Pictures in Motion
I'm happy to see that my urge to create is growing strong again. While my anxieties are still getting in the way – I start panicking a bit every time I sit in front of the keyboard – I've discovered that music is an excellent self-medication for the problem. Doesn't seem to matter too much what the music is, though the panic will try to trick me into getting playlists "just right" as a way of stalling.
Another technique that's working quite well is to get working on one of my little comedy video productions. The great thing about those is that I can start putting the wheels in motion before the anxiety can kick in, and when the day comes to do the shoot, I've got too much invested, too many people involved, to back down or procrastinate. If only I could afford to do those as often as I want! But they aren't paying for themselves yet, so I need to stick with a day job – and since my last contract ended last year, I need a new one before I can indulge myself that way.
Damn, but working on those shoots makes me feel alive. The more I make, the more I want to do. Not just the slapstick comedy, either; I'm developing a powerful urge to make the Doctor Who fan film I've always wanted, or even an original project. I've had a couple scripts lying around for twenty years, ones that I've just realized would be within my reach… though they'd require some rewriting. They reek a bit of teenage sci-fi fan at the moment.
Must get job. Must make money. 43 isn't too late to start chasing my dreams, but it does mean there's no more time to waste.
An Unnatural Friend
I've been eagerly awaiting
Steampunk and parazoology sound like a darn good combination to me, but then I've been a fan of her writing since the first Hallowmere book.
I can only assume that she feels as excited as I do when I've released a new slapstick video out into the wild 🙂
Sylvan Information Run
***** INTERNAL COMMUNICATION *****
From: LadySybilenne
To: KronosDomo
Re: Flotilla Jackalope
Surveillance continues on this group of shadowrunners as you requested. Activity has been low in recent months, but they seem to have picked up a bit in the last week. Our intelligence reports that they met with a fixer known as Morlock, where they appear to have accepted a run dealing with Sylvan Information.
Sylvan Information is a medium-size publishing company, with no overt ties to any large megacorps. They’ve made some decent money publishing New New Age drek – “Unlock the Power Within You!” and rumor has it they had just made a big deal with Elven guru Ehran the Scribe.
The Jackalope team made an astonishingly clean entry. Barghests drugged, maglocks bypassed. No gunfire or explosions detected. Quite professional, they went straight to their target, which seems to have been the wall safes of the President and Third Senior editor. Rumor suggests they got away with quite a lot of nuyen in certified credsticks, but this doesn’t seem to be the sort of place you’d target for a money raid.
There are no Matrix traces either, the SI system is blocked off the main nets and there’s no obvious traces of vandalism. We are still in no position to know what they were doing in there.
Yours,
LadySybilenne
— Addendum —
Okay, we do know a little about what they were doing in there. Attached see a video recording file of the shadowrunners known as ‘Eowyn’ and ‘Yhotl’ borrowing the President’s mahogany desk for activities presumably unrelated to the run.
Please don’t ask me where we got this clip.
Syb
