I was recently reminded of the Georgia Guidestones so I poked around about them again. I’ve done so briefly in the past and moved on. This time though, something struck me that hadn’t before.
Compare this excerpt from The Morrow Project:
… with the History of the Stones.
I’m pretty sure Bruce Edward Morrow was Robert C. Christian.
Which means the stones were erected by the Council of Tomorrow.
These two pretty good movies are even better back-to-back. In fact, they’re such a great double feature they could be cut together with surprisingly little editing or imagination.
[EDIT: Just when you think your life can’t possibly be made any better, Bob Murch walks into the bar:
The Black Sun Kickstarter had this magnificent bastard lined up. In a perfect world, we’ll see him soon.]
Planetary Apes you say?
Godzillas you say?
(Planet of the) Apes travel back in time from the far, far, faaaaar future to conquer pre-Apocalypse earth with their giant lizard cyaborg.
We are saved by the real giant lizard and — ironically — Caesar, from whom the Ape founder took his name.
Also explains the Apes’ desire to get control of the King.
This totally factual historical event is chronicled in the always awesome Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
Tis the season!
That’s my 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th Century Santas.
(10th also HERE )
They’re naturals for a teamup versus Copplestone’s Snowmen and Reaper’s Krampus.
And let us not forget The Tick:
[And, psst. I’m working on a 50th Century Santa. Time will tell.]
I knocked this together *checks files* three years ago? Wow! Anyway, a few days ago I decided to finish it up and finally get it posted.
[It’ll print best if you use a US Letter Borderless paper setting. And you might want to massage the image scale so it fills the sheet and still keeps the orange border.]
Then today I found this post on S. John Ross’ Rolltop Indigo.
He describes a couple of Vans I didn’t know about, so that’s cool. More shoehorn material (see below).
Use the table like this:
For when adventurers find a Damnation Van in the wilds of Vanth.
Print out the table; put it in a box top (preferably something like Gamma World or Peril on the Purple Planet, ‘cause that’s proper).
Drop a d10 onto the table. Whichever numbered area (1 to 12) it’s mostly on is the type they find.
The number on the die is the percent (in 10s) of the vehicle’s functionality. Roll another d10 to generate the 1s for the percentage.
Any given Damnation Van has room for a crew of 1 + 1d6.
And lucky 13: Panzer. (https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Panzerboy See pages 7-9 of Hardwired, page 29 of Chromebook and my articles in Challenge 70. Shoehorn this one in wherever you want.)
Aaannd you might also want to cram a Vandroid (see page 96) in there somewhere. I mean, it’s not a perfect fit. But … come on!
I also feel like Van den Danderclanden should be involved here. I mean, look at that name! Maybe one of his parallel selves roams the wilds of Vanth in a ramshackle Damnation Van. Hell, maybe he is a Wizard Van!
Or, maybe he’s from Holland. Isn’t that veird?
Anyway, here’s a pdf of the list:
If the adventurers find only a partial Damnation Van, say less than 35%, the Journey Master will have to decide how much use they can get out of it. Further adventures to find fuel, parts and tools will likely be in order.
If the Journey Master wants more FrankenVans in the world — and really, who doesn’t? — he can split the die drop between whichever Vans it lands on. That way you can have anywhere from say 80/20 to 50/50 combos. How about a 60/40 EM-50/Monster Van? Or a 70/30 Haunted/Star Van?
Machine Friend checks can be used to counter a failed Lemon roll. In exceptional circs a Journey Master might allow a Luck stat (highest in the party only) test to overcome a failed Lemon roll (one stat test per failed roll).
Well, there you go. Whatever a Damnation Van is, now you have a few to rampage around in.
[Edit: And what about Desert Foxey Lady, that “BMW” Vixen driven by an all-girl skulk of Kitsune bandits?]
I’ve had these guys for a while:
They’re Reaper figs from Bones 4.
I like to think of them as if these guys formed a band and hit the road:
Quintaglios, and Triceratons and Voth, oh my!
I’ll post them with stats once I get them painted.
I don’t mean better. That’s not what I’m saying. But it is true that
It’s been 25 years since Brisco County, Jr. rode across the screen. Yes, I’m late to the party. I had a buddy who really liked the show when it was airing in the early ’90s. I never bothered to look at it. My fault.
Then a decade later I watched Firefly — faithfully — as the episodes came out. And I was mighty disappointed when it was cancelled. Like a lot of people I thought the show was so creative and original! And I’m very happy the bigger fans than I put on their brown coats and got the movie made.
Over the years I’d recall my friend’s comments about Brisco County, Jr. whenever I’d pick up Legends of the Old West, flip through Deadlands or pull out my bottle-waving Banditos. So finally, last year I bit the bullet and bought the complete series on DVD.
Man alive it’s good!
And that’s why I say The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is greater than Firefly. Because without Brisco County there is no Firefly. Firefly is Brisco County, Jr….IN SPAAACE!
Everything from concepts through characters to catchphrases. It’s all there. First.
Do yourself a favour and watch it.
I just read these:
The issues were funded one at a time through Kickstarter. I missed all of those (One, Two, Three). But my guy at The 8th Dimension Comic Store hooked me up. I waited til I had all three to dive in. Glad I did.
The story is good and the art ranges from alright to Alright! There are a couple of grand conspiracies running, some people on the run, a few life-changing discoveries, well thought out aliens, pirates, struggling colonies, megacorps, a cantina. The works!
The one complaint I have is there are a fair few typos. It’s not a deal-breaker, just annoying.
They’d make a good setting for any hard-ish SF game. I’d go with Machinations of the Space Princess myself.
You can find the comix on the webshop for Shannon Lentz. Or, you know, go see Nick.
Feast on this triptych!
What a setting!
Twilight: 2000, Cyberpunk and High Colonies were among my favourite games of the ’80s and early ’90s. I never got around to layering them together in any formal way. But I sometimes — even now — fever dream about what could have been.
Then I watch Outland.
That’s what the ’80s had.
It was dystopias as far as the eye could see:
Blade Runner (’82), The Running Man (’87) and Akira (’88) are all set in 2019.
It seems the stress of the Cold War-ending Reagan era was a sweet-spot match with the (more or less) single generation distance of that future date. Not so near it’s not believable, but close enough to still cause anxiety.
The post-apocalyptic — notwithstanding The Day After and Threads — was not what it had been in its Golden Age of the ’70s. There was going to be a future after all. Sadly it would be less than ideal.
