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When you have several competing groups willing to kill for what you have and you're not saddled with morals, you do the only sensible thing: Hold an auction.

Let he who objects cast the first Stone....

If the leader is Thor, he should try some menthol ointmenths.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secret Lives of Tarzan and Dumbledore

You could have the original name be WHICH but the media misunderstood it at their first event and called it WITCH. Then the group itself became divided on the idea with half of them thinking it was cool and the other half being highly irritated that the media got the name wrong.

"How can I reverse the Polarity when everyone is Lithuanian?"

As a wise man once said, "Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

Oh, um, well, yeah...a friend told me. Yeah, a friend. Never manscaped in my life. No sir, not me.

Lord of the Ring Around the Collar

I usually pick a particular fantasy world and tell my players that it's either that world or substantially like that world. ==== Dragonlance Humans, elves, Dwarves as playable races. Goblins and draconians as major "evil" intelligent races. Some very minor neutral races such as centaurs and unicorns. A standard array of D&D class tropes: warrior, barbarian, wizard, sorcerer, cleric, thief, paladin, etc. Nations may or may not be the same as in the books. ==== Guardians of the Flame Humans, elves, and dwarves as playable races. Elves are racist. Dwarves are moderate in everything. Slavery is endemic in all societies except the dwarves. The major roiling force in society has been a small group of adventurers who came from another world and who declared war on the Slaver's Guild claiming that slavery is a moral evil. Those adventurers created a small kingdom called "Home". The king is called "Mayor" and is selected by the landowners as a group. And can be de-selected by the landowners as a group...it's a very confusing form of kingship but it seems to work for them so far. "Home" is in an unclaimed corner of the Middle Lands which has in recent years become home for a goodly number of freed slaves. It has also quickly become a center of commerce as the adventurers have introduced inventions by "engineers" (apparently some new form of wizardry) who have produced a better form of steel and "firearms" (a thundering weapon which instantly bores large holes in targets). Other major players in the area include 1) The city of Pandathaway which is ruled by a council of guilds (including the Wizard's Guild and the Slaver's Guild). A metropolitan area open to individuals of all races as long as they're willing to pay the entry fee, keep the peace, and don't go broke and become homeless. 2) A number of societies of clerics, the most common of which is the Spidersect and the most powerful of which is The Society of the Healing Hand. Most clerics are open for hire by anyone, except the Healing Hand refuses to help the people of Home. The most anyone has been able to get out of them on the topic is that they've already "done their part". Rumor has it that the Hand has also refused to assist the Slaver's Guild...but people who snoop into the business of the Slaver's Guild usually end up as slaves so take that rumor with a grain of salt. 3) A large Elven kingdom in the north where humans are second class citizens and barred from owning land and barred from a number of professions. 4) A small dwarven kingdom. 5) A patchwork of human kingdoms throughout the Middle Lands and around the Cirric (a large freshwater inland sea). No paladins, sorcerors, or druids but other D&D class tropes are available. All magic-users do the "have to memorize spells from a spellbook" thing. ==== The Land (from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) Playable races are human, giant, Haruchai. Haruchai are vaguely Asian in appearance, telepathic with each other, very physically fit, athletic, know martial arts, and a huge number of mandatory complications like watched by other members of their race, competitive with other Haruchai, taking vows of martial service to various lords or causes as an excuse to be in The Land rather than in their racial homeland. They prefer talking telepathically to other Haruchai and don't ever seem to have a lot to say to other people. Giants are 8-12 feet tall. They're supremely fire resistant (especially to BODY damage) though fire does still cause pain. And they regenerate from fire damage or fire death. They live on the coast and most have some amount of seamanship. Most also have some amount of stone lore (masonry, stone magic, or both). They're very verbose by human standards. The main evil race are the Cavewights, a troll variant with no regeneration. There's no dedicated cleric class. There are mages who use staffs to channel their power and are considered to be very powerful (no body-affecting powers or movement powers but pretty much everything else). There's also lesser mages who work stone (create heat, lava, light, some density increase, etc.) and mages who act basically like druids but with no powers over animals (so things like divination, weather, plant growth, etc.) Haruchai are never mages and refuse to use magic. They also distain to use weapons and fight exclusively with their bare hands (unless that's completely impossible like the opponent is made of fire or lava). Giants are never staff mages. Learning a bit of stone is common. Learning some wood magic is fairly rare. A special evil god exists (but no deity of good). He has a number of powerful servants, which ones you might see depends on how much of a pain in his butt that you are. At points in time in which he's more powerful, he's able to create large numbers of warped creatures to serve as a slave army. When he's not so strong, some of those warped creatures might still be hiding (or wandering around) left over from the last war. There's a lot of ancient magics in The Land left over from a previous golden age...or from even earlier than that. Some of those will be plot hooks. Others are locations, both those that are well-known and those which are long-forgotten.

Don't manscape while you're traveling: the flight attendants will tackle you.

Pfizer or Moderna is now recommended for the elderly and also for those who are 50 or older if they're immune compromised. Should be done four months after your first booster. https://news.yahoo.com/second-covid-boosters-whos-eligible-110240712.html

Reminder: https://www.t-mobile.com/mlb -April 5 through 11, T-mobile Customers (also Sprint and Metro by T-Mobile customers) can claim a free season-long subscription to MLB.TV.

Hiding Yoda During Ruthless Anarchy - Basically after the period of anarchy during HYDRA's takeover, Yoda will emerge and usher in a new Galactic Republic. "Necessary HYDRA was, yes."

Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif. bitten by FOX operative on Monday evening. https://apnews.com/article/ami-bera-f0519de7337cc7ab37f1e11d858d1a58

I would assume in Canada.

Magic the Gathering Your resource should have been coconuts.

If only the Nazis had stuck with the recipe for Schutzstrudel that Hitler's mother gave them: apples, raisins, and cinnamon in a flaky buttery crust. Instead they became flaky and crusty in an entirely different way....

We're seeing from Russian troops the exact same thing that we've seen from untrained conscripts in wars throughout the ages: looting, rape, and taking it very personally when they're shot at then retaliating upon everyone in sight. For two-thirds of each Russian battle group, their training consisted of "Put on this uniform. Someone will tell you what to do, then do it." Those troops are put onto the battlefield but Russian military doctrine is that those troops won't actually see battle. But that's not what's happening in real life in Ukraine. Troops behave in a civilized manner toward civilians when a) They're in their own country defending their own country or b) When troops are trained to act like disciplined soldiers even when no one is looking. Option "b" isn't an iron-clan guarantee but it's the best any country has come up with so far. And it's been to Russia's advantage so far that their soldiers have been undisciplined brutes because that's played into their tactic to break the Ukrainian's will to fight. And it'll come back to bite them in the butt unless they go on to conquer the world.

If you have WITCH based out of eastern Europe or somewhere else that missed the waves of feminism that the US and western Europe experienced decades ago, you might be able to use it closer to its original form. They could fight Muslim extremists and Middle Eastern governments while in that part of the world. When in the West, they'd be fighting for more changes around the margins, fundraising, recruiting, and appropriating tech. They could even be portrayed by some as sympathetic figures in the media and deny any wrongdoing here which is (correctly) attributed to them.

I was unaware of the floods until I read an article this week about their government donating Bushmaster armored vehicles to Ukraine. At least Australian newspapers think it's a big enough deal to mention....

As long as it has RC Cola and Moon Pies in it, I'll be satisfied.

This is obviously a test of ingenuity and cunning rather than scientific prowess. Bribe one of the aliens with a selection of cultural artifacts (video tapes) to build it for you.

COLLEGE PARK, MD—In what is being hailed as the first empirical evidence in support of a hypothesis that has gained popularity in recent years, top scientists speculated Friday that the universe may indeed be a simulation controlled by an unseen entity after the words “trial version expired” appeared in the sky. “When we can look overhead and see what appears to be an error message from a computer operating system, it certainly lends new credence to the argument that we’re living in an artificial reality,” said University of Maryland physicist Harold M. Cramer, adding that from what he and his colleagues could glean from the airborne phenomenon, human consciousness would be terminated in five days if no further action was taken. “Though it’s possible we are witnessing an optical illusion caused by some kind of atmospheric distortion, the request for a verification code that keeps popping up suggests that our reality may indeed have a specific, singular subscriber, and that this entity must upgrade to a premium subscription in order to avoid any interruption to our experience of consciousness. We can only hope this cosmic account holder can guide us though the two-factor authentication process so that our simulacrum of life remains operational.” At press time, a team of leading cosmologists announced it had successfully renewed the free trial period for another 14 billion years by simply signing up again with a different email address. https://www.theonion.com/scientists-speculate-universe-may-be-simulation-after-1848673336

I tell my alien neighbors that my religion forbids me to do first-contact homework.