Hmm. Good point.

Very good point. Bozon's magic allows him to power up through misery, and he's about to get some misery. Stall with attempts & power up, and if he laughs first, great. But if not, release a big spell to look strong & gain his respect.

The next post in Bozon's thread will shed some light on possible aids. Bozon, Tine's father, Az & hir sword (works with Echo too), the Dragon avatar with Aflae, Annabelle's twin, Reuel, the old man by the fire with Az's girlfriend, Kantoku, Patrus, and more will all be involved in the planned resolution.

I can think of warp drives of non-tech origin in a number of different novels and webcomics. The Sheewash Drive (the one that you do it with yourself) from The Witches of Karres in particular comes to mind.

And I think that I just figured out two different ways past Dragon's immunity to Magus, permitting wizards to attack them with it.

1) Enchant their surroundings to produce a non-magical effect. Explode the air beneath their wings, for example, or transmute it into lead to weigh them down.

2) The immunity is based on their ability to observe, therefore, come in a fashion that needs weird methods to detect. Such as a spell attached to a Then-When Circle, so that the incoming effect is orbiting "now" at a radius of half a second, making it extremely hard to spot before it slathers greasepaint all over the dragon's face and puts a teeny-weenie, yellow, polka dot bikini on them.

Hmm? Charmed Lap Pillow Ear Cleaning?
Not my style of horror, but I will say it's a decidedly different concept for defeating someone.

*ponders comical insanity...*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JPoVtF1Fcw
An insanely complex dish that has to be defeated in thumb wrestling as the final step before it can be served.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6_YCLj5zg
Hidden clowns...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEo_t-iVbM
Villainous dating practices backfire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeVPaxfNsKQ
The title says it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76IGLi6jWI
An oft-forgotten holiday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiV9uwJkRNM
Art strikes back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A139AHfWVIw
Stand up comedy, the old-fashioned way.

Regarding Dragons, there are ways. Mostly it involves throwing things with Magus. All a Dragon has to do is look at Magus and it dissipates, but if a boulder has already been thrown at you before you notice, you better just dodge. Physics doesn't mind maintaining momentum when you look.

Decided to try and make the young him laugh? Nice xD

Nice, and very interesting. I'm not sure how Joe will react to this- young or old Joe.

I'm half wishing I had more time right now, but I'm in the food supply chain so my job is still fully active. I hope all of you are doing well right now and staying safe

I'm ill in my den, with a nasty, juicy cough and bringing up globs of discolored junk regularly. Plus I'm stuck in my father/owners isolation as per the pandemic response because of his age.

I was on dissability already.

The way people are handling things and the way stuff is working out is making me awfull depressed though......

Hopefully this leads to positive change though.

I think it will all lead to the best possible outcome, but it will take awhile to get there.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 254):

Best possible outcome? In real life or in the game world(s)?
In-game I can accept that as a possibility, but real life is so screwed up...

It's part of my faith that everything is working out toward the best possible outcome for the greatest possible portion of people.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 256):

It's very hard to see what kind of choices and paths will lead that way, Scord. I'm seeing far, far more of Thagirion's imbalance than I see hints of Tipheret's glory in the socio-political landscape. I may personally strongly favor tikkun olam and the path towards healing and reconciliation of darkness with light, but I gather that it is far more common among Eve's descendants (who outnumber us greatly) to see it in terms of one crushing the other completely.

In the immediate, I see difficult times ahead. In the end, darkness is not the absence of light, but the absence of something to reflect that light. Just as in the vacuum of space where rays of light are passing through nearly every point (if not actually every point), there is light in the darkness, but all light is from one Source, and all dark is simply the absence of the Source. As long as a thing retains some aspect of the Source, it retains existence. The things that identify themselves with darkness, have light in them, but that light is not retained.


Do you mean the Semitic peoples? I've recently learned that Adam means humanity and Eve means life.

Light crushes darkness by allowing darkness to have its way and the consequences of its actions, while not holding it against anyone who accepts that they can't produce their own light & regrets their darkness.

Would you mind telling me more about Thagirion's imbalance, Tipheret's glory and tikkun olam?

In reply to Narrator (msg # 258):

I'm descended from Adam through Lilith rather than through Eve.

Tipheret is the portion of the Tree of Life most closely corresponding to Christ's home, the splendor of God, and its' position on the Tree places it on the direct line between Malkuth (Earth) and Keter (where God's throne could be said to be). Or, in the structure of Adam Kadmon, Tipheret is his heart while Keter is the crown of divine light (halo?) surrounding his head.

Thagirion is Tipheret's counterpart in the Tree of Death, a center of Christ's power but not a healthy one. It is... associated with those who create ugliness in the name of God, then groan about the hideousness of their own making. Each vessel of the Tree of Death is a flawed, distorted, warped version of the matching perfection on the Tree of Life. The same principle, but woefully out of balance with each other.

Tikkun olam is the process of repairing the damage of the first Fall. Seeking to restore the intended order to God's creation, healing the broken vessels and letting them merge with and be absorbed into their counterparts. This Fall is the one that happened in the earliest stages of Genesis, at the "Let there be Light" level or thereabouts, not the later Fall caused by the Serpent.

Long time ago I had a werid prophedic thing about things to come leading up to a big change and that change leading to really good things or really bad things and I think that's here now and I can only hope that change still leaned tourge the good outcome like it was way back then..... but a lots gone on sense then that makes me think otherwise  u.u

It's both. Worse things are to come, and things will get to a point where people from 1 month ago would look on the world of 1 year from now with confusion and disbelief. But things will get unimaginably better in the end.

Yow! A roll of 834 and he didn't laugh?
What the HECK? Did someone cast The Green And Purple Postponement Of Joy on him at a cosmic power level, in addition to that curse?!?

Notice how I purposely haven't revealed King Joe's levels yet? I've just implied them by what he effortlessly accomplishes.

he's older thand old

A quick side-not side-note for Aflae, Stella-land could house a virtual Balur, but if they tried to have a real one there that the mages couldn't directly attack, they'd simply destroy Stella-land, which they could do since it was made with Balur. It's a good idea, but too dangerous. Also, do you really think mages are their only weapon?
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I figured they could just destroy the entrance at worce destroying an inter univurse seams a little hard to do......  though they could always just have joe do it I guess >.<

Well anyone have any better sugestions where to store a back up node?   Or that just not an option?