Time to finally get caught up with the Sword & Laser picks with Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, the August pick.
As a content warning – in addition to this book discussing a murder, it also includes a discussion of sexual assault, including a character who is raped while drugged.
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Unfortunately, I’ve fallen a little behind again on the books covered in the Sword & Laser Book Club, from a review standpoint, so it’s time for me to get caught up with some of the past books that I’ve read and finished. The first of these is Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.
Continue readingWe get another ability that unlocks more of the map – water breathing.
Continue readingPirotess kills someone close to Deedlit.
Continue readingLet’s check in with Robin and see what he and The Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) are up to.
Continue readingWe overcome this battle against Karla, and her alternate form, only to find her cutting a deal with Pirotess.
Continue readingWe have a boss fight against Karla, where she uses multiple forms.
Continue readingThis month we talk about the Record of Lodoss War OVA – with some tangents to the novels, the Actual Play, and the Chronicles of the Heroic Knight OVA (and also Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth).
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So, with tabletop RPGs, I like to pick out a few character concepts to use for creating characters to help learn the system – often based on anime, movies, TV shows, or novels – trying to emulate those characters to help learn the system. For example, for Fantasy games I tend to go with the Heroes of Lodoss. Recently I’ve picked up a couple of supers RPGs – the Marvel Multiverse RPG and the Sentinels Comics, and I’m creating some test characters in the process of trying to learn the system. My first trial run: A-Ko.
Continue readingWe continue collecting spirit keys for the Heroes of Lodoss – our old friends.
Continue readingWe move to a more overgrown area of the Labyrinth.
Continue readingI saw Band-Maid on their most recent US tour at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. I give my thoughts on the venue (having gone there for the first time), the opening act (Starcrawler), and the concert itself.
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We take down Shooting Star and continue our exploration.
Continue readingWe have a boss fight against Shooting Star.
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It’s time to get ahead of the game (so to speak) with NextGen Magazine.
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We are now getting NextGen Magazine caught up with where we’re at with Nintendo Power.
Continue readingI learn that Salamander will let Deedlit go through Lava.
Continue readingWe get the double-jump, and also some cryptic statements from Etoh.
Continue readingIt’s August, when I normally do TTRPG videos, so now is a good time for another one of those – in this case talking about a few of the things have that caused me (and my GM) to bounce off of Forged in the Dark & Powered by the Apocalypse games in the past, which you should consider if you want to move from your Dungeons & Dragons game to one of those systems (especially if your group has primarily played D&D).
Continue readingWe have boss fight number 3 against Djinn & Efriit.
Continue readingWe have a run-in with Pirotess and our second boss fight.
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So, I’m still kinda dealing with some muscle pains from after the concert which impacts how much typing I can do, so here’s a photo gallery of the pictures I took during the concert.
Continue readingI went to see Band-Maid at the Crystal Ballroom last night, so I wasn’t quite able to finish the posts I had planned for this weekend in time for Saturday, so here’s the video for their latest single.
We fight our first boss.
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