¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦
07:01 GMT, Monday 31st March 2008. Kneeling on my ergonomic stool, sunbeams the colour of pale honey streaming in through the canopy above my head. Excellent weekend, not much progress with Edge but then I’m so far ahead of my schedule I feel comfortable spending a couple days on other things, although I was up at 6am on Saturday morning and wrapping up the latest chapter (16) and mapping out a complex change to the existing structure… (Halo’s background story dropped in between earlier chapters). I’ve done 25,000 words since 18th March.
The guys came round Saturday lunchtime, bringing a collection of PIEMINSTER pies (yum-city) and we settled down to wrapping up lose threads from the last campaign and then starting “Shadows of the Quantinex”. I was so excited… after so many years of writing it, and now being able to actually play it. The game was like a session from the Old Days. We played through until midnight. It was fantastic. Chris picked up on the homage to Masks of Nyarlathotep, the way the campaign begins with a body in a hotel room and an orgy of evidence, which pleased me immensely… and I was delighted watching the players putting all the clues together to create ideas about the plot, and possible plot direction(s).
I’ve still not actually seen the proof copy of Shadows…. yet, which is slightly freaky because already a number of people have either gone looking for it or stumbled onto it, and purchased copies…. thanks go out to those people for taking the gamble on my work, especially when I’ve not even seen the final result yet. I welcome their feedback, particularly advising me of any errors they spot in this Beta version.
Djr