2009
09.28
The Baron
S19 Syringe Saint
Warden
Slaver
Winter Fairy
Patron Of Poor Minstrels
Capricorn
Durnwhip Grindylow
Pontiff Of The Sea

Working on the Geist story I went looking for a Wendigo image that fit the North American idea of a Wendigo, and came across Keith Thompson’s web site gallery. His was definitly the best I had seen in my search.

Since then, however, I keep going back there and looking around, and I keep discovering new images which really are amazing.

I kind of look at artists like I look at actors. There are some actors, every time you seen them… no matter what part they are playing, they are really playing themselves. Vin Diesel for example.. he plays Vin Diesel. An then there are actors who are the “part” they are playing.

A lot of artists are the same way. Keith Thompson has an edge to him that keeps becoming sharper, and redefined, which I find refreshing.

2009
09.28

While I have the first two scenes posted for the new Geist Sin-Eater storyline, I was delayed with the rest of the scenes because of question about the effects of Plasm on a World of Darkness vampire. Thankfully I don’t have to rework the plot areas that this question affected so I’ll be putting up the other scenes soon.

I’ve also been putting up the NPC’s or Storyteller character sources for the Calling. I just posted Eric Rake’s bio. Mr. Gone on the Geist forum at White Wolf has posted several good character sheets on his web site.Any character sheets you could possibly need for Geist are on there, as well as a collection of fonts which are used in the Geist source books (nice find there, so you should check it out).

While you are there, considering the amount of work Mr.Gone has put into creating these pages, check out his sister-inlaws store, and support his other sponcor areas. Takes only a brief time to support those that support you.. and RPG’ers have a really bad reputation for not doing so, which is why you will find that guys who put in several hours of their day, to make good source matterial like Mr. Gone, … are suddenly gone.. and you are on a forum some where asking “where are all the good source and inspiration sites?” … Gone! awk!

2009
09.20

La Sayona is a legend from Venezuela, represented by the spirit of a woman that shows up only to men that have love affairs out of their marriages. The name “Sayona” refers to the cloth the ghost wears which is a long white dress similar to a medieval undergarment. It also refers to the french term “sayon” that means executioner.

This legend is originated in the Venezuelan plains, where they claim that if you have a piece of tobacco in your pocket, the “Sayona” is not going to get you. The “sayona” is also known as the “Llorona” or the crier, since a variation of the legend says that she is always crying with a baby in her arms. The legend claims that when this woman appears she asks for a cigarette or for a ride, and after a while when the victim tries to see her face, he notices that she has instead a skull with horrible teeth

2009
09.20

Rage Manifesting a the Soul of the LivingIn Japanese mythology, an ikiryō (生霊?) (also read shōryō, seirei, or ikisudama) is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body.

Traditionally, if someone holds a sufficient grudge against another person, it is believed that a part or the whole of their soul can temporarily leave their body and appear before the target of their hate in order to curse or otherwise harm them.

Souls are also believed to leave a living body when the body is extremely sick or comatose; such ikiryō are not malevolent.

— This comes off the WikiPedia again —

Some ideas spark from this one, though for me they are a bit vauge in how a treatment or stoy-line would use this type of ,,, what is this, transcendental meditation achieved by rage? Soul Screaming? .. that’s kind of cool, I like that.. Maybe just Ghost Scream. … k… cool name… still no solid value in a treatment… have to give this some thought, but I’m sure it is going to germinate soon. Maybe I’ll post it in the White Wolf forum and see if a sin-eater can push me in the right direction.

The idea of Rage Manifesting the Soul of the Living, in order to travel across space and curse at the focus of its immortal anger, is definitely worth a treatment of some kind however. Probably a full storyline. This is not a cow-tipping event.

It is in the same leage, perhaps as the faerie Banshee, only with rage instead of death. I really like the malice involved, however, in expending this kind of energy, just to show up in someone’s living room to scream…“I FUCKING HATE YOU!“, and travel back to your body… wow.. that is really … well.. it’s insane is what it is.. I love it. :-)

2009
09.20

The AMV for Claymore is back up and posted on the Front Page

Had some problems with YouTube, apparently YouTube is not welcoming the AMV fan art any longer, which is a shame, I really like making these. Not that I have made many, but it looks like they will be even fewer in number.