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Post Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:42 pm

Eckhard wrote:I just found out that Chaosium will finally publish the Book "Strange Aeons II" for their Call of Cthulhu Role playing game. Which is fine - because I wrote a scenario for the book. The book cover can already be seen on the internet. And it has my name on it ( among some others ). 8)

http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=440

Neat! Tell us more about it.

A game I was working on last Summer/Fall required a universal clock that would increment time forward for the entire universe of players at the same time (i.e. time advances for all payers at the same rate and at the same time) The sweep daemon we created to perform this task (wait, wake up, advance time, trigger events, sleep) was called Cthulhu for a very long time.



Speaking of poetry and stuff, the CEO of the company that laid me off last year has completed the sale of the Company (All Praise The Company). He got an ~$12M payout for his trouble and posted/tweeted a haiku on his last day:

Financial crisis
Stalled too many customers
CEO no more


At the time I composed a alternative farewell haiku for him:

Screwed your employees
Screwed all your customers too
Left with a bonus



I'm a haiku poet!
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Post Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:05 pm

DzM wrote:
Eckhard wrote:I just found out that Chaosium will finally publish the Book "Strange Aeons II" for their Call of Cthulhu Role playing game. Which is fine - because I wrote a scenario for the book. The book cover can already be seen on the internet. And it has my name on it ( among some others ). 8)

http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=440

Neat! Tell us more about it.



No Problem:

Chaosium published the first "Strange Aeons" in 1995 and it became pretty popular. In the early 2000s on the Delta Green Mailing List the idea came up to write a second book featuring scenarios that would take place in eras not usually covered by the CoC publications ( 1890s / 1920s / today ). Brian Sammons who has written quite a bit of stuff for Call of Cthulhu recruited a stalwart band of authors and aspiring authors and got a collection of about 9 or 10 scenarios for that book. The whole thing was finished sometime in 2003. And soon it seemed as though it would never see the light of day, because of Chaosium's financial problems. But - to my utter surprise - it seems that it will finally be published this April. My scenario is "To Hell or to Connaught".

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A game I was working on last Summer/Fall required a universal clock that would increment time forward for the entire universe of players at the same time (i.e. time advances for all payers at the same rate and at the same time) The sweep daemon we created to perform this task (wait, wake up, advance time, trigger events, sleep) was called Cthulhu for a very long time.



Nice. Ever thought of getting your stuff published?
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Post Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:59 pm

Eckhard wrote:[...]My scenario is "To Hell or to Connaught".[/img]

Cool! That should be fun!



A game I was working on last Summer/Fall required a universal clock that would increment time forward for the entire universe of players at the same time (i.e. time advances for all payers at the same rate and at the same time) The sweep daemon we created to perform this task (wait, wake up, advance time, trigger events, sleep) was called Cthulhu for a very long time.


Nice. Ever thought of getting your stuff published?

I should clarify. The game was a online web-based multi-user sci-fi strategy game. It was, in essence, a MMORPG. The Cthulhu daemon was a piece of software that ran at regular intervals (initially it was once per second, but then we decided to change that to some other arbitrary period of time to allow players to have more time to queue their actions).

There would be nothing to publish other that source code and architectural diagrams. :) It's been a long, loooong time since the Lovely Mrs. DzM or I did actual role-playing gaming (though I suspect the Lovely Mrs. DzM does still have a leather bag full of dice somewhere, and I recently found a big stash of AD&D and AD&D 2nd Edition books buried in a closet).
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Post Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:37 am

i typed all this BTW:

12: The current of the river swept silently over them all- young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing it's own crystal self.

13: Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom for clinging was their way of life and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.

14: But one creature said at last, " I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.


15:The other creatures laughed and said "FOOL!" Let go and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks and you will die quicker than boredom!


16: But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let let go and at once was tumbled and SMASHED by the current across rocks.

17: Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom..and he was bruised and hurt no more.


there is more but that is my point. take care of yerself Barn.

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Post Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:02 am

HAIKU SHMAIKU.
the insane projectionist
is in my head
he will not let me sleep.
I wasn't born to be somebody's kicking post, I wasn't born to be...
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Post Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:36 am

With apologies to John Lydon...
I am an insomniac, i've got a dodgy back
I thought I had a heart attack
when I climb the stairs my knees crack
And I wanna be an employee
not just another doley

Mass depression for the UK
go in the 'bin' for a holiday
get medicated and then you'll be
all on the same wavelength as me
And I wanna be
up a mountain and never come down again

I don't watch daytime tv
I like to keep my mind busy
I buy the mail on sunday
good for crosswords but not for anarchy
And I wanna be in society
England's got no use for me.
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Post Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:17 am

old barney greyheron wrote:HAIKU SHMAIKU.
the insane projectionist
is in my head
he will not let me sleep.


This one is a keeper. It lingers nicely on the lobe.
More whiskey
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 3:00 am

Well thanks Sporting...my haiku debut...
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Post Wed May 12, 2010 3:30 am

BAD DRUNKEN POETRY.
So i took my old backpack,carried what i could upon my back
waved a white flag and fucked off out of there, oh shit i didn't take my hat
said i gotta go now and save my skin, my pride it is long gone
and i do apologise and i do sympathise
but i did my best and babe i never harmed you
but there's limits i can take, you take the biscuit, take the cake
if i'd stayed then by christ i would've maimed you
i'm not what you thought i was babe, but i really really tried
and i guess i'm too old and tired to fight
so i left and went back home, now i'm too fucked up to roam
and i'll try not to dream of you every night
bottle of scotch and bag of weed
sleeping pills to tend my need
and i'll try to live some kind of a life
nights when pacing the floor
and i can't stand it anymore
and i wish you had stuck me with a knife.
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Post Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:25 am

With apologies to who wrote 'Roddy McCorley'...
See that host of clubfoot men
they all walk like this
they're all carpark attendants
and they're old and they stink of piss
from bungalow and wardens flat
they limp to work each day and those
and those NCP jobsworths all shout
you can't park here today.
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Post Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:26 am

sorry for primting error............verrry drumkk
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Post Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:04 pm

.........CHINATOWN......(being a wee observation of life on the Fenside council estate)

Cut-price booze and smuggled fags
windows hung with St George flags
shopping in a dressing gown
fucking awful Chinatown

Getting stoned and getting high
fucked-up lives and pisshole eyes
weed and speed and crack and brown
all the rage in Chinatown

Round here there aren't any jobs
round here there aren't any pubs
no wonder every fucker's down
it's desperate in Chinatown

Dogs queue up in shops for pies
pensioners just wait to die
faces in a permafrown
depressed to death in Chinatown

In the front yard on an old settee
known down here as Fenside shui
seen better dress sense on a clown
the joke's on you in Chinatown.
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Post Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:02 pm

Christmas is coming
shut up about it please
my missus did the shopping
and the fridge is full of cheese

Christmas is coming
of that i'm well aware
don't bang on about it
cos I honestly don't care

Christmas is coming
yeah mistletoe and wine
you can stick your festive cheer
where the sun don't fuckin shine

Christmas is coming
with songs that make me bawk
one honourable exception
fairytale of new york.
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Post Wed Dec 24, 2014 6:53 pm

old barney greyheron wrote:Christmas is coming
shut up about it please
my missus did the shopping
and the fridge is full of cheese

Christmas is coming
of that i'm well aware
don't bang on about it
cos I honestly don't care

Christmas is coming
yeah mistletoe and wine
you can stick your festive cheer
where the sun don't fuckin shine

Christmas is coming
with songs that make me bawk
one honourable exception
fairytale of new york.


Shit, why didn't you write this earlier in the season so i could make Xmas cards with it?! Oh well, next year i guess. Thanks in advance!
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Post Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:48 am

old barney greyheron wrote:Christmas is coming
shut up about it please
my missus did the shopping
and the fridge is full of cheese

Christmas is coming
of that i'm well aware
don't bang on about it
cos I honestly don't care

Christmas is coming
yeah mistletoe and wine
you can stick your festive cheer
where the sun don't fuckin shine

Christmas is coming
with songs that make me bawk
one honourable exception
fairytale of new york.


Great to see you back on form Barney.

Happy christmas me arse 8)
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