Blarghagh Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 I was joking but that was an interesting read. Did Prince Amentep have a nemesis? An arch-villain? Would make a good evil alt.
Gorth Posted January 5, 2017 Author Posted January 5, 2017 Had one of those slightly surreal experiences the day before yesterday. Many people will know, that simple chores is not something we spend a lot of thoughts on, our brains works out a plan and tells our body to go ahead and execute it. Funny situations occur when things get in the way and prevents your body from executing the "script" that the brain came up with. Was about to take out the rubbish when I got home from work and yes, it's one of those things you barely engage 3 brain cells to do. Thing is just, I made it halfway to the rubbish bin in my backyard when I stopped. Standing there for some very long moments with a dumb, uncomprehending look on my face before the brain pulled the manual override lever and asked my body why it had stopped. Turned out there was a large tree in my backyard that usually wasn't there. In fact, I was very sure there didn't used to be a tree between my backdoor and the rubbish bin at all. I put the rubbish down where I stood and walked back in again. That would be a task for another day :D As it turned out, torrential rain and very strong winds had torn parts off a very large, old tree in the neighbours garden and it had fallen down, through the fence, on top of my backyard and was leaning up against the house wall and roof. It was just that bizarre realisation of how much we sometimes do without conscious thought that struck me as somewhat "enlightening" 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Amentep Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 I'm not aware of any reoccurring villains from the series, but I haven't read all the issues... I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Gromnir Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) I'm not aware of any reoccurring villains from the series, but I haven't read all the issues... shouldn't an evil alt be difficult to spot? sure, spock can pull of the van dyke, but am thinking amentep photoshopping beards onto his movie starlets and using a vague egyptian nom de guerre might be a bit obvious, no? go with something outta character. GibberingMotha alternative, take bart simpon's advice 'bout how "nobody suspects the butterfly." Fr.Flanagan? nice hat. dunno. only alt we ever used were decided obvious... were back on the Co6 boards and in post we used alt, we also revealed self as Gromnir. were long time ago. karzak suggested it weren't possible to envision a skald bard raised in candlekeep, so we wrote an origin story o' such a character with alt of "storyteller." used the alt a few times to pen mini stories. never saw much use for alts. HA! Good Fun! Edited January 5, 2017 by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Bartimaeus Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) What? A bard raised at Candlekeep works perfectly fine: so many stories you could tell from the great library... Sure, the monks and such probably wouldn't have much of an interest in them (or maybe they would, having them retold in a very different manner from the dry history-keeping that they do), but not everybody who lives at Candlekeep was a monk and was familiar with everything kept within the library. Edited January 5, 2017 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Gromnir Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 What? A bard raised at Candlekeep works perfectly fine: so many stories you could tell from the great library... Sure, the monks and such probably wouldn't have much of an interest in them (or maybe they would, having them retold in a very different manner from the dry history-keeping that they do), but not everybody who lives at Candlekeep was a monk and was familiar with everything kept within the library. skald. illiterate. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Bartimaeus Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) What's the meaningful distinction here, o-so-friendly one? I'm not intimately familiar with the term, and from what I'm reading online, there doesn't seem to be so much of a difference that would make it any more difficult than the standard bard. The biggest thing seems to be that Skalds generally told of the deeds of someone current (their patron) instead of whatever a standard bard would tell of. Is that what you're getting at? Edited January 5, 2017 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Gromnir Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 What's the meaningful distinction here, o-so-friendly-one? I'm not intimately familiar with the term, and from what I'm reading online, there doesn't seem to be so much of a difference that would make it any more difficult than the standard bard. The biggest thing seems to be that Skalds generally told of the deeds of someone current (their patron) instead of whatever a standard bard would tell of. Is that what you're getting at? the 2e d&d kit made illiteracy an unalterable quality o' the skald. the notion o' Gorion's Ward, raised in a library, could possible be illiterate offended karzak. unfathomable. ... shoulda' saved the story as it actual managed to shut karzak up for a bit. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Bartimaeus Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) I thought you were calling me illiterate for not knowing the exact difference between a bard and a skald. Now I DO feel illiterate. Edited January 5, 2017 by Bartimaeus 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Orogun01 Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 I thought you were calling me illiterate for not knowing the exact difference between a bard and a skald. Now I DO feel illiterate. Isn't a Skald a viking bard? What's the difference? Do Skalds only play heavy metal and don't require consent to bed someone? I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
Gorth Posted January 5, 2017 Author Posted January 5, 2017 Being member number 666, I guess it's only fitting I get to write reply number 666 in this thread... More forumite daily adventures here “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
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