Long's Peak, Colorado_The Dungeon of Deus ex Sapiens_Deep Sea_The Magnificent Maron Maloney - Pa
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Long's Peak, Colorado
My graduate school mentor recommended that I climb Long’s Peak while conducting research in Rocky Mountain National Park.It was late spring 2002, and in the depths of graduate school at the University of Arkansas, developing a thesis topic. My advisor was from Colorado and had connections with people researching high-altitude archaeological sites in the Rockies. I had been focusing on working with predictive modeling techniquwww.onedoor.cces using GIS (geographical information systems). Out of these two combinations-high altitude archaeological sites and GIS predictive modeling- a thesis topic was born. I w...
The Dungeon of Deus ex Sapiens
Secret ingredients(don't tell anyone): Guns, swearing, gore.Bullets pounded the wall where Arthas had been. He blind fired from what little cover the lift offered as the doors threatened to close.“Is it too late to surrender?” Detective Jacques asked. He was a long way from Mars. Of all the ways the Martian had imagined dying, being turned into Swiss cheese by assault rifles had to be one of the worst.“Far too late, Mister Jacques,” said the taunting voice of Lord Banks. The aristocratic puppet master spoke through the public address system. Combined with the cameras in every dark corner of th...
Deep Sea
On what would have been December 12th of the Earth year 2155, two blue suns simultaneously rose and set on a distant planet. The cool light moved in an invisible atmospheric breeze, blending twilight and dawn across the sky into a shifting fabric of color, greens and blues and purples and other colors that didn’t exist anywhere else but here, in this place. The unearthly beauty of this event was not lost on the planet’s sole inhabitant.Tan looked out of the thick plexiglass window of his residential dome, drinking instant coffee out of a metal mug and barely tasting it. The closest thing he co...
The Magnificent Maron Maloney - Part 2/4
Petting the Tiger. Cooling the Water. The Spectacle. Secrets. It was a starry, starry night, and fireflies swarmed overhead like drifting embers. A light breeze blew through the whispering pines behind the Swindle & Swine. There were smells of fried pork, roasted beets, and freshly-baked cakes and pastries. Beeswax candles were lined along the porch railings. And halflings of all kinds gathered in the clearing beside the inn to attend the outdoor show. Taika knew, deep in his heart, the Magnificent Maron Maloney was a showman, and he loved what he did. Maron lived to bring what was exotic and ...