That book was not fiction.

Your DM has been under the weather this weekend. Updates will resume in a day or two.

Fireball the germs!

I wish it was germs - I could have avoided them. This is just something I have and if I overdo certain things, it takes a few days for my system to recover, which sucks. But I'm back to normal just in time to take off for Thanksgiving - I can look in from a phone but I won't be posting to the game threads. Thanks for your patience, all.

Speaking from someone that has fluid pressure problems, when your body doesn't do what you want it to, it sucks. Sorry to hear about your problems, and enjoy your Thanksgiving.

I've been suffering from the smoke the last week, can't go out and get my walks and feel like heck, but it rained today!  Hopefully that'll help the fires be controlled and clean out the air.

I've never been so happy for rain!

We are going to get heavy snow tomorrow, so we've stocked up and are ready to camp in for a day or three, just in case. I'll update all by Sunday afternoon, my time.

In reply to DMJSC (msg # 591):

The weather map is weird, there's snow all around us but not here. It's so cold that I think we're foisting the snow on all of our neighbors.

Wet and slightly cold (43F right now) over here in the lower NE.

The same storm that was headed towards our DM passed by my neck of the woods Sunday. In a seven mile stretch it went from 8.5 inches of snow to none. Rarely in my 50 years have I seen such a narrow edge to such an intense storm! I was in the none, luckily.

Well, smoke's all gone, but I've still been suffering with throat, nose, and sinus issues.  I'm not sure how long this will persist, all I could find was that it varies and could last 'some time' after inhaling smoke.

All natural traps for particles best kept out of the lungs. I, for one, am glad to learn that things are not worse!

I know it's not your intent, but you're just making me wish I had bought a pipe, while I was in town. It's not like I didn't have the gold.

Your DM has just hit 10,000 posts in this game. I guess I DM a lot....

Way to go Jeff.  DM or not 10,000 posts is a fair total for anyone.

Admire the myriad.

myr·i·ad
/ˈmirēəd/
literary
noun
noun: myriad; plural noun: myriads

    1.
    a countless or extremely great number.
    "networks connecting a myriad of computers"
    synonyms: a multitude, a large/great number, a large/great quantity, scores, quantities, a mass, a host, droves, a horde; More
    informallots, loads, masses, stacks, scads, tons, hundreds, thousands, millions, gazillions, bajillions
    "a myriad of insects"
    2.
    (chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.

My trivia-filled brain actually knew that a myriad was 10,000.

That's hardly trivial.

Do you remember how many are in a hecatomb?

100

But you're not the one trying not to be impressed...

But I guess you're proving my point. To a gamer, this kind of information is not trivial. These are important terms to people like us.

The real question is 100 what?  Any why are they buried like that?

Usually oxen, sacrificed at the beginning of the month we call July by the ancient Athenians. The entrails and other choice bits were burned as offerings to Athena.

It came, over time, to mean any large sacrificial offering, whether or not the offering was immolated.

Shall we next discuss taurobolium?

I'd root for the bull.

I'd rather debate why a pantheon means many gods, but only one building.