#library things

She also can't petrify anyone, and she wanted to be able to not petrify people. She'd like to be more good than evil, so she got a pair of magic tiger's eye eyes from a guy she let harvest into a pair of rings. She can even see in magical darkness with them (pretty relevant given Scott likes using it in battle).

Unfortunately she got separated from her bodyguard and kidnapped by evil clerics. My bard Rory was so pissed about it that she vandalized a tapestry depicting evil acts with her sickle after they'd rescued her. That's when she got her new eyes from the asshole cambion she gave her natural eyes to. Rupert Jerome is certainly... an interesting one. That's definitely not even his real name, but he let Asta decide what they could call him. I love Asta, he's such a goof.

Anyway the bodyguard's name is Leonard Mustang, a fighter/wizard. He's largely based on Ed Elric, so he has a metal arm he can transform into a short sword. This wasn't an intended consequence of however it came about, but it's supposed to benefit him in the long run. I got a nat 20 on his first melee attack with that arm using the cantip Shocking Grasp. That was fun. Yes, this man has a temper. But because of his first name, I keep thinking of Leonard Nimoy, which makes for an interesting mashup in my head. It won't stop, and I'm ok with that.

Yes, he absolutely dresses like a butler. Just in a way that looks good with scale armor. He also carries a pocket copy of The Art of War everywhere. And a bottle of barbecue sauce that he occasionally straight up drinks from. Even I'm cringing, but the mental picture it all paints is hysterical.

And apparently stuff on the free shelf also comes from donations, so I grabbed an expansion pack for a game called Riding Sun. It's Kami Unbound, but it was missing the mini for Tsukuyomi. I'm sad about that, actually. The other five and all the cards were still there. The Amaterasu one somehow became a silly good luck charm for the session. And no one actually got properly killed off the whole time, either, which was funny. I really liked that beyond the katana, she was also holding a snake. Rory has a Staff of Adder, so I thought it was fitting.

"[Collection policy] ensure[s] that the materials are protected and represent the whole community they are to serve. ...[and] give library users the ability to challenge materials they believe are inappropriate, inaccurate, or irrelevant."

Headed out to the animal shelter to take care of the birds. someone else did my chores so i turn right back around and go home.

But I don't want to go home. I like being out about, and this bus goes to the main library so I'll go there but not to check anything out because I've got a ton of library books to read at home. I don't have anything to carry them home with. I'll just look at the oversized art books then go home.

A book about Michaelangelo is kinda boring. A book about fairytale illustration from like pre1950s just wasn't what I wanted.

A book about Norman Rockwell's illustrations and the boy scouts organization fills me with conflicted on race relations, the English empire, and the normal men and women tasked with spreading that empire who had theirs own ambivalent feelings about what they did. I should walk around.

Oh the cookbook section has a book on chinese pastries. I can get just one book. But if I'm getting this i should grab a book on meal prepping too and one on budget meals since money has been tight lately.

Oh look some puzzles we can take! I love puzzles. And the religion section is right over here. I should grab some greek mythology books so I can work on that Southern Gothic Olympus story I was writing last spring on. And a paganism book just because.