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Mord… You’re a GAMER? FRICKIN’ GAMER?!?

23 Friday Jan 2015

Posted by mordmcghee in Author, HORROR, LOTRO, Science Fiction, Video Games

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Yes.

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It may not be what you think it means. Gamer is a very loose generalization. What I am is an active player of two online MMORPG’s. That stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. To hit a related point early…

…NO I DO NOT FICTIONALIZE ROLEPLAYING GAMES.

There are plenty of folks out there that do that type of writing in quality ways. I don’t. Have I used dice and played rpgs in the past? Yes. Although, to be truthful I was almost always the master of the game and came with a briefcase of my own material adapted to someone else’s rules. (We’re also talking about a couple of decades in the past).

What I DO write is captured nicely in a new comment given to me by TSPRess:

This is us. This is YOUR world. This is OUR FUTURE. He is Mord McGhee. READ and experience.

That’s pretty cool to me. It hits the mark because I like to think I envision changes that will come and let the people in the scene tell the story. SO…. what do I mean when I have admitted to being a Gamer?

I play Lord of the Rings Online (Currently on the Landroval and Arkenstone Servers) and I play The Secret World (On all three servers that I know about).

I don’t broadcast toons (the characters), nor do I  sell books there. I play because I love the games. I love the communities. I love the worlds. If you run into me and figure it out that’s cool. I have a bunch of great friends, many of which are in the LOTRO pic above. In the past I’ve been active on the original Guild Wars and on Meridian59 (arguably the first MMO and still ground-breaking in  the mid 90s). I am always up for giving them props to immersive and fun environments but I’ll leave the “worlds” they use to J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft.

For me, I’ve promised to eliminate “Scooby-do” villains and moments and provide realistic visions of scifi terror and fantasy that damned well could be on our horizon.

It is NOT dystopian to think history will repeat itself.

After all it is OUR FUTURE.

You’re in for a shock… you’re in for surpise

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Murder Red Ink is done.

Everything you know about Jack the Ripper is about to be sliced from ear to ear.

That being said… let me poke a little fun at myself. I spent Saturday with my son and wife making a bloopers reel of video takes trying to make a cool and creepy promo to put on a fan page as a freebie for Halloween. Well, we laughed. A LOT.

We had a camera slip and flip, songs play that didn’t match, chipmunk speed instead of fade out, guitar string snappage, impossible lighting combination, invisible lights, networking issues… YOU NAME IT.

End result, I’ll leave it where it is. But I am still going ahead with the primary plan to put something unique on the facebook.com/mord.McGhee fansite for a few days on Halloween. It’s cool and will give something different to consider while waiting for the copies to hit the stores.

Advanced Reader Copies have been ordered by TSPress.

Hopefully a date for shelf is next.

Anyway, I’ve been having a good time with Lotro’s Fall Festival.

See you in the shadows of Murder Red Ink!

~Mordy

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