Just finished off the rough draft of the Echoes of Dark Reflections short story, at slightly over 4500 words.
I did this in the new minimalist rough draft style, so it will take a lot of reworking and polishing in the rewrites to get it in a readable form. Not sure how long that will take.
Nhaqosa and his bad go through a bit in this story, which may change them a little in future stories, but I think it may have needed to be done.
More when it is closer to being finished.
Back in the mid-90s there was a game released that I played a lot – probably the only game I played more was Master of Orion 2. The game was called Emperor of the Fading Suns, a 4X game based on the Fading Suns RPG universe. It was a fairly grim, gothic setting. Consider it the Dark Ages in Space and you get the idea; knights and nobles and peasants and superstition and the inquisition. Not as grimdark as WH40K, but certainly not the happiest of settings.
If any game could have a sequel/remake done, this game tops my list.
Part of the appeal of the game was the soundtrack. It fitted perfectly. The other day on a forum elsewhere, the question arose of favourite game soundtracks and I remembered EFS. So I got out the old CD, ripped the music off it and started listening to it again. It makes great music to write too.
I also found the tracks on youtube so as a musical interlude I’ll start working the way through them.
Fading Suns
Battle
For the Fallen
I also discovered a copy of the introduction to the game, though with Spanish subtitles. The CGI may look dated now, but back in its day it was good.
…poking around in old files on an old computer.
I ran across two short stories I write many, many years ago, one sci-fi, one fantasy. As it happens both came out of games I used to play.
I’m going to rewrite them both now that my writing has improved a little and hope to have them posted up for all to see in the next week or two.
Mist and Shadows 