Update

So time flies when you're having...no...wait a minute...that's not right.

So with another surgery just over a week away I will drop a few thoughts to keep this trickle running.

I'm thinking of taking on a helper. There are a million things to be done and if I just had someone to sort things it would be a tremendous help. So I'm thinking of calling someone up and seeing what we might work out.

After finally sorting the data after the OS crash and making backups I am finally getting back to writing material and getting things ready for both Blurred Vision and the 2 blogs. I have a ton of video to post at the Tumblr site and have almost got a Lacuna article/resource page ready to post. Now if I could just get around to printing out the OpenD6 material and studying that I think I might write a set of guidelines for using it with Blur. Remember, from Normality to whatever system you are most comfortable running they will all work with Blur. That's the whole idea. No need to learn 500 pages of new rules. The story is the thing and the adventure of creating that story the fun of it all for GM and player alike.

Something fresh from RPGnet

REVIEW OF Time & Temp - Unbound Edition

Time & Temp is a new game that I heard about on Indie Press Revolution’s podcast and I knew immediately I had to try it out. The game is simultaneously about time travel and soul crushing temp work. Set in the modern day, the player characters are temps who work for Browne Chronometrics, a company that fixes temporal anomalies. Since the more important a person is, the more their presence messes up time, they logically send temps as the least important people imaginable back in time to fix problems.

-Robert Dushay

Read The Whole Review

Thought this sounded interesting.

CIGARETTE BOY "A Mock Machine Mock-Epic"

This piece was nearly finished when the great dual OS collapse occurred. I had hoped to bring the target a little close to gaming material faster but I am having to re-create most of those notes from scratch. So for the time being I will introduce those unfamiliar to the world of Cigarette Boy.

"In a future world of perpetual war and corporate subjugation, an AI Agent is summoned by its owners to initiate a data search in the world's electronic "Metasource Omnifiles." Its assignment is to put together a dossier on a mysterious rogue known only as "Cigarette Boy." Trouble is, the AI is having a bad day, feeling a little under the weather, not actually up to snuff. If the truth be told, our agent has become, by some strange twist of neurons, totally deranged! Instead of assembling the usual tidy "hyperdocument" of "print scans," "vidfiles," and background data, the AI spews forth a horrific mass of jargon, ephemera, and frustratingly tiny fragments of useful information. It seems to have found the right crypt, but exhumed the wrong corpse."

-Darick Chamberlin

So begins one of the first encounters with a work that defies description. If Blur has a first novel this may be it.

"START :
START SOLOPRINT 'E-CODE' FUGITIVE AUTOSCHEMATIC OF X-STATION PROTONOVEL OUTLINING "C" : [RECRUIT NUMANGA COPYCAT SKIM SACCADES : ACOLLIDE I.D.C. AUTOSCHEMA VIA ELEVENTH HOUR REBEL IONS : IGNITE OVERCLEVER COPYCAT PHAROAH SCANS IN "CIGARETTE BOY" SEQUENCE CUTS VIA DYMOSAURICK RE-EXPLODERS] : INVESTIGATIONS IN PANGELIC GLASS CUTS PARTIALLY THROUGH THE 'ATOMEROTIC EYETALIER' : DEVELOPED AS PROPOSAL PROPERTY ALONG SKIM "C" TRAJECTORIES TO E65813 AND PROPOSED AS MOCK SOLOPRINT TO THE MACKERT CORPORATION : [FLAG AND FILE 'THE MACKERT CORPORATION'] : START : ADD 9O DOCUMENTS FROM THE UMBILICO CHESSBOARD ANTI-MACHINERY GRID : ADD ALL THREE ACOLLIDED 'LAVA' GRIDS : [DIAL-UP AND SCAN] : "

Challenge yourself to the material as written or try out the machine like podomatic audio version. An important and striking work that points towards new directions in the future of the written word and the manner in which we use and understand it.

Cigarette Boy Links

http://www.cigaretteboy.com/
http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/c-g.writing/cigarette.boy.txt
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/Media/cigaretteboy.htm
http://www.noisetank.com/cigaretteboy/

CIGARETTE BOY
"A Mock Machine Mock-Epic"

http://cigaretteboy.podomatic.com/

In Todays Scenario

Suicide puppet attempts to traverse his living room , aided by his last surviving kitty, to retrieve the Amoxicillin from the bathroom while watching the thunder snow.

Will he beat the cold and flu like symptoms? Will the anti-biotic cure him or just make him itch? Will his abode be once again cut off from the outside world by solid sheets of ice?

Stay tuned!