Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The priests freed them to tell the world that the Deceivers were real and had found their messiah, that those who did not come to Kina soon would be devoured in the Year of the Skulls.
A fun bunch of guys, Croaker would say.

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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasyâ€”something a lot of people didnâ€™t notice and maybe still donâ€™t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the clichÃ© archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

— Steven Erikson

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Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.

Remember when you're dealing with a company from out of state in a hotel room, they're going to be gone the next day and it may be difficult for you to get your money back.

It's been an interesting ride. Especially for a little company, but it all started at Floyd Central.

The company (was) sold in 1988; then I played for a year. Then I was at Ball State when one of my former students called.