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Celebrate World Bread Day with no-knead bread!
Homemade French Fries are Easy and Delicious
Delicious Pumpkin Butter
Find out more about baking in mason jars.
Macaroni and cheese - the ultimate comfort food after a rough day.
Enjoy a pumpkin spice latte at home with syrup you made yourself!
Popcorn, my preferred snack food for the VP debates tonight.
Homemade applesauce - a great use of all those fresh-from-the-orchard apples!
Roasted fall vegetables with pasta and fresh basil
Cheddar biscuits a la Red Lobster, but made at home.
Sprout sandwich for a lean lunch


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About EAAE
EAAE was constituted in Athens on November 25, 1995. The supreme authority of EAAE is the General Assembly and the governing body is the Executive Council. To facilitate the work of the Association concerning the different countries, National Representatives have been elected. Furthermore, to support the work of the organization, two Working Groups have been established.
The aims of the Association refer to those named by the Declaration of the EU/ESO workshop at the ESO Headquarters in Garching on Teaching of Astronomy in Europe's Secondary Schools in November 1994. Following these ideas, the particular aims of the Association are:
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- EAAE is working in alliance with The European Planetarium Network (EuroPlaNet) and Euro-Asian Association of Teachers of Astronomy (EAATA).
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"I am so buying a summer home here!" Grr, drawn with mousie.
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that is so good looking it looks simpson style i love it and chocolate*(Drools)*
So awesome! Love the background ! Great! Only one problem with it.... IT MAKES ME HUNGRY!
I live in the land of chocolate too! I've got a home in the easteregg street ^^ great drawing!
actually, it was in a simpsons episode several years ago (in the mid-90's). It was mocked and re-done on the simpsons game, i have it as well on my PS3.


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Ark: Roleplay Evolved Lore
Welcome to the official lore for Ark: Roleplay Evolved! Here you will learn about the history of the world and the island we play on as well as how various world mechanics work. We hope that providing a rich backstory and world for you all will help provide a fun jumping off point for creating your own characters and stories based around this.
Please remember that if you have any questions you can ask in the Ask a Loremaster thread located in the Roleplay & Lore subforum. Thanks for reading!
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History of the World
Sa'el. A patchwork quilt of islands and civilizations, from the sandy deserts of Jahana to the deep tropical forests of Xul'ad, to the depths of Mer De Tuan, this is our world. Our home. We have always known this world to be this way. Known the dangers of leaving our homes to venture into the wilds. Where as one of the smaller species, we humans are seen as prey to most of the other life we share this world with.
Despite our lack of claws and fangs, we have forged our own ways to survive. Against the fangs of the sabercats, we have our spears and shield to block the claws. The scream of an argentavis is greeted with a hail of arrows. We survived, and we thrived. From the trees and stones, we built cities, great cities to fill the lands and small ones to soak in the peace of nature. Land was plentiful, food was abundant. The islands coexisted peacefully for so long.
Until the peace was shattered.
The Great War
No one is sure exactly who started the fighting between the islands. No one knows who fired the first shot. The little we know about the beginning of the war is that the first shot was fired somewhere in the east, sparking an inferno of rage and a storm of blood that lasted for 300 years.
We watched as our neighbors eyed our lands with greed and avarice in their gaze, we sharpened our own swords and we built great fleets to travel to lands not our own. Some fought for glory, others for faith. Some fought out of greed, others as an aggressive way to defend their own homes. Thousands died. History books, the ones that survive, tell tales of the screams of battle mammoths falling in battle, crushing warriors with their death throes. They describe the smoke and fires and thunder of quetzal wings overhead, answered with the booming crash of cannon fire.
Most of the records from that time have been lost, many on purpose. Most do not wish to remember that time. It seemed that there was no way for the wars to end. Every fragile tendril of peace was met with a bared blade. Until the obelisks intervened. They had always been there. Sentinals standing guard over the world, their magic washing throughout the land, everpresent in the gem on the wrist of every human. We took them for granted, ignored them unless we wished to use their power. The mistake one man made ended the world. Gathering up the most powerful magic users in his kingdom, the Lord of Kha'al tried to bend the obelisk to his will, tried to harness all of the magic within it. It is theorized that there was a flaw in that particular obelisk, but we don't know. There is no one to tell us for sure, because there were no survivors to speak of it. The obelisk fractured, releasing the energy it contained with an explosion the likes of which had never been seen before or since. The kingdom of Kha'al was destroyed, the people who lived there killed in an instant. Thousands dead because of one man's greed.
The wave of energy released as the obelisk collapsed washed over the world, causing every other obelisk to flare brightly for a moment. Some crumbled under the wave, but most survived. Barriers rose between the islands, gleaming rainbow walls forcing an unnatural peace. Scholars who tested the obelisks found that they had changed somehow, that no matter the tool or magic used, they were not able to even scratch the surfaces. The Barriers stood for hundreds of years, isolating cultures from each other. Until now.
The Golden Age
After nearly five hundred years, many of the barriers began falling. Suddenly freed from our prisons, we have begun to explore the world once again. Trade ships sail the seas once more. There are still some barriers we have seen, places that are still walled off to us. We don't know anything about these lands, if their isolation is by choice or forced. Technology has come a long ways from the Great Wars, which were fought with swords and spears. Most cultures continue to use the small amount of magic we know, in potions and other uses such as healing or enhancing equipment, though even these require physical contact to be effective. Granted many approach this with a more cautious approach as few would wish to cause the barriers to return.
Fearing the return of the Great Wars, most have forged an uneasy peace throughout the world. While the hostilities have faded, some still hold onto old prejudices and paranoia. Others welcome denizens of other islands with open arms. Each island is rich in traditions and history, strife and peace, bandits and vigilantes, despots and saviors. Some are primitive, others are looked to as marvels of technology.
This is the world in which you have been born. Who will you become? An exotic trader from a foreign land? A native farmer whose family have tilled the soil for generations? A bandit who preys on the rich and poor alike? A duelist who fights for glory and honor? Or something else entirely?
Kingdom of Aeternia
Aeternia. Land of dreams and magic. When the rest of the world went mad in the Great Wars, we stood aside, content inside our own land. What need did we have of the inferior lands of others? We held the most magnificent lands on Sa'el. By staying within our borders, we also played the defensive game, designing new weapons and armors to keep our people safe. We learned new ways to harness the magics of the obelisks, leading the world in technomancy and technologic advancement. It even allowed the chance to set up our own royal mint and with it our own currency, Sols. These golden coins grew our influence rapidly and quickly became the standard trading currency in the kingdom becoming ingrained into the life of all citizens.
We watched the rest of the world fight and die, and for nearly two hundred years of bloodshed, we were left alone. We were strong, we had bent the creatures of the lands to our wills. Our royal guard met visitors with a show of force. Gigas, quetz, mosas... we raised legions from birth and trained them for war and war alone. It is little wonder most did not wish to try our might. When a small group of supplicants arrived to our lands sailing on rickity boats we were amazed had withstood the rough seas, they showed a brief glimpse of surprise at our forces, but kept scanning the skies as if waiting for something else to appear. We welcomed them into the kingdom, brought them to the Capital to bow before the Queen herself in all her glory.
They were not as impressed as we expected, but this could have been due to an experiment exploding and tearing a large hole in the palace just before they arrived. (Our first attempts at steam engines were less than successful, and the histories are rather vague on why the Artificer at the time had decided to build his prototype inside the palace itself). The group identified themselves as being from the lands of Crasite, which were under attack from the Aecor Domi, a collection of small islands that had built up a reputation as the scourge of the seas. They dominated all oceanic warfare, large fleets of ships that would collect "dues" from those who sought to sail on the waters they viewed as their territory. Which according to the Crasites, was all water everywhere, Including the waters around Crasite.
They were seeking our help in forcing the Aecor Domi to retreat, reasoning that with our naval fleet of war mosas we would easily sink their ships and secure the Crasite waters once more. The Queen wisely stated that we were a neutral nation, preferring to stay out of the war and bloodshed. Instead of accepting her answer and leaving as would have been proper and polite, they turned to the arts of bribery, offering fine silks and tools. She refused once again. They then described a creature that flew through the skies on leathery wings, that breathed fire or lightning or foul poisons that lived on their lands. The Queen was weak. The histories say that she made the decision solely with the purpose of augmenting our air fleets, but private journals speak of how she waxed eloquently about having one of the beasts for her own. We sent a fleet to Crasite. Twenty platoons of air and sea forces set out to save these primitive people from a well armed and organized enemy. We never saw them again. Before we could hear of their success or failure, a magical barrier surrounded our kingdom, and we were trapped for five hundred years.
We did not waste this time, though. We perfected our steam engines, sacrificing two Artificers in the attempts, but the end result, a marvel of magic and technology was deemed worth the cost. We made stronger armors and weapons with these new machines, found new ways to improve our lives. Maintaining a standing army was a waste of the kingdom's resources. None could attack us through the Barrier after all! So we disbanded our military, preferring to hire a group of mercenaries called The Obsidian Sun if we needed to put down the occasional rebellion. We were happy, wealthy, and above all safe as long as the Barriers stood.
When the Barriers fell, it shocked all of us. Our best scholars consulted the histories, and we cautiously sent scouts to check the nearby lands to see who has survived, including one scout sent to see if any of the platoon we had lost so long ago survived. Crasite met us with hostility and distrust at first. They looked at our armor with envy and our weapons with fear. It was to be expected, of course. These are a primitive people, savages with no knowledge of true civilization. We claimed a small area of land and built a town there, one to send teachers to assist them in leaving behind their uncultured ways and traders to collect the silks and raw materials we had been promised so long ago. We dared not teach them of the steam engines and crafting skills we have discovered. Perhaps one day, if they can manage to prove they are civilized. Yet somehow we have seen some of the savages wearing our armors, carrying our weapons.
In the years since the Barrier fell, we have seen new towns springing up within our domain. Immigrants or refuges from other lands, looking to start a new life. They bring strange customs and traditions with them, but for now, they seem to obey our laws. Whether they will continue to do so is something we will need to see. The Obsidian Suns are ever eager for more work, provided coin is offered, the royal princess Salina has finally returned, and Queen Mika'ela Helios has recently started offering work to free agents called Bounty Hunters, men and women who would capture law breakers and bring them to the Capital for trial and punishment.
Lands of Crasite
Crasite. The Wild Lands.
Freedom. If one were to describe Crasite in a single word, that would be the word most of us would choose. When the Great Wars began, many of us welcomed it with open arms. The Aecor Domi were vicious fighters, slaughtering the weak. But the strong would survive, would come out of the war with greater wisdom and might. While the fights often break out amongst the tribes, most of us have always banded together against foreign invaders. The war was just getting fun when the Cowards went begging for help. The Cowards used to go by another name, but none will call the few pathetic remnants by it. Instead of relying on their brother tribes and alliances, they chose to go to an outsider, showing their weakness. Worse, the outsiders agreed to come.
Many of us wish the Barriers had gone up one day sooner. Just one day. Then the fleet would not have made it to our shores. Wouldn't have been stranded here with us. And not just the fleet, some of the Aecor Domi were trapped within the Barrier as well. Over the next hundred years, wars were still fought within our borders. The Aecor Domi and the Fleet formed their own tribes, carved out their own corners of the land. They became two more facets on the jewel that is Crasite, two more sets of cultures and traditions to blend in with the myriad we already had with all the other Tribes. When the Barrier fell, the Outsiders returned. They built a trading post, offered to teach us "civilization". Some went eagerly to learn. Idiots. Most of the tribes see through the thin veil of manipulation. They have come to take us over. They have come to set their Queen over all the tribes, destroy our cultures, our way of life. Take our freedom.
We will not allow it.
The Lost Fleet
We have been banished. We came to help the savages only to find we were sent on false pretenses. Most of the barbarians did not welcome our presence, viewing us as interlopers and invaders. The wealth we were promised did not come. When the Barrier went up, we assumed it was a new device created by the Artificers, and waited eagerly for them to open a portal so we could return home. It never came. Lost, abandoned, we struggled to survive. We were well armed, it should have been easy. But the savages had weapons that could fight everything we had. A thing called a wyvern, that would swoop from the skies and burn or electrocute or poison our mounts, refined poisons that would eat away at you, liquids that would set you ablaze and much more. It took years, but we finally managed to rebuild the barracks and learn to survive in this new place. When the Barrier fell, those who had abandoned us came looking for us. A century too late. We stayed silent, putting off the decision. There were so few of us left. Some had taken wives or husbands in this land, we had children. Would it be better to stay here and continue as one of the Tribes? Or return to a home most did not remember clearly?
The Aecor Domi
The savage lands would be simple prey. That is what we thought. We were right, at least as far as the seas went. We raided and pillaged, and none were able to stop us. Until the barrier went up and we were cut off from our homeland, with no place to resupply, no docks to repair our ships. We found a cove and rebuilt our docks. We continued raiding the ships and shore towns for what we needed to survive. If we took captives to use as slave labor, well, who would stop us? Freedom. Such an easy concept to exploit. Let the savages have the land. We own the seas, and all that dare trespass on them bow beneath our will.
A Study Of Magic - By Teril Andor
The Basics
Magic in its most basic form is a constant in the lives of every person living on our world. Throughout my travels I have seen it called countless names and described in more ways than I care to remember. Some cultures view it as a gift from the gods, some as technology we aren't yet able to explain and even as a force of nature just like a rainstorm or tornado. Regardless, one can surmise that this power comes from the obelisks and is drawn into humans through the gem on their wrist, as it seems to be made of the same material (curiously it seems the beacons that appear around the islands are also made of a similar material). Each person is born with said gem embedded in their wrist and it is a part of us just as much as our heart or brain. It seems to be a symbiotic relationship, as when the gem is removed, or the arm lost permanently, we have noted that the person will sicken and die. (There is a barbaric practice in Ul Dumar where executions are done simply by chopping off an arm and letting the person die slowly. Horrifying, I know.)
Another evidence of magic being present in every human is the magical space that each person seems able to access using the gem as a kind of key, allowing them to carry far more items than their physical frame would allow. It is interesting to note that while a person is conscious, they seem completely in control of this storage space, able to lock it away from the eyes of others. It is only when they are rendered unconscious or dead that their gem may be used by another to open the space.
The final evidence of magic's existence in the everyday lives of the common people is the effect it seems to have on the aging process. Humans do not age naturally. Time passes them by and does not touch them. It is a strange phenomenon, one that we have yet to explain. While newborn animals will grow to full-size with no difficulty, human children will not. The individual must be brought to the obelisk and a ceremony performed to allow the child to grow older. The ceremonies seem to vary drastically, from a simple meditation at the obelisk to a grand and elaborate religious ritual that can take many days. Many have tried to find a way to grow older without using the obelisks, but that seems to be the only set requirement so far as no other way has been found.
Obelisks & Artifacts
The Obelisks were a fascinating part of my studies. Unfortunately, they don't give up their secrets easily, and I was unable to learn much. I did discover that every single island has at least one, although finding them was a bit of a challenge. Not all of them are above ground. One island I had to actually descend into a cave system to find the blasted thing, and it was the strangest obelisk I had ever seen, smaller than a man and glowing intensely. Others have been underwater, and in one very dangerous example, in the center of a volcano. I was curious how the indigenous people accessed that one, and one of the locals brought me to a strange stone that was covered in runes. Apparently, countless millennia ago, there was a way to make a statue or stone interface with the obelisks, giving people access to them remotely. Once created, though, the object had some of the attributes of the obelisks... it could no longer be moved or damaged in any way. I had never heard of such before, and it seems the art of making them has been lost for all time.
There are also what many refer to as 'artifacts' scattered around the world. They seem to be called this because the vast majority of people believe them to be related to the obelisks, some going as far as to say they are pieces of an ancient obelisk, long destroyed and scattered around the world. Whatever your beliefs it is clear that they harness some form of energy similar to the obelisks themselves although much weaker. They have been incredibly frustrating to study however, being both exceedingly rare and extremely difficult to understand or gain any meaning from. In my adventures I have seen people claim that the artifacts can do almost anything - cure illness, give you more energy, give you power, one couple even told me that the artifact they found allowed them to have their son! Sadly none of the evidence points to any of it being true, or even close to the truth. So far the exact effects or uses for these artifacts continues to elude me. Regardless, one thing I do know is that the artificers of Aeternia always pay handsomely for any artifacts in top condition, perhaps they have some ideas on how to unlock their full potential, or perhaps they just want to keep them out of the hands of the locals who seem to always take a shining to these strange objects.
The Three Paths Of Magic
We now come to the more in-depth uses of magic. Seemingly tied to each obelisk, there are three unique types of magic, separate from each other. These create the foundation of magic use in our world and represent the limit of human knowledge as it stands. In order to use one of these magics, one must go to the obelisk that resonates with the type of magic they wish to use and "attune" themselves with it. This can be a private meditation or a public ceremony, but either way, the newly attuned mystic, technomancer, or alchemist now has the ability to begin learning the basics of that magic. To become proficient at it takes years, to master it can take centuries.
It is however possible to switch to a different class of magic once already attuned. One simply goes before a different obelisk and seeks to attune to that one instead. However, this comes at a price. All knowledge and ability in the first type of magic is lost. Some poor fools believe that they can master all three types of magic by constantly switching their attunement, but I have observed this fail over and over, as each time it returns them to the level of the newest novice.
It has been said that the light of the red obelisk flows through every living creature, interwoven with their lifeforce. Mystics are able to gently manipulate this energy in specific ways such as healing and creating a bond between themselves and other creatures. The true limitation for Mysticism seems to be that it will not work on anything that is not alive, it cannot be used on one's self, and it only works with direct phsyical contact.
Many Mystics are adept at healing, whether it is healing animals, plants, or people. Healing magic, from what we have observed, seems to simply speed up the natural healing process, leaving both the Mystic and the wounded drained and exhausted upon completion, sometimes for days. It will not physically manipulate the wounds or regrow limbs, so if an arm is broken, the bone will need to be set before the Mystic begins their work. One other thing to note is that the healing process does not remove the pain of healing. Those who have been healed have been known to state that the process itself was agony, and the wound was still tender for a few hours.
My observations of a healer working their magic on a plant showed some interesting effects. While they are not able to force plant-life to grow beyond what the natural limits are, they are able to help heal and nurture growth to result in healthier and stronger plants and crops as well as tastier and better fruits and vegetables. These people are often in high demand during the colder months or in more harsh climates.
Another ability mystics have is related to the beasts roaming the land, allowing some mystics to form a closer emotional bond with their animals, as well as a vague sense of what the animal is feeling or wants. This has been looked down upon by many, as it is only a vague sense and not something clearer like words or pictures. Mystics using this aspect have also been known to sense their bonded animals presences when nearby, even through walls or other structures.
One final aspect does exist, and this is the one many Mystics themselves look down upon. One can witness that at the moment of death, the life energy of a creature or plant is released in a burst. This energy normally dissipates too quickly to use, but some Mystics have found that by sacrificing the more powerful creatures, often named "Alphas" they can harness and use their energy for their own purposes. They believe this sacrifice will create a stronger attunement to the obelisk, allowing them to lessen the fatigue that effects them after healing, encourage fruit and vegetables growth (and their taste!) as well as aid in the development of gestating creatures resulting in a higher chance of beneficial mutations when born. However this use of Mysticism also comes with its downfalls, wounds heal slower than the true method of healing, the crop batch is smaller and more likely to be diseased and the babies are also occasionally born with more... negative mutations. It is also important to know that this ability does not work on humans, possibly because the gem in the wrist does not allow the energy to be taken, even in death.
The green obelisks' light offers the Art of Alchemy. Alchemy is at once both the simplest and most complicated magic to explain. Simplest because one could reasonable sum it up by stating that Alchemists use the basic ingredients that can be found in the world and combine them together to create various potions and effects. But complicated because to explain how they do this would take a more pages than could even fit in the great library of Jahana.
It is impossible to understand how one ingredient in one potion can have a completely different effect in a different Alchemist's brew. Some Alchemists have even found that it can vary in their own potions, using the same berry in a potion meant to cure and one meant to cause damage. One theory is that the ingredients themselves do not determine the effect, they are simply the physical representatives of the magic being infused into the potion while it is brewing. It is maddening to try and study this magic if one is not attuned to it!
But for those who practice it, the effects of their creations is astonishing. I have witnessed potions that can cause madness and ones that can create clarity, brews that will cause a person to fall in love and others that will create the urge to kill.
The only potions that seems to be out of reach for alchemists is a cure-all potion that will negate the effects of all other potions and any potion that will last indefinitely. If a person who has drunk a potion they did not intend to comes to an Alchemist for help, the Alchemist must create a counter-potion specifically for the potion that was ingested. Likewise, all potions seem to have a set duration, meaning that if one were to use a love potion to catch a husband or wife, they would need to regularly dose their spouse or the effects would fade.
In many ways, Technomancy is the polar opposite of Mysticism, which is also reflected in the blue glow of the obelisk ruling over it. Those following this Path are able to infuse non-living materials with magic, strengthening them.
There was some confusion in my earlier studies of this magic when a Technomancer used their magic to strengthen a wooden door for a customer to make it harder to break through. Wood is a living thing! It is organic! Shouldn't a Mystic be the one to do this? The Technomancer quickly corrected me. While a tree is a living thing, once the tree has been cut down and the energy from its moment of death dissipated, it becomes a non-living object, bringing it into the realm of Technomancy.
Many of the wonders we have in the world are the direct result of Technomancy. The radios we use to speak across such great distances, the guidance systems for the steam turrets allowing one to specify what targets they aim at, many of our more impressive technological discoveries all exist due to our advancing knowledge of harnessing this power. Many technomancers have even expanded into the weapons and armor trades, using their magic to make up for their lack of skill. While many blacksmiths sneer at their creations, it is difficult to tell the difference between a blade crafted by a master smith and a master Technomancer.
One of the limits of technomancy is that it is only able to augment things, not create them. One mad technomancer I spoke to has spent his entire life trying to animate a metal being, using magical energy to bring it to life or to give it some form of intelligence. All his efforts, and those of his master before him and his master before him and so on have failed. Technomancy is not able to bring non-living materials to life.
Artificer Logs
Log 232, 3495
Our first attempt at a working engine that harnesses the power of steam failed. Elan is dead. I told him that the engine was unstable, that we needed to go over the calculations at least once more before lighting the fire. I told him! Arrogance. That is all it was. He died because of his arrogance, and nearly took out the palace with him! The next model will be built outside the capital, far enough away from civilization so that it won't claim any more lives if it goes wrong again.
Log 756, 3728
We did it! A marvel of technology and magic. It was all in the way we infused the metal before casting it into the proper shapes. Such a simple mistake, I cannot believe we missed it all these years. Aemon was right… gods I still miss him. He was always the creative one. He would have so many ideas of how to use this to improve the lives of our people. His notes were left behind, sketches of concepts that we'll be able to work from. Some are ridiculous… a device that attaches to a beast allowing it to shoot magical energy? Preposterous.
Log 1207, 3861
The people are beginning to rely on the new technologies. Lights that don't fill your house with smoke or risk setting it on fire? It is a wonderful thing. Some of my colleagues have started work on a secret project, one they will not share with the rest of us. It was requested by the Queen herself, though, so it must be something useful. My team is working on something really special… a way to travel the skies without using one of the flying creatures on the island. Our first several attempts are lying in piles of wreckage in a field outside of town, but this next one is our best work yet. We try our first test flight tomorrow.
Log 1208, 3861
It worked! For the most part. We flew majestically for several minutes before crashing into the ocean. But sometimes accident can cause discovery, and we learned that our current design, while not really graceful in the air, it had interesting results when in the water. We'll need to make a lot of adjustments, but we believe we might actually be able to live underwater without drowning in the future! We are splitting the team into two pieces now, half of us will be working on perfecting the underwater technology and the rest will continue to attempt to achieve sustainable and controllable flight.
Log 1491, 3916
Our first true flight was today. The airship flew amazingly well, it responded well to directions, and we successfully landed in one piece (mostly, the pilot miscalculated the height of that one tree, but it's easy enough to repair the damage.) I can't imagine how this will change our world, a world of flying machines and magic. It is a glorious day.
Log 1603, 3985
One of the apprentices came up with an interesting concept. And then made the monumental error of keeping it to himself and making a prototype in secret. He attached a very powerful rifle to a stationary base and tried to use technomancy as a kind of guidance system for it. Which was a clever idea! Until he tried to use blood as the governing factor of whether the so-called "turret" would shoot someone or not. And then decided to test it, again without telling anyone. He tried to use technomancy on blood. A living thing. Stupidity does not even cover this. After spending several days cleaning up the lab after he was rather quickly shot to pieces, we took a good look at the invention. If we tweak the technomancy just a little, we can change it to use the implants as a guidance system instead, keying it to recognize certain implants or not. The turret itself isn't especially useful, as the Barrier keeps out any humans from other islands who might be hostile, but Queen Mika'ela asked for a few tweaks (make it non-lethal? what is the point...) and to keep the blueprints safe.
Log 1686, 3988
Today the Barrier fell. We don't know why or how. While we were panicking, trying to figure out how to defend our people if the other islands decided to start up the hostilities again, the team who has been working on the secret project for 25 years stepped forward. A suit of armor, stronger than anything I have ever seen, using magic and steam to create. We'll be able to protect our people if the other islands do decide to attack us. They are refusing to release the plans to anyone outside of their team. The suits will be crafted and sold to the people in the kingdom so that they can defend themselves, but no one will be able to make more outside of the Artificer Tower.
Lore Rules & Other Details
Character Creation
- All characters must be human.
- All characters must have a realistic name. Both first name only or first and last name are allowed.
- People come in various shapes and sizes, but must be reasonable in proportion.
- Deformities can exist but must not be immersion breaking: Do not make a giant with the shortest possible arms, or a dwarf whose hands drag on the ground, etc.
- If you are concerned your character you wish to make may not be within this limitation, send a screenshot of your character in a pm to a loremaster.
- No famous characters from reality. (IE you cannot play as Obama or Sherlock Holmes or Batman.)
- Characters do not grow older unless they choose to go to an obelisk specifically to age up. You cannot age up any character (played by a person) other than your own. You cannot age backwards.
- Characters may not be older than 1200 years old when created.
Character Backstory & Island Creation
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- No island has progressed beyond the technology found on Aeternia.
- No island has mastered use of magic beyond what is stated in the magic section.
- The only sentient species on the planet is human.
- Only creatures with official dossiers may exist in this world, unreleased dinos may be used in backstories but only sparingly!
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- Can only be used via physical contact, you must physically touch the person/creature in order for the magic to take effect.
- Do not use animal bond for metagaming info. The bond is vague and limited to emotion, no pictures or words.
- Healing only increases the rate of healing. No regrowing limbs or moving pieces back into place with magic.
- Cannot be used on yourself.
- Energy drain from healing depends on severity of the wound. Being healed from a critical wound (in game death) would leave the person being healed exhausted for days, explaining why they cannot immediately rejoin the fight. This cannot be countered by any means, no potions etc to remove this.
- Uses custom recipes only.
- Effects, side effects, and duration must be written OOC in the description of the item. (For example - //Effect: Let's you see in the dark, Duration: 20 minutes, Side effects: May cause blindness)
- Person ingesting potion may choose to not have one of the effects happen, but cannot make up side effects not listed for their character to experience.
- Counters to potions are allowed, but must be made to counter the potion that was given. No "cure-all" recipes.
- Only works on non-living materials.
- Used to explain how some of the more advanced technology such as radios and turret guidance systems work.
- No effects that are not avaliable via in-game mechanics. No swords that are on fire or armour that is invincible, etc.
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Well said. And I believe that it is technology that will be our undoing. It's the new opium of the masses.
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As the crescendo of noise began to bulge and push against the pinwheel ceiling of Madison Square Garden last night, Vince Carter was standing under the weight of it all, staring at his reflection in the final seconds.
It was Latrell Sprewell, right in front of him, right where he had been all night. For every flashbulb-drenched move Carter made, Sprewell countered with one of his own. So it was only natural that the game would come down to a one-on-one situation between two players with career backgrounds in drama.
Both understand one thing: it's how you exit a scene. With 14 seconds on the clock, it was Sprewell with the ball. As he waited for the clock to spin down to 9 seconds, Sprewell darted from the left sideline into the center of the paint, rose up over Carter and hit a fallaway 6-footer with 7.9 seconds on the clock to give the Knicks a 1-point lead, their first edge since the opening minutes of Game 2. And it was Sprewell's 13th point of the fourth quarter.
Now, it was Carter's turn. He grabbed an inbound pass, stared into the eyes of Sprewell at the top of the 3-point arc and leaped into the air. But as he took flight with Sprewell under his chin, and Chris Childs running toward him, he snapped the ball to an open Dee Brown on the left wing. With Patrick Ewing closing in on him like an afternoon shadow, Brown's 3-pointer to win the game banged off the rim as the time expired.
Continue reading the main storyIn an instant, the Knicks were using the court as their private dance floor after winning, 84-83. They also took a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series, with Game 3 scheduled for Sunday in Toronto, and left the Raptors drained for their second tight finish, and perhaps demoralized.
''It could be,'' said Sprewell, who scored 25 points -- including 11 straight in the fourth -- and left the Knicks one victory away from taking the three-of-five series. ''I hope that's the case because I am getting a little tired of chasing Vince around. He's tough, really tough.
''Just being there for your team and doing what you have to do makes you feel good. It's an amazing matchup to be apart of. To face Vince, it's a challenge. I hope everyone is enjoying it. When it comes down to plays like tonight, it's what basketball is supposed to be.''
It was riveting despite the numbing number of fouls called (60) and despite the complacent Knicks, who found themselves down by 14 points with 11 minutes left in the game. Once the fourth quarter got warm, the nervousness in the crowd was eased. Once Larry Johnson established himself as a low-post threat with 8 points to pull the Knicks back into the game during a 10-1 run, there was relief.
''I'd been in foul trouble, so I was just trying to get in there and help in whatever way I could,'' said Johnson who finished with 8 of his 11 points in the fourth quarter before fouling out. ''We were stagnate, so I wanted to do something.
''Latrell was huge, though. Here's a cat that sat out a whole year before coming to us and we got to the finals. He's a warrior. I'd love to see how he used to do against Michael Jordan. Because Latrell is fearless. I can't see Latrell backing down from anybody.''
As the curtain closed, Carter was on his back with a his hands over his eyes while Sprewell raised his arms in victory. His shot with 7.9 seconds left was the game-winner.
''He started hitting shots,'' said Carter, who finished with 27 points, including 7 in the fourth quarter. ''It's tough when a man is feeling that confident to stop him. When he's in a zone, he can hit from anywhere on the court. Once I got into foul trouble, it was hard for me to judge how to play him. I have to give him respect, he took a step back and hit that tough shot to ice the game.''
The Knicks finished the game shooting 40.3 percent; the Raptors shot 41.4 percent. Allan Houston, nonexistent all night, scored 12 points on a 2-for-8 night while Ewing added 19 points. The Knicks made 28 of 38 free throws and the Raptors hit 33 of 41.
For two days, Coach Jeff Van Gundy worried about his team's history of mishandling prosperity. Several players said he was visibly angry about the team's bleary focus during Tuesday's practice, and wondered out loud if his team could unearth the kind of hunger they had to start Game 1. Even as game time approached, even after a successful shoot-around yesterday morning, he was still concerned with the Knicks' energy.
''I think in Game 2's, and you look at what team's did yesterday, and it's interesting for a team that wins Game 1,'' said Van Gundy, referring to San Antonio and Charlotte's ability to come back and even their respective series. ''I think it's important that we go for the win tonight. A lot of times at 1-0, you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. What if Vince Carter has a better night. All these things. We just have to go for the win.''
Van Gundy's pregame anxieties were justified. A sharper, more prepared Raptors team took the floor with Muggsy Bogues inserted as the starting point guard to guide them. With him, there was calm. Carter was over his opening-night jitters. The Raptors opened up a 15-point lead midway through the second, an edge aided after six straight turnovers by the clumsy Knicks.
After starting the game shooting 15 percent, after looking as if they would be overwhelmed by Carter's constant attacks on the basket to get him to the free-throw line 16 times, the Knicks regrouped.
''Once Larry got us going, the crowd really started getting into it,'' Sprewell said. ''I stared to feed off the crowd, my adrenaline started to really pump, and I started to feel my game a little. It was a tight finish. It could have gone either way.''
It could have been another Carter moment. He passed; Sprewell did not.
The Knicks' comeback from a 16-point deficit marks their biggest playoff comeback since Game 4 of the 1973 Eastern Conference finals on April 22 at Madison Square Garden. They came back from a 17-point deficit to defeat Boston, 117-110, in double overtime.
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To Hollywood she is the living embodiment of class. To the rest of us she's an actress who could always radiate a unique brand of stroppy, hands- off, English sexuality. Now 54, Ms Bisset still breathes the same aloof and combative sultriness.
She stands in the doorway of the Dorchester suite. She has tremendous presence. Her eyes scorch you. They hit you like Stalag searchlights. Her clothes are appealingly contradictory. A Jean-Paul Gaultier black linen two-piece suggests a no-nonsense committee woman, but her grey waistcoat is buttoned over a tremendously surging cleavage. The authority-figure with the Grand Canyon poitrine - she has been wowing two generations of chaps with this oxymoronic image for three decades.
Her latest release is The Honest Courtesan, an enjoyable piece of tosh from first-timer Marshall Herskovitz. He created a Hollywoodised 16th- century Venice at Rome's Cinecitta to tell the story of a poor-but-headstrong beauty, Veronica (Catherine McCormack), who is instructed in the arts of pleasing men by her mother - a seen-it-all ex-courtesan played by Bisset with stained teeth and unsmiling worldliness. After becoming the sexy toast of La Serenissima, she is tried for witchcraft by the Spanish Inquisition.
It's not the most sympathetic role in the world, I observed, playing a mother who teaches her daughter to be a whore. "I didn't think it was unsympathetic," she said. "You have to think yourself into her position. She'd lived the courtesan life 20 years earlier. Now she's married and raised two children, and unforeseen need has made her tell her daughter, `You have to take care of us'. She can't get a job in the wine fields. Only courtesans were properly educated then. That's the point of the film, that women didn't have alternatives. It's the story of a woman who gets punished for being too charming, too magical, too sexual and too powerful."
In one risible scene, Bisset introduces her daughter to a naked man and shows her what you're supposed to do with one. "You must touch him here and here," she says to her mystified child, with the air of someone explaining how to hot-wire a Jag, while the unclothed homo erectus glares at them both with evident hatred.
Only someone as cool about sex as Bisset could have, er, pulled it off. "It was difficult to do," she concedes. "The poor guy was really quite embarrassed. But the thing in scenes like that is, basically, you don't look, you do it without looking. The etiquette of naked-man scenes is that you glaze over, so that you don't stare at the person."
The etiquette, eh? It's easy to forget that Ms Bisset has a curriculum vitae as long as both her arms; over 50 films beginning with Richard Lester's The Knack in 1965. Easy also to forget that she has worked with some of the best directors - Chabrol, Truffaut, George Cukor, John Huston - and ageing screen gods such as Paul Newman and Marlon Brando. (The latter once asked her to dance. She said no as her boyfriend was in the gents, and she knew how he'd feel if he emerged to see his date jiving with The Wild One).
The best directors, she says, are the ones who don't muck about with the script and who reassure you: "who make you feel that, if you make a terrible blunder, you won't have egg on your face - or if you do, it'll be quite fun. Who, like a grandfather, put their arms around you and make you feel safe."
She was especially impressed by Huston, "who was very much about shaving everything, getting cleaner and clearer, and more linear until you were left with the bare bones. In Under The Volcano, he was so lackadaisical. He'd let Albert [Finney] and Anthony [Andrews] and I just wander about, make no attempt to direct us, and say `What have you come up with, dears? Let me see what you've done and I'll put the camera in front of it'".
A bad director, by contrast, she says, is "someone who talks too much, who keeps going on and on, and who makes you confused, until all you're aware of is concentrating on concentrating".
I said the reason some directors babble at her was probably because they're mesmerised by her Lamia-like gaze. "Do you think so? I met a producer once, who said `Don't look at me. Your eyes are so frightening. You remind me of Jack Nicholson.' So I said, `Don't look at me then'. And we had to have a conversation with both our heads turned away."
She is currently busier than she's ever been. In the Seventies, her sexpot heyday, she averaged three movies a year. This year she has seven projects simmering away. One is Joan of Arc in which she plays the Orleans visionary's mama. "And I just realised when talking about it the other day, it's a similar theme to the Courtesan, though it's a century earlier - Joan is an independent spirit fighting against the society of her time, is accused of being a witch and punished..." You're in danger of becoming typecast, I said: The Witch's Mother. The idea didn't, for some reason, please her.
The night before we met, Charlotte Rampling was on television, impersonating Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. The fictional Miss H was slightly younger than Miss B. There's an honourable tradition of film beauties graduating to playing non-beautiful madwomen (Joan Crawford, Bette Davis). Was she going to join it? "I'm managing the transition to older-women parts quite smoothly, I think," she said sleekly. "I've just played a very ravaged woman in a new American movie called Backward Looks, Hard Corners. Very ravaged. But it's incredibly liberating - so much easier than having to look beautiful all the time." It's like, you know, really hard for her.
She's also to be seen in a remake of Hitchcock's 1951 Strangers on a Train, a French comedy, two small British dramas, and an Australian thriller, in which "I play a woman who's accused of witchcraft and kidnapping". Witchcraft follows Jacqueline around. She even met some white witches in Melbourne. "They told me, magic is just will. And the power of the will is strong, I think..."
There, I think, may be the key to her appeal: the strong-willed Ms Bisset's natural determination is translated, by the camera, into bewitchment, just as Jack Nicholson's will (and eyes) sold you Wolf and The Witches of Eastwick...
Why did she keep up this punishing strike-rate of movies? "Lots of reasons. It keeps me interested in life. It's an opportunity to talk to people I wouldn't otherwise meet. It's - it's life, you know? It's stuff. It's what I do best."
She has no intention of spending more time by the pool or tending her garden. "I'm not very sociable. I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific. My friends laugh at me, they call me The Inquisitor because I ask such a lot of questions. And in Hollywood, nobody asks any questions, after `How're you?'."
Emboldened by this news, I asked her about kit-removal. Amazingly, this gorgeous woman, this Berkshire Aphrodite, whose most famous screen image was the wet T-shirt shot in The Deep, has never appeared naked on celluloid. "But in 1987 I did a film called High Season, directed by Clare Peploe, in which I had to run naked into the sea with Kenneth Branagh. I was up for it, I took my rowing machine with me, got my bicycle sent from London, got to Rhodes and exercised till midnight every night, trying to get my bum up to the right place. I was extremely self-conscious. Kenneth was not. We cleared the beach. It was night. Finally, I threw all my clothes off and rushed into the water..."
Is it, I enquired neutrally, available on video? "She didn't use it! And after I worked so hard." And the bewitching Ms Bisset's searchlight eyes narrowed with laughter.
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Pension Santa Elena
The day before, with the help from Diego, one of the hotel staff members at Pension, we scheduled 2 tours. The first tour (which actually wasn't one needing to be scheduled, one simply shows up at the park) was supposed to be an unescorted hike in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve at 6:15AM, the other, a zip-lining tour at 11AM at the privately-owned Selvatura Park. Needless to say, we missed the hike due to last night's shin dig and instead took our time waking up then eventually having breakfast. Breakfast was at the little restaurant next to the church. Two ladies basically ran the kitchen there. Since no menus available were available for some odd reason, Rowena and I asked for a typical breakfast using incomprehensible Spanish and sign language. What eventually ended up in front of us was 2 tamales, a pineapple yogurt drink, and later, some taquitos buried under lettuce drenched with ketchup and mayonnaise. With the exception of the taquitos, everything was delicious.
11AM eventually rolls around and the Selvatura shuttle bus appears in the hostel lobby ready to shuttle us to the park. Selvatura Park is privately owned unlike the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve which is owned by the government, and offers adventure tours from zip-lining to canopy bridge walks to escorted hikes. It is also situated in the Monteverde area.
One of the first things we had to do in preparation for our zip-lining was to don on the provided harnesses and helmet. Standard equipment for this sort of thing I suppose. After completely suited up, we took some photos, and I immediately recognized myself to appear exactly like a Japanese construction worker. Lord, I looked silly! From here it was a short hike to the platforms. The tour consisted of 14 zip-lines with an estimated completion time of about 3 hours. I'll tell you right now that this was the epitome of our trip. Let me try and explain...
Zip-lining in general can be great fun. However, zip-lining in one of Costa Rica's premiere rain forests is nothing short of spiritual. And the way the lines were setup at Selvatura were perfect. Very high... in some cases, through the tree canopies... and some over great distances! The misty weather also played a key role in making the perfect day. But before I go on, let me introduce to you some of the people in the group that Rowena and I went with:
- Ike and Thomas, 2 of the nicest guys in the world. They were the lucky ones (or unlucky ones depending on your perspective) to go first;
- Christian and Sylvia, a sweet couple from Germany who we got to know a bit more later in our trip;
The rest of the group was nice as well but I just didn't have opportunities to talk with them as much. We were focused on the zip-lines afterall.
The second thing we did besides putting on the required equipment was to get a 10 minute training session on how to zipline. To put it in a nut shell, one is too take your dominant arm and place it on the cable behind your head. Position it as far back as you can comfortably to prevent you from spinning. Your second hand is to grab the tether from your waist to the cable. Cross your legs and hold your knees up high to center your body in the harness. To brake, one would simply press down on the strong arm resting on the cable. To stop immediately, two hands on the cable may be necessary. Besides that, hang on, say your prayers, and scream like a little baby!
Now about the actual zip-lining experience. Not to sound so "conventional" but it was as if I took some peyote, transformed into a macaw, and soared through the rainforest, just above the canopy. My beak being lightly pelted by the misty rain. Swooping at a good clip for a couple of minutes then slowly descending to the next branch. It was that and much more... the intangibles of the experience are inexplainable. Mother Nature gave us a gift that day and embraced us twice around. For 3 solid hours it was like this. If I was struck by lightning right after this, I would've died a happy man. Put this activity in this particular place high on your Bucket List folks. You won't regret it.
One of the more memorable ziplines was actually so high that it rose past one of the park's canopy hanging bridges. In fact, there were people on that bridge that looked like miniatures. They turned around as I was ziplining, taking pictures and waving. I waved back, momentarily removing my hand from the cable and almost started spinning. :) That was magical. One of the last lines was also fantastic, spanning over a huge valley. The distance for that particular line was so long and so high, that we had to double up on it. That is, two people had to go at one time to provide enough weight to counteract the winds. Regardless, when Rowena and I went (with a combined anorexic weight of 250lbs), the cable started to sway mid-way through our run. It was a bit scary but FUN!
Wait there's more... the cherry on top of the sundae was a "Tarzan swing". It was basically a nylon rope that you clipped to your harness tied to a tall tree. One would jump from the platform and swing until you were slowly decelerated to a stop. Without any hesitation, Rowena and I went for it. For my turn, the instructors on the platform yells out "wait, wait!" seconds after he directed me to jump! LOL... sick bastard. That litte dirty joke added to my horror as I felt my stomach turn inside out, escaping my body through my esophagus. Okay, I'm being a bit dramatic, but it was crazy scary for a few seconds.
After the zipline tour, we headed back to the hostel at about 3PM. Had a great dinner at Super Pollo El Pueblo (a place we were shying away from for some reason), across the street from the hostel and called it a night. We were supposed to share war stories with Greg that evening, and actually spotted him at the hostel lobby. But he looked like he was deep in conversation with someone and didn't want to bother him. He did tell us that he had a 6-pack ready to go the next day. Darn.


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AT&T Mobility released their first Android powered smartphone on March 7th! At first glance, I immediately disliked the phone because of its odd appearance. Once my store received a working model, my impression of the phone quickly changed. Now I must say, it's not meant to be a phone for a "smartphone power user," but it's a nice entry level smartphone for those who wish to move up from high-end feature phones. That being said, it comes preloaded with Android OS 1.5 (I know it's getting pretty old now) along with Motorolas iconic MOTOBLUR. Contrary to previous reviews of the phone being horribly sluggish, I found the experience quite enjoyable. MOTOBLUR gives a nice touch to Android and also adds to the customization experience that stock Android already offers. The only downside is that AT&T tampered with the app layout and added some of their own software (which are basically useless and takes up precious memory). They also substituted Yahoo seach for Google search, and as of now it can't be switched back. They crippled the phone from being able to download 3rd party apps too, which is a major downside being that this was a feature of the Android OS. The 5 MP camera was sharp and produced nice, vibrant colors. Autofocus and the LED flash operate just as described. The keyboard feels nice and rugged, causing no doubt in the durability of it.
Phones I've Owned On My Own Account: Sidekick 3, LG VX10000, BlackBerry 8130, BlackBerry 8330, Samsung SPH-a640, HTC XV6800, Apple iPhone 3G 8GB, Unlocked BlackBerry Storm 9530, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a, Samsung Impression, Motorola Backflip, Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB, Samsung Captivate, Apple iPhone 4 16GB Phones I've Owned Prior To Starting My Own Account: Nokia (CellularOne), Motorola T720, Samsung SCH-a670, LG VX8100, LG VX9800, Motorola Q, LG VX8550 |
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I would be concerned with the removal of Google search (Google is cleaner) and the addition of their own software. This phone will do well with the teenager crowd.
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38 comments:
- Windy Wilson said...
Wow. For years I've been coming here to watch the video of the guy in the red jacket shoot a clip from his Garand, and come to find out there's a whole blog attached!
(Yeah, sometimes the obvious eludes me).
I wonder what my SIL the Flaming Leftist who also happens to be a doctor thinks about this and what will happen. I wonder if she will be like my mother, complaining about how government doesn't live within its means but every election votes to ensure that it blows out money like Old Faithfull. - 9:36 PM
- Patriotic American said...
Here are my OBAMACARE Posters:
http://eboncourt.com/political/spleenout.jpg - 1:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
Can you use this image?
RedPundit - 3:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
As ridiculous an anti-health care reform "campaign" as I've seen. Of course, with the likes of Michelle/Jesse Malkin trumpeting its virtues, you knew it had to be jaw-droppingly stupid.
Nobody does "stupid" better than a band of fringe right-wingers! - 3:08 PM
- PatrioticAmerican said...
LOL Typical response by a typical "anonymous" liberal fringe kook.
Why so grumpy? Didn't get a reacharound the last time? - 3:17 PM
- ScottG said...
PA, it's prolly Loves Gobblin' Manmeat. I insulted he/she/it on Michelle's thread....
- ScottG said...
RedPundit, send it to Michelle....
Funny, and true! - 4:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wow, ScottG: you are both incredibly stupid AND a homophobe.
Congrats. You're officially a conservative! - 4:59 PM
- ScottG said...
Neither LGM, you are the one on the side of evil.
Too bad, try again. - 5:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
A Michelle/Jesse Malkin disciple is never at a loss for knuckle-dragging inanity.
- ScottG said...
Sorry weaksauce. You failed again to defeat truth.
- Anonymous said...
"Defeat truth?"
Who the fuck are you, Captain America?
Mind-numbingly stupid site and a policy position to match.
(BTW: Has Jesse physically assaulted anybody lately? Michelle had her picture taken with any more Nazis?)
You are just a tool and yet another faux Limbaugh acolyte. - 6:24 PM
- Roy Rogers said...
Here's the future of health care in America..
Another fine mess brought to you by ignorant, kool aid drinking, useful idiots. - 6:41 PM
- Patriotic American said...
Anonymous is one ANGRY little troll.
Apparently, one addicted to Ah, Shoot! - 6:44 PM
- ScottG said...
Nice one Roy! Send it to Michelle.
PA, I'm thinking that the troll is LGM from Michelle's site. Not sure, but I expect so as he/she/it hasn't denied it.
Note to LGM: Why are you still here then? Because the truth has been spoken against your false messiah and you think it's your duty to try to avenge him and silence those who oppose his weakening of America. I'm not Cap, I'm also not a Rush dittohead. I've just exposed your master for what he is. You can't stand it because you consider yourself educated and think you're better than everyone who doesn't hold your opinion. You walk in moral darkness.
You just think that you'll hold the whip hand if America falls. Sorry, you may have had a temporary victory, but your side lost on the first Easter. There's nothing you can do about it.
- Anonymous said...
Well, asshole, I don't know/care who "LGM" is, but I came here to see your craven stupidity with my own eyes.
As I noted, anybody who is a disciple of Michelle/Jesse Malkin is an automatic EPIC FAIL (to use your tired cliché.)
Why not make Michelle/Jesse a Photoshopped swastika; after all, that's her crowd.
http://www.progressnowcolorado.org/page/community/post/al/CQ9j - 7:21 PM
- PatrioticAmerican said...
Anonymous, I'm guessing you're female, mid-twenties, from the Bay Area, some college, but dropped out, still a member of a feminist witches' coven, and you haven't shaved your pits in a month.
You wear olive drab pants to make yourself feel militant, and the tank tops you pair them with are intended to show off your toned, though tattoo-ridden arms.
As you have no real connection to anyone in life, you troll online site in which to speak truth to power.
That's just sad.
As Scott said, "EPIC ETERNAL FAIL." - 7:43 PM
- KeyboardExpress said...
I was inspired by your poster, and thus have designed a "Health Care Ration Book" in PDF which you'll find at Smart Girl Politics: http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/forum/topics/health-care-ration-book
Also created a poster about "Sharing the Wealth" modeled on a wartime poster. Same url.
Thanks for the inspiration. - 7:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
And PatrioticAmerican, I'm guessing you live in a basement, play with yourself and drool a lot, haven't had an intinate relationship with another human being since your first time and are scared of your own shadow.
- Patriotic American said...
Sounds like I have Anonymous pegged.
Though she didn't come close to pegging me. - 8:39 PM
- ScottG said...
Ok Anonymous. So maybe you're not LGM. Apologies... to LGM.
Funny how you resort to vitriol when you can't win on truth. Except for one or two little digs, no one has called you names. You've "progressed" to that because you don't have the truth on your side.
The truth is, "progressivism" murdered over 100 million people in the last century. "Progressive" is a euphemism for totalitarian. Nothing the progressives offer enhances personal freedom, just power for the favored few in the state. No matter whether the "progressive" was Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Chavez, Mugabe, the Duvaliers, or many other tin pot dictators and presidents for life, progressive means death for those under it's satanic rule.
You may go or stay. I don't ban anyone except for foul, abusive language or criminal behavior, however, championing moral depravity will not make you friends here. - 8:45 PM
- ScottG said...
Ah! KeyboardExpress, your site is down. I'll look later.
- KeyboardExpress said...
Yes, Smart Girl Politics has been up and down throughout the day, but I'm sure they'll get their maintenance finished soon.
Meanwhile, speaking of abusive behavior on this blog, here's a related article on American Thinker:
Republicans and Battered Spouses
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/republicans_and_battered_spous.html - 9:01 PM
- Takeshi said...
Health care "reform". Funny. To be like in Europe where it's top heavy, horribly expensive and raking in deficit after deficit?
I've seen veterinary clinics in Germany that are better staffed and equipped than public hospitals in the UK. Austria's health care system is bankrupt and the public hospitals are hardly state of the art. The Scandinavians are bleeding their working citiziens dry to fund their social madness.
And why are all the Canadians coming to the US for treatment when the nationalized health care is so great?
The comments by the left-wing nazis on this blog (of course all anonymous) say it all. Worship the state, worship Obama, destroy all civil liberties. Socialists... scum of the earth. - 1:20 AM
- ArmedDrunkAngry said...
I live in an attic, play BY myself often and yet have several intimate relationships. ( some with people wearing OD green and sporting body art )
I am not a Christian or a Republican and yet I find Obama and the drones that blindly follow him to be profoundly frightening.
I don't listen to talk radio or go to any church, so who brainwashed me into thinking for myself ?
The vitriol that is shown by Obama's minions is just a prequel for the violence that would erupt if they were to gain complete power.
I think there are several examples available in history but then people like that don't read history books because facts might get in the way of audacious change. - 3:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'm an RN and I believe our nation's healthcare could be easily fixed via no cost to taxpayers by
1. Getting illegal immigrants out of the healthcare system (i.e., free emergency room care)
2. Reform in our legal system to
a. place a cap on malpractice suits
b. place substantial fines on lawyers who bring absurd lawsuits to court knowing hospitals will settle (cheaper than paying legal teams and court costs)
c. mandate a maximum percentage attorneys are allowed to receive of a settlement
Computerized records as a means to lower national healthcare costs is a myth.
At a hospital you're trained to treat every patient like they are a pending lawsuit. If there is a less than 1% chance that a test could discover something, it is run regardless of cost. Hours of extra charting is done because, "not charted = not done" in a court of law.
Why haven't these simple and practical changes been made in years past? Oh yeah, most of our lawmakers in D.C. are also lawyers.
Obamacare will only make a bad situation much, much worse.
No "HOPE" in socialism... - 7:09 AM
- ScottG said...
Thanks for the perspective from the trenches!
- Stoutcat said...
Here's my own humble poster effort.
- Simon said...
I'm glad the anonymous "RN" isn't MY nurse.
- Anonymous said...
Another One...
Pocono Joe - 11:44 AM
- ScottG said...
Good one Joe!
- Anonymous said...
Please upload your posters to cafepress.com
I would love to have this on a t-shirt! - 12:17 PM
- Rae said...
Finally, the beginning of a legitimate chance on health care reform:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/06/the_senate_help_committee_rele.html - 6:29 PM
- mandible claw said...
Anonymous said...
As I noted, anybody who is a disciple of Michelle/Jesse Malkin is an automatic EPIC FAIL (to use your tired cliché.)
Why not make Michelle/Jesse a Photoshopped swastika; after all, that's her crowd.
LMAO you stupid moron... I followed your link, and the swastika in question is drawn within the "O" in Obama on the guy's sign, quite clearly and unequivocally demonstrating that the "Swastika guy" is comparing Obama to the third reich. Anyone who could take that to mean that Michelle Malkin is a nazi (she is, as you may have noticed, decidedly not Aryan) is either reaching, or completely stoned (or both.)
Further trashing your silly meme - you will note, in the same picture series, that several other protestors have the exact same sign except they've placed the soviet hammer and sickle inside the "O" in Obama.
Are you going to try and claim that conservatives are secretly all communists as well as nazis?
Hahahahahahahahahaha how embarrassing for you. - 8:16 PM
- Stoutcat said...
Here's another poster for you.
- Rosie said...
MandibleClaw, you don't sound very advanced.
Using the Obama logo in conjunction with the swastika is OK with you? Nazi symbolism is OK with you?
How can one person be a socialist, a communist and a Nazi, genius? Those have all been hurled at Obama.
Malkin is a dunce and a dupe and poses with people who are sympathetic to Nazi symbolism. She is pro-internment and dumber than dirt.
You sound kinda dumb, Mandible. Actually, you sound kinda angry, too. - 10:50 AM
- ScottG said...
Simple Rosie,
All those ideologies are leftist!!!!!
Socialist = Marxism/Leninism = Nazism which is National Socialism.
Maybe you'd better read up on them.... - 12:29 PM
- PatrioticAmerican said...
Rosie doesn't hold a candle to Michelle M's incandescant intelligence.


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I'll tell you more soon, but here is where I'll be sun tanning this summer:
On pins and needles.
There is a great series of pictures and articles on Coté Ouest Magazine that really makes me want to go to the beautiful French Île de Ré.
This has been an adrenaline-filled week. Things are good, though. Things are shaping up. Anyone here beside me needs a break from thinking, rehashing and basically driving myself nut with inconsequential things that won't even matter an hour from now?
I had no idea:
Here are images that have been collecting. Sorry I don't always have the proper credit for them.
Remember the superbowl debacle? Remember the outrage, the ridiculous censorship? Breasts are that scary in the US. But in France, things are different.
As some of you may have noticed because of lackluster posts and my failure to visit your blogs, my mind is elsewhere. See, lately, my house is not in order.
That made me laugh. Happy Sunday :-)
Here is someone who caught my attention, when she did this:
It's always a party when Rice has a new collection. Irresistible as always, Rice Denmark keeps delighting me year after year. I like the cute music too. Now you can look at two separate rice catalogs. (images borrowed from there. I could not choose, I want to eat them all.)
Is where i'd like to be today. Images by Debbie Treloar.
But I like it:
Cisma's "Le Sens Propre" from glossy inc on Vimeo. (via Swiss Miss) I would turn off the sound and use your own soundtrack. The soundtrack kind of ruins it for me.
Here is where I post unrelated pretty images and talk about my mother's day week-end.
Wow, that was a LOT of birthday wishes, guys! Thank you, it helped the medicine go down, it sure did.
No post tomorrow because I will be busy being 44 years old. How did I let it get this way? What happened?
Today i indulged in the virtual tour of the idea cottage in Scarborough Maine. This was way too much fun. I might be the last person in the blog world but I just found out that Coastal Living online lets you tour some houses room by room, go up and down, zoom (apple+ shift on my mac). I don't know how they do this but you can even look up at the ceiling. To tell you the truth it's a bit dizzying, my idea of a roller coaster ride.
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Date: 2009-12-07 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: thehefner
Nah, that ain't Hex's style anyway. He was just delivering the body back to its mother after avenging its death. The first couple pages are from the start of the issue, while the last were from the very end.
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Date: 2009-12-07 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: blake_reitz
That panel with the outhouse is such a Frank Castle moment. The kind where you may be on a murderous rampage, but you've got to appreciate the little things
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Date: 2009-12-07 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: darkblade
Come on. Even while on a murderous rampage you do no get very many chances to point artillary against someone taking a dump.
You'd have to be a monster not to enjoy that.
You'd have to be a monster not to enjoy that.
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Date: 2009-12-07 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: silicone_soul
The scarred woman is an interesting visual. Not something you often see in comics, come to think of it.
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Date: 2009-12-07 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: midnightvoyager
Appropriate icon is appropriate! Alas that my Nordom icon did not make the cut when I went to Dreamwidth.
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Date: 2009-12-08 06:46 am (UTC)
From: silicone_soul
Yeah, I miss some of my IJ icons too - at least the s_d account generator allowed for a few more than is standard for a free dreamwith account.
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Date: 2009-12-07 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: jcbaggee
Why does Darwyn Cooke not have an ongoing "Lost Tales of the Silver Age" series yet? Seriously.
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Date: 2009-12-08 01:10 am (UTC)
From: thehefner
He drew an earlier issue too (collected in the trade paperback JONAH HEX: BULLETS DON'T LIE, along with another story drawn by JH Williams III), and is talking about doing a new one. This series is totally boss.
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Date: 2009-12-08 12:26 am (UTC)
From: hatman
I wonder how babies in the DCU get nourishment. The second panel underneath "The Hunter Unleashed" provides yet more proof that women don't have nipples.