“A time of peace”
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I think I’m getting second-hand pre-con anxiety on their behalf at this point. XD
no ties for Christopher at GenCon? D: a modern tragedy
But yeah, his damn things are once again overlapping.
Hey! You can’t set a story in a mall unless Wipeout is there! It’s in her contract! >:(
Anyway, this being a Tachyon/Harpy teamup makes it way more interesting than I had expected. 
We don’t get a lot of Tachyon!
Fae curses, notable for only being visible if you relax and unfocus your eyes.
You know, most of the time, I know we’re all like, “Man, I wish they had the time, etc., to actually make some of these comics in their entirety!” But the Fey-Court, I realize, is the best reason for why it’s best they don’t. c_c;;
I like this, just because it puts the Bond mechanic into greater clarity for me. I always thought they were, like, glimpses into alternate realities or something, at least some of them, but that’s more an Oracle of Discord thing.
The real intel was inside them all along. 
One might even say it was the friends they made along the way!
A faerie circle TV screen, a very normal thing to have.
Flashback to Nimbus on Discord going, “Hey guys, how many limericks is too many for one letter?” and the sinking feeling which followed. XD
The token win against the Fey-Court is really fun, really satisfying, but it also takes a really long damn time. D:
“The letters are here to convey sounds.” Spoken like someone who’s never studied Celtic languages! I have no idea how you would write sidhe with English phonology without making it look like a completely different word. I mean, you’d need a whole transliteration system to start with…
That “indebted to everybody” theoretical question was surprisingly illuminating.
True facts, statoose is actually a My Little Pony fanartist and musician.
Good job everyone not making it weird! (It was a little weird.)
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My first game against them, yes. Three or more hours and caused some friends to vow never to play SotM with me again.
The second game, we won by tokens on either the second or third round. 
So mercurial and capricious are good descriptors here.
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I’m… gonna have to be real, I was trying not to laugh at C&A invoking Shadowcat as an example, because it is literally the case that much of why Kitty keeps having so many romances is that it keeps being a thing that dude writers who had crushes on her as young readers grow up to be older writers and then put her into romances so they can write vicariously.
(With Ellis and Pete Wisdom probably being the most egregious example of this. And I say that as someone who genuinely otherwise likes Wisdom as an overall character… but it’s still kinda egregious.)
So it was like “I don’t… know? If this was the point you were trying to make, if you’re trying to keep it not weird?” Hence why I found it morbidly funny.
The whole limerick letter made me regret we haven’t heard from Arcanus Lupus in ages; they wrote the best limericks! Also Christopher struggling mightily with the poetry was like, this is when you realize your idea for character quirks was only cool until you have to actually write the quirk, lol.
(Also as a King’s Quest fan, I’m still getting used to Sentinels being another media I need to associate the name Gwydion with.)
The Celtic pronunciation thing reminds me how it has always been my belief that the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish folks all intentionally made the Anglicization impenetrable to expressly mess with the English. It just feels on-brand for all three of those cultures.
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100% with you on that XD
The iambic pentameter thing was giving me major flashbacks - ages ago I wrote a fanfic with Chronoist, and decided that as a quirk of his character, to make him sound a bit more mythic without going full Thor, I would have him speak in iambic pentameter. And GOD did I come to regret that choice! So much extra work. I can definitely understand those writers who would chuck the whole thing aside and say “No, the Fey Court only speak in pentameter when it suits them. And it doesn’t suit them right now.”
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