I love these "Empire of Unreason" sorts of worlds, they seem awfully hard to make, because as surreal as they are, of course there has to be a structure to the unreason that can be teased out. While my own abilities would fail if applied to such a task I am confident you're the person to translate such a wondrous place into the calculated, numerical world of OSR style table top gaming (Scrap Princess would be my other nominee). Anyway - just adding my voice to those who are interested and excited by this project of yours.
Man that is so good, it creates such a nice visual while reading it, I think I'm going to read some of his books! Also I just discovered your blog and I really like some of the postings on here, and you have a fan in me now Zak
It's enjoyable to read a piece of literature that I need to actually slow down and focus on. Tired are the days of reading a "story" which my mind knows before my eyes read.
Wait; weiiiiird. I just saw the link to this in your recent play report, but the Weird Lovecraftian Fairytale Monster Demon King of the Mirrors in MY campaign was the King in Red, too. Zeigeisty.
June 13, 2013 at 6:05 AM
[Image]From the Introduction... Some women, some men and most children know that dreams leak. A lifetime of thinking it that way in your sleep can make a drawer on a drafting table three or four inches wider on a side. But there are longer lives than ours, and longer dreams. There is a Red King, and he is terrible and he is tall. He wears a red crown. The long red years have made him strange and he hides from the sun, sleeping, his strange dreams making unseen days stranger. Sleeping, he dreams of ruin and of distortion--of an Antiland, reversed and red. When he opens his red eyes in the red night there is his red land: it is inverted, rigid, and wrong. There is a cruel Queen of Hearts: she is in a different castle and she is on a different mountain and she sleeps in a different wooden box, but she is also hiding and dreaming. She dreams into being a world unending, unbeginning, with wonder and murder, disruption and unreason. And melancholy green gardens. And it is there now. And hers. Their home was once called Voivode, but now it is known by other names: The Land the Gods Refuse To See. Zeu Orb. Orb Dumnezeu. Isten Vak. The Place of Unreason. _________________________Busy busy busy.
"A Red And Pleasant Land"
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"Grab yer swords 'n' sacks, boys and girls, and let's pay this Red King a little visit . . . "
August 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Yar!
August 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM
I want to be a lonely desperado in this land. Living by sharp reflexes, true aim, and a refusal to die.
August 30, 2012 at 12:49 PM
There is a lot of "refusal to die" in the Empire...
August 30, 2012 at 12:51 PM
I am excited about this. EXCLAIM.
August 30, 2012 at 5:54 PM
That's a sexy intro excerpt.
August 30, 2012 at 6:26 PM
I love these "Empire of Unreason" sorts of worlds, they seem awfully hard to make, because as surreal as they are, of course there has to be a structure to the unreason that can be teased out. While my own abilities would fail if applied to such a task I am confident you're the person to translate such a wondrous place into the calculated, numerical world of OSR style table top gaming (Scrap Princess would be my other nominee). Anyway - just adding my voice to those who are interested and excited by this project of yours.
August 30, 2012 at 11:47 PM
Is that an exert from the "Empire of Unreason" book?
September 2, 2012 at 3:56 PM
it is an excerpt
September 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Man that is so good, it creates such a nice visual while reading it, I think I'm going to read some of his books!
Also I just discovered your blog and I really like some of the postings on here, and you have a fan in me now Zak
September 2, 2012 at 4:05 PM
"his"?
I wrote that.
September 2, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Though I'm changing it to "Place of Unreason" so it doesn't get confused with other stuff
September 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM
Oh, I'm sorry, is it not from this? http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Unreason-The-Age-Book/dp/0345406095
September 2, 2012 at 5:10 PM
No, it's the first page of the project I am working on. click the "eat me" tag to see other material I am putting together for it
September 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM
It's enjoyable to read a piece of literature that I need to actually slow down and focus on. Tired are the days of reading a "story" which my mind knows before my eyes read.
September 4, 2012 at 8:29 AM
I think I'm beginning to understand "Eat Me".
Uh oh.
September 5, 2012 at 4:40 AM
Wait; weiiiiird. I just saw the link to this in your recent play report, but the Weird Lovecraftian Fairytale Monster Demon King of the Mirrors in MY campaign was the King in Red, too. Zeigeisty.
June 13, 2013 at 6:05 AM