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Well as you might have noticed, I'm back from vacation. Crete, Chania, to be precise Agia Marina, was wonderful. We visited the Imbros Gorge, an Olive Oil Distillery a Monastery, some villages and many many restaurants. Now one more week at home, my girl will celebrate her B-day Tuesday. I already bought some books she will get then and she got to choose a purse while we were in Greece as well. This morning we retrieved Brutus from the Doggy Hotel. He is tired but fine, had a good time, although it was exceptionally hot in the Netherlands last week 40 degrees celcius! So they kept the dogs cool and didn't let them play as much as usual. I'm happy he is back again! You people have been busy! It took some time to catch up. @buglips*the*goblin I've read your post on social media and especially about this forum. I can see what you ( and others like @Guindyloo @OneBoot @[email protected] to name a few ) mean and to be honest I'm a little bit scared about it all. To me, this is the first Forum where I feel safe and happy. I like to share my work here and talk randomness and even visit Beekeepers where we usually can discuss heavier stuff quite reasonably. Why scared? I'm also noticing some changes, both in behaviour of forumites as well as in Reaper's attitude. My biggest fear is that the Forum will one day gets taken down or disappear. It's my only Social Media event. I do no longer post my work on other forums because basically nobody cares or comments unless you're part of the incrowd. I no longer post on Warseer or Warhammer Forum for example anymore because of that. I dabble on Putty and Paint, but that's more for pro painters, and I just tag along a little bit no real interaction there. Most Forums are pretty much hostile and feeding Trolls. Until now the Reaper Forum has been the most friendly and welcoming one I ever found. I even made friends here, keeping in contact with people from all over the world sometimes even sending each other cards, snacks or presents, I have never seen that at one of the other Forums. And already there are some that no longer visit or very rarely and I miss them ( @knarthex. @tiniest rhombus @Kheprera @ub3r_n3rd to name a few) So, I do hope this Forum will survive. If it won't I fear I will not only lose friends and a nice place to hang out, but I fear the hobby will also suffer. At least for me a big part of the hobby is to be able to share my finished minis with people who do care enough to comment or like, and sometimes give advice on how to improve. Make up stories and share thoughts and WIPs. I love to look at what others have created. If all of that would go away, I might sell my minis and stick to pc games. I will never join facebook, twitter or the likes of those. It's this or nothing for me. So I call out to all of you forumites: We may have different views about politics, religion, social issues or even if pineapple belongs on a pizza or not. But we all share the love for the Hobby. Even when the Hobby has many aspects, we can all relate to it. Mods can't fix everything. We have to fix a lot ourselves. Sticking to the rules Reaper has made for this Forum is the best way to go. Let's all remember that we're here for the Hobby in the first place. It would be a shame if we would lose this place, there won't be another one like this anymore. And I do hope Reaper will allow this Forum to exist. I think it's a great way to show off their painted products ( and that of others, sometimes combined). So keep politics/religion/sensitive topics in the dedicated area. Link your nude minis instead of posting them directly. Think twice about how to react on someone's posts if you feel you're getting angry or sad because of it. Try not to attack each other personally. In the end this is a Miniature Forum. All the rest is icing on the cake but it can become a fly in the soup if we let it.

A memory from long ago: My roommates, Max and Winnie, were goin’ to the coast for the weekend. I would have liked to have gone along, but it was strongly implied that there would be much slap and tickle, and I didn’t wanna be a third wheel, and I did have things to do in town, and so I remained. I was a dedicated Warhammer player at the time, and there were miniatures to paint. I spent a good chunk of the weekend painting goblins. And when Max and Winnie returned from the coast, it occurred to me that perhaps the slap and tickle had been rather abbreviated. Winnie in particular was burnt in that way that indicates that NO one is allowed within three feet of her. I mean, she was SUNBURNT. I was kind of surprised -- she had dark hair and olive skin, whereas Max was more of the glow in the dark German/Irish guy -- but apparently, he’d remained under shade more, because he was a little red, but you could durn near see Winnie in infrared, she was so burnt. Get your hand within six inches, and you could feel the heat! And apparently, sleeping that Sunday night was a bit of an issue. There was literally no way the poor woman could lie down without feeling like she was on a well upholstered griddle. And on Monday morning, she’d had enough. “Doc?” she asked. “Do you know of any over the counter medications that will stop the agony of a serious sunburn? Or do you possibly have any drugs that will flatten me and turn my brain off until I start to peel?” “Regrettably,” I said, “I am drugless. But there IS a thing I know of that will pretty much kill the pain instantly, and can be had at any drugstore, although it’s not without side effects.” “And the side effects are?” “You will peel FASTER. And WORSE. And you will largely lose the tan you were looking for. Slather the stuff on today, and your pain will cease pretty much immediately. Tomorrow night, you will start to blister and peel. By Wednesday night, you will look like some sort of leper with cancer. By Thursday night, you will merely look freakish. And by Friday, you should be more or less presentable, as long as you’re not wearing a backless evening gown with slits upskirt.” “But the pain stops right away?” “Within a minute or two of application.” “Doc, the only parts that don’t hurt right now are my scalp, the inside of my mouth, and the soles of my feet. It literally HURTS to BLINK. Where can I get this stuff, and how soon?.” And we went out and got a large jar of Noxzema, and she and Max went into the bathroom and coated her with the stuff. And while I did not have any role in the slathering, I found her agonized groans of pain... and then pleasure, as the pain faded... more than a little chucklesome. And by the time their skins had absorbed literally most of the jar of the stuff, they emerged, much relaxed and refreshed, and able to wear clothes without constant low grade agony, and I was treated to a lovely dinner by the grateful unsuffering. And all was well. The following evening, Winnie looked like a pox victim. Thing about Noxzema? It cools the skin and kills the pain, but it also causes burnt skin to die quicker, and it blisters. Not PAINFUL blisters, but the skin’s moisture pools up under the dead skin of a bad sunburn, and makes you look like you’ve broken out in little pea-sized blister things. She looked like she had the plague. “I don’t &%@$# care,” she said. “I can sleep at night.” By the next morning, the blisters had broken... and she had begun to peel. And this began to bother her, because her skin was still quite sensitive, and little floppy patches of skin flopping around whenever she moved, under her shirt, was starting to bug her. By Thursday morning, we’d resorted to stripping her down to her skivvies and literally peeling her flesh off in strips. And SHEETS. She was literally peeling in sheets. Max in particular was fascinated by this, and began trying to perforate the dead skin in order to get as large a sheet off at one time as possible. And his fingernails were apparently irritating, and before long, she was screeching and growling and cursing like a sailor to get Max to stop trying to peel hanky-sized chunks off, it felt weird enough as it WAS! And while Max kept trying to beat his personal best, I looked at the sheets of skin I was peeling off. An inch wide, or more, and sometimes two or three inches long. Translucent, sort of, but a sort of taupe color. Tatty. Torn. And I wondered... And I ran and got a wire clothes hanger, hung it on the lamp next to me, and began hanging strips of human flesh from it, as I peeled them off Winnie’s back and shoulders. Yes, I know it’s weird. Even Max noticed. “What are you doing?” “An experiment,” I said. And Winnie slept better than ever that night. And in the morning, I looked at the hanger with the strips of skin on them. They were still a sort of tannish color, and had dried. They looked all the world like tattered little banners. I picked the hanger up and held it sideways. The strips had dried and stiffened, and now they looked like tattered flags, flying in the wind. The experiment had been a success. I took the hanger with the strips of flesh, and ran to my workbench... ...and an hour later, several of the Goblins of the Evil Rune were now carrying staffs with banners, flying in the wind. They looked great. When Winnie saw them, she was a little bumfuzzled. Max, on the other hand, thought they looked awesome. And upon realizing the sheer METALNESS of a goblin army, charging into battle flying flags and banners made from HER FLESH, she actually took a weird sort of pride in it. It's not like SHE was using the skin any more. Me? I just liked they way they looked, and the way they almost flapped in the wind... Couple months later, I was at a store to play a game. A guy was examining my critters. “Okay, what did you make the banners out of?” he asked. “I use tissue paper, but yours don’t have a texture. What, did you coat them with something? What IS that stuff?” And without missing a beat, I answered, “Human flesh.” “No, seriously.” “Sunburnt human flesh, peeled slowly from the spine of a screaming woman,” I said. Completely deadpan. Making eye contact. He hesitated. “Seriously? Sunburn peelings?” I nodded. “And what did the woman think of this?” “At first, she screamed,” I said. “But later, she sorta got into it.” Still completely deadpan. He looked at me funny, and walked off. Later, I stomped his Bretonnian army into the ground. He kept looking at the goblins’ banners....

Hello everyone, So I finally took the plunge to post here, so please accept my take on the Owlbear from the Reaper Black series. All comments or remarks are welcome! Many greetings, Philip *EDIT : added additional photographs.

Here's something interesting that happened at work last week: Someone forgot their lunchbox when they moved one of our underground mining loaders out of the garage. This is one of our "small" loaders (27 tonnes): This is the lunchbox (with lunch):

Here is a lizard man I painted recently. I actually finished him a while ago but I didn't post him because there was someone else's posted that day that was much better than mine and I was embarrassed . So here he is now. I am quite happy with the color on his chest. I didn't want him to have a straight yellow chest because that would look too contrasty and cartoony so I used some yellow in a glaze medium and put it on. It was kind of chalky so I need to be looking at getting different yellow paint. The close pics show the flaws and chalkiness but from a foot and a half away it looks amazing to me. The underside of the tail is still straight yellow basecoat because I was getting lazy. I am quite happy with him and please let me know what you think!

Genetic. Definitely genetic. We are a two pot family for chilies and curries. I like hot and Grump likes HOT. BD gets some of mine, but has already started stealing from daddy's. Two year olds are NOT supposed to be stealing daddy's curry! And she eats it all! Do you know how nice it is to have a food that a sometimes fussy eater ALWAYS eats?! She's messy, messy with it, and sucks the sauce off the chicken and potatoes before eating them, but she eats EVERYTHING, and then wants more! Grump takes it as an excuse to have curry more than once a week.

In my quest to take part in as many manufacturer competitions at ReaperCon, I've painted this fantastic little guy that I received in my ReaperCon 2018 swag bag. Galladoria makes some really cool stuff, and I will be sure to pick up some more of their sculpts in the future. I'm calling him Barrell Williams because I think its a great name and I was up all night to get lucky finishing him. I also used a ton of the new Bones 4 paints in here, including: Sorcerous Mist, Moonstone Blue, Foggy Grey, and Heartwood Brown.

Mmmmmm. Tex-mex is my heart food. Much, much love, and Texas loves it back! Vietnamese-American is my soul food, though. Nothing turns around my day like a good che or pho or banh mi. My grandparents fondly refer to that sauce as "Our Lady Cholula" and do this cute hands-showing-off-something-rare" gesture. I dunno, one of those you gotta be there things. :P We love smoky, spicy food over there so it's pretty much ketchup.

Tried Carolina Reaper? We have some habanero, ghost, and reaper sauces here. Usually just want like... a sliver of a bit on a corn chip. Or a drop in a pot of chili. We had it out at D&D. Sir Cyr was having wee bits on chips. The other guys wimped out. I uhh... made a point to them. Dungeon Master isn't going to let a bit of pepper sauce stop her, right? I tried to get just a drop on a corn chip. It became a BIG drop and got on my fingers. I licked off my fingers and downed the crazy spicy chip. They looked at me like I was crazy (I was). Was fine until a minute later at which point my lips were on fire and I started crying and tearing up. Still was talking enough to DM between gasps. Hah. Not my favorite spice at all, but watching them? Yeah. Worth it. I think I'll do it again but a drop of the sauce in vodka before I toss a red dragon at them.

Hello again! I'd like to show off one of my lanterns in progress. I make them as gifts for people and this one is special as it's for me so I'm kind of going crazy with it and trying different things. I'm not a great sculptor but I really wanted to get into it. The skull in front isn't me but everything else is. I need to touch up my yellow caterpillar and my snail but I'm enjoying it so far. Natural water scares me and I'm going to try once and for all get it right on this diorama. Finari, Crusader (54mm) will be the mini that I will be painting and attaching to this diorama.

The GM for one of my games got me a couple of gift certificates for Hero Forge as a birthday gift. Here's the first of them, Teleri ver Rhosyn, a stylish young urban enchantress who spends a great deal of time exasperated at the antics of her allies. There's a WIP thread where you can see Teleri's progress, along with that of the other mini I got at the same time. Sadly, it is unlikely she'll ever see use as her eponymous character, since the game she appears in is a play-by-post and hence doesn't require physical minis.

And so the kitten turned put to be a he. Meet Merlin, the most social kitty ever! In other news, I moved into my new apartment. I dont have internet service until Friday, so just limited phone internet.

So I figure I should show that she did get fixed. And as I look at her close up I’m okay with how she turned out. Tomorrow I’ll seal her and put stuff on her base

Had an interesting even happen to my Firbolg Druid during my recent D&D game where is in now covered in a bright blue metal skin. Had to find new model to use and remembered the Battleguard.

When I am at a restaurant that has any kind of spicy scale, say 1-10, I ask for a 0. I just don't enjoy chili pepper spicy at all, but weirdly enough I have no problems at all with black pepper spicy ( like Turkish pepper candy) or black licorice. I blame this on my Norwegian upbringing, 2-4 days a month my mom would feed us what I would say is the blandests of bland food (especially visually): fish balls (white), in white gravy with potatoes....

I haven't. But at the same time I don't really have the desire to, either. My heat chasing days are over. I've found my sweet spot of flavor and heat, and it's the habanero. Love those lemony little buggers. But I also really want to try their cousins, the scotch bonnets. They're the ones used the most in the Caribbean for stuff like jerk dishes. Yea, the ghost peppers I grew on my own I could eat whole. They were great. But I wasn't aiming for the top end of their range, and was probably on their low end. At the same time, I was growing bird's eyes. Those little guys are wonderful. And the plants put out SO MANY! I don't put in like 12 plants thinking that they'd be like every other pepper, but no. They all put out 2 crops of over 50 peppers a piece. I strung those bad boys up to dry and I still have a string of them left. And that was like 6 years ago. Granted, I haven't used them as much lately as I was in the first couple years, but still. I really need to set up some planters to do some more. See, I really like that citrusy flavor that habaneros have.

I doubt that will be a difficult sell.

This reminds me of a Thai place the wife talks about. The owner's wife did the cooking, and when she was in a bad mood the spice levels might vary a bit. So her office eventually learned to ask how the wife was feeling that day before they determined how spicy they wanted their lunch. My own tolerance is what I consider pretty high...Not ghost pepper or habenero high, although I have had some tasty ketchup (the only ketchup I add to something), mustard, and barbeque sauce with habenero in it. I had a pepper sauce made with habenero, and I used it like I normally would (i.e.: cover what I was eating in it) and boy did it hurt. I found out that I could only use about six drops of that on whatever I was eating and still enjoy my meal. That's also when I found I didn't particularly enjoy the flavor of habenero like I do tabasco or piquin and arbol (Cholula).

You can say that again. Canadian spice levels are pitifully low. I just made myself some 4 out of 5 hot peppers rating chicken wings with sauce, and I couldn't even feel any spiciness at all. Then again, people think I'm a freak as my tolerance (compared to the average Canadian) is pretty high. For reference, I can eat *and* enjoy bird eye chili peppers whole, rated at 100,000 scoville. I *can* eat habanero peppers whole (rated up to 350,000 scoville), and enjoy the taste, and even tolerate the burn, but my stomach wants to explode. Same for ghost peppers.

Prior to painting, I did not care for the figure I saw on the box. Turns out I just did not like the way the horns were positioned. It was weird, like his hair was slicked back. So I had them curve outward, looking a bit less than perfect and more menacing. Now I love his intimidating pose, no fear there. his Other than that, not painted terribly different from the box. If you want him to be a frost giant, this is probably what he is going to turn out looking like.

Speed painted all of these to get going with the game. My wife and I began playing Gloomhaven about a month ago, it is a fun game with a high price tag. The mindthief cat-like creature really caught my eye and had to paint n play with him immediately. The rats worked perfect for his early rat swarm ability.

Progressed a decent ways on them already but thought I would share the rest of the progress

Going to call this one done. This one was another case of the mini looking s lot better after it is painted then when it is bones white. Think I still need to work on skin application was really hard on this one and had to make up where shades would go a long the way on most of it; still was interesting using Sorcerous mist and Vampire mist and think that Vampre mist has potential for work well as a glaze. As you can probably tell went for a Vampirella kind of look. Also kind of happy with the orb as under light it pops more then i thought it would.

Anything that starts with a stick of butter. So many choices, I like sauces with nearly everything. They add flavor and texture to nearly anything.

I don’t know about that. I grew up with people who liked spicy food and I can’t eat it. It gives me blisters. Black pepper is a different chemical than the capsaicin found in peppers. I’m fine with black pepper and wasabi and things like that. It’s specifically the neurotoxin in hot peppers that I can’t eat. I suspect it’s genetic or physiological rather than a matter of toughness or endurance.

Less distance to fall... ...no fear.

Set the printer up today, it's a nice printer but I'm not getting any color. I followed the Start here guide & it shows to only use the black ink bottle to do the ink charging & then later tells you to "now do the other bottles, following steps 1 thru 6 bla bla." I'm thinking you need to charge it with every color before doing everything else. I can't find anything in printer's LCD or on Epson's website so I've sent a request for help. Hopefully, this gets resolved quickly. I've decided to try making/printing out custom paper minis (aka Paizo pawn style) for my "City that Dripped Blood" game on Weds nights. I've got 2 unique creatures in that game, I just can't or not enough time to replicate with other minis.

Hello forum, wanna share with you all my last work, Aluminar Winterbeard. As always I've tried my best to make it as realistic as possible (for my skillz :P ). Well I'm pretty happy of him, maybe he lack some touch here and there, like the beard or the skull on the base, but in the end he looks ok to my eyes :) Hope you'll like him as well :) And, as always, every c&c is more than welcome! Thanks

Just a quick owlbear I did using the new citadel contrast paints. Considering it only took about 30 minutes, I thought it came out pretty well.

Gotta use up all the stuff in our freezer. To that end, a friend is bringing over his blender so we can make mango smoothies!

Our Christmas Eve dinner is Norwegian traditional-ish: Boiled cod with butter, potatoes, lefse, roemegroet, white wine (because fish), flatbread. It's white. Very, very white. My mother bought red Christmas plates specifically so that there would be something on the table with an actual color. But I grew up on military bases in a variety of places, so that was one meal, not my daily fare. I got used to spice early and like it quite a bit.

This is my first real attempt at nmm. I have always just used metallic paint, but this guy had a sword that looked like it would be fun to practice on.

Delving into the Bones 4 core set, we start by pulling out the 24 bonus goblins that originally were in the Bones 3 core set. And add to them the 12 that I have from the previous kickstarter for a grand total of 36 goblins, 6 each of 6 different sculpts. I actually think I should have a few more of these, as one of the ones I got in the Bones 3 shipment was missing a part, and Reaper sent me a whole pack as a replacement. I wonder where I have put the originals? These are a bit thinner and more weedy sculpts than the Bones 1 and 2 goblins (Reaper makes a lot of Goblins, obviously they sell well), but as such they should fit well with my existing Lord of the Rings Moria Goblin army I am slowly growing for Kings of War. I have based them on my 3D printed 20mm round bases, the Bones 3 ones have a slightly different style as I have since developed the design, making the later types more hollowed out so I can avoid the minis always standing on a hilltop. 36 goblins are quite a handful to deal with all at once. Being nickled and dimed to death, or experiencing death by a thousand cuts as it were, is still dead. Goblin Luggits are the ones with two handed weapons in Kings of War Vanguard Goblin Spitters are the bowmen in Kings of War Vanguard The rest are just Rabble (in Kings of War Vanguard) I generally do not like painting identical minis identically, so I switch things up slightly by painting each set of different sculpts in a different base colour, and randomly do the other bits. I keep some bits the same throughout, such as the weapons, shields, or helmets, and also have used the same strong quickshade ink and a very light drybrush with Team Yankee Maverick Khaki, a mid-to-light beige-ish green on all the minis. This together with the bases give the entire group a cohesive feel, so they appear as a unit while still retaining a sense of individuality, These are really quite quick to paint, just alot of them to do. I did them in between bouts of playing Payday 2 over the last couple of days. 77444 Goblin Warriors + 77445 Goblin Skirmishers Reaper Miniatures, Bones 3 KS 2015 (and Bones 4 KS 2017) Sculpted by Bobby Jackson Bonesium PVC. 20mm bespoke 3D printed round lipped base available from reapermini.com

I bought this nice piece of art when I was in Chania the Old Harbour. I intend to use it as a photodrop for painted minis. And I also found a Gamestore there and bought these Sohei Archer Monks for my Nippon Project.

I feel sorry for Lucy, any news yet? I do hope it is something that can be cured or at least surpressed with medication. I'll be crossing my fingers. I have been in one and I liked it. My sympathies! That's awfully sad! You mean your Pet Mimic attacked you??? Oh, and congrats on the job! Good news! @redambrosia happy ( belated) anniversary!

I should not laugh at that. Poor puppy!

When I was a kid we grew chili peppers once. Only once. The dog got into the garden. We were growing habaneros. Poor dog cried so hard for daaaaays... To be fair, we should have simply planted more peppers and went on with gardening. I guarantee that dog learned not to do that again

I agree about habaneros having delicious flavor. They have a citrus, almost mango-like quality to them. It worked great making my own strawberry habanero liqueur (1lb sliced strawberries and two sliced habaneroes into a 750ml jug of brandy for 2 weeks - mmmm). I'm not much of a fan of tabasco or cholula. They're fine but... boring? Serranos, while not crazy hot, are my favorite generic pepper. They're more flavorful, in a classic pepper way, than a jalapeno. Jalapenos have a bit of an offputting bitter flavor. Serranos are also a little bit hotter than a jalapeno, but not habanero at all. I miss growing things. I grew a lot of peppers when I was gardening. My serranos were amazing, and I did grow a bunch of ghost peppers which were delightful. I also grew a batch of Peter Peppers. Just uhh... look them up. They look erm... interesting. Bell peppers didn't take off as much as my spicy ones did.

I rather like the Mexican restaurants around here (RTP, NC). I don't know how they compare to authentic restaurants though. (But they certainly seem more authentic than what I remember of Chi-Chi's.) When I next go to ReaperCon (next year maybe?), I should hunt down a Mexican restaurant for dinner, although that might require convincing someone with a car to go too.

What qualifies as spicy varies regionally. The Thai place in the food court in CO had spice levels 1-5, plus "Thai Spicy". A hella white friend kinda had to prove to them that he wanted Thai Spicy by downing a few raw chili peppers. Then they believed him. A 5 was legitimately very spicy already, and I tended to get a 3 for Fun Spicy. Ordered a "spicy" thing in New Jersey at a Chinese restaurant, and I think a black pepper shaker might have been waved over it once. Pretty sure they gave up on making stuff spicy there. It made me sad.

I think BD is a better skater than Grump.

Tasty. And successful. I found a liquor store, a beer store, and a new pizza place. They have good crusts. I no longer have to get on the train and spend an hour of my time to acquire wine.

Huh, This hasn't been my experience. One of the few foods I can reliably eat in an Indian restaurant is the tantdoori chicken because it isn't hot. (my drugs cause capsaicin to do interesting and painful things to my nerve endings) the marinade is usually a combination of garlic, paprika and yogurt so no heat there. Tikka is also something I can usually eat because the heat levels are normally pretty low. My old favorites like Goat Curry and Vindaloo are the ones I have to avoid due to high levels of heat. But I am sure that there is different versions I'm sure. I guess I still need to keep my guard up. Tonight's dinner is ribs. slow cooked and done with my special dry rub...

I need to finish unpacking. I have been wearing and washing and wearing the same pair of pants all month. Because those are the only pants I have managed to find in these boxes. They have begun to suffer from holes in inopportune areas I also need to give in and buy new pants. Gonna do that this weekend too. And find a new pizza place. Will need lots of taste testing

painted this for a friend, didn't feel like painting the goat as just a normal goat. Black Goat of the Woods kept coming to mind from Lovecraft, so that was sort of inspirational in a way.

I just finished him ( it is 2pm in France). On this one I have try the technique of successive wash. I had thin a lot my paint (1/5) with medium and after with water. (1/2). And then I do layers and layers more for the shades, less for the highlight. Its works with the robe and the hood. but not with the cloak. I have redo it canonical way. I have added the rope to the bow

I'm actually better less bad at skating than the last time I made the attempts... forty years ago or so.... Megan glides. I... kinda barrel. I smacked the wall a couple of times, but didn't fall. Brigid did fall a few times, but, yup! No fear of falling, she was laughing. And holding her mom's hand... they were adorable, the both of them. *** The endgame for the Regency game has begun - they are level 14, and will be hitting 17 about the time it wraps up. Swapped back to the lower level Urban party for the start of this chapter - as Megan's character was arrested for witchcraft against the Crown Prince - her lover. At about the time she discovered that she was pregnant with his child. (I cleared that with her beforehand - as a GM I am kinda leery about dropping surprise babies on female PCs.) Since the last time they were together he has fallen into his slumbers again - this time with no awakening, and he has not been spotted in the taverns that he routinely dream walks into. And, this time, his eyes are open. Hearkening back to the children's rhyme they heard in the first chapter - The Dreamer's in his Chamber. Next chapter will be The King is on His Throne. They will most certainly be needing the higher level party for that one - and they never did look into what is up with the mad king. Maybe four months until the end. The Auld Grump

I could be wrong. I've never been to Punjab, so I don't know how the real deal is made. I've just been told in the past by a few cooking shows that tandoori chicken is supposed to be a relatively spicy dish. Then again, my definition of "spicy" and the average American's definition vary wildly. And from my experience making it myself it's also not supposed to be red, it's supposed to be more of a pale yellow-orange. If it's red/bright orange, they're using food coloring. Because the spices include paprika, cayenne, and turmeric in yoghurt. A bit of red, some yellow, and a lot of white do not a bright red make. One of these days I'd love to do a food tour of the world. Hit every distinct region of every country for a couple days and try to get a taste of the real deal everywhere. I'd probably come back home after having like 30 different types of dysentery and with a bad case of IBS, but I think it'd be worth it. It's something to dream about for when I finally exercise my stock options in the Powerball...

I would have to hope in @Unruly 's job, people just take it as a part of modern life. His town isn't that large, I am pretty sure that he, or one of his close co-workers has given at least one ticket to every person with a driver's license that lives there. I don't hold it against the parking monitors (well, other than a little grumbling when I actually get caught) I know the risk when I do something like that and accept the responsibility. Unfortunately not everyone sees that as someone just doing their job.

I can say that being polite is ten thousand percent the tipping point. The ruder you are to me, the less likely you are to get what you want. Example of differences: had a guy the other day being an arse to me about getting a certain room type. He didn't get what he wanted, because as soon as he started acting that way I stopped caring. While tonight I had this (very stressed) couple come in late. The price they thought they were getting for their room was not what they thought, because they misunderstood their email (it didn't add in taxes). But they were polite. So guess what? I lowered their rate to match what they thought they'd be paying. Treating people like humans makes a big difference.