Mother Road

[tracker7]

Got the printer ink, and installed the necessary cartridge. And then got an e-mail notifying me that the cartridges I'd ordered the night before had shipped. Top of my game, y'all, top of my game.

Got the Escape's AC compressor replaced, and that wasn't cheap, but it has sure enough made longer drives more tolerable. Well, more than tolerable.

Like today, for example. It was Dungeon Crawl Classics Day, and that meant a drive to Louisville to run a game for people. And it was a good day. Three Judges (and therefore three games) and twenty players in total. I had a good time, but friends, a two-hour drive, then a five-hour game with seven players, then a two-hour drive home has made for a very tired fella.

So, I'm gonna make sure I can sleep, thanks to my friend diphenhyrdramine, read a little bit of a decent cyberpunk novel, and call it a weekend. Back in a couple of days.

Comments

[atolnon]

What novel did you end up settling on?

[tracker7]

Into the Beanstalk, by J. Paul Roe. It's enjoyable, has a likeable narrator protagonist.

My Goodreads review:
This was a fun one. Classic cyberpunk feel - technology, dehumanization, fast-moving action.

Our Jack is an interesting girl. Born missing limbs and with other health problems, her parents made a deal with the devil - and by that, I mean a megacorporation - to provide her with prosthetic/cybernetic limbs and other gear to give her a life. Jack takes on questionable jobs with sketchy employers to raise the money to buy her father's freedom from the contracts he signed.

Look, if you know cyberpunk and its siblings, you know that things rapidly get harder for our protagonists.

Roe tells a good story, with real skill. I think the book could have used one more editing pass, but that's a minor quibble. This one is worth your time.

Gaming value: Really high. I'm pretty sure Jack is going to show up in my Cyberpunk Red game.

[atolnon]

That sounds pretty neat, yeah.