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Friends, please note that after six years, I'm moving my blog from MySpace and Yahoo 360 to WordPress. Thanks again to fellow blogger Ken G., who helped me set up "Gene's Worlds" and who hosts it.

You'll be able to find my reviews of recent television, movies, comic books, games, and restaurants, as well as the occasional political or philosophical musing. I hope to post more regularly than in the past six months, so any feedback you have is welcome!

Fellow role-players, here is my update for Session T3.20 of the latest adventuring party in my "Vanished Lands" heroic fantasy campaign setting. The teleconferencing team met on Sunday, 13 March 2011, and has been using Pathfinder, Skype, and an online dice roller.

In one ancient world, there was a region where strange majicks and demihuman races thrived. After "Holy Steel's" journey to the distant empire of Khemet, another motley group gathered in the northwestern "Vanished Lands" to explore a world full of perils and wonders....

>>Telecom party Player Character roster, as of spring 2011:

-"Gawain Keary" [Paul J.]-male Saganim human Illusionist (proto-Celtic Wizard) and contact of "Kimo" [Beruk A.]; NGc, Age 20, Lvl. 1

-"Kovar" [Beruk A.]-male Half-Orc/Saganim human Paladin

Fellow role-players, here are my notes for Session 5b.11 of the "Vortex" space opera campaign. Team 2 met on Monday, 7 March 2011, and is using FATE 3e Starblazer Adventures/Mindjammer, Diaspora, and Limitless Horizons.

In one future, humanity has begun to colonize the Sol system, but ecological degradation and internecine conflicts persist. Open and official First Contact with Galactic societies, themselves at war, threaten Terra's very survival. Can heroes rise to the challenges?

After encountering various hazards around Karachi and Ghanki Station beneath the Arabian Sea, the adventurers had escaped to the Shepard 2 orbital city, but their new ship was missing key components. After a successful heist from a Lunar warehouse, the crew of the "Gen. Lee" went to Venus on an urgent

Fellow role-players, here are Josh C.'s notes for Session 5a.12 of the "Vortex" space opera campaign. Team 1 met on 28 February, 2011, and is using FATE 3e Starblazer Adventures/Mindjammer, Diaspora, and Limitless Horizons.

In one future, humanity has begun to colonize the Sol system, but ecological degradation and internecine conflicts persist. Open and official First Contact with Galactic societies, themselves at war, threaten Terra's very survival. Can heroes rise to the challenges?

After evading xenophobic attacks at the Rio "beanstalk," New Miami, and Lemuria Station, two alien explorers and their human allies obtained passage to Mars, where they found new allies and threats....

>>"Vortex" Team 1 Player Characters, crew of the Blackbird, as of spring 2011:

-"Syzygy" [Brian W.]-Trinoid

Fellow role-players, here is my update for Session 19 of the latest adventuring party in my "Vanished Lands" heroic fantasy campaign setting. The teleconferencing team met on Sunday, 6 March 2011, and has been using Pathfinder, Skype, and an online dice roller.

In one ancient world, there was a region where strange majicks and demihuman races thrived. After "Holy Steel's" journey to the distant empire of Khemet, another motley group gathered in the northwestern "Vanished Lands" to explore a world full of perils and wonders....

>>Telecom party Player Character roster, as of spring 2011:

-"Gawain Keary" [Paul J.]-male Saganim human Illusionist (proto-Celtic Wizard) and contact of "Kimo" [Beruk A.]; NGc, Age 20, Lvl. 1

-"Kovar" [Beruk A.]-male Half-Orc/Saganim human Paladin of

Fellow role-players, here is my update for Session 18 of the latest adventuring party in my "Vanished Lands" heroic fantasy campaign setting. The teleconferencing team met on Sunday, 27 February 2011, and has been using Pathfinder, Skype, and an online dice roller.

In one ancient world, there was a region where strange majicks and demihuman races thrived. After "Holy Steel's" journey to the distant empire of Khemet, another motley group gathered in the northwestern "Vanished Lands" to explore a world full of perils and wonders....

>>Telecom party Player Character roster, as of spring 2011:

-"Kovar" [Beruk A.]-male Half-Orc/Saganim human Paladin of Mithras; raised as an orphan; contact of the Order of the Golden Lion; LGn, Lvl. 2

-"Davven 'Digger' Hollysharp" [Robert A.S.]-male Faldine

Fellow role-players, here are my notes for Session 5b.10 of the "Vortex" space opera campaign. Team 2 met on 21 February 2011, and is using FATE 3e Starblazer Adventures/Mindjammer, Diaspora, and Limitless Horizons.

In one future, humanity has begun to colonize the Sol system, but ecological degradation and internecine conflicts persist. Open and official First Contact with Galactic societies, themselves at war, threaten Terra's very survival. Can heroes rise to the challenges?

After encountering regional warlords, extraterrestrial probes, and things man was not meant to know around Karachi and Ghanki Station beneath the Arabian Sea, the adventurers stole spaceship components from a Lunar warehouse. The crew of the General Lee then towed medical supplies to Venusian colonies,

Fellow role-players, here is my update for Session 17 of the latest adventuring party in my "Vanished Lands" heroic fantasy campaign setting. The teleconferencing team met on Saturday, 19 February 2011, and has been using Pathfinder, Skype, and an online dice roller.

In one ancient world, there was a region where strange majicks and demihuman races thrived. After "Holy Steel's" journey to the distant empire of Khemet, another motley group gathered in the northwestern "Vanished Lands" to explore a world full of perils and wonders....

>>Telecom party Player Character roster, as of spring 2011:

-"Kovar" [Beruk A.]-male Half-Orc/Saganim human Paladin of Mithras; raised as an orphan; contact of the Order of the Golden Lion; LGn, Lvl. 2

-"Davven 'Digger' Hollysharp" [Robert A.S.]-male Faldine

Fellow role-players, here are my notes for Session 5b.9 of the "Vortex" space opera campaign. Team 2 met on Monday, 7 February 2010, and is using FATE 3e Starblazer Adventures/Mindjammer, Diaspora, and Limitless Horizons.

In one future, humanity has begun to colonize the Sol system, but ecological degradation and internecine conflicts persist. Open and official First Contact with Galactic societies, themselves at war, threaten Terra's very survival. Can heroes rise to the challenges?

After encountering various hazards around the Middle East, one party of adventurers had escaped into interplanetary space. After obtaining ship components at the Lunar Free State, the crew of the Gen. Lee towed the Parsifal and urgent medical supplies to Venus…

>>"Vortex" Team 2 Player Characters