#path of destruction

[catfindr]

[evilhorse]

Rune house ad (circa February 1994)

[coco9728]

Hey Thunderfam!

So I was watching the TAG episode Path of Destruction, and was going to make a quiz question on what cargo the transporter truck is carrying...but now I'm confused...

The characters say that it's carrying newtrazene (in that pronounciation new-tra-zene) but, when I go to search up what newtrazene apparently is, all that I can find is either nitrazine or neutrazin...

I've tried spelling newtrazene in a million different ways but I still can't find what the word means or even if it exists...

I mean...the word sounds familiar like it's a common chemical or something...

So...Thunderfam...Does newtrazene exist or...

John: "A truck carrying newtrazene got caught in a rock slide."

Virgil: " Newtrazene!...as in the dangerous, tends to blow up in your face if you even look at it the wrong way kind!"

John: "Yep, thats the one."

[cohmacvitusstanartbackup]

Darth Bane books stuff from early 2024!

[hitchell-mope]

Lady Penelope should have shot him in the head when she had the chance.

[matthewrootlet]

Inktober 2023 - Day 3 (Path)

Prepare to get obliterated, for you are standing in the Path of Destruction, where Nanook resides.

[rew0lta]

so i read the first book from Bane's trilogy so here's quick painting of githany

[noahsbookhoard]

📚August 2024 Book Review (Part 1/4)📚

I had soooo much free time in August! Heatwaves meant every outdoor activities were out of the question. There was nothing to do at work outside of my 2 4-hours shift either. I ended up reading a good 8 to 12 hours a day, hence the 16 books of this months review!

La Forteresse du Chaudron Noir (Les Aventures du Pyro-barbare et de Billy #1) by Bob Lennon

Billy is a young farmer in a village decimated by disease. After his mother dies he sets out to the city unaware that an ancient evil was on the rise. Now accompanied by a goliath, Billy will have to use his wits and strength to defeat the terrible power hidden within the fortress. YOU are Billy!

When I was a kid I LOVED Choose Your Own Adventure books! They were fun, novelty, and always had a ton of different characters and places to interact with. I liked the "game" aspect of them as much as the "book" aspect. But after some time you explored every available path and getting the "good" ending was more muscle memory than puzzle solving, the replay value of kid CYOA was generally low.

Now enter Bob Lennon! Most of you won't know him but he is one of the biggest french video game youtuber. He's been on the platform since 2011 and has still the same workaholic energy. He created his own character inspired by Skyrim who is a Fire Barbarian named Le Pyrobarbare and his sidekick Billy. He is also a TTRPG fan.

That was a very long introduction to say that he created his own CYOA book series that are inspired by those characters and have a big TTRPG dynamic to them and THEY. ARE. INCREDIBLE.

It all start with a character creation system: you will always play Billy the farmer but you can choose between a collection of objects and whichever you chose decide which type of Billy you are: warlike, rustic, resourceful or cautious. And all of this influences which decisions you can or can't make. And there are A LOT of decision, we're talking about a 400 pages book. That might not be that many but I have never seen a CYOA above 150 pages.

The combat system is fairly easy to use, while being more interesting than "roll two dice the lowest roll loose". It pairs well with different stats of your Billy, which change depending on the class, the equipment, the event that happened in your adventure.

There is an achievement system on the last two pages of the book that also includes the ending so I counted them: there is a DOZEN ending. I discovered there was a dragon I could have fought to get the Warlike Gold Ending and I missed it! I was so mad!

I could keep of gushing about this book (I didn't talk about the characters, about the city and the castle the story takes place in, ir even the Pyrobarbare who is the funniest) but it was really a lot of fun and I hesitate between starting a new run with a different class of Billy or buy the SECOND book if the series (the 3rd one is being crowdfunded and I can't wait!)

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul

Hollywood icon Kitty Karr died, leaving her fortune to the three St John sister, young wealthy Black women. While dealing with Kitty's affairs (and keeping away from journalists) they find a dairy which uncovers secrets in the background of the South and Hollywood during the Segregation.

I would probably never have picked up this book if it wasn't a draw from the book club pile. I like historical fiction but Hollywood and the stars is not something I have any interest in. I went a bit blindly into it, scared that if I research it I'd create bad expectations.

I was surprise: it isn't the drama filled story I was dreading! This is a dive into the segregated USA and in a community I had never really read about: white passing POC. Even when Kitty starts to work in the film industry (as a phone operator at first then climbing the ladder to become a famous actress) the focus is always on social issues, racism, the careful balance of being a black woman in white spaces, the fight for civil rights and the work these woman did for this cause. Atop of all this there is the thread of family legacy and secrets and what ties Kitty and the St Johns together.

It is a very interesting book, nuanced and deep. I don't know how much of it is was researched but it felt fairly accurate from perspective.

The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdom #2) by Tasha Suri

Malini and Priya parted ways: the Princess is marching to the capital city, gathering allies to otherthrow her brother; the Priestess is working with her siblings to rebuilt the Temple and restore her city. But when Malini's fight encounter divine resistance she will once again draw from Priya's magic to get her end, with their fragile relationship, and Priya's own goals in the way.

I adored book 1, The Jasmine Throne and I was so excited to read the rest of the story! I loved having my favorite characters back, I loved the politic developing after the events of the previous tome and as usual I loved the angst, the complicated relationship between Malini and Priya, the mysterious happening in Ahiranya,Malini's change as her goal draws closer...

The writing is still gold, perfectly highlighting the feelings and doubts of the characters. I love having so much insight in the characters mind. The switch between multiples point of view is really well handles.

Unfortunately it suffers from Middle Book Syndrome: very little new element introduced and very little resolution of previous elements. That's to be expected, but when the third and final book is not yet available it is really frustrating.

I am still hyped for the last book, The Lotus Empire, it should be releases in November but the TBR is so high, I'm afraid I'll have to keep it for next year

Path of Destruction (Darth Bane Trilogy #1) by Drew Karpyshyn

A thousand year before the events of the first Trilogy, Des is a disillusioned miner in the Outer Rim. He joins the Sith to escape his misery and discover his connection to the Force. Through the training of the Sith Masters he develops his talent and as his power grows so does his ambition. He is now Darth Bane and he will be more powerful than them all!

I had been disappointed by novelisation of series before so I approached this one with caution, even though I heard everywhere that it was one of the best Star Wars novel (if you disagree don't blame me, blame Reddit)

That's a recurring event: I was dead wrong, this book floored me. The writing is good, the plot is even better, characters are incredible and I never thought I would be cheering so hard for a Sith!

I was a bit scared having no previous knowledge of this period of the Star Wars universe would make it impossible to understand the book. Maybe I misses some references but it never was obscur. The Star Wars lingo is also always explicited with context clues. That's really agreable because that's not always a given when you dive into work on the further edge of canon.

The characters are almost exclusively Sith (and some usual brand of assholes) but they are still relatable, even though they are cunning, vicious, calculating. Bane especially has some redeeming circonstances that made him endearing even though he joined the dark side and dives deep into its ways.

A really really good surprise and a really really good book. I'd really like to read the rest of this trilogy, it sparked back my interest for Star Wars when the recenr series and just bored me to death.

[koisplosion]

★ The Path Of Destruction ★

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[mac-darf]

Hi hello been a minute. The United States (I'm not calling it America. The self proclaimed king in office ruined that) is going to shit. Anyway, I've been reading Star Wars. I'm trying to read through all of Timothy Zahn's Star Wars books.

I'm currently on my fourth Zahn book: Thrawn Ascendancy Lesser Evil.

It's hard. These books aren't... Great?

Outbound Flight was phenomenal. I really enjoyed it, I outright loved it. I actually think the double feature reading of Outbound Flight and Darth Plagueis (opposite order to how I read them) made me like the prequels..? It's weird to think about but yeah I've now jumped ship. I like those movies narratives, they're still not great movies.

Thrawn Ascendancy Chaos Rising was cute. It was really cute, I enjoyed the cute character moments and the deeper lore to Chiss society. Felt like the universe was actually growing, it's what Star Wars books need in world building.

Thrawn Ascendancy Greater Good isn't great. I must be an idiot but it felt like this book gave up on it's central ethical dilemma halfway through. There was a subplot about a psychic infiltrating Chiss society and I really enjoyed that. I imagine it being like if a real earth person was placed on the Jedi Temple. We think of the Jedi as mystical warrior but like...they can't all be? They'd have to be like normal people sometimes. At least, that's what the book says with Chiss. These Ascendancy books are overly long in an overly painful way. After this one I had to stop. A break I haven't yet come back from.

Darth Bane Path of Destruction is what I read next. It's...probably the most sexist horny book ever written. Not great. I didn't dislike it, the books very easy to read and digest, it's written very well. I don't know, Plagueis is sort of everything I ever wanted in a Sith novel. I always had this image in my head of Darth Bane being a smart guy who reasonably came to the conclusion of the rule of two. Instead he's just a fucking crazy-murder-man who randomly thinks to do the SW equivalent to shooting his school. Like I don't understand why or like the character. Dear Lord, please let James Luceno write a proper book about Sidious. I need to know papa-Palp.

New Jedi Order Traitor was next. Perfect. 10/10. I don't like the Vong at all but oh golly was this book good. Might read it again. Fuck it was good.

[sephirthoughts]

OH MY FUCKING PANTHEON

Long hair Ratio...

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Reused Thunderbirds set:

The Ocean Pioneer bridge from Danger at Ocean Deep was later recycled as the bridge of the W.M.S Atlantic in Atlantic Inferno and the control cabin of the Crablogger in Path of Destruction. Even the radiation shields were reused.

[godbirdart]

「 boys don't cry 」

about suppressed emotions, downplayed heartaches, and the expectations to remain stoically self reliant without the community and connection needed to help open the paths away from isolated self destruction.

[hitchell-mope]

Did they do this on purpose?

[clumsypuppy]

(guy who has never played cotl) haha au time

[crnl-chicken-tots]