I have three great gaming franchise loves: Dungeons & Dragons (reflected largely here), BattleTech, and the World of Darkness. Not coincidentally, I have blogs for all three.
Unfortunately, all other personalty and mental-health issues aside, there is one simple truth to my life that I have yet to find a way to overcome: my ADHD. The end result is a lot of ambitious projects begun and never finished. You can probably guess that from my unfinished captures of Athasen's story here on this blog.
Well, I didn't/haven't finished the stories I wrote inspired by WoD or BattleTech either. Consider that a disclaimer if you choose to wander onto these other blogs. So have fun and enjoy what my twisted little mind can come up with when I'm not rolling dice at a table with friends.
BattleTech
In college, I gamemastered a long-running Mechwarrior (i.e. BattleTech roleplaying as opposed to tactical board-gaming) campaign centered on a Federated Commonwealth unit known as the Star Swords. With my friend Jen, I later wrote these stories into two full length novels and portions of a third that (big surprise) I never finished. Back in 2014, when my friend Greg started asking me for counsel on how to write sci-fi/fantasy fiction, I started publishing the chapters of the story to the web. Again, I never finished uploading everything.
I'm planning to change that. Since this is simply uploading documents that I've already written, it's not exactly a time consuming task. And I'm getting back into BattleTech again thanks to Harebrained Schemes new computer game, so I've got a bit of inspiration.
Fair warning, there is some sexual violence in the story. One of the major characters is raped repeatedly at one point. Now I don't shy away from the consequences and the trauma of that in the plot, but if that's stuff that bothers you, consider yourself warned.
World of Darkness
I should really use the proper nomenclature here, since what was once "World of Darkness 2.0" is now know as the "Chronicles of Darkness." But those lines are blurry in this circumstance, as you'll see.
Again, back in college, I was Storyteller for an elaborate Vampire the Masquerade game that centered on the rise and fall of vampires in the Tidewater of Virginia (i.e. Virginia Beach, Norfolk, etc.) and in Philadelphia. As I did with the Star Swords, I later decided to write down this campaign as a novel-length story. I first converted it to the new "Chronicles" setting, Vampire the Requiem and I began writing around 2010. I then "published" each chapter of the story on a blog.
Not quite sure why I did that, since I've never promoted or shared the story to anyone. I have no idea if anyone even stumbled onto it while searching for "vampire stories," but I treated the blog as though I had a regular cadre of readers. Perhaps they were imaginary.
I can tell you right now, part of why I was somewhat secretive about the story is that it is VERY ADULT. Borderline erotica in many ways. Sex, and often deviant sex, is a huge part of the Vampire world as I envision it. And, given what I do for a living, I really wasn't sure I wanted this public.
Well, too late. I'm diving in with both feet.
Trigger warning: Yeah, if its sexual in nature, it's probably in here. Be forewarned.
Also, as before, this is a project that remains unfinished. And, no, I have no idea if I'll ever pick up this particular baton and run with it again.
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