Right after that dramatic reunion, King Joyse, Princess Elega, and Prince Kragen enter into a long discussion about what has happened to each of them, and on what they plan to do, involving Terisa, Geraden, Barsonage, and Norge in that discussion as it went on for some minutes. Ribuld puts the Tor t...

...To make it easier for the United Mining Companies Police to track the whereabouts of Trumpet?

Yes!!! Well done! I don't know about Eremis' slug-beast being a translated Nicor , IrrationalSanity, but I suppose it's possible that at least one of the magical mirrors of Mordant could have been focused on a place in the Land's world, so could be ... ;) :) You have answered the question correctly,...

Here's another attempt at resizing a self-portrait, taken a few minutes ago as I get ready to go out to dinner (I set my phone upon a stand and set a timer).

[Hey, it worked! ]

Thank you for the photo contributions to this thread, StevieG, Menolly, and Avatar! (And thanks to Savor Dam, peter, and Blackhawk for the additional comments, and another thank-you to Blackhawk for reloading his sensational artwork onto the Watch!) :Hail: :Hail: :Hail: :Hail: :Hail: :Hail: :Hail:

Ah, a real classic. :D I found the Kenneth Branagh movie a very good, and relatively "true" filmic version of it. --A I will have to check it out sometime! I have only seen two of KB's movies, the Shakespeare-based Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing , but liked both of them. (I will wait ...

Okay: Eremis witnessed a death occurring in his flat mirror.

Savor Dam is right. I met Menolly and SD at Elohimfest 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I remember joking with Savor Dam and Menolly in danlo's and Lady Tamarantha's backyard there about the Lauren Bacall line to Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 movie To Have And Have Not : "If you need me, just whi...

Hile Troy's sunglasses

Late last month I finished my seventh read of Mordant's Need, and this time made sure to reread IrrationalSanity's Havelock's Triumph along with the main [canonical] story. I must say, it fits really well!

Finished Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth , which surprised me as a compelling read on the struggles of a farming family to succeed. There is sexism against female offspring, alas, but otherwise an enjoyable read, and I think an honest accounting of life in 20th Century China before the Communist revo...

I'm Murrin usually creates these beginning-of-year photo drop threads, but I haven't seen him around here in KW lately, so I'll initiate the one for this year. This is a selfie I took yesterday, January 5, 2024, in Tucson, Arizona. I have also placed it in The Motley Crew photo album within the Gall...

Great question, Savor Dam! Hmmm...is it so Angus can send messages back to Warden using the Gap courier drones?

"Margonal is crafty," commented King Joyse with deceptive nonchalance, "and apparently he has grown in courage. Well, now you are here, my lord Prince. What have you learned?" Prince Kragen allowed himself a noncommittal shrug. "I have learned that we are indeed trapped. Al...

"My lord King." The Tor tried to reach his feet against the physician's restraining hands. His voice sounded as thin as a light breeze in cornshucks. "I must speak." At once, King Joyse turned toward the Tor; but he kept his back to the tent wall, away from Prince Kragen. "...

The tentflaps were swept aside, and King Joyse strode in. He startled Terisa so badly that she nearly stumbled to her knees. He was filthy. Clots of mud clung to his battle gear--his breastplate and mail leggings, the protective iron pallettes on his shoulders, the brassards strapped to his arms. H...

The Tor had been bleeding inside for days, killing himself with the effort to fill his King's place. He made a dismissive gesture; he may have wanted Terisa and Geraden to go away. Nevertheless they stayed where they were. After a moment, Geraden asked the physician, "How is he?" "As...

That "small cloud" or "puff of smoke" is the return of Havelock's friendly creature of Imagery, though the Tor and his immediate companions (Terisa, Geraden, Ribuld, and the Tor's physician) are unaware of its entrance to their Esmerel valley camp. They are under a tent that can ...

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