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Mike walks to the door as he replies to Tahlvin, "I don't know. The last thing I remember is..." he pauses, his hand hanging in the air without grasping the door handle yet. "Um. I don't actually know what I remember. I think I got a phone call?" Mike forgets trying the door and ...

Keep walking.

Mike initially jumps at the sound of another voice, but then recognizes Tahlvin. He replies, "I don't know. I feel all turned around in here. I can't see anythi..." Mike trails off and starts searching his pockets for his phone. Wallet... ear bud case... the inhaler the doctor gave him for...

Right. Obviously right.

Does Mike hear Tahlvin? If yes, then are they close together?

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Mike's stomach turns, and he feels a tinge of panic amidst his general confusion. For years, he has had a recurring dream of showing up naked in public and having to act as if it's a totally normal thing. This doesn't feel like a dream, but he pats himself down anyway. He's got pants on... whew! And...

Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut Fantastic! Unlike most of you I'm sure, I have never read this before, and I went in 100% cold. I was shocked to find out this was a sci-fi tale, replete with time travel and alien abduction. All of which is completely secondary to the fact that this is a book a...

The Long War -- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Book 2 in the Long Earth series. It picka up a decade after book 1 ends. The scope of the book just keeps getting bigger, and it continues to be incredibly compelling. Our cast is larger, the multiple earths have become increasingly colonized, ther...

Everybody throw a chair today for a fallen hero.

Mike is a 53 year old man. He is married to Lisa and has four sons, ages 17 to 28. Mike is a self-professed nerd who works as a computer technician. He's smart and well read but tends to be unorganized and forgetful. He is overweight and out of shape. Mike enjoys gaming of all sorts, but especially ...

Pay off all our cars and our house. Give some money to family. Build our dream house somewhere. Travel a lot. Arrange to game a lot with my friends. Like possibly even pay for a professional GM sometimes. That's my selfish stuff. We'd give away a lot of money too, but probably not ever enough for me...

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. I'm halfway through book two and still loving it. Content is PG rated, but it's a series loaded with big ideas. The premise is that there are infinite parallel earths all stacked together like a deck of cards. Each is slightly different from the ...

Well, my full post felt kinda beside the point coming 20 minutes after yours. This is better. I do like my numbers and statistics point, but I still need to tighten it up. It needs clever visuals or something to keep it from being so dry. Because most people who disagree with my point are going to g...

Swamplandia! -- Karen Russell This is a book that will stick with me for a long time. It's haunting. The Bigtree family owns Swamplandia, a low-rent tourist attraction/theme park where they put on gator-wrestling shows. It's Chief Bigtree, his wife Hilola, the star attraction, and their three kids:...

I had pages and pages and pages typed up to respond to this thread, and then just as I was posting it, Tahlvin got in ahead of me and said it better. So I saved my text, and now I'm going to just post the part I think can still add to the conversation. I want to address the pervasive idea that trans...

I feel bad about this. My surface excuse (which is real), is that I was busy for a couple days, so I was hoping the other guys would take action, but then I got laid-up kinda sick for four days with non-stop cough that was totally non-productive because it was coupled with a brick of mucus in my lun...

Sorry I've been super sick. I would like to keep playing.

Rabbit is a little wary at the speed with which they are advancing. "It can't be this easy," he mutters, "I told you guys we should have gone to the scout guild back in Guvv's Landing and at least hired someone to handle locks and traps and such." He sighs mournfully as he edges ...

Yeah, in our office, I said Rick roll, Yancey said "Bad Boys" from COPS, and Shaun said Baby Shark. I think these are common themes.

You have a smart home. You watch on your camera app as thieves break in through the front door. You have a security feature, Purge style, that locks interior doors and drops steel shutters over all exterior door and windows. So you have effectively trapped the would-be thieves in your foyer. You not...

It's Kyle again!!!

Another Brooklyn -- Jacqueline Woodson A novel that reads like poetry. Woodson gives us vignettes and glimpses into the lives of four black girls, best friends, coming of age in Brooklyn in the 70's. Our narrator Auggie covers her own life from the death of her mother when she was 8 until the death...

The Cartographers -- Peng Shepherd Fantastic idea that lacked slightly in execution. Based on a real 1930's New York state travel map that included the fictitious town of Agloe, NY, as a copyright trap, this novel explores the beauty, power, and purpose of maps. Nell is a young cartographer blackba...

Rabbit cautiously approaches the door. His familiar, a great white snowshoe hare named Sunshine, stays at his back, sniffing the air for danger. Rabbit reaches out with his staff to tap the skull emblem on the door. He flinches slightly as he does this, even though he fully expects that nothing will...

I'm assuming that we are all posting IC in the IC thread, and if we, as players, narrate something that is impossible or otherwise in error, you'll help us correct it. So I'm going to try this.

Majick!

That's pretty cool. I saw Rabbit hang back and figured I missed my cue and thought, "Well at least it's in character."

Yo ho!

Eliahad wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:27 am A'na patch whaer his eye should bae. Bald as the day 'e was bairn!

Aye! A toast fer poor half-blind, hairless Crackers. He were a good bird!

He warr.

I recognize that is far too much detail, but I can't help it.

I'll revise the history and get an idea of his default set of spells, but we're ready to take off.

Rabbit (Temujin Snowfoot) Human/Dhampir Shaman 4 N(G) Medium humanoid (dhampir) Init +7; Senses low-light (120), Darkvision (60); Perception +11 -------------------- Defense -------------------- AC 17, touch 12, flat-footed 14 (+2 Dex, +5 Armor) hp 20 (4d8) Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +9 ----------------...

Wuz nae fuzzy.

Had nae hair.

Fuzzy Wuzzy.

Kyle wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:22 amFrom nothin.

No no. I meant it's "Nothin up my sleeves."

The Long Earth -- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Absolutely addictive. Couldn't stop listening. It's flawed in a bunch of small ways, but it's such a huge ambitious effort that sucked me in and let me ignore all that. And this is book one of a series (a series of five so far, I think), and it's...

Nothin.

Did you get the hat trick?

Ready?

Arise!

I'm getting there...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian -- Sherman Alexie Taking a cue from Kyle, I've added a bunch of banned books to my wishlist. Or more exactly, books most often requested to be removed from libraries. And this one's a doozy! This is a YA book about 14 year old Junior who lives on the ...

Tragic hour approved!

Take back the power!

I'm up! What'd I miss?

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