11 Oct
After the reception with the leaders of the allied houses, Imogen felt restless with her thoughts, and needed some time to process them. So she walked, taking a long, indirect route back to the slave quarters. She felt secure walking the streets of Menzoberranzan alone: although she was a valuable piece of property, traffickers would […]
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03 Oct
In what feels like the calm before the storm, Imogen finds herself and her companions (most of whom she’s spent the last several weeks adventuring with) in a well-appointed manor house reporting back to the leaders of the allied houses about their adventures, particularly the intelligence gathered about the growing rift between the priestesses of […]
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02 Oct
I still buy CDs pretty regularly, because I have a CD player in my car that isn’t fancy like the aftermarket one we put in @fairiemom’s car with the USB port and external auxilliary jack and multicolored LEDs and all that other fun stuff you get with those things. I still need to feed it […]
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01 Oct
I spent much of this weekend camping with the boy child and several of his peers at the local boy scout reservation for the fall camporee event. Given the weather (pounding rain Friday night, leading to local power outages and flooding), the senior cubs (which my kid is) ended up, due to both mobile phone […]
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27 Sep
““My, my…haven’t you started a delightful little war!” Upon hearing those words from the well-dressed drow gentleman with the rapier pointed at her party, Imogen felt a moment of disorientation, and found the world around her once again shifted. The circumstances were the same, though her companions were once again those with whom she fell […]
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25 Sep
This week I joined a “guitar ensemble”. It’s a short-term commitment, with a performance of a couple of instrumental pieces coming up in a couple of weeks. If this experiment is a success, there will likely be more performances down the road. It’s all very low pressure, and designed for players of all levels; it’s […]
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19 Sep
Imogen, the human slave to the great drow noble House Melarn finally regained consciousness. She found herself once again surrounded by her familiar drow companions; Xune the mercenary warlock, Syndrina, the hexblade of House Xorlariin, and Aliandriia, the priestess who served as her Melarn overseer on this particular mission. She was confused about the memories […]
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18 Sep
Like music? Like books? Like geeky stuff? Got at least five bucks? Then please consider downloading my friend John Anealio’s new album: Laser Zombie Robot Love. John’s a talented musician, songwriter, scholar of 80s metal ephemera and all-around good guy whose music you should be listening to: Finely crafted folk-rock music in the Coulton vein, […]
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13 Sep
Imogen remains unconscious, occasionally catching flashes of activity around her, but can’t really make sense of it. She can’t help but feel, however, that her continued torpor will be ultimately rejuvinating. — This week’s recap is rather uneventful because I am feeling a bit under the weather and wasn’t up to gaming after putting in […]
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06 Sep
When last we left our protagonists, they’d just overcome an attack by subterranean creepy crawlies, and encountered (and dealt with) their rival adventuring crew on the way to the hidden temple to perform a ritual at a particular altar in order to channel it’s arcane energy toward the will of their superiors… Taking a short […]
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