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5 Feb

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I’m at Auckland right now, it’s 8pm and the wait time is 6 hours. These people aren’t getting in until 2am…

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three of my Pendragon players have just murdered King Pellinore

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The fourth PC had stopped to help the lady on the side of the road (who turns out to be a bastard daughter of Pellinore) and subsequently defeated a lion in single combat. They told him a fake story about Hontzlake stabbing Pellinore in the back and them killing Hontzlake in retaliation...

Upon their return they were fêted as the most honorable of knights — the rot at the heart of Arthur’s court.

three of my Pendragon players have just murdered King Pellinore

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… it was going badly for the PC but then another struck Pellinore from behind, the first grappled and pinned him and the other two stabbed him to death while the first choked him. They then killed Hontzlake to cover up their crime.

Nimue told them their debt was paid, smeared their squire’s lips with blood of the two knights to seal them from telling anyone, and told them she knows she can now trust them body and soul. She will tell the court that they rescued her.

three of my Pendragon players have just murdered King Pellinore

(semi-spoiler but well-known) This was the abduction of Nimue from Arthur’s wedding feast, where Pellinore rides off to rescue her from Hontzlake. They had previously met Nimue while lost in the forest and owed her a boon, so they chased after.

They caught Hontzlake first and defeated him, but upon his arrival Pellinore stated he'll take her back as it was his quest. They are sick of old-ways “might is right” knights so one challenged him to a fight on foot…

hell yeah

The Cat Returns-ass cat

loading up the EAP website and

I ordered a copy of Shaughnessy’s Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts 2 months later it has arrived

ah, isn’t #orthic nice

21 Sept

I just accidentally uploaded the Hyperborea cleric spell list to my Southern Cross (medical insurance) claim…

16 Sept

they’ve now completed Silent Titan’s R8BY and Brom and the players keep finding new connections that they think are hints linking back to their “old selves” in the previous adventures as Pendragon knights, it’s great, they’re doing my work for me

gəorgə pollɐrd@porg.es

am I stumbling my way into running something that is both Pendragon and Silent Titans at the same time? I sure hope so!

16 Sept

Brom is particularly good to start in media res where they’re just players who are setting up for the session and the GM is asking them questions, but they’ve forgotten that they entered a dungeon a few hours ago…

14 Sept

accidentally found National party health policy in a stairwell at (what is apparently now called) Sky World

27 Aug

if you wish to read the yijing, first you must… build a recension from scratch

the kids have never seen a computer that doesn‘t lag

seriously; pick a low power device from some time in the last 5 years and try your site on it “opening vscode” is a struggle, every UI is janky

retvrn to a day when “interrupt” meant the CPU stopped and listened to you

I realize that this is a crazy-person thing to say but I’ve done some statistical analysis on the Yi Jing and everyone has read it wrong

13 July

what do I make with excessive lemons and limes? do I get really into American-style pies?

12 July

frosty morning

11 July

Went for a short 3km walk in Tãwharanui and unexpectedly spotted Toutouwai (NZ Robin), Tieke (Saddleback) & Pāteke (Brown Teal)… along with the standard Tüï, lots of Korimako, Kererü, a bunch of Pōpokotea, and a silly number of Piwakawaka. Do recommend! all my bird photos were bad so some walkways:

11 July

also it was ridiculous for a winter’s day bonus Tuna pile, at the Matakana market, where apparently the entire population of Auckland descended

8 July

I have discovered the worst tic-tac-toe/noughts-and-crosses implementation of all time

5 July

I do think Rust should have had different traits for 1:1 (injective) conversions vs those that might normalize/be non-invertible

24 June

I’m not parochial about much, but I do feel that what the government is planning to with conservation lands is essentially treason

20 June

North Head was real nice, last weekend

20 June

*going up high* actually the city is nice after all

*adds two exponents together* ha! ha! I’m doing homomorphic encryption!

16 June

oh this is neat. I’ve wanted distributed provably-random card dealing for a while and now I have it

we use an old Google device in the kitchen for adding stuff to the shopping list and setting timers. recently it changed to Australian mode† it’s not going well

“Caloundra” is now on the shopping list and I have no intention of purchasing part of the Sunshine Coast????

@betterlegends.bsky.social

15 June

Caloundra appeared again. Turns out it is “glad™ wrap”?!

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Skullboy is at Arcanecon

15 June

I miss pre-prestige television.

7 June

this one plant just won’t quit, it must have made like 60 habaneros by now. I have multiple bags in the freezer. I have a litre of hot sauce. running out of things to do!

gəorgə pollɐrd@porg.es

this heroic little habanero plant has grown 26 chillies so far this season 🙏

Beans! Beans! Beans!

which way Western dude

Chaos Magick News@cmnpod.bsky.social

A good 2/3rds of Occultism is deciding which silly diagram you'll attempt to relate to everything.

27 May

toki pona auto-glosser, ha

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we use an old Google device in the kitchen for adding stuff to the shopping list and setting timers. recently it changed to Australian mode† it’s not going well

†(when asked why, it said that NZ and Australian accents are basically the same, which legally is a war crime)

winning on the op shop finds

me when I have to make the coffee but I haven’t had my coffee yet