The Gaming Outpost

Before we set out, I’ll make sure to compare notes with Vyse and make sure we’re not missing anything obvious, then it’s time to ship out.

My weapons.
My moonstones, minus the big one. I will ask Vyse if we should broker the sale of it before we leave, to protect it from being stolen while we’re away.
Any armor I can get my hands on, but nothing […]

“Yeah… I sort of realized that right in the middle there. They didn’t really /have/ languages in Sardic…” Sigh.

“In other worlds, people whose societies developed in different places – people who […]

”Thank you, my lord. I’ll remind you tomorrow at dinner if I don’t hear from you first.”

I let him go, and promptly hug Arabella.

“We have to get her back, Vyse.” I sniff hard and punch a hand against a wall. “We have to go after them. Do… something. What are the odds we could sneak aboard one of their ships? Rescue her and sneak out […]

I rush to the Captain’s house. Or rather, we rush there as quickly as two guys carrying a 200-pound stone can. “Who would do something like this? This was no small doing – how far could a ship big enough to do […]

Seems right.
Also the Greek I know is Classical Greek and Modern Cypriot Greek (Classical because I studied it in school, Modern because it’s what my father’s family speaks at home – Cypriot being the way Greek […]

I give Lord Roderick a nod. “That makes sense to me. Still, if I’m going to learn a language, I might as well learn to communicate in it, given the option. You’re right though – I do learn by reading, so your […]

I frown.
”Is there some kind of festival or something today? That looks like an awful lot of smoke…”

By the bye, for your records, of the languages you don’t already know I have, I’m mid to low 1@’s on written Arabic and I don’t speak it at all.
Greek, Latin, and French are high 1@s – I actually took […]

“Naturally.” I wince at the idea of learning Spanish and Swahili – two languages I have a strong distaste for – but I’ve always wanted to learn Russian and German, so it sort of breaks even, I suppose.

“How […]

I collapse panting on the shore, between the exertion and the magical drain.

“Gods above, Vyse, look at this thing… Have you ever seen anything like it?” I grin. “We. Are going to be stupidly rich. Aren’t […]

Except you forgot me.

”English, French, Arabic, Latin, and Greek,” I answer without thinking. Oops. They may not have England, France, Arabia, Rome, or Greece here. Oops.

A silver moonstone? A /200 pound silver moonstone/? Is that even a thing that exists?

I’ll try it using my own Blue. I’m keeping Yoda in mind here – weight matters not, only will. And my will is for a small change…

I splash back to the top and take a minute catching my breath. “Thing weighs as much as a person. Will you look around for some way to get rid of all this water? I have an idea.”

Once I get my breath, I dive […]

”Very, I just ask that we start small. Something simple like the battle-blessings and healing I’ve done in the past. I sort of understand how that works. I don’t think I’m really ready to push my limits yet.”

I thank her with a hug. I know how bored she is with this. If she’ll take it I try to gently scoop her into my lap. (This is entirely my real-life g/f’s influence – I would probably have been this sappily […]

I put the weapons away once it’s too deep to wade.

I take a deep breath, and dive for the moonstone. I’m a fairly strong swimmer – I know I can dive pretty far (I don’t rightly know how far – I’ve never […]

“I wonder if we could make enough money restoring a place like this, to be worth the expense and danger involved in clearing out all the monsters.”

I start in on the stairs, but never in my whole life have I […]