Degringolade

On the Walkies

OK:  Started the whole fasting deal.  Going with the modified Ramadan.  The whole you can’t eat this and can eat that system of the Christians seems a touch contrived to me.  I think that just a twelve hour fast every day for a month seems like a simpler system.  I am now on the verge of pulling the trigger and beginning, but first I have to beat down the part of my brain that is telling me “this is stupid”.  I’ll tell you how it goes, but the part that is questioning the whole idea is running a strong game.  I have been skipping lunch while the interior argument is proceeding.

As an update to the book, I really want to thank JMG for publishing his Weird of Hali: Companion.  It is helping a lot in keeping things straight.  I am going over the stuff that I have written and I am afraid that there were a buttload of things that didn’t match up with either the Weird of Haliverse or the source stories from the Pulp days.  

Right now I am re-reading “The Whisperer in Darkness” to get a feel for the ambience of the 1930’s.  I think that I will try to place the same feel of the Mi Go as bad guys as Lovecraft and Greer.  They are the source of the bad guys and I am figuring that the setting for this story is about year seven give or take into the haliverse and I figure that this will be toward the beginning of the alliance between the Migo and the Radiance.

In a sense, having the Ukrainian war proceeding right now is providing me with an excellent example of how I feel the radiance/Mi Go alliance is structured in my piece and in books 6 and 7 of the haliverse.  The Mi Go are like us here in the Land o’ the free, we have convinced a small and stupid country to do our fighting for us.  The small and stupid always lose.