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What A Woman's Got To Do: 19 The old woman was tougher than she looked. Blood Sister Morikage reeled back from Etienne's punch, but one elderly hand shot out and a nimbus of dark power erupted around her fist, blasting forward at the half-Kishak just as he was wincing at having punched a sweet...

If you are not a fan of the jonrog, you are a terrorist.

Fixed for truth. On Barsoom, math is much much more dangerous than fire.

What A Woman's Got To Do: 18 Arrafin screamed for the second time in twenty minutes. Elena's death had stunned the young Naridic girl and she'd had no time to process the terrible demise of her best friend when they began the tremendous ritual of restoring the soul of the Blood Mother. She...

What A Woman's Got To Do: 17 "What's going to happen?" Isaac spoke with a degree of nervousness he was unable to conceal. Madame Yuek's offhand response did little to comfort him. "I'm not sure, actually. I've never tried this before." The Saijadani and Etienne stood before the statuesque...

True, but not at all in the way you're thinking. Hang on...

So we are about to begin the third-last game session of the season. What follows is a two-session long combat that has to rank as my greatest achievement as a GM. I am trying to give a sense of what those sessions were like: the party was INSANELY engrossed at this point. Elena's player will be...

What A Woman's Got To Do: 16 Collette stared long and hard at the dead woman in the cage. "Are you sure she's dead?" The enormous man beside her shrugged. "She ain't moved in more'n a day, boss. She ain't breathing, far as we can tell." "Give her a couple more days. We'll know when she...

Yup. Next update coming tonight.

What A Woman's Got To Do: 15 A great dark tower rose over the ruins of Zuyang, a whirling column of blackness miles across and reaching up into the sky, far out of sight. The city lay spread around the blackened remains of what must have once been a pleasant river valley. Trees grew on the...

No enduring hard feelings. We were all going through some kind of crazy times -- this was the fall of 2001, so if you recall, a few things were going on then and we'd all lost our jobs (except for Etienne's player) so we were basically camping at each others' houses and playing Barsoom twice a...

It's interesting to see how different one's frame of reference is for a game than for a story (or for real life). Killing innocent people, destroying property, risking one's soul -- all those things that in real life would be far far worse, are understood within the context of the game as...

Note that I've uploaded the first two parts of the story (Another Fine Mess and Frying Pan Fire) along with the Interludes as RTF files to the original post in this thread. This was the moment that nearly broke the game. I'd been carrying on extensive extra-game activity with most of the...

Whatever you do, do NOT miss jonrog's Drunk Southern Girls With Guns story hour. It's the reason I started writing story hours, but I've never gotten close to jonrog's genius. Understand that this was written by the guy who wrote "The Core" and "Transformers", who created the "Global Frequency"...

What A Woman's Got To Do: 14 "So, this is the home of a crazed vampire goddess. It's, uh, the creepiest place I've ever been." Isaac, Elena, Nevid and Etienne stood with Farouk and a dozen or so strangers, all of whom stared around themselves in varied mixtures of shock and awe. And terror...

What A Woman's Got To Do: 13 "Listen, guys, just try to hold it together. Please? We need to check this out. It could be important." Arrafin and Elena burst out laughing at the pleading look on Etienne's face. Arrafin was particularly unstable and stood slumped against her friend, shaking with...

I will say this: Not a SINGLE character will survive to be present at the end of the final episode.

What A Woman's Got To Do: 12 The great city of Luc'Davarionne rose above the headlands like an great mountain of buildings, hanging in mid-air without any sign of support. It was the most outrageous thing Elena had ever seen. A cone miles across at its base, rising hundreds of feet into the...

Yeah, no kidding. This was one of those moments where I realised my PCs were capable of exerting an immense influence on the world. That's Nevakada headquarters they're in the middle of, the heart of the Kishak effort to take over the world. It's about to be annihilated. This is like the...

What A Woman's Got To Do: 11 "He's got her! He's got her!" Arrafin burst from her cabin and, shrieking, charged across the deck to where the others sat enjoying the sunshine. The Wavereaver plowed through gentle swells, heading north between the mountain-topped islands of Shaer. Other sails...