Heeeeey @LilyElizabeth.... So I was waiting for the third Myrdraal, and then things got a bit busy, and now it seems I am *slightly* over the deadline >_>

I don't really think I can do this in the next week or two, but maybe in April... Um... Is the contest still on? I feel I might need a little bit more competition? 🤔

On 3/7/2024 at 5:31 PM, Aan-Alone said:

I never thought too deeply on the whole 'Turning' process. One channeller, directing their flows through a Fade and into the victim, x13. 13 evil wills vs one not. After so many hours, victim's will breaks down and is forcibly made a Shadow disciple.

 

Now I'm wondering if this imagining is a little too simplistic. Channelling Spirit through the Fade could attune the threads to something the DO might easily interact with. Then the victim goes on a head-trip. Something like a cross between the AS vacation rings and what Rand goes through battling the DO, where the victim chooses 'un-wisely', and somehow either loses their ability to choose between Light and Shadow? Or maybe loses their ability to distinguish between the two?

 

Had RJ finished the series, I feel we would have been clued in to Logain's struggles in this regard.

Yeah, I am almost done with my re-read of the series, and the whole thing seems... more weird to me the more I think about it. 

The whole thing with removing free will but still sort of keeping your personality seems very strange, although I've gotta admit I don't get the same sense of strangeness when it comes to compulsion which in many ways seems kinda similar. 

For myself I think I'll just head-canon that it removes the soul of the person and replaces it with something else, which seems to mesh well enough with the concept of people seeing something strange in the eyes of people who have been turned...

I think I'll just settle for some of the things, especially in the first one or two and last few books, not being very well thought out and attempt to not be too drawn out of the story by them by overthinking 🙂

*frowns*

Not to my knowledge - and what is this Moat you talk about?

At any rate, it seems the song is over. We'd better get back to ending the world. Is any more of my posse around?

*fixes @Elgee with a black-flecked stare*

You! There is no time for this tomfoolery to go on! We have a galactic horror to free, and Dragons to fry. No time for dancing and...

...is that macarons over there? Maybe I'll just have a little snack before getting back to my main mission.

How long did you say this Feast was going to continue?

*leading Delenn across the floor in dance, I try to make sense of the strange flickering which seems to happen ever so often*

Never you mind where I am! Just make sure you do your part for the Great Lord. Disappointment will have... consequences.

*does a pirouette*

*strides purposefully into the room, the light seeming to dim around him*

You very well should recognize your immediate superior, Delenn! What is this I hear about all the Chosen taking time off to go to some silly ball!?

...

Though it is very pretty in here, I must admit. Maybe just one dance before going back to plotting the end of time itself?

Will you give me this dance, @Delenn?

Happy birthday Cross! Well, a day or two late I expect, but it is the thought which counts, right?

*crawls back up on the ledge from the dunking Lily gave him*

Who knows who will be dunked or not?

Roll the dice, and if it favors you the one on the ledge is dunked. If you are unlucky you will replace them.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain

2 hours ago, Wayward_fool said:

That's all I have so far....  Again, if there are others you want, please let me know. Or feel free to make your own I guess. No obligations at all. Anyway, enjoy the event and make merry.

 

Love y'all.

Love you too, Boopsy! ❤️

You are walking along the streets of Tar Valon, enjoying the festivities of the Feast, when you come along a dunk tank. Up on the ledge, the Sword Captain of the Warders is sitting in just his tighty whiteys. A small target is next to him, and in front you can see a table stacked with small, heavy balls.

*flicker*

You are no longer walking the streets, you are staring down the Sword Captain who is carefully aiming a ball at the target next to you... Or is he aiming for your unmentionables? It's kinda hard to tell. You know which one you are hoping for though.

*flicker*

You are back at the street, just having let go of the ball which is speeding towards its target.

*flicker*

You feel the seat giving way under you, as...

*flicker*

The Sword Captain plunges...

*flicker*

Water envelops...

*flicker*

...wet...

*flicker*

*flicker*

This is the Flicker Feast dunk tank. Give it a go, and try to dunk the person currently sitting on the ledge.

To give it a go, either roll a 10-sided dice at home or use a digital tool to do so.

On a 1-5 you replace the person sitting on the ledge.

On a 6-10 you hit the target and dunk whoever's currently there.

No aiming for the gonads.

Flavour text as you prefer or not.

Let's celebrate!

13 hours ago, HeavyHalfMoonBlade said:

Thank you, that satisfies an itch and is very interesting too. 

This is the intro to the poem on the page in which I found it, in case you want a little more detail:

Quote

Goaded by his friends Robert Emmet and Edward Hudson, members of a group of revolutionaries known as the United Irishmen, Moore wrote an impassioned plea for his fellow students to oppose the imminent Act of Union with England. This “Letter to the Students of Trinity College,” published in December 1797 in The Press, the voice of the United Irishmen, was signed “A SOPHister,” but Moore’s parents and his tutor knew the author to be Moore and begged him not to endanger his future by such outspokenness. Moore took their warnings seriously and ever after moderated his political writings by satire blunted with humor. The warnings were well founded: after an armed rebellion in 1798, Hudson was imprisoned and exiled, and Emmet wounded. Moore was called to testify in a Trinity investigation about his association with the rebels, but he answered only questions about himself, and was allowed to remain in school. Emmet was hanged five years later, and the last words of the speech he gave after his sentencing, on September 19, 1803, have passed into Irish legend and literature: “When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.” Moore memorializes his friend’s wish for honorable obscurity in one of his most memorable Irish Melodies, “O, Breathe Not His Name,” and Joyce later incorporated and undercut Emmet’s words as reported by Moore by including them in the sirens’ song in Ulysses (1922). Moore’s song is characteristically sentimental, but it testifies to the strength of his friendship, his hope for Ireland, and to his talent for versifying:

Zephyr  whispers  secrets  through  willows is correct. Hopefully being the executioner will save you from being brutalized too much more.

Just got home from my new year celebrations! Happy new year, everyone!

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet who wrote the poem as an elegy for his friend Robert Emmet, who was executed for rebellion against the English. Emmet's last words were “When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”

These words are why he is not named in the poem.

Though of course it is really about our Great Lord Lady of the Grave. Very apt.

I'll give it a go, send me a PM with the words!

To be clear though - you are the GM as well as the member we'll write about? And can we use other words than the 30 we are given? They only need to be included in the paragraph?

Oh, and you can probably remove the part about using html-tags to edit the text. Though I'd love to be able to edit my posts directly, DM doesn't seem to allow this anymore 😢

On 12/29/2023 at 10:44 AM, Arie said:

I am certain W is in there!

 

hmm... though the temptation to guess wrong feels like wanting -more-

There are several Ws in there! Good guess!

_EPH_R  WHISPERS  SECRETS  THROUGH  WILLOWS

Letters guessed: A C E G H I L N O P R S T U V W

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Hmm, I wonder if someone can guess the entire phrase now?

I found this poem, which in many ways is quite dark. I was in two minds about including the second stanza, since it is a bit more hopeful, but hopefully you can appreciate the poem even with it included.

O, breathe not his name

Thomas Moore

O, breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,

Where cold and unhonor’d his relics are laid:

Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed,

As the night dew that falls on the grass o’er his head.

But the night dew that falls, though in silence it weeps,

Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps;

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,

Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

7 hours ago, Elgee said:

I love learning new things * grins*

Though we did touch on stuff like this back in the day when I studied Business Psychology at Uni. Except of course the Learned People didn't think it was worth it asking the ACTUAL WORKERS 🙄

Lol, that's the basic idea behind it. The people who are most likely to know the equipment best, in many ways, are the people who operate it on a daily basis. Thus, having their thoughts on what improvements might be made is valuable input. Plus, having them feel listened to is also likely to improve morale.

7 hours ago, Elgee said:

It's fantastic!

What's a WOC?

It's Walk, Observe, Communicate. So basically you're supposed have a walk in the production area and have a talk with the personnel there about what you see. In particular if you see anything you think may be a breach of HSE standards.

But it's also a way for letting the workers give feedback on the production process, what could be improved and so on, so it's really important to get a good talk going with them 🙂

I had a quick google, and I think it is pretty close to what they call a "gemba walk" in Lean management.

All three letters are there

_E_H_R  _HIS_ERS  SECRETS  THROUGH  _ILLO_S

Letters guessed: A C E G H I L N O R S T U V

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10 hours ago, Wayward_fool said:

I thought I'd try this... again, no obligations if you don't like it. Btw if you know the site to rotate siggies, please let me know. I've lost the ability to get my siggies into one.

 

@Kathleen

 

In GIMP, you create one layer for each sig, and then animate them. There's a simple tutorial here: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/

You're spectacularly bad at this, aren't you, Arie 🤔

_E_H_R  _HIS_ERS  SECRETS  THRO__H  _I__O_S

Letters guessed: A C E H I N O R S T V

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Not strictly speaking an office photo, but I was out on a WOC at work today, and liked the contrast between the white skies and mountains with the red production building. It didn't turn out quite as well as I was hoping for, but I'll post it anyway! 😅

Merry Christmas, everyone!

There's a C, and two Is, but no A.

_E_H__  _HIS_E_S  SEC_ETS  TH_O__H  _I__O_S

Letters guessed: A C E H I O S T V

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_E_H__  _H_S_E_S  SE__ETS  TH_O___  ____O_S

Letters guessed: E H O S T V

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