Peredhil

Peredhil pops back in from five hours of driving, eating a belated Thanksgiving meal, and debugging code with a flash. Thus far, the Ring is returning him from Life quickly, but he hopes if it becomes a struggle, others will carry on until the Ring's magic returns him. Stick, excellent idea! I suggest we eliminate the immediate and obvious before we try the delayed and obtuse. As long as there is a group with one more person than all the rest (counted singly rather than as a total), we should be able to active the Rings and return to the group. The only drawback I can see is that the Rings return you from the group to where you were when you used them (or were plucked away, as Life keeps ceasing me). I'm thinking that Tanuchan should lead a party to explore the Inner Guild areas, Gyrfalcon should take someone other than Salinye to explore the Tower. (we DO want your eyes sharp for Annael, dear friend, but when you're around her, you have eyes for no other woman, no offense intended.) I'll take a person or two and search the FAQs and Inner Walls. We'll meet back at the Courtyard. If anyone else comes late, Elrohir will wait here to brief them on what's happening, and offer them a Ring. Is that okay with y'all? The Butterflies whirled like a living rainbow into the air, and settled on Elrohir like the finest of raiment, signaling their assent.

With a flicker Peredhil blinks out and after an hour is back. Well, dealt with Sweet Potatoes, Anti-virus updates, moving a couch, and a moment at a Magi BBQ. I guess the Rings *DO* work. Of sorts. I'm still here with the majority of worn Rings! I'll leave the rest of the Rings here - that way others can join as they desire and have time. If any of us are dragged away by Life, we'll be able to rejoin the group. Speaking of which...He takes an extra ring for Annael for when they find her, I'll just take this one for our angel. Looking around, he beams happily. What a marvelous group we have so far! With Knight and Gnarlitch along, (you ARE wearing your Rings in case we're separated, yes?) I feel safe in leaving Guido and Nuncio behind. Anyone have an idea where Life could've hidden Annael? At his words, the Butterflies took flight and milled about in a twister of dismay. Tracking their angel was THEIR job, and they felt guilty at having lost her.

Peredhil looked around at the hands and sadly noted that Life was making serious inroads into the Pen Membership. Many had signs of the malady that no Ring of Healing could assuage. If he could've looked in a mirror at that point, he would've (under the butterflies) seen symptoms on his own visage as well. Sending Elrohir (for Elladan was in The Reincarnation running armies) to his chambers, Peredhil had El' place a chest on the table. Given all the time restraints placed on us, I propose we use these. Blowing dust off the cover of the coffer, he unlocked and opened it. Small shimmering Rings glimmered in black felt. Curious butterflies descended to investigate and suddenly there were a winged rainbow of rings. Each of these is an unkeyed Ring. Now that the Butterflies have so nicely Keyed themselves, I propose we each take a Ring with its butterfly. What this will do is provide teleportation from whereever a person is, to the largest cluster of rings, and back to the individual's starting point. They wax and wane and have odd side effects, not fully researched. This was the Beta set. But this will allow us to participate in the Hunt for Annael as we can afford the time to do so, popping in and out as we have time. Taking a ring, he put it on. The sapphire blue butterfly batted its wings nerviously, but hung on like grim death. It was willing to make sacrifices for its mistress.

Sounds like Salinye, bless her heart.

Happy Birthday - and GET WELL!!!

For the time-challenged, could we see a list here at the bottom of who still owes dates?

It was an "I'll search the bodies" thing It had chocolate frosting, so of course I sucked it. Hey, cook another one with the Manticore topping. Two Dwarf burgers and a coke please.

Ooooooh. Way to grill that weenie award!

What a bleak winter poem. Well done.

Speak softly but wield a big Vote? Focusing on the future and wondering why others focus on the past? Favorite: Silent but Deadly?

Wow. Welcome back with a bang! Good piece. You've been missed. Huggles

Hugs Any amount of time with which you grace the Pen with your presence is Good Time. It's quality, not quantity. That said, I hope you can increase the quantity as well!

Too cool... You know, when I consider it, it saddens me that you and I (and Ozy and Wyvern) live so closely but haven't gotten together...

One of the features in Reincarnation is that the Status Report and the Disband screen both list your stacks in correct stacking order, figuring in the adjusted powers for Flying and Melee. As a clue, one way to do what Rev' mentions is to realize that an equal percentage of Flyers stacks higher than Melee stacks higher than Ranged. So, for example, a lesser percent of Flyers will still stack higher than the larger percent of Ranged.

Done in a nonce, M'Lady

before casting Contract, stock way up on Book of Prophecy and Wine of Three Whips. BoP steals people from another mage (seed stock), and WoTW increases their fertility rate to Energizer Bunny proportions. Or at least, that's how it was told to me. I've never played Nether.

Welcome back Tattered, always good to see you. You're voice often murmurs, whispers, shouts - sings praises too. But no matter what you post or how long the time away, Your Pen family, the family of NOW, welcomes you anyway. The past clasps the present with cold dead skeletal claws And tries to wrench the focus on to it. But you can only plan for tomorrow, and live in the now - So tell the past, Politely, to screw it. It has no power that you don't lend it, The nightmares strong can fade. From the desert sun of loneliness, Come into the Pen's oasis of shade.

RotFLOL!

Side notes: If intelligence is genetic, and intelligent people realize that over-population is a problem and avoid breeding large families - does that mean stupidity will eventually out-breed the intelligent? A recent study of the effects of Television on children showed a startling 100% of children who watched 3+ hours of TV a day ended up testing positive for Attention Deficit Disorder. Glaring fatigue error: Children UNDER THE AGE OF TWO who watched 3+ hours etc Amazing how facts distort when you leave things out...

Spiritually from my understanding of Judo-Christian based literature, it would be because "Satan" is the screwed up competative world as it is according to "common sense" and "being realistic". The reason as given according to my understanding is that God gave Adam the responsibility and authority (which translates to ownership and dominion) over the earth and its creatures. When Adam committed treason by his disobedience, he effectively gave that ownership to the devil. I believe that at one place, the devil is referred to as the 'god of this world' to indicate his ownership. That Jesus the anointed didn't just laugh at the devil when offered control of the powers and principalities and stuff, but instead answered it seriously with the word of God, would suggest this as well. I do like that when Jesus rejects Peter's entirely sensible (according to the priorities of the world's logic) suggestion, it is with "get behind me Satan" - dealing with the source of the suggestion. I also like that that was the end of it - no one freaked out and treated Peter like a leper just because he'd messed up. So that's one point of view. Of course, when using spiritual matters as an excuse to act on worldly desires, you get the very well documented results which appear in every human culture of which I'm aware. All human societies have some form of religion, and all of them of which I've read have a record of some abuse of that religion. Now, moving to a worldly five-senses view of the same issue... Genetically speaking, it only makes sense to kill those different from your genetic line, since they compete for resources. If someone is visibly different, the likelihood of shared genes is smaller, so it doesn't make genetic sense to share resources unless they are a female under your culture's control, so they can combine their genes with yours. Conservation of the Seed helps to explain why males will die for their genetic lines. Males are able to reproduce for a much longer period of time, and can impregnate many females. Therefore, they're more expendible genetically speaking. Men also have a need for confidence, status in the society, and resources capabilities to be genetically attractive. Consider "Joe Millionare", where females were willing to prostitute themselves with a stranger for the chance of a million dollars. Status confers ability to protect the spawn. etc. etc. If you think of it from the sperm and eggs points of view, most of this is pretty obvious deduction. Of course, if someone fixes your starting point, no matter how wrong, the arguments are much more likely to build their way...

There was once a herd of llamas that lived next to a herd of cows - - separated only by a small fence. The cows would trick the young llamas into coming over near the fence, then when they got close enough, the cows would grab them and pull them over to their side. At that point, they would kick the llamas around - - using them like soccer balls, or worse! The moral of the story? Llamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cow toys.

All I would say you know. But I'm reminding you it is still all true. hugs Remember, I still haven't let you out of anything you've gotten yourself into - hearts, pockets, Dungeons. AP-E Peredhil

Deaf. If I can read, I have worlds in my mind. I "hear" your voices here as I read your posts. I'd not be deprived of my online family and friends.

Falcon, you'd be in huge trouble - of a kind, in my family. The Patriarch of my side of the family instituted a Rule that if you are eligible to vote and don't (for whatever reason), you weren't allowed to make any political comments until you voted. I remember my family setting up one of my brothers who'd not voted, saying things that were guaranteed to set him off, and him fuming in silence. Heh. It was a lesson to us all. Is there Political Viagra? Last Presidential Election, if I recall, Florida had Electile Disfunction...

Ooop! Had it pointed out that Maralasoth is a FEMALE Roc. I'm sorry! I didn't dare try to get close enough to check her gender... The story has been fixed.