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moving,
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The first rank cost three soul points, the second rank six points, then twelve, then twenty-one, thirty-three, etc.
The increase in cost is not multiplicative, nor does it follow a fibonachi sequence; I don't see the logic in the increase in cost dropping off at higher levels.
One thing has become clear to me since coming to The Land: the choices you make sculpt you in a very real way. After walking through halls of power, there is no way you remained untouched.”
A "Babalon 5" refference?
Any action, no matter how heinous, could be justified if you had a “righteous” cause to drive you forward and you were acting in the “common” good.
Thus the danger of zealots.
luckier than a boy in a whorehouse made of candy.”
What a deliciously descriptive phrase! I'm stealing it!
a truth he had learned long ago was that few things were messed up by taking his time, but many things were ruined by moving too quickly.
Again, the "when" is as important as the "how."
there was no shame in ignorance, only in willful ignorance that does not seek to correct itself.
A fault which is being blatantly displayed by far too many of my fellow citizens.
conscious and unconscious
unconscious and conscious
The chamberlain drew two simple tables. The first illustrated the attribute modifier based on affinity. AFFINITY 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% BONUS 0.25%
‘Each day I breathe, I am more convinced that the true tragedy of life is not in its ending, but in its waste. The love that has not been shared, the chances that have not been taken, the craven caution that robs us of what we truly need: meaning.’”
A paraphrase of Mary Cholmondeley.
Potion Selak’s
Potion of Selak’s
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drank
drunk
this
his
The enchantment ranks were poor, weak, basic, common, higher, brilliant, special, resplendent, transcendent and absolute.
“lord
“Lord
You could not apply a rational argument to an emotional issue.
Well, you can, but it will be ignored.
Dwarves could be as rough as a sandpaper condom,
Ow! What a simile? I felt parts shink when I read this.
gotter
got'er
“Indecision causes confusion, confusion causes accidents, and accidents cause death.”
I mostly agree.
You could not apply rational arguments to solve an emotional problem. Thoughts and feelings were not necessarily oppositional, but they were two distinct paradigms of existence. There might be overlap, but each operated by its own set of natural laws. What that translated into was that if Richter was going to find peace, he needed to deal with his emotions, not intellectualize why they were not valid.
Kneeling was good enough for him.
Like the Seiza Pose used for meditating in Aikido.
the first step in dealing with negative emotions was to accept that they were part of you. A basic mistake that people made over and over was to try and deny the worst parts of themselves. ‘I’m not angry, jealous, vindictive, petty, etc.’ Though it was only natural to shy from difficult truths, denial did not give you control over yourself. It merely ignored a part of what you were. That was actually the complete absence of control. It was why people suddenly snapped or boiled over. No, Emerson had been right. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Most people seem to spend an inordinate amount of time and energy denying that their animal nature exists.
while the badge of a police officer was the symbol of his authority, his gun was the power behind that authority.
True, in part, the backing of the government also factors in.
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A level one skill book would only require one day, but a level two book would require three days and a level three, six. A level five skill book would therefore take fifteen days to finish.”
A Fibonacci sequence.
Language is a matrix which shapes our thoughts.
Part of the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis from linguistics.
death could be a blessing, a release from a pain that could not be endured.
I've always believed so. Why we can give that mercy to our pets and deny it to our fellow humans has always seemed cruel to me.
I’m-* That, unfortunately, was when two things happened. One, his glide time from the latest jump expired. And two, his stamina dropped below what he needed for another midair jump. He dropped like a stone. He landed hard, one arm barely keeping him from doing a full faceplant. With a groan, he finished, “A leaf on the wind.”
Beautiful "Firefly" reference, appropriate too!
chaos just
chaos seed just
“You most likely already know that there are seven moons orbiting The Land. What you may not know is that each moon corresponds to one of the Basic Elements. Vidaal is the Life moon, Nevuur is the moon of Death. Torresta is Fire; Aquiel, Water. Caelean is the moon of Air, and Potroq is of Earth. Finally, Tenebrit is the moon of Dark magic.”
Light is represented by the sun.
She started at the “northern” section and named each area as she moved her finger counterclockwise. “Life, Earth, Light, Fire, Death, Air, Dark, and Water.
the true secret of any leader’s success: hire people smarter than yourself, then stay the hell out of their way.
train don’t
train that don’t
Yellow lightning began to crackle around Richter’s arrow, and blue-white lightning danced across the sprite’s.
Shouldn't the lightening's colors be switched? Ricter's arrow getting the blue-white of mind magic?
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25 square
100 cubic
Rode
Road
infections had ranks like most things in The Land: common, infectious, contagious, aggressive, deadly, resistant, malignant, virulent, insidious, incurable and sentient.
right
right,
exactly what
exactly 10 percent of what
eyes.
eye.
armor!
A more accurate term might be "barding."
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first
Delete this word. It is redundant.
parasitical.
parasitic.
