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Is the temperature still a bit... off? I ask because I set fire to my house, and I'm still cold.

Also, ovens don't seem to work in the same manner as wood stoves, and I'm glad that I learned that.

Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell. A very quick and easy read, which surprised me a little. Normally I have some trouble with english books from the 19th century. Not much important happens in the book, which I like. Read it at the recommendation of my sister, who also thinks I should read North and South, Wives and Daughters, and everything else written by the same author.


52 is looking like a very big number right now.

Mr. Anderson is definitely being beat up by a bunch of goblins, but I like the image of him patiently writing that out on his tablet as they repeatedly break his limbs.

Update soonish.

((well, I might be able to find someone like that! Next update.))

Around Oceanbridge, Part Two

"Hey, what's your name, you hear that?" Gar put his hand to his ear with a theatrical flourish.

"Tirist, Gar. I'm Tirist. And yes, it's silent, right? No fighting anymore." The two had been trapped in the room for a month now, and in all that time, the sounds of battle had never stopped. They had got used to it, or Tirist had. Gar never had seemed to mind. "This is eerie, Gar."

"Exactly. Gotta check it out." Gar walked over to one of the sand walls, gave it a once over look, and then punched a small hole straight through.

"Gar! What the-"

"Calm down, damn it. I just want to take a look out there and... good gods!"

"What?"

Gar stepped aside, and pointed to the wall. "Take a look yourself."

Tirist did, with some hesitation. The hole was just big enough for him to see a bit of the old main hall, where he'd arrived less than a year ago. It looked different now. There were the dead water buffaloes, of course, and the a few goblin corpses scattered around. But the dozens of broken and battered ape-men bodies, the rotting severed limbs, and the massive, scarred ogre sitting on top of the main gate's lever? Those were new.



"Rakust save us! What happened out there? And what the hell is that thing!"



"Looks like we ain't the only one's who get a kick out of killing those ape things. What's our ogre friend up to?"

"He's... building a chair now." Tirist tried to look away, and found that he couldn't. It was a grisly sight. It was also very, very odd.

"Bastard! That's our lumber!"

"Actually, I think... he's using the bones of the ape men, at least for the frame."

"Those are ours too, damn it!"

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Part Three:

Somehow, Mr. Anderson was still alive.



He was hoping that would change soon.

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Next: Stuff

To clarify: Gar and Tirist (and one unconscious wounded dwarf I keep forgetting to mention) are trapped in the older food stockpile, on the first level of the fort. They didn't make it to the safehouse, which is why they have no access to anything other than food and booze. They have plenty of that, though. All of the alcohol in the fort, 100+ prepared meals, and about four barrels filled with elephant meat, for some reason.

They can't dig out, and the others can't dig to them yet, because the aquifer is in the way. But I have no doubt I'll find a way to get to them soon. And if I don't, they'll still be fine.

The safehouse, meanwhile, is working wonderfully. Apart from the lack of booze, which I feel silly about.

update soon

I can't speak for the flavor, but if the tripe you had had the texture of rubber, it was likely either undercooked or overcooked. It should be springy, but not rubbery.

A lot of the "variety meats" as I once heard them described are very temperamental, and people prepare them improperly, and then decide they're not any good.

Not meat related, but I used to despise green beans, because all I'd ever had were the boiled, overcooked ones that came in cans. A few years ago I tried them fresh, where they were added to a stew at the very end of the cooking process, so they were still bright and green, and it was a revelation. They were amazing.

Quote from: varnish on March 28, 2013, 08:43:30 pm

Would people count things like tripe and sweetbreads as nonstandard?

Might be a regional thing. I've had tripe, but only at one particular korean restaurant that's the only place I know of that serves it. And sweetbread I had to look on up wikipedia to even know what you were talking about. I've heard of it, but I didn't realize it was meat.

I've had tripe prepared by my godmother's... mother (man that sounds strange) who is Sicilian. I did also see something similar prepared at a chinese restaurant I used to work at. It's got a distinctive odor when it's cooking.

The more I think about it, the more I think that there aren't any non standard meats, just foods that are unfamiliar on an individual basis. And that it might be interesting to expand the conversation to other foods. Think of all the vegetables and tubers and fruits and so on that are regional. I'd never tried lotus root until this year.