Bodach Glas, an interesting tidbit

[Gadget nee Jemcheeta]

I'm a winner at life, drew. At life.

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heh.....

[drew]

...ohhhhhhhhh...I see!!
So a loser at D&D then..?

[fightingmyinstincts]

This sounds right to me. In Patricia Kenneally's Keltiad series, a geis is sort of like a curse...but it can seem harmless at first. One of the characters has a geis laid on her that she must accept whatever food is offered to her. This is occasionally awkward, but she gets around it by accepting only tiny portions. The whammy shows up when the first geis conflicts with the second, which is that she can't eat one particular food. Some nasty person offers her a bite of the food she's forbidden to eat, and suddenly she has to break one geis to keep the other, and ends up sick as a dog for three weeks.

That's taken pretty much directly from the Cuchullain myths; he was geis'd to never refuse hospitality in the form of food and also geis'd never to eat the meat of a dog...so a goddess disguised herself as an old woman and offered him dog meat by the side of the road...and he got cursed. Yay irish myths!

[Myste]

Eew, dog meat! I think I have that geis on me, too!