The Hulk vs. The Gnomes of Zurich
Bruce Banner finds his bank account critically overdrawn. Investigation reveals that his credit card pulled a payment from the wrong account. Twice.
Further attempts to contact the credit card company lead to an endless loop of having the same instructions repeated at him, which he has already followed, and told that no one can do anything, and that everything is the fault of someone else.
After the fifth representative, Bruce Banner is ANGRY. He hulks up and leaps to the call center in India, where it is revealed that they are only controlled by a bank in Switzerland.
(Note: Hulk no have...
Copious Notes for a future Wizard Based D&D Campaign
(Extreme Geek Alert!) Relatively low magic world, by regulation, not by nature.
After the sack, most "magic hording" was forbidden. The magic items still in existence are either extremely powerful and very well guarded, capable of masking themselves, or in places no one has bothered looking.
Most accessable magical items are going to be of the Legacy variety: not very magical seeming, so that they got past the inspections, but with lots of potential locked up.
The art of building new magical items is a lost art, so far as anyone knows.
Concents are homes to not only...
Thanksgiving
I'm spending this Thanksgiving in Seattle. It gives me a bit of a different perspective on things.
This year, I'm thankful for all the people who I hardly ever see, but who I can still strike up a friendly conversation with as though I talked to them yesterday.
I'm thankful I can take a week's vacation, even if it is the first one in two years, and may be hte last for a long while.
I'm thankful I have relatives who will cheerfully let us stay with them, borrow a car, borrow their gps and their child.
I'm thankful for all the people who I'm dubiously related to by way of...
Fantasy Ferret Legging
Note: the following links may not be work/sanity safe, but entertaining.
Ferret Legging
Hyena Men
Cock Fighting
Bear Baiting
There is a general rule here: any animal that can be caught in some form will, sooner or later, be turned into a sport and probably a pet.
In a fantasy setting, I imaging this would lead to such exciting things as capturing baby wyverns, sticking them in barrels, and standing in the barrel for longer than your opponent, and hoping that the swelling in your balls from the wyvern venom ever went down.
Or the ever popular pet displacer beast.
