Viravain, Lady of the Thorns shouts, "And You would seize Me? Fool! I am the Glomdoring! I am the Wyrd, and beneath the cloak of Night, the shadows of the Silent stir!"
Honestly, I've always assumed it was some hexadecimal thing.
Viravain, Lady of the Thorns shouts, "And You would seize Me? Fool! I am the Glomdoring! I am the Wyrd, and beneath the cloak of Night, the shadows of the Silent stir!"
what's this gnomes thing i keep hearing about in conjuction to presents?
Solstice gnomes. Every once in a while, the admin flood the world with gnomes. They show up anywhere on Prime that isn't org territory I think (but I'm terribad at finding them, myself). If you do find one, beg from it and it gives you a present!
Mayor Steingrim, the Grand Schema says to you, "Well, as I recall you kinda leave a mark whereever you go."
You may see Jolly Bundy and his chubby little gnome helpers running
around in red suits spreading holiday cheer for the next few game
months. If you see them, influence beg them and they will give you a
solstice present!
This drunken dwarf is back and his sack is positively brimming with
presents. Keep your eyes open for this jolly fellow, for if you have
been a good boy or girl, he will surely have something for you!
Happy holidays from everyone at Lusternia!
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Basically, every(weave/IG month?) once in a while you will see gnomes parachuting into the basin.
This is on prime. if you run around you can find a gnome on prime. if you do and it's not been influenced, you can use charity influencing abilities to convince it to give you a present. UNWRAP PRESENT to get a random gift(and I do mean random, you might get poisons that are useless to you or gold, or reagents or a wondercrstal or various liquids/tints which may or may not be useful).
You can also, at any time you are online/in-the-realm/awake, find that Ironbeard has teleported to you and given you a present(just as random as the gnomes), then he ports away.
So, this is kinda random. Nikka needed a new beast. After considering nightmares and eagles and spiders, and deciding they didn't really fit Nikka at all, I discovered that @Entrias was selling a few baby beasts from the Czigny wayfaire in his shop.
One was a manticore. It seemed to fit for some reason.
Now it was for a lot of gold (at least, a lot of gold to me, probably not actually that much for most demigods). So I went and hunted. And hunted and hunted and hunted, and sold the corpses (and I didn't even feel bad about not offering them, cause the gods were all dead) and managed to get the gold to buy the manticore.
I didn't know what inherents manticores got, so I was happy to discover they got battle/agressive, which was part of why I wanted a beast (the other being bodyguard). So yay, I now have a cute-but-prideful mantikitten, which is all the better for feeling like I worked hard for her.
Thanks Entrias for enabling me to get a manticore! (who I think is @Shaddus?)
Had a lot of fun creating my merry little gypsy band even if it was only for such a short time so raves to @Yarith@Ardyos@Falmiis@Aeya@Rolsand and even the ever so reluctant @Essentia
Doing gypsy card readings was quite fun too! Thanks to @Eritheyl and @Avurekhos for playing along and damn.. there was at least one more. Sorry!
what's this gnomes thing i keep hearing about in conjuction to presents?
Solstice gnomes. Every once in a while, the admin flood the world with gnomes. They show up anywhere on Prime that isn't org territory I think (but I'm terribad at finding them, myself). If you do find one, beg from it and it gives you a present!
They actually do show up on org territory, so make sure to scope your orgs out too. Also, you can only get one per drop.
You just gotta be fast before they all get snapped up. Sometimes you can find them long after they've been released though, just depends on where they're dropped.
(I'm the mom of Hallifax btw, so if you are in Hallifax please call me mom.)
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Had a lot of fun creating my merry little gypsy band even if it was only for such a short time so raves to @Yarith@Ardyos@Falmiis@Aeya@Rolsand and even the ever so reluctant @Essentia
Doing gypsy card readings was quite fun too! Thanks to @Eritheyl and @Avurekhos for playing along and damn.. there was at least one more. Sorry!
Props to @Portius for telling me that my terrible Market puns make the world a better place! Your comment made me smile, and I appreciate that.
Don't listen to Portius. Puns are bad things and you shouldn't be making them.
An Explanation of Puns or A Cry For Help
So I roll out of bed at 6 this morning and I immediately start sorting through this stack of magazines at the foot of the bed to figure out which to keep/recycle since I have a few moments to think about these things over the holidays.
The stack is of just one magazine, Nature the science journal from the approximately the past 6-9 months only. The stack is 33.3 cm high. That's about 60-70 issues.
Consider if you will, the cover of the first journal I lay eyes on.
October 15th, 2015.
"Mind Games" -- What can modern neuroscience tell us about human brain function? p. 371
Alright. Not really that bad why are you complaining Kaalak---
Bottom left hand corner: "Gut Feelings" -- Are intestinal bacteria shaping our minds? p. 312
*eyetwitch* I flip the journal open randomly.
"A good way to dye" p. 462. Above that a section is bolded "Picture Perfect" in an article on nanoscopes in cellular imaging.
Literally the opposite page "Panoramic Vision" -- Conversation, satellite imagery and woman in science
Have you thrown up in your mouth a little?
Next few journals in the stack from the cover:
"Growing in the wind" -- Accretion-disk winds drive evolution of supermassive black holes and their galaxies. (March 26)
"Water Enters a New Phase" -- 'Square ice' found between the graphene sheets
BOOOOOO
"Every Breath You Take..." -- Wearable body sensors could transform health care (Dec 3)
"Bee Line" -- Beeswax traces in pottery vessels date human use of hive products to the beginning of agriculture (Nov 12)
"That Sinking Feeling" -- If rising tides don't kill Kiribati, then thirst will (Aug 10)
Get the picture?
Word play and terrible terrible puns are in every publication in this stack and widespread amoung high level academic and technical journals.
There is a reason for this partially. Things can be difficult to keep straight so the publishers use puns and knock offs of popular song titles as memes to embed the information into your memory. On the other hand they all hang out and compete with each other being as to who can be the cleverest and we the readers suffer as a result.
But Kaalak, Puns are bad!
There is something called Stockholm Syndrome.
I use to hate puns.
Honest.
Puns are the lowest form of humor. But when you have to regularly keep up with the pace of a field you are bombarded with this shit
Then...then you come to miss it.
First you start to play around with cute titles in books. Then you make puns on Market.
Lowest? Pfft. Fart jokes and slapstick are the lowest form of humor. Puns are a measure of one's wit and vernacular. Being able to craft a good pun is an artform that requires one to be on one's toes and to know the language to its very roots!
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS A VERY THOROUGH ARGUMENT ABOUT PUNS, FART JOKES, AND SLAPSTICK. THERE ARE CITATIONS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I think we can agree that in the West, at least, people generally consider classical (meaning ancient Greece and Rome) literature as part of high culture. Why, I've even heard people say that Hallifax is basically Greece, in reference to culture. This is very wrong, but it's a sign that Greece means high art. Therefore, let us examine classical comedy and reveal the true standing of puns, slapstick, and fart jokes.
Enter Aristophanes.
So I'm going to be linking things on the Perseus Project in the original Greek, but you can pull up a translation on a sidebar.
The Clouds is a play that exists to mock Socrates. If you look at this passage, you will find that Strepsiades rants at great length about how awful his wife is, but concedes that she weaves a lot. This is a pun. Weaving was what good wives did, but it was also a slang term for wasting money.
If you look here, you'll see a lot of insults directed at specific people. Fairly standard insults. This dude is a coward, this one is womanly, and so forth.
And moving on ever so slightly to this passage and the following page, we can observe the noble fart joke in its natural habitat, as part of a discussion about what causes thunder.
And let's start with the slapstick! Check this out, and this. Followed by a rather compelling argument about why sons are allowed to beat their fathers.
And all that is in just one play! This one emphasizes puns more than slapstick, but there's plenty of that in this one and in others. Thus we find that all these forms of low humor date back to the very origins of Western literature and are worthy of inclusion in Lusternia wherever possible.
Q.E.D.
Any sufficiently advanced pun is indistinguishable from comedy.
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Don't listen to Portius. Puns are bad things and you shouldn't be making them.
One was a manticore. It seemed to fit for some reason.
Now it was for a lot of gold (at least, a lot of gold to me, probably not actually that much for most demigods). So I went and hunted. And hunted and hunted and hunted, and sold the corpses (and I didn't even feel bad about not offering them, cause the gods were all dead) and managed to get the gold to buy the manticore.
I didn't know what inherents manticores got, so I was happy to discover they got battle/agressive, which was part of why I wanted a beast (the other being bodyguard). So yay, I now have a cute-but-prideful mantikitten, which is all the better for feeling like I worked hard for her.
Thanks Entrias for enabling me to get a manticore! (who I think is @Shaddus?)
Doing gypsy card readings was quite fun too! Thanks to @Eritheyl and @Avurekhos for playing along and damn.. there was at least one more. Sorry!
Sometimes you can find them long after they've been released though, just depends on where they're dropped.
== Professional Girl Gamer ==
Yes I play games
Yes I'm a girl
get over it
It was gold.
But Kaalak, Puns are bad!
I think we can agree that in the West, at least, people generally consider classical (meaning ancient Greece and Rome) literature as part of high culture. Why, I've even heard people say that Hallifax is basically Greece, in reference to culture. This is very wrong, but it's a sign that Greece means high art. Therefore, let us examine classical comedy and reveal the true standing of puns, slapstick, and fart jokes.
Enter Aristophanes.
So I'm going to be linking things on the Perseus Project in the original Greek, but you can pull up a translation on a sidebar.
The Clouds is a play that exists to mock Socrates. If you look at this passage, you will find that Strepsiades rants at great length about how awful his wife is, but concedes that she weaves a lot. This is a pun. Weaving was what good wives did, but it was also a slang term for wasting money.
If you look here, you'll see a lot of insults directed at specific people. Fairly standard insults. This dude is a coward, this one is womanly, and so forth.
And moving on ever so slightly to this passage and the following page, we can observe the noble fart joke in its natural habitat, as part of a discussion about what causes thunder.
And let's start with the slapstick! Check this out, and this. Followed by a rather compelling argument about why sons are allowed to beat their fathers.
And all that is in just one play! This one emphasizes puns more than slapstick, but there's plenty of that in this one and in others. Thus we find that all these forms of low humor date back to the very origins of Western literature and are worthy of inclusion in Lusternia wherever possible.
Q.E.D.
Ixion tells you, "// I don't think anyone else had a clue, amazing form."