NWO

[kingandy]

The lovely pax_draconis emailed me my player pack yesterday, having already posted it to me by post. I'm probably going to have to be a lot more on the ball than I was expecting, and oh God, I have to remember names and places and all sorts of things. Still, the brief gains enormous points for the appearance of a wholly unexpected name. It's only mentioned in passing so I don't expect to see him at the event, but still, it's nice to know the Demon's Head exists in the game world...

(Oh, and I'm not talking about Divis Mal. Though that, too, does amuse.)

The rules are pleasingly simple, though there doesn't seem to be any sort of limit on how many times you can cast spells at or below your Art level. Maybe I've just not got to the part about Twilight yet. Or something. Parma VioletsMagica is so the way to go.

LINK OF THE DAY: They don't make 'em like this any more. Damn, I'd forgotten how good this advert was... (NOOISEY)

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[kingandy]

Maybe that's it. Since it doesn't save you the effort of making it OOC, perhaps the point of the spell is that you have the option of making it without wis - so you're giving people food to eat which is real OOC but vanishes IC. So they have to act hungry and eat more!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Vis.

and it's pronounced with a V, not a poncy W :-)

("Welease Woderwick"? W*anker ... )

[kingandy]

Ah - I remembered seeing a Atlas Games pronunciation guide at some point where it was pronounced with a w. Since then I've reflexively spelt it that way ...

Also the magical art that deals with the direct manipulation of said energy? Weeeeeem

[jfs.livejournal.com]

When I learnt Spanish, I was taught Castillian Spanish (like what they speak in Spain)which involves several of the words being pronounced as if you have a lisp.

My spanish teacher at the time warned us that if we ever went to South America and spoke Spanish there, to pronounce all those words without the lisp, because the natives of that continent tend to look down on people who speak Castillian as being somewhat effeminate. (Actually, he was clearer than that, but these were in the days before political correctness.)

I have much the same attitude to people who can't pronounce a V as a V. If it were a W, it would look like one.

Bah.

[kingandy]

Vell, I von't be making that mistake at the veekend.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

At Transylvania I had two people say Weeeeez to me. Admittedly, I missed most of the first person's conversation (he bored me, and I was far more concerned about november_girl's "charms" having an effect on my minions chumps scapegoats most powerful masters...), but saying Weeeeez just made them sound either extremely pompous or undescribably stupid.