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In the Deep Below, the Mouth cast regularly "Call of Amakthel"

So it's possible that it's not some random cosmic abomination but the dwarves dug so deep that they may have started to awaken a part of the imprisonned Amakthel that was cast down there by his own creations, the greedy Sher'thuls .

Yeah, I don't know if it's been specifically mentioned in game, but I've heard DG state that the stuff in the Deep Bellow is specifically because the dwarves managed to dig deep enough to start disturbing

... y'know, I think I'm going to arbitrarily headcanon that guy as Flamel. The comments make some good points.

Tea is not rum. WTF is wrong with you, Britishfolk?

Don't think there's anything wrong with dumping a bit of rum into tea, though. Or the other way around. Most things plant based seem to do alright with a good steeping, really.

Which is to say... are you sure the tea is not actually rum, boiled?

E: Bloody hell, water in the breaker box. Half the house turned into an impromptu rave party until something could be done about it. I mean, there was turning stuff off, but something had to be on in order to tell if fixing was actually fixing and... strobe. Everywhere.

Betcha' it cut a year off every CFL bulb that was involved in the process >_>

Being fair to the discussion, you might be able to convince me to kill for some snowfall. Life sentence might actually be worth the reaction of Florida to a genuine white out.

Fortunately, there's not really any means for murder to change weather patterns, at least on the scale I'd be able to manage on my lonesome, so the temptation isn't really there. Unfortunately, the temptation isn't really there because there's not really a means for murder to change weather patterns, etc. Ah well.

Ehn. Imo, there's few things quite as archetypal of sturgeon's revelation as american gospel, especially the sort that you can colloquially refer to as "white" gospel (i.e., typified by protestants and whatnot. The counterpoint is what I usually see called African gospel, which produces a hell of a lot more things worth listening to. That stuff can get pumpin', which I can respect. Lot of it is still crap, but.). Can't speak of other cultures, but being where I am, I've heard a lot of it over the years. Nearly all of it is utter shit, even in comparison to normal signal:noise ratios, by any measure you care to measure it by. In regards to just the music, in regards to the lyrics, in regards to the vocals, in regards to the theology behind half or better of the bloody messages involves. I've literally heard more rap of musical merit than I have gospel.

It's just... it's another one of those things. Rap and gospel even share a vocal tradition! One which they're letting down on a near constant basis. It makes my soul cry. I guess... I guess "song" producers have realized they have an audience they can shovel manure into and get away with it, and so... do? It's not like there's not been pretty darn good gospel produced over the years, even from the perspective of someone not particularly interested in the message or original -- good music is good music. Barbershop Quarter's "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" will be on my playlists until the day I die. Somehow, it's like most modern gospel (at least, that I've heard, which is still, y'know, at minimum a few hundred) is actively attempting to avoid making anything approaching good music. And I don't know whyyyyy *hair pulling*

There's days y'want to pick up an instrument and learn y'some songwriting just to offset the burgeoning tides of musical sludge a little

So apparently there are some pretty wicked +fire damage artefacts out there.

My archmage is currently at 190% crit multiplier, +71% fire penetration and +98% fire damage, and I could improve half my gear.

Fairly sure I've seen a few folks breach 150% +dam for fire, maybe 200%. It gets a little crazy. Think it's also one of, like, three elements you can conceptually get 100+% penetration on (along with physical and cold... maybe others, it's been a while since I crunched the numbers). Incidentally, one of DG's favorite class builds over the versions have been fire archmagi >_>

And yeah Robs, arcane and physical are specifically supposed to be hard to get a hold of in any meaningful quantity. Arcane's whole shtick is being hard to resist, really, and high phys resistance trivializes way, way too much of the game. So they're both pretty rare, comparatively. It's still pretty easy to rack up a good 20-30+% physres, though, especially if you get the right items. TK Core, Harky's gloves... throw in some mountain rings (they... still have those, right?) and you're doing pretty good. Might even kick up a jug shield for an extra non-passive source.

Think I saw a mouse in the pantry :I

Time to burn the building to the ground and salt the earth beneath.

Or mousetraps, I guess, if you feel like dealing with tiny rodent corpses.