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I was recently recommended Jennifer Brozek's work and I picked this up on a Bundle of Holding a while back. So I figured I'd finally get around to reading it.
This novella is told from the perspective as YOU, the Viewer of a popular Trideo show. It quite literally describes camera transitions and what imagery the reporter is able to capture using her cybernetic eye drone, smart glasses, also some footage from a third party VTOL aircraft, and studio cameras. And it even has commercials. Honestly, a tiny bit off putting reading a story like a TV show, but you know what; it grew on me. I really enjoyed the narrative presentation, and thought to myself, without some behind the scenes exposition for us to see behind the curtain, would this work? To put it simply, it does. There are a few questions left unanswered, but overall it wraps up pretty satisfactorily.
So, YOU, viewer, are watching *Stories with Hart*, starring Simone Hart as she does an investigative report on DocWagon ...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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In my continuing quest to follow Beckett through White Wolf Publishing, I read the Year of the Scarab Trilogy. The Trilogy served as part of a year-long introduction to the *Mummy: the Resurrection* game line. In addition to *Mummy*, the story incorporates lore from *Wraith: the Oblivion*, *Hunter: the Reckoning*, *Vampire: the Masquerade*, and smidgen of *Mage: the Awakening*. I gotta be honest, folks: this trilogy was my second worst White Wolf reading experience ever.
In broadstroke, and cutting out a lot of filler, Year of the Scarab Trilogy chronicles a comedy of terrible errors performed by terrible people as they seek the Heart of Osiris, the book’s McGuffin. We have Thea Ghandour and the Chicago hunters, who represent the worst of America in their blind hatred and stockpile of guns. It’s fine to not know things—unlike me, the hunters can’t look things up on the White Wolf Wiki—but it was total disinterest in learning (even about their own powers!) that got me. Compassion for a...
Rating: [2 of 5 Stars!] |
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**A trip through the wastelands - a Mephisto review**
# **Meridian**
For the novella **Meridian**, set in the universe of ***Trinity Continuum: Æon***, the story is based on a thrilling background of the setting: *La Blessure* - the devastated remains of France, which became the graveyard for millions after the crash of the space station Esperanza due to an attack of the aberrants. A unit of soldiers and scientists from the paranoid United Republic is sent into this wasteland to accomplish a secret mission objective known only to the unit's leader. To spice up this situation, the protagonist, Sophie, is not only a powerful vitakinetic, but also an undercover agent spying on the mission. She, therefore, cannot use her abilities openly at first.
As to be expected, the mission goes wrong: the team's jet is destroyed by aberrants, and the team has to fight its way through the wasteland on foot – always on the lookout for mutants, aberrants, and flux zones. However, when Sophie&...
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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# **Few risks, few fun - a Mephisto review**
**Dawn**
The ISRA sends Jay and her team to Far Nyumba to help a research settlement with its irrigation system. The disappearance of the Upeo wa Macho isolated the colony for a long time, and it had to fend for itself until new Leviathan jump-ships provided a way to reach it. As an added motivation for the team, the brother of one of Jay's team members lives on the moon, so a long-awaited reunion is imminent. However, shortly before the psions' arrival, an extraterrestrial artifact crashes near the landing zone - and soon aliens show up, claiming the artifact for themselves, ready to take possession of it - even by force. So Jay's team has their hands full, trying to solve the situation and protect the settlement.
At just under 80 pages, **Dawn** is a novella in the ***Trinity Continuum: Æon*** universe. The initial situation is promising - the journey to the distant colony that has long been isolated, some sort of key lea...
Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!] |
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