It is September 20, and it looks like I survived my first Arizona summer. When folks told me the temperature would rank up near 115 in the shade, they weren’t kidding. I had to completely re-format my car. New tires, different oil, window shades. I left a CD in there once. Once. And the water bottle that exploded.…
A Puzzle House provides no Resources for you, but it does add one rank to any Parties you throw there. Puzzle Houses can hold any rank of Party, even rank 5 Parties. A Puzzle House is difficult to navigate, requiring a contested Wisdom risk against the House. The House always rolls six dice for the…
In our own language, “party” is a little word. Perhaps a better word could be “event.” “Occurrence.” “Occasion.” But “party” somehow seems too small. The ven word, “althua” has two meanings. One is what we’re talking about. Gathering, get-together, festivity. But the word has another meaning. Althua. Where romance begins and revenge ends. Every Season,…
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain Ar.
Two games this weekend: the Saturday game and the Sunday game. Lots of progress, both for the system and the story. SystemThe Seasons went through the wringer again. I’ve moved “Harvest” to the end of the current Season, which makes tracking your Season actions a lot easier. It sacrifices a bit of the “long term”…
(from FactCheck.org) President Bush played loose with the facts in his address to the nation Thursday night as he tried to convince the American public that the surge in U.S. troops in Iraq has made the country more stable. He said “36 nations … have troops on the ground in Iraq.” In fact, his own…
A lot of the bloggers I read have been doing it, so I thought I would give it a try. The instructions are simple: 1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.4. Post the top 10 results. (Or however many results you want). 1. Private Investigator …
This section deals with Blessings. I do not have all the Blessings. A few of the Houses are short. Any suggestions are welcome. The Blessings listed below are given to those who are Devoted to a suaven. You may choose any of the Blessings for which you qualify, but you may not have more Blessings…
New suaven rules. The ven do not die of old age. Instead, their bodies slow down, their blood cools, and their skin begins emitting a strange substance called altrua. Altrua is not unlike spider’s webs. Over the years, they fall into a state they call “solace.” Eventually, the entire body goes into hibernation, wrapped up…
Last night, the President said a lot of things. He also forgot to say a lot of things. He said “Iraq’s national leaders are getting some things done,” such as “sharing oil revenues with the provinces” and allowing “former Baathists to rejoin Iraq’s military or receive government pensions.”A month earlier, on August 18th, in a…