From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
What Palladium product is this from?
ReplyDeleteTransdimensional TMNT. Great book.
ReplyDeleteTrandimensional TMNT.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdimensional_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles
ReplyDeleteOne of Kevin Long's best covers too.
ReplyDeleteErick Wujick's writing though. That's good NPC right there.
ReplyDeleteI've been thoroughly poring through my first edition printing of this book since I started working on my game "Other Strangeness".
ReplyDeleteSex: meaningless
ReplyDeleteErick Wujcik was one of the greats. His revised After the Bomb book -- one of the last things he wrote -- is full of truly wild ideas. Including rules for getting addicted to having sex with rabbit people.
ReplyDeleteShit, I only have the original. I'll have to check out the revised too.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. It's worth checking out. The background for the world is changed (and, in my opinion, made more interesting in the process). It's, like, maybe 10% more "serious" than the original but somehow even crazier.
ReplyDeleteI should have said "one of the last things he wrote for Palladium." It came out six years before he passed away, and he was still working during that time.
If it's at the FLGS this weekend I'll pick it up.
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