Please sign me up for beta demonization. I'm eager to eat some wizards!

Cool, it was fun watching book 2 progress and get better through the beta testing.

This is still one of my favorite series and I might have to reread the first 2 books to prep for book 3.

And that's "I know where the end of the volume is." not "the end of the book" since the book is "Demons of Astlan" printed across multiple volumes.

Cool!

I am cranking away as I can, but got hammered last month with my day job, and it's still rather bad. I really want to start beta by end of month to be on target for a release 11-12 months after volume ii. But it's getting difficult. Good news is I have all the events for the book locked down, just got to fully write them down.

There you go...talking about your hard work life.

Really thinking Bernie Sanders should have talked less about Northern European/Scandinavian style healthcare, tuition, etc. and focused on insane amounts of paid vacation!

That would have got him a lot more votes than simply trying to guarantee healthcare as a right. After all, what's the point of being healthy if you spend all your days in drudgery and never have time to enjoy your life?

Well your Socialist Hell Hole would certainly be a hell hole by my standards!

I shudder to think about a place where the peasants aren't scared to "death" about getting ill and not being able to afford treatment, or bankrupting themselves in the process. A place where they didn't have to worry about a single stroke of bad luck could leaving them penniless, homeless and sleeping on the street with their children? A place where people could just go on lots of paid vacation and get spending money--makes me nauseous.

Ugh. What a horrible horrible place! How are the Corporate Overlords supposed to make ungodly sums of money and grind the peasants into the dirt?

Where is the fairness for them?

Oh, and I've heard these Socialists Hell Holes often have these namby-pamby prisons where they "reform" criminals and turn them into once more law abiding citizens? No gruesome living conditions, no years at a time locked away in solitary confinement and never seeing another person. No fear of prison rape or torture, no waterboarding?????

Seriously, what an incredibly dull place. Just thinking about it causes me to break out in a cold sweat. Well, OK, a 50 degree Celsius sweat, but for the Abyss that's cold!


BTW, the only kind of money I like is ungodly money, like we use here in the Abyss.

I think you are probably correct.

That Illuminati pyramid on the back of US Currency has always seemed a bit creepy to me.

On the other hand/side, do you ever feel like the eyes in the portraits on both paper and metal money are following you? I do.

Of course, maybe I'm just over extrapolating, just because the Demon Prince Moloch issues coins imbued with the souls of the damned within his domain and uses them as spies doesn't mean others are doing that.

i have a month off and cant wait for the beta

You have no idea how long demons have been after that white haired chick to come free some demon slaves, but apparently she's been horsing around again.

Interesting note on the back doors. That is exactly what Vaselle has been making lately, this little things with a mana pool, item link, fire lighting spell, geo-lock, and "Rune of Unnoticing" that the shamans can plant at various locations. They'll put them in a sheltered space, lock them in place, emit a low level (less detectable) Unnoticing and be ready to have the fire spell activated to create a small flame for Tom or the Shamans to create a portal.

Yes, Tom has been very worried that he might be in a fight club sort of situation in volume iii.

However, you can't go wrong with an Army of Darkness. Boomsticks are great, but a chainsaw hand would be very nice in the Abyss, a lot of people end up with very tough old meat on their plate, a chainsaw would really help cut the meat up. And better yet, the roar of the chainsaw would drown out the curses and screams of the meat as you cut it.

Unfortunately, we don't Starz down here in the Abyss, so in order to watch Ash and the Friendly Undead, we have to wait for it to come on Netflix DVD service. Sure it's on Amazon streaming but trying to watch it on my 56K modem is rather painful.