Fiction

Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
IV. The Lords of Quarmall pp.36–53

I didn't mention it yesterday because I was too busy waffling about something else, but this story was co-written by Leiber's mate, Harry Fischer, who actually co-created Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser with Leiber in the '30s (vaguely based on themselves). While Leiber became a fairly prolific author, it seems Fischer did not (his Wikipedia entry is entirely concerned with his role in co-creating this pair, citing no other works, but elsewhere I found a reference to him becoming a businessman). Exactly how much he contributed to the conception of the characters and their world is unclear, but this story was his only published contribution. He wrote 10,000 words of it in 1937 (one of the characters' ealiest stories to be penned, therefore) and Leiber finished the remainder over 25 years later (adding over 20,000 words). Maybe it's because I know this fact, but it does feel like the style of prose in this story is slightly different; not glaringly, egregiously so, but enough that I noticed it.

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition

3½ hours this evening. That's quite definitively back on the horse.

Tabletop Games

Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing.