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”.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Summer movies and beyond
Well Monday I went to see Wolverine, and I must say for the most part it was good. I won’t give away too much other than the fact that my favorite mutant, Gambit, was not only in the movie but had a major role in it which made me happy.
Well my second favorite character in the movie was Deadpool. This character is one of the funniest characters there is nicknamed “The Merc with a Mouth” because he is slightly insane with a small amount of ADHD. This guy is an excellent marksman and, as many will see in the movie, great with swords. Another cool thing I found out about him is he has something called “comic awareness” which basically means he breaks the “forth wall” and talks to the audience. Well apparently as of today it is official there is going to be a Deadpool movie with Ryan Reynolds playing the character once again. I for one cannot wait for this to pick up because it will be interesting to see where they go with it.
This got me thinking though as to what other Marvel Characters I’d like to see movies for so I’ll give my top five. In no particular order they are Dr. Strange, Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger, Hawkeye, and Moon Knight. These five characters I feel would be very interesting movies.
Speaking of movies I’m surprised that there are not that many big movies coming out this summer that I just have to see. Don’t get me wrong there is a handful but I’m used to there being so many that I have one almost every week that I want to see. The only ones that I can name off the top of my head that I want to see this summer are Star Trek, Terminator, Transformers, and G.I. Joe. What happened to summer having all the big block buster movies?
Well unfortunately that’s all I have for tonight. I’m sure that tomorrow I’ll have more but for now, I’ll just go into the cards. Since I missed doing it yesterday I’ll treat you all to two cards tonight.
The First “Random Bachelor Dare Card” is: “Approach a babe with peanuts and say, ‘My nuts are salty. Wanna taste?’”
Interesting. I’d love to watch some guy go up to a girl and do that just to watch him get smacked.
The second “Random Bachelor Dare Card” is: “Allow your buds to draw a large ‘tattoo’ of a naked woman — or man — on your arm using a ballpoint pen.”
Wow you’d have to be pretty trusting of your friends to do that.
438 words
Well my second favorite character in the movie was Deadpool. This character is one of the funniest characters there is nicknamed “The Merc with a Mouth” because he is slightly insane with a small amount of ADHD. This guy is an excellent marksman and, as many will see in the movie, great with swords. Another cool thing I found out about him is he has something called “comic awareness” which basically means he breaks the “forth wall” and talks to the audience. Well apparently as of today it is official there is going to be a Deadpool movie with Ryan Reynolds playing the character once again. I for one cannot wait for this to pick up because it will be interesting to see where they go with it.
This got me thinking though as to what other Marvel Characters I’d like to see movies for so I’ll give my top five. In no particular order they are Dr. Strange, Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger, Hawkeye, and Moon Knight. These five characters I feel would be very interesting movies.
Speaking of movies I’m surprised that there are not that many big movies coming out this summer that I just have to see. Don’t get me wrong there is a handful but I’m used to there being so many that I have one almost every week that I want to see. The only ones that I can name off the top of my head that I want to see this summer are Star Trek, Terminator, Transformers, and G.I. Joe. What happened to summer having all the big block buster movies?
Well unfortunately that’s all I have for tonight. I’m sure that tomorrow I’ll have more but for now, I’ll just go into the cards. Since I missed doing it yesterday I’ll treat you all to two cards tonight.
The First “Random Bachelor Dare Card” is: “Approach a babe with peanuts and say, ‘My nuts are salty. Wanna taste?’”
Interesting. I’d love to watch some guy go up to a girl and do that just to watch him get smacked.
The second “Random Bachelor Dare Card” is: “Allow your buds to draw a large ‘tattoo’ of a naked woman — or man — on your arm using a ballpoint pen.”
Wow you’d have to be pretty trusting of your friends to do that.
438 words
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
My Experiences at FPG including the shiny faeries
Well it has taken me a while but I had a busy day yesterday and was still recuperating heck I still haven’t slept in my own bed yet. Anyhow the main reason, for those few of you that don’t know, that I haven’t posted in about a week is the fact that I went to a little festival called the Florida Pagan Gathering or FPG for short. First just let me say WOW! FPG Beltaine was one hell of an experience. Where to begin?
First of all I’ll begin with my campsite. One of the reasons I enjoyed what little time I had there was the fact that I felt that I got a little closer to a couple of my fellow campsite members that I was not close to before, namely the Destroyer and as my fellow blogger named him Twig and his significant other. However, there was a lot of negative energy flowing around the campsite as well which sort of bothered me quite a bit. I will not go any deeper into the negative energy other than I hope that once FPG Samhain comes around we will not have that problem.
Now another thing that was great was the fact that I got to work with an amazing person, and it got me thinking about how much I enjoyed doing that same type of work when I was helping out my best friend in Ohio and I felt inspired many times as well. The main ritual was simply amazing and I felt gave the entire festival a much needed boost of energy.
Finally I will talk about my favorite part of the festival the shinnies and my journey of attempting to capture at least one of a pair of shinies who also happen to be faeries. It all started on Thursday afternoon I was at my campsite when the shiny green faeries first appeared. They had setup campsite three hundred feet or so diagonal from our own campsite. This is funny if you think about it, the faeries gathered close to the phoenix. Anyhow back the story at hand. Later on as I was sitting at my camp I saw two of the shiniest faeries around strolling along hand in hand along the back edge of our campsite back to their own campsite. Later on that night I saw them again at the opening ritual and must’ve inhaled some faerie dust or something because from that point on I started seeing them more and more. That night I visited the fire circle and caught site of one of the things that truly made these faeries shiny. One had her blue shinies and one had red. This brought me into their spell even further.
Then Friday night is when the fun truly began. Now let me preface the rest of this with the fact that I’m very shy and introverted. I came back from my work ready to hang out and have fun with my camp mates, however when I arrived my camp mates had already left without me, so I tried to go have fun without them. As I walked down the road I ran into a group of them and joined them, however when we stopped at the campsite the party fell apart. The knight went off to have a conversation with Alisande and The Lazy Overachiever went off with the Rook. Well I thought about it for a while and made the decision to go off on my own. I went to the concert that was going on and sitting in the front row was the two shiny faeries. After a while I danced with everyone a few times and made my presence known. After the concert I went to the campsite and it was empty so I quickly went to the painting tent and waited for the beautiful Doll to paint my face and arms since I’m not comfortable with my body enough to walk around with no shirt. Anyhow while I’m waiting who shows up but the faeries, so while I’m getting waiting to get painted and getting painted the dark faerie started painting the red faerie. I must say this was a slight distraction while I was trying look into the beautiful eyes of the Doll. Anyhow the dark faerie was a really good artist, which comes in later in the story, she painted a beautiful tree with runes on both the back and front of the red faerie. Well after I got painted I went to the fire circle and found one of my camp mates standing by the water cooler so I proceeded to talk to him a little bit and told him about my hesitation in dancing around the fire circle. Not long after that moment the red faerie appeared in front of the water cooler and I was surprisingly overcome with confidence. I proceeded to tell her I liked her paint and had a conversation with her where she encouraged me to go dance around the fire along with her. So I followed her encouragement and danced around the fire until almost four in the morning.
The next night I finally got the knight to go around with me raiding the campsites. The first one we went to was the Viking camp and who shows up but the shiny faeries. Well after a while they leave and not long after that so do we. Well we proceed to go around raiding and eventually were on our way back to the campsite, and we ran into the faeries again. Unfortunately this time my brain to mouth filter must have been broken and the wrong stuff came out of my mouth and so I felt like my chance to be with the faeries was blown. I then proceeded to go to bed.
The next day I was given a couple more visions of the shiny faeries before they left. I just hope that once Samhain comes around the faeries will once again make their presence known and this time around the outcome would be different.
I’m sorry this was such a long blog (1033 words), but I just couldn’t not tell the story of the faeries. Tomorrow I should be back to my regularly scheduled blog format.
First of all I’ll begin with my campsite. One of the reasons I enjoyed what little time I had there was the fact that I felt that I got a little closer to a couple of my fellow campsite members that I was not close to before, namely the Destroyer and as my fellow blogger named him Twig and his significant other. However, there was a lot of negative energy flowing around the campsite as well which sort of bothered me quite a bit. I will not go any deeper into the negative energy other than I hope that once FPG Samhain comes around we will not have that problem.
Now another thing that was great was the fact that I got to work with an amazing person, and it got me thinking about how much I enjoyed doing that same type of work when I was helping out my best friend in Ohio and I felt inspired many times as well. The main ritual was simply amazing and I felt gave the entire festival a much needed boost of energy.
Finally I will talk about my favorite part of the festival the shinnies and my journey of attempting to capture at least one of a pair of shinies who also happen to be faeries. It all started on Thursday afternoon I was at my campsite when the shiny green faeries first appeared. They had setup campsite three hundred feet or so diagonal from our own campsite. This is funny if you think about it, the faeries gathered close to the phoenix. Anyhow back the story at hand. Later on as I was sitting at my camp I saw two of the shiniest faeries around strolling along hand in hand along the back edge of our campsite back to their own campsite. Later on that night I saw them again at the opening ritual and must’ve inhaled some faerie dust or something because from that point on I started seeing them more and more. That night I visited the fire circle and caught site of one of the things that truly made these faeries shiny. One had her blue shinies and one had red. This brought me into their spell even further.
Then Friday night is when the fun truly began. Now let me preface the rest of this with the fact that I’m very shy and introverted. I came back from my work ready to hang out and have fun with my camp mates, however when I arrived my camp mates had already left without me, so I tried to go have fun without them. As I walked down the road I ran into a group of them and joined them, however when we stopped at the campsite the party fell apart. The knight went off to have a conversation with Alisande and The Lazy Overachiever went off with the Rook. Well I thought about it for a while and made the decision to go off on my own. I went to the concert that was going on and sitting in the front row was the two shiny faeries. After a while I danced with everyone a few times and made my presence known. After the concert I went to the campsite and it was empty so I quickly went to the painting tent and waited for the beautiful Doll to paint my face and arms since I’m not comfortable with my body enough to walk around with no shirt. Anyhow while I’m waiting who shows up but the faeries, so while I’m getting waiting to get painted and getting painted the dark faerie started painting the red faerie. I must say this was a slight distraction while I was trying look into the beautiful eyes of the Doll. Anyhow the dark faerie was a really good artist, which comes in later in the story, she painted a beautiful tree with runes on both the back and front of the red faerie. Well after I got painted I went to the fire circle and found one of my camp mates standing by the water cooler so I proceeded to talk to him a little bit and told him about my hesitation in dancing around the fire circle. Not long after that moment the red faerie appeared in front of the water cooler and I was surprisingly overcome with confidence. I proceeded to tell her I liked her paint and had a conversation with her where she encouraged me to go dance around the fire along with her. So I followed her encouragement and danced around the fire until almost four in the morning.
The next night I finally got the knight to go around with me raiding the campsites. The first one we went to was the Viking camp and who shows up but the shiny faeries. Well after a while they leave and not long after that so do we. Well we proceed to go around raiding and eventually were on our way back to the campsite, and we ran into the faeries again. Unfortunately this time my brain to mouth filter must have been broken and the wrong stuff came out of my mouth and so I felt like my chance to be with the faeries was blown. I then proceeded to go to bed.
The next day I was given a couple more visions of the shiny faeries before they left. I just hope that once Samhain comes around the faeries will once again make their presence known and this time around the outcome would be different.
I’m sorry this was such a long blog (1033 words), but I just couldn’t not tell the story of the faeries. Tomorrow I should be back to my regularly scheduled blog format.
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