Showing posts with label night gown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night gown. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2015

The Phoenix Requiem - Anya

Hooo!  This is a dark one!  The Phoenix Requiem is story set in a Victorian inspired setting where magic is real, or at least used to be.  Ever since the spirits worshiped by man where mysteriously sealed away the Age of Magic has become a distant memory.  Science has now replaced mystism and mankind has moved on.

One winter day a mysterious gentleman stumbles onto the outskirts of the small town Esk with two gunshot wounds in his chest.  While he is nursed back to health, the town is soon set upon by a flesh eating plague as well as the vengeful shades of the dead.  What the man's exact connection to these events are is unknown, but it is clear that is the key to either the town's destruction or its salvation.

Written by the same author that did Inverloch, The Phoenix Requiem is a definite read for those who like horror and/or Victorian styles. (first page)

Anya Katsukova 
Anya is a nurse studying under the town doctor and the one who nurses the mysterious man back to health.  While she is initially skeptical of the mystic and believes that everything has a scientific explanation, she soon finds herself right smack in the middle of events that will strain all sense of reason to their limits.








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Friday, January 30, 2015

(mini-review) Earthsong - Willow

Willow

Willow is the main character and latest arrival to sentient world of Earthsong, the land where all mythological have their origins.  For much of the story it is unknown what Willow's race is and or where she comes from, making her a curious and potentially dangerous factor in the war being waged between Earthsong and the twisted, half dead planet known as Beluosus.



Friday, August 1, 2014

Trying Human - Rose

I want to believe!...That there's a really good webcomic about aliens, their attempts to blend in, and shadowy government agencies.  I have very specific tastes, okay?

Luckily there is just such webcomic, specifically Trying Human.  Our story more or less begins with a girl in New York waking up with uncontrollable nose bleeds and fragments of strange memories.  Eventually she begins to remember that she was abducted by "Greys" (think your typical spindly armed, bald headed Roswell aliens) and catches the interest of Hue, one of the few of his race who feels empathy.  Eventually Hue and his Reptillian friend (yet another alien race) decide to make use a set of portable holographic disguises, the titular trying human circuit, to "help" Rose with her life.  The results of said help are...mixed.

This however only broadly describes the main plot of Trying Human.  In effect there are at least four stories being told simultaneously with one taking place all the way back in 1947.  To say Trying Human can get rather complicated would be a gross understatement.  If you're a fan of X-files esque conspiracy mysteries and aliens in general, then I highly recomend you give this series a try. (first page)

Rose
The main protagonist of Trying Human.  A secretary by trade she initially wished that these crazy aliens would leave her alone but eventually comes to take it in stride.  As abductions virtually all happen at night when humans are asleep, Rose's tenure aboard the Grey mothership is often in her night gown.


Talk to the hand!

Hue finds this human foot to be most fascinating.

"Sure thing voice of of off kilter lady in my head."

Time to leave!

Awww!  They trust each other!...
...but still prone to accidents.  Whoops!

Eh, I'm sure they'll be fine.

Hue is stronger than he appears.