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The only thing with that is, well, Vampires do rather like drinking from their opponents, don't they? So, well, should you use such a thing, you're almost certainly sacrificing nearly your entire army, and that's assuming your opponent can't deliver a shield unto their side of the battlefield.

We studied it a little bit in one of my English lit classes, but we didn't read the whole thing. My impressions of the bit we did read are a lot like what you describe of the "everyone says" about it. I wonder if "everyone" just studied it a little bit in an English lit class and never read the whole thing, too. ^_^;

I think that is also what led me to attempt to binge-read the Bible in one go, too! ... It didn't last very long. I'm not sure exactly how far I got; I just remember getting fed up with how inconsistent God seems to be in the Old Testament.

~Neshomeh

To be honest, I feel uncomfortable seeing it used this way myself, because it seems to equate words to deeds, which seems like the sort of logic that would see someone thrown in jail just for talking about doing something, even if they never intended to actually do it. It makes me anxious about expressing a doubt like this out loud, because I don't want to hurt my friends or make them think I don't want them to be able to live their best lives in their own way, free from fear.

However, I have learned from my friends that context matters. Not all questions are innocent, and I don't know how else to describe the kind of questioning by a privileged majority that feeds a zeitgeist of lazy tolerance if not active support for systemic injustice of the sort that turns a blind eye when less privileged groups are economically, psychologically, and physically harmed just because they have the temerity to exist. What else can you call that without blunting the alarm it should cause?

~Neshomeh, processing out loud in case it helps anyone else.

So, at school I play Commander with a constructed vampire-themed deck called Vampiric Bloodlust. The commander Edgar Markov's Eminince creates a 1/1 vampire token whenever you cast a Vampire keyword spell.
However, in that deck is a card called Fell the Mighty. Which removes all creatures with a higher power than a target creature.
So I spawn literally almost anything in the deck, generate a token, and pop Fell the Mighty on the token. Instant field wipe.

GLB just wrote another fic this past month!

SCORE! =D

I just think that those episodes are really worth seeing.

I do understand why people would see it in other ways. They are... polarizing. Personally, I really liked them.

In chapter 5, there's a big paragraph about a bunch of people moving to different houses (sometimes in different countries) because a bunch of other people are randomly bumped off. Plus a magical doo-dad that reveals everywhere Voldemort has previously been and everyone he's interacted with. Might be of interest to an agent with a shiny fixation. {; )

Also, Voldemort is discovered to be using the Shrieking Shack as a base of operations in the last chapter. It's not a geographical aberration, per se, but it makes absolutely no logical sense and the problem relates to a physical location in the universe, so...?

As for when, I just need Remus in FicPsych in April 2004, during or after the first PPC Badfic Game, which apparently happened at this time.

(According to chapter 3, Wormtail's Animagus form is a mouse. That's fun. {X D )

~Neshomeh

P.S. Speaking of missions, "Draconic Supremacy" at some point, maybe? I have a MUCH better grasp of my characters since the last time we worked on it; might make things easier!

And is there any possible grounds for sending DOGA in?

hS has agents active in 2004...

I have a number of decks constantly being taken a part and out back together. Currently I've been playing Mirri G/W Tokens and I'm currently rebuilding Monored Goblins.

• "I'd [verb] [subject] as soon as look at [subject]" is a moderately common expression in English. There are some words dropped for pithiness; the full phrase here would probably be "I would smite you as soon [read: as quickly, as easily] as I would look at you."
  
  - "Scarcely" would be technically correct here, but "scarce" used in this way is an accepted informal use. It's more common in British English than American English, I think.
  
  - "stop" in this way is also an accepted informal use. Again, a word has been dropped: "demanding [that] he stop his drinking." (Isn't colloquial English fun?)
  
  - For the last one, I don't think there's a word missing, but I would replace "that" with "it."
  
  ~Neshomeh's two cents.

And yes, that is addressed to both of you, because I know how Phobos was going to respond if he'd had time this morning, and I don't want a fight. {= \ You've each clearly had very different experiences of this show, but different opinions and subjective individual experiences are allowed. Please compare and contrast without devaluing them.

And warn if you start talking about spoilers before I'm done. {; )

~Neshomh

Ah, makes sense. Sounds interesting!

The deck got even better when they printed Teferi, Time Raveler recently. I'm a fan of any deck that makes it so your opponent doesn't get to play Magic.

In the set that gets released next weekend, they printed a card that allows you to do some nutty things. Here's how it works.

1) Play Marauding Raptor. The important bit of text is that when a Creature enters the battlefield under your control the Raptor deals 2 damage to it. Sounds less than ideal, right? Why would you want to damage your own Creatures? Well...

2) Play Polyraptor. Relevant text is that Polyraptor makes a copy of itself when it takes damage. Do you see where this is going?

3) When Polyraptor enters the battlefield, Marauding Raptor deals two damage to it.

4) Polyraptor makes a new Polyraptor. This new Polyraptor enters the battlefield.

5) Return to step 3 for infinite Polyraptors

Unfortunately, this is a never ending loop. If neither player has a way of interacting with the loop (probably by killing one of the creatures involved), then the game ends in a draw. Remember, don't get so busy thinking about if you could make infinite dinosaurs that you forget to consider if you should.

-Phobos

before my post proper I would like to thank you for your passion and respectfullness, I think you are a good example of why i like this community, beyond the PPC.

I don't have the research or experience to back up an opinion on CDPR, so i wont cast doubt on your take on them, if they are that way that sucks and i hope they figure their stuff out. I do think the jump at the end of your last post is actually a long one, but i can see why you would think otherwise.

I personally hold the opinion that the essence of humanity goes beyond the body, and that every human everywhere has same rights regarding...well...life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (i know it's cheesy to use that, but it's a pretty good summary of unailiable rights). Cleanliness doesn't even factor in, to subjective.

-This next part is getting into broader territory-
I think anyone who is seriously trying to question the humanity of real life augmented folk, AND trying to bring the sanctioning of hate crimes into law is a) messed up, and b) in our current climate going to lose that battle by a huge landslide. I do however think the question of why is a valid one. Why is humanity inherent?

Questions are questions, not violence, they can be threatening to ideas and mentalities, but they are still just questions in the end. I support the honest asking of questions, in all cases, period. [ To call this idea into question is, of course, ok ;) ]

We of the internet generation(s) like to think we invented fanfiction, but of course there’s really nothing new under the sun. John Milton knew how to look at an existing text and expand on the characters and events with new insights and developments, way back in 1667.

Spoilers for . . . Well. For the Bible and Paradise Lost. Yep.

So.

Man, this is so different from anything I’ve written about before. It doesn’t help that I actually finished it a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been too busy covering a coworker’s vacation to be able to sit down and write this. It was actually quite a slog to read through, despite technically being a poem, and therefore having a decent amount of blank space on each page. Me being me, however, I of course had to read every footnote and endnote, which meant a lot of breaking up my train of thought and flipping back and forth through pages. Also, lots of old-timey words and phrases.

I found Satan to be a let-down, honestly. (Is that weird to say? I feel like that’s weird to say.) Everything I heard about PL before I sat down and read it made Stan out to be this massive figurehead of rebellion and resistance. And boy, did he turn out be . . . a pathetic, ineffectual loser. The boy may be able to talk himself up to his fallen angel pals, and I won’t deny the fight scene between Satan and Death was pretty dang cool. But the further he gets from Hell, the lamer and more boring he gets. Get him up against God or His angels, and it’s curb stomp city. He couldn’t even infiltrate Eden without the scouting angels getting suspicious. Once his plans to directly mess with God and Heaven are thwarted, he goes full-blown schoolyard bully, and starts focusing his evil on the much weaker beings of creation, Adam and Eve and that poor Serpent. Again, before reading, I had heard the argument that Satan is really the protagonist and God the villain, but I just didn’t see it. Satan barely appears in the last third of the text.

Yeah, I like snakes, I like the capital-s Serpent. PL gets kind of ambiguous between when it’s referring to Satan or the Serpent around that famous scene. I like to think Milton wasn’t hating on snakes for what one snake did while possessed, but snakes have been maligned in human history for so long, it’s hard to say. Folks, it’s okay be afraid of snek, but no blame snek for Original Sin.

Even with the gulf of language evolution between us, I feel like Milton did a really excellent job of contrasting the pre-fall and post-fall states of Adam and Eve, as well as the change to the “garden” of Eden itself. Before the fall, Adam and Eve are simplistic and peaceful, without coming off as dull or, dare I say, “Purity Sues.” It’s only after the fall when they start exhibiting more selfish traits and feeling conflict between each other, but after seeing them so sweet and perfect for each other, it did make me feel rather sad, even though on paper it seems like they should have gotten more interesting after such a change. I also like Milton framed Eden itself not as a literal garden located somewhere on Earth, but the state of evil-lessness Earth was in before Adam and Eve fell; it’s their perception of the world that changed, not the world itself.

“So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found
Among the spoilers, faithful only he
Among innumerable false, unmov’d”

—doctorlit is definitely going to binge-read the entire Bible someday, just you wait

Post here, plxkthx.

Then the stakes got so big that the driving arcs were about which character they were going to resurrect this season.
Wouldn’t you usually say "so high"?

I’d smite you as soon as look at you if it weren’t for the fact we’re stuck together.
Not sure about this, but I feel like a word may be missing there?

Suddenly, Faust’s eyes went wide, and he began to head for darkened corner out of view of the front walkway, nudging the angel to follow.
Shouldn’t this be "for a darkened corner"?

You’d scarce give her the credit
Shouldn’t this be "scarcely" (adverb)?

The Sue announced that she accepted Sam’s offer to work with her before demanding he stop his drinking.
Shouldn’t this be "stopped"? (I don’t know the correct term, but I think the grammatical form is some sort of conditional or expectation. I may also have seen "demanding him to stop". )

So… since that wouldn’t be in my best interests to lie to you?
Again I’m not sure whether a word may be missing here?

HG

Both and of Eva and those last two episodes occur concurrently (well, the episodes occur within End of Eva, sorta... you'll understand later), and you shouldn't skip them. They're really important.

In the one story we got, Agent Sen is actually just a framing device to watch Ian Valentine (apparently the man in gray) and four characters provided by readers, who just incidentally met, fight some generic Suvians for non-specified reasons. Where would this have gone if it had been continued? Would Sen recruit all five Sue hunters? Who’s Asking should have been warned that starting your spin-off with six(!) agents is a bad idea, and that recruiting from readers works for OFUs, where lots of background students are needed, but doesn’t fit the PPC.

HG

Aegis mentioned his Teferi-Pool deck in Discord earlier (turns out between Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir and Knowledge Pool, due to a rules clarification, you can prevent opponents from casting spells), and it was pretty neat, so, since I have a passing interest in MtG, I thought I'd start a thread for people to share their cool decks, deck ideas, or just weird Magic card interactions.

(On the note of weird interactions, you can execute any computer algorithm using MtG triggers in a non-interactive way using this Turing machine construction)

- Tomash

In this instance, I'm creating the premise that this fic was missioned back in April 2004, so someone claiming it and saying it hasn't been missioned yet would defeat the purpose. {= )

~Neshomeh