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Since the Yahoo not-YouTube JumpCut got pulled, The Watch House credits have been off the net.

They are now back on the Tube itself along with the trailer for The Stars On Fire as edited for the last session of it, and my Doctor Who PBP, which even has dialogue and hints at actual future plots rather than being a trailer made after the fact. This seemed like the day to get that online, so time to put 'em all up again.

For my next trick I should really learn AfterEffects since we have it in the editing suite at work.

I'd still like to make credits for Seasons 1 and 3, 4 and 5. And redo the S6 and S7 ones with what I've learned. Like, say, letterboxing everything about the same level so the screen size doesn't jump around like mad and doing it before putting titles on so you can adjust where the picture centres and not cut the tops off all the heads.

Although I've used both the best shots of Alfred Molina in full tweedy Watcher attire from Identity already. We need more tweedy bearded Molina!

And my current game as a player doesn't lend itself to this, as it's Star Trek and what people wear in that is fairly distinctive...

I managed to bring The Stars On Fire to a largely coherent end before the new GEAS year starts! With a week to go!

Thank you to my players, none of whom are reading this AFAIK but never mind.

No, there will not be an Actual Play. Unless I end up running nothing this year and thus have too much time to spare.

And I found out about this too late to show it, alas.

There were no visible flashes, and while we were near stampede-friendly wildlife there weren't really enough of them to get it going. It didn't encourage most of the animals to come out and be seen - notable exception the polar bear.

But fun was had, pictures were taken, a Steller's Sea Eagle showed off particularly well, Fleur was very happy and active, and Lily (new favourite word: "hello", always sounding a bit surprised) demonstrated that she could walk with occasional riding and carrying for quite a while. Hopefully this will be reflected in the test results for possibly lowering her oxygen requirement.

In other news, Sir Christopher Lee should have been knighted a good twenty years ago.

And in gaming news, Pink Floyd is not very helpful backing music to SF-horror-war RPGs. And I keep having Star Trek ideas now which don't help either.

Would it be too meta to have one of the endangered ships in The Stars On Fire be Free Trader Beowulf?

I'm starting to run out of useful Joseph Conrad references.

3+ becomes 4 (hello Simon!) and this means I get to throw in a big political complication later on which will amuse me immensely.

Another scene of carnage, a bit of screaming and running around, and then a panicked lightspeed jump and a gunfight in close quarters. I think I've managed to establish the right level of "oh shit run!" while also making the fight winnable so it included a Big Damn Hero moment. Null is increasingly weird IC, this may be dialled down, while Essler has stepped into Ripley's combat boots for this fight and I rather hope she'll prove awesome as the game goes on.

I forgot to print the pictures of Erebus ships. Doh.