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If you want to know some of the top Super Bowl contenders for this season, all you need to do is take a look at the point spreads for Sunday's Week 12 games. Five teams that are among the favorites to win the big game are listed as 10-point home chalk or higher, including the New England Patriots (8-2) and Philadelphia Eagles (9-1).
Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com
The Patriots are the biggest favorites on the betting board at -17 against the Miami Dolphins (4-6), who do not know if quarterback Jay Cutler will be able to play due to a concussion. Cutler left after throwing three interceptions in the first half of last week's 30-20 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he was replaced by Matt Moore.
The line has not moved yet, but sportsbooks will likely need Miami to cover the big number like the team did in a 20-17 road win over the Atlanta Falcons as 14-point dogs in Week 6.
The Eagles are hosting the Chicago Bears (3-7) early Sunday as well while the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Green Bay Packers (5-5) in the prime-time matchup that night, with both Pennsylvania teams currently sitting as 14-point favorites. It will be interesting to see if that key number comes into play in terms of early betting, as each of the NFC North underdogs might see a little wagering in their direction prior to kickoff.
The Falcons (6-4) have not fared particularly well as double-digit chalk recently (see above), and they will be battling the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-6) as 10-point favorites in an NFC South matchup on Sunday. Atlanta has dropped two of three straight up under that scenario, going 3-6-1 ATS in its past 10 when closing at -10 or higher.
The Falcons will be playing on a short week after topping the Seattle Seahawks 34-31 on Monday Night Football while the Buccaneers won at Miami behind quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. It would not be surprising to see money come in on Tampa due to Atlanta's struggles as a big favorite along with the fact that the Bucs have won three of the past four meetings.
The Kansas City Chiefs (6-4) are the fifth double-digit home favorites right now versus the Buffalo Bills (5-5), and they will try to rebound Sunday after losing SU as double-digit road chalk to the New York Giants last week. Like the Falcons, the Chiefs may see the public back their opponent and drive this number into single digits on game day.


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How to use User Device Affinity
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Prerequisites for User Device Affinity
The following prerequisites are required for this module:
· DHCP is configured and running
· WDS is installed
· Configuration Manager 2012 is configured for PXE
· Windows 7 installation image is available
How to configure Distribution Point role for User Device Affinity
Use the following procedure to configure the Distribution Point role to support User Device Affinity (UDA). By default the UDA setting will be set to 'Do not allow UDA'.
The following options can be chosen on the PXE tab of the Distribution Point:
· Allow UDA with Auto-Approval- the UDA will be processed during provisioning and automatically approved
· Allow UDA pending Administrator approval- the UDA will be processed during provisioning and await administrator approval
· Do not allow UDA: does not allow UDA to be set during the task sequence
In this exercise we will use the Allow UDA with auto-approval value.
To configure the User Device Affinity on the Distribution point
1. In the Configuration Manager console, click Administration.
2. In the Administration workspace, expand Site Operations and then click Servers and Site System Roles.
3. In the Servers and Site System Roles node, select the Distribution Point on which you want to enable UDA.
4. In the Site System Roles node, select Distribution Point, and then right-click and select Role Properties.
5. In the Distribution Point properties screen, select the PXE tab.
6. On the PXE tab, change the value of the Primary User assignment to Allow UDA with auto-approval
7. Click on OK to apply the changes.
To approve the User Device Affinity request when the UDA setting is set to 'Allow UDA pending Administrator Approval
1. In the Configuration Manager console, click Assets and Compliance.
2. In the Assets and Compliance node click on Device Collections.
3. In the Device Collections node right-click the All Systems collection and click Manage Affinity Requests
4. Click on the User Name and machine combination and select Approve or Reject.
5. Click Close when ready.
Create a simple pre-execution task to query the user for the Primary User of the current machine
In some scenarios it can be useful that the user can reinstall his machine and specify the Primary User of the machine so applications can be pre-deployed to the machine
To modify the boot image to include the pre-execution query
1. In the Configuration Manager console, click Software Library.
2. In the Software Library workspace, expand Operating Systems and then click Boot Images.
3. In the Boot Images node, select the correct Boot Image on which you want to enable the pre-execution hook.
4. On the Boot Image Properties, select the Customization page.
5. Check the box for Enable prestart command hook and type in the following commandline:
a. Wscript.exe UDA.vbs
Content of UDA.vbs:
'Start of Script
UDAUser = Inputbox("Specify your username in DOMAIN\USERNAME FORMAT")
SMSTSAssignUserMode = Auto
set env = CreateObject("Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment")
env("SMSTSUdaUsers") = UDAUser
env("SMSTSAssignUsersMode") = SMSTSAssignUserMode
'End of Script
6. Check the box for Include files for the prestart command hook and browse to the following location:
a. \\server\packagesource\pre-hook
7. Click on OK to apply the changes
8. Click on Yes to update the package to all Distribution Points.
9. In the Manage Distribution Point Wizard click next to start updating the boot image.
10. After the image has been update, click on Close to close the wizard.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scstr/
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An Australian marine photographer captured a rare sighting of a fish propelling itself forward from inside a transparent jellyfish.I came across this fish (presumably a juvenile trevally) while snorkeling along Double Reef on Guam in 2013. The fish swam in and out of the crown of the jellyfish multiple times over the course of several minutes.
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The fish was able to steer the jellyfish as it swam inside, often turning away from me as I followed. It has been postulated that the fish is using the jellyfish as a shield to protect itself as it swims in open waters.
image/video credit: Brent Collins
Jellyfish experts were unable to identify the jellyfish with certainty, but a likely candidate is a box jellyfish. Box jellyfish use venom to prey on fish.
"They evolve to kill prey instantly," Luciano Chiaverano, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi, told CBC. "This might be a case where the prey is too big to kill it right away, so the fish might have some time to swim around inside."
The fish does appear to be in the jellyfish's stomach. However, box jellyfish would normally eat prey a third or quarter the size of their bell, making this fish an unusually large target for a box jellyfish.


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ISLAMABAD: A major reshuffle is on the cards in the federal cabinet and bureaucracy, sources privy to the development said on Monday.
"Major changes are expected in the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Board of Revenue," the sources said. "A reshuffle is expected in the Ministry of Finance after talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conclude," they further said. "The head of FBR may be changed," the sources added.
A reshuffle is also expected in the Ministry of Petroleum. Sources said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is also expected to appoint a minister of interior. "It is further expected that the Punjab chief secretary might be changed as well," the sources continued.
However, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry denied reports regarding a major reshuffle in the federal cabinet and bureaucracy.
The information minister tweeted, "There is no truth in reports regarding changes in posts of federal ministers. The prime minister has the power to change ministers and the media should play a responsible role on this subject."
"Pakistan is going through an important phase and such speculations create confusion which is not beneficial for the country," he added.
Speaking to the media, Chaudhry said, "No minister is being replaced. Prime Minister Imran Khan has sent a message that reports about changes in the ministries were incorrect."
"The reports on performance of ministers have been forwarded to the PM House," he stated and added that "ministers are on their posts because the prime minister is satisfied with them."
"The finance minister is returning after holding discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Asad Umar will brief on talks with IMF once he returns," he added. "In the next two days, big news is expected pertaining to the economy."
Chaudhry further said, "Pakistan is headed towards being a solid economy. Solid development is also emerging on the FATF matter."
The PM House spokesperson also denied the reports and said, "It is the prime minister's privilege to change any minister, however, at this time there is no truth in reports regarding replacing one or two ministers."
"The premier keep inquiring about the performance of ministers during federal cabinet meetings," he added.
Sources in the Prime Minister Office said that reports have been received on the performance of ministers and will be presented during a federal cabinet meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
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Terrorists do not kill and die only for a reason.
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during this rigorous and not easy paintings that mixes the penetrating perception of The Looming Tower and the ancient sweep and scope of Guns, Germs, and Steel, well known social scientist Scott Atran lines terrorism's root reasons in human evolution and background, referring to the character of religion, the origins of society, the boundaries of cause, and the ability of ethical values.
Atran interviews and investigates Al Qaeda affiliates and acolytes, together with Jemaah Islamiyah, Lashkar-e-Tayibah, and the Madrid educate bombers, in addition to different non-Qaeda teams, reminiscent of Hamas and the Taliban, and their sponsoring groups, from the jungles of Southeast Asia and the political wastelands of the center East to manhattan, London, and Madrid. His conclusions are startling, vital, and likely to be debatable.
Terrorists, he reminds us, are social beings, inspired via social connections and values prevalent to us all, as contributors of college golf equipment, activities groups, or neighborhood businesses. while notions of the fatherland, a relatives of buddies, and a band of brothers are mixed with the keenness of trust, striking things—both strong and bad—are attainable: the passage of civil rights laws, the U.S. Olympic hockey team's victory in 1980, the destruction of 9-11 and the assaults at the London Underground in July 2005.
Atran corrects misconceptions approximately suicide bombers and radical Islam, explaining how our tolerance for religion allows extremists to flourish, and exhibits why atheism and technology schooling have little impact. Going past research, he deals useful ideas which could support us determine terrorists this present day, hinder the production of destiny terrorists, and eventually make the area a more secure position for everybody.
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Punjab School Education Board, Mohali conducts class 12th exams every year. Thousands of students take part in it. This year also this exam will be conducted in the month of March 2019. PSEB 12th Admit Card 2019 will be released before the exams. The board will provide it to the candidates before their exams. Here you will get all details related to it. We will keep providing you all important news about this exam so that you won't have to miss anything. You are suggested to keep it safe. We are informing you that it will be released in the early weeks of the month Feb. You will be informed about it as soon as it will be released. You just have to stay in touch with us here on this portal and you will not miss anything important about it.
Punjab Board 12th Roll Number Slip will be available to the students before their exams. They will get it few weeks before their exams. No notification from the officials has been released regarding its declaration date. Till then we can only estimate it. We have to wait for any official confirmation. If any advancement is made, we will inform you as soon as possible. PSEB 12th Roll Number 2019 will be out in next few months. Then candidates will get to know about their Exam Centre and official date. You will be notified about it as soon as it will be released. We will let you know about it here before everyone else.
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Here we will tell the students that from where and when they can download their Punjab Board 12th Admit Card. The students have to wait for few more months as this exam is scheduled to be held in March 2019. So you have to wait for long. Also, there is no official notification available for its declaration date. We can make a guess about it easily as this exam is held every year. We are guessing that it will be released in the 2nd week of February. Punjab Board 12th Admit Card 2019 will be uploaded on the official website. We will share the link with you're here on this portal so that you can download it. We will also provide you the link to the official website in the below section. The admit card has been released. It has been provided to candidates. The board officials have uploaded it on their web portal. The link to download it from here is available in the below section. So you don't have to worry about it.
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Punjab Senior Secondary Hall Ticket 2019
The exam for the Senior Secondary class will be conducted in the upcoming month of March. The Punjab Senior Secondary Hall Ticket 2019 will be issued to the candidates in the month of Feb 2019. We will share the official confirmation regarding it here on this page. You can go to the official web portal to download your PSEB Senior Secondary Hall Ticket.
Punjab Board 12th Roll Number Slip
All of you must want to know where you can collect your Punjab Board 12th Roll Number Slip. We are telling that you are at right place. Here you will get full information about it. The board will dispatch it to all the recognized Schools. You have to pay a visit to your School to collect it. They will also release it on the official website. You can get it from here also. You just have to go through the entire article and all your doubts will be cleared.
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Punjab 12th Admit Card 2019
Punjab 12th Admit Card will soon be available to students. It will be released in the next few days itself. The exam date is now officially announced. Soon the board will generate the hall tickets. They will upload it to the official website. It will also be dispatched to all recognized schools. We will notify you about it as soon as it will be released. Till then, you guys can continue your preparation. We will let you know about Punjab Board 12th Admit Card as soon as it will be released.
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- Visit the official Website.
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- Here you will get your Roll Number.
- Download it.
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Official Website of PSEB
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The Old is Now New: Helpful Tips To Make When Moving To an Old Property
An old property should not be considers an throw away property. Regardless of the time it has stood on, an old house is nevertheless fitting for your living condition. Because, the truth is you can still benefit from an old property. You only have to follow a series of steps and rehabilitation all over the house. Nothing is impossible if you work out your many resources.
But, although there are many things that will help you fixed your old home, still it is tiring and exhausting so brace yourself. Here are the things that you might want to do for a better result:
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When you have done identifying every problem in your house, the next thing to take is the solution. This part is the most crucial part. You need to be very attentive with every solution that is needed. In this part, you still need to ask for professional help for the application of solution. In an instance, if you find out that you have to change your roofing, you have to contact a professional roofing contractor with it. A roofing contractor is indeed what you need for your problem. All in all, it says that what you need to do is find the the perfect solution through a professional help.
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Uthex Kathiasas
Uthex Kathiasas (? - 6521 Second Era) was a highly regarded Loremaster during the Wars of Dominion in the ICE Age history. As a Loremaster of Karilon, he was most likely High Elven. Uthex was one of the greatest researchers of his time, focused on finding ways of fighting the Dark Gods and the most powerful forces of Unlife. Seduced by The Dark Path, Uthex fell to ever darker magics, eventually working with forging extra-planar entities. These were all named in Iruaric, but were also known by other names, implying their origin in Lord of Essaence experiments. While this concept is esoteric, it still exists in modern demonology, as verlok demons are speculated to have begun the same way. There have been modern storylines with humanoids being transformed into extra-planar entities.
Uthex was killed by his fellows in 6521 Second Era, the same year the kingdom immediately to the south was crushed by the Ordainer Kharuugh, serving the dark conqueror Lorgalis who was a former servant of Kadaena. While these events never happened in modern Elanthian history, much of The Broken Lands would be considered non-canonical in Shadow World. A monastery of Cay (Kai) was founded to guard the portal, so servants of the Unlife would not be able to return. Eventually, these monks were corrupted by the evil texts, transforming themselves into liches. The hooded figures regained control of the gateway, and a Sheruvian Monastery was constructed a few years later. The Sheruvians are exploiting the transplanar nature of the Broken Lands with a hidden teleportation network of monoliths.
His work was focused on giving "physical form" to a "new source of power", which amounts to making conscious entities out of pure energy. These were implicitly extra-planar beings who he apparently morphed into unnatural hybrids with each other. They were all trans-planar in some sense in their origins, coexisting or traveling between multiple realities, which is one of several hints that "the broken land" itself is a convergence of worlds. He had acquired access to a power draining dome in The Broken Lands that was left over from the rule of the Empress Kadaena, with ruins implying her role in the origins of the Dark Gods. This was presumably discovered by Bandur Etrevion as a result of his nightmare visions, or possibly from studying the journals of Selias Jodame when he lived at Nomikos.
His surviving works were variants of "other standard" extra-planar entities from Rolemaster, which were not demonic or necessarily malevolent but typically violent from being so alien. These were given Iruaric names based on their characteristics, with Uthex making copies or perhaps modifying existing templates. However, the implication is that these beings had their origins in Lord of Essaence experiments, providing an easy path for perverting his work toward the demonic. The vruul were awakened by the dark priests using necromancy, and the confiscated texts must have included the Ritual of Black Eternity.
Crystal Dome
The mechanism for the fashioning and telepathic control of synthetic life is the crystal dome on the jagged plain. It is implicitly a Lord of Essaence artifact left over from the First Era of the Shadow World history. In the Lovecraftian subtext it is likely based on two "almost spheres", the Shining Trapezohedron and the "Ultimate Gate" of the Last Void. The former is "a window on all time and space" while the latter allows the transformation of beings into profoundly different physical incarnations. It is reflecting the fact that Kadaena was the mother of many dark races as a consequence of her many tortured experiments, including the miscegnation of otherworldly beings, as well as the artificial manipulation of life-forms by her brethren. This was the ultimate origin of most of the races on Kulthea.
The implication is that the dome is able to summon extra-planar entities from other realities, possibly as a template or act of recycling, using the power it absorbs to incarnate their physical being from pure energy. It would allow control over beings that ordinarily could not be summoned. The extension of this idea is that the souls of the hooded figures can be endlessly reincarnated, without the aid of Eissa (Lorminstra), even transmogrified into otherworldly or demonic manifestations. Similarly, the Dark Gods were speculated by some Loremasters of having originated in "failed" Lord of Essaence experiments with fashioning non-corporeal life-forms, where such an artifact could potentially form avatars of godlike power. In the most extreme case this could mean divine ascension for a "spirit born of death."
(1) Mechanism
The crystyl forest surrounding the crystal dome is a special kind of trans-planar entity that would provide the means of simultaneously viewing and drawing upon an almost limitless amount of such information. Similarly, the boiling mud sea is a vast colony of the hoard, which are mutually self-aware across all realities. The master orb in the Sheruvian monastery happens to force visions into the minds of those present, allowing transportation to vastly distant places on our plane of existence, and representing potential futures of our world or perhaps other more horrific temporal continuities.
[The Broken Lands, Jagged Plain] A large crystal dome rises above the jumble of huge boulders and jagged rocks, breaking the monotony of the terrain. There is no question in your mind that the dome is man-made and not a natural feature of the area. A dense fog swirls around the base of the dome, and generally obscures your vision. Obvious paths: north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest The crystal dome pulses with a dim, multicolored light. R>look dome The crystal dome is about 12 feet tall, and some 15 to 20 feet across. The multi-faceted surface is highly polished, and the reflective planes make it impossible to see into the crystal. R>prep [most spells] >cast dome You gesture at a large crystal dome. The energies of your spell seem to get sucked into the dome in a great rush. A bright flash lights up the area and as your eyes adjust you notice that the dome absorbs all the energy without a sound. R>prep 416 You gesture and invoke the powers of the elements for the Piercing Gaze spell... Your spell is ready. >cast dome You gesture at a large crystal dome. The surface of the crystal dome shimmers in your vision, its reflective planes become insubstantial, and you can now see inside. Peering closer you see flashes of swirling elemental energy. Surely this dome must hold an immense amount of mana.
The dome is a concentrator of great deals of magical power, which would otherwise spill out in violent bursts. Teleportation spells and devices fail in its vicinity, and it suppresses the ability to "reach out with your senses" in communicating telepathically. This is relevant because a number of his entities were actually mentalist in nature, and were named in the partially telepathic language Iruaric. The Shining Trapezohedron was a "seeming sphere" that turned out to be a polyhedron that was artificial, and covered with strange hieroglyphs which for us correspond to the ancient form of Iruaric.
(2) Releasing Power
While the Sorcerer spell Phase (704) will cause a violent release of energy, the dome can only naturally hold so much power at a single time without backlashing on its own. It is based on the actual quantity of mana absorbed, whether spells cast or mana sent in a given interval of time. Casting phase does not release energy from the dome in terms of game mechanics, but the backlash from excess power absorption immediately resets it. The inside of the dome does not appear differently with Piercing Gaze (416) under changes of energy concentration, with no other apparent consequences.
>prep 704 You begin drawing a faint, twisting symbol while softly intoning the words for Phase... Your spell is ready. >cast dome You gesture at a large crystal dome. Suddenly you notice the crystal dome's form dim slightly as it becomes insubstantial. The interior of the dome begins to flash and spark as whatever was contained inside now has an easier way out. As you begin to pass into the dome, a wave of pure energy gushes forth, burning you with its intense heat! ... 45 points of damage! Left arm incinerated. Unfortunate. You are stunned for 10 rounds! The surface of the dome returns to normal as if nothing happened. >think Hello world You concentrate on projecting your thoughts but something seems to be blocking them. R>esp who local You strain your senses outward, but something seems to be blocking them. >turn ring You turn the ring on your finger, but the pulse you feel is extremely weak...as if the magic is being inhibited by someone or something in the room. >incant 130 (sometimes) *** Nothing happens. *** - This may be erroneous. Spells are not auto-released when casting at the dome, causing Incant to self-cast the wrong spell.
(3) Shutting Off
The crystal dome will overheat if it is agitated too much in a given time interval. In the event it is made to absorb more than 2,000 mana without being allowed to cool down, it will backlash in what is essentially a major elemental wave. This has the effect of resetting the dome to its baseline status. The process would have involved more than one character profession, and allegedly the old Sorcerer spell Forget.
>send [#] dome You face the crystal dome, close your eyes and begin chanting. A bolt of hot, pulsing energy arcs between you and the dome! You begin to shudder violently as all your mana rushes into the crystal dome, and soon you collapse on the ground stunned. (after approximately 1,000 mana) The crystal dome shimmers brightly. >cast dome (energy absorption message; after approximately 1,750 mana) The crystal dome flares hotly. >cast dome (energy absorption message; after approximately 2,000 mana) Suddenly a hot wave of pure energy rushes out of the crystal dome, rolling forth like an apocalyptic juggernaut. The heat of the wave burns your flesh! ... 35 points of damage! Flame sets your head alight like a torch. Burned beyond recognition. (The dome cools off at a rate of 100 mana per whole mana pulse.)
The crystal dome will drain a random amount of mana (up to one off-node pulse) every three to ten minutes. The effect was originally strongest at the dome, weakening with distance. Shutting off the mana drain is considered an in-game puzzle. The puzzle itself was broken for many years before a GM realized that a spell update had made it impossible to be solved and brought it back up to date. However, beyond the mechanisms for absorbing spells and mana, all the dome does now is explode when it overheats. Whatever else was originally involved with the puzzle has been removed entirely.
Fell Beasts
Uthex Kathiasas was concerned with giving "physical form" to a "new source of power." In effect this means using the ancient Lord of Essaence artifact to summon extra-planar entities, and apparently making unnatural hybrids of them seeking exotic properties and immunities. This work was twisted toward more dangerous forms by his associates, the hooded figures who are implicitly cultists of The Dark Path. Ultimately, Uthex himself was corrupted by the dark power of the Unlife, and his creations were unable to be destroyed. The important idea is that everything in the Broken Lands is artificial.
These might all be replenished directly by the power draining dome itself, considering the story held that his creatures could not all be destroyed. With the hooded figures this is implied by the spawn messaging. It might similarly be true for the fog beetles, but they might be laying eggs. However, the magru might be replicating in the manner of the Absorbers, dividing when eating sufficient flesh. The dark voreteces may be subject to a death and rebirth cycle involving the hazy tenebrous orbs, considering they dissipate in the huge cavern and the orbs collect in a nest in the magru tunnels.
(1) Known Works
|Other Information
|Hooded figures
|Surviving members of The Dark Path. "Spirits born of death" may imply the creatures were all sacrificed souls. The entities would all be a form of high necromancy. These seem reincarnated from pure spirit in more or less their original human form by the crystal dome which is ordinarily only possible through Lorminstra.
|Giant fog beetles
|Variants on Teras Isle, Foggy Valley, Shadow Valley. Dust beetles. Spirit or mind transference theme. Too unintelligent for communication. Only summoned accidentally with something else. Wander through open portals wherever they find them. Subtextually these are probably cultists transferred into alien bodies.
|Lug'shuk traglaakh
|Other forms in multiple colors sleeping as ponds, streams, puddles in Shadow Valley. Cannot be summoned or controlled. Too alien for communication. Given the Shadow Valley form there might be a cross with the Hoard which also feed on flesh. Natural Absorbers are bluish-purple not black.
|Kiskaa raax
|Anagram of "many ilk". Spectrum ordered power with purple color greatest. No apparent Rolemaster entity basis. May be the only unique creation. These are presumably "abominations" made from changing the properties of lizards and bred naturally. Subtext suggests the magru may mind control them.
|Dark vortece
|Dyar rakul
|Nycorac, Blacar
|Hazy tenebrous orbs probably a "spirit born of death" situation. Probably a hybrid of Nycorac and Blacar. Cannot be summoned or controlled. Too alien for communication. Mentalist in nature. These are presumably a result of merging two templates, though apocryphally voidlings have identical properties.
|Crystal forest on the Jagged Plain. Possibly part of the crystal dome scrying mechanism across worlds. Cannot be summoned or controlled. Mentalist in nature. Trans-planar in presence. Vast repositories of knowledge. Should stab with crystal shards when feeling threatened. Natural Crystyls can teleport away.
|Boiling sea of mud on the Jagged Plain. Possibly a shoggoth-like hybrid with Absorbers to form magru. Cannot be summoned or controlled. Trans-planar awareness. Possess the ability to "phase" hundreds of feet. Manifests in the form of suddenly rains of boiling mud. Natural Hoard are not boiling.
The precise way his work was conducted requires some speculation. It might be that the crystal dome summons things from other realities and transmogrifies them, but more likely it is that the crystyls possess vast information of otherworldly beings for templates and the entities are fabricated from absorbed power. In the elaborated form of the Rolemaster Construct Companion source book, this would reflect spells such as "simulacrum matrix" or "study original", which is a mental attack on a target combined with a "spell store" kind of effect. This is similar in principle to the old Spell Store spell.
It would be possible to manipulate this pattern with "warp matrix" spells or "change" the inherent properties of the abominations undergoing unnatural breeding. In this sense the creatures in the Broken Lands might represent several different methodologies. While the vruul may have been found from ancient times, it is possible they were grown as simulacra in the urns using store life essence jars. The ritual is depicted in the Dark Shrine. The tapestry, gong, hooded figures, and store room are anti-parallel to the deed ceremony, where the same blasphemous symbolism is in the throne room of The Graveyard.
(2) Possible Works
|Other Information
|Huge thigh bones in the bone pit of the Dark Grotto, essentially huge black panthers. Summoned demons. Eaten by the magru. Cannot be summoned or controlled. Venomous. Their existence is implied by the Iruaric name for the magru while being part of the same Rolemaster category.
|Hazy tenebrous orbs, sphere piles in the Dark Grotto. Possibly hybridized with Nycorac to form Dark Vorteces. Cannot be summoned or controlled. Mentalist in nature. It is possible Uthex was working with these and Nycorac separately. The shadows and cold damage would come from the Blacar.
|The Xaastyl may be the mortal race Kesh'ta'kai (Fash'lo'nae) ascended from using the magical methods of the dome, though this is probably unintentional and there is little to suggest their relevance to the Broken Lands. They are world wanderers with the greatest knowledge of the arcane in existence.
|Gogor, Vruul
|The "fell beasts" from the story, if following the Tolkien convention. Ordinarily these are found in ancient crypts. It is possible that Uthex helped construct these ones using methods left in references originating in Kadaena herself. The ritual depictions seem less ancient than the Dark Shrine itself.
In terms of the Rolemaster Alchemy Companion, which is old enough to be immediately relevant to the Broken Lands, this kind of work belongs to the Evil Alchemist or Adept professions. These involve spell lists that suppress magical items, effects, or absorb them in a given radius. They are concerned with making artificial constructs, various forms of the unliving, and imbedding the demonic or other properties into things. The vruul are constructs in a sense more like dybbuks than golems. In this case they are unliving things of tremendous evil, but seemingly animated with the souls of unholy priests.
The Dark Gods
The Loremasters had conflicting theories on the origins of the Dark Gods, who were not known to exist until early in the Second Era as a result of the comet Sa'kain disrupting portals on Charon (Lornon). Some believed they had a similar origin as the Lords of Orhan (Liabo) or had somehow escaped from some interdimensional prison. There was no clear documentation of the role the gods may have had in the First Era cataclysm, and some believed the moon deities may actually be Lords of Essaence portraying themselves as gods. However, others believed the Dark Lords were the result of "failed" Lord of Essaence experiments with creating non-corporeal life, fashioned of more chaotic essence associated with the corruptive power of The Unlife. Similarly, the surviving former followers of the Empress Kadaena (specifically Lorgalis and the Master of Malice) were wielding demonic armies with Ordainers, which were essentially fallen demi-gods with some thought to have been fashioned artificially.
In the Wars of Dominion it was impossible to directly fight beings of such innate might, forming the need for countervailing powers of similar scale and inexhaustibility. In this context Uthex Kathiasas was attempting to provide the means for forming armies of beings with various immunities out of thin air, possibly up to the scale of godlike power while nevertheless being controlled by an artifact. However, the fundamentally alien nature of dark essence from ordinary magic would have misled Uthex into corrupting himself, and his hosts were able to seduce him into pursuing more malevolent and ultimately demonic manifestations of his work. His fellows realized something was horribly wrong when the region was under siege by Lorgalis and they discovered his secret work was too dangerous to exist.
The inscription on the Dark Shrine would have implied to Uthex that Morgu (Marlu) was made by the Empress Kadaena, and that by extension of the wording and nature of the Dark Spirits she must be Orgiana (Eorgina). In other words, the Dark Gods were the ascended immortalized forms of the high servants of the Unlife, and that this dome was the means of ascending to godhood. It would involve transferring mind into a non-corporeal avatar of pure energy. This is consistent with The Dark Path theology where Bandur Etrevion represented himself symbolically in death as an Ordainer. It is even possible that the plane of existence and "the broken land" itself was artificial, having been formed by the Empress Kadaena as a parallel reality of the dark side of the moon to conduct secret experiments.
It is important to keep in mind that the Dark God presence does not at all imply that this place exists on the moon. The story itself called it another plane of existence, and the surface contradicts the known properties of Charon. The Temple of Darkness Poem which is necessary for solving the Dark Shrine puzzle actually implies things about the Dark Gods that was not consistent with their standard theology, and even alludes to conditions that did not exist until longer after the death of Uthex Kathiasas. There are subtle temporal paradoxes involved which only make sense if there is an ability to see across time, or still more specifically, if the Empress Kadaena had profound powers of prophecy or trans-temporal telepathy. The confusion is invited by Charon being on the bas-relief puzzle leading out to the Jagged Plain.
The Sheruvian Monastery
The Sheruvian Monastery is a later addition to the Broken Lands and not part of the original story of Uthex Kathiasas. However, it is implied that the Sheruvian cultists are working with the hooded figures, and they possess their own dangerous artifacts. They are exploiting the trans-planar nature of the Broken Lands to form a teleportation network throughout Elanith, which would allow them to move around and execute invasions at will. This would have allowed the greater vruul to migrate, where they used to appear in the Dark Shrine. It explains how the harbingers suddenly appear with nightmare steeds.
The mist-shrouded krodera orb with veil-iron veins on the vaalin stand is the master orb. In the past it allowed teleportation to any number of rooms possessing monoliths with their own access orbs, typically places of power such as Darkstone Castle or Melgorehn's Reach. These monoliths in turn provided one-way transport to other rooms. The tapestries in the Summoning Chamber seem to be an anti-parallel concept to the Voln Monastery tapestry, which itself has a parchment that makes little sense in modern history. The monastery possesses some archaisms such as having a dead Sabrar in the kitchen.
Master Orb
The master orb is no longer functional. It would give visions of target rooms in the material world, which amounts to both seeing and traveling across planes of existence (hence "summoning chamber".) These krodera and veil-iron orbs are deeply anti-magical artifacts. They will almost always rip off your spells, steal your mana, and inflict severe nerve damages if you test them.
[Monastery, Summoning Chamber] Wisps of smoke waft up from a black vaalin censer mounted on one richly panelled wall, filling the room with a sweet, sulfurous scent. The walls are hung with ancient tapestries depicting the magical arts, and low cabinets along the walls hold a variety of phials, bottles, and leather tomes behind securely latched glaes panels. A single incandescent globe is suspended from the ceiling, illuminating the room with its eerie glow. You also see some carved haon double doors, an ancient hand-woven tapestry and a long vaalin worktable with a mist-shrouded krodera orb on it. Obvious exits: none >look orb Resting atop an intricate vaalin filigree stand is a large, krodera orb covered with veins of pure veil iron. The filigree work on the stand portrays hordes of daemon clutching at the orb. The daemon's hands extend up from the base, their claws digging into the surface of the orb, securing it in place. The orb pulses rhythmically with a dull red glow. The veil iron veins seem to writhe as the opposing magics caress them and tap their power. A swirling mist surrounds the orb as if protecting it. There is a small, gem-shaped, indentation in the stand which is empty. >touch orb You reach up to touch the orb. The smooth cold surface seems solid enough, but when you tentatively move your hand towards it, some force begins to pull you forward! You pull your hand back in alarm, glancing warily at the orb. >rub orb You rub the orb, which gives you a slight shock. You succeed in upsetting the mist, but nothing more. A large brown rat bolts out from under the worktable quickly followed by a hissing black cat, spitting its annoyance at the rat for its intrusion. As they enter the crimson vaalin summoning circle on the floor, pale blue bolts of lightning arc out from the krodera orb, engulfing both of them! When the smoke clears, nothing remains of either of them except for the lingering stench of burnt hair and a small splotch on the floor just inside of the circle. You notice a tiny spider begin to work its way up the intricate vaalin stand. As the spider's legs touch the surface of the orb, it flares with a sickly green light. As your vision clears, you notice that nothing remains of the spider.
The Sheruvian monastery is older than the current materials documentation. The most recent lore at the time it was created was the Shadow World metals information, where the I.C.E. Age analogs of krodera, veil iron, and vaalin were the rarest metals known to exist. Krodera and veil iron were extremely expensive alloys. Vaalin was an extremely rare pure metal used for weapons, unusually lethal to the living, only known to exist on the moon of the Dark Gods. Only cultists should have it. This is the historicity that probably explains why vaalin became the metal for the most expensive lockpicks.
The monoliths are hidden in the background of rooms scattered throughout the older parts of GemStone, but they cannot be found with the search command. Some can be looked or glanced at regardless. These no longer work. It was possible to charge them up and use them to teleport to another fixed monolith room, sometimes allowing relatively easy access or escape from difficult spots.
[Melgorehn's Reach, Lost in the Fog] You are in a dense fog bank and can see absolutely nothing. You realize that you can probably back out of here easily enough. Possible paths: out XXX glances at an ancient granite monolith. >look monolith Twisting runes and carvings along the face of the monolith dance in your vision causing you to sway uneasily. You can't seem to keep a clear focus on them long enough to decipher what they mean. Imbedded into the monolith is a large, krodera orb covered with veins of pure veil iron. The detailed stonework around the orb portrays hordes of daemon clutching at the orb. The daemon's arms extend toward the orb, their claws digging into the its surface and securing it in place. The orb pulses rhythmically with a dull red glow. The veil iron veins seem to writhe as the opposing magics caress them and tap their power, and a swirling mist surrounds the monolith as if protecting it. There is a small, gem-shaped, indentation just above the orb which is empty.
The following are known rooms that have (or should have) monoliths or possibly some other equivalent mechanism. Darkstone Castle has its own internal monolith network.
|Lich #
|Other Information
|Broken Lands
|[Monastery, Summoning Chamber]
|The hidden monolith in this room should lead to the Reading Room outside it.
|Broken Lands
|[Monastery, Reading Room]
|This is inaccessible or some other object name. It should go to the Dark Shrine.
|Broken Lands
|[Dark Shrine, Secret Room]
|Uncertain where this one heads next.
|Broken Lands
|[Sheruvian Monastery, Chapel]
|There should be something in this room. It might be the runes on the altar.
|Melgorehn's Reach
|[Melgorehn's Reach, Lost in the Fog]
|This should lead to Lake Eonak at the base of the mountain.
(*) This list is very incomplete. There would also be something in Darkstone and under Wehnimer's Landing.
It is possible the orbs were loosely based on the Ilarsiri, "the eyes of far vision", which were the Shadow World analog of the Palantiri from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Melgorehn's Reach contains a number of allusions to The Hobbit, and the orb vision of the burning of the tree in Town Square Central would by analogy refer to the burning of the white tree of Gondor. The Ilarsiri had capabilities variable "depending on the mental prowess of the wielder." At the least they allowed the user to "see across great distances, and even gulfs of time. There is some evidence that they could be used for darker purposes as well, a capability unintended by their maker." They were set in pedestals of stone or wrought metal formed like a many-branched tree, where one is in a stone monolith and the other a vaalin filigree stand.
The orb on the worktable pulses once with a deep crimson light. You feel its power reaching out to you, and you are unable to tear your eyes from it! The power of the orb begins to overwhelm you, and you feel disoriented as your mind fills with the image of another place... [Town Square Central] This is the heart of the main square of Wehnimer's Landing. The impromptu shops of the bazaar are clustered around this central gathering place, where townsfolk, travellers, and adventurers meet to talk, conspire or raise expeditions to the far-flung reaches of Elanith. At the north end, an old well, with moss-covered stones and a craggy roof, is shaded from the moonlight by a strong, robust tree. The oak is tall and straight, and it is apparent that the roots run deep. You also see an herbal remedy donation bin and some stone benches with some stuff on it. Obvious paths: northeast, east, southeast, southwest, west, northwest Flames are rapidly consuming the tree as the clerics and empaths gathered attempt to attend to the wounded and dying. Every person in the square is covered with burns, and you can almost hear the screams of suffering in your mind. The vision fades as quickly as it came, and you collapse to the ground in horror. The faint smell of burning flesh lingers in the air.
This concept of a vision orb in the summoning chamber is consistent with the idea that the crystal dome is partly inspired by the Shining Trapezohedron. When Sheruvian bodies disappear they do so with a crimson aura, which is the same color thrown off by the teleportation orbs. This might be coincidental mood coloring or it might imply a reincarnation method in the same way as the hooded figures.
Behind the Scenes
There is a subtle trans-temporal theme to The Broken Lands that does not translate outside of its I.C.E. Age background. The inscription on the Dark Shrine is an anomaly in that it refers to a multiplicity of times in an impossible combination. It was implicitly written at a time when Iruaric should have been hieroglyphic, speaking of an ancient relationship in a modern phonetic form of the language, which unbeknownst to Uthex was a couplet from a poem addressing conditions that would not exist until centuries after his death. This "hieroglyphic" nature of ancient Iruaric was invented for this story.
The Shadow Valley story is most likely a spin-off of the Broken Lands story, involving some of the same themes and underlying subtexts, and to some extent using the same entities at a different time in history while set in very nearly the same location. The Broken Lands story is unambiguously a spin-off of the Graveyard story, with its various Nyarlathotep allusions corresponding to Bandur Etrevion. The Hoard and Crystyl forest are omniscient and omnipresent respectively, which combined with the implicit coexistences of the plane, symbolize Yog-Sothoth who corresponds to Kadaena "Throk Farok."
(A) Lornon
Sage Uthex was retconned to be a member of the Order of Lorekeepers for the release of Miracle (Spell 350) in 5107 Modern Era. The Broken Lands was treated as the surface of Lornon for the story, but it was originally written to be another plane of existence, possibly one of the parallel material planes which were almost impossible to access. These are not necessarily self-contradictory possibilities, as there was a source book (though published in 1995) that said the Lord of Essaence war began when Kadaena was performing extreme planar and transmogrification experiments on Charon (Lornon), forming a coexistent dual of it on an artificial prison plane of existence that was much more habitable than the actual moon. It was infested with various extra-planar entities over the millennia, which is consistent with The Broken Lands. There was supposed to only be one surviving portal to that forgotten place, though on the moon of Charon itself, which was sealed by the Lords of Orhan (Liabo).
This interpretation of the Broken Lands originates in the non-canonical "Curse of Kabis" source book of Shadow World. Kabis was an immensely powerful Void demon of shadows, who the light and dark gods imprisoned inside this artificial demi-plane at the end of the Wars of Dominion. While this thread would be a convenient basis for modernizing the story, possibly replacing Kabis with Althedeus, the Broken Lands is much more likely based on the Loremaster theory that the Dark Gods escaped from some unknown inter-dimensional prison upon arriving in our world. The portal to the Broken Lands was a Lord of Essaence style gate, like those on Charon (Lornon), which were "naturally" unsealed by the comet releasing the Dark Lords. This would explain why the story refers to the portal as a "natural" gateway in spite of clearly being Lord of Essaence in origin. This portal is set in a round stone of "strange dark rock that you have not seen before", engraved with "odd runes", which is a typical Lovecraft motif where something falsely seems natural but was made by great ancients. It is unclear if Morgu (Marlu) used his Dark Shrine in the Second Era, but The Dark Path may have served Orgiana.
The surrounding hills were intended by GM Kygar as an idyllic contrast to the dark struggle being waged in the mountain, which was due to the impossibility of destroying his foul experiments. The monks would have been fighting the hooded figures for centuries, who implicitly were probably being reincarnated by the crystal dome. Incarnating spirit to corporeal being is the distinguishing power of Eissa (Lorminstra), which is the most immediate meaning of "spirit born of death." That Uthex was incarnating extra-planar beings from pure energy implies his work could have been twisted toward fashioning demons and dark gods. The Shar story line would later refer to the Broken Lands as "The Arkati Workshop", part of her quest to ascend herself to godhood. (Shar herself was a dark goddess of the underworld in Dungeons & Dragons.) The Monastery makes only very opaque allusions if any at all, but the ki-lin of eastern mythology appeared with the birth and death of immortal sages.
(B) Lovecraft
There are numerous allusions to "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" in The Broken Lands. This novella was also alluded to below The Graveyard and Purgatory, which is based on the prose poem "Ex Oblivione" as well, with Uthex Kathiasas likely being a portmanteau of "Utha Kadaena" with "Ex" and "Kadath." The end of the novella might also be referenced by the exit of Shadow Valley. The plateau of Leng was similarly a place whose location could not be identified from the convergence of realities, and was next to the monastery of the wicked pharaoh demon Nyarlathotep. The globe lamps, Dark Shrine windows, telepathy suppression, and temporal anomalies come instead from "The Shadow out of Time", which explains Empress Kadaena being served now long after her death. The implication is that the Lords of Essaence were fashioning the Dark Gods or Ordainers as avatars to continue their own ascended existence following their deaths for which they had foresight.
The crystal dome is partially a reference to the Shining Trapezohedron with its evil cult and hooded figures from "The Haunter of the Dark", which ends with possession by Nyarlathotep and refers to the Poe character Roderick Usher. When using the artifact Nyarlathotep would be felt as a conscious "formless alien presence", which is reflected by room messaging of feeling watched by something. It may also refer to the "hemispherical buildings" on the plateau of Leng that even the night-gaunts fear for their association with Nyarlathotep, who the night-gaunts nominally opposed and were dreaded by the shantaks and old gods of earth. The Dark Grotto with its narrow cracks is "At the Mountains of Madness", which refers to Kadath and the destroyers from "Shadow", with the magru as shoggoths and the bone pit as the excavation. In the context of the Dream-Quest the Dark Grotto refers to the dreamlands manifestation of the Vaults of Zin and the Enchanted Wood, with the bone pit as the Vale of Pnoth and the pond as the shoggoth lake below the peaks of Throk. It might also refer to the Great Abyss of Nodens along with Ngranek, the Tower of Koth, and the Gate of Deeper Slumber.
Kadath was a cold waste of mountains with a desolate castle at its peak where the "Great Ones" lived, who were the ancient gods of earth, where climbing the mountains would lead to madness and none knew what lay beyond. These gods would correspond to the Lords of Essaence in the Shadow World history. However, the "feeble" gods of earth were actually guarded by the hidden Other Ones, who resided beyond this world in incomprehensible horror. The mountains that are seen from the windows of the Dark Shrine correspond to the "jagged peaks" of the fungous "blasphemous plateau" of the almost humans and toad-things of the dark side of the moon, and possibly the mountain of Hatheg-Kla where reality warps at night under the unnatural eclipse, which would be impossible to exist on Charon in the Shadow World source material. This is keeping with the numerous allusions to Lovecraft stories in The Graveyard. The emphasis is the great demonic "gods of the outer hells."
The Dark Shrine's eye shaped windows refer to the "dread seer" quality of the vruul, along with the mountain sized heads in the night-gaunt flight to unknown Kadath. Of special interest is that when the quest seeker reaches unknown Kadath, the gods are replaced with a malevolent presence, having gone to the physical world as the Dark Gods did in the Wars of Dominion. In particular the material world of Charon was only the size of an asteroid, whereas the Dark Lords were extra-planar entities, and so The Broken Lands may reflect the moon of the dreamlands. In this way it is possible for the cold wasteland to be both the moon of the dark gods as well as another plane of existence, which justifies through subtext the presence of the Sheruvian monastery that was built later by GM Sayzor. The dreamlands are a parallel universe to our own. There were also trans-temporal extensions of our world in higher dimensions that were reached by physically vanishing into a kind of astral projection resembling Oblivion.
Lastly, the crystal dome is most directly an allusion to the "almost sphere" of "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", where the Dream-Quest protagonist transfers his mind into a future and utterly foreign body in much the same way as the Yithians from the "Shadow out of Time". His forbidden key was derived from the secrets of Hyperborea with its Tsathoggua worship, which helps motivate the toad idols in the Dark Shrine, but his method is useless for transforming back out of the other corporeal form without a parchment of R'lyeh. This form is a Yaddithian from before the roa'ter-like bholes destroyed their world, whose dreamworld ancestors reside in the Vale of Pnoth corresponding to the bone pit in the Dark Grotto. This sphere is spoken of amidst reference to the city of Yian-Ho on the plateau of Leng, which refers to Yian from "The Maker of Moons", where an oriental sorcerer warps the bodies of a submerged race who control dragon-like lizards as appendages. This would explain why the magru have left only the lizards and devoured everything else. As a masked Yaddithian on earth he pretends to be a Hindu swami, possibly linking the Vedic myth behind Shadow Valley.
(C) Coexistences
While the Shadow Valley story was more explicit about the land shifting in space and time, probably rooted in the isles of transfer phenomenon, The Broken Lands symbolizes various Lovecraft mythos locations which coexisted in more than one plane of existence simultaneously. The myklian as moon-beast analogs relate to the Sarnath allusions below The Graveyard and the Coastal Cliffs. The title "the broken land" may refer to being a pastiche of convergent realities rather than the meteors, whether or not the Kabis premise of a hollow sphere made out of the inner-rock of Charon is relevant.
There are only a few locations being referenced that happen to exist in both the material world and the dreamlands: the Plateau of Leng, Vaults of Zin, Vale of Pnath (Pnoth), Throk (Thok), and Kadath. In spite of the name it is possible to enter the Dreamlands physically in some places, where time runs at a different rate and dreamers may become permanent residents after their physical deaths.
|The Broken Lands
|Lovecraft Mythos Analog
|Other Information (*)
|Uthex' Abode
|The Nameless Monastery
|Adjacent to Plateau of Leng, Vaults of Zin
|Northern Dreamlands. Nyarlathotep residence. The Vaults of Zin are in the underworld beneath it.
|Jagged Plain
|Plateau of Leng
|Dreamlands earth; Central Asia; Antarctica near material world Kadath
|Adjacent to Nameless Monastery, connected to dreamlands Vaults of Zin. Ominous hemispheres. Shantaks. Yian-Ho. Crystal dome as Ultimate Gateway to Yog-Sothoth, in parallel with Kadaena as Guardian of the Forbidden. Silver Key / Key to the Void.
|Dark Grotto
|Material world Throk (Yuggoth)
|Dreamlands Throk; (Other: Antarctica near material world Kadath)
|Shoggoths of the Elder Things; Shoggoths below dreamland Peaks of Throk. Night-gaunts.
|Bone Pit
|Vale of Pnoth
|Yaddith; (Other: Fossil quarry in Antarctica near material world Kadath)
|Dreamlands underworld, Adjacent to dreamland Peaks of Throk. Night-gaunts. Bholes/dholes would have been roa'ter-like creatures, or possibly the Clostoph of Rolemaster, a transplanar worm-like entity thought to be a plane unto itself which punches holes like rift crawlers.
|Huge Cavern
|Vaults of Zin
|Dreamland/material Vaults of Zin; (Other: dreamland Enchanted Wood; Dreamland Dark Abyss)
|Enchanted Wood on wrong end of stairwell (you descend a big stairway to the fungi woods when entering the dreamlands); Forest outside The Graveyard; Material vaults tied to Tsathoggua shoggoths / Shadow Valley. Night-gaunts. Connect to Leng, Nameless Monastery.
|Massive Stairs
|Stairs of Kadath
|Dreamland Kadath; Dreamland Tower of Koth; Dreamland Seven Hundred Steps of Deeper Slumber; Dreamland spiral stairs to Ngranek
|Nyarlathotep residence. Night-gaunts. These "coexistences" refer only to the Broken Lands version of the stairs being cross-references. These stairs are not coexistent in the Lovecraft dream-cycle, but they are all in the dreamlands.
|Dark Shrine
|Dreamland Kadath
|Material world Kadath; (Other: Material Vaults of Zin, Ngranek)
|Eye-shaped windows, brass gong from House of Usher; Tsathoggua / Hyperborea. Nyarlathotep residence. Night-gaunts. Former residence of the gods of earth. Ngranek related to Black Sands of Coastal Cliffs. The huge eye windows correspond to the huge heads with mountain sized bodies witnessed in the night-gaunt and ghoul army flight toward unknown Kadath (whose independence is simply vanished by Nyarlathotep.) Far northern Dreamland. The material Kadath is by the South Pole, as was Kadaena's headless body.
(* - It is not as messy as it seems on the surface. The bottom line is that Uthex's abode, the crystal dome, and the Dark Shrine correspond to the places Nyarlathotep physically appeared.)
While this is complicated on the surface from multi-referencing, the landscape itself is actually a simple one-to-one correspondence to the Underworld of the Dreamlands, which is signified by the Charon (Lornon) puzzle to make it onto the jagged plain. Shadow Valley and Castle Anwyn are also subtextually underworld themed and associated with the Lysierian Hills. Anwyn is the Welsh word for the Celtic Otherworld, which is related to fairy mythology. Lovecraft's Dreamlands was based on the same folklore. The night-gaunts were said to serve the god Nodens, who was the father of the King of Anwyn.
See Also
- The Temple of Darkness Poem
- Maleskari
- Selias Jodame
- Jaron Galarn
- Muylari
- Utha
- Makiri
- "Kulthea Chronicle: Volume I, Issue V" - "Face to Face with Kygar", page 4


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Shifts shifts
Spinning circles within me
Not behind me
Not before me someday
What is
Simply is
Nothing else really matters to me
I know not what I see
This birthing of love and wonder and mystery
Brewing inside of me
Letting go
I just cant know
Its far too big
For my mind to snap a single picture
Or for my soul to contain
Nothing plain
Glory mixed with fire
Human and heavenly desire
Star gate
No saving the date
Its not about tomorrow
Or what will be
Its about letting go
Of literally everything you think you know
Because you dont
You cant
Not here in this place
Of many places
When tomorrow and yesterday are friends
Pardoxical collision
knowledge and sight
Can not transcend
As if any of it in this moment
As if there exists multidimensional division
Not even close
Will you awake with me
Will you take my hand
And put in it your riddle?
Can we dig for buried treasures
Within the worlds soul
Do we need an agenda
Or can we have fun and just let go
Falling falling light like shards of ice is falling
Melting in to my being
From the eyes within my cells
Through light alone is the perspective I am seeing
No more this
Not more that
Ive taken off my favorite hat
To find a new perspective
MkjkikjTo have spectacles of time
To help me see
The glory falling down
The beauty that is to be found
In the worst of days
In childlike silly play
Dare to beat to your own drum
Dare to be the strings
on the eternal galaxical guitar
Wind blow
Fire consume
All that was
All that will be
Until i have the eyes of all
The lights scattered amongst the sky
And follow them like the wiseman did
One by one
Stories untold
Some young tales
Others stories of anient old
Star light starbright
Show me
Guide me
To your light
Unleash the fire
Melt me
Volcanic erruption
Uncontainable desire.
Water stirring
Whitecapps overflow me
Rush me
Like water electrified through my viens
Ignite me
One kiss
One touch
Of humanity
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I am a tree
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I am am found
I am lost
I am free
I want to taste your breath
Feel your waters
Opening up to untapped more
Buttoms up
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In a place where im not confined
By all the thoughts and all the noise
Heavens keys falling
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Know me
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i've been running oracle databases with around 5 gb sga since the days of oracle release 9iR2 and windows server 2003 (enterprise edition) on regular midrange 8 gb machines. although i initially had to pass a long and winding road to come up with a really working configuration, between oracle and windows server 2003, the effort really did pay off in having that extended, past 2 gb ram access in spite of the limitations of the 32 bit addressing range. to scetch the windows 2003 recipe in short, one may follow this approach:
- add the /3gb and the /PAE to the boot.ini file (and reboot)
- have the account running the oracle service be a part of the administrators group
- set several local user rights for the account running the oracle service, for example lock_pages_in_memory
- do not use the oracle asm-parameters with the spfile, instead apply use_indirect_data_buffers and the pre-asm stuff just as db_block_buffers and buffer_pool_keep
- optimize the setting of _db_block_lru_latches according to the cpu-count of your machine
- reexecute oracle.exe, a shutdown/startup-bounce is not sufficient for the change to take effect
although just scetching, i want to emphasize the role of the /3gb-switch mentioned above. using a past 2 gb ram access on 32 bit windows must be a rope trick of some sort in overcoming the limitations of the addressing range. the trick is, here, to define a mapping window between the regular and the extended ram address space. that mapping window can also actually be seen by the applications. some secondary process however, maps memory pages into that window, either from the extended address space, which is a fast ram access, or just from disc, the traditional way. that is, the larger the mapping window within the regular address space is, the higher the hit ratio will grow (see the AWE_WINDOW_MEMORY-parameter to be set in the registry for more information). such a way, it always really pays off to employ /3gb alongside with /PAE.
the windows 2008 recipe
to anticipate the result of the 2008 trial, nothing conceptually changes compared to the 2003 recipe. the exception is the application of bcdedit, with is the new boot configuration command, replacing the need to directly hack the boot.ini file (it is just ignored if done) and the naming and default values of /3gb and /PAE. but let's follow the trial.
i do not want to discuss bcdedit in detail. concerning the two intended settings one may execute the following command and lookup the osloader section:
bcdedit /? TYPES osloader
it is shown, that /3gb does not exist anymore and has been integrated into by increaseuserva. in contrast, /PAE continues to exist, as pae, but however, it is enabled by default. one may verify the current boot loader settings by just entering (an appropriate screenshot follows below):
extending the process address space step #1
at first, on a default installation with 2 gb process address space and 8 gb physical ram the memory layout may look as follows:
bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072
extends the process address space to 3 gb:
such that now one may configure an oracle instance to run with around 2.5 gb sga size:
after having the instance under steam for a moment, all the configured sga gets allocated from virtual to transient memory (remenber the memory allocation concept for nowadays, widely-used operating systems) :
of course, starting up the instance with anything beyond 3 gb sga size will still fail:
extending the process address space step #2
to go beyond 3 gb process address space, one must now change the spfile-layout as being specified in the 2003 recipe, most importantly, employing the use_indirect_data_buffers-option. on the windows side, the account running the oracle service must be granted lock_pages_in_memory, which is a local user right:
such a way, running an instance with around 4.5 gb sga size succeeds:
finally, the steam test shows the memory allocation graphically. however, this time, having the rope trick in the back, all memory gets mapped into the transient space at once:
a short hand calculation merely fits the numbers being shown by oracle and the task manager: 4 gb sga buffers (includes 1 gb awe) + 0.5 gb sga pools + 0.5 gb pga + 1 gb windows system + 0.5 gb other stuff ~ 1.5 gb free.
some names and methods changed, but conceptually the 2003 recipe may easily be ported to 2008. employing use_indirect_data_buffers was very relyable in 2003, so one may expect the same experience with 2008.
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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says 5G will support 5G in three new iPhone models by 2020. The company may bring three new iPhones next year.
The magnitude of the 5G network is rapidly increasing worldwide. And with it the number of 5G smartphones is increasing in the market. Many people are expecting that 5G support will be brought to the iPhone next year. This time, Ming-Chi Kuo has given his opinion. He has a reputation for giving accurate information about Apple.
Kuo said earlier last month that Apple will bring three new iPhones next year. Of these, there will be 5G support in the 5.4-inch and 6.7-inch models. And the new version of the iPhone X R with a 6.1-inch screen will have only LTE network support. The new iPhone will be replaced by 5G, according to Kuo - news technology site Verge.
Kuo said, "Apple's ability to build a 5G iPhone has grown even more after buying Intel's baseband business", as well as the price of Android 3G phones.
Apple recently acquired the majority of Intel's modem business for $ 1 million. One day after this, Kuo announced this with the 5G iPhone.
Kuo added that most Android phones will have 5G of sub-6GHz version, whereas the MMWave version would have been much faster.
"The point here is that consumers will think that 5G will become an emergency function in 2020. Because of this, Apple will sell 5G mobiles at a higher price, considering the interest of mobile service providers and customers. "
Kuo added that consumers would like to pay a bit more price to take advantage of Apple's wider 5G network.


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SPRINGFIELD — Rapper Pitbull and the Chicago cast of the Million Dollar Quartet have been added to the Illinois State Fair Grandstand entertainment offerings. They will join country artists Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes and Jake Owen, rock legends Boston and Steely Dan, and the ten finalists on American Idol to form a star-studded, 2014, concert line-up.
"This entertainment line-up proves that there truly is something for everyone at this year's Illinois State Fair," Governor Pat Quinn said. "A concert in the State Fair Grandstand is a great way to spend a summer evening."
Latin Grammy winner Pitbull, whose single "Timber" just recently became his second number one hit in the United States, will perform Saturday, Aug. 9. Tickets for the show, which range in price from $40 for a Tier 3 Grandstand seat to $65 for a VIPit track ticket in front of the stage, will go on sale Saturday, May 3, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
The cast of Million Dollar Quartet will give a free concert Monday, Aug. 11. The hit musical is currently running at the Apollo Theater in Chicago and Harrah's Showroom in Las Vegas and was inspired by the famed, 1956 recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time.
"This year's entertainment is going to be something you don't want to miss," State Fair Manager Amy Bliefnick said. "From the first night to the last, the acts are top-notch. I'm looking forward to great shows and memorable performances."
The 2014 Grandstand concert series opens Friday, Aug. 8 when the American Idol Live! Tour rolls into Springfield. The tour will give fans of the hit TV series a chance to see the top ten finalists from the current season, including C.J. Harris, Jena Irene, Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse, MK Nobilette, Alex Preston, Dexter Roberts, Majesty Rose, Malaya Watson and Sam Woolf.
Florida Georgia Line will perform Sunday, Aug. 10, the day after the Pitbull concert. The vocal duo has rocketed to stardom since the first four singles from its platinum-selling debut album, "Here's to the Good Times," shot to number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, including "Cruise," the best-selling digital country song of all-time and the Country Music Association's 2013 "Single of the Year."
Tuesday, Aug. 12, will feature a "triple bill" of classic rock. Headlining the show will be 70s supergroup Boston, whose hits, including "More Than A Feeling," "Peace of Mind," "Long Time," "Don't Look Back" and "Amanda," remain a staple of classic rock radio today. Joining Boston will be the Canadian rock group April Wine, which has released more than 20 albums and performed together for more than 40 years, and Sweet, a British glam band best known for songs such as "Ballroom Blitz" and "Little Willy."
Singer and songwriter Hunter Hayes, the youngest, solo, male act ever to reach the top of the Hot Country Songs chart, will take the Grandstand stage for a concert Wednesday, Aug. 13. Hayes already has six hit singles to his credit, including "Wanted," which reached number one just after his 21st birthday in September of 2012.
Friday, Aug. 15, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steely Dan will perform. The duo released a string of hit songs in the 1970s, including such classic rock staples as "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," "Do It Again," "Hey Nineteen," "Reelin' In the Years" and "Deacon Blues."
Country singer Jake Owen, the 2012 American Country Awards "Breakthrough Artist of the Year," is the featured entertainment Saturday, Aug. 16. Owen already has nine Top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart to his credit, including the number one smash hits "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" and "Alone with You."
Performers have yet to be booked for Thursday, Aug. 14, and Sunday, Aug. 17.
In addition to Pitbull, fairgoers also can begin buying tickets May 3 for the Hunter Hayes and Steely Dan concerts. They will be available online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/, by phone at (800) 745-3000, or in person at all Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets for the American Idol Live! Tour can be purchased the following Saturday, May 10. Tickets for the other announced acts already are on sale.
The new concert bookings were announced during a preview party on the fairgrounds to begin the countdown to the fair. The event also included the unveiling of the 2014 Illinois State Fair theme, "Making Memories."
"For many Illinoisans a trip to the fair has become a family tradition, an annual pilgrimage to celebrate our state's people, culture and heritage," Agriculture Director Bob Flider said. "And the life-long memories of those visits have kept families coming back for generations. I invite your family to make memories of its own when this tradition known as the Illinois State Fair is renewed Aug. 7-17."
For more information about the Grandstand entertainment line-up, visit the fair's website at http://www.illiniosstatefair.info/ or call (217) 782-1979.


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Sorry if this one has been asked before (there are a lot of threads!), but what exactly does the Recruiting Officer attribute do, and what do I need to take advantage of it?
Right now I've got John McClernand in the Chicago region. Does he actually need to be inside the structure, or is the region OK?
Does he increase the speed of training new units, or does he merely increase the number of Conscript Companies I get every turn? If he increases the speed of new unit training, I assume they need to be in the stack with him - do command limits apply (i.e. does he not provide the benefit if he can only take 2 units and there are 6 in the stack)?


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It is important to take responsibility for our actions, whether they have been good or bad.
By holding your hands up & taking responsibility when you have made a mistake rather than trying to shift the blame onto someone else, people will have a lot more respect for you & will be able to develop a trusting relationship with you because they know that you are an honest person in all circumstances.
Some people can also find it difficult to take responsibility when they've done something good, this could be because they don't want the attention or to be in the spot light, but by shying away you're not letting people know who to truly thanks & someone else could swoop in & claim it was all down to them, giving them false credit. Just because you take responsibility for it doesn't mean you can't be modest, you don't have to shout it from the roof tops, but if someone asks then just say it was down to you rather than running away.


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PERUGIA (AFP) – Amanda Knox appears before an Italian court Saturday in her bid to overturn a conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher with new experts reviewing key forensic evidence.
The American was sentenced to 26 years in prison last year for the 2007 killing of Leeds University student Meredith, 21, with whom she shared a house in the town of Perugia in central Italy where both were studying.
|AFP file - US student Amanda Knox sits in court before the start of a hearing of her appeal trial in Perugia's courthouse on December 18, 2010.
Raffaele Sollecito, Knox's boyfriend at the time, was sentenced to 25 years for his part in the murder and is also appealing his conviction.
The first hearing this year is scheduled to start at 9am (0800 GMT) and will see two experts from Rome?s Sapienza University -- Stefano Conti and Carla Vecchiotti -- formally appointed to review the evidence.
Conti and Vecchiotti, called in after the court ordered fresh tests on the presumed murder weapon, are expected to ask for 60 days to re-examine the DNA evidence used to convict the pair.
"This is a key moment. Today, for the first time, independent experts will be asked to examine the evidence," Knox's lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova said ahead of the hearing.
Knox's defence say the kitchen knife -- found in Sollecito's house and said to have Knox's DNA on the handle and Kercher's on the blade -- does not fit the wounds.
The absence of blood and low level of Kercher's DNA on the knife mean it was probably contaminated in the lab and should be excluded, they say.
They also want a bra clip with traces of Sollecito's DNA disregarded because it was collected days after the murder, had been moved, and is also likely to be contaminated.
Kercher's body was found semi-naked in her room on November 2, 2007. A third person, an Ivorian man called Rudy Guede, was sentenced for his part in the murder in a fast-track trial in 2008.
Knox, Sollecito and Guede were charged with sexually assaulting and killing Meredith in a drug-fuelled attack.
But the Seattle native's lawyers have also questioned the reliability of the prosecution's key witness, a homeless man Antonio Curatolo, who lives on a bench and who testified to seeing Knox and Sollecito the night of the murder.
Curatolo also claimed that he saw students on a bus that night coming from a discotheque in town, a detail challenged by the defence who say there was no disco open that night.
The court is likely to call on the manager of the disco and the bus driver to testify in later hearings. The outcome of the trial is expected some time later this year.
Knox has repeatedly protested her innocence. Her step-father, Chris Mellas, who has been living in Perugia since September to help prepare for the appeal, is expected to attend Saturday's hearing.


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Maybe it's something to do with its search for a new cast member, or maybe it's another reason entirely.
But Nine has opted not to premiere a new afternoon family game show it had planned for later this month.
Pyramid, described as "a fun, fast-paced game show the whole family can enjoy" was set for a premiere at 4pm Tuesday July 21st.
In the show, two teams go head to head in a competition to describe a series of simple objects, places or things, without actually using the object's name.
But now repeats of The Shak will run in its place instead. Yesterday, Nine announced a search for a new teammate following the announced departure of Kendal Rae aka Picasso.