Jeremiah Willstone is a woman of adventure from the world next door, Victoriana! We’re in the process of updating the blog, so please stay tuned for more about her adventures!
Hail, fellow adventurers! To help celebrate steampunk (and Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine :-D), our friends at Bell Bridge Books have come up with the Steampunk Drinking Game!
Here are the rules: Pick out a steampunk movie or book of your choice. Beverage may be of your choice. For each item you come across, take the prescribed drink. (Best played with others who don’t actually plan to go anywhere afterward.) The last person standing wins!
- Aether = 1 drink
- Airship = 2 sips
- Automaton = gulp
- Bodice = 1 drink
- Corset = down the whole shot
- Gears = 1 sip
- Goggles = three sips plus bite of lemon
- Her Majesty and/or Queen Victoria = down the whole shot
- Horse and/or carriage = 3 drinks
- Inventor and/or mad scientist = 4 drinks
- Inexplicable device = 1 drink
- Mention of social rank (Duke, Marquess, Earl, Barron, etc.) = 4 sips
- Parasol = 2 drinks
- Presence of bioengineering = 4 drinks
- Puff of steam = 1 drink
- Raygun = chug
- Top Hat = 3 drinks
- Tesla coil = down the whole shot
Now, remember: drink responsibly, and definitely do not attempt to play the drinking game in one sitting with Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine! According to our calculations, if you followed the Steampunk Drinking Game rules with JW&TCTM, you would end up:
- taking 155 drinks
- taking 1,115 sips plus 34 bites of lemon
- taking 16 shots
- and would have to chug your drink 12 times!
You know a book is full of steampunk when the Steampunk Drinking Game tries to knock you out with it!
So, I hope you responsibly enjoy JW&TCTM, and celebrate Steampunk!
-the Centaur
Pictured: coffee and pocketwatch from Pixabay, beer sampling by Paul Joseph, by way of Wikimedia Commons.
Fear not, fellow adventurers! Jeremiah will star in her very own novel, THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE, out early 2017 from Bell Bridge Books. Stay tuned for more news as it happens!
Jeremiah as a Lieutenant, fresh out Academy – I imagine, fresh back from a jog. Done with pen, pencil, and white pencil on beige-tinted paper, with tone/level/color correction and light editing in Photoshop.
-the Centaur
Like science? Like adventure? Like seeing liberated women kick ass? Well, for all of the above you’re in luck, because Aurora Wolf magazine has published “A Choir of Demons”, Jeremiah Willstone’s very first adventure out of Academy! Here’s a preview:
“Well, Lieutenant,” he said, handing the dispatch to her. “Looks like your bailiwick.”
“A … police matter, sir?” Jeremiah said, her voice unexpectedly rising; most unbecoming in a soldier, but she hadn’t expected to be sent on a formal mission on her very first day. Navid clearly had talked her up too much! “With respect, sir, I’ve not even completed orientation—”
“You’re wearing the tailcoat,” Lord Bharat said firmly. “Aquit it well. Dismissed.”
Jeremiah clicked her heels, whirled and marched off, her head positively spinning. What were the protocols? Who were the players? She was going in blind! She tried to pump the dispatcher for details, but he sternly sent her on her way: the plea was urgent.
And so, within the hour, Jeremiah found herself halfway across Boston standing beside a detective policeman opening the bloodied front door of an artisan’s shop. Even as the hardbitten woman’s shaking hand cranked the passkey, Jeremiah steeled herself.
“Not sure whether this is an Incursion,” the detective muttered, “but it sure as hell looks like Expeditionary business.” The lockpick engaged, and the spattered door swung open with an ominous creak … revealing a dark red arc on the floorboards. “We left it just as it was.”
“Oh, you didn’t have to,” Jeremiah whispered. Within the brassworker’s shop, the artisan sat sprawled in his work chair, head lolled back, staring at the ceiling, eyes wide open in terror, dried blood running from his ears. Up and down his whole body—indeed, over much of the shop—were carved rough pentagrams.
“Bloody hell,” Jeremiah said.
“My thoughts exactly,” the detective said, walking inside.
Wow! Hell of a first day on the job. Me, I just had to sit through an orientation seminar and locate the microkitchen. I guess Victoriana really is a different world! Good luck, Jeremiah, and may Victoriana prevail!
-the Centaur
Hail, fellow adventurers! Jeremiah Willstone has just entered your reality, and this is her very first webpage! Stay tuned as the Expeditionaries from Victoriana learn how to manage the intricacies of these modern digital electronic computers!
Where’s the gear crank on this thing, anyway?