Mmmmm, Strawberry Tarte...

Av, let me again reccomend that book series 'The General' by Drake and Stirling. I've read a lot of SF, and a fair chunk of military SF, and it gets an A+ for military SF. And it was the basis for one world you visited very shortly.

PT

How, hmmm, I don't know what what the word is to describe my situation, but you know that strange kind of relief you feel when you screw something up royally, like keeping up with posting, only realise that it doesn't matter because something else is causing congestion in the process.

Better me go grab a book and make some Strawberry Tarte then.
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So, uhm, how do you actually make Strawberry Tarte?

Edit: Bingo!
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Worldwalker waiting Tip #44: In the event that posting is delayed through no fault other then your own, be aware that you are likely online while reading this, and that the Internet is a big place full of pipes and tubes. Down one of those pipes is something entertaining. I recomment tvtropes.org as a fantastic timewaster.

I'll look into it, PT.  I've actually been looking for something new to read.  I ended up picking up ORCS, by Stan Nicholls.  The opening of it was at the back of the end of a series I finished reading a while back, and it is pretty decent so far (I've only read the first 4 chapters...) But really.. its cool so far...  vivid combat, and quite nice..

I think Orcs is a good book for you Avahur. I've read it, and I must say it gave me a whole new perspective of Orcs as a race. There's a lot of very brutal scenes in it, like a small party of Orcs blind rushing an entire army, which I think you will enjoy.

I just checked out some books from the library I plan on reading over the next couple of weeks.

Homer's Iliad (I already knew the story orally, but I've never actually read it.)
Euripides' Medea
Dante (all three parts)

I picked these up, because the library was too small to have what I was looking for:

1. Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here
2. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind

It's a bit of a shame that Tom and Oak have made such swift progress, while the rest of us drag on much more slowly, when in terms of actual time the duration it takes Hadrian, Krillis and Magnus (if he survives) to get out could be much shorter than the time Tom and Oak used to gather and train the army...

What I mean is that by the time the rest of us get back to civilization Tom and Oak will already have gone through the door at this pace, due to the differences in progress speed.

It's unavoidable I suppose, and the good news is that the rest of us will most likely have a chance to stay and learn lots of magic as a result, so in the end all is good.

Somewhere around May 20th, Oak will be taking over. In fact, I do need a Takeover Day from the honorable future GM. That will limit your chances to learn magic/get in trouble/date pretty girls/get eaten by kobolds/start magic wars that lead to the inundation and destruction of whole countries.

Hopefully we can wind up a few things like escaping the Pattern Room, and playing out the magic duel in Krillis' mind.

I hope so too...

On a side note, you may or may not have heard of the zombie swine flu hoax, where someone made a fake BBC site featuring an article about the H1Z1, which could supposedly in some cases restart the heart of dead victims and 'bring them back', albeit in a violent zombi-like form.

Pure nonsense, obviously, but my not so bright brother who apparently has been reading too much zombie fiction and playing too much left 4 dead.

He rang me up the other day and started talking heatedly about the zombie apocalypse. Gave me quite the scare.

There's no point to this, by the way. I just think it's mildly hilarious.

What do you mean 'no point to this.'? It means I was right all along! They laughed when dug that bunker underneath my yard and stashed it cola, Twinkies and pretzels. They laughed when I elevated my entire house by 6 feet, just out of zombie-claw range. They laughed when I installed an emergency 'in case of zombie apocalypse break glass'-shotgun container in the office. Well who's laughing now 'zombie-dinner'? AHahahaha!
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Sorry, I didn't get enough giggles this week.

Excellent suggestions for everyone's upcoming universe, Hadrian and Lucas!  Keep those good ideas coming!  :p

Hadrian,
I'm going to have to tell the Ladyfaire that one. Too good.

Krillis,
Have you heard of how ants will scramble up over the top of each other, even letting themselves be drowned in a stream in order to provide a bridge so that their kindred can get across and ravage the lands beyond? What if zombies learn how to climb on each others backs? Or what if they don't learn, but they just keep on stepping, and then crush the weaker zombies underfoot, and create a bridge up to your house? Are you really prepared?

Oak,
Are you prepared for May 20th? Da-da-dum! Or do you prefer another date?

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I'm not much on Zombie movies. I did enjoy Shaun of the Dead. Also, 28 Weeks was quite good. Any favorites of yours?

I think that as long as I had pants, a shirt, socks, and shoes on, that I could mentally handle a zombie apocalypse.

If I were missing any of those, I'd be unable to handle the situation at all.  I can't fight a zombie if it can see my...ya know... ...feet.

It will be nice to finish up the world, though.  I look forward to slamming a big boot in Hadrian's face for thinking that he knows my true name (haha, not angry, btw).  I never did specify one to PT (because I've never learned it-don't need to know), but I doubt an online handle is my true name.  Still, we'll see what happens.

I'm not afraid of any Zombie Apocalpse Swine Flu. I bought the Zombie Survival Guide and I'm not afraid to use it. Now how many of those preparations have...I...actually made.

Crud.

I honestly don't know what is worse: that I have the Zombie Survival Guide, or that I know what inside of it would be practical and what would not (I can actually second guess it).

I have the Zombie survival guide too. I have read it through thoroughly, and I believe that in the event of a widespread Zombie pandemic I would be able to handle myself better than the Average Joe.

My brother, on the other hand (not so much hilarious as a bit sad by the way), has a room full of canned goods (which he regularly helps himself to - it's not like he has a dedicated zombie shelter, just that he has made preparations that could also benefit him greatly in a zombie outbreak, as well as any other kind of crisis), as well as a shotgun and a ton of ammunation locked away in a secure locker in his basement. He has a permit to carry it and a permit to hunt big and small game with it. He has never, to this date, fired it at any living thing, and I don't think he plans to. A cookie to whoever guesses why he keeps it around ;)

And while we're already discussing Zombies: one of my more academic friends, who loves to discuss abstract theory such as time travel and how to scientifically explain magic, contacted me on Live messenger and wanted to discuss this whole Zombie Swine Flu thing. He often uses me to test the validity of his far fetched theories, because apparently I'm so terribly clever. We talked for a good long while on wether or not swine flu could mutate and produce the results outlined in the fake article, and whether or not people could be brought back permanently from death and behave similarly to the zombies in 28 Days Later. We quickly ruled out the old fashion dead-and-rotting zombies as downright impossible and improbable, and moved over to the Rage infected variety. I'll spare you the boring details, but what we arrived at, which I actually have to agree with, is that the entire concept is not, medically and scientifically, impossible. In other words, it won't do us any harm to keep an open mind and prepare, because if suddenly in these swine flu-hysteria times your neighbour suddenly rushes you, seemingly crazed and red-eyed, you don't want to hesitate in bringing that shovel down on his zombie head!

@ Krillis.

I would have agreed with you on that Hadrian didn't know your true name if I didn't have that otherwise sound belief handed to me with a firm slap across the face in Radix.

Hadrian isn't Hadrian's true name, but it didn't stop Lust from commanding Hadrian with it anyway. It turns out there's more to true naming then just knowing a name and using it. Sometimes the names people give themselves ring truer than the names that other people give them - at least this was the case with Hadrian.

The dice will decide, as always, and until that time I think we'll both hang on in suspense at wether this trick works or not.

That seems like a reasonable target...  :)

Hadrian,

Interesting.  I was unaware of your showdown with Lust in Radix (that was when I got somewhat busy with schoolwork at the University).  It makes a lot of sense, and I'm interested to see how it turns out in our mental duel.

(psst, I'm totally rooting for you)

Boom. 25000 posts reached. Man, that's a lot. :D
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Argh!  I go offline for only ninety minutes, and look what happens...  ;)

Congratulations to everyone, and most especially PT!!!!!!!!!!  :D

25000, eh?  >.> Just over 1/10th of that are my posts.. Yeah.. thats a lot of posts..

In other news..  how're yall's worlds going?

Though.. it'll be just under 1/10 in a few days >.>

My world's proceeding smoothly, I think. I'm enjoying it. It's a nice change of pace from the action I saw in my past two worlds. The characters rock, too.

Mine has been summarized as Batman in Space. Since I'm not that crazy prepared (friggin' Bat Shark Repellent?!), I'm not sure how close to that I'm going to come.

'Batman in space'! That's hilarious! Why didn't I think of that?

Half of being crazy prepared is knowing preparing for what would be crazy, and what would be normal. Being in space, bringing a space-suit would be wise, but a diving-suit would be crazy. So buy a batanium diving-suit; you'll look crazy, but whom will be laughing last when that thing holds its own in the cold vacuum of space.

I may try to speed things up here a bit at the end. See if I can get everyone to a conclusion, or kill them off anyways. :)

PT