The Gaming Outpost

”Weird. O.K., so what does that have to do with magic? Do some languages have words that describe magical things better than others?”

–M. J. Young

Ooops–this time I really did miss Harry. Sorry–I must have closed the thread when I was chucking Spam.

Arabella needs a difficult intellect check to get this concept, and she rolls 2+10 which is well within […]

It’s probably foolish to mention this in this post, because this will probably be the last post I post; but my Internet connection has been iffy in the past half hour, so if I vanish, you won’t know why until I […]

Departure is probably around nine in the morning, after a decent breakfast; movement through the wood is careful, using the skills you’re learning so as to leave no discernible trail.

After about an hour you […]

Henry opens the sixth frame with a third consecutive strike, while you turn 5 pins into a spare. Shelly turns 2 into a spare, and Kim downs 2 and then 5. Himler turns 6 into a spare, while Engineer does 6 (and […]

After about an hour of wandering from building to building, you find many different shapes of glass objects, most of them the green glass of which the buildings are made. I would catalog these for you, but you […]

For some reason, I’m tired today; it feels like a much longer day than it has been. However, I see only three players–Michael, Adam, and Harry–so this might be reasonably quick.

Oh, as an aside–a new […]

She never objects to being hugged. However, after a moment she presses you away and asks, ”What do you mean by ’languages’?”

–M. J. Young

I’ve pulled up the spell descriptions, yours first, although they are identical but for the SAL::

1@1 Purify Food and Drink M+3@1 1:00 TF Appropriate words in Latin, sound vital, forcefully spoken, both arms, […]

On this final round of the preliminaries, you are facing two middle-aged couples, Henry and Shelly, Himler and Hermoine. They have one win and three losses, you have the reverse.

You open with seven pins, and […]

Just a side issue–you keep switching between hermetic and hermeneutic, and the two words are related only in the fact that they both recall Hermes. Hermeneutic has to do with the proper interpretation or parsing […]

I had an unexpectedly long diversion today, which was itself diverted into several shorter diversions; but it is Sunday, and there’s not that much else to do, so hopefully even at this late hour I can manage to […]

You find a dry space on high ground and get your mason working on a mill for fertilizer. He doesn’t understand what that is, but Geneice explains that you will need to grind a lot of materials into something as […]

The five troublemakers are playing their wives–or at least, four of them–but although the wives play well this time around, the men play better, edging them out for their third win, the women zero for […]

(Bartender school? As long as you don’t consume your work, you should be all right.)

You do not see bottles. You see large glass octagonal prisms in various colors, and everything else in the city other than […]

“Put you up front? That would make it appear that you were the leader of the group–and no offense, Master Kurt, but you have neither the experience nor the confidence, I think, to step into the open before […]

If the magic requires asking some power to act on your behalf, as this appears to do, then there are only three possibilities–

1) it is holy magic, calling on a spirit power and requesting aid which that power […]

Harry, clarifications on the Greek are noted.

John, thank you for your opinion; it doesn’t belong in this thread.

Sorry, I’m a bit cranky, I think, because I’ve had such a rough week that I find myself […]