Originally shared by Jonathan Tweet Tonight, my "Lethal Damage" 13th Age campaign draws to a close. Meanwhile, the guys are work have talked me into running a couple D&D sessions for them. That was the day 13th Age was announced, and they're happy to play 13th Age instead. That will be my "Great Center" campaign, based in the imperial capital of Axis, the center of the world. It's my opportunity to explore the setting from yet another perspective.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Will your mom adopt me, please?
ReplyDeleteShe's cool, but this is slightly out of character. She is ignoring our pleas for pictures.
ReplyDeleteI want this to be an elaborate trolling of the family.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible. I'm not sure how people as fun as my parents got three introverted nerds for kids.
ReplyDeleteI once sent my mom a postcard (from Vegas) thanking her for bail money, because hookers and blow cost a shit-ton even before you get arrested, etc.
ReplyDeleteShe lives in a town of 155 people, and everyone knows everyone's business. The postmistress called her.
My mom was amused and mortified at the same time.
Barry Lovseth knows how fun my parents are. Don't go telling Cathy that Claire got a tattoo yet, Barry!
ReplyDeleteYour dad still has one of the best quotes of all time to one of our friends: "Does your dad every call you a dumbass?"
ReplyDeleteSo Red Foreman.
Gary must have gotten into the smokes again!
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