Bat for Lashes, “Horse and I”
Happy Monday! Also, happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
I’ll be back on Wednesday with a new chapter of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea. See you then!
Tag: song of the week
Song of the Week
KALEO, “Vor í Vaglaskógi”
Happy Monday!
Midwinter Gaming Convention went really well! I didn’t get as many players as I would have liked, but I did learn a lot about game-mastering. I’m going to be making some edits to Chapters One & Two of The Well Below the Valley before I put them back up on Wednesday, so I’ll keep you posted on that.
Now that the convention is over, I’ll be back on my usual schedule of posting chapters of The Well Below the Valley and Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea on alternating Wednesdays. Barring any unexpected catastrophes, this should continue until one or both of them are complete.
Please enjoy this song, and have an excellent week!
Song of the Week
Hozier, “In the Woods Somewhere”
Happy first Monday of 2020! Please enjoy this song.
Midwinter Gaming Convention is in FOUR DAYS. If you’ll be in Milwaukee, I’m hosting The Well Below the Valley on Thursday and Saturday evening, 5:30-9:30. Tickets for the games are free, but you’ll need a con badge. If you’ve never played Call of Cthulhu before, no worries! I’ll have premade characters and a quick & easy intro to the rules ready. All you need to do is show up and be ready to solve a mystery.
Here is the event page for Part One (Thursday).
Here is the event page for Part Two (Saturday).
Here is where you can get convention badges.
I’m hoping to have the next chapter of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea up on Wednesday, but I may be too swamped with game prep. All the hidden material for The Well Below the Valley will be up next week, and we’ll return to our regular schedule of alternating posts until all chapters are available.
I hope everyone has an excellent week.
Year in review, part the first
Happy Monday for the last time in 2019! Instead of a new Song of the Week for you, I’ve made a playlist on YouTube of all the songs I used this year:
Tomorrow, I’ll have some sort of yearly recap; I’m not sure if I will continue doing this every year (I may forget by the time 2021 rolls around), but I’m trying it out. I’ll also be starting the new year with the next chapter of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea on Wednesday.
See you soon!
Song of the Week
Garbage, “As Heaven is Wide”
Happy Monday! It’s now December. This year has both been extremely long and flown by.
Last week, against all odds, I finished NaNo! I also received some Very Exciting News, which I promise I will actually tell everyone about soon.
In less exciting news, my sweet cat Odin was very sick last week. He seems to be back to his old self, but it was very scary there for a couple of days and he had to have a lot of tests done. If you have a few extra dollars and want to help me cover his vet costs, you can donate to my Ko-Fi, but please don’t feel obligated.
I hope everyone has an excellent week.
Song of the Week
Phoebe Bridgers, “Motion Sickness”
Happy Monday! It’s the last week of NaNo! One of the first books I ever read, when I was learning to read, was The Little Engine That Could. I feel a bit like the train in that book: “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!” It’s amazing I still remember that mantra after so many years, and don’t remember stuff like…algebra.
I’ll be finishing up Chapter Two of The Well Below the Valley here on Wednesday. I hope you enjoy it; my players certainly did! They were thoroughly spooked and missed almost all the side plots in Chapter Three, they were so determined to stop the cult.
Some bad news in the Twitch department: my internet connection here isn’t strong enough to be able to stream live. It can more or less upload footage, but can’t do it in real time, which means that I won’t be able to interact with anyone in the chat. Streaming is going to be on hold until I can figure out how to fix it.
I hope everyone has an excellent week!
Song of the Week
Ishtar, “Lamouni (Ligharou meni)”
Happy Monday!
I hope to return to our regularly scheduled nonsense this week, which means the next chapter of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea will be up Wednesday, and I’ll be on Twitch Thursday night.
I’m trying to stay on top of NaNo, so maybe my Friday update will be a positive one. We’ve passed the halfway point, so the pressure is on!
Have an excellent week!
Song of the Week
Ray LaMontagne, “Empty”
Happy Monday! Moving house is proving to be a lot more involved than I had anticipated, so I’m already a little very behind on NaNoWriMo. Hopefully I can catch up this week.
New chapter of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea will post on Wednesday. I probably won’t be streaming this week, as the gaming computer will need to be packed up and moved, but I should be back at that soon.
I hope everyone has an excellent week.
Song of the Week
Loreena McKennitt, “The Mystic’s Dream”
Happy Monday! Today is my birthday, so I hope everyone is having a very good day. This week, we’re starting the next chapter of The Well Below the Valley, and things are about to get very serious for our intrepid investigators. I’ll also be on Twitch on Thursday.
My small family is going to be moving house in November. Hopefully, that won’t cause any disruptions to your regularly scheduled content, but I’ll be sure to post some kind of notice if I’ll be without Internet for any significant length of time.
I have a Ko-Fi! Blog content will always be free, but if you like what I do and want to help me keep doing it, please consider supporting me: https://ko-fi.com/madelinecrane
Song of the Week
Kamelot, “Temples of Gold”
Happy Monday! It’s my friend Brooke’s birthday today. I wrote something to commemorate it last week, which you can find here.
I was sick all last week, and have plenty of work to catch up on now that the powers of breathing have returned to me. Not to worry, the next chapter of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea will go up on Wednesday as scheduled. I’ll also be on Twitch on Thursday!
I hope you enjoy this beautiful late-October week!
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