Return of the Dragon Gods Part 4

Well it’s officially a new week so that means another part of my story “Return of the Dragon Gods”. The past few parts of the story have dealt with the main villain of the story which is also the main character of these stories, Zanroar. Well this time around I’ll focus on the other villains. I’ll start with the doppelganger and maybe in this part I shall go on with the others. Well enough talking let’s get on with the story.

After about a week of trudging around with the party of adventurers and trying many times to steal the Rod of Falzure from the gnome that took it, the doppelganger came up with a plan. He needed to get away from the group first though. He left his room and went downstairs.

As he got down there the crazy Dwarven cleric who shaves his beard constantly, was down there so he went up to him trying to keep his cover. “So Neetch, are we going to go clear out that prison today or what?” Neetch just looks at him and says, “Cookie!” and then gets up and walks away. The doppelganger went to get up when the group’s bard comes down the stairs. “Make way for the great Zoey Stardust.” She yelled as she made her way down the stairs. Neetch yells to her, “Pass the remote.”

Later in the day when Neetch and the group’s half orc barbarian Ront went off to “check out the prison situation” and the paladin, rogue, and bard left somewhere in town he made his move. He took a horse and traveled to an ancient set of ruins and stood there outside. “Hey dumbass I need a favor.” He yelled. Nothing happened. “Listen, if we’re going to bring back the true Gods we need the Rod of Falzure and some idiot gnome has it. The gnome would be easy if he wasn’t always around this group of adventurers including this crazy nut job cleric of Erythnul.” Suddenly one of the gargoyles stood up. “Listen just because you’re Zanroar’s pet doesn’t mean you can boss me around. I’ll do you this favor but you’d better think twice before calling me a dumbass again. So what do you want me to do?” “Come to the town of Firechester and start attacking the Dirty Wish Inn yelling for the rod. Just leave the rest to me. I promise you this will be the last favor I ask of you ever.” the doppelganger said as he walked away.

Hours later the gargoyle attacked the inn. The gargoyle ended up getting killed during the fight. “I told him I wouldn’t ask him any more favors.” the doppelganger thought to himself. Now everyone was starting to gang up on the gnome trying to get a hold of the rod. Finally the paladin told the group, “Do what it takes to get the rod.” Neetch, Ront, and the doppelganger fought Fitz (the gnome) until he was he was dead. Before the doppelganger could grab the rod, the rogue Halfling grabbed it and gave it to the paladin.

The party picked up their fallen comrade and headed towards the temple the doppelganger followed along until he came up with a plan to grab the rod. He walked up to the paladin and told her that he’d run ahead and let the temple‘s clerics know they were coming, and ran ahead. When he got to the temple he snuck up on the high cleric and slit his throat from behind. Then with the High Cleric dead he could easily pose as the high cleric and the idiots would just hand him the rod. He quickly changed into the high cleric and met the party at the door. “Ah your friend told me you’d be coming. I’ll gladly take that evil rod from your hands.” The paladin handed the rod over to him. “Good. Now you can just go down that hallway and you can heal your friend’s wounds.” He said as he pointed down the hallway. As they went down the hall way he quickly threw the rod in his satchel and changed into a nondescript human and ran off to meet up with Zanroar.

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Weeding in the rain. Oh what a glorius feeling.

Well the majority of my day was spent weeding out the area where we do our barbequing, however the Gods decided it would be even funnier if I did it in the rain. I started out in the one corner and everything was fine a little hot but fine none the less. Well after I came back out after a break from the midday sun. I yanked a few more weeds and then it started raining a little bit, I figured no big deal it’s only water. Then after that Zeus decided to taunt me into going back inside with his thunderbolts. At first I just ignored them, and then he started getting closer. So I figured ok fine I guess I’m done for the day. Wrong!

About an hour later the rain stopped so I decided to go back out. Guess what happened after I pull a few more weeds. That’s right it rains again this time a little harder, but I just keep going. Then Zeus decides that it was so much fun watching me scramble inside the house that he starts taunting me again. Once again after the first few thunderbolts I do nothing, so he says ok fine then and lights up the sky. Seeing that I once again drop everything and run inside and of course as I run in I hear the thunder and I swear it sounded like a chuckle.

Well a few hours later the rain dies down and I go back out. I’m sure you can guess what happens next. The rain starts picking up little by little until once again the Gods open up the floodgates. This time I decided heck with it I’m just going to stay out here and finish the job. Besides all the rain was making it a lot easier to pull the weeds out of the rocky area that shouldn’t even have plant life but unfortunately someone was a little too lazy when they set it all up there. What was supposed to happen was they were supposed to put some black plastic down before they put down the rocks.

Anyhow back to the story, so this time I figured I’ll just stay out here and finish my job. I’d say I was out there for another hour or so before I finished most of it. Then Zeus decided to taunt me again. Well this time I’d finally finished weeding and cleaning the barbeque area for the most part and came in the house. I was so wet that I literally had to peel the shirt off of my body. Well after I took my shower I had to grab some groceries from my parents’ car, and big shocker the rain had left already. So anyhow that’s how my day went ended up all wet

Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “Approach a hot chick, bend over, and say, ‘Mommy,I’ve been a bad, bad boy. I think I need a spanking.’”

Wow I could say so much about that with many of my friends but I won’t because I have to stay family friendly .

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A Phoenix Projects website comercial disguised as a blog

Let me preface this blog by saying while in some places this may sound like I’m griping, I can assure you all that I am not and in fact I love every minute of working on the Phoenix Projects website (http://phoenixprojects.org) it’s just that in text format it may seem this way but in vocal format you would know. Please do not think I am b*tching about my job because I in all seriousness love every minute of it.

Ah the trials and tribulations of being a web designer for a community. I just realized that I have spent a total of around seven hours sitting on my couch doing various things to improve the Phoenix Projects website, and it seems like only one hour. The funniest thing is the public won’t even see ninety nine percent of the stuff I worked on today yet.

I started the day out by going through the pictures on the FPG website from Beltaine looking for pictures that were only of members of the Phoenix Projects and all I can say is wow there was a lot of pics to go through, and a lot of stuff I missed while there. I think next time I go I’ll have to go to more things and be more active as opposed to sticking around the campsite or trying to do homework. Anyhow back to what I was talking about before I got sidetracked. One of things that amazed me while looking through the pictures was the fact that in the pictures of the Celtic games, where the Phoenix Projects’ Realms Fighters kicked some serious buttocks (once again congrats), most of the pictures were of one person granted that person is one of our fighters but still it seems a little unfair to the other fighters (no disrespect towards him as he is someone I consider a good friend). Oh well anyhow I found a lot of good pictures even some interesting ones, let’s just say (to paraphrase a great comedian) Hot dog on a Steek. I can’t wait to post them along with all the other pictures I have ranging from when the great Raymond Buckland came to visit to pictures of two of our clean ups. Another thing I have learned is that it’s hard to find open source faery pictures that are family friendly.

Although some of the other things I did for the site was trying to figure out Dreamweaver so that I can make some cool changes to the site. Well as I was going through I noticed some changes that needed to be done to our Midsummers page of events (for more info check http://www.phoenixprojects.org/midsummer09.html )that if it weren’t for the Hobbit telling me I may not have known. However that’s one of the things I don’t mind, as long as I’m told things before it’s too late. Although one of the things about doing the site that does get to me is when instead of sending me an e-mail when something on the site is wrong people tend to tell other people that have very little to do with the site what’s wrong with the website, and then I have to hear it from them. This to me is the equivalent of someone finding something wrong with my work and instead of telling me they tell my boss, my boss then has to tell me, and no one likes hearing from their boss when they messed up.

Although before anyone decides to visit the site let me just warn you that it may look a little rough around the edges but like I said I’m in the process of doing a redesign and had to change some codes that affect the whole site but within the next few days maybe even tomorrow the entire site will be revamped.

Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “Tell a babe you really need her support— ask her to donate her bra, then wear it over your man-boobs.”

Wow you know the sad thing is I could see some of my friends doing that dare with no problem.

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My American Idol Grievance

First off I will admit it. Yes I am a fan of American Idol. After all when the God you follow is Apollo; the Greek God of Music and the arts, among many other things, shows like American Idol where the goal is supposed to be to find the best singer sort of grab your interest. Now that the season is over and I’m sure by now everyone knows the result and who won it I can air my grievances. Although if for some reason you have been able to not find out who won yet, first of all I commend your stealthiness second you may not want to read on.

Now with that out of the way, I can get down to the business at hand. America what the hell were you thinking?!? Kris Allen as the American Idol winner? Don’t get me wrong he was a good singer and all but Adam Lambert was a much better singer. This is what happens when you have little teenage girls voting, going “I’m going to vote for Kris because he’s cute.” Hello I thought this was supposed to be a talent competition not a popularity contest. Then again I should have realized this was going to happen when they made the top four the top three and got rid of whom, in my opinion, the one person who should have been in the finals, Alison. Alison was another one that could sing better than Kris but once again the teenage girls came out in force and pushed her away for Kris. This just makes me sick that America can’t get a singing competition correct. Instead the misguided youth has taken it over and turned it from a talent competition into popularity contest. Although I hope that some of the other factors didn’t play into it like the fact that Adam openly admitted to kissing another man, or the fact that Kris is a devout Christian. Oh well enough about that I know that both Adam and Alison will make albums hopefully they will out sell Kris’s album and Kris ends up getting a career like Taylor Hicks.

Well since I got some words to fill in and I’m done with that subject I’ll move on to a new one. Well my random method of hitting a random letter on the keyboard while the cursor is in the yahoo search box came up with a pretty ironic subject. I say this is ironic because while writing this blog I was talking to the Hobbit on YIM and were just discussing the same subject which is tattoos. Well anyhow a lot of people in the community have been talking about tattoos and some of them even have gotten some. Well I currently do not have any tattoos but for, at the very least, 10 years now I’ve been saying that on my arms I will get a dragon on one and a wizard on the other. I think that this will look good on me. However I’ll dive further into this subject in another blog since I’m far enough into my cushion that I don’t have to worry about if the judges will count some of my words as one when Word counted them as two, and I can’t really think of what else to say on the subject at this time.

Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “Convince a hottie to buy you a Funky Monkey if you make monkey sounds and do a monkey dance on the bar. (Check with management first. Don’t get your ass thrown out.)

That would be one I’d love to see someone do but would hate to be the one that got that card because thanks to my new shell breaking initiative I’d have to do it.

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Circle peves and talents

Ok so since yesterday I decided to do my story instead of answer the challenges that were made I will answer them now. Yesterday both The Hobbit and The Priestess Warrior issued challenges; The Hobbit issued the challenge of telling what some of your pet peeves are when it comes to circles and along with the reverse side of that being what do you like the most about public circles and gatherings, while The Priestess Warrior issued the challenge to tell about your special gifts or talents.

I will start with the second challenge since it will be a little bit easier. I’d like to think I’m kind of an empath, however with me I usually can only feel the negative emotions in people mainly sadness. No matter how much a person tries to hide it I can usually feel it. I have found that this can be both a blessing and a curse. I have always enjoyed helping people and doing whatever was necessary to make them happy again. This is how it can easily be a blessing; however one instance in particular was when it became a curse for me. That instance was about a year ago when my grandfather passed away. We had the whole family over for Mother’s Day and when he passed on at first I was fine then when it set in for everyone else I could feel everyone’s pain; I felt my Grandmother’s, my mother’s, my uncle’s, my sister’s, my cousin’s, and even all of the friends of his and my grandmother’s that would come by. It was very overwhelming and the worst part of it was when I went into the room he was in I could feel nothing in the room at all after he died yet before he died I could feel his presence in the room. His funeral was even worse as was his burial. All of the sadness of everyone felt like it was just being attracted to me.

Another talent I’ve noticed is that I can see the romantic links between two people and weather the link is strong or weak. This is one that is still very new to me but the first time it jumped out at me was at the clean-up. Before anybody had told me or they made any moves towards each other I instantly felt a big connection between Peanut and (I’ll use the term that someone else used for him before due to lack of a better one) Twig. The moment I saw them both at the same place at the same time I was practically blown away. Later I found out that I was correct and they were in fact a couple.

Ok now for the First challenge, my pet peeves about circles and what I like about them. For me this is a difficult one due to that fact that I’m still learning in the craft and don’t fully understand all there is to know. I really don’t have any major peeves about circles other than the one that Hobbit mentioned about talking, but I was just taught that it was common courtesy not to talk when other are talking because that is rude. As far as things I enjoy once again the Libra in me is taking over and I can’t think of anything that really stands out that I enjoy the most. I enjoy pretty much everything there is about circles and gatherings, especially the people. There is just not one thing that I can say I like or dislike above all else, everything is pretty much equal. Then again I’m so easy going that not much does bother me.

Today’s Random Bachelor Dare Card is: “Get a girl to laugh … without talking to her.”
That one sounds easy but I guess depending on the person or the girl it could be harder than it seems.

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