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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Friday, 22 November 2024

Jimbo: The Thinking Barbarian - 20. One Way Ticket to Midnight (Part 5)!

Theme: From the Arcane Mists of Prophecy - Visigoth

Thus ended the last extant codex on the life and times of Jimbo, the Thinking Barbarian. For sans corroboration, all the latter tales of this era have long been relegated to apocrypha. Who now recounts the song of nomads from the northern tundra? Of the rise and fall of āltepētls on the sun-baked plain, or in the humid jungles of the world? All that was whispered by the elders fades to myth, and some will doubt that such things ever transpired, as the men of those days came to doubt that giants ever reigned over the earth. What became of those who went before us has seemed destined to remain a mystery.

Until now.

For the four winds blow, the sands shift, and the the topmost pinnacles of step pyramids long buried emerge from out the sea of dust, and answers may be found within the ruins long abandoned to the earth. I am weary, and I yearn for that sleep which the living cannot know, but it will have to wait, because I still have work to do.

Friday, 22 March 2024

Jimbo: The Thinking Barbarian - 20. One Way Ticket to Midnight (Part 1)!

Many are the tales of Jimbo: Hyperbolean, warrior-philosopher, impossible man. The few that have been rendered for your entertainment are the tip of the iceberg, and so many are now lost to the record, in codices consumed by flame and tablets sundered by the hand of mad despots and vandals now forgotten. As my life slips from me, my Nahuatl fails me, and the translation grows wearisome. Yet this climactic story must be told, in as many parts as it will take me. Some will say that it was all a fever dream; the dying delirium of a boy who never left his head. When I am gone, it will be you alone who carry on the flame. Now read of high adventure, deeds of glory, and the thunderous peal of fate.

Theme: Woman and Man - Ween