So anyhow it’s that time again, time for me to blog. Unfortunately since I am also having problems with my website I’m sort of doing two things at one time. Right now I figured since I’m sort of stuck until Dreamhost sends me my darn password I’ll start to write about what has been on my mind today.
Ever since coming back from FPG Beltaine I have noticed some things happening both in my life and in the community. First I will start with the good and what’s been happening in my home since I returned from FPG. Before I left I had gotten into a few verbal arguments with my stepfather. The energy in my house was so negative that I hardly wanted to come home. Then when I came back it was like the energy in the house did a complete 180. My stepfather, who just a few months ago said something like I’m going to prey for your soul so that it does not go to hell because you are pagan (Not his exact words but pretty much his meaning.), has been asking me intelligent questions about paganism and even went as far as having me talk to the air conditioner guy. You see the air conditioner guy was wearing a pentacle around his neck and apparently he mentioned to my stepdad that he had no idea where to go around here for pagan events. So my stepfather comes and gets me so that I can help the guy out and tell him about our wonderful community (or at least when it wants to be) and the various events and places to go. I proceeded to tell him about Java and Jam on Tuesday nights, I told him about our website (http://phoenixprojects.org) and told him about the wonderful list of events (that I need to update and add to) that are on the main page, I even pimped out our Midsummer event, and when he asked about a place where he could buy magickal supplies I directed him to Magickal Mayhem in New Port Richey. So needless to say it has been weird here in my home but a good weird.
Now I’ll talk about the bad. The other thing I have noticed since coming back from FPG is all of the negative energy that seems to be floating around the community and growing rapidly. This saddens me because at FPG the vibe and the energy there was mostly good. This is one of the things I am looking forward to at Midsummers, all the good energy. I am seriously hoping that all of the negative energy that has been floating around stops soon because after all the good energy is what makes this community so great. I will admit that I may have stirred up a small portion of it however when I realized this I backed away. I’ve been hearing about too many people having a problem with The Bruised Knight, whom I consider to be a close personal friend that I will stand by, but no one is approaching him about it instead they are running around and telling everyone else. This right here is a major cause of negative energy and I hope that it does stop soon.
Well after much consideration and demand I will bring back the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. However I do not plan on doing it on story days. Anyhow tonight’s card is: “Announce to the bar that your friend is getting married and would like to have one last fling, so you’ll buy a drink for the first woman who gives him a condom.”
Wow that was an interesting card and a fun one as well.
622 words.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Return of the Dragon Gods (Part 2)
Well I was sitting around trying to come up with a blog for today since I wanted to try to only tell the story one time per week. However the Gods would not have it and the great Apollo has decided to sick one of his muses on me. So for those of you that enjoyed my story you are in for a treat because part two is being told so sit back and enjoy part two of “The Return of the Dragon Gods.”
The evil half dragon wizard Zanroar walked up to the priests of Falzure.
“So do you have the rod?” he asked.
“Yes we do. However are you sure you can get the other rod, and what about this second magic user you need according to the prophecy.” The high priest said while carefully holding a rod made of pure onyx etched with runes and topped with a skull of a kobold, The Rod of Falzure.
“Of course, I have everything working out to perfections. Soon the true Gods will be upon us and we will be rewarded greatly for our loyalty.”Zanroar snapped. He swiped the rod from the priest almost scratching him with his claws in the process. “Now if you excuse me I have some business to take care of.” He continued.
Hours later Zanroar is in the sewers of Bailey’s Point discussing his plans to his minion explaining what is needed of him. After a few days of monsters escaping the sewers a team of adventurers come in and destroy the monsters and steal the Rod of Falzure. When Zanroar returned and learned of this great incompetence he killed his minion. Zanroar contacted a doppelganger to get the rod back.
The doppelganger stalked the party of adventurers for miles sizing them up. When the party reached the city of Firechester he mingled with the crowds that were enamored with the party’s newest member. After studying them for a few days he formulated a plan. He went to the upper class side of town and informed the owner of The Dirty Wish Inn of the great bard singing on the poor side of the city. When the adventurers came to the Dirty Wish Inn they each went to their rooms.
When the half-elf druid got to his room he was ambushed. The doppelganger attacked the druid with a dagger. The dagger hit the druid’s armor and missed. The druid unaware of the attack until it was too late drew his sword and attacked the doppelganger. The doppelganger dodged the attack with the sword and slashed the throat of the druid. Not wanting to make a scene by carrying out the corpse of the druid he threw it in the corner. Now the doppelganger was ready to infiltrate the party and take the Rod of Falzure and return it to Zanroar.
This is the end of part two. Hopefully I will be able to wait until next week before writing part three.
The evil half dragon wizard Zanroar walked up to the priests of Falzure.
“So do you have the rod?” he asked.
“Yes we do. However are you sure you can get the other rod, and what about this second magic user you need according to the prophecy.” The high priest said while carefully holding a rod made of pure onyx etched with runes and topped with a skull of a kobold, The Rod of Falzure.
“Of course, I have everything working out to perfections. Soon the true Gods will be upon us and we will be rewarded greatly for our loyalty.”Zanroar snapped. He swiped the rod from the priest almost scratching him with his claws in the process. “Now if you excuse me I have some business to take care of.” He continued.
Hours later Zanroar is in the sewers of Bailey’s Point discussing his plans to his minion explaining what is needed of him. After a few days of monsters escaping the sewers a team of adventurers come in and destroy the monsters and steal the Rod of Falzure. When Zanroar returned and learned of this great incompetence he killed his minion. Zanroar contacted a doppelganger to get the rod back.
The doppelganger stalked the party of adventurers for miles sizing them up. When the party reached the city of Firechester he mingled with the crowds that were enamored with the party’s newest member. After studying them for a few days he formulated a plan. He went to the upper class side of town and informed the owner of The Dirty Wish Inn of the great bard singing on the poor side of the city. When the adventurers came to the Dirty Wish Inn they each went to their rooms.
When the half-elf druid got to his room he was ambushed. The doppelganger attacked the druid with a dagger. The dagger hit the druid’s armor and missed. The druid unaware of the attack until it was too late drew his sword and attacked the doppelganger. The doppelganger dodged the attack with the sword and slashed the throat of the druid. Not wanting to make a scene by carrying out the corpse of the druid he threw it in the corner. Now the doppelganger was ready to infiltrate the party and take the Rod of Falzure and return it to Zanroar.
This is the end of part two. Hopefully I will be able to wait until next week before writing part three.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Return of the Dragon Gods (Part 1)
Last night I mentioned that I was going to try to tell part of a story once a week that takes place in and is mostly a back story and a companion story almost to my Dungeons and Dragons campaign that I have been running for a while now. So without further ado I bring you “The Return of the Dragon Gods”
The story begins in the year 613. For many centuries the Gods of the humanoids and the Gods of the dragons coexisted on the same plane of existence. However the three evil dragon Gods; Falzure, Garyx, and Tiamat grew bored of the humanoids and believed they were better than the Gods followed by the squishy humanoids, and proceeded to teach the Humanoid Gods that the Dragon Gods were more powerful. On many occasions Falzure would take the slaughtered sacrifices to Erythnul and drain them of their energy making them undead before they were slaughtered. Garyx burned a forest with many temples to the Gods down to ash and sand creating a desert leaving only a temple to him made of onyx. Tiamat would have her green and blue dragons destroy any temples not belonging to a draconic deity.
After decades of these tortures the Gods made a unanimous decision to banish the Dragon Gods. The Gods combined their magic and sealed off each of the three Dragon Gods in their home planes all to be guarded by Bahamut. However the evil three became aware of this and instituted a backup plan of sorts.
On the eve of the 3000th Atheirdarastrix celebration in the city of fire during the dark of the moon, the seals can be broken. However this can only be accomplished by two magic users of great power, each holding one of the two rods made by the Gods themselves, one being the rod of Falzure a powerful rod that can turn the living into undead made with the skull of a kobold and pure onyx and the other rod so powerful it’s effects are random but wondrous and chaotic.
So far only one of the rods has been recorded to be found. This rod was place in the powerful trustworthy hands of the Moonshadow family. The rod of Falzure has not been found at the time of this writing but it has been rumored that it was given to a clan of creatures to be kept safe.
Well I hope that you have enjoyed this first part of the story. As with most stories it is best to begin with a legend. Next story you will meet some of our main characters, but you will just have to wait until next week for the next installment of “The Return of the Dragon Gods”.
The story begins in the year 613. For many centuries the Gods of the humanoids and the Gods of the dragons coexisted on the same plane of existence. However the three evil dragon Gods; Falzure, Garyx, and Tiamat grew bored of the humanoids and believed they were better than the Gods followed by the squishy humanoids, and proceeded to teach the Humanoid Gods that the Dragon Gods were more powerful. On many occasions Falzure would take the slaughtered sacrifices to Erythnul and drain them of their energy making them undead before they were slaughtered. Garyx burned a forest with many temples to the Gods down to ash and sand creating a desert leaving only a temple to him made of onyx. Tiamat would have her green and blue dragons destroy any temples not belonging to a draconic deity.
After decades of these tortures the Gods made a unanimous decision to banish the Dragon Gods. The Gods combined their magic and sealed off each of the three Dragon Gods in their home planes all to be guarded by Bahamut. However the evil three became aware of this and instituted a backup plan of sorts.
On the eve of the 3000th Atheirdarastrix celebration in the city of fire during the dark of the moon, the seals can be broken. However this can only be accomplished by two magic users of great power, each holding one of the two rods made by the Gods themselves, one being the rod of Falzure a powerful rod that can turn the living into undead made with the skull of a kobold and pure onyx and the other rod so powerful it’s effects are random but wondrous and chaotic.
So far only one of the rods has been recorded to be found. This rod was place in the powerful trustworthy hands of the Moonshadow family. The rod of Falzure has not been found at the time of this writing but it has been rumored that it was given to a clan of creatures to be kept safe.
Well I hope that you have enjoyed this first part of the story. As with most stories it is best to begin with a legend. Next story you will meet some of our main characters, but you will just have to wait until next week for the next installment of “The Return of the Dragon Gods”.
Monday, May 11, 2009
My First Official WARP blog
Well here it is my first official blog in the WARP contest. I was doing some thinking earlier and made the decision that at least once a week I will try to throw in a nice little fantasy story. This story takes place in the same world and mostly the same time as my Dungeons and Dragons campaign that I am running right now so some of you may recognize some things in the stories. There is however going to be a twist on the story telling, you see most stories are told from the direct point of view of the heroes, well this story will be told from the perspectives of the villains. There may be times when the villains come across the party of adventurers that my campaign follows which will more than likely be quite entertaining.
Wow I’ve had a busy weekend of tech. It all started Friday when I proceeded to transfer and get rid of all the information, files, pictures, and videos from my home desktop computer because we are planning on selling it in our garage sale. I was very surprised with how much data was on it. The worst part of it was the fact that the best thing I had available to me was a used one gigabyte flash drive. So this entire process took me around eight hours or so to accomplish. Then on Saturday I spent the first half of the day tearing down the computer which was made more difficult by the fact that I had used zip ties to tie the cables together and tie the cables to the desk itself, all to eliminate everyone’s favorite thing cable spaghetti. Then once I finally got that computer taken apart I had to setup the newer computer that we acquired from my sister, Love You Laziest Overachiever. So I cleared the space, cleaned up the desk a little and proceeded to put together the computer. However, when I got to the router I struck trouble. The software for the router could not find the Internet. So after going a few rounds of the unplug the router and modem game I made a call to the tech support of the company that made the router. After finally getting a human and spending about twenty minutes spelling and respelling my name and e-mail address the lady eventually tells me that since my warranty is expired I must pay them money in order to get any help. So this left me right back to square one with no wifi Internet access, I eventually said screw it and gave up for the night. Which leads me to Sunday afternoon, I kept trying to figure out what the problem was until I eventually had a breakthrough. Well after making that proud accomplishment I decided to try my luck at printer sharing and file sharing which is not an easy task when one computer is running XP and the other one is running on Vista. Well I slew that dragon and called it a night and jumped in the pool.
A few days ago my previous blog caused a bit of a stir. I would just like to apologize to anyone who may have thought I was angry at them since this was not the case. The true purpose of that blog was to get across the point that if we are to become a strong community we need to learn how to better communicate with each other. This was not just in reference to the major thing but for little things as well like where and when a ritual is supposed to be and other small various things. Sorry for any confusion.
As for my favorite and many other people’s favorite part, the Random Bachelor Dare Card, I’ve decided to take a vote. If you think I should continue this feature even though some of the cards are a little on the PG-13 to R rated side. Please leave a comment and let me know, otherwise I will not put in this feature.
678 words. Sorry it’s a little longer than it should be but I had a lot to say.
Wow I’ve had a busy weekend of tech. It all started Friday when I proceeded to transfer and get rid of all the information, files, pictures, and videos from my home desktop computer because we are planning on selling it in our garage sale. I was very surprised with how much data was on it. The worst part of it was the fact that the best thing I had available to me was a used one gigabyte flash drive. So this entire process took me around eight hours or so to accomplish. Then on Saturday I spent the first half of the day tearing down the computer which was made more difficult by the fact that I had used zip ties to tie the cables together and tie the cables to the desk itself, all to eliminate everyone’s favorite thing cable spaghetti. Then once I finally got that computer taken apart I had to setup the newer computer that we acquired from my sister, Love You Laziest Overachiever. So I cleared the space, cleaned up the desk a little and proceeded to put together the computer. However, when I got to the router I struck trouble. The software for the router could not find the Internet. So after going a few rounds of the unplug the router and modem game I made a call to the tech support of the company that made the router. After finally getting a human and spending about twenty minutes spelling and respelling my name and e-mail address the lady eventually tells me that since my warranty is expired I must pay them money in order to get any help. So this left me right back to square one with no wifi Internet access, I eventually said screw it and gave up for the night. Which leads me to Sunday afternoon, I kept trying to figure out what the problem was until I eventually had a breakthrough. Well after making that proud accomplishment I decided to try my luck at printer sharing and file sharing which is not an easy task when one computer is running XP and the other one is running on Vista. Well I slew that dragon and called it a night and jumped in the pool.
A few days ago my previous blog caused a bit of a stir. I would just like to apologize to anyone who may have thought I was angry at them since this was not the case. The true purpose of that blog was to get across the point that if we are to become a strong community we need to learn how to better communicate with each other. This was not just in reference to the major thing but for little things as well like where and when a ritual is supposed to be and other small various things. Sorry for any confusion.
As for my favorite and many other people’s favorite part, the Random Bachelor Dare Card, I’ve decided to take a vote. If you think I should continue this feature even though some of the cards are a little on the PG-13 to R rated side. Please leave a comment and let me know, otherwise I will not put in this feature.
678 words. Sorry it’s a little longer than it should be but I had a lot to say.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Communication
Communication. According to the Encarta English dictionary the word communication has five meanings. The first is the exchange of information between people by means of speaking writing, or using a common system of signs or behavior. The second definition is a spoken or written message. The third definition states that communication is the act of communication information. The forth one says that communication is a sense of mutual understanding and sympathy. The fifth one is not important for my little rant here.
I just wanted to be sure that everyone knew what communication was because I have recently learned that some very important information that should have reached a friend did not reach her as quickly as it should have. From what I have been told this information became public knowledge on Monday and my friend was not informed about it until Tuesday or Wednesday, even though this information affected her directly.
For that matter I am still puzzled as to why this information was not spread across the community like wildfire. How are people supposed to defend others from bad situations that can, will, and have come up when people do not have information on what is happening or what has happened? How are we as a community supposed to watch out for each other when we do not communicate the proper information to people? Is it a matter of pride not to spread around this information for fear that it may not look good that such a tragic event happened under our noses? In my opinion it would look even worse if people in the community did not know about this, that it was hidden from the community like a skeleton in a closet. I can understand wanting to shield certain people from certain information, however I feel that this information was information that should not have been kept quiet. Especially due to the fact that once the offending situation was discovered we as a community took swift action in taking care of the situation, and that, to me, makes our community look stronger.
People are always asking how do we grow our community, how do we prevent tension between different groups in the community, how do we keep our community strong. Well I have an answer for all of that, one word COMMUNICATION. If people in the community would actually openly communicate with each other then I can guarantee that most if not all of our problems will disappear.
This does not just apply to information either this applies to all aspects of the community even rumors. If people are saying rumors about someone first tell the person spreading the rumor that it is rude to be doing so in the first place and second of all ask the rumor spreader if they even asked the person they are spreading the rumors about if the rumor was true.
Now normally this is the part where I would put in the “Random Bachelor Card of the Day” however I feel that this blog is too serious of a subject to put it in, so tomorrow I’ll give two.
I just wanted to be sure that everyone knew what communication was because I have recently learned that some very important information that should have reached a friend did not reach her as quickly as it should have. From what I have been told this information became public knowledge on Monday and my friend was not informed about it until Tuesday or Wednesday, even though this information affected her directly.
For that matter I am still puzzled as to why this information was not spread across the community like wildfire. How are people supposed to defend others from bad situations that can, will, and have come up when people do not have information on what is happening or what has happened? How are we as a community supposed to watch out for each other when we do not communicate the proper information to people? Is it a matter of pride not to spread around this information for fear that it may not look good that such a tragic event happened under our noses? In my opinion it would look even worse if people in the community did not know about this, that it was hidden from the community like a skeleton in a closet. I can understand wanting to shield certain people from certain information, however I feel that this information was information that should not have been kept quiet. Especially due to the fact that once the offending situation was discovered we as a community took swift action in taking care of the situation, and that, to me, makes our community look stronger.
People are always asking how do we grow our community, how do we prevent tension between different groups in the community, how do we keep our community strong. Well I have an answer for all of that, one word COMMUNICATION. If people in the community would actually openly communicate with each other then I can guarantee that most if not all of our problems will disappear.
This does not just apply to information either this applies to all aspects of the community even rumors. If people are saying rumors about someone first tell the person spreading the rumor that it is rude to be doing so in the first place and second of all ask the rumor spreader if they even asked the person they are spreading the rumors about if the rumor was true.
Now normally this is the part where I would put in the “Random Bachelor Card of the Day” however I feel that this blog is too serious of a subject to put it in, so tomorrow I’ll give two.
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