The Ghostly smile Ep. 1- Virre the Darkness

- I definitely did not have any idea what I was gonna do with this. I approached it like a normal dnd solo session I’ve done alot. Since we recorded this I’ve re thought how I want to run if we do this solo again.

- He’s got some crazy eyes

- Pet rat named Steve the Destroyer of worlds

- Bun bun is a Harengon that is in one of our text based adventures. He’s now know as Killer and is a minion for and evil lord

- Wooh forgot my audio was so rough when we recorded this. This l side story was recorded in 2022 during my constant changing of mics and such.

- I’m gonna pillage their body

- Discord discussion

- Jacques rat is not Steve. It’s cricket.

- Referencing The Dream team in Dhurga text based again and the Kobold with a sniper Ihse.

- I introduce Klek shops to the world of Eamyn

- Love me world building small details

- Steve is a good little rat.

- Ahh back in the day when I was trying to find a way to not use dnd beyond or just find a good free dice roller.

- Love analyzing trauma. Figuring out a trigger for his murderous compulsion is a favorite of mine. Love me some psychology

- “What would it be like to be social like that”

- Stalking. Shadowing. Trailing. Neithe me if us are good with words this episode

- The hunt begins

- Dead air dead air.

- Me just trying to figure out how to do things

- Distractions.

- Scraping metal

- I don’t have a lot of takes. I enjoy listening to the actual hunt and what Virre is doing to terrify the npc.

- Only the defender gets to do Dex on grappling bah me

- This is not a happy story

- hey I remembered the intro. And made it extra long.

- Cordyceps infection.

- I edited this in a day without proof listening at all.

- Some zombies

- We will never be professional as I run to get my pizza rolls in the middle of the intro

- I hate 3 bags of candy during the first part.

- Moist mouth

- Carson trying keep us on track

- Carver is more boring than Carson. “Oh I thought you meant his personality” just bashing Carson at the start.

- Survival to climb the tree and persuasion to convince the area to tell you what’s there

- Don’t let him get away with things Jacque.

- Sounds like their more Standers than runners

- Talking about visible things is amazing to do in an audio format ha.

- I attempted to talk a lot less in this episode than the last one. Helped I kept having to leave my mic and take care of house things

- Terb and Noira channels bret and my adhd completely

- Terb’s magic is all cyan blue and Noira’s is royal purple. Our favorite colours

- “That wasn’t a yes or no question”

- Misty Step is a wonderful spell for an apocalypse

- Bret’s scream about “5!!” Is the first of many screams from him. “I am allowed to be surprised by things I’ve forgot about”

- Bret trying not to tell us he wants to cast fireball without saying fireball. “What’s their radius”

- So much discussion about how terb is gonna fireball them.

- “We all got ssob”

- Don’t be the type of player who reads the monster manual while playing.

- “You know what. Make em take 104”

- “The one that’s the most charred” “that one looks well done”

- Bret accidentally typed terb whole Jacque is putting their initiative order in and then hijinks ensued.

- “Jacque?… we’ll talk about this later. I can’t even right now. I CAN’T EVEN RIGHT NOW!!”

- Bret then left the voice channel

- I may be obsessed with the Dungeon world ttrpg now. My new hyperfixation is that game and the podcast “friends at the table” so expect a lot of references to it from now on

- Shivs are an instant kill on clickers but can break

- I disappear and bret now just talks about our roll 20 days.

- Bret tries to say it’s my roll to use two spells on the first turn. I come back and immediately say it’s not my rule. I love it.

- I cannot do damage. My character should have died

- Noira rolls a d100 and says “you have a 98% chance of success”

- Xavier failing his “check out the horde” check

- “What are they made up of” “zombies”

- 3 feet in a yard

- So much discussion to figure out the plan for the horde. Terb is just suicidal I think

- “This whole thing is dumb, let’s do it”

- “Apple doesn’t fall from the tree”

- “Carver told me they don’t have a climbing speed.” Fifteen minutes after Carson told us they did.

- “Depends on the spell” “which spell?” Bret and I simultaneously.

- I didn’t take fireball.

- “We’re doing this together WE’RE HOLDING HANDS THE WHOLE TIME”

- The second half of this episode is just “The Bret and Arion show”.

- “What’s the top of your butt crack” “the cleft horizon” where’s the taint of the horde

- How many times does someone say “I don’t want to” when asked to roll stealth

- “I am on the team of the rules”

- Does toll the dead make an audible noise to everyone or just the target

- Me pulling my tree knowledge out. Blue spruces

- I’m giggling and so happy during the whole tree horde scene and beers freaking out

- It’s great

- Terb is in extreme extreme pain but gotta love my thunderstep.

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Jacque Ran a Last of us “one shot” this is part two of it.

Set in an AU of Eamyn where a group of dads go out to help protect a settlement from the horde of Infected.

ok ok ok I’m so sorry but I HAVE to talk about this

there’s something so loving about what tom björklund does and just- fuck I’m foaming at the mouth here

facial reconstruction isn’t a new concept (see the Kennewick Man/Patrick Stewart incident) but it’s difficult to find people that are truly good at it! genuinely there is a big gap in this field because there just aren’t a lot of people who do it professionally!

facial reconstruction, especially from bone or bone fragments, is such a fascinating intersection of art and science, and a tremendous amount of care is put into determining what these people might have looked like.

with that said, it’s VERY easy to screw it up

configuring muscle attachments and fat distribution is genuinely *very* difficult to do, and when you do it badly, you get this (pictured above). by adding too much muscle, they gave this 600 year old man a VERY interesting jawline (notice that the bottom of the chin doesn’t match up with the bone at all!) and they *really* made him look older than he was. would you believe me if I said that he was estimated to only be 46 years old?

basically I’m just REALLY excited about Tom Björklund’s art because it’s amazing work, just from an anthropology perspective

just look at this!!!

facial reconstructions aren’t just an artsy thing that you can just say “oh, that’s cool!” to

by giving these people faces, even if they aren’t always accurate, we open the doors for the average person to connect with the past at a very human level. sure, looking at bones is cool, but looking at art of someone that lived thousands of years ago is *incredible*