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Froggy so fat they became a kaiju

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And Domhnall, famed even in the west, has passed; his grey, war-weary son rules now

Governs a land of teeming beasts and rich black soil Where his vegetables grow;

Ei-eye ei-eye oh

And wandering that place, a thick-tusked boar With thunder-bearing feet,

Gimlet eye, and ancient tread; A monstrous rooting sound

Precedes it; echoes, through that shaded realm; And follows, where that great beast goes;

Ei-eye ei-eye oh

Ah! Domhnall, famed even in the west, has passed! His grey, war-weary son rules now

O’er fields of grain and forests wild Where twisted ranks of brambles grow;

Ei-eye ei-eye oh

And writhing in some jewel-like pond a drake Lifts up its head, and snaps its jaws,

And shakes the earth; and rumbling quake Precedes and follows as it goes;

Ei-eye ei-eye oh.

And monstrous rooting sounds still ring Out here, and there, and everywhere;

Past Domhnall’s grave, across rich land Where yet his willow-bent and stiff-limbed son endures

To reap; to rule; to, of the fates of beasts and men, dispose;

Ei-eye ei-eye oh

The sun has set. Domhnall has passed. His grey, war-weary son rules now

A land of sprawling hills; great-walled paddocks Wherein his silvered cattle low

And groan, to fill the moon-touched air. —there is no end to them

But where night’s grieving edge bears down And silent, eerie deepness grows:

Ei-eye ei-eye oh.

In the dusty wind, the sound of boar fades out.

The drake’s last call rings out, and falls Away; and so it goes:

Ei-eye ei-eye oh.

The light is lost. Domhnall has passed His grey, war-weary son rules now O’er field and drake and boar and cow (with bludgeon, boar-spear, gun, and plough)

And brambled chair to be his throne:

Ah! Ei-eye ei-eye oh.

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look at it

you must look at it

if everyone's eyes leave it at once it will escape

it will wiggle off

it will lurk around the edges of things, scrambling and syntaxing

in the wainscots of the world

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

#this was actually supposed to be taylor swift's job but she decided to sing stuff instead

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You are right that this is difficult to explain. My best attempt is something like

but I am very far from confident.

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

#sentence diagramming #taylor swift #for some reason dictionaries are not very forthcoming in re “railed”

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i have been LIED TO about where you get saffron from

May I please have an obscure parrot today?

Hmmmm, I'm not sure if this one is obscure or not, but it's not one that I see phots of very much.

Saffron-headed Parrot (Pyrilia pyrilia), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, found in Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela

photographs by Luis Urueña & Ryan Shaw

#spicy takes

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IG : @emperorofmischief

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i think you might be losing focus on issues of larger-scale infrastructural efficiency

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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it could be worse, government subsidies pay like 30%

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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genitalia are historically a bad use case for passenger rail

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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i don't know it's too private

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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probably the taylor series tbh, that stuff takes forever

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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it's more

Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

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Taylor Swift is honestly just like any other Taylor, but faster

#skitter #velocity

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My confession: I wasn't paying attention when I was born so I don't actually know which one of us I am.

#or which tags I use #tbh

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Checked Ianthe's advice. Ash was falling. There's not much covering haiku.

I have adored Nobilis for at this point the majority of my life, but it's always had a particular sticking point in playing it: I have no idea how to GM it. I've read the books front to back and I continue to find that aspect impenetrable. Are you aware of any resources on GMing this wonderful but dense game?

Not specifically!

The Glitch NPC (miracle point equivalent) pool is based on a trick a friend of mine uses when running it, which is to say, rather than worrying about what each individual NPC can do, just keep a pile of points around that everyone interacting with the PCs as anything but an ally will use. The big thing that does is keep you from stressing too much or too little about the way the world outguns the PCs.

It was always my general vision that you’d get a look at the PCs’ Estates and then just kind of play to that, throwing thematic stuff at them and letting them figure out what parts of that are difficult and what parts of that they handwave away with a miracle for themselves.

Ianthe’s advice in 2e is the best I could do at the time.

I tried at one point to build a paint-by-numbers system for GMing Nobilis, which grew and grew and grew and then shrank a bit until it became Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine; if you ignore the parts of that engine that directly overlap, what you have is just the idea of “if they’re giving a lot of speeches, get them to take action and let them get in over their head with it” (the blue stuff in Chuubo’s), “if they’re listening to you but not doing much, throw a building mystery at them” (the red stuff in Chuubo’s) … and so on, for the other six colors. But ultimately that’s just generic GM advice for trad games, really, not Nobilis-specific.

These days, for Nobilis, I personally think the most important thing is getting players to do at least one or two actions a session each that they, you, and the other players take seriously. If your players are regularly stopping to go, “OK, watch this,” and willing to pull back into relative quiet after that to let you frame consequences and the other players act, you’ll be good.

Most of the burden there, of course, is on the players and not the GM, with the only thing the GM has to keep in mind is to keep angling for it. That may be why people think GMing is complicated, because they’re not trusting their players—correctly or incorrectly—to do their part there.

#nobilisrpg #haiku

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