Hey, the mists took me.  I don't know what everyone else's reasons are....

=^_^=

Wisdom? Actually, Zertin's charisma is his lowest stat at the low-average score of 10. He has a knack with people, and high enough dexterity to duck what they throw at him.  ;o)

Be thankful he has enough wisdom not to say the first thing he though of. 'Head chef' might be a mistake but 'Burger King' would be a whopper!  :o)

Would anybody object if I smote him for that?

LOL - I definitely deserve it!

Hopefully one of the other characters knows enough about the local customs and titles to correct Zertin's mistakes.

Smite away!

Violet? Local customs?  Good lord, no.

Well... Skald. grin


You'd have my blessing.


I'd been thinking about it, like, earlier, with Saeko.  In some ways it's a little weird establishing different cultures, yet still all speaking Common.  I don't particularly have a language on Saeko's sheet that matches up with those things she says that are nonsense to the rest of you, but so much of her flavor would be lost if I just kept those all as English.

Honestly I don't know if I kind of figure she really does have an extra language that just isn't relevant to anything, or that Common just has some very wide-ranging `dialects' across the dimensions.  I suppose I lean towards the latter.  Her culture, for whatever reason, just has seriously different rules for proper nouns, but almost everything else is the same.  Maybe their names are based on an old language, otherwise dead and forgotten.  And since her Common is otherwise kind of built on that, it may still bleed in as some odd phrasings here and there, but for the most part... just names.

Which is why it's really cool to see someone like Arafarafarfa, who has really taken it and made Common a second language.  I suppose it could be irritating if it happened too often (like, I'm glad I didn't do that with Saeko - and I had considered it when I was first writing her up - because two of us in one game would be a bit much, I think, and Arafarafarfa just does it so very well.)  But since I don't see it often, I think it's awesome.

...Anyway.  Bergermeister seems like a pretty localized term IRL, and clearly not her locality, so as happy as she generally seems to be to correct people, she won't be handling this one.  Her best guess is that it's someone who sprays just a little bit of water on `bergers', which are maybe some sort of flower?  She'd be the first to admit it's not a very good guess.

Common ?  Piece of cake.  TARDIS translation circuits are fully operational.   :P

OR ... all D&D worlds were once thriving Earth colonies, and in all cases things went downhill relatively rapidly.  Play a few nuclear Armageddons and/or Ice Ages over the resultant mess and here we are.  The rudiments of the language survive to a lesser or greater extent almost everywhere.

I've always believed in finding a good, in-character reason to involve myself in the plot.  ^_^

Me too !  Oh, hang on, I'm the GM ... plot ?  We have a plot ?  ;>

With my usual brilliant timing, I'm going to be away from the computer for the next two weeks, so I'll leave you to continue your very entertaining getting-to-know-you, and I'll answer your questions and set you on the path to certain doom your way, on my triumphant return.

Good luck!  :D

Looking forward to the triumphantness!  I just hope it's all it's cracked up to be.  All too often, people say they're going to have a triumphant return, and then they just sort of... come back.  It's crushing.

No pressure.

In reply to Saeko (msg # 102):

I beg to differ.  If something, or somebody, is being crushed, then obviously there must be a certain amount of pressure, otherwise there would be no crushing.

....well-said.  ^_^

Well, hey now!  First you begged to differ, and then you just went right ahead and differed without waiting for permission?  You are in so much trouble.

Secondly, I used to have a pressure cooker, and the food did not come out crushed, so clearly pressure and crushing are totally unrelated, ipso facto, gaudeamus igitur, ut proverbium loquitur vetus.

But thirdly, I second Violet, and... why do I suddenly feel like I'm counting down?  Does anybody else hear ticking?

Ah, you might be onto something there, Saeko.

High in the castle, the once lord is no longer  ...  is that a Count down, perhaps?  ;o)

Lol!

Saeko's old pressure cooker would impart an equal pressure in all directions upon its contents.  'Food' is usually a fluid, or permeable to pressure, therefore the pressure within the food is equal to the pressure inside the cooker.  So, whilst the food does experience pressure, it does not get crushed.  Crushing implies the pressure is acting in one direction only, eg downwards.  In regard to the anticipation of a less-than-triumphant return one may say: It's crushing... No balancing pressure is to be expected.

In reply to Qvar (msg # 107):

See?  I told you!  Paladin = always right.

I'm pretty sure that just means the Truffula Trees have a chance again.


But what about the balancing pressure of, "Yay, our GM is back!"?  What about the balancing pressure of proving the paladin wrong?

Nothing in the Multiverse can generate enough pressure to prove a paladin wrong.  We are, after all, the strong right arm of our god (with the emphasis on right arm).

It is our duty to right wrongs, and our god trusts us to do this.
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The paladin's argument is reinforced by reference to a higher authority.  The laws of physics stand above the laws of the gods. :-)

Dexter, not sinister?

There's nothing sinister about paladins.

Sez the Paladin... ^_^

Says the one acting like a cat toy.  ;)

In any case, if the paladin says it, then it must be correct.  Because paladins are always right.
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Hunches down, tail end wiggles and pupils dilates.