Feats of the Week 1
WROTE
- I finished writing The Demon Plague Verses Chapter 8. I think that the tale will be complete after one more chapter. I started writing it about 2.5 years ago, I believe.
- I wrote Key 28. It will be in the October Supreme Compendium. I somehow wrote it while watching the Harris Trump debate. I can’t normally concentrate on writing while the tv is on. But it just happened. Weird.
- I started to write Opal Grainwind 2. You don’t know her yet, but you will soon. It’s another tale of a person from the times of the Demon Plague. Unlike Finder Cloudburst and Demon Plague Verses, the goal is to keep the tales brief and self contained. You don’t really need to have read the previous chapters to understand it. That’s the goal. We’ll see how it turns out in that regard.
- I have a list of all the characters from my writings and NPCs from my game. I am compiling that list into a Living Tome. More on this as it develops. At this point, it’s a lot of formatting text into a new document.
HEARD
I’ve been sick with COVID all week, so I didn’t do much music listening. My head hurts and my ears are clogged. But here’s my list:
- Crenels - Cloud Shrouded Crag1
- Crenels - Guard the Secret Rites
- Hillsfar - Raiders on the Moonsea
- Frostgard - Uruloke
- The Bonaventure Choir - Latin High Mass for Nostalgic Catholics
- Murgrind - The Fallen Kingdom
- Ninkharsag - The Dread March of Solemn Gods/
- Paul Mann and His Musicians and Singers - Recorded Live at a German Party
- White Rune - The Spell of Eternal Fire
I also preordered the Corpus Delicti live album on vinyl. I got a button too.
VENTURED
- Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - I have been playing this game on and off since 2011. It’s my favorite and I never get tired of it. I take breaks when I get new games. My next break will be for the new Legend of Zelda game.
- Animal Crossing New Horizons - I played this for a few months in 2020 when it was new. My wife got a Nintendo Switch this summer, along with a copy of this game. It’s her first game console ever! I got back into the game since I have someone to play it with.
BEHELD
Completed
- In the Blood of the Martyr
- Why We Love Middle Earth
- Wheel of Time 13 (audiobook)
Started
- Behind the Zines # 18
- In the Blood of the Martyr
- In The Shadows: A Collection of Short Tales of Scottish Ghosts and Ghouls
- Frieren Volume 8
- Knights of the Dinner Table 314
- Wheel of Time 14 (audiobook)
PONDERED
- I made all of my Crenels releases free on Internet Archive2 or Pay What You Want on Bandcamp. Go get some dungeon synth!
- The Internet Archive has had a tough time lately. If you get any use from them, please toss them a few dollars.
- Rings of Power is so bad. Not because it deviates from lore or canon. But taken by itself, the episodes are confusing and characters do weird things. It just isn’t good tv.
SORCERIES
I'm trying to learn the Polyend Tracker+. It's not going well. I love the M8 Tracker. I used Renoise a lot many years ago. But the synths don't work very well. The pads are very unplayable. Many other complaints. I'm not enjoying it.
I haven't made much music in the past month. With getting my daughter equipped to move to college, moving her to college, catching up on other stuff and having Covid all week... it just hasn’t happened.