Whew, what a month it’s been! In addition to teaching full time for a uni that thinks instructors are free as birds to do extracurricular activities of dubious educational merit, I’ve settled into the 4 hour daily commute and somehow finished the 80 page third chapter of my thesis. All the while being a loving husband and father, but admittedly my baby boy’s smile and the wife’s support were the only things that kept me going.
And I’m spent!
Not looking forward to the final deadline
for the 300+ page opus in November, but it’s got to get done.
Now it’s time to blow out the cobwebs, read
some good novels (starting with Hugh Howey’s ‘WOOL’), write some fiction and
gaming stuff, and hopefully do some gaming (if you’re there Sunglasses Jerk,
make it happen!).
Without further ado here is my first post
back in the saddle for your fantasy game.
Words That Don’t Exist In Common
DWARVISH
Fraubarbicon – The moment when your wife’s
beard intertwines with your own.
“I
missed the departure because of a frubarbicon, but luckily I caught up with the
party just as the goblins started their ambush and bushwhacked those
bushwackers!”
ELVISH
Nuquerna Laisi – Deciding to change to a
radically opposite alignment and/or class due to boredom with centuries of
championing the same cause.
“You
think I, Alyahs the Necromancer, killed Shayla the Championess of Isis? Foolish mortals! I WAS Shayla of Isis!”
ORCISH
Chubash chubash – A leader that is inept
but is loved for their commitment towards violence and hasty ill-conceived
action.
“Our
charge on the knights broke our ranks and killed half our soldiers, as well as Chieftess
Grokilla. She was true chubash chubash –never see the like again!”
HALFLING
Firdidlong – A day spent smoking pipeweed
and drinking beer in a field while getting paid to do so. Considered a high
cultural ideal.
“I
had always successfully avoided work with the town militia or guards until one
day my uncle Figtoe volunteered me. I was right angry at first, until I learned
our mission was a complete firdidlong!”
TROLL
Urk flam dang iya! – Taking so much
regenerated damaged that you would have preferred the fire.
“Men women
dwarf elf wizard in rain, dark. Jump down smash bash. Rain rain no torch. Stab
stabbity crush crush, arrow arrow arrow missile. Thinks Urk flam dang iya!”
HUMAN
Demiposer – Inferiority complex to
demihumans, resulting in weird haircuts that mimic long ears, ill fitting clothes
or incongruous lifestyle choices to emulate them
“The
way he cut little triangles in his hair above the ears and starved himself all
the time – what a demiposer…”
THRI KEEN
T’chik chik BLAT – A human(oid) so
infuriating you wish you wore shoes so you could squish them.
“Mmmmm,
human female cleric, chattik, heal humans not me, chattik, screams at giant
insects, insulting and lose surprise, chattik. T’chik chik BLAT.”
NEO-OTYUGH
Burble urp de livre – The euphoric feeling
of bathing in liquefied feces all day while reading a good book.
“Burble
urp de livre is nice work if you can get it, but most privies under castles nowadays
offer only the hardest rain of excrement pellets and at best a few soiled pages
of the Farmer’s Almanac.”
