Flesh Wounds and Warhammer 40K

[lathany]

My first week of work was busy but it's over and I managed to finish the things I needed to do. It was helped along by my train reading: Flesh Wounds - Chris Brookmyre. Flesh Wounds is the third book of his detective sequence (the others are Where the Bodies are Buried and When the Devil Drives). As for the previous two, I liked the plot and I liked the continued development of Jasmine, Catherine and Glen. Also - the reveal was good if not unexpected. I don't know whether he'll write any more of these as this third book does tie up many loose ends. As a trilogy I recommend it.

It's also been a fairly busy week for me socially (well, by my standards anyway). On Monday night we have an unexpected visitor in the form of bateleur's friend Gavin. He turned up because he was travelling from Dublin to Seattle and his first flight was so late that he missed the connection. So he came for dinner and overnight before he travelled back (he works at Wizards of the Coast and stayed with us over Xmas/New Year two years ago when we visited Windsor Castle if that rings any bells for anyone). On Wednesday there was the usual The Secret World. As Alistair complained about the screenshot on Gplus, here's another with all the characters clearly in it outside Dracula's tomb.



Thursday was Writers' Triangle with the second half of an Xmas story from chrestomancy, the first half of a new story from venta and my latest chapter. Then yesterday I ran Warhammer 40K - the last part of the Itazen arc involving both parties. The group saved the planet and also saved the third Inquisitor that they didn't like very much. They saw a battle between Space Marines (Sons of Orar - I've declared Itazen as their original home planet in slight contradiction to other sources) and Chaos Space Marines (Sons of Cyclops - although raising questions about where their non-Pyskers came from) - plus a Daemon possessing a Terminator Librarian. They killed the corrupt Governor and saw two corrupted ships destroyed. There are a few outstanding issues to take forward though:

• Who corrupted a black ship and how?
• Did the Governor bring chaos from his home planet?
• What is in the history of the Sons of Orar?
• What does the holy symbol do?
• What does the corrupted black ship mean for Marcus (Alistair's character) as he travelled in it himself?

I expect the next sessions to be separate again and following different threads of these.

I've also been playing more The Longest Journey. Here's a screenshot of the evil mage's castle.



Today bateleur has gone to Cambridge for a concert being held in his sister's memory. I'm at home to look after the duo and do the school run.