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After a half-day's journey on the back of a farmer's horse cart, the crowd for the harvest festival comes into view as the sun sets behind the thatch-roofed buildings. Tents cover the town square, filled with teeming masses of people laughing, eating, and drinking. Mirella, the plump barmaid at the Glutonous Gorgon, scurries back and forth between the crowd and the pavilion set up in front of the tavern building, carrying a tray full of clay pitchers of mead. The largest tent is set up over a
As soon as you climb out of the cart and thank the farmer, a voice calls out for your attention from the ground. In front of you, barely coming up to the waist of a normal human, is a harried-looking halfling woman with a clipboard.
"Are you here for the competition?" she asks. Without waiting for an answer, she exclaims "Thank Abadar! We had some no-shows, so in half an hour we were going to run out of acts. Let me get you registered, then you can prepare. It's ten gold pieces to enter, and I need your group's name and your set list."
She looks up at you expectantly. "So what do I call you?"
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
"What can you call us? What can you call US?!" Rekkstuff said instantly, stepping to the front of the group in a hurry. He was indeed the blondest, blue eyed-est, swaggeriest, downright rockingist metal hunk of half-elf ever since the invention of steel. Even his piercings had piercings, or so could be assumed by the metal earring he wore that had a second metal hoop in it. He drew his guitar much as a fighter might draw an axe. He pointed it forward, over the halfling's head and towards the stage. "We're the greatest band to ever hit the stage! We're the king of the kings! The creme of the creme! The cherry of cherries, and the band of bands! The lord of lords! The alpha and the omega! Why, we're..!"
Rekkstuff paused for a moment, as a horrid realization came to him. He had forgotten what they were actually called.
He backed away to the rest of the group. "Psst. Guys." he whispered as discreetly as he could (which wasn't at all discreet). "What'd we decide our name was? Wasn't it, like, the +1's?"
|Tobar Pannell
Dot - post to come later
|Jordon Narciso
Jordon speaks in response to Rekkstuff, though he directs his speech to the halfling. He stands with good posture, his eyes closed and a dignified air about him which does not suit the place nor his company at all. "We call ourselves..." He begins, rather queietly and politely. However, he suddenly hunches his back, shakes his fist out in front of him, and says in the most dramatic and intense voice he can muster: "Squealy Nord." He keeps a grim expression on his face for a few seconds, trying to make the name sound important, before dropping the act and taking a more regular stance. He smiles at the rest of the band, and pats the pig on the head. Then he reaches into his coin pouch, pulls out a platinum, and flicks it through the air, intending for it to land atop the halfling's clipboard. It misses however, and he quickly bends down to pick it up and clean off the mud before handing it to her, looking rather embarrassed.
Jordon looks like a comedic spoof of a nobleman. He wears what would be a fine dress outfit, if not for the garish and clashing yellows on greens on black. He has mismatched and jangly silver jewellery all over, except for on his hands (needing to keep them free for playing). A black beret with a red feather protruding from it rests atop his brown shoulder-length hair. His demeanor is rather easygoing, and he sports a small grin.
|Tobar Pannell
Following the two ostentatious gents before him is a fairly non-descript and plainly dressed gnome. His short hair and short beard are well groomed, though plain, and he has a slightly confused absent look upon his face. Currently lodged upon his forehead is a set of black-out goggles, though he is free of any other adornment at present.
Wearing black leather armor over an outfit of green and brown, he carries a sack in his left hand and a black leather lead in his right. At the end of the lead is a shaggy coated pig that is being stubbornly dragged along behind him.
Leaving the words to his taller and more impressive compatriots, Tobar scans the crowd - seeing if he can identify some of the competition; or if there are any agents in the audience...
Knowledge (Local): 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25
Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
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The halfling woman rolls her eyes and scribbles something onto her clipboard. She glances up at the stage as the current act stops playing, then turns back to all of you. "OK, just get me the set list when you're done playing. There's one more act, then you're up, so do whatever you need to do to get ready."
You don't need the actual names of the songs, but now is the chance to do any skill checks beforehand that you think could help the show.
|Jordon Narciso
Jordon quickly paints his face up white using some of the group's makeup. As soon as he is finished, his demeanor is changed, his face seeming much more serious now, and his mouth staying silent and shut. He limbers up his fingers, ready and waiting to play.
No skills I can think of that would be useful beforehand.
|Tobar Pannell
Moving backstage, Tobar prepares. On his face he adds two black teardrops, one for each eye as though they were dripping down his cheeks. His teeth are altered so that they seem more pointed and alien than usual. Makeup is applied to his cheeks and neck to make them look more haggard as though he were emaciated.
Part of his leather armor is changed up so that there are protruding cuffs and jagged edges in view. Tobar pulls out his pride and joy, an end blown flute in tan wood and applies prestidigitation to make it appear black with red details around the mouth and finger holes. Lastly, the smoked goggles are dropped across his eyes.
Diguise: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12 on both Squealy and myself, to enhance the look of otherworldliness. I use prestidigitation as part of this to lengthen and colour my hair and beard red; plus make Squealy's coat a combination of black and red.
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10 To hide a small packet of red dye in Squealy's coat.
Oh well - at least the 2s are getting weeded out early...
Have a few extra actions to take just before we walk onto stage - but will save that narrative until we've all checked in and been announced by the halfling lady.
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
Rekkstuff VanHalen tunes his guitar carefully, playing the opening riff of a somehow nostalgic song. After a few chords, he carefully tweaks his baby, then does it again. Meanwhile, one of the fingers he's not using to chord and strum with is directing around his makeup with Mage Hand, applying the white stage makeup to his face. This was followed by black facepaint for the area around his eyes.
Satisfied with his tuning, he stops strumming the same darn chord over and over again (catchy though it may be), and uses Prestidigitation to apply a fire paint job to his guitar, as well as to clean it off and make sure it is sparkling fresh.
"I'm pretty well set." he finally announced. "So when do we get to make these losers look like losers?"
|Victor Klepke
Victor quickly spit-polishes the studs on his leather - or at least on the front part that's visible beneath the open shirt of his gaudy entertainers' outfit.
"Hey guys, should I switch it so the leather's on the outside? Or is this good?" he asks his bandmates, before changing his mind and muttering, "Oh, nevermind that - no time for last minute indecision. I've got work to do..."
Okay, question about in-character knowledge. How big of a risk would Victor likely think it would be to cast spells against other performers? High risk? More of a "just don't be too obvious about it, but no one would be completely surprised" level of risk? Or does he expect everybody and their brother to be slinging whatever non-damaging spells they've got at each other?
If spellcasting would be foul play, then Victor steps into a corner where he can focus and begins on some vocal warm-up exercises.
If spellcasting would be generally considered a viable tactic, then he looks for a place where he could see the stage but be relatively unnoticed during this other act's performance (the one before ours) and tries to be stealthy about it.
If I can take 10, then Perception is 16 and stealth is 17. Otherwise:
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (7) + 6 = 13
Stealth: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
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You're pretty sure that it would be a disqualifying offense if you cast a spell on another contestant. To be more precise, it would be a disqualifying offense if you GOT CAUGHT casting a spell on another contestant. But at a small-town affair like this, they probably won't be expecting anyone to try.
Victor finds a nice little nook behind the stage where he is mostly hidden, but can watch the current act through the cracks between the cloths hung up to form the back of the stage.
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The silent man in the back speaks now. "Save some insanity for the stage, Rekkstuff. It'll be better suited to pleasing the crowd." Roger is wearing a long, grey coat, with a face pale enough to scare a ghost. His eyes sunken, and his lips nearing a hue reserved for the dead, he is one of the more naturally frightening members of the group. His boots thud heavily as he walks, and his bass has a row of 2-3 inch spikes along its bottom edge.
His expression lightens. "Good thing we made it in time, eh? Otherwise these fine people wouldn't get the privilege of hearing Squealy Nord in action."
Sorry for the lateness of my post. Last night the Post Monster got my post, and I've been taking care of my sister all morning.
Edit: I see things have happened since I started writing. I figured that might happen. Oh well.
|Victor Klepke
You're pretty sure that it would be a disqualifying offense if you cast a spell on another contestant. To be more precise, it would be a disqualifying offense if you GOT CAUGHT casting a spell on another contestant. But at a small-town affair like this, they probably won't be expecting anyone to try.
Victor finds a nice little nook behind the stage where he is mostly hidden, but can watch the current act through the cracks between the cloths hung up to form the back of the stage.
Alright, in that case, I use my vantage point to observe the current act (in case they do anything dubious or otherwise exploitable) but don't cast any spells or otherwise interfere.
|Jordon Narciso
When the band starts warming up, Jordon conjures a simple wooden toy piano and plays a sad little melody, saying nothing and keeping a straight face. Once that's done with, he sits silently with his eyes closed, his fingers slowly stroking the keys but playing nothing. He seems to be psyching himself up for what is his first real gig.
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A smattering of applause punctuates the festival as the last act finishes playing. They quickly leave the stage and make room for you to set up your own instruments. The simple farming folk in the audience look askance at your outlandish clothing and makeup, carrying on their own conversations to fill the silence, and taking advantage of the break to buy something to eat from the various street vendors.
Now comes the Perform checks. You have a 3 song set list this time, so go ahead and make 3 Perform rolls each, and note any one-time bonuses you're using, etc. If you flub a roll, go ahead and let me know if you want to try to use another skill to recover.
|Tobar Pannell
While the rest of the party sets up , Tobar remains offstage with Squealy the pig. When it comes time to enter the stage and start the set, Tobar sends off Squealy...
Handle Animal: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34 Versatile Performance for Woodwind
...to walk to the center of the stage and stay still. Casting ghost sounds, Tobar makes it sound as though the pig has a deep bestial voice and announces the group in turn as they enter the stage. Feel free to dictate your stage entry theatrics in your own post
Tobar then casts dancing lights and makes it appear as though the four balls of light are emitted from Squealy's mouth - rising up and swirling about the stage. Finally, casting haunted fey aspect Tobar appears on stage last. Striding forth unto the stage his hair writhes as though alive and he looks somewhat like a redcap goblin bedecked in black leather.
Retrieving his flute from where it is tucked into his sleeve, though making it appear as though he has vomited it forth....
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23 To reflect how cleanly the flute came out.
...bringing the black and red flute to his lips and starting to play a haunting tune...
Perform (Woodwind): 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (1) + 16 = 17 plus whatever bonuses or penalties you think appropriate from the dictation above.
Oh the sweet sweet irony :( - hopefully the hicks are easily impressed... and I'd like to highlight that a roll of 1 is not an auto-fail, just makes success much less likely.
Once other band members start to play, Tobar would change his playing to follow them.
Only expendable used up is the dancing lights.
One of my first level spells is Timely Inspiration - which allows a +1 to be added to a roll as an immediate action. I would intend to use that if any of our perform rolls only fail by a single point. Will leave that in your capable hands RainyDayNinja...
|Jordon Narciso
Jordon strides onto the stage after Tobar, his back straight and his face a mask of solemnity. He calmly strolls to stage left and, with a flick of his wrist and a spoken incantation, a toy piano appears. The piano is covered in patterns of green, yellow, and black which match Jordon's outfit, and has "Spectral Hands" written, italicized, on the back of it in bright red paint. It might be an impressive sight, if it were not so tiny. The entire piano is a bit smaller than Squealy, though it has long, stilt-like legs so that the keys come up at just the right height. He stands still, ready and waiting for the drummer to queue them to begin the first song.
Jordon's use will come with Hypnotism for enchanting special effects and Memory Lapse to cover up flukes. For now, I've nothing more to do but make the check.
Perform check the first: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16
|Roger B. Right
Now, Roger walks in, casting message Pointing to various members of the Audience, and asking them in a hushed voice, "Are you sure you're ready for this?" He will mix up the selected audience members until the drummer queues up the first song.
Perform:Strings #1:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
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|Tobar Pannell
I saw that, but thought that given this is the first gig, we'd appreciate the chance to do some theatrics as well ;)
Perform #2: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34
Perform #3: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (6) + 16 = 22
|Jordon Narciso
Perform check the second: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
Perform check the third: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
The intro to the second song, I'll throw up a hypnotism. It'll fascinate the first few people in front, and just look pretty to everyone else.
Ouch. Guess I really botched the last one.
|Victor Klepke
Sorry about not posting on Sunday. Found myself extra-busy.
Alright, so Perform #1 for an intro, #2 for a crowd-riling during an instrumental break in the second song, and #3 for a strong exit.
1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
1d20 + 12 ⇒ (17) + 12 = 29
1d20 + 12 ⇒ (8) + 12 = 20
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
Rekkstuff VanHalen also followed the others to the stage, carrying his guitar over his shoulder as though it was some kind of axe and he was about to hit someone in the face with it.
Once he did get all the way out, he quickly shifted it into his hands. There were no tricks, partially because his band had those covered and partially because he'd sold his spell component pouch and all the spells he'd wanted to cast had some sort of material component. What he didn't have in cheap tricks he made up for, however, in sheer rock. As the music started playing, however, his furious guitar playing would speak for itself.
Is there anything around for smashing? Smashing is good in act 3. Maybe the piano if there's nothing else. Something needs smashing.
Perform 1:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (19) + 15 = 34 -- In which VanHalen has the most awesome guitar solo.
Perform 2:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27
Perform 3:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (7) + 15 = 22
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|Jordon Narciso
|Roger B. Right
Perform 2:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Perform 3:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18
That's too bad, Roach. Hope everything works out for yo.
Something I just thought about, I'll Disguise Self during the first song to look like Rekkstuff, and we'll play back to back until the solo, at which point, I will remove myself from his spotlight, as any good bassist should.. That was the best of both of our performances, so that works out pretty well.
|Victor Klepke
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
Very well, then. One smashed piano.
The third song was falling a little flat. Rekkstuff VanHalen could feel it. The first song had wreaked mighty havoc, and the second was decent. But the third.
Something had to be done. They had the pyrotechnics. They had the music. But they were phoning it in. Making errors. Rekkstuff VanHalen did not make mistakes.
The show needed a big finish. Without a bat available to bite the head off of, this left few options. Gods, that piano playing was grating. It was so... So.... mediocre. He need a plan. But that piano.
This piano? This piano! Piano piano plink plink plonk plunk plink THIS STUPID PIANO! I CAN'T THINK LIKE THIS!!
Letting loose a visceral scream (that fit into the song, no less!), Rekkstuff VanHalen flew into his blood rage, choking up on his guitar and spinning towards the piano, striking it at full force.
Rage as free action, controlled for +4 strength. Swift action, Archaeologists luck. Full round action, attack an unattended object and treat the roll as a 20. Assuming a 27 hits...
Guitar damage:1d8 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Rekkstuff VanHalen then loosed another roar. Again, in time with the music.
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
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As the undertaker wheels Roach's body away in his cart, the festival organizer weaves her way through the quickly-dispersing crowd.
"I'm really sorry about your friend," she says. "I never knew piano wire was under such high tension. But except for the people in the front row who got sprayed with blood, everyone loved your act. You're a shoe-in for the winner of the competition." She tosses 100 gold pieces in a bag to Victor, then turns and starts barking orders to a squad of men with mops and buckets.
The town square is mostly dark now, as the last of the tents and tables are packed away. Above the noise of deconstruction, you hear the faint grunts and cries of someone drift out of an alleyway, mixed with taunts and laughter.
Sorry to hear that, Roach. I've decided to write your character out in style.
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
"Great. Now we need a new drummer. Again." Rekkstuff VanHalen says with some annoyance. "Can we at least get one that remembers to duck this time? Seriously, this is, like, the fourth guy we've gone through."
It was then that he heard the insults, grunts, cries and laughter coming from around the corner.
This could only mean one of two things: Either someone was in a fight, or someone was getting him some. Either way, this seemed the best lead on a new drummer. Rekkstuff VanHalen began to walk towards the source of the noise.
|Tobar Pannell
After the gig, Tobar folds down the flaps of his armor and returns his hair to it's short cropped state and normal colouring. Finding some left over food on a table, he gives Squealy a snack as he reattaches the harness "You did good boy.... fine and proper" clear that he thinks the pig had a significant role in their victory.
At the sound of the grunts, Tobar's brow furrows though he follows Rekkstuff to discern who and what is making the disturbance.
|Jordon Narciso
Luckily for Jordon, he was fast enough to dodge the high-tension wires as Rekkstuff and his axe greeted them. Unlucky for him, his instrument killed Roach. He maintains a straight face even as arterial blood sprays across him, determined to stay in character no matter what. Ah well, he thinks, He knew the risks of playing in a metal band when he signed on. Poor loss though. Immediately following the performance, Jordon wipes his face clean of the makeup, and returns to his normal demeanor, smiling and joking with the rest of them.
After the performance, Jordon follows behind Rekkstuff, not sure where they're going but not caring all that much.
|Victor Klepke
"Hold up there, Rekstuff!" Victor calls in an urgent half-whisper, running up to the front of the group. "Your... well, your YOU-ness is why we need a new drummer in the first place. Your stuff is great on stage, but getting a new drummer is a job for the talker, alright? Besides," he continues with a wink, "If things go south, I daresay I'd be better in a fight."
Victor begins cautiously approaching the source of the commotion, ready to either talk or duck, as appropriate.
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
"Tch, please." Rekkstuff VanHalen replied with folded arms and a look that screamed 'bull.' "Only thing you're better at's not getting hit. And talking. A lot."
God, sometimes that Victor just wouldn't stop taking sometimes. Still, when it came to finding bandmates, there was certainly no one better. His HIM-ness? What did that even mean? Nevertheless, he slowed down enough to let Victor take point. To be safe, he put a hand on his guitar. Most good drummers were violent, sociopathic creatures, and Rekkstuff VanHalen knew to deal with such creatures with violence.
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Roger chuckles, even with such a grave event having just happened. "Calm down Rekkstuff, you did good. This just isn't where you excel. You'll have plenty of opportunities to show where you excel, just as you did tonight. Then, they'll really see what makes you the rockingest of them all."
God, sometimes that Rekkstuff was so pushy. Still, when it came to putting on a show, there certainly was no better. To assure Rekkstuff, he put a hand on his shoulder. This guitarist was a violent, sociopathic creature, and he knew how to deal with such a creature with flattery.
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In an especially dark corner of the alleyway, you all spot two human figures kicking and taunting a small dark lump curled up on the ground.
"Hey chump," one of them says, "you think you can just go walking around on our turf without paying the toll?"
They turn when they hear the five of you turn the corner. They look you over from head to toe, sneer, and say, "Why don't you girls go play dress-up somewhere else? We've got business here to take care of."
If things get to that point, I'll go ahead and roll initiative for you all. Also, you each get 1000 XP for winning the competition, and since I'm putting you on the "fast" advancement track, that puts you at 4300 each so far.
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|Rekkstuff VanHalen
"Oh. I'm sorry." Rekkstuff VanHalen says in a tone that implies he is in no way actually sorry. "I thought I just heard two nancy boys who were asking to get their candy apple arses kicked bright red for being a pair of morons."
He points his guitar at the two of them, the menacing glint in his eye the same one as when he broke things on stage, and his wide grin is more than a little unsettling. "Tell ya what. I'll give you one more chance to get that right before you wind up a red stain on my Rickenbacker 4001. What was that you just said? Punk?"
Intimidate. If this counts as influencing a crowd this is at another +1.1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
|Roger B. Right
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The lead thug grips his quarterstaff tightly, and stutters, "L-look man, we got no quarrel with you. Just let us get what this guy owes us, and you can go wherever you want."
Roger:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Rekkstuff:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13
Victor:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
Tobar:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Jordon:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Thugs:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Rekkstuff, you're up first. The thugs are 30 feet away and directly adjacent to each other, and to the prone figure behind them.
EDIT: Sorry Roger, I missed your intimidate check.
|Roger B. Right
|Rekkstuff VanHalen
Rekkstuff VanHalen charges the second they pull their weapons out, the frightening smile becoming a roar of fury in an instant. His pupils narrow to pinpricks as he brings his guitar to bear against the thug standing right in front of him.
Free action to rage, controlled for +4 strength. Swift to activate archaeologists luck, end it as a free action. Lingering performance will keep the +1 luck going for the next three turns. Charge into a spot adjacent to both enemies, activating crowd control for +1 attack and ac. Charging does cause a -2 ac for the turn. Attack one of the thugs. The closest one.
Guitar vs flat footed ac:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
Damage:1d8 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
RNG, I despise you.
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|Victor Klepke
"No sense of tactics..." Victor sighs under his breath, shaking his head at the screaming VanHalen.
Victor advances, hoping to keep Rekkstuff from getting into too much trouble.
"This is for the clothes!" he yells.
Advance 30ft to a space next to Rekkstuff and adjacent to one, but not both, of the thugs. Attack with unarmed strike (don't worry, I have Improved).
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19 vs FF
1d3 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5 damage (lethal, not nonlethal)
Use Snake Style versus first attack against me. I presume you'll roll that if need be?
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The thug grabs at his face, and blood trickles through his fingers. "Thut thun of a bith broke muh fayth!" He sidesteps to get directly in front of Victor and a little away from Rekkstuff, and strikes out angrily with his quarterstaff.
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 221d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Sense Motive: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14
The other shifts around to get behind Rekkstuff, and steel flashes in the moonlight as he brandishes a dagger and thrusts it toward the brash guitarist.
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 71d4 + 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (2) + (2) + 3 = 7
EDIT: That should have had another +2 from flanking, but still a miss.
|Roger B. Right
Roger points at the thug that shifted around Rekkstuff and mumbles a few magic words.
Hideous laughter, DC 15 will save, or prone and laughing, unable to take actions.
Nothing came from the intimidate? If something did, then he gets a -2 on that save due to the shaken condition.
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|Tobar Pannell
Tobar kneels and unhooks Squealy's harness before giving the porcine terror a slap on the rump and pointing at the prone and giggling thug "Sic him Squealy, bite his nads!"
Handle Animal: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28 DC 25 to push and animal to do something it's not trained to do.... yet.
Squealy charges forth with a malevolent look upon his black and red furred visage as he lunges at the thug....
Squealy Bite: 1d20 + 1 + 2 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 2 + 4 = 9 for 1d4 ⇒ 1 +2 for charge and +4 for attacking prone
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In most modern servers a baseboard management controller (BMC) is responsible for monitoring things such as temperature, voltages, and fans. The BMC can usually be configured to send out alerts (in the form of emails and/or SNMP alerts) when something in the system requires the attention of an administrator (such as the CPU starting to overheat).
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One of the many powerful features that transaction-processing systems provide is atomicity. An activity is atomic if it either happens in its entirety, or does not happen at all. Atomicity is crucial for writing correct software in many applications; for example, a bank's software may implement a transfer from account A to account B as a withdrawal from A followed by a deposit to B. If the first action happens, then the second had better happen as well.
Databases provide atomicity for data stored within them, but filesystems are not atomic with respect to their files. This two part article series explains how to achieve atomicity for standard filesystem actions. The code for such a system is implemented in the Java package
com.astrel.io.atomic, available here. In part one, I will explain transactions and atomicity in more detail. I'll then discuss how to start using this package.
It's not hard to find programs that could benefit from atomic filesystem operations. Installers are a prime example: they do a lot of filesystem manipulation, and if there is an error or they crash, one would like the filesystem back the way it was. Word processors, spreadsheets and other standard "office" programs write, delete and rename files. Even business software that primarily accesses a database may use the filesystem to store non-critical data like user preferences. Crashes during these operations, or sequences of operations, can potentially corrupt the data. Finally, if you don't require powerful search capabilities, using flat files may be faster than dealing with a database. All of these programs will (and do) work without atomicity, but all would be more robust with it.
You may be under the impression that filesystems already provide atomicity. After all, when you delete a file, either the delete succeeds and the file is gone, or it fails and the file is still there. That is correct: modern filesystems make sure file deletion and other basic operations, like creation and renaming, are atomic; in other words, they prevent themselves from being corrupted (for what else would you call a filesystem in which a file was half deleted and half not?). But they do not ensure that file writes are atomic: once you overwrite some data in a file, you can't get it back. They also do not provide for the atomicity of sequences of actions: you can delete atomically and rename atomically, but you can't do a delete followed by a rename atomically.
It is possible to build a transactional filesystem from the ground up -- that is, from low-level filesystem operations like block reads and writes. In fact, databases do just that. But here I will describe how to make an existing filesystem atomic.
If you are concerned about the performance of atomic filesystem operations, your concern is well-placed; atomicity comes at a cost. You will have to determine whether the increase in robustness is worth the slowdown in your application. In many cases, you can do the I/O in a background thread, mitigating the performance impact.
In standard parlance, a transaction is a sequence of operations with four properties, called the ACID properties, for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.
Atomicity means that a transaction can end in only one of two ways: either successfully, in which case all its effects take place, or unsuccessfully, in which case it has no effect -- for all intents and purposes, the transaction never happened.
Consistency just means that a transaction is written correctly, so that when it completes successfully, the system is in a consistent state.
Isolation means that the transaction appears to execute completely alone, even if, in fact, other transactions are running simultaneously. Isolation is important, and can be enforced automatically, but my package does not attempt to do so (atomicity alone is hard enough). You can use Java's thread synchronization features to enforce isolation within a single virtual machine, and you can use the
File.createNewFile method to implement a file-locking protocol that will enforce isolation across virtual machines. For the rest of this article, we'll assume that isolation has been done for us: that simultaneously running transactions never access the same file.
Durability means that a successful transaction's changes are permanent. In practice, "permanent" means "on disk." Since our transactions involve the filesystem, durability comes at no extra charge.
Since there's no standard term for something that has atomicity and durability but not isolation, I will use the word "transaction," but will occasionally write "atomic transaction" to indicate that these are not full-blooded transactions.
Almost everyone who's programmed for a database knows how to use transactions:
The attempted commit may succeed or fail. If it succeeds, then the transaction is committed, and its effects have taken place for good. If the commit fails, the transaction mechanism guarantees that you'll be back at the beginning: none of the transaction's effects will have occurred, or all those that have occurred will be undone.
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There is another way to end a transaction besides committing it: you can abort it, or (synonymously but more politely) "roll it back." You may choose to do this because one of the actions you attempted under the transaction didn't work the way you'd hoped, or perhaps you got new information that made the transaction's effects unnecessary or ill-advised. In any case, rolling back a transaction undoes all its effects, returning the system to the initial state.
In the event of a crash during a transaction, the transaction will be rolled back automatically when the transaction-processing system restarts. This is called recovery.
Now that you understand the basics of transactions, you are ready to use the
com.astrel.io.atomic package. Users of the package need to understand only two non-exception classes:
TransactionManager and
TransactionManager (TM) represents a set of transactions that are part of the same program. You begin by constructing a
TransactionManager, giving the constructor a directory where the TM will hold all of the files it needs in order to provide atomicity:
TransactionManager tm = new
The TM must wholly control that directory; it is a grievous error for other programs, or even other TMs, to use the same directory. Using a relative pathname for the directory, as shown here, is wise only if you know your program will always be started from the same directory. Otherwise, you should use an absolute or user-relative pathname.
Your program can use multiple TMs, each with its own directory, and each TM can support multiple simultaneous transactions. But it is up to you to ensure that no two simultaneous transactions access the same file -- the package does not provide isolation.
The TM constructor also handles recovery: if there was a crash the last time you ran your program, then by the time the constructor has returned, any affected transactions have been rolled back.
Once you have a TM, you invoke its
beginTransaction method to get a
Transaction t = tm.beginTransaction();
We'll see how to use the
Transaction object in a moment. The other major method of
TransactionManager is
close. Call
close when you are done with the TM. It will roll back any active transactions and close all open files.
Transaction class has five methods for supporting filesystem actions, and two methods for commit/rollback. The five filesystem action methods are:
openOutputStream method returns a
FileOutputStream. Although
FileOutputStream out = t.openOutputStream(f);
appears equivalent to
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(f);
openOutputStream method works behind the scenes to ensure atomicity. Once you have the
FileOutputStream, you use it normally. You can close it when you're done, or you can let the transaction close it automatically when it completes.
openInputStream method opens a file for reading, returning a
FileInputStream. Since reading a file does not change the filesystem state (except possibly to alter the last-accessed time of the file, which we will not attempt to make atomic), it has no effect on atomicity;
openInputStream is provided only for convenience and symmetry. Thus the call
FileInputStream in = t.openRead(f);
is equivalent to
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(f);
except that it will close the file when the transaction ends.
openRandomAccess method is similar to the other open methods, except that it opens and returns a
The other two action methods are similar.
t.delete(f); is like
f.delete();, except that it is atomic. It also throws exceptions, either
FileNotFoundException or
DeleteException (my own class, part of this package), instead of returning false. This, in my opinion, remedies a flaw in the design of
Similarly, the
rename method is the atomic version of
File.renameTo, and throws a
FileNotFoundException or a
RenameException instead of returning false. The
rename method will never overwrite an existing file, as some implementations of
File.renameTo will; you must first delete the destination file.
Two methods handle transaction commit and rollback. It may seem obvious that one method does commit and another does rollback, and that is indeed the design of typical transaction systems (including JDBC), but there is another design that fits better with Java exception handling.
Every transaction has a boolean variable that determines whether it should commit or roll back when it is finished. The boolean is false by default. You set the boolean by calling a transaction's
shouldCommit method, and you complete the transaction by calling its
end method.
An example will show how this design makes it easy to code the most common case, in which the transaction will be rolled back if any exceptions are thrown while it is in progress:
Transaction t = tm.beginTransaction();
try {
FileOutputStream out = t.openWrite("file1");
// write to out
t.rename("file3", "file4");
} finally {
shouldCommit is initially false, and isn't set to true until after everything has completed successfully, exceptions during the transaction will roll it back. If you want to continue your transaction in the face of an exception, you can write a try-catch within the try-finally.
If instead one had to call commit or rollback methods explicitly, then the code for the common case would be a bit more cumbersome:
Transaction t = tm.beginTransaction();
try {
FileOutputStream out = t.openWrite("file1");
//write to out
t.rename("file3", "file4");
} catch (Exception e) {
throw e;
Here there is also the danger that the programmer will forget to roll back, or forget to re-throw the exception, thereby stifling it.
A third possible design, in which rollback is called automatically if there is an error, is no good for two reasons:
Transaction method.
Writing a try-finally around your transaction takes care of the basic commit-rollback logic, but somewhere you will have to deal with exceptions.
Transaction methods can throw three different exceptions, reflecting three different kinds of errors:
IOException is thrown when something goes wrong with the filesystem operation itself. For example, if you attempt to delete a nonexistent file, you will get a
FileNotFoundException, which is a subclass of
IOException. Handle these exceptions as you normally would, keeping in mind that you're running under a transaction.
TransactionException is thrown when something goes wrong with the transaction mechanism itself, such as an error making a backup copy of a file. As soon as the system detects such a problem, it rolls back the transaction. Nested inside the
TransactionException is the
IOException that actually caused the problem. When you catch a
TransactionException, you know that although your transaction failed, the system is in a consistent state.
InconsistentStateException is thrown when the transaction mechanism cannot guarantee atomicity. For instance, if a filesystem error occurs during rollback itself, some but not all of the transaction's effects may have been undone, leaving the system in an inconsistent state. Such exceptions typically require human intervention.
Let us now go behind the scenes to see how atomic file transactions are implemented. We begin with some assumptions, namely that the filesystem makes certain basic actions atomic. Most important of these are writing a single block to the disk, deleting a file, and renaming a file, but we also assume that opening and closing a file are atomic. Our job is to provide atomicity for file writes, and for sequences of actions.
Let's begin with the problem of writing out a new version of a file. The standard way to do this, of course, is to simply open the file and write to it. But an error or crash during writing will leave you with a corrupted file, and no way to recover the original.
One way to prevent the problem is to make a backup copy of the file before writing. If the write fails, the backup can be restored. If the program or machine crashes during the write, then restoring the backup can still happen, but it will have to wait until the program is restarted. In detail, the algorithm looks like this:
Atomic File Write: Execution
E1. Rename or copy the original file to a backup file. If there is an error doing this, then delete the backup file, if any, and report failure.
E2. Write the file. If there is an error doing so, then restore the backup and report failure.
Although our desired action has happened, there is one more crucial step:
Atomic File Write: Commit
C1. Delete the backup and report success.
If there is a crash during execution or commit, the program can attempt to recover the next time it starts:
Atomic File Write: Recovery
R1. If there is no backup file, assume the operation succeeded. (This is why deleting the backup is crucial. It is the signal that the entire operation was successful.)
R2. Otherwise, restore the backup.
R3. Delete the backup.
This brings the program back to the state it was in before the file write was attempted. The program can then try it again, if that is desired. In general, the job of the recovery process is to bring the system back to the state before the crash.
Observe that this is a somewhat subtle algorithm, even for something as simple as writing a single file. Much of the subtlety is in error-handling. The above description doesn't even cover all the possibilities: what if there is an error restoring the backup? Or deleting it?
Moreover, the algorithm is not even correct if step E1 uses copying instead of renaming to create the backup file. Consider what will happen if there is a crash while copying. Upon recovery, that partial backup will overwrite the original file in step R2, and the file will be corrupted. For this reason, it's better to rename the original file in E1 rather than copy it (remember that we assume the filesystem will rename atomically).
Part of the difficulty in thinking about atomicity is that there are five sources of error:
Reasoning about the correctness of an atomic protocol thus involves considering every possible crash point, both in the original sequence of actions and during recovery, and making sure that the recovery process can always eventually get back to the initial state. This isn't easy to do. If you're not convinced, let's consider another example.
Say a program wishes to atomically create a file F, then delete a file G, then later write a new file, also named G. Backing up a deletion, like backing up a write, involves renaming the file. If a new file is being created, however, no backup file is necessary -- we just have to remember to delete the file if there is an error. The process looks like this, then:
That's complicated, but it seems right: the successful result is what we want, and a failure anywhere along the way will undo all actions up to that point. But remember that we have to design a recovery algorithm as well, in case of a crash. Let's say that when the program is restarted, it sees files F and G, but not G.bak. What situations can give rise to that state?
There is no way for the recovery process to tell which state holds. This is a serious problem.
By now, you should have seen enough to convince you that the problem of atomic file transactions is a difficult one. Crashes may occur at any point in the file writing and deleting process, and an atomic system needs to be able to revert to the previous state of the system if anything goes wrong at any point.
In part two, I will continue to discuss how to use the package; implement atomicity using an algorithm, and conclude with a tour of the design of my package, with an emphasis on how you can extend it with new filesystem actions. Finally, I offer an informal justification of my package's accuracy.
Jonathan Amsterdam is Senior Consulting Engineer at DataSynapse, Inc. Prior to that, he was president and founder of Astrel, Inc., a Java training and consulting firm.
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I need some tips on how to get my 3 1/2 mo. old to take a bottle
I need some tips on how to get my 3 1/2 mo. old to take a bottle
keep trying,
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Hi, my 3 1/2 month old was having the same problem.
She just started taking a bottle.
Try having someone else give her a bottle the same time everyday & def. don't wait till she's starving. It didn't take long, in less than a week I was able to give her a bottle with out tears. I've also found that pumping at least once a day helps shed the extra baby wieght!! Good Luck.
What sort of nipples are you trying?
I'm having the same problems with my 6 week old baby. He has refused about 10 different types of bottle nipples. I'm not trying to wean him at all but I just want to be able to have him take the occassional bottle of expressed milk if I need to go to the dentist or something. We have been trying for about 2 weeks without any luck so I understand the frustration you are having. My DS#1 took to bottles with no problems and had no nipple confusion so this is new territory to me too.
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Good luck, my baby seems to take the bottle better from me then from DH but he might just be weird there. Or I have a higher level of patience then DH
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Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School is the first public school in the state to be powered by the sun.
A blessing Thursday morning on campus marked the start of a bright future and lower electric bills at the school.
As part of a Lanikai Elementary tradition, the ceremony included a Native Hawaiian chant calling for all to stand up together. For these students are standing up for the environment.
"They energy sources we're using now are polluting the environment and even when we use natural resources, sometimes people are using too much and it's going to go away," said Lanikai Elementary sixth grader Hudson Lockette.
Lanikai Elementary is the first public school on Oahu to secure $500,000 in state funding to build a photovoltaic system that will provide between 80 and 100 percent of the school's electrical needs.
"The photons in the sunlight come down, they hit the solar panels and it converts that into energy," said Kekoa Blair, 11, explaining how the PV system works.
"It goes through a whole bunch of wires and we use it for the lights, we use it for the computers," said sixth-grader Emily Hinrichs.
Each of the 468 panels produces 230 watts of direct power for the school. That equals about four light bulbs.
"That's estimated at about $166 a day or roughly $5,000 a month. So it's going to be a huge savings," said School Director Ed Noh.
A state-of-the-art monitoring system provides real time energy tracking from the PV system.
But this may be the first and last public school to get off the grid for a while, because there is no dedicated source of funding for these types of projects within the Department of Education, according to state Rep. Chris Lee who, along with former state Sen. Fred Hemmings, earmarked the money needed to build the PV system.
The charter school's board fought for over a year to keep the project alive.
"While it was difficult, it was all the people that did come together really made it happen," said Jaime Higgins, Lanikai Elementary school board member.
The school is now looking at other ways to go green.
Aldon Solar and HECO were also partners in building the system.


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He was a Catholic and a member of Immaculate Conception Church in Goliad.
He was born to Pedro and Mary "Mamie" Elizondo on Aug. 28, 1950, in Victoria. He was recently retired from Victoria Independent School District, as a Maintenance Supervisor. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and retired after 20 years of service with a rank of Master Sergeant.
Pete is survived by his wife of 41 years, Rosalinda; daughter Audrey Koehler and her husband Kris of San Antonio; his son Peter of Singapore; and son Philip and his wife Liza of Kyle; five grand-children: David, Jayden, Devin, Trae, and Kensi; siblings Mary Elizondo Rendon and husband Lupe, Toni Elizondo Salinas and husband Paul, and Steve Elizondo and wife Ina; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Barbara Soto and nephew Joey Salinas.
The family would like to give a special Thanks to Dr. Romero, Dr. Qadri, Dr. Janssen, Dr. Llampart, the MICU nurses, all staff at Citizens Medical Center, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Visitation will be at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 3 with a Rosary at 7 p.m. at Artero Memorial Chapels in Victoria. Visitation will resume from 9 to 10 a.m. before a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 4 at Immaculate Conception Church in Goliad, with a burial to follow at La Bahia Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be David Koehler, Kris Koehler, Bruno Garcia, Jesse Guzman, Anthony Segura, Lupe Rendon III, John Rendon, Eric Salinas, Doyle Perkins, Kevin Camacho
Honorary pallbearers will be St. Joseph High School Class of 1969, employees of VISD Maintenance Dept.
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If the Pirates Were More Like Pirates
We at RSBS often lament the chronic disgrace that the Pittsburgh Pirates organization has become. The home of players like Roberto Clemente not only continues to lose at an unfathomable rate, they also show no signs of turning it around anytime in the near future. Throw in the fact that they have basically resorted to reality TV contests to drum up interest and you almost feel embarrassed for them, mainly because they obviously don't have the good sense to feel embarrassed for themselves.
What the Pirates need is a mentor, someone who can show them how to get back to their swashbuckling ways. Pirates used to strike fear in the hearts of sailors and the National League. That can happen again.
If I can be so bold as to make a suggestion: the Pirates need lessons from real pirates. And I'm not talking the Johnny Depp, cavorting around in makeup kind of buccaneer. I'm talking the armed to the teeth while hijacking a supertanker kind of pirate.
As luck would have it, The Atlantic recently provided a blueprint for what has made the Somali pirates successful and there are definitely some lessons the NL Pirates can take to heart. For instance, how about this truth-berry? "You don't want your pirates running off with the loot! Be sure to
incentivize your workforce and set compensation levels fairly." If history is any guide (Jason Bay, Nate McLouth, Aramis Ramirez), this might be a good place to start.
Or how about this? "Each pirate should bring his own firearm in exchange for a class A share
of the profits." More firearms means more firepower. Which also means that bringing guys like Rinku and Dinesh on board probably isn't going to cut it.
If all else fails the Pirates possess one final option, an option that frankly I'm a little surprised they haven't already exercised. Why not do like their namesakes and just hijack the Yankees or Phillies, then hold them for ransom? "Sure, we'll let you go. As soon as you give us Cliff Lee." It's something to think about and certainly couldn't do them any worse than what they've done to themselves the past 17 years.
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Except the Yankees or Phillies can't give them Cliff Lee! They'll have to go hijack the Mariners now for him. Besides, let's not give them any ideas, hmm?
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Pirates of the S.S. Minnow maybe. What a shame. I remember the Buccs of the 70s coming to Shea and just crushing us into a fine powder. A fish rots from the head down. A real Commissioner would have examined their mismanagement in the Best Interests of Baseball. PITT was one of my favorite road trips and it's just a crime they're being run like Steel City Slouches.


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Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy.
NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way, about 20,000 light-years away. This latest image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a young star cluster surrounded by a vast region of dust and gas.
The image reveals stages in the life cycle of stars.
Powerful ultraviolet radiation and fast winds from the bluest and hottest stars have blown a big bubble around the cluster. Moving into the surrounding nebula, this torrent of radiation sculpted the tall, dark stalks of dense gas, which are embedded in the walls of the nebula. These gaseous monoliths are a few light-years tall and point to the central cluster. The stalks may be incubators for new stars.
On a smaller scale, a cluster of dark clouds called "Bok" globules resides at the top, right corner. These clouds are composed of dense dust and gas and are about 10 to 50 times more massive than the Sun. Resembling an insect's cocoon, a Bok globule may be undergoing a gravitational collapse on its way to forming new stars.
The nebula was first discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1834. The image spans roughly 17 light-years and was taken Dec. 29, 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
For more information, please contact:
Jesús Maíz Apellániz
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia, Spain
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA
Lars Lindberg Christensen
Hubble/ESA, Garching, Germany
Object Name: NGC 3603
Image Type: Astronomical
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Acknowledgment: J. Maíz Apellániz (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucía, Spain)
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Highly possible
Don't know
How many of you think that there is a possibility that obito was half senju. He was alot like nawaki and naruto and also had a strong sense of the will of fire.
An Uchiha Senju. Well. Idk.
Zetsu is made of Hashi's cells thus granting wood style.
Originally Posted by SasoriOfTheRedSaand
Zetsu is made of Hashi's cells thus granting wood style.
or used the zetsu clone. but none of us can jump to conclusions.
no , its just half his body is senju harishima thats all. nothing major.
No it's cause his artifactal body of Hashirama
Doubt it. Everyone needs to stop thinking every character is either half senju or half uzumaki.
Originally Posted by Necromancer4276
Doubt it. Everyone needs to stop thinking every character is either half senju or half uzumaki.
Well then they should stop having Senju DNA every time there's a problem.
Or it had to do with the fact that he was wearing Tobi.
True he had zetsu's body on but think about the way he could use the jutsu he used so quickly with any previous knowledge on it.
No, it's jus the fact that he has hashirama's artificial body
It is possible, but I doubt it. Tobi possesses the power of Rikudou sennin
We will to wait and see cuz he used it so quickly even Zetsu was surprised...there is something else than wearing hashi artificial body...these type of things require alineage to be follow to use mokuton.
i feel that madara is having fun by sharing hiashi's dna!!! The dude is still upset about his loss
Notice that the wood element only sprouts on the side that his artificial body is on, it is not a coincidence.
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And on the best 1st baseman thought;
There are still a number of players that are better.
Albert Pujols(Best)
Carlos Delgado
Derek Lee
Miguel Cabrera
Prince Fielder
Justin Morneau
Pujols - agreed
Delgado - He is way pas his prime and definitively a far worse defensive 1Bman that Tex. The last 2 seasons Teixera also had better offensive numbers.
Derek Lee - They are pretty much equal. Tex is a slightly better fielder and D-Lee is s slightly better hitter.
Miguel Cabrera - We still have the better player in his possition. But his name is Alex Rodriguez. Cabrera is a 3Bman
Prince Fielder - Hits better for power, but the average is pretty much the same, also Tex is far superior defensively
Justin Morneau - Agreed, he is an MVP. Can't argue with that.


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#79202 - 08/29/02 12:30 PM gest
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 13858
From an e-mail I just got:
you know?
"Let the Queen know of our gests," Antony instructs his men after a hard-won
victory on the battlefield in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Great
deeds and heroic acts have been the stuff of gests since medieval days; in
fact, the word is more often associated with knights and heroes of old than
with modern adventurers. We may not be hearing about many 21st century
"gests," but we do frequently encounter other relatives of the word. "Gest"
traces to Latin "gestus," the past participle of the verb "gerere," which
means "to wage," "to accomplish," or "to act," among other things. That
Latin verb gave us stoutly enduring words like "gesture," "ingest," "jest,"
"register," and "suggest."
I've always spelled it as in "Beau Geste", story about French Foreign Legion
I so much enjoyed as a teen-ager.
#196135 - 01/13/11 12:07 PM Re: gest [Re: wwh]
Registered: 01/13/11
Posts: 1
Wouldn't you think that this word gest is etymologically linked to gist ( the gist of the gest!). But no, my Webster's tells me that gist comes from L. jacere, to build, to found....
Hunches don't always work.
#196137 - 01/13/11 12:15 PM Re: gest [Re: Dundasian]
Registered: 11/17/10
Posts: 677
Loc: Middle Earth
It is a positive shame that they don't
Welcome Dundasian, to our humble abode...OK is another word with which hunches don't work...free has a most interesting etymology as well..._________________________
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#196140 - 01/13/11 01:42 PM Re: gest [Re: bexter]
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You certainly found an old post to begin with._________________________
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#197020 - 02/04/11 11:46 PM Re: gest [Re: LukeJavan8]
old hand
Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 954
Loc: Alaska
Many of us, before embarking on a new gest, like to practice our (s)wordsmanship by hewing an old post.
#197021 - 02/05/11 01:52 AM Re: gest [Re: Dundasian]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5295
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
Like I thought of the word quest which is also not related to gest but just like it is associated with heroic deeds by knighs and heroes of old.
Quest and question both coming from quærere "seek, gain, ask.
#197038 - 02/05/11 11:07 AM Re: gest [Re: BranShea]
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The search for the Grail, and the Knights of Old.
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