The Gaming Outpost

Simplification.

That’s what today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article does with the time travel in Warlock, looking at two distinct ways in which the first trip to the future could be the “original” history.  It is entitled Warlock part 6:  foreknowledge, which suggests one, but it finds flaws with both and notes that it leaves us still with most of the problems already identified.

I’ve been keeping up with Eric Ashley’s work as well.  Practise Bits:  Feast took my brief description of dinner at a buffet that included steak and turned it into a story of a starving man feasting.  Actually, Eric, it is generally better for those who are truly starving to eat a considerably lighter breakfast, that is, meal that breaks the fast; a heavy meal atop of digestive system that has been shutting down can be very problematic.  But I enjoyed reliving dinner nonetheless.  As for Practise Bits:  Translate, it is a clever solution, but I don’t think Wycliff translators would approve “See the bunny of God”–at least, not unless there was evidence that the culture had made sacrifices of rabbits as part of their own religious practices.  The fawn, the calf, the kid might all be better, as there is a good probability that if they eat these creatures they have at some point used them for blood sacrifices, or at least given part of the meat to a deity.  Finally, Practise Bits:  Dojo brings a verser into a martial arts training facility in a world that seems a bit like Dark Honor Empire beta–modern technology with feudal law, but done differently.  It also shows the superiority of the monotheism of Christianity over eastern dualism, if briefly.

I’ve got food cooking, I hope (new slow cooker on its first mission), and forum threads to check, but hopefully am on top of everything for today.

–M. J. Young