{"id":1321,"date":"2014-05-24T20:14:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T01:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2014-05-24T20:14:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T01:14:33","slug":"visiting-dark-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Dark Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I started a blog several years ago titled “Cold Steel and India Ink<\/a>” which I originally intended to be about the role-playing games I was running. As it turned out, my write-ups didn’t keep up with my games and so I quickly let it slide. Then after a while I was using the site to archive some gaming-related pieces I wrote for another blog, (now sadly gone) titled Pop Thought<\/strong>. Unfortunately I didn’t have many of those intact as most of them were devoured in a seige by Chinese hackers which horribly mangled thePop Thought website.<\/p>\n

About a year ago, I decided to revive Cold Steel and India Ink to host another old project of mine. This one, too, is gaming related.<\/p>\n

A friend of ours named James Crowther, whom my wife and I met on a Harry Potter fansite under the name of Lord Jex Featherbunny, started an online game he called “Dark Redemption.” It was a wainscot fantasy set in a medium-sized city in Britain where creatures of the supernatural lurk behind the modern facade. Jex’s original plan was that the game would take place on two levels: The characters would bounce off each other on a Chat Room format, and they would also each have an online diary in which the players would record their other adventures.<\/p>\n

As things went, the live interactive aspect of the game never really clicked, but the individual journals, taken together, sort of formed something like a shared-world novel.<\/p>\n

I was rather pleased with my own character’s adventures, and so I decided to take his story and serialize it on the blog.<\/p>\n

It’s a somewhat rambling thing, as stories written in serial form often are; and I never actually finished it. I hope to extend the story once I finish posting the material already written and maybe even conclude it.<\/p>\n

The first chapter of Dark Redemption can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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