#streetwolves

[nonosenovember]

Kiya, estranged son of the legendary swordsman, approached the temple where his father had retired. He trained alongside the other initiate, and dominated with raw talent. He particularly liked beating down the boy named Om in sparring matches, because he never complained, nor defended himself.

When the year ended, he expected to be gifted his father's sword as a reward, but instead the elders told him he had failed and would remain an initiate. Enraged, he said they were jealous of his power, and he stole the sword and made off on his own.

Directionless, Kiya became a bandit and a drunkard, falling in with the Streetwolves Motorcycle gang. That is, until he came across a travelling monk on a pilgrimage carrying some sort of ancient heirloom. Easy pickings.

The monk effortlessly disarmed him and slammed him to the ground again and again, never attacking, only deflecting Kiya's every assault. As he lay on the ground, looking up at his opponent, Kiya recognized him as Om.

Teeth-clenched

When you fight to aid or defend someone you resent, add Pride instead of Love to your Battle Pool.

[djtazmadd]

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[pilferingapples]

@personalmephistopheles replied to your post “..it is really amazing, reading LHQ , just how deeply and passionately...”

No no that's just what it's like here

Wow it’s tragic how you’re in the same Oppressed Condition as in 1690  , with the streetwolves and roaming mimes 

[quoteablebooks]

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction,

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

Synopsis:

Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work, magical or mundane. But just when it looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise. A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take three guesses, and the first two don't count...

*Opinions*

**Spoilers**

Fool Moon is the second novel in the Dresden Files, and we find Chicago’s only professional wizard in a bit of financial hardship after his fallout with the police department after the events of  Storm Front. While he is attempting to make ends met without that consultation fee, including taking a meal from a budding wizardess that he mentors, Karrin Murphy of the Special Investigation Unit of the Chicago Police Department appears after very little contact for months with a job for Harry. He is quickly pulled into the politics of not only the police department but also the numerous criminal elements in Chicago, some of them not entirely human. Soon, Dresden for running for his life and attempting to solve the mystery of who would want some prominent businessmen and gangsters dead before the Full Moon rises again and more people end up torn to shreds. Let’s start with the good, I enjoyed that while Harry was shown to have really amazing power in this novel, we once again saw that it had its limits. For the last third of the book, Harry doesn’t have any of his usual magical powers to work with and he physically pays for that both with his attempts at magic physically wracking his body and injuries from outside sources. I will say, Harry doesn’t seem to be able to get any of his novels unscathed, but the number of injuries he sustained this novel was a bit unbelievable even for a wizard. Either he is exaggerating, which is a first-person narration isn’t out of the realm of possibility, or wizards are made of sterner stuff than mere mortals. Still, it made him human and showed that there are forces that even Harry Dresden is not more powerful than. It was Dresden’s no good, very bad, couple of days. 

I wouldn’t exactly say there is a mystery in this novel as Butcher is pretty heavy-handed with the fact that there is something wrong with the FBI agents in the first couple of chapters. Much like in the first novel, the why is a bit more complicated than the who, but I am finding that these novels are more about the journey than the destination. Also, I would like to know how the only working wizard in Chicago was unaware that there were no many individuals with the power of wolves running about the city? I get it is a big city, but the Streetwolves have been around for a while and they hadn’t killed anyone? Harry seems very ignorant about the types of werewolves and then runs into four separate types in the span of a week? McFinn is explained, as well as the FBI agents and possibly the Alpha, but again, how has Dresden never heard about the street wolves? I like Harry, I do, but he was being particularly dense in this novel. It is easy to follow his rational because the novel is from the first-person point of view, but that doesn’t mean that it is good rational. We start off the novel with Harry telling himself that lying to Murphy was a bad idea, yet he does that exact thing a moment later. Then when he is at the crime scene with a person that he knows, instead of telling Murphy that outright, he continues to say nothing and gets arrested for his continued silence. Obviously, Harry is grieving at that moment, but he knew he was already on thin ice with Murphy and just ignores that to be wrapped up in his own thoughts and self-guilt. Harry is a flawed character, which I like, but it is also very annoying at times. Murphy also had some suspect reasoning in this novel, though with the stress she was under I can’t hold her to the same level as Dresden. She has only faced the supernatural on the sidelines until this novel and has to take a lot of what Harry says on faith, so when everything he hasn’t told her is in one place, I get why she is mad at him. Still, it seemed like a bit of a jump of rational to go from Harry having a picture of the circle to him having something to do with the murders. They figure it out at the end, you know when a werewolf rips through the station, but they both needed a good shake. Now for the bad, Susan was a walking plot device in this novel. She is the love interest and I know nothing about her other than she is a reporter and extremely hot. I was hoping that we would get something more about her in this novel, but apparently her functions are plot and sex-scene specific. That rolls into the most annoying part of this novel, the way the Butcher describes women. It got to the point in this novel that it took me out of the narrative the way that we had to know every time Murphy is mentioned that she has a cute buttoned nose or the fact that Harry is half-dead at one point, but still has time to think about how great Susan’s legs look in jeans. After the initial explanation of what the women look like, which doesn’t need to be strictly in terms of attractiveness, I don’t need to hear about it again. Let’s not even talk about how he describes Tera West appearance the entire novel because that will take up the entirety of this review, or how Agent Benn’s animalistic nature is portrayed. I am not a man so I can’t talk about how men think, but if all that brain power is used objectifying every woman they come across, it sounds absolutely exhausting. 

While there are a number of issues I have with the novel, overall it was a fun read. I am not as enamored with the series as other people seem to be, but I have also been told it gets a lot better once Butcher hits his stride in future novels. I can see the hints of that, bringing in the mystery of his parents’ death and the inkling that someone might want him dead. I’m going to keep reading to see if that’s true, but I have a feeling there are still going to be some bumpy sections along the way.

[ask-the-street-wolves-chara-blog]

Street Wolves

Hey guys, So “Street Wolves” Is a series about wolves that survive, fight, DRAMA (yada yada :| ) But its not out yet it is being scripted, voiced and  drawing it. We - ( The voice actors of the characters ) Are gonna post the characters (what they look like, story lines, gender, Traits, ect ) So you guys can ask questions. Yes “ BAD “ questions are allowed, EXAMPLES : Kissing, Holding hands, Ect. (NO SEX RELATED QUESTIONS >.>) Ok thats all :) you need to know. Bye :)!!!

[showmeyourwits]

This is pretty much my retirement plan.

[table-cat-games]

Hey all! Street Wolves is 25% for a couple of days on Itch! It's a great opportunity to check it out. Plus the Archetypes release is also on sale (which gives you 13 pre generated characters and VTT tokens)

[table-cat-games]

If you want to check out #StreetWolves, my synthwave inspried ttrpg, this is just a reminder that the taste test quick start aka jump start is totally free and available right now. It's got basics on the settings for GMs to jump in. There's pre gen characters ready to play and an exciting adventure for players looking into action/adventure/intrigue in the seedy underbelly of a 1980s Miami. (note, you do need Savage Worlds Adventure Edition for all the rules) You can get it on my website, itch, or Drive Thru rpg.

[table-cat-games]

I've got the character Bubbles mostly laid out in InDesign, that means I can start working on putting all her ranks into the document.

If you want to get Bubbles *for free*, you can subscribe to the #StreetWolves mailing list. The link is in my pinned blog post.

Bubbles was played by @cassimothwin in an actual play by Crossroads Games called "The Golden Hand". You should check it out if you want to see some cool action/adventure.

[josemejiaf]

STAY MOTHERFKR. No importa lo que hagas... quedate como sos, eso es más valioso. // No matter what you do, stay as you are. That's more valuable. Background photo: unsplash.com #streetwolves #stayyou #honduras #photography #lifestyle #quotes #campaign #comunication #outloud #gritalo #personal #instagood #CoolHunting #unsplash #motherfkr

[josemejiaf]

STAY GAY. No importa lo que hagas... quedate como sos, eso es más valioso. // No matter what you do, stay as you are. That's more valuable. Background photo: unsplash.com #streetwolves #stayyou #honduras #photography #lifestyle #quotes #campaign #comunication #outloud #gritalo #personal #instagood #CoolHunting #unsplash #gay #gaylove #gaypeople #lovewins

[josemejiaf]

STAY DRUNK. No importa lo que hagas... quedate como sos, eso es más valioso. Background photo: unsplash.com // No matter what you do, stay you. It's more valuable. #streetwolves #stayyou #honduras #photography #lifestyle #quotes #campaign #comunication #outloud #gritalo #personal #instagood #CoolHunting #unsplash #drunk

[josemejiaf]

STAY PARTY. No importa lo que hagas... quedate como sos, eso es más valioso. Foto de fondo de unsplash.com #streetwolves #stayyou #honduras #photography #lifestyle #quotes #campaign #comunication #outloud #gritalo #personal #instagood #CoolHunting #unsplash #party

[josemejiaf]

STAY QUEEN. No importa lo que hagas... quedate como sos, eso es más valioso. Foto de fondo de unsplash.com #streetwolves #stayyou #honduras #photography #lifestyle #quotes #campaign #comunication #outloud #gritalo #personal #instagood #CoolHunting #unsplash

[josemejiaf]

Goodmorning situation #willywonka #streetwolves #tumblr #goodmorning

[josemejiaf]

Somewhere over the Rainbow. #streetwolves #nature #honduras #LaTigra #lacantadora #field #strawberryfields #houses #outdoors #walking #outthere #instagood #CoolHunting #instadaily #fotohonduras #hondurasphoto #photohonduras #green #cleanair #cloudy #clouds #greysky