As he contemplated the collection of human (mostly) remains carried deep in his bag - ancient dust inside a dimension inside another dimension..._ Hal felt his attitude about the place shift, hard. He watched Illian finally sleep, a day after loosening his affliction, now visibly afflicted, and shoo...

When it is best for Darcs or not at all.

The Russians aren't going to nuke anybody except our allies, carefully. Mostly they'll use their nuke capacity as a threat that allows them to steamroll places more conventionally. Other unconventional weapons will also be used, sonic, toxic, gaslight, but nuclear contamination is most likely to occ...

Seems pointless and unnecessary to immediately question someone's motives or honesty without any basis. Absolute gun folks have different priorities than absolute no gun folks, and representing one side as dishonest because they're nuanced or because they see limitations in the language of an amendm...

Fragments ok, mostly dispense with semicolons, so occasional run-ons happen as well

If we find the exit, or even if we leave this section, by the behavior of the rest of the rooms, his remains might disaggregate into their original components. We could find that his corpse returns to human, and whatever cyborg elements separate out. We should decide which spell gets doubled by the ...

Phoebe...Likely crossing lines here, but this is what I think I know: You are employed at a demanding and likely meaningful job. You own or are responsible for several minors, and a husband of variable domestic contribution. You also have pets, which, in my experience, are a total net loss for domes...

Wrote eating bugs into a screenplay a little while back. It was supposed to be normal, not post apocalyptic, which is how I think many of those adjustments will be made. There is already, horrifyingly, a Soylent company. Just like most people have no idea how many cute animals might be in their burg...

Suggest we maintain the cycle, skip this week. Darcs has been ill, and he needs the recharge time. There also might be spring concert complications, and the holiday..., etc

Hey, except for the knee jerk defensiveness...(I know, irony is tough in writing when context and timing are so important), I believe many of us absolutely agree with everything you just said. The issue isn't you, even with the cops, my point was outsized, clearly panicked response, rather than the ...

Do we want to talk about the mostly mushy statistics about police shootings? While there are a number of police forces around the country cited specifically for racism and violent follow-up to racist internal cultures, I'm not certain any city escapes it entirely. This is a group of people for whom ...

And the why? For nearly everything?
Because Trump is Putin's bitch.

Happy Birthday to GM (pat) Riiiiick!

Catcher, although it can be hell on the knees when the core begins to go.

So this thread really isn't or shouldn't be, about percentages, which feeds right into Twain's, "Lies, damn lies, and statistics". It is, or should/could be about numbers of preventable, individual traumas and tragedies. Often, these are perpetrated by desperate men on other desperate men,...

Kudos and reference to Darcs, and to others, personally known to me, who give the lie to DeVos and others who apparently, unthinkingly agree with her.

Hal is slowly coming to the conclusion that every remaining legacy of the runelords needs to be either destroyed or reclaimed. That doesn't necessarily mean we have to do it personally, but all the stuff that remains abandoned seems to ferment in the wrong direction. It becomes a nexus and tool for ...

Ya, Hal just has the adamantine sword, and no more instant tricks up his sleeve that I can think of (everything takes a full action) That usually bypasses DR, but I've no actual idea here, and could only manage to hit him with my best attack. Good news, he's entangled, but I'm not sure he cares beca...

So, ya, who's going to win this negotiation if it ever happens? The guy whose country needs nukes to exist legitimately (as far as he's concerned), or the guy who doesn't really read the intelligence reports he gets? BTW, not entirely sure we came out on top in the way normalization happened with Ch...

This is really a question for experts, and I stuck it here because there's no urgency, and it optimistically presumes we survive and escape. Can one have a spell cast into a ring, such that it allows the casting of said spell, a certain number of times per day, or on charges, whatnot? How terrifical...