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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Destan" data-source="post: 1299048" data-attributes="member: 12157">Alas, I'm not in the RBDM TPK Club (yet).  I have only been able to kill 'em off piecemeal.  But I'm working on it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Beltway Bandit.  My flying days are over.Gonna send you an email. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And I thank you for it!  There's a lot there to digest, and all of it great.  You've given me yet another excuse to put off work - as if I needed one.Alas, that's the dangers of writing gore.  There's a fine line between a good battle description and unnecessary carnage.  I'm working on it, but it'll probably be something I'm always working on - and will never master.You're in luck.  Vath will be a central figure in the near future of my updates.I wasn't aware this was a problem.  If other (new) readers feel this way, maybe I could petition the Powers That Be to help trim the fat, so to speak.  But, mind you, those posts are as important to me as the story itself.  I think Cheiromancer once mentioned he was archiving this thread.  He's done a great job doing just what you suggest with Sep's story hour.  But Sep's is much longer, and much more interspersed with praise - I don't think it's warranted here, though it's a problem I'd love to have.After a scare a little while ago, and at WizarDru's suggestion, I have been saving my posts as Word files (which is where I write them, anyway).  But the saved versions are never what gets thrown up here.  Invariably, I have to "edit" stuff once it's on the boards - for some reason, I miss a lot of mistakes in the Word files and don't see them until after I post it.I've made the trek about a half-dozen times.  On the most recent foray I dragged my wife from one Welsh castle to another, some of them little more than hills in the countryside.  Still, I manage to wander in many tourist traps.Thanks for reading, DrZombie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ah, yes - don't forget: I'm from the great Pennsylvania wilderness, as are four of my players.  I love that state, even with all its Puritan influences. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yuengling = Good.  I love their Black & Tan.  Don't know if they still brew that or not.Maladrac (John of Pell's player) does the same thing with his kid and his kid's friends/cousins.  They set up a little campaign in the Boarswood, a forest which we'll soon see here on this story hour.  Nothing like corrupting impressionable young minds. Amen.  I'm not in danger of story-hour burnout, but the supplement burn-out threatens occassionally.  Which is when I head to these boards and write about these characters.  It's refreshing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Good stuff!  I was wondering if that thread would be able to foment any interest from folks who either haven't read this story hour or - more importantly - don't visist the Story Hour boards.  I know, personally, I only browsed the "Rules" forum for about the first six months on EN World.  Never realized there was so much more to be had.G'nite, all.  Thanks for reading.D</blockquote>

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