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Friday, November 13, 2026

Utu Redux movie. Nee Zealand colinial times.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVx2zoEMKY&t=3935s

Utu. Nee Zealand 1983 movie. Very good. Kind of bonkers, but also v entertaining.

Thieves Guild ideas from Dragon mag 115 - venomous snakes vs. Dad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dljmoSevgRE&t=206s&pp=0gcJCccHAYcqIYzv

Time 3:00 ish. And 3;51

Maybe even can use for Drow stuff.

My comment:

Vemonous snakes are no joke. We just had some in our game. Real life-wise, both my dad and cousin have been bitten by pit vipers. My dad, as a youth, was walking home in twilight with his brothers. Stepped on a cottonmouth ,was bit, “jumped up 3 feet” and landed back on it to be bitten again. His four brothers picked him up and ran home. Neighbor got them to a hospital quickly. Said his leg was completely purple and twice the size of normal. —- But I thought maybe my dad had exaggerated about how bad it was till a few years back my cousin was bit by a copperhead. His hand swelled to unreal proportions. I think Pop was telling it straight for once. He did have two scars from the bites, same leg.

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Loop Hero - video game

https://loophero.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire

Does the vampire combined with skeletons from the cemetery(?) square make the skeletons way stronger?

Because on loop 6 (on the 3rd difficulty), be damned if i didnt get to the finish line (campfire) and push my luck against a vampire plus 3 skellies. My guys were doing like single digit dmg to the skellies or maybe all.

I had 4 skellies vs my archer towers and me, about 50% quality… got nuked. Oooooh insee, skellies are half immune to arrows, see here

https://loophero.fandom.com/wiki/Skeleton

Raw-boned “ability “ means 70% less dmg from archers!!!!

CRACKED SKELLIES Raw-boned take 90% less dmg from archers!!!!!!!!!

Friday, November 6, 2026

Read old lich stories

See lich in wikiped

Several stories by Robert E. Howard, such as the novella Skull-Face (1929) and the short story "Scarlet Tears", feature undying sorcerers who retain a semblance of life through mystical means, their bodies reduced to shriveled husks with which they manage to maintain inhuman mobility and active thought.^[3]

The term lich, used as an archaic

Slangwhanger - hilarious word with funny details

slangwhanger

Pronounced: SLANG-wang-uhr

MEANING:

noun: One who uses insulting or bombastic language.

ETYMOLOGY:

From slang (abusive or bombastic language, a now-uncommon sense) + whanger (beater), from whang (to beat), a variant of thong. Earliest documented use: 1807.

Referenced from Wordsmith.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Clark Ashton Smith - The Empire of the Necromancers

1932

Sunday, November 1, 2026

Readin - Clark A. Smith’s double Shadow

1933ish

This part reminds me Sleestak -

letters on the tablet were those of a language of the serpent-men, whose primordial continent had sunk aeons before the lifting of Hyperborea from the ooze.

Is this th origin of “lich” -

“For,” said Avyctes, “I have called up, in all the years of my sorcery, no god or devil, no demon or lich or shadow, which I could not control and dismiss at will. And I am loath to believe that any power or spirit beyond the subversion of my spells could have been summoned by a race of serpents, whatever their skill in demonism and necromancy.”

Ok, there were snake people from long ago, very advanced. They left this metal tablet w a spell on it. That summoned a horrible shadow.

Origins/ fixes - module Castle Amber

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJPcnwMQkwQ&t=302s

By Lichhouse. Around time 8:00, Moldvay does literary references from-

Fall house usher - Poe

The great book of amber byvroger zelaz..

Clark ashton smith’s THE AVEROIGNE CHRONICLES

Art. Lizardman

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0dyM-kk4fSI

Does he have the clearest ok the original dnd one tsr

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Rare modules- The Haunted Tower

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UwSSq3fDydI&t=924s

BECMI

LEV 3-5

Reading - The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith

Pretty good. Feels a little like Lovecraft (I think I’ve read all the major Lovecraft stuff), in that it isn’t light reading. Dense would you call it, like dense in description maybe. 1935 in Weird Tales volume 25.

Info

Thasaidon is the archdevil.

Namirrha (Narthos) is the once orphaned beggar-boy Narthos turned ultra magic user. Turned evil from hate of mistreatment.

Some cool stuff listed-

Dying earth situation (before Jack Vance, but so far is less talked about by characters)
A skeleton, taller than any man, walked forth. I think embers for eyes, hateful. A long black tongue, it spoke intelligently.
Demons under the control of an ultra powerful sorcerer.
Sorcerer summoned/moved in one night a city with towers like white fungus. They say the demons helped him by order.