #11
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Monday, July 6, 2015. Merchants And Stationers - Take #11. Another thing they bought was a Rare Astronomical Database, which they decided meant it listed several secret jump routes, I gave them 1d6 and they rolled five, which they proceeded to put on the star map. So their station, with a shipyard and not much else, has a direct cross-border jump route to Vool'k space. The initial seed money for the Association came from the exiled monarch's secret stash of hidden resources, who they decided currently re...
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I Fly By Night: Merchanters And Stationers - Setting up the Spyrate Setting
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Merchanters And Stationers - Setting up the Spyrate Setting. So I randomly generated the worlds and stations of the six alien species in our Spyrate setting. It is very unlikely to generate a habitable world, but it can and did happen. All the species automatically get a homeworld, of course, That's necessary! The first was a small station in (can't remember the name) Space. These people are not good with science, and do not even make their own spaceships. They are good w...The s...
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I Fly By Night: March 2015
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Friday, March 27, 2015. Game got reviewed by Tommy Brownell! Http:/ mostunreadblogever.blogspot.com/2015/03/tommys-take-on-high-strung.html Enjoy! Links to this post. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The StarCluster is, and Always Has Been, Brown. The Cluster is a SF setting I have been writing about for years, since 2002. Three editions of the StarCluster RPG, two of the Sweet Chariot RPG, and the In Harm's Way: StarCluster RPG all have been set there. Links to this post. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A casual rem...
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I Fly By Night: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. In my Sunday IRC StarCluster game - which has been going on since 2003 - the party have mis-jumped from the Cluster they knew (The one from StarCluster 1E and 2E) into a new, unknown set of stars called Jeshen Space. In this place, all humans are descended from one of two slowboats, and have been given worlds by the Jeshen, humanoid aliens who rule this area. This is just the way we roll in this game - this is typical stuff. Oh! Links to this post. Saturday, April 18, 2015.
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I Fly By Night: The Necklace Print Delay
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Friday, July 24, 2015. The Necklace Print Delay. I just got my print proof of The Necklace. The copy looks great, and the illos look better than on the screen - of course the inside illos are all gray scale, so they should work nicely in print! The cover, though, is a bit off. The title is right against the top, and even a bit cut off in the bleed, as is the last letter of Klaxon's name! I will have to fix that before I release it for sale. First World Bummer! July 25, 2015 at 3:02 AM. A Very Different N...
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