Two Hawks are destroyed and two Eagles are lost. The Hawks are destroyed, but are immediately replaced by three more, which devastate Alpha and a second wave of Eagles before they can be engaged by the first wave of Eagles. When the Hawks are in striking range, and still have not responded to hails, Koenig orders a preemptive strike. Three Eagles are launched and take up defensive positions over Alpha. They try to contact the ships with no luck. They receive no reply, but as they come into close range, three Earth-style Mark IX Hawks approach the base. Ted AKA joins me in Derry and Toms for the second leaf of our Summer diptych musing on Moorcock, gaming and whatever else enters our eyeline.Alpha signals a habitable planet as they enter it's system.
Some choice cuts in here including miniature bashing, Tolkien (again), a shock Strongbow appreciation story, chaosium-isms… but mostly some good, chewy thinking on modelling Moorcockian worlds and cosmology. I also bang my BoL drum again.īe sure to have a good delve around Ted’s blog Tomb of Tedankhamen. Ted also mentioned Lasers and Feelings by John Harper. You can check out the Tentacled Whisperer of Secrets Discord by making an offering to… THE TENTACLED WHISPERER… or just check out his profile. He’s pretty lax on gatekeeping for an ancient deity of unspeakable power. Steve’s Stormbringer game recaps are on his blog.Ĭheck out and subscribe to Jim Kirkland’s newsletter and read his spoiler-free review of The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. Our banner art and logo is by Simon Perrins. Follow him on Twitter and check out his store. Listen to BITR Breakfast in the Ruins Radio on Radio Garden. Feels much more traditional now.Īccompanying the change, a good dose of lurgy has landed in this house and every couple of hours I’ve been alternating between teeth-chatteringly cold and slowly cooking in my own seepage.Ī record-breaking heatwave, some muggy, humid weeks and now into September – rain. Not covid though so the D-Squads haven’t got to me yet. Hussein suggested that I must be possessed and there’s a battle going on between good and evil jinn for control of my weak human flesh. I just wish one of them would hurry up and win or at least come to some form of compromise, the shirty fuckers.Īnyway, I used these past few days to do a lot of reading. I was curious about the novelisation of Alien Isolation (although a video game, it is for my money the best tie-in/spin-off from the Alien franchise). As I’m a mug for a bargain I picked it up in a pack of 7 Alien tie-in novels and, long story short, they’re mostly incredibly mediocre. The exception is Alien: Cold Forge by Alex White, largely by dint of the fact that the central conceit is – what if a financial auditor visits a remote research station to cut costs and streamline operations. On top of that, what if the auditor is essentially Patrick Bateman in space.
It just so happens that, as I was ploughing my way through them, Ted AKA sent me a link to his blog sharing his thoughts re gaming within established IPs (in this case Star Wars). His take really resonated, particularly given our previous shows on gaming, but I think those points apply across all expanded fiction based upon established IPs. Those Alien tie-in novels are a great example and they reinforce the beliefs Clarky, Dave and I expounded in the last show – make new shit. Take the themes and tropes and flavour, but freshen it up. Weyland-Yutani… colonial marines… ‘bug hunts’… Those Alien novels all revolve around the same tired, rote elements. The first section of The Journal of Gerard Arthur Connelly is set in Tragic Millennium Europe. In my own defence though, that was a write-up of a couple of Hawkmoon RPG gaming sessions so it is faithful to that at least. But I’ve tried beyond that point to diverge a bit. Wait… am I comparing my nonsense to licensed, published fiction? No.
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