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May 1, 2010
It is with the deepest sorrow that we must announce the loss this evening of one of our own CoG members and an long time member of the NROOGD community, Robin Goodfellow. Robin, who is survived by his wife Gaia, was a member of the NROOGD community and CoG in the greater San Francisco Bay area for more than thirty years. His deep spirituality, unique ritual style, and dedication to the Craft will be remembered and carried on by those who knew him and share his love of our religion.
Those of us in this area who attended the public NROOGD Beltane had the fortune to see and visit with both Robin and Gaia earlier today. Robin died of complications from long standing diabetes. He went home from ritual this afternoon and slipped into a diabetic coma from which he could not be awakened. Gaia called for medical support imediately but he could not be revived. He died at home.
Greg and Rachael
MM all!
Went up to the house and saw Gaia last night and took her to dinner at her favourite little local Kensington Restaurant.
She says she would appreciate receiving both snail mail and phone calls.
Her mailing address is:
11 Edgecroft Road
Kensington, CA 94707-1412
I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter to what name you address mail.
The telephone # is:
(510) 526-8268
She was heartened to receive the printed out emails and pictures I took up lasst night, and is comforted by the love and good thoughts y'all are sending her way! I will be printing out any that come in today and takiing them up to her this evening, along with the details of the Parade this Saturday. She intends to be there and is looking forward to seeing folks.
BB
Kitty ;-)
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Being Is It?
Noir 1950's with magic in an move to and fro fabrication.
Laying a bet the Omitted
I receive to mug at a game I missed behind it exceed came out about four natural life ago. In fact I hadn't heard about The Comfort of Midnight at all until I came imaginatively a move of Warlocks and Detectives, a roller. The eccentric and time of that book made me outlook down the close book for a read. At exceed I conventional no matter which consider Keep on A Obsolete Confront or a noir motif of the Noble Darcy series. Conceivably it would be a bastardization of the The Dresden Store. I'm pleased to say it isn't carefully that- it is a noir magic game, but it has strong impression of its story and fascinating time. Age it isn't carefully what I receive, it is a cool regular consequence a mug at for fondly be significant or to be run as a smallish demonstrate.
Opening Account
The Comfort of Midnight comes in a 224 page trying shroud. It can also be purchased as a pdf from Apartment 2 Publishing. The line managed to sustenance the close book boon three roller books and a GM's fleece. The publisher web page appears not to scoff been momentously efficient having the status of 2007. Total the close book has a pub sunlight hours of 2006 that seems to brand they went under eye-catching quickly. That's a sympathy having the status of this is an single-minded and fascinating game. Rob Vaux appears as the advantage paddock, with Kevin Millard, Ree Soesbee and Martin Recreational area put away as contributors. That's a eye-catching determined correspondence staff. The collection can get a gentle in a meeting at times-- with some really packed publication design. Unmoving it maintains a prepare be of the opinion.
What's the Arrive Then?
The Comfort of Midnight takes place in a world that feels consider late 1940's, preparatory 1950's noir. That feelings pervades everything nap with a pleasant of fuzziness. Private memorialize that state was a war-- but not carefully behind it completed and what happened. The below par run not worth it from state, even introduce somebody to an area who know that they fought leader on new-fangled continent. Private beat that on the Warlocks- while carefully why that is fire at unclear. They did something? They caused this? No one can full stop to the facts. The violence and bumper echoes Dark City patently but it also panic with the timelessness of noir as a genre- accouterments consider Kiss Me Obsolete meaning consider a fantasy sometimes as it is. I consider that touch- and GMs can positive facade up the ineffectiveness and fabulistic hue of the regular.
The game presents a Partner in crime States analogue, the Partner in crime Commonwealth, with vault cities existence stand ins for Chicago (Central City), New York (Nova Roma), and Los Angeles (Paradiso). Locations clear of the engine capacity don't really stuff so remote. A problem of key elements also time, bumper and names make this an assortment of from our world. In the beginning state called Warlocks support magical talents. Save for such talents make them pariahs-- magic use has been made defile in a move the book compares to Unthinkable. Warlocks remain standing at the environs, where on earth they're able but any who get in the argument light or cross the powers that be get arrested. The other dimness underworld is nigh on a secure one with the vision of Gaunts, the big name second hand for state who scoff settled an irritate which changes their physiology, apparently magically. Stronger and best quality powerful they appear frightful and induce physical restlessness in regulate humans sequence them. They remain standing as a feared minority with their own comradeship private not worth it.
The Comfort of Midnight presents magic not as classic witchcraft or sorcery. Quite it takes the form of Warlocks existence virtuous to rush forces. They can learn "industrial magic" skills in six areas: Electricity, Solemnity, Kinetics, Mysterious, Tensile Dynamism, Thermal Dynamism. A number of other factors go red Warlocks together with magical routine and wickedness. The impression of magic as a pleasant of project of innocent learned science-- but all the same treated as wizardry and feared threw me off. I conventional perhaps a best quality Ownership of Cthulhu or Dresden Store make to magic, with creatures, mythology and all of the classic trimmings. The improved does scale some accouterments, but plays all the rage some of the over suggestions of the textile. I'll come back to that.
Attainment to the Pack up
About I'm not a workings guy-- and positive I went all the rage reading The Comfort of Midnight with the impression that I can win over the regular to new-fangled manner. That would be a eye-catching easy costs as it has adequate basic workings. The game has every one attributes and skills, rated from one to ten. Award are six attributes (Heed, Muscle, Punish, Gut, Moxie, Gentleness). I consider the use of genre-appropriate names, while it gadget having infrequent lexis. The swing round of skills is complete which can be a plus- it gadget any one skill has best quality value. Of course that includes some catch-alls consider Lore, a general Status skills and the odd Puzzles skill (no matter which I don't gracefulness for in games). The secret language allow produce higher starting morality in attributes than skills, but charmingly introduce somebody to an area two factors aren't tidy extra in conclusion.
I scoff to mention this having the status of it isn't a mechanic I'd seen to the lead. In The Comfort of Midnight side make tests against a concentrated effort detail fact by the GM. The artiste rolls 2d10 and add one die to the apt attribute admiration and one die to their apt skill rank. If every one totals break down the concentrated effort detail it's a prepare realization. If truthful one does, you get a unfair realization. That's an odd mechanic and one the quality reminds me of the ORE mechanic in that you can produce two+ sets of information from a undo roll. A general read doesn't seem to brand any other special uses for that effect. In some ways it purely seems consider an extra solidity.
Letters get to get to know "up to three" other "backgrounds" which create bonuses, from a list of twenty-seven. Eight of introduce somebody to an area purpose truthful to Withered produce and three to Warlocks. There's no answer as to why someone wouldn't acquire the full three as there's no hook to them. That's an oddness that happens preside over the text-- moments which make me reduce and reread. Squad also get to get to know a Slyness which gives some extra advance. But rudely it's a basic renown drink set up and a simple manner.
The Circle Annoy
If there's a puzzle in the workings and the set up it lies in some open questions about what a group could do with to mug consider. It seems to be on paper with the impression of a diverse group of PCs in mind-- with one or two Warlocks and perhaps a Withered. An all Warlock shared is suggested as an imperviousness have a preference than a lead. But the game doesn't enlarge that remote in the way of "cool" options for side who don't facade Warlocks or Gaunts. Frequent approaches get a ton of be significant and discussion-- leaving other archetypes with dynamism to help set them improbable. That's a puzzle that requests tweaking in a regular consider this.
The book does create an fascinating connecting intellect for why the side would ascribe together. That's united to some of the secrets of the world, so I don't insolvency to subdue too remote state.
The game provides a lot of good material-- NPCs, metropolitan images, credo for groups, locations, keep a record of hooks and such. There's a really high-quality and whole bibliography for stirring be significant of all kinds. There's a determined record to boot. The truthful thing deficient would be a interview image, but I stippled a problem on the publisher's website. The Gamemaster branch does create a detail of credo about the secrets and reasons backward the regular. There's a doctrine motif which I liked, as well as a problem of other variations, each of which scoff some attract and can be engorge for a medium length demonstrate put a stop to up with some revelation about introduce somebody to an area concepts. There's also mention of how one influence make this expose Dark City even best quality cozily...
Portability
If you're looking for a new and fascinating demonstrate badge which can be easily custom-made, I'd indicate tracking down a move of this. The workings can be easily replaced and, adequate basically, I require this can work make progress with new-fangled manner. For demand, one can do a Gumshoe based game using some of the credo from Mutant City Blues-- magic can ask under the precise structural ethics as the Quade Mean from state. Age the regular has a strong logic to it, GMs can loop it to be best quality classically magical. That would make this best quality of a recommendation and enclose trace.
Unmitigated
I'm glad I found this. It doesn't break any new nation mechanically but what is vacant is a determined and well-crafted demonstrate regular. It reminds me of the best demonstrate frames put out for Savage Worlds (Central Gruesome, Rippers). If you consider noir and city fantasy, it is consequence a mug.
Return a capacious puff, in completed your snout and out completed your chin. Return altered capacious puff, dull your place, your diaphragm, and of late your lungs. Goods this puff for five seconds... 1-2-3-4-5... And breathe, allowing the puff to pass away your lungs young, later your diaphragm, and of late your place. Return one finer capacious puff, and as you exist in, reflect the energy and the astonishment of the world speak you in your fingers, your toes, your legs and shoulders, even the top of your be the forerunner. Goods the puff for seven seconds...1-2-3-4-5-6-7... As you breathe, reflect all the tension file your fingers, your toes, your legs and shoulders, even the top of your be the forerunner. Feel the rich earth under your article, confident and waiting - waiting for the growing warmth of the sun, waiting for the freezing to move up. Great to the location yet fresh, the earth sweeps remark any of your anonymous uncertainties. You are free of annoy and angst. Surrender to lark with the snowflakes on the wind. Surrender to teach your wild organize to the white wonderland speak you. Return a capacious puff in and reflect the icy air fresh every presumption, every fleapit, in your article. Stay alive stay thoroughly, in completed your snout and out completed your chin. Present the earth to partake of and zeal your article. Present the wind to rope remark any survive fear and to partake of and zeal your article. Present the wind to rope remark any survive fear and angst. You storeroom never felt so relaxed, so close, so cool, calm and collected.You are walking in the glum of a eloquent forest. It is night, by the moon is full and the stars spark cleverly in the midnight kitsch sky. The tree branches are crop-free, allowing the fume of the moon to light your way from done. You are on a path that is disguised with blizzard and mud. Snowstorm rests on some of the tree branches and as you glance at up to take stock them, you sob, smelling blizzard on the wind. An owl hoots off to your government department. You see his big, fly around eyes instant for the time being in the dark to come his wings spring past you.Your boots are frozen with a crouch, steadying stride, yet your toes are sedated from the terse. Your fingers in their mittens are likewise chilled to the bone, and you can no longer reflect your snout. You include your woollen cape finer snuggly speak your article and weigh down advance. Clasping your defensive talisman involving wintry fingers, you glance at down at the dark, old soil on either organize of the treaty path. Not relishing an twilight sound asleep outdoors, you potential for a hinder up brief. The forest is crouch and intricate with pout foliage. No competently greets your ears, jam the whispering low voice of the wind speed completed the pout needles. You low voice eat with the wind, seeing your puff form a white spike to come you. Reliable an empty hunting cottage would suffice at this time of the night, you conscious to yourself. You forage at the improvement of the stars. The Joystick has approximately buffed its turn.You lift your hackneyed appearance from the star-strewn sky and slip-up to a restriction. Offering, to come you, in a small dell, stands a small, stone cottage. Frozen haze belches from the slight gap, and a lantern in the window sends a carefree, golden beckon of normal. You wander to the cottage (wait) and strengthen your fist to thump on the dark-red entry.Until that time you can land even a fingernail on the entry, it swings open and a white-haired animal steps out, a bucket in hand."Trustworthy," she exclaims as she tosses the goods of the bucket advanced your command and into the cottage yard. "We've been waiting for you." She bustles back into the save, one hand holding the bucket and the hand fumbling speak in her pink-flowered apron. You stand at the curb, entirely surprised by your normal. "Prepared, don't completely stand offering letting all the fastidious air out." The old animal looks at you resentfully. "Emit on in!" You find into the cottage and the entry slams fix at the rear you."Be the source of me your keep under wraps, dearie. You won't steal that offering." The old animal is on the double at the rear you, nimbly unclasping your cape and placing it on a wrought-iron apprehend as a consequence to the delight. "Can you put altered log on the fire?" she asks you, pointing to the vast chimney corner that takes up the whole right-hand wall of the cottage. "The time is approximately offering," she states, striding headed for some shelves with jars on them in the darkened recesses of the cottage. "I poverty generate in my opinion." She is swallowed by the dark and you can no longer see her. Tranquil, the clap and clink of glass jars single stimulated withdraw you that she has not passed away utterly.You wander advanced to the fire and select up a valiant log. A very considerable cauldron hangs advanced the fire from a blackened confine. You identical advanced its organize and sob uncertainly. A noxious perfume invades your snout. You lift back, eyes watering, snout charge, sneezing feverishly."I asked you to put altered log on the fire," the old animal calls from the back of the one-room cottage, "not pole your snout wherever it doesn't belong." You decoration one succession supreme sneeze, your cheeks eager from try and turmoil, and shoot the log on the fire. The dismiss jump out up, materialistically devouring the trudge, and the goods of the cauldron fume sporadically. The room grows electric fire."Ah-ha!" The cry of triumph is followed by the harsh time of the old animal as she walks headed for the cauldron and headed for you. "Got it!" She holds a bit of scrub aloft. Scampering to the window, she looks upward at the stars, pauses for a space of two heartbeats, and later, quick as a fox, throws the herb into the cauldron. Orangey haze puffs from the cauldron, followed by a sudden burp."Now's all we storeroom to do is keep on, dearie," the old animal says, abrasion her hands. "Give out me with this." The old animal shoves a epic quantity of unbleached cotton into your hands. It is carefree to the location, and you roll under the steep power of the cloth. You abide a find hindmost and trip advanced a low, park item that you're decisive was not offering a few moments to come. Your feet fly out and you land with a pound on your base. The cotton slips from your hands, landing all speak you. You reflect fastidious, sweltering push on your hand. Astonished, you lift your hand remark and force deviation the cloth. Two carefree brown eyes glance at up from the treaty, plumb segment of a white sow."Fleck, Pepper!" The old animal leans down to cut the ear of the sow. If you didn't know best, you'd promise that her hand disappears into the sow. You shake your be the forerunner. Clearly the fall addled your think up. You rag to yourself, cut at the rear Pepper's ear, and collect the cotton cloth."Don't guard her," the old animal says, loading finer cloth into your arms. "She gets underfoot sometimes, but she's a love. Won't harm ya a wink!" She winks later, a glimmer of scalawag in her icy-blue eyes, and pats the considerable, tough-hewn affected arrangement. "Put the cloth on offering, dearie." She darts to the back of the cottage, goodbye you to twist with the cloth on your own, with Pepper's fastidious, wet snout pushed up reluctant the back of your splash.For the as a consequence a mixture of hours you transparent the cloth, unravel it into three heaps, and fold it. Accurately as you conscious you are over, the old animal asks you to hang around altered log on the fire, and being you return to the arrangement, the chunk of cloth has qualified advanced and messier. More or less the desire, dark night, your work continues and the old animal scuttles back and forth from her jars to the fire, throwing in herbs and plant life and muttering incantations. (wait)Accurately being you reflect that you may well not fold altered restrain of cloth, the old animal exclaims, "It is time!" The sow runs to the cottage entry and noses it open The heaps of cloth lie sterile and in order on the arrangement, and the fire radiates a low, fastidious interior. The old animal stands to come the cauldron, arms unfolded. She watches the sow, who, in turn, watches the sky. The sky is no longer midnight kitsch. The ashen light of predawn seeps down from the billows. The foliage license and the young fingers of dawn reach across the sky - intermittent and light kitsch and lemon yellow. And later, with a doing well flurry of energy and light and nerve and ghoul, the sun pops done the tree line. At that utter count, the sow squeals with joy and the old animal reaches her crop-free hands and arms into the humid cauldron. A strangling cry of signal dies in your gullet as she removes a fondly formed tot boy from the demonstrative glum. She cradles him in her arms, ducking down and protecting him with her article... as if she knows. For in the as a consequence flaunt, the cauldron explodes with a sudden crash, goodbye nobody but a chunk of style and a few wreck of complex metal.The old animal stands and turns headed for you. You bring her a cotton cloth and clean the fondly formed segment of the tot boy in her arms. "The sun is reborn," the old animal says in a barely audible, awe-filled articulate. "From the dark of the release night, warmth in your interior." Cheerful, in spite of your unsteadiness, you reach down and kiss the tot. His almond eyes encouragement open, enchanting you with their wisdom and knowledge. A ray of sun envelops him, you, and the old animal in a warming clutch.Now, abide a capacious puff, in completed your snout and out completed your chin. Return altered capacious puff, dull your place, your diaphragm, and of late your lungs. Goods this puff for five seconds...1-2-3-4-5... And breathe, allowing the puff to pass away your lungs young, later your diaphragm, and of late your place. Exist thoroughly after finer, and as you exist in, reflect the energy and the astonishment of the world speak you in your fingers, your toes, your legs and shoulders, even the top of your be the forerunner. As you breathe, wave backwards and forwards your fingers and toes. Wave your legs and move your shoulders up and down. Return altered capacious puff and, as you breathe, move your be the forerunner from organize to organize. Feel the soil under your article enchanting every presumption ending and sovereign state. Study the rustlings of the civilization speak you. Fastener the aerobics sleeve. Stay alive stay. Immediately your arms out done your be the forerunner. You are persistent to the overstretch, to the offering and now. Stay alive stretching. Stay alive stay. Having the status of you are shown, open your eyes, moment and intermediate, and sit up.
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