David: What's the story behind Cheliax? When did you come up with the idea of having a nation of devil-worshippers? What were your primary sources of inspiration?
Erik: I grew up in Minnesota,
I read this and I just died laughing. When I kept reading it made sense, but if I just stopped here, that would have been the highlight of my day.
I thought the exacte same thing...
BWAAAAA!!!
You have caught the all-important clue, but missed its application. I've been to both England and Minnesota, and can therefore assure you that there are no White Castle burger locations in England and there is no "Big Ben" (more accurately, Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster) in Minnesota. The Tolkiengate blog post clearly goes with the picture from England, while the devils of Cheliax blog post clearly goes with the offering of White Castle burgers. These pictures need to be posted to go with the correct blog post. Unless they were switched on purpose, in which case you need to be asking, why???
:D
Seriously Erik, the catalogue of Napoleon's survey in Egypt is just awesome--so beautifully drawn and suggestive of what it was like to be a European discovering these ancient majesties for the first time. It makes me want to go check it out from the library. Maybe someone has posted the whole thing online.
God bless you, EMS. Where did you dig up the original before Paizo altered it?
Sure. On the blog, they took the infernal red glow out of Mona's eyes.
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Mmmm.... White Castles.....
I grew up in Indiana. If ever there were a restauarant that catered almost exclusively to the gamer/insomniac crowd, it would be White Castle. 24 hours, even in the middle of nowhere, and cheap as hell.
My buddy Adam and I would get a dozen sliders ("Takhomasak!") and devour them on the way back to the house. When we returned, we were well fed and ready to keep on gaming!
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Even scarier.
You need little hazmat logos on the food or maybe just have Jubilex running around in the background. ;-)
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What?...you were able to game between the long bouts on the toilet?
Us Indiana folk have stomachs capable of weathering such foul things that it would make a hybrid cow-goat jealous! I once watched a man drink half a gallon of turpentine just 'cause he 'liked the flavor and the warm feeling in the belly' that it gave him!
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Mmmm.... White Castles.....
I grew up in Indiana. If ever there were a restauarant that catered almost exclusively to the gamer/insomniac crowd, it would be White Castle. 24 hours, even in the middle of nowhere, and cheap as hell.
Don't forget the stoners.
Yes, even before the silly movie :)
Just to make Erik even more paranoid, I picked up a box while I was out doing errands, and am having a couple right now.
("Takhomasak!")
I thought Takhomasak was a Steak n' Shake thing.
Darn! I suppose the joke is quite easy to understand for USA folks... Maybe in mexico that would be "I grew up in the DF"...
:shakefist:
Explain yer confusion to me, and I'll ee-lucidate, my little ranine pal...
It don't count in your case, Heathy, seein-as-how you're a born-again Texan.
I was born in Minnesota; what's the bfd?
Too easy. Just ... way too easy.
What I don't get is that Erik says the name Osirion was a play on the words Sirius and Osiris. The Osirion is a labyrinth located in Abydos. Was this not intentional? Or just a lucky coincidence?
And if intentional, ask whose intention?
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What I don't get is that Erik says the name Osirion was a play on the words Sirius and Osiris. The Osirion is a labyrinth located in Abydos. Was this not intentional? Or just a lucky coincidence?
Total coincidence. I hadn't heard of that until I read your post, sadly.
Pretty cool, though!
I was born in Minnesota; what's the bfd?
And all the Gods wept when that sad day occured, because a great ugly one had been born! ~GRINS and runs~
What I wanna know is how the Dogon tribespeople knew about the existence of Sirius B before it was discovered with a telescope by modern astronomers.Ancient astronauts, of course.
It's all right there in the book. :)
Someday I need to get my hands on that book. My only experience with it was from the third Dream Park novel, California Voodoo Game :)
Coming from you that's a compliment.I was born in Minnesota; what's the bfd?And all the Gods wept when that sad day occured, because a great ugly one had been born! ~GRINS and runs~
True. Calling you hideous is closer to the truth. ~grins~ How goes things, were-mutt?
Or....it might just be that from half to two-thirds of all star systems are multiple star systems, and our sun is the oddball...;)
Or there's a third, more likely alternative.
Sigui the Sea Monster?
By the way, while we're having fun with taking Mona out of context, how about this gem: "...the idea of a devil-worshiping colonial power..."
When I first read it, I had an image of the hellfire clubs, and of American revolutionaries facing British officers who called up hellish mercenaries instead of Hanoverian ones...
