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I’m Ba-aack
After what feels like a long couple years of day-jobbing, finally there’s some interesting stuff going on around here again. This last fall DH moved departments and got a nice raise out of the deal, so now I’m back at home to do writing and household projects. Looking ahead, early next month I will begin…
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Primal Pie Crust
So, last March DH and I went Primal. Then summer hit, and convention season, and we’re still not back on the wagon, but that’s really beside the point. The point is, after much trial and error, I have finally figured out how to do a pie crust without wheat flour. This is inspired by PaleoSpirit’s…
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Holiday life update
Ever since Gen Con things have been pretty topsy-turvy around here, mostly due to transportation-related issues. I picked up a temp job literally the week after GenCon, which at the time was nice because more money, but very soon became necessary because – you guessed it – more money. Early in October, DH was driving…
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“Neither Will I”
Swords cleave from heaven Feet move as flowing water All acts ripple out – Mirumoto Kasumi, upon her official gemupukku at Shiro Mirumoto
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow Book of Mirumoto Kasumi – end of the Topaz Championship
17 Serpent 1189 Today was the Iaijutsu tournament, the final event of the championship, and a strange day it was. The tournament was going well right up until the quarterfinals, when I came up against Hiruma Tamotsu-san. I saw through him. I struck first. But as I drew my ankle turned. My strike wobbled. Hiruma-san…
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow-book of Mirumoto Kasumi – the Topaz Championship (part 3)
16 Serpent 1189 Thrilling! Absolutely thrilling. Poor Hikari, though. This morning was the mass battle, where the thirty remaining contestants were pitted against fifty (!) Daidoji Iron Warriors. Thanks to the efforts of Isawa-san and several others, Hiruma-san managed a groundswell among the contestants to secure the generalship. (It should be noted that at the…
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow-book of Mirumoto Kasumi – at the Topaz Championship (part 2)
15 Serpent 1189 Another day, another disappointing athletic performance from me. I did not even manage the top eight in the race, although I was close. My stamina failed me on the straightaway before the wall, and I could not recover. Then in jiujitsu I fell in the first round to Usagi-san. As much as…
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow Book of Mirumoto Kasumi – at the Topaz Championship (part 1)
14 Serpent 1189 Noon I have neither excuse for nor understanding of my poor showing in the grand melee this morning. Despite everything, I was caught off-guard by the starting bell, and before I managed to gather myself the Ikoma next to me had grazed me rather impressively. I joined Ryouko and Hikari in the…
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The Cursed Throne: From the Pillow Book of Mirumoto Kasumi – a Fated Meeting?
13 Serpent 1189 Well. Thanks to Father I was unable to travel with Ryouko and Hikari. I was annoyed at the time, but now I wonder if the spirits didn’t have a hand in that. This afternoon I reached a checkpoint on the east-west road to Tsuma at the exact same moment as four of…
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The Cursed Throne: Or, my gaming group tries something new
So, a couple months ago our regular Pathfinder group suffered two TPKs (total party kills, for the uninitiated) over the course of roughly a month. Both of these were for the same essential cause: bad dice rolling. This was around the time DH discovered Larry Correia‘s wonderful posts of the Legend of the Five Rings…
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