"Steampunk is what happens as our dreams of the past move into their future."

The rest of her discussion (theming upon "why steampunk is important") can be found here.

I wrote a couple poems recently, and just got them put up at Mission: Zodiac. The first is Stargazing, a sort of Lovecraftian sci-fi poem. The second, Final Flight of the Kraken, is somewhat autobiographical. As most of you know, I was a bit of a troublemaker in my youth and spent several years involved in piracy. This poem is commemorative of the ( Read more... )

Apparently I need to talk to cute Asian girls more often. I end up saying things like, "It'd be like a martial arts movie set in libraries." Also, they make me do things like join the Seattle Steamrats Google group.

It began in Sigil, as these things always seem to. About a decade after the Faction War, some berk calling himself a "technologist" wandered through a portal in the Lower Ward. Given his impression of the place, Sigil might have only been a few years off without his help. He was sure that all the magic found in the Cage would be a great aid to his ( Read more... )

I'm actually working on Planar HERO right now, but I had a neat idea for a Modern Age bit of tech and thought I would put it down here, as my Modern Age notes haven't really gotten to devices yet.

Letter gnomes. They're little humanoid mechanigolems that run around between cities, delivering mail.

Although there are threads of steampunk running through all the ages of Mission: Zodiac, the Modern Age is where it's really prominent. Some other time I'll go into the various machineries and clockworks that are present in the Mythic Age and make the Space Age possible. Today I'm giving you some of the more interesting aspects of Modern Age ( Read more... )

I've decided to go back to putting work up here, mostly because a bunch of people read my LJ (and probably don't care). That, and I haven't felt like bothering darkain about my space on darkain.com, nor have I decided how I would rework the site to shift over to the new "generic gaming article" format. Anyway, today you're getting the people of Mission: ( Read more... )

Whoa! I wrote something. It's called Dancing in Elysium, and it's set on (or around) Alzhrin, which some of you might recognise from Mission: Zodiac. I think this story marks the beginning of the end of the Modern Age. And I have a general idea what the new age is like, too. It's something akin to cosmic horror crossed vaguely with spacepunk. It'll ( Read more... )

I saw this awesome thing on the telly just now. It's bizarre and elegant at the same time, highly reminiscent of a mechanical spider playing music.