[Caelum's Scrapbook] Use Your Words.

[Colombina]

Beautiful. “...I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.” -- Bishop, "At The Fishhouses"

[Caelum]

Bina, that is gorgeous. Thank you. - - - Posting this here too to cover all bases. Hi, guys. I won't be around much until next week. There are a few deadlines to meet and then I have company coming in town starting Thursday night. If you send me a PM that is urgent, I will likely be able to respond even if it is brief and over the phone. I'm going to try to get a few game things handled before the wild weekend is fully upon me, but I am unsure how much will be possible and your patience is greatly appreciated.

[Caelum]

A thing happened a time ago when I was a different version of me. I was asked to make some words for it and I did. The ones I made then weren't this, but I couldn't sleep tonight because what's here wanted out in the way of all endless fictions. It's rough and I'm tired and good, even, but rough is how it is and, further, I figured if they wanted out so badly I should put them in a place other people could read them. dead on impact Wait. Waitwait. Ahem. Owohgod. Heart thrust HUGE scrape it hurts, hurts blinding big unwinding. We aren't meant to deal with this. Can't and fragile OW Where are -- You. Your skin by bonfire and laughs catching up every stray syllable plus my soul. You -- no, not this, not ready. Too soon. Lollipop eyes to wake us up, sticky lips don't let go. Don't. Don't, can't. Shit. Ahem. Wait. Wait I have three billion words but your face is backlit by the gasp of the galaxy we long strayed from the center of and I need, need feel fingers -- yours, yes -- gliding up my arm, crumpled stained with wine sneak touching my hair. HOLD ON. I know. I knowIknowOW. Quick. I'll say it fleet, tongue to teeth like all the hours we aren't going to have. You. Arms snaked, heave of your body brought me back home. I didn't know. Bad voices, trying tunes, mouths opened anyway while treetops watched through car glass and my mother laughed perfectperfect. Fuck. Constricting. Shrink and numb. NO. Wait. Infinity, hold. OW. Ahem. Flaws like joy crunching to fizz and pop - you. Don't let this take that dance from off your shit kicking feet and keep up with yourself, not with Mrs. Jones and not with me 'cause ghosts can't hold, memory can trap, lovelovelove, turn your headlights to a tunnel through this pitch and mire, my dear.. Dear. Ow. Slip and it goes softer. Din is squeezing in itself and I.. I can't.. Listen, you left me reveling. You.. NOnono. God. Crap. Please. YOU. You told me symphonies with your glance. You I love. You. You remember that. Immobile. GaspscreechairthroatOW. Wait. WAIT. You.. I love. Just that. Light. Love that I love you. Love you. I love youiloveyouiloveyouiloveilo

[Tabarnac]

I'm glad you're still writing poetry, dawlin'. *waves lighter*

[Rhuryc]

Have a bit of fun with this one. Let's be honest, if anyone were to understand, I think it's in the right place. Identify Cornbread He said, Lips aflame with tasty bits So delicious, One so auspicious Can not delcare They were unaware Of the grit and wit inside this fit of rage. What's that you say? Gonna blame me today? I'm sorry, I can't hear you, Mayhaps I am not the one to steer you, Away from that lucidity found in your stupidity, Bent on such hostility that you dare affront my hospitility. No wait, that ain't no word, It's too absurd, Perhaps beyond your comprehension, But hey, there's more! Buy one today and get apprehension tomorrow, It's free, you'll see, the contention to follow, And if you need some perspective I shall endeavor to clarify, So while you fry, Aloft, Alone in the objective, This can be your summary, A reminder to remember and reminisce, While there's only one of me I see a million of you. Cornbread, just like I said, Knowledge stapled to the head Of the gratefully dead.

[Legion]

Thanks, Dani & Greg. Though, honestly, Dani, you know its snapping. Lol. Greg, you’re right. This is the place, darlin’. Stopping in, really, just to note that I have successfully located the key to the universe. The “lever long enough” to motivate anyone to accomplish anything is (you ready for it?): Knowledge that your mother and your mother in law will, at the same time, be descending upon your house armed with a combination of baptist brimstone, catholic guilt, a cancer card and southern ‘knowing better’. This filled me with such dread I freaking unpacked the last of the boxes and mopped the walls. Who mops walls? Who does that? Oh, my god. I’ve lost my mind to terror.

[Caelum]

My husband wins. He sent these a day early to my office as I'm taking tomorrow off and he wanted me to have something to "show off".

[Paragon]

N'awww, those are so pretty He scored some brownie points then, lol?

[Caelum]

A note on the Intelligence skill. It has come up about half a dozen times in the past month and more going further back. A player told me that one mod, at least, had informed them it was only good for breaking and entering. Nonononono. That is incorrect. Disclaimer: I am the author of the intelligence skill and this is my take. The founders potentially have a different take than I. They are welcome to clarify, of course, if so. What can I use the intelligence skill for? ESPIONAGE. What type of character might need it? Spies, politicians, courtiers, businessmen. How do I earn intelligence? It is clearly defined in the skill write up. HOWEVER, as intelligence is by nature not an exact art and -- especially at its lower levels -- easily apparent as training for its related skills versus intelligence itself, it is absolutely imperative that you 1) do threads specifically for it and 2) inform the awarding ST that is what you are striving for versus anything from observation to seduction (and don't get me started on that). How do I award intelligence? See above. Additionally, know the PC. Intelligence either fits or it doesn't. While not exact, it isn't brain surgery to figure out if a PC is seriously working on spy game techniques or just having a particularly observant counter argument, etc. Okay, bossy time over. Carry on. Questions are welcome as ever.

[Rhuryc]

Questions are welcome as ever. Can you tell me Where the Wild Things Are?