We reach the main entrance to the temple, and once again there is no OSHA compliance.
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We get to the conclusion of Dorian Hawkmoon’s story this week, with the final book in his series – The Runestaff.
This month, Tora, David, and I kick off the inaugural installment of Fate-uary with a discussion of our background with the franchise, and a look at Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family.
Read moreThe Fortress of the Pearl is Michael Moorcock, in 1989, writing a book set between Elric of Melnibone (1972) and Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976). The current Elric omnibus collections put this in that space in the chronology in their reading order, while my previous video on the Elric reading order recommended reading it significantly later. Re-reading the book now, in its place at the timeline – I think my assessment is accurate, but not necessarily for the reasons that I thought originally.
Read moreThis time their positioning makes more sense, even if it still fails.
Read moreWe have another fight set up to have the PCs be flanked.
Read moreIt’s time to get back to Michael Moorcock (in the video reviews) with the first of the Von Bek novels.
Read moreWe clean out the next wave of guards.
Read moreWe reach the outside of the temple – I think.
Read moreNettle & Bone was this month’s Sword & Laser Book Club pick, and was a tremendously brisk, and very enjoyable read. It also introduced me to a variety of fantasy fiction I hadn’t encountered before – the “Grimcozy”
Read moreOf the past few Sword & Laser picks, Brightness Falls from the Air, by James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon ended up being a bit more of a controversial pick – and I definitely get why, as it gets into some squicky subject matter, and not necessarily in an elegant way.
Read moreWe clean out this fight without getting knocked into the lava.
Read moreWe fight way closer to some lava than would actually be safe.
Read moreWe have another port of a PC first-person shooter to the N64.
Read moreWe deal with enemies who have a height advantage.
Read moreWe begin our run on the Fire Temple.
Read moreSo, I’m falling a little behind on my blogging – so instead I’d like to share a few photos I took.
Read moreWell, I need to get caught back up with where I was with the Sword & Laser Book Club, in terms of reviews – and that means it’s time to get back into the Elric Saga, with the pick that I ended up recommending (and which a lot of participants bounced off of) – with Elric of Melnibone, the chronologically first novel by Michael Moorcock in Elric’s saga.
There will be spoilers.
Read moreWe take on the Ice Guardian, and equip the *one* weapon that dropped.
Read moreWe manage to turn the enemies against each other (a little) and get cross the bridge.
Read moreThings changed a lot since I put my editorial on why the OGL matters – just two days after that video went live in fact. It’s time to go over what had changed, and what my thoughts on the changes are.
Read moreWe have three bridges across a bottomless chasm with Medusae on the other side.
Read moreIt turns out for that kind of flanking plan to work, you need people in the front position who are a little tankier.
Read moreWe are slowly – but surely – trying to get caught up with where we are in Nintendo Power magazine.
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