Café de Nuit

Sweet! Congratulations on creative endeavors! A fantasy western adventure of heroism and stupidity. Those are the best, aren't they? Carla-Jean: Where are you goin, Llewellyn? Llewellyn: Fixin' to do summin' dumber'n hell but I'ma do it anyway. If I don't make it back, you tell my mother I love her....

Yes, I do question whether she's meeting her full potential value by being with you, Bing. You're not alone! HMB: Hey LomboDot! Come here and look at what I can do. LomboDot: What the hell??? HMB: Pretty neat huh? I can take off my clothes and then pick them up WITHOUT USING MY HANDS. http://lparch...

I've decided that the lich couldn't will itself to its phylactery. This is a significant tactical limitation. If the lich can't escape at will to its phylactery, then it's built to be closer to a one-encounter short-term monster rather than a multi-encounter long-term villain. A similar deal for a ...

Yes, that's the whole point of the comment. LomboDot's grandparents had actively recommended her father and mother to abort her in utero, because of the traditional bias against girls and the one child policy. Of course, the joke was on them. Biologically, any environmental effect that reduces the n...

On Sweet Nothings

LomboDot: You're the nicest foreigner I've ever met. I'm so glad I met you.

HMB: You're the nicest Chinese woman I've ever met. I'm so glad your parents didn't have an abortion when you were a fetus.

LomboDot: That's... a little weird, but still pretty thoughtful.

Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:awesome! They knew you were coming..

"Flames, screams, people running for cover... My work here is done!"

Running a two-PC sidequest with my oldest player, LeChasseur, and my girlfriend, LomboDot. They went to Nortenmark (Lamordia) and discovered that fifty years ago, a boatload of Asian alchemists visited the principality and gave them paper money, printing presses, silk, and gunpowder. In the interven...

I rather like the idea that Vlad Drakov is a foreigner and his native tongue is quite alien to his conquered kingdom. 'Vlad Drakov' is a corruption of his real name. I would place Falkovnian close to Lamordian on the language chart, if I used such a chart. This is pretty much exactly what I do. The...

Taiwan, actually. I was travelling on my mother's passport, a U.S. passport, and the Taiwanese border guards refused to let me enter without my own passport. Something about mainland China and Commies. My father had to call his father to pull a few strings. Not too long thereafter, the border guards...

Whereas at age two, I was refused entry at an international border because they suspected I might have been a Communist spy...

I suspect that The Barenaked Ladies had the exact same promotional idea. Speaking of the nicknames of Chinese law clerks, I'm reminded of the nicknames of the eight Chinese handmaidens concubines in the comic novel Biff , by Christopher Moore. The following passage is when Biff and Jesus Christ (aka...

I just noticed this. All the Chinese law clerks in our office are relatively naive and innocent when it comes to dating and relationships. But they have all chosen English names that sound like porn stars. I also just learned that Nikki plays the guitar and Traci plays the flute. We may have to firm...

Tarlyn knows what's up.

When viewed through sunglasses, pink looks like a much darker shade of red.

Blood red, in fact...

Good call, Tarlyn!

Dr. Ron, my browser still shows Alice's Wonderland in one of the thread titles.

I have already performed the thrice blessed oblations to the God of Biometric Surveillance but it's still there.

Watching me. Constantly. With crazed but gentle eyes.