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(((((( DRAFTING for scenes back in the Dune-based sub-reality. Hotblood Matron Koridmi, who had been part of their invasion of Gumwad, was on Planet Fectalim when she joined up with Major Takamura Jamison, formerly of Lousy Sekondhanstor. They go to Vojodren to assist Piper Dizeeze in...

(((((( DRAFTING for scenes back in the Dune-based sub-reality. Valluree and Vallurah, nieces of Alec Hurdygurdy, came to Pointfar flying the "Careful Hand," bringing Hadrianus Tolpin. The two sisters have been promoting constitutional government a-la Duke Stillneater Ashtrayides...

Conditions being acceptable on the longer-inhabited planet, Bunkem and Trala left their soldiers on watch there, then used the Starhatch to zip over to Bakwudza. Sub-Chief Punchout met them at the other end, and gave them a summary of the concluded action. Trala-Lalia fell silent...

(((((( Back in the Dune-based sub-reality, starting on the frontier world Bakwudza...... "Zorvita, switch to thermal imaging; there's got to be at least one unit still not accounted for. It's highly unlikely that those bots are advanced enough to change their own temperature to...

The following item is NOT EVEN SLIGHTLY related to hard metal music, but it's JUST TOO GOOD to ignore. Today, Wood Nymph and I heard some really odd news about CLASSICAL music. Somewhere in Europe, in Vienna I think, some classical musicians figured out how to MAKE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS...

The royal family of Austreejuntzland had a palace: not nearly as old or as large as Gloomenghast Castle, but cleaner and airier than the seat of the Gloom Dynasty. In Pitcherton Palace reigned Queen Juliet-Andrea the First, the orphaned only child of King Spencer the Fourth. "Spencer" had...

Around the same time as events in the previous post, Brewster of Goliad rambled outside the castle, mingling with peasants and asking polite questions. Gloomenghast being much less isolated than its literary template, even many of the menials knew some words from the tongues of nearby countries...

The outer-dweller boy Kroyo guided Jerkysalt and the rest along a safe route-- part of it by rope-suspended bridges between huge trees-- until Gloomenghast Castle came into sight. An armed man called Tandauzer, one of the few remaining castlefolk to uphold principles of knighthood, met them...

The above-mentioned young man Quicktrout had formerly been one of Gimshelter's drudges. A lucky break had come for him when the Kitchen Master assigned him to carry a luncheon tray to Princess Frootsalda. Without committing any impertinence which would have backfired on him, he had entertained...

* .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * .. * "Look that way, Gwazpor," said Jerkysalt. "There are six or more peasant-looking men, possibly setting up a temporary camp." "They are of Gwazpor's own race, or similar," added Veevalamora Heartlifter. Not surprised by any of this...

The structure of Gloomenghast Castle remained sound after centuries, but it managed to look decrepit. The original main keep, four stories tall, had needed extensive repairs six times in the castle's history; once the new seven-story keep was complete, the old keep had become headquarters for...

You may have seen the very short advertisements which precede YouYube videos. I've just seen such an ad: about some kind of hard-metal music festival planned for 2025. "The Summer of Loud" promises to feature no fewer than eight bands. But the ad neither tells WHERE the event will occur, nor...

The writing in these online stories is SHODDY with a capital YUCK. The humanoid heroine of this video is being hunted by villains who would get along well with the pre-redemption Darth Vader. The largest plot hole, a very sloppy one, is this: the villains who supposedly want to murder her...

"Four points for the student from the Stone Frog school," declared the referee for a friendly fight. "Three points for the student from the Distant Waterfall school. Next match!" The land of Datsunsel was dotted with small towns, whose names had colorful meanings in the Datsunsha (that's the...

Jerkysalt and Veevalamora could not levitate to clifftop level, so some of Habohai's disciples came down to riverbank level, to feed the travelers and their mounts. On Punksteema as on all Earth-variants, human beings needed Vitamin B-12 to be healthy, and in the absence of inactive yeast, no...