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I thought OMG! This is just about perfect timing!
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That is the passage I misread. @RichardAbbott referred to it above.
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@Apocryphal said: I love the Ham Radio idea, and didn't think of that when reading the boo, but it seems like a great premise. Imagine a setting where the PCs are never in the room together but communicate remotely. Perhaps an adaptation of the l…
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@NeilNjae said: @clash_bowley said: @NeilNjae said: Perhaps, given all the christian references, Severian will turn out to be some kind of deity in mortal form and without self-awareness? Let'…
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@NeilNjae said: @clash_bowley said: Also, Father Inire (Deus Irae?) seems to be immortal, having worked for the first autarch. Is "Father Inire" a person, or is it now some kind of title, passed on from person to perso…
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Seeing as Severian becomes autarch and he is not in the least androgynous, I wouldn't worry about that , @RichardAbbott !
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Also, Father Inire (Deus Irae?) seems to be immortal, having worked for the first autarch.
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Ah! OK, @RichardAbbott! I read that last as meaning "The autarch at times spoke to the androgyne", figuring the androgyne was high up in the autarch's favor, and was betraying him. I read it at least three times, searching for the reveal of the aut…
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I'm looking for the Autarch and you are distracting me with Father Inire!
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How exactly do "we" realize that some one of these strange people he is wandering around meeting is the Autarch? To me this is equivalent to the famous Sidney Harris cartoon - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d6/e7/54/d6e754d24aaef324c1595e68583ace7a…
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I read A Fire Upon the Deep. That is all. I seem to have read more from his ex-wife!
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I read chapters 20-22. I had no idea that the message was delivered to the Autarch. I think I am losing this. Everyone else seems to be enjoying it, and I seem to have no idea what is going on.
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The search for the sword was interesting. As @RichardAbbott says, at a certain level in a longstanding bureaucracy, punctilio trumps security. I like that he reasoned out the timing of the guard putting his sword away to find it!
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The story was pretty boring I thought,and I didn't see how it was at all relevant! It read like a victorian child's version of a myth, dumbed down to a child's reading level and devoid of any disturbing content. Why did he tack on the Theseus ending…
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@RichardAbbott said: @Apocryphal the gold theme was a curious one... I guessed early on that this was the secret of Lion Lake, but in the end nothing much was made of it. Sure, there were the huge nuggets just lying around when our intrepid explo…
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I could definitely do a historical or SF game in a land like this! In my current biweekly Out of the Ruins game, the PCs are on a planet in approximately Mars' orbit which is very glaciated, though not an "ice planet". Out of the tropics its much li…
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@Apocryphal said: I think that, rather that start a number of discussion threads, I'll try this with just two - one to ask what you thought of the book, and another for gaming applicability. > So, I hear you've read The Land God Gave t…
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@dr_mitch said: Jonas' familiarity with the Notules. His metal hand. The fact it's now obvious his ship was a spaceship though this hasn't clicked for Severian- presumably he lacks the frame of reference. He's obviously near immortal, o…
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Hammond Innes is a real find! I have really enjoyed everything I have read from him!
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@NeilNjae - I as actually just teasing dr_mitch about his post being rather content free, but I do agree on the lack of movement.
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Hammond Innes is a real find! I have really enjoyed everything I have read from him!
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Huh! Looks like nothing happened...
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@Apocryphal said: Clash didn't capitalize on an opportunity to pun, recently. Reported. e. e. cummings taught me typing!
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I had lots to report, but then I realized you wanted reports on strange behavior from the software, not from the members...
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Finished it last night!
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Almost done! I am loving this one!
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"If you kill anyone, make sure to eat their heart, to gain their courage! Their rich, tasty courage..." — Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
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Yes, I was referring to the eucharist when I mentioned drinking the blood. I did not realize that some Catholic churches do not share the wine. Now it makes more sense! It was very definitely a eucharist to my mind!
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@NeilNjae said: The state of the roads was interesting. The description of them as being fallow, grassed strips indicates that no one is using them, not even the state. It's another example of an ossified tradition that doesn't seem to serve any …
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I am almost half done. I am so far really liking it!