Food for Thought

Some Food for Thought

I guess one of the coolest things about this blog, almost as cool as seeing you all read it, is that I can step outside the story from time to time. Like I’m doing now. Why now? Because I want to tell you guys a bit about Katarina.

I have a long history with Kat. She originally appeared in Lock ‘n Load: ANZAC Attack. The game module took place in Vietnam and Katarina started life as a Viet Cong heroine under the assumed name Kno Hue. I actually designed a scenario for the module in which Americans are attacked by vampires, but dropped it in the end. Stuff like that is just a little too much for some of the traditionalists that buy our games.

Next we see her as a Vampire heroine in our game Aftermath. Unfortunately, that project aborted and I’m not sure when we will pick it back up. Finally, she has a lead role in my novel, Revelation, which is the first of these World War Three with weird stuff books. That novel is yet to be published, but it soon will be…one way or another.

So, I have a long history with Katarina. It only made sense to bring her in as Ramzke’s savoir. They seem nice, don’t they? Almost like a typical brother and sister. They aren’t not by a long shot, and folks that assume that will end up dead (at least in this fictional universe). That was the point of the slaughter of the little boy. I was hoping to prove a point. In the World at War universe vampires don’t play by our rules. Although they might seem civilized, at times even likeable, they regard us as nothing more than food, and give the same amount of thought to killing us, as you would cutting into a steak.

It’s food for thought.

See you Wednesday.