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Well... It's got "Green" in the title...

Hi all. Well, today I shot out another book to a contest Blockgarten: Gaam's Green Valley This little ditty is a very weird fiction work. It was kicked off back in 2015 during a particularly nasty oil change. Yah, you read that correctly. Okay, story time: It was early Spring, after the thaws. Probably around the month of March. It was overcast, cold, wet, and my sinuses were closed for business. It was early and there had been very little coffee (like, NONE) in my life at that time, due to fasting for a blood draw. I had settled into a nasty mood for a nasty day. So I'm sitting in the waiting room with my iPad in hand. To further embrace the moment, I decided to go full-on gloom and doom: I began browsing through Lovecraft works. The browsing took me into the history of the Lovecraft properties (apparently there are three broad definitions of them: those works that H.P. wanted to give to the world to inspire other authors via family, later works own

Getting to Know You...

Hello all! Back to the reality of the blog-o-sphere. I just returned from a three week tour of the Greenshore grounds, traveled back through her history, forged something close to a hundred effects, spells, and mystic items for the locations our hapless hero(s) will discover... Dizzying, surreal, and lots of creative monkey fun! In an effort to head off a couple of issues that I foresee in a number of upcoming books, I've taken the liberty to create a buffet line of interred mystics in the Greenshore catacombs. That required me to take a long, hard look at an area of the complex named the "Oodana Circle". This location broke ground in 1895 to house 13 guardian mystics. Yep, I wrote the occupants of each bungalow for the full 123 years of service. The history of the place had already been neatly filled out, so it was simply a matter of determining who lived where when what was happening. I moved between that madness and filling the various vaults of the vario