The House Always Wins (04/09/08)

The build-up to Dead Space has been a bit of a rollercoaster (albeit a very gentle one) for me. Despite my better judgement, the teaser trailer (all very generic Event Horizon-y) really interested me. A survival horror set in deep space? Yeah, sign me up!

Then the other trailers and previews made it look more like a standard Doom-style FPS, which is really not something I’m too enamoured of at the best of times, so my interest duly waned. And then I learned about the tie-ins: a comic and Dead Space: Downfall, a feature-length animated movie which ties in with the game, and I was interested again.

Then I read ...

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This is the second story I wrote in my 'one a day' week during my time in London. See Looking East for the first one.

READING THE BOOK

Finally, the Book was mine. After so long: after years of waiting, planning, investigating. Thousands of pounds spent. Romantic and platonic relationships ruined. After thefts, threats, violence, deception, and after committing crimes too heinous to recount, finally I held the Book in trembling hands.

It was huge and heavy. Quarto format and approximately one thousand pages thick. The cover was leather of some sort. Crudely cured and even more crudely bound to the Book, it had split in several places and been inexpertly stitched back together. Whatever colour it had originally been was now impossible to tell. Currently it was a dirty brown, covered in darker stains, pinhole burns and tiny bleached pits. The title, if the cover had ever shown it, was now no longer visible. That, however, was immaterial, as anyone who would desire to read the Book already knew its name. It was the Libris Necrodei: The Library of the Dead God, and now it and the forbidden knowledge it contained were mine.

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I'm re-learning Python!

13/10/2008: NORMAL SERVICE RESUMED

I'm married now, and done with the honeymooning. Things are starting to get back to normal. That is all. Stay tuned for more!

16/10/2008: TINY UPDATE.

There's another new logo up, as I noticed that the last one I uploaded was a concept, and not the actual new logo. I'm an idiot. I'm still not happy with it: I may change the position as it looks weird in the bottom right. I may change the whole logo. I'm also updating the main page, the exercise page and the games page.