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Art History Animalia(@art_history_animalia@historians.social) says: For #InternationalFlamingoDay #FlamingoFriday 🦩:
Truus Nienhuis (Dutch, 1929-2019)
Tile tableau, painted with #flamingos in a water landscape with irises, c. 1900
Earthenware, h 95.5cm × w 50.0 cm
Rijksmuseum BK-1977-247: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1977-247
#BirdsInArt #ArtNouveau
Locus Magazine(@Locusmag@mastodon.social) says: New & Notable Books, April https://locusmag.com/2024/04/new-notable-books-april/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-RSS
Now listening.
Keith Jarrett - Mysteries
Amazing sound from an amazing band on a clean LP. Listening on my grandson's Realistic LAB-440 that his dad bought for $5. I did some minor repairs and it sounds great through the Pioneer system I pulled from here and there and a $50 pair of monoprice bookshelf speakers. #jazz #music #hifi #vinyl
Jens Ohlig(@johl@mastodon.xyz) says: Microsoft releases MS-DOS as Open Source:
“This repo contains the original source-code and compiled binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and MS-DOS v2.0, plus the source-code for MS-DOS v4.00 jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft. (…) All files within this repo are released under the MIT License as per the LICENSE file stored in the root of this repo.”
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
@analgesicsleep@mastodon.social
Great song. #sffwriters #rss #sff
Dr. Dani Sanchez(@analgesicsleep@mastodon.social) says: This is a song by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein covered beautifully here by The Vince Guaraldi Trio (https://youtu.be/VLc6KsJXqbg?si=UCpGOWeDknTdIIHz) AKA the people responsible for the music in The Peanuts.
#RetroView
Dr. Dani Sanchez(@analgesicsleep@mastodon.social) says: This is a song by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein covered beautifully here by The Vince Guaraldi Trio (https://youtu.be/VLc6KsJXqbg?si=UCpGOWeDknTdIIHz) AKA the people responsible for the music in The Peanuts.
#RetroView
A while back I was going on about RSS feeds. Then a friend added vcards into the mix. So the vcard is my scannable linktree and the RSS feeds are my content.
I added another column for other people’s feeds and then thought it might be nice to list new feeds at the top.
If you have a music or gaming RSS feed, youtube channel, anchor podcast, etc. post a link in the comments and I will add you.
This is a Plain Text Program and I am pronouncing it Beta. Please let me know about problems or if anything is unclear.
💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺!
Cryomancer’s Lexicon Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement by a wizard)
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This thick book is bound with white leather and is freezing cold to the touch. This book can be used as a spellbook and contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you’re attuned to the book: “cone of cold”, “freezing sphere”, “ice storm”, “protection from energy” (cold damage only), “sleet storm”, and “wall of ice”.
The book also has 7 charges. It regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. While the book is on your person, you can expend 1 or more of its charges for use with the following properties:
𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜. You can expend 1 or more charges from the book in place of using spell slots when casting one of the book’s icy spells. For each charge you spend as part of casting a spell in this way, the spell slot level you need to cast it is reduced by 1. You can use an action to cast one of the book’s spells, even if you didn’t prepare it, provided you use only charges to cast it in this way.
𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙯𝙚 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧. When a creature that you can see (including yourself) takes damage, you can use your reaction to expend 1 of the book’s charges to change the damage’s type to cold.
𝙄𝙘𝙮 𝘼𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙧. You can use an action to expend up to 3 of the book’s charges to coat yourself in a magical frozen barrier. You gain 10 temporary hit points for each expended charge, and when a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, that creature takes 10 cold damage for each spent charge.
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The mummy that wasn’t… aka are you my mummy? No! First appearing as the gluey in White Dwarf magazine (1978), the adherer shambled forward and made TSR’s Fiend Folio (1981). It feels like one of those trick monsters DMs gleefully unleash on complacent or overconfident players to shake things up a bit. The adherer is often mocked, but I have to admit I thought it was kind of cool when I first saw the monster entry in the FF. A potentially sticky situation… on THAC0 Thursday!!
Ok now, I’ve put all my eggs in one basket. Gamer+, a server on the fediverse, has now incorporated the Delta Boogie Network. Both Gamer+ and the Delta Boogie Network have a long history of running social networks on unfederated servers, the kind where you only see people who have logged onto that particular server. That’s the past. The fediverse is the future. On G+DBN you can follow anyone on any federated server, whether it’s Mastodon, Firefish, Peertube, Funkwhale, &&etc.
So, for me, G+DBN is the one ring that rules them all. The place where I post and read and respond to your posts. I still have my account on mastodon.social and I do boost my hype there. But G+DBN is where I make all my social network posts.
Well there goes the neighbourhood... won’t be too hard to catch it though….
Meet Clover, She’s a primordial spirit of the land, and a very polite one at that. She embodies the place where the ancient mountains meets the lush green of valleys and lakes below, and her name is derived from an ancient elven poetic composition about her that refers to her mowing through the canopy like it was clover in a lawn.
In times of yore, a great hero awoke her to save their home from an invading army, simultaneously breaking the cliff-face free an undauntable defender. In the usual course of things a spirit like clover would have been unsummoned as soon as the crisis had passed, but the hero and all of their neighbours were just so taken with the gentle giant that they decided to let her stay.
Generations later, Clover has become a beloved local icon, gently grazing the surrounding forests while the fortress on her back serves as the region’s seat of power. While most rulers of Dawdlewall have tried to live up to the hero’s example the most recent; Gottfried Scarlett, Earl of Eastcress has turned out to be a bit of a bastard. Having ascended to rule Dawdlewall through a convoluted inheritance scheme, he intends to use his authority to wring the region dry of riches, backing up his power grab with kaiju sized threats.
Adventure Hooks:
The party can run into the earl’s forces in a number of ways, having set up impromptu toll roads, shaking down local guilds, strong arming tavern staff for free service, ubiquitous “assholes throwing their weight around” type of behaviour. Things inevitably come to a head when the party delve a local dungeon and end up running face to face into the earl’s “tax collectors” insisting that they need to pay a “delving fee”. A brawl ensues, and the party either find themselves carted off to the Dawdlewall dungeons or on the run with a bounty on their head.
As one of the many privileges granted to him by his new noble title, the Earl has seized control of the ancient hero’s staff, which is the only means of communicating with Clover. He’s already steered the oblivious primordial to crush a tiny logging hamlet that refused his unjust enchroachment , allowing the denizens to evacuate as a show of his magnanimity (also because it’s hard for a giant earth-churning snail to sneak up on anyone). Seizing this staff is the key to kicking Gottfried to the curb (or off the edge of the Fortress, if the party is feeling particularly dramatic) but suddenly puts the heroes in a difficult position. Who can they trust with Clover’s titanic power? Do they keep the staff for themselves or use it as a bargaining chip in the power vacuum left by their enemy’s departure?
