Snows, the Vortex, storms and light

Suggestions of weather - weird and otherwise - in the top blogroll, with more below.

• Fabled Lands have the post Green snow falling with Russ Nicholson art.

• Truckee Games - home of F/X RPG - describes the town, a snowy place.

• At Outside the Universe Itself there's an overview of a faction in the weird wargame Primeval Abyssian - the Cascadians - and of the Vortex too.

• For the effects of rough weather, try Antediluvian Witchery's Conditions.

I've been reading a Joseph Conrad story too, Typhoon. There's so much worth reporting, especially from a gaming perspective, but I'll stick to a suggestion of the fantastical for now, re the Hill Cantons strange seafaring challenge mentioned in the last post. It's a quote, a snapshot of a turn-of-the-century steamship having reached the eye of a storm:

He watched her, battered and solitary, labouring heavily in a wild scene of mountainous black waters lit by the gleams of distant worlds. She moved slowly, breathing into the still core of the hurricane the excess of her strength in a white cloud of steam - and the deep-toned vibration of the escape was like the defiant trumpeting of a living creature of the sea impatient for the renewal of the contest.

I recommend gamers and even speculative fiction lovers find a copy. Conrad's a fabulous mix. Trey has a fuller list at From the Sorcerer's Skull, Nautical Fantasy Inspirations.

A storm at The Dark Workshop too, where Cursed13 describes a strange experience.

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