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Session 26 (October 27, 2008) Chapter 117 The blaster bomb streaked toward its target, detonating in an explosion of coruscating white fusion fire. Its targets were either vaporized, if they were close to the blast, or burned to a crisp and tossed roughly aside, if they were not. There were...

I think there's only one left from the original game, now that we've met the silacoids. But it's a good one. :) * * * * * Session 26 (October 27, 2008) Chapter 116 The Alphas found themselves confronting yet another alien species in the depths of the alien base. In some ways the silacoids...

Hell, in all of my NWN games the player characters end up looking like Rocky at the end of any of those movies. :) * * * * * Session 26 (October 27, 2008) Chapter 115 It was a bruised and battered Alpha Team that made its way through the dark shaft into the alien base. Behind them the two...

I am still playing NWN1 multiplayer, in fact one of my campaigns has been going steady for almost seven years now. I would love to see a NWN3 that includes a potent DM Client and a new toolset, but I have to agree with Steel Wind that it is very unlikely that we'll see another game as friendly...

Thanks! I wrote the novella mainly to introduce the setting I'll be exploring more deeply in the novel, and because I got the idea and couldn't shake it, which is often how my works gets started. ;) The novel will feature Keric as a protagonist, and is set about five years after the events of...

Thanks, Richard! I am also looking at Amazon, but they require more specific formatting to publish there. * * * * * Session 26 (October 27, 2008) Chapter 113 Hadrian blinked. Awareness came in a rush, along with an odd and generally unpleasant sensation, sort of like the way a leg felt...

Coming up with cliffhangers was easy for this mission. :) * * * * * Session 26 (October 27, 2008) Chapter 112 Outside air rushed into the Lightning as the craft veered roughly to the side. “KEN!” Vasily yelled into his communicator. The other Alphas could do nothing but hold on, as they...

Many of my regular readers have expressed support in the past for me getting out there and publishing my work outside of EnWorld. I just wanted to let you know that I have published a novella on the Smashwords Web site as an e-book. Smashwords lets you submit a file and makes the e-book...

Next week: Base Attack. There's a good number of posts left, but only a few more missions until the finale. * * * * * Interlude: Preparation (October 21-28, 2008) The e-mail arrived the morning after the Alphas’ return from the busted Australian mission. * * * HQX was engulfed in a...

Session 25 (October 20, 2008) Chapter 110 Hadrian Jones heard someone calling his name. The awareness was unwelcome, for it brought with it a wave of pain that started in the small of his back and radiated upward, eventually meeting up with a separate tendril of agony that trailed down from...

Heh, the stunners didn't work all that great against mutons (nothing really did, except for the Blaster Launcher), but the Alphas had better armor this time around. * * * * * Session 25 (October 20, 2008) Chapter 109 There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. With the two groups separated...

I didn't get specific; sometimes it's better to leave things vague and the let the players' imaginations fill in the blanks. * * * * * Session 25 (October 20, 2008) Chapter 108 As was so often the case, things didn’t go quite according to plan. The Lightning arrived on position slightly...

Session 25 (October 20, 2008) Chapter 107 “Wonder how ‘training’ going to go,” Vasily said, as he and Catalina made their way to the briefing room. “Don’t ask me,” Catalina said. “You’re the one with super powers. Go on, what am I thinking now?” Vasily glanced at her. “’I wish I had super...

Session 25 (October 20, 2008) Chapter 106 Note: We didn’t have a session on October 13. It was a slow week, a respite of sorts. It was almost as if the aliens had all gone on vacation. Alpha spent the days after the Los Angeles mission waiting for the other shoe to drop. But other than a...

Interlude: Base Priorities (October 7-13, 2008) * * * Author’s Note: Needless to say, the “Drake incident” spawned a lot of forum posts. I put the following together from the player posts that followed the October 6 session. The strains of Bach went on for a while longer. The hitting of...

Heh, the psilab scenes did end up being pretty amusing. Coming soon. :) * * * * * Session 24 (October 6, 2008) Chapter 105 The incident took place in the physical sciences research lab, and in hindsight showed just how close all of them were to cracking under the strain. Several of the...

Indeed, lots of fun! The last day was grueling with all the travel; with the time difference we were up for 24 hours straight. Just got back this morning. * * * * * Session 24 (October 6, 2008) Chapter 104 Dust and hot air hissed from the exhaust vents of the Lightning as it settled down...

The sectoid leaders had minor mental powers, while the sectoid commanders, while fragile, were almost as potent as ethereals in that realm. Don't have a cliffhanger to leave you on, but then again, we just got through a major mission. Some tough missions to come, as well as a significant...

Heh, we'll learn more about the Blaster Launcher shortly. It featured strongly in the final part of the campaign. In NWN terms, it fired off a Hellball spell, which was pretty nasty (10d6 each electric, acid, fire, and sonic to everyone within a wide burst). Just a note that I'm going on...

Session 23 (September 29, 2008) Chapter 102 Pain. It greeted him warmly, searing everywhere. He tasted blood, and smoke, and could feel the heat even before he heard the sound of the fires, the angry crackle all too familiar from demolitions missions in the past. He opened his eyes, but...