The Worlds of Katherine Kurtz

Back in 2020 when I first heard that KK was going to release a new anthology, I spent some time thinking about what I wanted to write, and then began writing about some of the events that took place between the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Deryni Rising. I thought that the ride from Cardosa to Rhemuth would have plenty of excitement and interesting things to write about, so I began work on "King's Ride." I was about halfway through the story when I heard that Katherine would include a story in the anthology about this very same event. I stopped working after that because of course KK isn't going to include two stories about the same event.

So anyway, this story has sat, unloved, on my computer for the past several years, until I decided that I'd go ahead and submit it in its current unfinished, rough-draft form. I figure since we all know how it ends, no one is going to complain and ask "what happens next?"

So please forgive the errors and unfinished nature of this story, and I hope you enjoy my take on "how it might have gone down" of an event we all know about.

King's Ride By Estey Nesmith

Nov 4, 1121
Cardosa, Gwynedd

Something was wrong.

Alaric Morgan, Duke of Corwyn and King's Champion, paced the walls of Esgair Dhu, the fortress defending the mountain city of Cardosa. That in itself was enough to warrant a certain amount of disquiet, for it was early November and he'd been here since September. The snows that were likely to begin this month would block all passage to and from this critical mountain city, and supplies had not finished arriving.

He paced, for his time and talents could be put to better use in a number of other places; in almost any other place, now that it came down to that. For it hardly required a general to oversee troops that were already well-trained, and he could hardly use his powers to bring the supplies up faster; not even a Deryni could force the supply train to move faster. 

A Deryni. And that was the problem right there. As one of the few open Deryni in the kingdom of Gwynedd, humans had a certain amount of distrust in him already. And now, with those rumors circulating about him wanting to steal the throne from his best friend, the distrust in Rhemuth had grown more hostile, and so—-for the sake of peace—-King Brion had sent his best general to far-off Cardosa while things could cool down at the capital. 

Still, the rumors of Morgan's attempts at treason didn't account for the anxiety creeping at the back of his mind: it had been there for days and yet he couldn't shake it. His mind-calming techniques could pacify the feeling for short periods of time, but it always returned. 

And now it was twilight and the last haul had yet to make it up the mountain. 
Why hadn't the king recalled him yet? 

"Riders, m'lord!" Derry called out to him. Sean Lord Derry, thank heavens, had taken on the brunt of organizing the trains as they came in, freeing Morgan from that tedious duty. 

As if there aren't a half-dozen men who could keep the trains moving as well as--well, almost as well as Derry. Why hasn't Brion recalled us yet? Morgan came over to see what the marcher lord pointed at. 

"Four of them," Derry said, handing the glass to Morgan. "They've been riding hard the way the horses are lathered." Derry's face hardened, "Harder than necessary, considering the pitch of the mountain."

"And quite a distance," Morgan said, observing the four horsemen, "I recognize Baron Evering."

"Lord Ralson?" Derry said, "I thought he was in Rhemuth." Morgan handed the glass back to the younger man as he headed towards the stairs."Oh yes, I see him now. And Fianna's younger son is with him." 

The baron of Evering, Gerard Ralson, had indeed been in Rhemuth but four days previous, along with Colin d'Auxerre of Fianna and their two-man escort. Their rush to Cardosa in such a short time had been precipitated by such an awful event that the news still hadn't truly sunk in to the hearts and minds of either men. But the King had personally sent them on this mission to recall General Morgan, and they had both accepted, glad for the chance to help. They rode up the last mile to Cardosa, kicking their mounts to use their last reserves of energy for that final steep ascent to the city. And at last they were through the gates, into the camp of the garrison. 

General Morgan came to meet them, followed by Lord Derry, Morgan's blue shadow. Now that they were here, Ralson was loath to pass on the news: Morgan and Brion were good friends and Morgan would not likely take the news well. But there was no help for it. 

"Gentlemen, I hope you're here with good news," Morgan said as they dismounted. Colin looked to Ralson; as one of the king's men, it was the older man's responsibility. 

"Alaric, it's... the king sent us... he's recalling you immediately. Brion is..."

"Thank heavens," Morgan said, "Has he quelled those ridiculous rumors about me?"

"It's not that... Brion, he..." Ralson couldn't force himself to say the words. 

"Morgan, Brion's dead," Colin said bluntly. "It's Kelson who's recalled you. Brion's funeral would have been yesterday."

"Brion-- what?" Colin's words didn't make sense for a few moments. Brion couldn't be dead, Morgan had received his most recent missive just three days ago. Their jest was in poor--not to mention treasonous--taste. 

"It was during the hunt, he was on his horse, hale and healthy as ever, and then he fell," Ralson finally blurted out. "Some say it was his heart and others say it was a magical attack, but he's gone and Kelson needs you back in Rhemuth as soon as you can get there."

Brion... dead? Brion Haldane, king of Gwynedd, friend since Morgan's childhood. Dead? They had to be mistaken. They must be lying. Brion was not dead, could not be dead... 

And then Morgan was running, running through the courtyard, running to the southwest tower, up the stairs, three at a time, coming at last to the highest lookout. He reached out with his mind, looking to disprove the impossible. 

Brion! My king! My friend! Hear me, answer me!

Nothing. 

Morgan gripped the silver medallion hanging around his neck and pushed farther, further than he'd ever extended his thoughts. Brion! Brion Brion Brion... If Brion were anywhere in Gwynedd west of the Cloom mountains, Morgan would be able to feel it... if he were among the living.

His call echoed into the void. No contact. No answer. No presence. It was as if Brion had never existed.

How long he stayed in the tower, Morgan couldn't say. Time seemed to stand still. But at last he noticed the length of the shadows. The sun had already begun to set. 

Morgan sighed. There was still much to be done before they left, for Morgan intended to leave as soon as preparations were made. 

Derry waited for him at the base of the tower, mounted with another horse in tow. He looked subdued. "I've got your gear," he said, indicating Morgan's saddlebags and pack. "Your riding leathers are on top. Gregory Summerville and Chauncy Smith are preparing themselves as escort. Baron Seymore's cook is arranging rations, and Colin, Gerard, and their men have been rehorsed; they insist on accompanying us back to Rhemuth. 

"Thank you," Morgan said. "Let's get Lord Parawan to join us on the road." He didn't want Lord Parawan trapped in Cardosa the entire winter and falling into Torenthi hands come spring. 

Ten minutes saw the nine of them gathered at the western gate of Cardosa. The sun was sinking too fast for Morgan's comfort, but he wasn't going to wait until morning. "Can you get us off this mountain without breaking our necks?" he asked Gregory. 

Gregory Summerville, born and bred to these mountains, peered down the trail, then held up several fingers against the sun. "Aye, m'lord," he said, "if we move sure and don't stop for anything, I can get us to Llyndruth Meadows before full dark.

The pass through the mountains was narrow and treacherous, and Morgan questioned his own decision to attempt this trail so late more than once, even as some of the others begged for caution. They followed the dry river bed, then switched back down to the canyon when the river became too steep, and finally made it to Llyndruth Plain before he allowed the men and horses a rest and sleep that only lasted until midnight before he pushed on. 

* * *

Morgan had no conscious memory of old King Donal--he'd died that same winter as Morgan's mother--but his first memory of King Brion came while a four-year-old Alaric knelt next to his own father, who placed his hands between Brion's to renew his oath to the young king. Morgan remembered thinking that this new king had so much more life than the old one, and he seemed friendlier as he ruffled Alaric's hair, and was much less intimidating than his father had been. 

And later, after Morgan's fascination with the king had become full-fledged hero-worship, Morgan had been so pleased to be allowed to assist with fastening the spurs, symbol of Brion's rank of knighthood. Followed by the years of acting as Brion's page, and then squire. 

And, as they often did, Morgan's memory wandered towards the time he helped Brion slay the Marluk. And towards the Marluk's daughter, who'd witnessed her father's slaying. 

This was Charissa's doing. It had to be. Even in Cardosa, the rumors of The Shadowed One, as she occasionally styled herself, spoke of her moving to take her vengeance for her father and reclaim the land of her Festillic forebears. 

Morgan moved his horse between Colin and Gerard. "Tell me again about what happened," he said. "What exactly did you see? What did Brion say? There is no detail unimportant enough to be left out."

The two lords began telling of the hunt, the hapless dogs flushing the rabbits, of Colin sharing a jest and a drink with the king. Gerard had to tell the story of the king's death alone as Colin had dropped behind the main hunt to help the Earl of Eastmarch with a broken stirrup. Gerald spoke of Duke Ewan's growing temper with his dogs just prior to the king clutching his chest and falling from his horse. He had only been able to stare helplessly from the sidelines with the other men as the dying king called for his son and spoke words that only the young prince could hear. 

Morgan slapped his reins in frustration, causing his horse to shy. "If I had been there to see..." If I had been there, I could have defended him... I could have saved him. 

"Your Grace, I am given to believe there is a way you can see much of the events of that morning," Colin said. 

Morgan shook his head. "Not unless someone wanted to..." He looked up sharply to see Colin staring at him. "Are you suggesting that I Mind-See you to see what happened?"

Colin smiled enigmatically at Morgan. "I am from Fianna. We don't fear the Deryni as so many in Gwynedd do. If it would help you figure out the king's murder, then yes, I would allow you to Mind-See me."

It wouldn't be as useful as witnessing the event for himself, but viewing Brion's death through a human's eyes might be worth a try. He called a halt to rest the men and horses. 

Morgan sat himself upon a stone and had Colin sit on the ground before him. He rested his  hands on Colin's shoulders and verbally eased Colin into a relaxed state, conducive to Mind-Seeing. 

"Let's go back. Back to the morning of the hunt. It was cold, and you were awakened early..." And in his mind and through his eyes, Morgan sees Colin emerging from his quarters, joining the rest of the men in the courtyard. Horses and dogs are brought out, and riders mounted, a colorful feast for the eyes as blues, greens, and yellows jostled for positions near the royal scarlet. As they pass through the street, a stunning blonde woman with astonishing attributes gifts him with a flask of wine, a gesture of tribute for the king's hunt. 

And the hunt itself, a comedic excursion of young dogs with little experience and not enough sense to know a deer from a nest of rabbits. The pleasure of sharing a drink with the king, who promises a seat next to him at the royal table that evening. And staying behind with the Earl of Eastmarch, whose broken stirrup has caused him to pull up short. And then...

And then... nothing. 

Morgan nudged Colin's memories, which had suddenly gone dim, then dark entirely. He pushed harder and found himself in Colin's memory of riding with Gerard Ralson and their escort on the road to Ramos, just past the convergence of the Eirian and the Eleyder, on a road Morgan knew well: their mission to find Morgan and inform him of King Brion's death. 

That... was not helpful. 

Morgan went back, trying to find the rest of the hunt, but his mind slipped past Colin's memories once again, returning to Colin's search for a spare strap for Ian's stirrup. He pushed into the hidden memories, refusing to slip over them. Morgan suddenly felt sick and Colin winced, breaking the bond between them. 

* * *

"This was my first time dealing with Deryni magic first-hand," Colin told Derry later, after they'd resumed their ride. "What do you think about it?"

"Never done it, myself," Derry said. 

"Ah. You hold with those border suspicions, do you?"

"No," Derry replied, "I'm not averse to Deryni magic. I'd be happy to help him out if he ever needed it, but it's never come up."

"It was strange," Colin said. "I remembered that morning, and I could feel that he was there with me, but whenever I tried to remember the events surrounding the king's death, I started thinking about our ride to Cardosa instead. Or Ewan and his hounds. But as soon as we broke contact, I could see those memories clearly. And I could tell that he was frustrated with me because I couldn't quite remember what the beautiful lady who gave me the flask looked like."

"You? Can't remember a beautiful face?" Derry chided, "I've heard you claim to be the expert on beautiful women."

"I'll be honest," Colin laughed sheepishly, "It wasn't her face that I was paying attention to. Her dress was..." He moved his hands, indicating a shapely woman. "Let's just say it was a dress worthy of convincing a single lord to settle down."

"Say no more," Derry said, laughing, "I know the type well."

"But the strange thing about the memories of the king," Colin continued with the earlier, serious part of the conversation, "is that after we broke contact, I could picture them in my head quite clearly. Of course, I wasn't there when he had his heart attack--or whatever it was that struck him down--but I very distinctly remember looking down at him while the Bishop spoke the sacred rites, and the Prince--God bless him, but you could see Prince Kelson become King Kelson in the space of mere moments. We bundled up the ki--we bundled up King Brion, and Prince Nigel carried him back on his horse. I tell you, I'm glad I didn't have to be the one to tell Queen Jehana the news, I understand she didn't take it well at all. Not that you can blame her."

"Did you volunteer to be in the party who came for the general?" Derry asked. 

"I would have if asked," Colin said, looking back at Lord Ralson, "but Gerard "volunteered" me to accompany him, and so here I am, riding for five days now in the freezing cold and sleet instead of snuggled up in front of a fire with mulled wine and a woman in an amazing dress. But it's worth it to be of service to the new king."

Colin was not the only lord to be of service to King Kelson. Further down the line, Gerard Ralson and General Morgan spoke in low tones. 

"It had to have been Charissa," Morgan said. "There's no doubt she's been planning her revenge since Brion defeated her father in fair combat. And now that she's got Brion out of the way, there's nothing to stop her from calling out Kelson. And Kelson has no defenses whatsoever." 

Morgan liked Gerard, and trusted him to be fair-minded, despite his friendship with several men  who had vastly different beliefs than Morgan. The older man sighed. "I know you would rather cut off your right arm than see any harm come to the boy, but I must tell you, there are plenty of people in Rhemuth who will not be happy to see you there." 

"Well, there's nothing new about that," Morgan said. "Brion's widow first among them." 

"Yes, there's that," Ralson said, "but there's more. Before we left, I was already hearing rumors of how you personally had struck down Brion using 'foul Deryni Death magic.' And while I know that to be patently absurd, you know you have enemies at court who would be perfectly happy to spread those rumors, and possibly even convince themselves that they believe the rumors."

"Really? They think that I killed Brion? What would I possibly have to gain from killing my greatest benefactor in the entire kingdom?" Morgan couldn't believe anyone would believe a tale so ludicrous. 

"The word is out that you're after the kingdom," Ralson continued. "Now that Brion is out of the picture, the way to Kelson is clear and that you're going to subvert him somehow and control Gwynedd through him. In fact," Ralson lowered his voice, as if there were spies to hear, "Before I rode out, I was given to understand that the queen herself hopes to gather enough votes on the council to have you up on charges."

Morgan was dumbstruck. He'd always known the queen hated him and his Deryni blood, but enough to believe this of him?

Ralson went on. "Fortunately, between your allies and me, we've got your back. She can't do anything without a majority."

* * *

The Lendour Mountains fought hard to keep them from crossing, but the Lendour Mountains were known for this kind of behavior. Rain, followed by sleet, followed by snow, followed by more sleet. By the time they neared the western side of Shepherd's Pass, they were riding over two inches of crunchy snow that covered the narrow, slick, icy path that overlooked Black Sheep Creek. 

The convergence of Black Sheep with the Loring River lay just another couple of miles ahead, and Saint Mark's another three miles past that; they could rest for the night in the village there. That way they could bypass Valoret and Ramos, cities Morgan had no interest in spending any time in. 

Morgan had banished his own fatigue more than once, but even he was nearing the end of his stamina when the path came level to the creek and the mountains opened ahead. Had he been thinking clearly, he might have realized that this was the perfect spot for an ambush; had he even suspected there might be an ambush...

The buzz of arrows was his only warning before something punched him in the left shoulder, deflected by his mail. Ahead of him, one of Ralson's escort collapsed and fell, an arrow through his neck, and Derry's horse reared, screaming in pain. Yells and curses from behind told a similar story of the men back there, but Morgan had no time to assess the rearguard; a line of mounted men galloped towards them from the other side of the creek. All brandished weapons and they outnumbered the loyal Gwynedd men, who were down by at least one by now. 

Not knowing what kind of backup he might still have, Morgan ducked under the clumsy attack of the first man, following through with a deadly swipe across the man's midsection: that one wouldn't be lifting any war hammers any time soon. 
The next two attackers--one helmed, one bare-headed--stood their ground against him, but Morgan spotted a weakness in the helmed man's defense before he even became a threat, and took down his horse first thing. He sparred with the bare-headed man briefly before thrusting his sword through his opponent's shoulder. Morgan then turned his attention back to the helmeted man just standing up from where his horse had fallen and ran his sword through his neck; the man fell atop his dying horse. 

With no immediate attackers on him, Morgan turned and quickly assessed the situation: Smith was down, along with both of Ralson's escorts--dead, dying, or wounded. Summerville, Colin, and Parawan remained mounted, and Derry, unhorsed, fought like a demon protecting Lord Ralson, bleeding in the crunchy snow. Even as Morgan moved his horse to assist, Summerville took a fatal blow to the neck at the same time his foe fell. 

Several unknown bodies also lay on the ground. The Gwynedd men would defeat their attackers, but at what cost? 

Colin remained horsed, but he was one against three, so Morgan spurred his horse towards that skirmish to help even the odds. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Parawan move to take on the mounted attackers of the men on foot. The unprotected back of the man threatening Colin was too tempting a target to miss, and Morgan took him out without further delay. The other two, upon seeing their comrade fall, spurred horses and galloped back across the creek. 

The battle was over by the time Morgan turned his attention to the last remaining group of Gwynedd men. Morgan was horrified to realize that, of his company of nine, only three remained upright. By the way Parawan was hanging from his horse, he was beyond Morgan's aid, and Derry was seeing to Ralson, so Morgan moved over to Colin, who remained horsed but clutched at his side. 

...

...and that's where Nezz found out that KK was going to tell this story, and Nezz was far more interested in getting KK's take on the tale, so gave it up. I may finish it some day if I have the inclination, but.. *shrugs* At any rate, it was my first attempt at actual written fanfic, and I enjoyed doing it, and I hope y'all enjoyed it as well.

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The horrors of war have not been forgotten in the last 4 years since the Mearaen Rebellion of 1164. The rebuilding of keeps and new lords and titles stand as stark reminders of the costs of war. And there are the countless dead on both sides of the rebellion. Bodies are still found in fields and unmarked graves.

It was a war started by the Deryni, yet few of that race perished in the conflict. Perhaps that is what sparked the flame of resentment in the beginning. Whatever it was, the sparks smoldered in pockets here and there across Gwynedd. Often dismissed as rumor or ghost stories by various lords.

Even the openly Deryni lords couldn't bring themselves to believe such things were again happening in Gwynedd under King Kelson's reign. So the flames spread and sparked more fires in the hearts of men.

As it grew worse, the Church condemned the violence against the Deryni and against those that retaliated. But by the autumn of 1168 the flames had grown to an inferno. Some priests, in very human communities, were preaching about the evils of the Deryni and their sorcery that has brought damnation to Gwynedd.

It is a perilous time and things haven't been this bleak since the death of King Cinhil. And it looks as if history is going to repeat itself and bring about another Deryni persecution.

This thread is for the game only. Only Players may post to this thread. Everything posted here is "in-character".

Any out-of-character posts or posts from members who are not players will be deleted.

The members of the Camberian Council as of 1168 are:

Seisyll Arilan, co-adjustor
Etienne Sief Michon de Courcy
Rhirid James MacGregor (from the Connait, co-adjustor)
Lionella Furstan d'Arjenol Jandrich (married to the ducal heir Nimur)
Anton Trye (Gwynedd)
Seger Nevran (Torenth)
Veris Beillane (she is from Llannedd)

All current members of the Camberian Council are Spell Trained and have Ritual Magic. Seisyll is the only known Deryni Master.

Several prominent Deryni of Gwynedd were considered for membership over the last 4 years to fill the 2 vacancies but ultimately they were ultimately rejected during their discussions.

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[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:05:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Soggy Pop-Tart
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:05:59 PM EDT] <web97> Hi, guys!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:06 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hello!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Is that KK?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Hello Is that KK?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:15 PM EDT] Nick web97 is now known as KK.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Did anyone have an electric hot dog cooker in the 1970s? Stick hot dogs between prongs, and then plugged straight into main power. Sort of like that.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Laurna is my echo
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:23 PM EDT] <bynw> Hi KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Are you Home already?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:36 PM EDT] <The_Bee> This has been a very longday. We officially installed Stephanie May as our new minister. I spent the time between church service and installation doing grocery shopping > I left hom just after 10 am and got home at nearly 6:30.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hi KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:06:45 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Hi KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:07:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> @Bee That really is a LONGGG day
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:08:06 PM EDT] <KK> No electric hot dog maker, but I had a Chicago hot dog yesterday in the Chicago airport. They're supposed to be famous. It was a goo dog.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:08:32 PM EDT] <KK> Good, too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:08:53 PM EDT] <The_Bee> goo dog? not good dog?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:04 PM EDT] <KK> Bee, is your trike cooperating now?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:07 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> you must have left right after the awards ceremony. I saw the fottage, KK. You looked wonderful. Loved the evening gown.
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[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hi HM
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:23 PM EDT] <bynw> hi HM
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:27 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Hi, everyone!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:34 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> hello HM
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:54 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Hope all had a good week.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> you must have left right after the awards ceremony. I saw the footage, KK. You looked wonderful. Loved the evening gown.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:09:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Hi, Bee, KK, HoundMistress, Laurna, and whoever else has shown up.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:10:29 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I'm using the non-electric one. The new battery didn't work, and I missed the deadline for returning it. I plan to as about things that can adjust it.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:10:36 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Oh, there was footage? Where is it? Did you have a good time KK?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:09 PM EDT] <KK> Oh, cool! I hadn't realized it could be viewed live via the website. And thanks re my gown. It was actually separates that I've had for ages and love.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> NICE. Looked like one dress. I loved it.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:40 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Does anyone have the website?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:41 PM EDT] <KK> Writers of the Future website.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:52 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Thanks!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> It might be linked on the forum.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:11:59 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Where is the footage?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Hi Everyone!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:21 PM EDT] <KK> On the website.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hello
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Hi Jerusha!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hi Jerusha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> https://www.writersofthefuture.com/the-awards-event/ KK gives the 2nd place award at the 2:01 hour mark.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:39 PM EDT] <bynw> Hi Jerusha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:44 PM EDT] <KK> Just google Writers of the Future.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:12:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Whatever bloomed in the last few days needs to go all the way away.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:17 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Alergies?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:18 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Great! Found it, thanks!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> that was the first time I had watched the website through the whole week process. That looked like really great information.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <capngramma> Just popping in to say hi. Was at my CAP Wing Conference this weekend and am tired and fighting a sinus and throat thing.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:34 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> My son-in-law commented on how congested Carys sounds, and my eyes and nose itch like fire, and drainage everywhere. Bleh.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Eww
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:13:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I swear my poor cat shares my allergies. She gets gunky at the same times I do.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:01 PM EDT] <The_Bee> bummer
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Sorry you're not feeling well CapnGramma
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Hello all
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:22 PM EDT] <KK> Yep, we did all those things. Rehearsals, hair and makeup... And the meal was wondeful.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Hi Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Nice.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Cool
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:45 PM EDT] <bynw> hi Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Hi Shiral and CapnGramma
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:14:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hi Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:15:23 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Hi, Shiral and Capngramma
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:15:23 PM EDT] <KK> I'll certainly try to go again.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:15:52 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Good that the food was great. Sometimes event food is not.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:03 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Hi I'm Shiral and I'm a Deryni addict..
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:09 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <capngramma> It was a great conference, though. I taught a session on Finance that went very well.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hello, Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:15 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Did you discover any premising young writers, KK?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:22 PM EDT] <KK> I've been judging since 2017, but this is the first time I've been able to go to the gala.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:32 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Nice
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Hi , I'm Laurna and I am a deryni Addict too...
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:16:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Glad you had fun, KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:17:11 PM EDT] <KK> Read some really good stories, some of which are published in their Writers of the Future anthology.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:17:27 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> So glad you came out to Californial, next time Shiral and I need to get together and take you to lunch.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:17:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Oh so they have an anthology?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:17:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hello, I'm Evie, and I'm currently overdosing on 15th Century Gwynedd, so I'm taking a break here. 😉
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:18:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Nice to meet you overdosing Evie.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:18:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I think WotF has an annual anthology. I have one or two of their earlier ones.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:18:18 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> I've been re-reading my favorite Childe Morgan trilogy.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:18:26 PM EDT] * CambersGhost [discord] <shiral_> sets out a table of scones, cream, jam and her magic chatroom teapot
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:18:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Tea, I need tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:18:58 PM EDT] * The_Bee adds cider and mead.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:19:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Sounds like a good plan, Laurna
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:19:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Hopefully it can to Earl Grey green tea. I can't find it anywhere anymore
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> do, not to. Rented fingers
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> The pot pours your favorite kind of tea, whatever that may be
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I am halfway through a bottle of porter that found itself into my house somehow, but have pretty much decided I am not a fan, despite the "roasted coffee notes and graham cracker sweetness" that the label claims that it has.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:17 PM EDT] <KK> It was pretty busy. I did get to go to dinner one night with Scott's brother and his family. Yummy sushi!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:34 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Nice outing, KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Not a fan of sushi, though
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:20:57 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> I had to go pour up my ice tea. Came back to Bubbie in my chair.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Very Nice. I knew you would be very busy.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> good evening! Sorry I'm late, had to take a call
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Hi Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Hi Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:20 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Hi Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> The only fish I'm a fan of is the sort that swims in an aquarium. And I prefer it still swimming.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:27 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Hi, Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:29 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> hello Mark
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hi Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:32 PM EDT] <bynw> hi Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> How was the event in Californiia, KK? 😃
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:45 PM EDT] * CambersGhost [discord] <azdesertrose> adds cheese, Triscuits and other crackers, and a fruit and veggie tray to the tea table.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Are you a Deryni Addict? This is the twelve step program for the people who don't want to be sured
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:21:53 PM EDT] <KK> Earl Grey is a black tea, not green. Shouldn't be that hard to find, though finding a good one is a bit more difficult.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:16 PM EDT] <KK> Hi, Marc. It was good.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:18 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> HEB has it. If you're in Texas.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Did you Fly home thourgh that storm, yesterday. Or did the planes stay well away from those storms.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Are you a Deryni Addict? This is the twelve step program for the people who don't want to be cured
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Tetley did it for a while. It was magnificent
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:39 PM EDT] <KK> My favorite is Republic of Tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Twinings or Bigelow might.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:42 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Captain Picard was an Earl Grey fan.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:50 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I think Earl Grey green would basically be a green tea that has bergamot added, wouldn't it?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:22:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I can't drink green tea; I like the taste but rather dislike the monster headache that ensues.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:09 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I'm drinking a cup of Republic of Tea's Mrs. Patmore's Pudding Tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> green tea is hard on my stomach
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Not sure, Evie. I never investigate it that closely. I just liked it
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:34 PM EDT] <KK> Ouch! Hadn't heard of certain teas inducing headache.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I'll drink anything as long as you call it teaa
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Black tea, on the other hand, runs in my veins.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:49 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Except sweet
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> What if we just call it tea, Marc? 😉
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:23:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I think it's related to the red wine headache problem.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> the extra a is essential :p
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:06 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> NO SWEET TEA? Heresy! 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Which I also get, and which is also a shame because my taste buds quite like a glass of red.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Uh-oh, Evie has discovered her inner Loris
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:27 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> We must have Sweet Tea!!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> We know what to do with heretics here, don't we?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:29 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> No Sweet tea allowed in my house.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:34 PM EDT] <The_Bee> mostly cofffee for me, but sometimes Darjeeling tea or sweet tea
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Unsweatened tea for me
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I don't even have sugar
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:24:56 PM EDT] <KK> Ah, wouldn't have linked it to red wine headaches, but sounds plausible.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> How about honey in the tea?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Sweet tea (or more accurately, half sweet and half unsweet, since Southern sweet tea might as well be tea syrup if not diluted) is my go-to when I'm dining out.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> How can you bake cookies without sugar, Laurna?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> House wine of the South = sweetened iced black tea, mint or lemon optional but recommended.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I like honey with herbal tea, sugar/splenda with black tea
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:45 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> I drink unsweet at home but outside home I almost always drink sweet tea unless it's a place that I know doesn't do tea well. I hate ice tea that is almost water.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:45 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Exactly, DR!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:25:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Apparently Honey is nearly as bad for diabetics as real sugar. So honey is only for Colds.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:26:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Yes, HM! If I want water, I'll drink water. If I order tea, I want it to look and taste like TEA.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:26:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> If it's just a need to avoid sugars, tea sweetened with Splenda works nearly as well.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:26:44 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Amen, DR!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:26:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> So after judging writers OF the future, is there hope of writing IN your future, KK? (No, of course that wasn't a hint.)
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I should have to check for carbonation to be able to tell a glass of tea from a glass of Coke.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Doctor says Fake surgars aren't any better for you. so I don't do that either.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Or even of editing an anthology?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> We could always use more anthologies!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:41 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> And Fanthologies.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:42 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> My bookshelf and hands, specifically.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Yikes. DR. I am not drinking that.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:27:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> House MD scared me away from those.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:28:04 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Just good strong black tea, that's all.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:28:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> And when I drink hot black tea, it's proper builder's tea, nice and strong.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:28:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Just good WEAK HOT black tea
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:28:43 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Weak tea? I despair.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:28:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> hehe
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:29:07 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Revanne and/or Demercia and/or any of our other Brits are going to come in here and laugh themselves silly reading this transcript, this weird little Southern Yank talking about builder's tea!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:29:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "Builder's tea refers to a strong cup of tea. Builder's tea is typically robust and has a rich, dark beige colour." Thank you, Wikipedia.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:29:09 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Isn't weak unsweet tea basically just brown water? 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:29:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I know, I already told you I love to drink just HOT water too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:29:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> The best tea is a irreplicable concoction of whatever your heart desires at the moment.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:29:29 PM EDT] <KK> Not crazy about iced tea, though sun tea is good.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I live on iced tea all summer although I usually make it in a large batch of sun tea in a big pitcher. Then add ice to my glass
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <capngramma> I also prefer my tea weak, but I think that's due to my grandmothers. I remember them drying teabagd to re-use them for their afternoon cuppa
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:17 PM EDT] <KK> Not a fan of iced tea, unless it's sun tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I cannot with Laurna. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:27 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> I heard recently (or read, probably) that warm /hot water will cute phlegm in the throat.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> This one time I had a headache so I put my acetaminophen in the tea along with the usual, and it did the trick... tasted like medicine, though.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:46 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> cut, not cute
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> LOL Evie. It is all good.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:30:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I even converted a few British friends to iced tea, at least in Florida in the summer. Sue said she'd always wondered why we'd put ice in perfectly good tea, and then she dealt with central Florida in June and the light bulb lit up.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:31:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <capngramma> I like hot mint tea for sinus congestion. The mint is a mild irritant, so it helps loosen gunk in the sinus cavities
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:31:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yes, exactly!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:31:32 PM EDT] <KK> I think builders tea usually has milk in it, too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:31:32 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Same in Texas. Too darn hot for hot tea in the warm months.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:31:50 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I love mint tea also, as long as it's peppermint. Not really a fan of spearmint.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:00 PM EDT] <KK> I think builders tea usually has milk in it, too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:04 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> It's too darn hot for anything but sitting naked in the shower drinking something with ice in it!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I should be taking note, as usual 🤔
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:17 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Wow
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I should be taking notes, as usual 🤔
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Hot mint tea or hot black tea with lemon, either with honey, for sinus gunk or a sore throat or both.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <capngramma> Had one person insist that hot beverages make you sweat and that cools you down. I laughed so hard . . .
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:25 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> LOL! Just about, Shiral!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:29 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> My favorites are Earl Grey and English Breakfast. Also love Prince of Wales but it is harder to find
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Wouldn't the shower negate the need for the ice? 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> i am with you, Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:32 PM EDT] <KK> Well, why isn't my comment showing up on screen?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:51 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I like milk and sugar in hot tea, lemon and sugar in iced tea
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> No Evie. when it is 115F you do what you need to do
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:32:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> If you live somewhere dry enough that sweating works, that might actually work, CG.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:14 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I see that comment, KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Not always, Evie. Maybe a cold bath would be more practical when it comes to summertime tea drinking
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:16 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Not in Florida or anywhere else the air's easier to swim through than walk through.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:17 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Depends,E vie. In summer months our cold water comes out lukewarm
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That sometimes happens, KK, though if you mean the comment about builder's tea with milk in it, I see it
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:20 PM EDT] <KK> Ah, i'd scrolled up too far.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:45 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Did "Camber's Ghost" always look like his ghost? Neat.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:46 PM EDT] <bynw> lots of chat going on today so it probably scrolled on by
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:33:51 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I don't put milk in my tea, but I brew it strong enough that the spoon can stand up on its own.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I do put milk in my coffee, on the rare occasion that I drink it.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I like milk in mine. I learned to take it that way from our English neighbors when I was a kid in Italy.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:16 PM EDT] <bynw> @Marc, yes. At least on the Discord side
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Y'all ever just mix your tea and coffee? That's when the gloves really come off.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:27 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> milk in hot tea and coffee, no milk in the iced versions
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> No milk or sugar in my coffee
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:36 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I might try it sometime, but I don't really keep milk in the house.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Oh no no no.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:42 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> I think the Brits have it right. A good hot cuppa leals many things
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:50 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I do not want tea flavored coffee or coffee flavored tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:55 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> I like black coffee. Prefer that in New Orleans.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:34:56 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Espresso, anyone?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:01 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I've heard of mixing tea and coffee, but I might have to call in Loris to deal with that one.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> If I want tea, I want tea, and if I want coffee, I want coffee.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:14 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I like BOTH tea and coffee, but emphatically not together in one cup
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:38 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> No (shudder!) not together!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> NO Marc. You absolutely can not mix tea and coffee.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:40 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I see it twice.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> But yes, a nice hot cuppa will fix a lot of problems and the only problem it'll make worse is a need for the loo.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:48 PM EDT] * bynw doesn't like either
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:52 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I see it twice.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:35:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> You'd have to call it Teaffee
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Join me, evie and desert! We shall pioneer an alchemical union between drinks, and it shall be known as... toffee
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:09 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Cea
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:16 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> LOL! Um, no. That's not how toffee works. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Nope nope nope.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> lol
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Toffee is a divine substance that ALWAYS gets me in trouble
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:36:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> are you sure it's divine, then?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It might be diabolic
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Well, with a touch of the diabolical
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:17 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Nothing divine about alchemy, necessarily. Supernatural, certianly.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:34 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Sprouts has great chocolate covered toffee.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> toffee can pull your teeth out
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Love love real toffee,
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> The bad guys in the second big templar book were alchemists, you may recall.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:37:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> worth it
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Which is why I purposely do not keep it in my house.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:02 PM EDT] <bynw> well that was a brief little storm. now it's all sunny out again
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:06 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Maybe if they're loose already
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Almond Roca. Just for christmas time only
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Divinity is a different snack, though, isn't it?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:36 PM EDT] <KK> Bynw, have you gotten tornadoes in your part f the world today?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:36 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> As long as you don't get carried to Oz on a twister, Bynew
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:38:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Re mixing tea and coffee: https://tenor.com/Vd0K.gif
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:39:32 PM EDT] <bynw> not today. but there were a number of tornados in iowa and nebraska the other day
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:39:48 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> LOL!!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:39:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> One of my mother's coworkers at her last job was nicknamed the Alchemist. He was one of three chemists who worked there, and his name was Al.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:39:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Stayed safe, Bynw?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:39:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Just watching the weather radar for those was terrifying, Bynw, and I don't even live there!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:40:30 PM EDT] <KK> Al chemist. I like it!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:40:40 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> We had one near Waco.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:40:45 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> brb, need to turn the a/c on
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:40:57 PM EDT] <KK> Tornado or alchemist?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:41:12 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> LOL! Tornado.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:41:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> A/c time already? we are still only at 73F today
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:41:33 PM EDT] <bynw> elkhorn nebraska was badly hit before the storms moved into iowa
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:41:37 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> I've been having t go back and forth, A/C to heat,
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:41:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Goodness. it's already 80+ here
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:13 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> 79 here right now.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:15 PM EDT] <The_Bee> 56F here
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Inside temp says 77F, which means it's likely low 80s outside. No wonder I'm dying
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> After that talk before, I'm going to go make some tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:32 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Yup, at my library, the building is always the perfect temperature for whatever the weather was three days ago. Technology can't keep up with nature's mood swings this year
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:36 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> We're heading back to the boreal forests of the north. No need for air conditioning there yet
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I'm great with 77F outdoors with a light breeze. In a still house, not so much!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:42:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Our weather still playubg roller coaster. Very hot tomorrow and Tues, storms Weds, don't get out of the 50s on sat. Crazy
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Before you go back north, Jerusha, look in a Publix, especially if you've got a nice big one nearby, for your Earl Grey green tea.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> When do you head back, jerusha?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:14 PM EDT] <bynw> Minden Iowa was badly hit and even Pleasant Hill in the Des Moines metro area got a few too
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:20 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Everyone at work has blankets & coats, summer and winter.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:42 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Our weather still playing roller coaster. Very hot tomorrow and Tues, storms Weds, don't get out of the 50s on sat. Crazy
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:42 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I saw a tv program about climate change. Winters are getting shorter; springis coming earlier.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:42 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I keep a blanket and sweater at my office year-round also
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:45 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> I did look in Publix, DR; no luck!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:43:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Tuesday, Evie
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> In the summer time, we needed a sweater for inside the hospital, but we did not need one during the winter time.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> My university habit of carrying a light jacket or at least a long-sleeved button-up shirt everywhere serves me well when the weather is having her mood swings.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Looking forward to the trip home?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:27 PM EDT] <bynw> according the the news it was 106 reported tornadoes across Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri on Friday
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hoppe Cameron and Anna fared ok in the storms
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:49 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Not really, but I'm not a good traveller
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:44:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> College campus was comprised of a lot of old buildings (by US standards) and the HVAC was . . . inefficient, let's say.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:45:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Yikes. Bynw
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:45:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That doesn't surprise me. When I stopped watching the coverage, I think they had issued over 92 tor warnings at that point.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:45:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Hope Cameron and Anna fared ok in the storms
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:45:29 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Holy crap! That's scary!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:45:49 PM EDT] <KK> I messaged them a couple of hours ago, but havent heard back yet.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:46:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I watched until they said they might have a server crash from the number of people watching. So I figured I didn't need to be there when others really need that info.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:46:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> It was! That exceeded the number we had in the April 27, 2011 outbreak that hit Tuscaloosa hard and nearly got me! (That one went airborne again after hitting the B'ham outskirts, but I know from the track that it went directly over us, and we ended up getting debris from it in our yard.)
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:47:01 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> EEK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:47:06 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> wow
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:47:43 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Tornadoes are nasty things!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:47:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> I have been throuhg a hurricane but not as scary as a tornado
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:47:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> https://www.weather.gov/dlh/sst
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:03 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> There's nothing like going in your yard and picking up store receipts and prescriptions from stores and pharmacies in a city that is an hour and a half drive SW of you.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Which one are we talking bout? The one in the north midwest?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> I have been through a hurricane but not as scary as a tornado
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:36 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Rats! Gotta go! Quanah wants to eat (even after eating my WHOLE LOAF of bread yesterday that I hadn't even had 1 slice of!!)
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:48 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> hh
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I have been through a hurricane and near small waterspoots but Not a tornado. I think I will take an earthquake(not a big one) instead
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:48:56 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Tornadoes are faster and scarier
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:07 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> The ones this past Friday, Marc. Bywn lives in the path of those storms
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:09 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I've been through a few hurricanes. I'll take that over a tornado, especially a spate of them, any day.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Oh dang. Glad Bynw's okay.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:37 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Everyone have a good week and stay safe!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:41 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> A few small earthquakes too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:43 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> You too!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> oops. Bread must have been within reach
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> G'night, HoundMistress!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hurricanes can spawn tornadoes, so I don't see them as an improvement, especially since tornadoes tend not to kill you with flooding either.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Nite HMM\ Have a good week
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:49:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> It's like somebody blew the big trumpet in the sky, eh?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Hurricanes are like getting a three-fer
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:07 PM EDT] <HoundMistress> Yes, It was Jerusha. My fault. Byeeeee!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Back, my stupid internet can cut out on me at very inopportune times.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:17 PM EDT] Quit HoundMistress (181b2262@85C72A2F.70F1CB62.CA55AE66.IP) has left this server (Quit: Client closed).
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Have a good week, HM
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:33 PM EDT] <bynw> with a hurricane you can have some warning about it. even days in advance. not the same with a tornado. you are lucky to get minutes.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:50:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Yeah, but hurricanes at least you have some warning; tornadoes like this mess on Friday spin up too fast for my liking.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> agreed
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:14 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Bye HM
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Well, we do get up to a week of warning now that a severe storm with a high risk of tornadoes is on the way. But yeah, with the actual tornado itself, that's only a few minutes of warning, usually.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> And IIRC, this mess on Friday was predicted to be severe but it got even more severe than expected quickly. No. Thank. You.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:24 PM EDT] <KK> At least one knows when a hurricane is coming, and can prepare.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Earthquakes can scare you silly. Another natural phenomenon that doesn't give a warning.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:51:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> the way you're all talking about it, nothing can convince me to move to a flatland. Scary
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:52:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yeah, I've gone through a few earthquakes, and again, not a fan
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:52:01 PM EDT] <KK> Very true re earthquakesl
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:52:03 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I mean, hurricanes can strengthen quickly too, but they usually do that over open water, before they've made landfall.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:52:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I am going to drink my soothing weak tea, while we discuss natural disaters.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:52:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Like Idalia last year. That thing got UGLY in a hurry.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:52:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Marc, I'm not even in flatland. I'm in the foothills of the Appalachian chain. And we still are Tornado Central here, because Alabama is part of Dixie Alley, which is to the east of the usual Tornado Alley.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:53:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Loma Prieta in 1989 was the largest one I've ever experienced. I DON'T want to experience one worse than that.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:53:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Oh, you were in the Bay Area for that one? That was A Mess.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:53:50 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I was still digging out from Hugo on the other side of the continent.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:54:17 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I might have been to the point of volunteering with the food bank by the time that happened, but I don't think we'd gone back to school yet.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:54:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> BIG mess. And yes. I heard "The Bay Bridge is down" so I thought the WHOLE bridge had fallen into the bay. I was pretty relieved to find that that hadn't been the case.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:54:58 PM EDT] <bynw> we dont get hurricanes here just derecho's --- hurricane force straight line winds
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:54:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My ex-boyfriend and his fiance at the time (engaged a few years after we broke up) went through Hugo in an apartment very near the coast. I think that's the first and last time he was planning on ever making that mistake.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:55:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Right?!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:55:03 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> That scared the heck out of me about driving on double decker bridges.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:55:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> I had job interviews in the Bay Area. I was changing planes in Kansas City when I caught the TV news about that quake.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:55:29 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I've never experienced a big hurricane. I'm in NO rush to do so, either.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:55:42 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Hugo was terrifying. Let me tell you, the eye of a Cat 4 hurricane at midnight is some spooky shit, pardon my language.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I believe you, DR.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I think I'll pass on that also
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:25 PM EDT] <bynw> for those lovely earthquakes. they are very minor when we get them. sometimes you don't even notice it. but we do have those too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/479836521864888347/1234292167846133800/0b8e3094-c35e-4a88-a687-9f923c000ddd_text.png?ex=663033a8&is=662ee228&hm=03a5de661e494cbbfb5580a195cd0f62fd1a4567e5f18397624bafe635d35dc0&;
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Everything about a Cat 4 hurricane is spooly and scary
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> And it's another one that strengthened very rapidly, going from 2 to a strong 4 in about 36 hours.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:56:55 PM EDT] <bynw> now of course when the new madrid fault line cracks wide open again. then the midwest will be toast
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:57:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> we draged our anchor in Costa Rica across the bay and nearing rocks during a huricane that happened about 9pm at night.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:57:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> No argument here, DFK, but for it to go from howling wind to dead quiet . . . creeeeeeeeeepy.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:57:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Yeah, I'm not sorry to be living a distance from New Madrid. I used to live right next to the Mississippi River.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:58:59 PM EDT] <KK> When Hurricane Charlie hit Miami, I was in NY for the World's Fair, but I still have the letter my sister wrote to me, reporting on then damage. We had a couple of Australian pines come down in our back yard, which fortunately was deep enough that it didn't do any damage to buildings. Took out our neighbor's clothesline, tho
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:58:59 PM EDT] <KK> ugh.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:59:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> We had an earthquake in Charleston my senior year of high school. I was in Latin class, which was in one of the mobile classrooms, and we thought the classroom's AC unit had fallen off right at first.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [7:59:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Wasn't until later that we realized it hadn't been just our classroom!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:01:01 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Dust storms in the desert aren't any fun either, though as long as you're indoors, the worst part is cleaning up because it doesn't matter how good your window and door gaskets are, there's sand EVERYWHERE.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:01:56 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Florida is a place full of resilient, resilient people, the way they weather storms
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:17 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Ah, shoot, I just reminded myself of The Doors.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> On a more cheerful note, I've been teasing the Pod-Child and my son-in-law that they hexed themselves by naming the new grandpuppy Maximus. He weighed 13 lbs when they adopted him; a week and a half later at the vet he was 20 lbs.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:27 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Florida is a place full of resilient, resilient people, the way they ride out storms
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> LOL!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I also have a new grandpuppy
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> If he weighs less than 60 lbs by this time next year, I'll eat my favorite boots.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:48 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Maximus. Nice name.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:02:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> woohoo! Good big boy
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <capngramma> Must go. Completely stuffed up again and the med I can take puts me to sleep. Have a good week everyone.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> He's the sweetest guy. Always keen to exchange puppy kisses for petting.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Take care of yourself Capn
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Bye, Capn' Grandma
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Hope you feel better soon, Capn
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Bye CG
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Later, Capn!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> G'night, CG!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:48 PM EDT] <The_Bee> bye Capngramma. Hope you feel better soon
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:48 PM EDT] <KK> Feel better soon.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:03:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Puppy kisses are the best!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:04:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> KK. are we Zooming next week?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:04:07 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> nite Capngramma. Hope you feel better
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:04:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I have a four-footed dog nephew who is STILL into washing anyone who gives him some petting and attention
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:04:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "Riders on the Storm" or "People Are Strange"? Both could apply to Florida.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:04:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Strange People on t he Storm
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:05:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> KK, I hope you got to meet up with writers you already knew. and could share war stories with
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:05:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Whisky Bar!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:05:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I was born in FL, and my DH would confirm it would be hard to out-weird me. 😉
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:05:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> *sick piano ditty
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:05:32 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Granted, he was born in FL also
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:05:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Interesting thought, Evie
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:06:15 PM EDT] <KK> A few, Laurna. And met a few I hadn't met before.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:06:23 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Playing in the yard.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:06:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> [link redacted for privacy]
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:06:53 PM EDT] <KK> How cute!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:06:58 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> There's nothing like a shared stick
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:06:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> In completely different news, I used an AI image site to create my 15th Century Morgan descendent. Nezz fixed his outfit, since it was originally more like Haldane crimson.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:01 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/479836521864888347/1234294827005509713/Duke_Joscelin_Morgan_final.jpg?ex=66303622&is=662ee4a2&hm=6c84b7c5bc4b0ffd6ef2bf380e70fa2eed4184fc4ea9d99406187a64048c87d8&;
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:16 PM EDT] <KK> The brown one is your grandpuppy?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Max and Audaline adored each other the moment they met.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> "Can we lift the stick? can we, Can I help??? (in ref to puppy picture, not the blond dude)
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Oh my! Count me in!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:42 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> The brown one is Maximus, the grandpuppy, and the black one is Audaline, the granddog who'll be three in July.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:43 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Which dog is which?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:07:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> RIGHT, Jerusha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:06 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Yes, he could pass for Morgan's great great.....grandson
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Very handsome guy, Alaruc would be proud
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:15 PM EDT] <KK> Ooooh, I like!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> In my silliest imagination, I imagine people kneeling as if before their queen at the event.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I am trying to imagine how you could apply that quote to the blond dude, Shiral, so I suspect clarification isn't needed there. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Very handsome guy, Alaric would be proud
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:08:52 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Not unless Morgan's great grandson amuses himself in strange ways.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> He would be several greats before that grandson, I'm sure, given that it's 300 years and some spare change later
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Running amok in the yard.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> [link redacted for privacy]
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Sideways for some reason.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Yes, I'm sure of that. I just didn't want to go into the whole string of "greats"
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Cute puppies defying gravity!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:09:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> What a talented dog to be able to run on a vertical surface!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:10:09 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> (imagining the Monty Python Spam skit with "great great great great great great great great " ...
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:10:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> looks like fun
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> ... of Ulm
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Between the dogs and the attack Can-Florida geese (the Canada geese who don't migrate back to Canada, who nom on the dollar weed in the yard), I pity the fool who attempts to break into that house.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Canadian murder chickens
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:41 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Mhm.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> That sounds worse than murder hornets, Jerusha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Canadian jerks. One of them almost flew at a friend of mine recently
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:11:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Yep
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:12:11 PM EDT] <KK> Big yard! And looks like they're having a grand time!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:12:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> They aren't pets, but they view that house as their territory.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:12:16 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> Do NOT mess with the nest
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:12:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Do NOT mess with the geese. At all. They will ruin your whole day.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:12:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I almost typed "Murder Horthys" I suppose Letald Hort of Orsal COULD be a dangerous enemy
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:12:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:14 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I read a joke about the reason Canadians are so pleasant is that there's a secret annual ritual in which the aggression is pulled out of all the humans and put into the geese. 🤣
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> ha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:43 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Sounds like a case for Adam
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:45 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> The geese come by it naurally.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> naturally, I meant
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:13:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> They have not forgotten they are the descendants of dinosaurs.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:14:01 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Behold the Canada Goose....Canada's natural air defense
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:14:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Mess with the goose and yours will be cooked!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:14:31 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Are they any relation to the geese thatsaved Rome?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:14:56 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <jerusha2> And on that happy note, I must go. Have a good week everyone!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:14:57 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> The only animal besides deer I've had to honk my car's horn at
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:14 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Bye, Marc Good luck with the job search
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> G'night, Jerusha!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:32 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Oops, thats Jerusha who is leaving
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:36 PM EDT] <The_Bee> bye Jerusha. Good week wherever you are next week.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Night, Jerusha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:51 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Good night Jerusha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:15:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> Bye Jerusha. good luck Marc
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:16:25 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> thank you!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:16:30 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> and bye jerusha!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:16:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> One characteristic of Filipino English is that there is a lot of p/f confusion, since the original language didn't have the "f" sound in it. (That was introduced by Spain.) So one of the jokes going around on the US Navy base in the Philippines was "What do you call the Philippine Air Force? A pair of pliers.")
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:16:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> One characteristic of Filipino English is that there is a lot of p/f confusion, since the original languages didn't have the "f" sound in it. (That was introduced by Spain.) So one of the jokes going around on the US Navy base in the Philippines was "What do you call the Philippine Air Force? A pair of pliers.")
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:18:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My mom has been here for 62 years and still has trouble with that sometimes. When we lived near Ft. Payne, she kept calling it Port Fayne.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:18:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Or Port Payne
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:18:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Port Payne might be accurate
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:19:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> The mother of one of my SCA friends is Cuban, and her husband had to tell her when she went shopping for home goods to ask for bed LINENS, not bed sheets. The mispronunciation from Spanish did NOT go over well in Sears in the 1960s.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:19:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> YES! Mom has that issue too. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:20:05 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> She says "linens" and "seashore"
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:20:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That long e sound is hard. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:20:50 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Well, Spanish doesn't have the short I sound.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:21:28 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> No distinction between "tin" and "teen."
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:21:44 PM EDT] <KK> I didn't realize that Canadian geese were that aggressive.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:02 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> You leave them alone and they'll leave you alone, but don't annoy them.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:03 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Oh yeah. "I miss the beaches in the Philippines" is a sentence Mom has to be very careful with. Hence, seashore. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> They could have honestly been viillains in Two Crowns, KK!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> "What did you just call your sisters?!?!?!"
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <derynifank> I have to sign out now. I have chores I need to finish. Have a good week everyone
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:32 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> See you next time!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> G'night, DFK.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> KK, are we Zooming next week?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:22:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Goodnight DFK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Good night DFK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:04 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Geese and turkeys. One of our cities has made a big deal about turkeys attacking people.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:06 PM EDT] <KK> Yes, zooming.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Cool.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:39 PM EDT] <KK> No turkeys being dropped from helicopters, I trust.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> LOL! I know that episode of WKRP 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:23:56 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:24:13 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I'll be there 3pm eastern. My computer tried to move my time zone to the west coast.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:24:20 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Turkeys will be Zooming, or will it be Canada Geese?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:24:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> If it's the geese, then God help us
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:24:50 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> The guy who wrote that actually got fired for doing something similar, again because he didn't know any better, and when he became a writer for that show, he decided to draw on that experience and embellish it a bit for the sake of the script.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:25:36 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Although it was greatly exaggerated for the show
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:25:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> oh wow
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:25:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I'm not surprised. People do some really hare-brained stuff sometimes.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:26:03 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Neat. We love it when writers use their personal experiencess artfullly
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:26:21 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I have a few of mine artfully tucked away here and there in mine. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:26:36 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I have a few of mine artfully tucked away here and there in my stories. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:26:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Skippy's List.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> https://skippyslist.com/list/
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> me too, mwahahaha
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:29 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> For a fun bunch of stupid crap people have pulled.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:31 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Also, if you tick me off badly enough, I reserve the right to write a caricature of you into something with only the name changed to protect the guilty. Or rather, my butt.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:41 PM EDT] Quit The_Bee (47e9ba24@CCN-5871F452.hsd1.ct.comcast.net) has left this server (Quit: Client closed).
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> If people wanted to be depicted well in your stories, they should have behaved better.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:56 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> (paraphrased from Anne Lamott)
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:27:59 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "with only my butt changed"?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:28:12 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "with only my butt changed to protect the guilty"?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:28:17 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> I read Anne lamott. I loved that part
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:28:22 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That would be nice, TM. I could remove the "Wide Load" bumper sticker. 😄
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:28:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> "I thought thoughts about her that were so bad, they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight from the cat dish."
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:29:04 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> !!!!!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:29:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> That's a new level of bad
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:29:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Raymond Chandler kept a list of quips and marked them off when he put them in a novel. The one that stuck with me is "She had a nice cool goddamnyou smile."
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:29:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I read that line (she was talking about the mother of one of her son's classmates, who she perceived to be SuperMom, showing her and everyone else up), and I had to set the book down, take off my glasses, and find the Kleenex for the tears of laughter.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:30:32 PM EDT] <KK> Sometimes a line will just hit you in the funnybone, and you can't help reacting out loud.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:30:41 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> It's in _Traveling Mercies_.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:30:56 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Yeah. I LOVE Anne Lammott!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:31:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> I made the mistake of reading Good Omens with a respiratory disease. The laughing led to coughing fits that wrecked me.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:31:27 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> I need to read some Raymond chandler one day. Another classic name, like Lovecraft, King, Howard, Christie, etc...
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:31:33 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Oh, yeah, that's a big oops, TM!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:31:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> I've had quite few Bad Thoughts that would make Jesus take to the gin bottle
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:32:07 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I have a pendant that was a gift from a friend whom I nagged into reading the book right around the time the show premiered. It's a scan of the page where Aziraphale swears for the second time in about a page and a half.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:32:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> I think gin from the cat dish is a greater low of desperation, Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:32:34 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Oh definitely. But Jesus wasn't known for loving gin and tonics in general
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:32:47 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> To be fair, Az has just gotten the news that the Apocalypse is imminent, so if ever there were a time for an angel to drop an F bomb, I think that qualifies.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:33:00 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Well, true, the invention of gin might have been needed first. Not to mention tonic.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:33:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> More like take up the cross.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:33:39 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Well yes, if you want to be fussy. not to mention the invention of cat dishes
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:33:54 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> I prefer Dashiell Hammett, myself. Red Harvest ... when a chapter in the middle is titled "The Seventeenth Murder" ...
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:34:15 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> The ancient form of cat dish was known as the granary. That's where the mice liked to hang out.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:34:43 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Yup. Having a cat in the granary was a good medieval mousetrap
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:35:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I imagine that there were a few farmers who realized the barn cats kept the mice out of the winter's food for the people and would leave out water dishes for the kitties.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:36:04 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> There have always been mean people, but there have always been kind people too.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:36:43 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Gin is the bigger problem than a cat dish, methinks.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:36:44 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Very likely. And probably cats figured out how to catch a drink in the water trough for larger animals
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:37:14 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> If Jesus could turn water into wine, what did he turn into gin?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:37:26 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Turpentine?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:37:37 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I don't think junipers grow in that part of the world.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:37:46 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Cedars of Lebanon, tho.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:37:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> True
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:38:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> "between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere" ... now looking up the usual source o turpentine and/or gin ...
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:38:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> KK's over there just shaking her head at us. 🤣
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:39:01 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Gonna toddle off and have an afternoon nap, all. See you on Zoom next Sunday
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:39:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> KK ought to know we're nuts by now!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:39:35 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> even I am shaking my head. lol
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:39:56 PM EDT] <KK> That's what makes you so charming. :-)
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:04 PM EDT] * CambersGhost [discord] <shiral_> waves farewell, steps onto her portal and disappears in a cloud of lavendar steam.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <shiral_> Bye!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> good answer
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:10 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Night, Shiral!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:18 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Night S
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> night Shiral
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:27 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Ooh, where can I get my portal fitted with lavender steam?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:40:47 PM EDT] <KK> I think I'm also going to check out. Supper calls.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:08 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> My supper calls also, then I need to get back to writing while the Muse is still active
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:11 PM EDT] <KK> See you next week on zoom.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:11 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Okay, g'night, KK, have a good week, thanks for coming to see us, and see you next week!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Mmm, supper
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:19 PM EDT] <bynw> good night KK
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:19 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <laurnarose> Glad you came to California KK, and Glad you are back home have a good week
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:24 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <marc_du_temple> Good night!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:38 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Winding up Chapter 7
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:40 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <stnezz> Night kk
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:41 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <tm_9039> Juniperus communis is in the Levant!
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:53 PM EDT] * KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of purple sparkles.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:53 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <evie.delacourt> Communist Junipers?
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:41:55 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> I stand corrected.
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:42:13 PM EDT] <CambersGhost> [discord] <azdesertrose> Or, I lounge corrected. I'm not standing anywhere right now. 😛
[Sunday, April 28, 2024] [8:42:15 PM EDT] Quit KK has left this server (Quit: Client closed).

I like the look of the dice. 

Dice rolling. In the previous game "Ghosts of the Past" we mainly used the dicebot in the Deryni chatroom. Since now we have Discord in addition to the chatroom. Dice will be handled differently.

We will be using the hamete virtual dice server. I have created a link for it at the top of the forum. Called "Dice". That way you can get some practice in rolling if you like. Once we know who the players are then we will setup a private dicelog for the game. This will use your email to log into the dice server to access.

Here is the direct link: https://dicelog.com/dice

Second Sight: You have a knack for certain things. This is a Human Only Trait. It allows a Human to do some Deryni-like abilities. You can tell if someone is lying. You can sense things that others cannot. In many ways it is a lesser form of the Power Trait. However, a Human with this Trait is not affected by Merasha.

This Trait is due to trace Deryni blood in one's ancestry. If the Human who has Second Sight is ever Awakened and given Power, they lose this Trait as it is replaced with the Power Trait.


Please note that this is a work in progress and is subject to change and revision.

Quote from: Jerusha on April 22, 2024, 06:32:14 PMDo bonus traits for humans come from the character traits?  (Non-Deryni)

Yes, Humans can use or have any of the General Traits. A Deryni character can have any of the General or Deryni Traits.

There is one exception, a Human can take the Deryni Trait of Spell-Trained. This gives a Human an understanding of Deryni powers, the ability to recognize there use, and knows what kind of limitations exist for the Deryni.