High Enough Odds For Me

The odds of anyone slipping over on this path of ice, given how busy the city was on a weekday, where it was, probably one in a hundred, say.

The odds of me being here when it happened, that was pretty good actually, I had to stand here for eight hours, so that’s one in three.

Odds of it being a woman, one in two… Well, yes, the odds are much more complicated than that, but rounding here.

So a one in six hundred chance of me being here to help a woman after she falls.

Odds she’d be you?

Avoiding A Perfect Moment

I spent most of my life avoiding the chance of having a perfect moment.

Think about it. There’s going to be a single best moment in your life, right? Of all the peaks and valleys it’ll have, there’s going to be a point that is the highest your happiness will ever be, overall.

I didn’t want to know I’ve had that, and spend the rest of my life going mostly downhill. So I deliberately kept my life good, but not great, thinking I’d never know what my best moment was until death.

Then I met you. And now I know.

Non-Drabble: "Fallout: New Vegas 'Dishonest Hearts'" (Fiasco Game Module)

A long time ago, I shared a Fiasco module set in the Star Trek universe I'd written here. I've now written another one for a con that has now finished, based on the Fallout: New Vegas setting.

"Fiasco" is an awesome storytelling RPG that is sometimes known as 'The Coen Brothers RPG' in that it's built around creating characters with big dreams and small brains, setting up an awesome plan to get rich and successful and then horribly, horribly screwing it all up.  Now, obviously I don't own the Fallout universe or any of the related properties and such, nor do I own the Fiasco system, no claim is made to owning either, and this is published under fair use with no attempt to claim ownership of the properties. Should you own either property and want this taken down, by all means let me know and I'll do so.

For more information on the "Fiasco" system, as well as purchasing it (you'll need it to use this module after all), you can find that right here!

The module would be right here for you to download! It uses the standard tilt table, and all that. Enjoy!

The Start Of Stories

A groundling, an orc, a nymph, an eaglen. One from each were there when the object was destroyed. Stories of it were woven into the fabric of those societies.

The Eaglen myths tell of an object that tried to bring the toohigh and the hardness together, to steal the Eaglen’s space, but was destroyed by the Spirit of all Creatures, Eaglen and Non-Eaglen alike.

Orcs tell of the Bad Thing That Was Gone Bye By Orcs And Not Orcs.

The Nymphs have the Ode To Grennold The Perfect Who Saved All.

Groundlings have a detailed record from the scientist present.

The Mark 7 With Custom Grip

This was wrong.

But she had to protect herself.

The weapon was banned in every known colonized sector.

But she'd got it off one of them.

It was said to cause any being hit by it to experience ten lifetimes of unspeakable agony.

But these were bad people.

Morality, as well as every major religion she'd ever heard of, screamed in her head that this was too far.

But there was someone just outside the door.

There were other ways, other possible actions she could take and survive, surely, if she just thought.

But the door opened suddenly.

She fired.