I’m back from GenCon! Thanks to everyone who came to say hi! I literally just got home and it is very late and I am very tired now, so I am going to go to bed, lol.
I’m back from GenCon! Thanks to everyone who came to say hi! I literally just got home and it is very late and I am very tired now, so I am going to go to bed, lol.
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I love how the bugbear looks so pleased and everyone else… doesn’t.
Smugbear =^.^=
Is it odd that I read his expression and manner as trying to be reassuring? (Obviously not something bugbears are naturally good at). He seems more personable. Other members of the Elder Council aren’t even deigning to interact with Michele’s friends or explain themselves.
They don’t want to be bearers of bad news. They know that what they planned won’t go over well with the Americans, so they’re saying nothing.
I wish you could come to Europe as well. (sigh)
Why the one legged satyr? Wingless guardian gryphon, one legged satyr… are things not as peaceful as they look in the Liverpool Avalon? Danger lurking around while the inhabitants live happily and unaware of it?
I can see one danger coming, though. Greg blowing his top at the high handed taking over of Michele’s (and his) life.
“Why the one legged satyr?” Probably for the same reason as the missing wings. Old wounds from conflicts oudside.
As I recall, the wingless gryphon is Jimothy’s dad, and he lost his wings in America…
((FOR THE LOVE OF APPLES CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG.))
the cave system to the egg shell isnt in the avalon is it? cause he said earlier that he got permanent scars defending the cave he knew nothing really about
In America.
P.S. Who or what is a khyrin?
Not sure if this is relevant, but a “Kirin” is a Chinese creature that is said to resemble a cross between a Dragon and a Giraffe.
Replying here…
Khyrin was a name that was randomly generated 11 years ago when I rolled a Mithra character in Final Fantasy XI. Mithra, as a people, tend towards ‘silent’ aitches in their naming scheme. this was carried over to Final Fantasy XIV, where my character is named Khitana. (rhymes with Katana, and/or sounds a lot like how the people in iowa pronounce that word. )
I do see why someone would make the link with the Kirin, though!
Thanks pj.
Duh, Greg. She is a sphinx. A living legend.
She will not stop being the latter. You don’t want to stop being the former. So yah, one way or the other: everyone will know about her.
Tough shit talking over. Someone please hug him :/
Mr. Hyde seems to have hugs covered.
NOT the kind of hug you’d want in that situation. Or any situation, really :D
Me, I like that there are signs of disability and hard wear among the council members– well okay, not “like” exactly, but I can appreciate their injuries as the realistic results of very long lives. One question that keeps popping up in my mind is how the nonhuman communities managed to get through the two World Wars– did they hide in the Avalons, did they enlist, were the American nonhumans drafted or what? And if they fought, what happened when they were injured? In WWI you sometimes had “pals regiments” where the male populations of entire British villages enlisted at once and were able to stay together, which occurs as one possible solution (safety in numbers and all that, at least until you hit a minefield), but what about WWII? Just curiosity on my part; I work in a hospital, so I keep wondering about this sort of thing.
I agree, it seems sensible to think that long-lived people would show some signs of wear. I was going to comment the same, and saw you had done so for me.
I was under the impression that satyrs didn’t have lives all that longer than humans, however.
Hmmmm… tough breaks for the gang. Are the satyr and bugbear a couple? I thought at first the bugbear likes to be up in everyone’s space, but they look so casual and comfortable together. They are interesting character designs. Many assumed the bugbear was Alec’s dad (species aside – there is a resemblance), but it would be so cool if the satyr was, too. I’d love to see throwback art of them as a family with tiny Alec.
I was thinking the same thing about them being a couple. Also that it’s a bit odd, or at least different, that this bugbear keeps a human face and Alec keeps his bear face. Though Myra kept a human face too so it might just be a new style choice??
The bugbear is Alec Hyde’s father Orville. I don’t know if it’s still posted anywhere, but there was an old one-page cartoon of Orville taking young Alec to the zoo (and breaking a few rules in the process).
He’s apparently just long-term friends with the old satyr (I don’t remember catching his name).
Contacting other Avalons sounds really risky though =/
One word…. Spies.
In my mind, the voice of the Bugbears always sounds like the Slippermen from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
The who, the lamb does what where?
Genesis, from way back in the long-ago days of the 70’s
https://youtu.be/jyNKjAUd_HQ
Here is probably the part where Gregg demands that either they let her go, or they help Everyone stay. You don’t just up and yank someone away from their friends “for their own protection”. That would end badly in so many ways.
Had a goofy thought last night. Somehow Michelle gets access to medallion forging… and goes nuts breaking rules, making medallions for EVERYONE. Then suddenly some human (apparently) guy runs by with two armloads of fish laughing maniacally before disappearing offscreen, everyone staring at them. Then back to Michelle who notes, “Yeah, I made one for Stanley too.”
I thought Stanley was a girl?
Yes please this needs to happen!
Okay, you might wanna throttle back a bit Greg before you do or say something you probably shouldn’t.
Hey anybody are there any legend creatures that look like Raksura?
P.S. I got the name for a book series that I am listening to right now and if you would like to listen to it/ read it, the first book is called the cloud roads. And don’t ask me why it is called that.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/64/20/09/642009f4e785f8f45ed335d93818a17f.jpg
Here is a link to a pic of what they look like. And by the way they DON’T have bat wings. They have featherd bat LIKE wings and the feathers are more like scales.
her midform is so cute jfkfjbgbfn
I agree with Greg’s concern. We’ve seen demons can hide inside of other people. What’s to keep them from doing that and finding out where she is from an Avalon that doesn’t have Bugbears?
He looks like he wants to burninate the whole Avalon.
Oh my gosh I had that same shirt!
I’m with Greg. They have been working very, very hard to keep people from finding out she’s The Last Sphinx™ for a reason. Now this smug-looking bugbear wants everyone in every Avalon to know not only that she IS The Last Sphinx™, but that The Last Sphinx™ lives at the Liverpool Avalon, her favorite Avalon on the Citadel.
This is absolutely a political ploy using Michelle as a pawn. These people need to learn that she isn’t a pawn — she’s a player.
Poor Greg’s going through QUITE the emotional roller coaster!
Also, I do believe ‘insure’ is a typo. Shouldn’t it be ensure?
They’re the same thing. It’s like flammable and Inflammable.
It is sometimes used interchangeably but I think ensure is the better option.
In the most pedantic and technical sense, insure means to guard the value of something in a more monetary sense.
However, popular use allows insure to be used as if it were ensure.
Ensure does NOT suggest that there is a monetary valuation contracted to replace something, however, but suggests non-financial means of protection.
Ensure means to make certain; insure means to guarantee against loss.
And, I’m just pedantic enough to use the phrase “popular misusage”.
Uh pj flammable means it can catch on fire. Inflammable means it can’t. They are not the same word.
“Ensure” and “insure” are different, but “flammable” and “inflammable” definitely mean exactly the same thing.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/inflammable
Atlas, I hate to break it to you, but…
PJ is correct.
Those definitions are taken from a Merrian-Webster dictionary.
Flammable: “capable of being easily ignited and burning quickly.”
Inflammable: “(1) flammable. (2) easily inflamed, excited, or angered.”
(The second inflammable definition refers to an emotional state. You wanna focus on the first definition, which literally says “flammable.”)
Flammable and inflammable means the same thing. It’s strange, I know. It’s illogical, I know. But that’s how it is.
That’s english for you!
Inflammable is the older word meaning burnable, but people who didn’t know its etymology (that is, most people) tended to misunderstand it to mean non-burnable. So, it was shortened to flammable and the word nonflammable was coined as its antonym.
Greg’s heebies have been jeebied.
I noticed they keep saying “if demons are after her” as if the council didn’t really believe her but went with this option since it was the quickest solution to agree on because they all want to just go home.
Well, one person said it once, anyway. And it doesn’t really indicate doubt; it’s just an explanation of the council’s decision. IF she’s right THEN she’s safest in the avalon.That’s true (or they believe it is) whether she’s right or not..
Okay but has anyone else noticed the “Yard Sard” and “Trogdor” shirts?
I mean, presumably she agreed to this. If she wanted to leave, it’s not like any of them could stop her.
Firsts of all… I see Greg saying he stay as long as Michelle is there.
Second, Of course it’s not smart to contact other Avalons. Who know there are spies there.
They willl find out.
Better they find out from you, instead of your enemies.
Looking at how plain Ravi looks in this group picture makes me wonder what happens when he reveals his true form.