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Thank you for the Bleeprin. :D

I've already read both and went to read the rest of Tangled Webs

My schedule's a little crazy now, too. The end-of-semester pileup is real and stressful...buuuuuut I think I can carve out a little time Sunday morning. Does 10:30 am my time (I'm on the East Coast) work for you?

Thank you!

Have a half-kilo of lembas and a laser pistol.

That sounds good. I'll see you then!

Any time both of us are free that night really. I can message you on discord for whenever I'm ready and then wait for you.

Please don't multi-post every topic you wish to discuss on the Board in separate threads. I speak from experience when I say that it clutters up the front page and pushes more important threads down and out of view, and in some cases off the front page altogether. If you wish to talk about multiple topics, either put them all in a single post, or reply to the previous post you made to keep everything on a single thread.

With that being said, the only mini-Boulder I've adopted is Indania, which was technically the first of, oh, almost two-score little quasi-sentient rocks from my second published mission. As a general rule, if I discover a new species of mini, I only adopt the first ever instance of said mini, so crystal skoal, being neck-and-nonexistent-neck with ndiana jones for the second instance, kinda lost out on that dubious honor. Considering that nobody else as far as I know has adopted any other mini-Boulder except that coprolite one that was given away during the 2015 New Year's Gift Exchange (I think firemagic's Ari received it), that means crystal skoal is technically up for grabs. So congrats, you now own a little round rock!

I'm not sure who is responsible for the ownership/discovery of the other two minis, but I guess you can talk it over with those people.

You've posted two threads in less than 12 hours and have two threads which you started by referencing Loud House on the front page. At present, you may have originated the most front page threads of any user here.

Relax.

Take it easy.

Give everyone else time to respond.

Maybe post threads a bit more conservatively.

I'd like to adopt the Mini-Boulder crystal skoal, the Mini-Rancor Darth Tyrannus and the mini-Missingno Pigeott, which takes the form of the Aerodactyl fossil.

Micro-transactions are now pretty much a requirement for a mobile game. Either to boost your stats, or to advance story quicker. The "Fantastic Beasts" game had that, the Avengers Academy had that, and now Hogwarts Mystery has it, too. Can't say I'm happy with that.

This is a free to play game. Ostensibly.

In the game, you have a resource called energy, and in order to complete quests, you have to tap around the game world and complete various actions, which require energy to do. You're very generously given one free energy every three and a half minutes—otherwise, you have to buy more with in-app purchases.

In order to advance the storyline, you also have the option of purchasing in-game gemstones to unlock the story quests; otherwise you'll get waiting times of an hour, three hours, and possibly even longer in later parts of the game.

To say I'm supremely disappointed by this is putting it mildly. You already have in-game currency to purchase to customize your character! Blocking off the story until you either pony up the cash or wait for hours to advance?

Boo. Major boo. I'm going to keep playing because I want to know what else happens in here, but I absolutely refuse to cave and buy permission to play through the story right away.

(Originally starts here, for completionists.)

While the paralysis had faded, Marisa still felt like she was dreaming - and horribly lost. So, she grasped for routine, protocol.

"F- Fairest and Fallen, greetings and defiance!" she exclaimed - though it was really more of a squeak. It didn't even echo, not that that was the worst of her problems.

"Oh, come now," the Lone Power said; from where It said this, she couldn't easily tell. Not that she often looked at peoples faces in dreams, anyway, but if It wanted her unsettled It was succeeding. "You know this place; it's for fun times! ... Not that you've been doing your fair share of them, lately." It leered at her - or sure sounded like it was, at any rate.

"Or at all, really - you consume a lot more than you produce! And while I can pick up the slack, why should I care? An act of notcreation, if you ask me, is an act of furthering entropy!"

Marisa's eyes narrowed, and she crouched into a protective stance on the not!ground. /Where. Is. My. Manual?/

"Aawww, straight to business, you don't even want to talk? Such a shame. You know," It went on, "You could make a great attack dog! You know, if They ever feel like using you that way. Now tell me," And suddenly they had moved, nearly knocking Marisa off her feet. In front of them was something that almost looked physical, now - a line, a stream -

Data? Marisa thought, then quickly refocused. There was a stomp - whatever form It was taking here looked to be turning more humanoid as the conversation went on. All around them were now familiar words - familiar HTML-

"How does this make you feel?"

The text mess resolved itself into comments - the sort of comments that Marisa didn't like looking at. The disrespectful sort, the unintelligible sort, the kinds of people who got what she liked all wrong-

"See? You're shaking already." It was true - the reminder of humanity's dregs did her no favors, and she realized she'd clenched her fists down tight.

"They're- they're just you, aren't they? The parts of you that are in other people?"

She got the impression that she'd made It smile - not that she liked that feeling, either. "All people, but yes. And what would you do to them, if you could?" It was pushing Marisa for an answer, she knew, so she said the first thing she could think of that would frustrate it:

"Not kill them." Now It dissipated the comments, their surroundings going cold with Its temper.

"Oh really? And you think that you know what I know about you? Think carefully, now: what good is anger when it can't change people's minds, when there's nowhere left to go that makes a difference? You'll find yourself running up against that wall sooner than you think, little wizard - and when you go scrounging for answers, you may well think twice!"

Marisa tried to remember to breathe, calm and evenly. But it was hard.

"Besides," It said, cutting off her thoughts - or her attempts thereof. "Hate is only half of the equation. You wanted to know where your Manual is? Well," It said - and this time, Marisa could see It smile.

"Let's have a look. Just remember, these were your ideas - I just, how you say? Improved on them." Again the movement took hold, only this time Marisa was ready. She jumped, looking to tackle It to the "floor" in her anger-

She couldn't move, again. "Ah, ah, aah~" the Lone Power taunted her.

"Naughty wizard. Besides, it's not me you want to be aggressive toward now, is it? Well, not now now, just for a while now- Anyway."

Despite that confusion, Marisa tried to close her eyes - but couldn't.

We've seen the Doctor there, too. ;)

Let's try for Thursday, otherwise if there's an issue on my part I should be good for any day after that as well.

For me, it would be The Loud House. I really love how this show is a throwback to the Nicktoons of the 90s. Another thing I like is the comic strip-inspired art style. My favorite thing I like about it is the incredibly diverse cast of characters populating the small town of Royal Woods.

I'll start brainstorming shortly.

I've never actually been to a convention (PPC Gatherings aside), so there's that extra air of supercoolishness at the prospect of meeting someone like Diane Duane. :D I hope you do get to go. (I won't be, of course - doesn't do to break a streak like this one!)

Fear not, no thunder has been stolen. ^_^

As to your question... if they were a wizard, yes. o.O There's a note on the Concordance that says wizardry is basically being granted the right to use the Speech in enactive form. For other people, it's just a language, albeit a super useful one because everyone understands you when you use it. For a wizard, though, it's much more.

This is the point where I throw in an obligatory reminder that one book does in fact feature the creation and/or visiting of an existing canon universe, with a brief trip to Middle-earth shortly after the fall of Numenor...

hS

DD ALERT, DD ALERT.

Diane Duane herself will be at next year's CrossingsCon! 8DDDD Hopefully I will be able to go to it, as I will have graduated from college then! It IS in Canada, though, so who knows.

/pre-emptive apologies for stealing hS's thunder... Also, unrelated, but if someone writes fanfic in the Speech, and it's of a NSFW nature, does that mean the fic could HAPPEN? o.0

And I really do recommend the game! It's cute. :D