Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire

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Nosferatu 2024 trailer

I wish me a merry Christmas.

V5: Empire 1.01

Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire

The PCs managed to annoy the Circulatory System before the game started. This is fine.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire

Photo thanks to Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash.

Super Hero

Did you know the term Super Hero was trademarked by an alliance of Marvel and DC? Well, not any more.

This doesn’t mean that all superheroes are public domain or anything like that.

I try to be positive here but sometimes I am snippy

I see that the digital release of Alien Romulus will have “a guide to all the Easter eggs you probably missed.”

I assume these subtle references were hiding behind the massive number of crashingly obvious references.

Agatha All Along 1.03

I don’t know if that was a shot-specific Buffy reference (Restless) in this week’s Agatha All Along but that’s how I choose to interpret it.

The Escape Room vibe could go either way.

Some real creepy and some real silly. Favourite bit: Agatha almost helping pull Sharon out but not.

The Cure, Alone

Alone, from the new album by The Cure.

This is the end of every song that we sing

One For Sorrow

A sixteen page preview of One For Sorrow issue 1, Jamie McKelvie’s new comic series of supernatural crime in 1900 London, ahead of its November launch.

Oh, Louis...

I love Louis in all versions of Interview With The Vampire, soulful and long suffering and often hypocritical as he is, but also laughed long and hard in season two of the series when Santiago looked at his photographs and just said “Wanker.”

(And for context Santiago was out and about in full Dracula costume at the time.)

The BBC Sound Effects Library

The BBC Sound Effects Library, free to use non-commercially, and searchable.

And yes, the horror spot effects are here.

(By way of example, the wolf used in Doctor Who: The Meddling Monk and I think The Late Show.)

Or maybe Empire State, not just Empire.

Zola Jesus, solo piano tour

My soul.

Sinners trailer

Sinners trailer, Michael B. Jordan fighting 1920s vampires, directed by Ryan Coogler. Due March 7th, which seems cruelly long.

Thunderbolts*

Thunderbolts teaser, revealing that it has half Discord coding for italics.

GEAS 2024

24 pitches across the three slots:

Wednesday evening 10

Sunday afternoon 6

Sunday evening 8

I dnt know how many are going, but its definitely most of them.

11 D&D 5 (none using the new update) and the only other game with more than one pitch is Call Of Cthulhu. I do rather envy the D&D gamers getting to specialise earlier.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Empire

Vampire: The Masquerade V5 game for two familiar and otherwise all new players, so straightforward setup:

Anarchs in modern New York. 

Provisional title “Empire”, because I can never not go ominous.

Autumn

The autumn equinox is today, for one of our finer seasons. Also a good day to start a Vampire game.

The Klingon D7

I was today old when I learned (hi Dave!) that the classic Klingon D7 starship was the result of Star Trek designer Matt Jeffries knowing the owner of a model kit company who wanted something to market next to their Enterprise, so Jeffries designed it for him to make a film model. As arguments in favour of talking to the merch people go, this is one of the better ones.

Vampire: The Masquerade - ?

While I will probably go with something fairly neutral, I have an assortment of chronicle titles that could nudge things in different ways. Largely stolen from music, sometimes prose and poetry.

Destroy Everything You Touch

Dominion

Love Dares You

Midnights

This City Will Kill You

Vow

What Went Down

You Should Really Run Away