The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

In Today's Episode... Revealed - the reason behind Talona's mystery desert mission, as we learn a little more about one mystery, and another emerges...

Release Notes... On time, as promised. In a movie or TV series, The Grey Man would most definitely be played by Seasick Steve.

This particular chapter is a classic example of spontaneous plot emergence - can you guess which element of this chapter sprung up from nowhere, creating a future story-line?

Development News... I wrote some more for TDD-606 The Ragged Edge at lunch, but last night's major focus of attention was a piece of story that may feed into continuity maybe a year from now. It's an encounter that will change everything, as a protagonist makes a truly startling revelation...

More of that nearer the time (cue maniacal laughter).

And the rest... Damn. The main computer is getting increasingly... "quirky", most likely because of its agonising lack of RAM - when I bought it, half a gig was a pretty decent amount, but since then, I've acquired two 1Gb Ram machines, and both of them work just fine, handling absolutely everything I throw at them, whilst "The Box" is now frequently tripping over itself. I do have plans to acquire better hardware, perhaps even building my own, as per

59 - Learn to upgrade PCs
60 - Revitalise one PC, or build an entire new one

Now, craft projects - let's see if I can move ahead with one of those this weekend. I may have to consider breaking out that protable sewing machine I bought years ago, but never used yet - and that's another task on the radar...

52 - Complete some craft projects I've started