This forum is for discussion of any of the material that is currently up on the Truly Rural website. Currently there are two different ezines hosted, a small selection of gaming articles and downloads, misc fiction, a little humor and whatever else comes to mind.
This forum used to be the Prison of Flesh Kult forum. But with the establishment of The Last Cycle it is no longer needed for that. All the old posts were kept in case anybody feels like digging through them.
Salute to the Fallen or Lost.
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Matt Boroson, wherever you are I hope things are brighter than ever before.
Matt was the catalyst who got the Abyss going, the source of the idea, or at least the one who spoke what we were all on the verge of. Don't know what happened to you or where you went. But we continued your dream on without you. It lasted a good while and we accomplished more than most others do.
I'm going to start cleaning up this forum. Starting with the oldest and moving forward. Anything interesting or of 'historical' interest to myself will probably be saved over on my website. Even thinking of a dead and gone section with the names of all the sites that have come an gone over the years.
Reason behind this? Well I'm going to be paying for forum service here soon on this account. This forum is so old that a lot of spammers and spiders hit it all the time. I'm not going to pay for those hits coming in. So I'll be deleting this forum all together in a few months.
If you see something you want you better get it now.
A little over one page of the posts here are now gone. Again I went through and mainly got rid of the links to ebay sales, book requests and stuff like that.
Hello, I would like to know if you want to have contact with me please because I see you are a great fankult rpg since more ten years and I am very interest to exchange knowledge about kult rpg with you. What do you think about this proposition ?
I am a great fankult and I would like to exchange with you about the way to do a good mastering and more about the universe and cosmology about kult...
See you soon.
Bonjour à toutes et à tous. Je m'intéresse à l'univers de Kult depuis plus de dix ans, malheureusement le jeu ayant une extrême mauvaise réputation je n'ai eu que très peu d'occasion de pouvoir jouer ou masteriser.
Ma question était donc la suivante : y aurait-il des joueurs en france près à organiser des parties de kult au moins une fois par mois et ce sur deux ou trois jour ? L'univers de Kult est véritablement à mon sens un univers fascinant là où d'autres joueurs y voit une " perversion du jeu de rôle ". Je pense que Kult est une sorte d'aboutissement du jeu de rôle d'horreur. Voila donc, je suis ouvert à toutes proposition afin de masteriser, de jouer, mais aussi de partager tout ce que les fans peuvent connaitre ou créer sur kult notamment au niveau de l'univers, des scénarii, des aides de jeux, etc, etc...
A bientôt. N'hésitez pas à répondre à ce message.
The closest friends I have, Jason, John and Daryk. I met them here of all places, Online. The only person I know here in Realtime is my Wife, and she doesn't game. We truly are different people.
I've lost the ability to sketch anything good, lack of practice. All my books are read, and I see nothing new I want...
I have almost run out of things to photograph, textures to play with, and filters to manipulate, there is nothing new.
I'm broke, the bills are piling up and the money goes faster than I can make it.
I feel sad, angry and alone despite a beautiful wife and daughter, asleep in the next room.
I have no inspiration for anything but bad gothic peotry, and ranting on subjects even I could care less about.
All the music I have I've listened to a million times or more. My ability to create music has gone the same place as my ability to sketch. And even if I felt like practicing, my Synth has been sold to pay bills.
My ideas of an afterlife are merely nothing but hopes, I have no proof of anything, and even less faith.
I could watch a movie, but it would only lead to two hours of escape from life, and even then the train right outside my door goes by every half hour reeling me back into the real world as I hit pause on the VCR.
All the mail in my inbox goes unread, I've read it all before, gaming lists, spam, and letters from people I don't know.
My wife, though she doesn't game, knows about Kult, has scanned the material, and read the stuff I've written on it, she doesn't like it... and told me the other day while I was talking to her about the curse, that she's never had it this bad, until Kult (And thus me) came along.
I can't seem to drink as much as I used to be able to, and I can't smoke any weed, due to my Job situation.
No one is online...
I want to cry, but have cried too much already.
I need a moment of clarity.
I am only human.
Please don't take this the wrong way folks, I'm just speaking my mind, this isn't a plea for help or sympathy. I always feel better after I talk things out, and right now this is the only way I can.
thanks for listening,
This is my life, I've been through worse. Next post will be more on topic.
...but honestly, things go in ups and downs all the time. Life sux pretty much something like 70% of the time... Thank god it's worth it for the 1% of absolute bliss.
Take care of your Mental Balance, Ryan, or you'll be popping in and out of reality like a... a... a thing that pops in and out of reality...
I live 550 km from all of my friends now, so I know what boredom is. Sometimes, you could think that boredom is one of the simplest ways to achieve Awakening.
-torb
"I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends
...they're in my head..."
-K. Cobain
Is this a symptom of our time? Everything around me turns to mud and ashes. Every man, woman and child seems nothing but empty husks, vague echoes of their former glory. The wold is indeed becoming a sad place.
In answer to that which you asked us not to answer I can only say...
...One may feel like one has experienced all there is to life. One may feel that one knows all there is to know about oneself and the world one lives in. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If nothing else, there is always the quest of learning how to cope with knowing it all.
I know exactly how you feel, as I have been there more than once. When writers blocking, creative stasis and a general discomfort in everything that I do seems to govern my existence, I usually vanish into the the void of the web, reading up on anything that might catch my interest. Journeying through the endless possibilities and thoughts contained on the Internet, it really isn't that hard to find new inspiration. Try it out sometime, if nothing else you will have killed time for a few more hours, relishing in escapism of a more positive nature.
life can be so miserable so much that most of us feel like we might as well end it MOST of the time! (i think Torb mentioned that) i know guys, I know!!! and i'm not trying to downplay anyone's problems here, because they are real problems that are causing you guys a LOT of pain, but then there's this old punk rock ideal:
you've only got one life to live, so live it to the fullest.
plays into the whole DIY thing. i know it's rough guys, but we ARE alive, and there's nothing wrong with having a little fun. i think that ability is still in all of us.
Good luck and best wishes to all, I honestly hope all things work out for all of you.
I suppose you could say I'm cheating by my having the opportunity to read everyone elses posts before I send this one.
I suppose I could say something like we've all been through this before and it WILL get better, it always does - but that's no use here and now.
I suppose I could say loneliness seems to be designed to always hurt that much, bugger ain't it - but that's an empty and pathetic observation.
I suppose I could come out with a ridiculous cliche that would provide you with absolutely no mental sanctuary at all - but that would be insulting your intelligence and prove to you that all I see is words on a computer screen and that there is no person on the other end.
I suppose I could remind you of the teachings of Neizsche (I think...) "What doesn't kill you just makes you stronger..." - but that's just the carrot in front of the donkey; providing empty hope for a future that seems to be simply out of reach.
You're now probably thinking,
"Well thanks for the uplifting text, now go to bed you depressing British poof. I'm off to slash up..."
...but there is a point.
Honest.
From my experience, I believe that these tests of our Faith are just that. When we have no faith in ourselves and our environments it is usually because we're not facing our fears. Not our real fears, the ones we kind of over look because we actually fear them that much that we honestly don't believe we are ready to face them yet.
Perhaps you daren't admit you're underachieving? Perhaps you feel that it isn't that you have no inspiration, but no one who could actually hear what it is that you actually have to say? Maybe you feel that there's no one really capable to truely appreciate you for who and what you really are to the world and what it is that you have to offer? Perhaps your beliefs are just so far fetched that there's no way that anyone could possibly take you seriously after you stated them?
And, just maybe, this state of catharsis is actually YOUR fault?
All of these are real fears. These are all the things that we cannot hope to over come because they are just too fucking big to cope with by yourself.
Wrong.
You are who you are today because you haave achieved it by yourself, for yourself. You are the sum of all of your experiences and emotions. You are the wisdom that has been collected from education and determination.
You ARE better than your environment and all of those within it simply because you are more open minded than they are. You think ahead of them, and yet they'll call you starnge because they just simply thought that far ahead.
You may now ask yourself what the Hell this has to do with all of my problems and what use is this information?
It is time to face those things that you couldn't face before - it is time to push that little harder. It is to break your limits and find new ones and by doing so, you'll see an even 'bigger picture'.
If the problem is a job that doesn't pay enough, either ask for a raise or sell yourself to their competitors. If you don't actually like your job and are having to settle for second best, go one better.
If you don't think those dumb butt-wipes around you can take what you have to say, take it to a more intelligent audience, someone who's going to say,
"Wow, I'd never seen it that way before!"
All of that built up angst and fury at you state of mental paralysis should be released in a fit of pure anger. Shape the anger; you are an artist, you are the creator of a million dreams and thousand memories stored in the places that no one else can go.
Here's a little "Did you know..."; "Magi" is the Hebrew word for "Wise Man". A wise man is a person that understands that he is, even without the use of outside elements (ie. magick - because everyone automatically assumes that magick's the key to everything until they realise it's just a tool), the master of his own destiny!
In short, you're not stupid.
Only a bright person can get stuck in such a complicated issue because they've had the insight to have morals and ethics that provide them with distinct rules.
You're even brighter! You can pull yourself out of anything, you've just got to want to ENOUGH.
On the other hand you can just ignore me and tell me to go to bed.
Either way, I can say I sympathise and I can relate to what it is that you're going through, though I can't totally understand what it is that you are personally going through. Good luck and I wish you all the strength and determination you can possibly need.
This is your life - YOU live it.
My name's William Fergus Law. I'm just a man, but I am the sum of me. That applies to everyone.
I mean it.
I am of the belief however, that there are problems in this world that cannot be solved. You may find yourself in a situation where you have been stripped of all control of your own life. It would be nice to believe that we always have a choice, but I am afraid it is not that simple.
was just chatting to a mate who mentioned ur name from years ago, remember seeing u in the tavern, so googled u and found this. anyway say hi if you like.
So come by register and say whatever you need to. Currently I only have a general discussion area. If there is a need for a further breakdown then I'll do so.
A few years ago I was working on my own card game. It was one of really bad taste and not for those easily offended. Fetus Fighters. Found the files today and I put a section for it. Will start work on the game again as I really do like the ideas in it and the game play format.
What is Rapture:the second coming? Is it a stand alone RPG or a sort of sourcebook for a White Wolfish game (it seems, looking at the title)?
And some of you know about the games SLA industries and Armageddon? Some opinions?
Well my friend,
saturday I want to Florence (and I met Hannibal Lecter, ehehehehe... I killed him and sacrificed his brain to Togarini) and in a RPG shop I looked for SLA but I didn't found it. I think I will order it.
Why?
Simply I trust you.
Why?
Because in that shop I found GEMINI the dark fantasy RPG, I remembered you advised me to buy it and I bought it. SIMPLY A GREAT GAME. It tastes of Kult, indeed. The art is stunning, the setting very depth, the char creation good. So thanks!
Aaarrrrgh,
I searched for SLA industries in the web site of the biggest RPG importer in Italy... well they want 90.000 lire for the main rule book, this means 45 damn bucks!!!!
So, please if you can give me some other tips about this game: the graphic layout (a very important aspect for me), the system, and the setting... is it very dark? On RPG.net it had bad rewiews...
So, before the robbery by the shop, I need info!!!
Well,
a part of this situation is because of the change Dollar/lira ... 1$/2300£.
The other part because the vendors are thieves that vant to lucrate on this hobby, because in Italy there's a little market...
Both "Rapture: The Second Coming" and "Armageddon" are RPGs dealing with the end times, i.e. the Apocalypse.
"Rapture" approaches that topic more from the theological side with the characters mostly being members of religious organizations while "Armageddon" is somehow an independent extension of the WitchCraft RPG, mixing magic, mythologies and religions to an interesting blend. "Armageddon" is more action-orientated whereas "Rapture" focussed more on a sinister, pessimistic atmosphere.
I own both systems and I have run two adventures for "Rapture" quite successfully; in spite of the theological background it is not a sermon, it's a good game. As far as I know it is out ouf print; "Armageddon" too, but that one will be released again in November 2001.
>"Rapture" approaches that topic more from the >theological side with the characters mostly being >members of religious organizations
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>whereas "Rapture" focussed more on a sinister, >pessimistic atmosphere. I own both systems and I have >run two adventures for "Rapture" quite successfully; >in spite of the theological background it is not a >sermon, it's a good game. As far as I know it is out >ouf print;
That would be correct; Rapture is more or less permanently out of print. There is a GM's screen to go with it, and one sourcebook, but in my experience it is very hard to find them on Ebay or the like. William Spencer Hale was the mastermind behind the game, and he went broke on it several years ago. If anyone is interested, I can scan the shops in Georgia, USA [also known as where I live], to see if they have a copy or two - Mr. Hale was a local boy, and it was produced locally. Bound to be a few copies around here.
Are you attempting to find the original d10 version of Rapture or the d20 version offered by Holistic Design? If it is the original you are attempting to find I may be able to help you.
Seems you're victim of an XSS exploit of some sort, related to the ads.
When I loaded the main page, it took about five seconds and I was redirected to a norwegian site for free ringtones, without having clicked anything (I was actually using the arrow keys to scroll down the thread list)
Put a link to the Sla Industries section in the Gaming Articles part. That should have been there already but I seemed to have forgotten it.
Updated the HTML on the Sla Industries page a tiny little bit.
Final updates is a new article on the Sla Industries page itself. Soft Company Currency and it deals with the idea of Dark Night Dollars and Thresher Teeth.
So I'm gearing up to start running a SLA Industries game again. So once again I've started writing down a lot of the differences my SLA world has from the cannon one.
Now here's one idea that I'm writing on. Hopefully I should get the write up completely done and up on my site by this weekend. Right now this is a rough, write it down draft.
Equiped with Science Friction gear, from modified Blocker to specialized weapons. Everything works on a Flux storage system. So after a set amount of uses the equipment has to be returned to a Shiver Station so it can be shipped uptown to be recharged. At this time replacement equipment will be issued to the Shiver.
“You think you have paperwork, I have to account for every bit of Flux I burn out of these things. Not to mention all of the regular forms for use of force.” – Dark Lament Shiver
Blocker – Dark Purple in color. The body of the armor can be increased for a limited time. It is a mesh of regular armor plating with Science Friction material weaved through. While not built nearly to the extent of a Death Suit it does share a few similarities. However it won’t keep the rain off. (Protect Rank 1 – 5 uses, Protect Rank 3 – 5 uses) There are going to be a few other affects built in but I haven't got my head wrapped around them yet.
Weapons – Two common weapons so far. First is a rifle with a spindle of ‘shells’ going through it. Each shell can fire a low level Blast, then the lever action is worked in a new shell is put in place, this would be specialized and limited to a 'proven' Shiver. Second and more common is a revolver, six shots with a lever action on the handle also (Blast Rank 3).
Other gear for detect, illumination, etc.
Using this gear are Ebons and Brain Wasters who could not achieve the requirements for Meny or were unable to complete the classes. This gives them a second chance to give back to the World of Progress and attempt to work their way toward the White.
After several years of service they are told they will be used for specialized security within the Dark Lament Tower and other facilities. Plus at that time they will receive a newly designed Death Suit so they can achieve their evolution. Seeing as the program hasn’t been around for very long at all none have gained this promotion.
Updated the Sla Industries page a bit with more to come in a few weeks hopefully.
Got a campaign starting up in Feb along with plenty of ideas rolling around in my head again. Just got to get the ball rolling. Plus I need to ask somebody for permission to post a lot of their material up on the page.
Just in case somebody is wondering about Inner Voice.
The next issue will be out when I get material for it. I got a couple submissions in for it and then nothing. That's been quite a while back. So if anybody wants to see more issues come out then they need to send in material.
Well it's no longer a Kult dedicated forum. With the Last Cycle there is no longer a need for it. So I have retooled it a bit to use with my own website - Truly Rural.
However I am not going to get rid of the archives anytime soon. If there comes a need to do so in the future then I will copy them over into html and put them up on the Truly Rural site. But Network 54 isn't imposing any limitations on the number of pages a forum can run.
So if you wish to discuss, ask a question or bitch about anything on the Truly Rural website this is now the place to do it. If there is enough interest I may transfer it over onto some kind of add free forum service.
Hey, John... I was thinking of making a script to crawl all the posts here, get them all converted to a simpler ( read ad-free ) format for Kult fans to browse. I was also thinking of doing the same thing to the old mail list...
What do you think?
I set up the forum to display threads by last activity instead of the order they were initially posted. That way if somebody wants to bring up the dead their post will bring the thread to the top.
Certainly has a nice feel to it. Though personally I like taking actual photographs, from various sources, and playing around with them in Photoshop in order to create illustrations, handouts, etc.
Still, nice work.
Oaky Me And My friends where woundering if bloody mary was real so we went on the internet to see if it was ture and im still not sure. We Where woundering if it was true or not. We were woundering if we could do it and not it hert by doing it? we just want an honest answer please help us please email us back... thanks,
I think that your Bloody Marry photo or what ever u call it is slamin hott! & is realy Freaky cool! be my pal!
by the way do u know the story of what happened 2 Bloody Mary? if u do than please e-mail me with the story of how she died and lived and what actcually happened 2 her!!!
Selling some books on Ebay. Got three books up right now with more on the way through out this next week. Time to raise some money for a convention and to clear out some things I will never use.
Right now I have up Vampire: The Requiem, A Classic Traveller reprint volume and Talislanta 4th edition.
Does anyone here has some info on Tyrant/The Hive?
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It's a question especially to You Peter, as I know You knew each other. Along with the demise of Intelligence Community, there is no way to even learn if Tyrant is still online from time to time, and I really miss the Hive - I know that T. had a lot more materials than those that were hosted on slave-state...
If you are still able to contact him, just let him know that there are still people that would like to see the project finished.
Actually I was looking for him a while back when AJ needed to switch servers and Ryan needed to change where the slave state domain led. We couldn't find him then.
Just a day or two ago I started looking for him again. I made a post on my livejournal about it even (http://redtint.livejournal.com/) as it's been almost a year since he's logged in anywhere that I can find.
Phonebook.com research has turned up nothing. I've tried nearly everything that I can think of to get ahold of him. Got one or two more REALLY long shots to try though.
If you here anything from him let me know as well please.
Story out of Sequence has been continued finally. Currently on the main page in the updates you can get to the main page for this fiction series.
After much delay and procastination I have written two new parts for the series (numbers nine and ten) with two more on the way in a week or so. So if you would take a look over there and tell me what you think.
Does anyone know of any PDF or Torrent downloads for:
Legions of Darkness
Metropolis
Player's Companion
or
Tatoticum:London meets Inferno?
Any at all would be appriciated.
Thanks,
Shadow
I'm new to Gemini RPG and I've been looking for a decent character sheet all over the net. I haven't found any, except for one made of a few excel tables, which I don't like. Would you be so kind and send me the character sheet you made? I'd be really grateful! My email address is finn1@o2.pl. Thank you!
Although nobody seems to use this forum anymore I went ahead and cleaned up some of the spam posts that appeared recently. Hopefully not many more will appear.
Around 0200 and now at 1120 EST (-5 GMT)
Both Nepharite.Com and The Last Cycle seem
to have sporatic outtages... Since Torb and
I are both hosted by Netsender (UK) I guess
it is massive server side troubles...
Mrs. Sinclaire
By: Steven M. Finger
Enhanced Draft
Mrs. Sinclaire told us the best stories. Even years later, back when we first
became adults my brother Benny and I would still reference them to each
other. Every now and then, we still reminisce about her to this day.
It was so much better then any of these so called "Hollywood Blockbusters"
and "Got-To-Have" video games the kids drive me nuts for today, can ever be.
Many a day I thought, oh, how I'd love to hear one of her wonderful stories
again. She didn't talk down to us as children. She talked to us like a friend.
Mrs. Sinclaire was an elderly Haitian woman who used to sit in the park on
Saturday afternoons. She was always friendly and engaging toward us,
especially me.
At first, I remember how we thought she was scary but she had a familiar
and friendly face. Older people can seem so scary and unnatural in the eyes
of a child and at times Mrs. Sinclaire was no different.
One day, I just walked up to her and said "Hello" and we quickly became
friendly. She always seemed to be surprised to see us. Sadly, the other kids
in the park never talked to her. Whether it was because she was black or old
didn’t matter, either way it was their loss.
She always said I was special. Ben would protest and she'd tell him "child, of
course you are special too" and smile and some how all would be forgiven.
When I'd tease Benny about it, he'd say it was only because I was a girl.
When Benny got too old to pal around with his baby sister, I'd still go to the
park alone for another story and another visit with Mrs. Sinclaire while Benny
hung out with his buddies.
Mrs. Sinclaire would almost always be there, humming to herself and just
passing the time on a bench in the shade. She was always in her old-fashioned
clothes and big hat with flowers.
I'd always be the first one to say hello, just like that first time. I don't think she
could see very well. It's so hard to recall now but perhaps she was partially blind
or senile. No matter what the reason she always seemed surprised and happy to see
me.
She had told us long tales of witches and zombies. She told us about vampires and
demons, of magic and other worlds... and things that happened back in her country
long ago.
These were not the nursery rhymes kids are commonly told, these went
well beyond that. She'd tell us there was much more to life and ourselves
then we realized that there were things we cannot always touch or see
but she promised us they were there just the same.
She had answers for everything we'd ask. Benny thought he had her one
time and questioned her about how the undead knew where to find the
people they were after. She smiled and said, that the land of the dead was
very much different then the world we understand. Time and space were
meaningless there. It was as good an answer as any for us at that time.
One Saturday afternoon, old Mrs. Sinclaire picked a flower from her hat
and gave it to me. She said, I should hurry home it was going to rain.
The sky was growing dark fast, so I said goodbye and ran off. She told
me she'd see me soon enough and that next time, she'd tell me a marvelous
ghost story. I was very excited and couldn't wait to hear it.
When I got home... there was an ambulance and a police car in front of the
house. Some of the neighbors had gathered outside on the lawn. I ran past
them all as they grabbed at me and went right into the house.
That day my Dad had died of a heart attack. At the end of that week we packed
up and closed the house, moving out east to be near my Mom's family. In some
ways, I focused all my anger and emotion on Mrs. Sinclaire.
If she would have told me that ghost story I wouldn't' have seen my Dad lying
there in the kitchen. That it somehow, just wouldn’t be real. It was a child's logic,
and as time passed so did the resentment. In a way, it made it real and I could let
him go. Benny has his ashes now, I didn't want any mishaps with the kids.
The house was eventually sold to my Uncle, one of Dad's brothers. I pressed the
flower old Mrs. Sinclaire had given me in the family bible. We never saw Mrs.
Sinclaire again. Surely she is gone by now. Benny still remembers her but not the
same way I do.
After I married and had the twins, Joseph and Grace my Mother passed away. It
was both a joyous time and a time of sorrow. It must have affected Benny because
he married later that year after finally buckling down and finishing his business
degree in a local College.
We had stayed close and Benny and my husband Randy became really good
friends. Everything was going well but time claimed my Uncle just three years
after Mom. My Aunt was putting the house up on the market and going to Florida.
They never had any children so she offered it to each of us but we just couldn't
afford it. Besides, we had a life here in the east now.
Of course Benny and I flew out west for the funeral, after which my
Aunt encouraged us to go through the basement and attic. A lot of Mom
and Dads things were still there. It felt odd being back in the old homestead,
things were just so different after all these years.
I found the bible and the pressed flower Mrs. Sinclaire had given to me. I
began remembering all the stories and then her sweet smile and it brought me
a moment of joy in an otherwise somber day.
My Aunt upon seeing my reaction to it asked me what it was. I told her it was
a flower old Mrs. Sinclaire had given me the day that Dad died. I had clung to
it all during that sad time before finally pressing it in the family bible.
My Aunt told me I must be mistaken if it was the old Mrs. Sinclaire who used
to be our nanny, way back when my Mom and Dad both worked.
Benny said he never remembered Mom and Dad both working and neither did
I for that matter. I never even knew we had a nanny.
Oh, it wasn't for very long, you were only about four or so at the time my Aunt
told Benny. My brother and I were Irish twins as they say, having been born less
then a year apart from one another. Mom was always a housewife as far as we
were concerned.
My Aunt continued, your parents were unsure about taking her on at first due to
her age but she was so wonderful with you kids and enthusiastic they just gave
her the job.
She'd take you to the park and always made such a fuss over you two, especially
you Regina. I can still picture her in that big old-fashioned hat telling some tall tale.
It was only after she died in her sleep one night that your Mom then decided to stay
at home with you two. They knew they’d never find another Mrs. Sinclaire.
It can't be I said and Benny completely agreed with me for a change. My Aunt said
she still remembers the funeral, they were the only whites there but everyone was
kind enough to them. She must have been widely respected; it was the largest funeral
procession they'd ever witnessed. There was even a marching band.
At the end of the ceremony everyone thanked them for coming and giving her the
job. You kids gave her great joy in her final years. With their thick accents it was
hard to understand some of her family and most of the ceremony but they sang a
lovely spiritual of some kind at the end that was almost hypnotic.
She looked through an old photo album and eventually pulled out a photo of her
with us in the park. We were only infants in the black and white photograph. On
the back in pencil it had her name and directions to an old black cemetery, about
20 miles away.
I got chills up and down my spine. Maybe my Aunt Ellen was the mistaken one,
she was a bit of a drinker but she seemed so certain and had no reason to lie to us.
I was left really confused and Benny seemed to just shake it off quickly enough.
That night, I dreamed of Mrs. Sinclair smiling and humming. I had all but forgotten
the melody but it was clear in my mind now. Benny was still asleep so I asked my
Aunt to borrow her car for a while.
Benny had made plans to see his old buddies before we were to head back east that
evening, so I left him the rental car and drove out to the cemetery alone. I stopped in
the cemetery office and got directions to the grave. My Aunt was right. I located it
and read the dates on the headstone. I was only three years old when she died and
oddly enough, we shared the same birthday.
I wiped a few tears from my eyes and opened the bible. I took out the flower and
placed it on the grave and said thanks for the stories to Mrs. Sinclaire, thanks for
being my friend.
That night when I got back home the twins were up and so excited to see me, it was
hard to put them down for the night. I found myself humming the Mrs. Sinclaire tune
and shortly after they were out for the night.
I think this Saturday we'll all go to the park and start a new tradition. I think I'll tell
them... a ghost story.
When I was hopping across the web, specificly looking for various horror adventures for different systems, I came across a very generic horror scenario...
It dealt with--
--a suburban town, atmospheric disturbances (such as electrical storms), government conspiracy, and some kind of temporal displacement. I also think that the adventure in question dealt with the players losing their identities.
If anyone has any clue what this is, please e-mail me at die_giant_monster_die@yahoo.com.
I've just updated Symbolique with a bunch of stuff, but what may be of interest to Kultists, is my recent work, "Gift for Smile". Not specifically Kult, per se, but one inspired by the dark and twisted. It may be of interest to some of you. It was not designed for any publication, the first work of mine in a long while to not be.
Mayhap you should try a different host. I switched to fatcow.com a year ago and they've been the best host i've used since '96. I pay for the large account, but you can opt for a smaller service (the MiniMoo) and buy extra storage as an when you need it.
The only downtime I've experienced is when they upgrade the services and they email you at least twice, one of those a week in advance to let you know when it's happening. I've referred many a client to them and they've nothing but praise for the host.
Their email support is a little slow, but they always respond within a few days if you have a problem that is beyond the realms of their FAQ. They also do surveys to see what their clients would like to see improved or added as they're constantly improving their hosting.
BTW, if Cows aren't dark enough for Kult, just imagine them in the meatworks. It works for me!
http://www.bitcomet.com/
This was the best and easiest to use of all the client software that i have tried. It is fast, resource light and has no spyware. It should be easy enough to learn how to use with the included help files and such. If you have any problems, IM me on yahoo. I can tell you where to get the best torrents and such or give pointers on the program.
Direct Connect is another alternative once you build up a library of things to share and want to hang with a more exclusive and refined crowd. The best client for that is DC++ http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/ . Ditto if you want to learn how to use and abuse that.
BITwise is a P2P messenger program. If you want to share things with friends without getting your feet wet in the muck of sharing with strangers, I enjoy using it more than any thing else. You can set up a buddy list and file permissions and the whle nine yards without half the hassel of the others. http://www.bitwiseim.com/
Those are the three best ways I have found of sharing things other than Gmail or IRC. It's a time consuming hobby, but can get you some very good results and entertainment.
I am using BitLord 1.1 it is the first program
I have ever tried in dabbling with this but it
takes forever... and I get script errors when
searching... using it.
Thanks for the info, it is appreciated. I have a cable
modem but I feel like I'm back at 9600baud or something
with the trickling down data.
Primarily I am looking for the new Doctor Who, Justice
League Unlimited, Teen Titans and a few other shows. A
big prize for me would be the Helsing Anime Soundtrack.
