Nefarious Nine Export

Hey, so I know that a bunch of you met through FLAILSNAILS, and that's also how I met all of you, but also that FLAILSNAILS has been, if not entirely dead, at least largely hibernating recently. There's good reasons for that, like people forming stable gaming groups like this one, but I'm trying to revive it right now, and also migrate it off G+. Which is a lengthy and high-effort preamble to spamming you all with a discord link, please forgive me, I'd love to see all of you there: https://discord.gg/ffn53h https://discord.gg/ffn53h

lost hill cantons boot hill session made into a mini series . https://www.netflix.com/title/80097141

While I am sure Count Dante has come up before - I just want to know the following. A) everyone who has played or intends to play a chaos monk has read his wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dante B) there is an NPC chaos monk of the highest level (or not) named "Count Dante" and using his personality. Chris Kutalik that one is on you.

Chaos Monk Dojo? Can you spot the signs?

I am curious are their evil chaos monks, because there clearly are in the real world. http://gawker.com/to-get-this-isis-video-workout-youd-have-to-spend-1-0-1775136449

The place on the other side of the portal in the Cerulean Vaults?

Hope everyone has a good weekend . Artist Omar

War bear info graphic

possible solution for hangouts if they get too bad. this has been going around on G+ today. perhaps we should test it at some point https://appear.in/

Was anyone else aware that tiger wrasslin' is one of the themes of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's video for 'Relax'?

Because we got into the Perun/Velesh conflict last night and it may be relevant to your goals/understanding of what's happening in the campaign world, Vilem explains a few things about Old Pahr religion (based on some old notes from my campaign notebook): 1. That the Pahr religion is a “softshell” polytheism, a loose doctrine that accepts that there are other gods and divine forces. Some Old Pahr doctrine teaches that these gods are just archetypes but the dominant belief is a simple shrug of the shoulders and loose if vaguely contemptuous acceptance of “those crazy foreigners and their over-complicated, demanding gods.” The Sun Lord and Solarity in general even gets this treatment.   2. That a key reason for this is an old belief that the Pahr gods and people are not “of Zem”--that they wandered into this world during the so-called Second Exile at a point in the northeast of the steppes. Old Pahr maintain that they are in the Third Exile, while the Pahr of the Cantons mostly maint...

In mail today.

"Progress stems from the clashing merger of antagonist extremes, out of the marriage of pinnacle freaks" - Alferd Bester describes the metaphysics of the Hill Cantons?

Humza Kazmi Michael Moscrip Evan Elkins Anthony Picaro  Humza and I had an interesting discussion this afternoon that I thought I'd share with the rest of the group. 1. The Master and the Old Smith are likely godlings at odds, with the Old Smith being an avatar / ray / emanation of the Sun Lord. They are fighting for control of the Slumbering Ursine Dunes, with The Master likely being the "bear" in question. While I'd previously seen this as a Law / Chaos dynamic (or Core / Weird), further discussion raised an interesting question: The Old Smith and the Eld are not in cahoots against The Master, but both are Lawful and clearly opposed to him. How can the Anti-Cantons and the Core be against each other when both are aligned with Law? That's when I remembered the five-fold alignment setup of the Hill Cantons. While The Master is clearly Chaotic Good, the Old Smith is Lawful Good and the Eld are Lawful Evil. This blew my mind. If true, the cosmological conflicts we...

Given Chris's comments about the Sun Lord's tendency to take mortal form and engage in both heroics and licentiousness, combined with the notes we saw about the "great hero of the age" over on the HC news page, makes me think Something is Afoot (tm).