The CBB

Foolster41 wrote:(scorpion vodka anyone?)

My brother had that once... he even ate the scorpion. He doesn't remember much of the night after that point.

Yes -- Pecweshte's skin, what little I can see of it around her scarf and hood and cape!, is much like mine. It is her eyes that are so different... Men call us blanckmên because of the radiant whiteness. It is quite a stark contrast to the blaowmên ; to me they look utterly black, but I'm told the...

Never quite understood color myself... How can her colors be of the wrong sort? Ought she be a different sort of color? "To be one of the nomads of whom I speak? Yes. I always thought the nomads were pale, but she is to them as snow is to coal. Quite striking actually." I see! Canash's ey...

I think the prose style of the thread has had the unintended effect that we're worried about spoilers. :P

I suppose one question I have is how did a little girl strike up a friendship with the king of all wolves?

P'xwth stands resolute, and stares the demon before her directly in the eye. "Three times, the nations of the south have united to cross Quul'shxw'ay'm into our lands and try to conquer us. Three times, we did not even bother to fight them. And three times, they failed. Winter came and took th...

The Face sinks back into the rippling mercury and the mercury itself sinks beneath the swirling fogs and at last the crystal turns opaque again, as it was before. Hah! Three hundred and forty five years only! Seems like rather more...but not so very old after all! Zedata stares the box in dumbfound...

opipik wrote:Here, humans usually live some 70 years.
Your society isn't very advanced, is it?

Zedata nods sadly. "Indeed... Did I not mention the impalement? I suppose it's better than what those damned Southerners do, but what can you expect from a bunch of seal-hunting tent dwellers?"

How old? The oldest people on the planet, where I live, are about 125 years old. "Humans usually don't make it much past 50, most die in their late thirties or early forties. Some demons are older than three centuries, though most of us have to work that out. It's difficult to remember, especi...

The Romanisations for my languages (all of which I recently scrapped, actually... but this still applies for my new one) were designed with readability in mind (for English speakers at any rate); granted, they aren't totally transparent, but I think consistency is easier to deal with than a mess of ...

I don't think you're a demon... If you're dead, and are still upright, then you must be a deadfella . Even if you are, like twice as tall as I am! There's a social agency for them in the City, you know, the Society for the Rights of the Unliving . I've seen their broadsheets -- they've got slogans ...

Gifuga sees the feline person. "Ah, for a short while I thought you were Sylvane-nan, cat-folk from where I'm from." "My people revere lions. I no longer do personally, but it's a habit with me to take their shapes." You do look like a demon but you don’t speak like one. What ar...

"Dragons!", he responds slowly, turning around to the feline clothed in rags. Dragons are, at least where I come from, no more than mythical animals, giant lizards with enormous wings. The closest things to dragons we had lived a long time ago at the foot of the Monte Palato , or "Mo...

The rag-bound thing shifts itself peevishly, feet thumping the floor as it tries, inelegantly, to lean back on its haunches. "One of those dangerous guests has a vested interest in demons... For example, what is a dragon? And why ride one? How does it respond to magical... leakage?"

I've been trying to get this guy's character fleshed out in my head, so excuse him if he's a little inconsistent. "Oh! People! People at last!" Theatrical, hysterical and subtly mocking, the deep male voice is accompanied by a most rancid odour. The colossal bulk of the thing that owns it...

I dare say immortals would get bored of life; mortals already do.

Lao Kou wrote:... (one of which I found with no effort at all here). ...

'HSBC, the world's local bank... except for tax purposes, then find us in Switzerland.' ;)

The current design I'm running with basically a sword with around a two foot handle, and a two foot blade. (Since it's likely to be two-handed, it could be weighted somewhere for more impact/power?) Does the handle make this too unwieldy, and is it overall too short to be useful? Not sword-like eno...

Kheap khæhdbe fa bah; kheap nulbö fa baba-baba caoun. /↑kʰɛɐp ↑kʰeːdbɛ ↑fɐ ↑bɐː | ↑kʰɛ.ɐp ↑nʌlbo ↑fɐ ↑bɐbɐ-bɐbɐ ↑tsɯʌn/ [↑kʰɛ.ɐp ↑kʰëːd̪.bɛ fˠɐ ↑bˠɐː | ↑kʰɛ.ɐp ↑nʌl.bʷo fˠɐ ↑bˠɐbˠɐ-bˠɐbˠɐ ↑t̪s̪ɯ.ʌn] khe-ap khæd-be-Ø bah; khe-ap nul-bö fa use~use caou-n 1SG-NOM.MASC.C POSS.1\tongue-ACC.MASC.C-POSS.1...

I made a new proverb in Vrkhazhian: "Away from the center, one sees clearest" , which means that in a conflict people who are not emotionally involved in that conflict see the situation most objectively. I'd gloss it something like this: DEF-center-ABL-NEUT-SG 4 see-ACT-PRES-SG clear-SUPL...

Chagen wrote:Oooh...I actually like that Fleshgod Apocalypse (dear god that is the most hilariously METAL name ever) song you linked. Maybe I was hasty in judging my own tastes.

Yeah, it's a ridiculous name for sure. :P
Glad you like them though.