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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9016784" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 138: October 1999part 2/5Lotus the Fire Blossom: The cover star from issue 136 gets the winning entry for their backstory here. It’s both ultra-cheesy and inconsistent with lore from previous issues, as the owner of the jewel store has a completely different name and personality. Unless it actually changed hands IC at some point in further reading I’m not aware of that’s not very good editorial work. Anyway, she’s a half elf, half kara turian thief, (who would almost definitely have been a ninja if it weren’t for the fact that she was an orphan) raised by wandering cloth merchants. Unfortunately, she had no better luck with adoptive parents than biological ones, and they were framed & imprisoned by a Raven’s Bluff noble saying they sold her shoddy goods. Now she’s stuck as a street thief trying to get hold of enough money to get them out one way or another. Having been wrongfully mistreated by the law already, respecting it is not on the agenda, although she’s still avoiding hurting regular people. This is definitely very adventurable, whether you’re trying to catch her or teaming up with her for a big jailbreak, but it’s also very cliched and feels like a throwback to the early days of the Living City where they’d accept nearly anything the readers sent in regardless of how it fit with other articles. I guess the continuity low tournament format always did have quite a bit in common with 80’s cartoons so it’s not surprising they’d wind up going back to it.Member Spotlight: Our ultra-helpful member of the month is Jae Walker. She's been using the internet since before it was the World Wide Web and is responsible for a significant chunk of their online output. Starting with the TSR online stuff on AOL, she's now been responsible for the RPGANEWS mailing list, a big chunk of the RPGA website, the Star Wars RPG mailing list, and the formatting for the Raven's Bluff Trumpeter & it's spin-off the Procampur Shining Jewel. Great, more stuff they've never mentioned in here and I can't find hide nor hair of on the internet now. Once again, if anyone was signed up to the mailing lists back then and still has this stuff saved, I would be very appreciative if you could forward it to me so I can be even more of a completist in this journey. So this entry is above average in usefulness, but also frustrating, as it's another reminder of how much lost lore there is from the early years of the internet as the early websites disappeared without any backups, replaced by massive social media sites that are almost impossible to search for anything posted in the past, with an endlessly scrolling feed keeping you distracted from learning any in-depth information. A thread like this simply wouldn't be readable on Facebook, particularly since they got rid of the notes section and previous entries would take hours scrolling down my profile to find an old one you wanted to check. An excellent example of how not everything has got better since those days, despite data transfer speeds increasing by many orders of magnitude.Internet 101: This column unsurprisingly gets spooky. Someone registered the domain name halloween.com pretty quickly after the web got started, and it's still going now, 29 years later. Also still alive and kicking (unlike it's contents) is boneroom.com, where you can literally buy both animal & human bones and have them shipped to anywhere that isn't banned. Hauntedamerica.com is also still doing quite well for itself, helping you find tours of spooky sites across the country. So that's 3 out of 4 links still going strong, a new record for one of these. Funny that our love of spooky stuff should be more stable than the government admin systems. You can definitely get something out of this one, especially if you have a little money to spend. (or a lot, if a complete human skeleton is something you simply have to have) A pretty promising start to the themed stuff.</blockquote>

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