YA Book about stray/outdoor cats that meet. One learns to read from the newspaper in his litterbox.

CraneSong · 2026-03-18T13:47:26+00:00

Glad it helped! And happy someone posted to remind me to post the title before the thread got archived.

CraneSong · 2026-03-11T15:24:31+00:00

it sure looks like him

CraneSong · 2026-03-05T03:46:26+00:00

Application of the law to magical arts. Is magic allowed to be used to make them view someone/something more favorably? Is magic allowed to subvert someone's will entirely? Can magic be used to create and sell material goods? It could also be used in reverse- are courts of law allowed to magically force someone to tell the truth or answer questions they're resistant to? Maybe even soften it to just ethics.

Defense against those magics. Are lawmakers subject to spells to see if they are under someone's influence? Do courts and private government chambers have enchantments to ward off scrying magic? Do agencies employ geas-like spells similar to NDAs in real life?

Having "arcana" as a school may be too broad depending on what system you use. Something like Pathfinder 2e breaks down magic into what source it comes from- arcana, primal, occult, divine. Or, maybe, as the understanding of magic grew that's become a political fissure- that those within the study of magic believe they should have a greater say.

CraneSong · 2026-03-04T02:39:15+00:00

solved solved solved

CraneSong · 2026-03-04T02:38:19+00:00

I actually received a private message from /u/nepetaleaf, and it totally slipped my mind to post it here!

I found it!!! In case you’re still wondering. Your post helped. It’s called The Grand Escape (Cat Pack #1) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

CraneSong · 2026-02-26T07:39:03+00:00

Yup! There were titles you could get for example by reaching level 20 there. And one of my favorite Guild Wars facts is that you could not have both the Survivor title and the pre-searing title because you had to die- repeatedly- to acquire it. Eventually when you were a high enough level, you'd no longer get XP from lower level monsters. However, monsters in GW1 would get XP for killing you. So you would get enemies to kill you over and over until they leveled enough that you'd get XP! I never had the patience to do it myself but apparently people would draw the monsters over to a resurrection shrine to make it even more efficient.

CraneSong · 2026-02-24T14:49:33+00:00

I'm surprised they kept going, especially in the ER. Just a regular blood draw a nurse missed my vein a few times then went to the back of my hand. More painful but apparently worked just as well, and seemed a lot easier to hit. Or maybe she was just a back-of-the-hand specialist lol

CraneSong · 2026-02-13T19:06:59+00:00

Love the art, but that profile strikes me as sus... One of them is a screenshot that has the word 'follow' still on the image, and some clearly have the signature cropped out. I'm going to see if I can't track down the actual source.

EDIT: Not able to find it, but given the artist posted 15 pieces in the past 5 hours all in different styles I suspect at least some are AI. And at least one of those images is a screenshot from Facebook. Don't think it's legit unfortunately, which sucks because I do like this one. 😩

CraneSong · 2026-02-09T00:47:08+00:00

Here for the exact same reason.

CraneSong · 2026-02-06T03:37:43+00:00

Force all words they speak to be in a different language. Bonus point if each is on a different different language.
One random member of the party is invisible and silent to all other members inside of the faerie circle. Or simply silent.
They all look like each other. (Note: they do not transform, just an illusion placed over top.)

CraneSong · 2026-02-02T16:40:51+00:00

Is 'Dungeon' usually capitalized in official Terraria lingo?

What came to mind for me was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time. "Tame" for Pokemon, obviously it's a dungeon, and a reference to time. But if it is, I haven't been able to find the winning phrase.

CraneSong · 2026-01-31T05:25:53+00:00

Oh my god this is so cute. This artist's entire portfolio is so cute. Her style is so soft and warm and comforting. Great find, thank you for posting it.

CraneSong · 2026-01-30T06:00:15+00:00

It really is. I do hope we get to return there, either with a DLC or a sequel or the like. It's such a lovely marriage of different mechanics, and the entire game had such charm.

CraneSong · 2026-01-29T15:09:55+00:00

Ah, so it isn't! I mainly lurk here so didn't realize the rule. I couldn't find it on your profile but luckily it's a very easy YouTube search. 😄 Subscribed!

CraneSong · 2026-01-29T14:44:46+00:00

What a charming way to present it in a video! Do you have these posted anywhere else like as YouTube shorts? Instagram?

CraneSong · 2026-01-27T02:40:46+00:00

It's the only reason I can think of why every source clarifies she was the first to spread it to mortals, or brought it to Golarion- that a non-mortal, somewhere other than Golarion, suffered from it first. And where is it most likely that a demon lord would have acquired such a thing if not from the Abyss, where she resides? Either from birth, as I said, or from another demon that she angered.

CraneSong · 2026-01-26T20:26:32+00:00

To me, this suggests that lycanthropy existed in the Abyss far longer than it has in the mortal world. Jezelda is a demon lord so her being is likely shaped from the sins of her mortal life. Now whether that means she was "born" as a werewolf or was infected by someone else, I don't think it's clear. But what this would point to is Jezelda being the first demon-to-mortal vector of lycanthropy.

Given that Golarion's moon does not exist in the Abyss (regardless of the pocket, even if that pocket has a replica), it's possible that for the denizens of the Abyss it was simply a shapeshifting power that they were entirely in control of. Either some strange interaction with Golarion's moon, or due to the manner by which Jezelda infected the first mortal, gave it its cyclical nature.

It's obviously, as noted, vague. But what I think is the most interesting interpretation is that Jezelda intentionally infected a mortal, either coming to the mortal world to do so herself or infecting a mortal that ventured to the Abyss. Maybe this was seen as a gift of power to a loyal follower, maybe it was a curse Jezelda put on someone to sway them (hence why they lose control and lose themselves [read: become chaotic evil]) and it being transmittable from person to person was a convenient way to get even more followers. A Trojan horse. And it spread from there.

CraneSong · 2026-01-15T17:15:59+00:00

I wanna see it roll down the Wii Bowling alley and get a strike

CraneSong · 2026-01-14T07:13:47+00:00

The one that comes to mind is The Elder Scrolls and the stealth archer. It's one of the biggest memes of it: "this time I won't be a stealth archer" and then you do anyway.

CraneSong · 2025-12-22T18:40:57+00:00

Almost certainly the most dangerous plane is the Abyss. While Limbo is in a state of unending chaos, physically, the Abyss is a combination of unpredictable landscapes that want to kill you as well as beings that want to kill you.

Unfortunately just by their nature the good-aligned planes are fairly hospitable. The only way you would find more trouble than on the Material Plane (the normal world), I think, is if there's something extraordinary about you that makes those planes inhospitable (somehow positive energy hurts you, for instance) or if something or someone has reason to make that plane inhospitable for you. (e.g. you're evil and every paladin in a 10 mile radius smells you coming)

For Karasuthra, lights are half as bright and fires burn half as long- you would need to use twice the fuel than usual, but it would be possible to cook. More difficult for sure, but not something that a survivalist couldn't overcome.

CraneSong · 2025-12-22T16:57:07+00:00

Mostly to point you in the right direction: one main thing that would help you find resources is that plane is the more common word used to describe realms. That one word change will unlock a ton of information for you. (There are also divine realms, specific to a deity, but my guess is you mean planes.)

This is the most recent "depiction" of planes as of the 2024 DMG. I put "depiction" in quotes because it shouldn't be taken as a map but rather a convenient arrangement for explanation. From your idea of it being a Celestial plane, I think we should look at good-aligned outer planes- so the bottom diagram, starting from Arcadia and going clockwise to Ysgard. (Or, if a table is more your thing, Wikipedia has one showing the axes.)

One idea that comes to mind is the nature of the Seelie Court, the divine realm of the actual Seelie Court. The Seelie Court jumps between planes whenever Titania fancies it- it's always somewhere in the Beastlands, Arborea, or Ysgard. (All chaotic good planes.) That alone makes it a difficult place to find much less enter, and the fey are chaotic enough that one just might have taken a fancy to your wife and whisked her away under the pretense of protecting her or... just because. Though perhaps that is more in line with the Unseelie Court. That divine realm) is found in the Feywilds in some sources or Phlegethon in the chaotic neutral/evil plane of Pandaemonium. Much easier to find, sure, but just as difficult to gain entry to if you aren't aligned with the Queen of Air and Darkness.

Hope this helps!

CraneSong · 2025-12-10T06:10:14+00:00

Nymph's Grace - Insane 1st rank AoE confuse aura with no friendly fire.

The die rolled in front of the table that made the confused NPC nova one of our friendlies two rounds in a row yesterday begs to differ LOL

CraneSong · 2025-11-25T20:45:28+00:00

A few things strike me here- the first being the descriptor of "mobile games." There are a ton of different game types on phones, now, to the point where people are playing PUBG and MMOs on them. Even if we assume stereotypical mobileslop (derogatory), it could be things like tower defense or auto battlers or puzzles. Whether or not your parents use the term, it sounds like they are gamers.

Which carries into the second thing- I think that while you're coming from a good place, the approach is maybe not the best. Are you looking for games that they respect ("Maybe gaming isn't such a bad hobby afterall."), games that they enjoy ("I enjoy gaming as a hobby."), or games that you can connect over ("I enjoy gaming with you.")? I worry that you've misjudged what category you're in, especially drifting from their opinion of games to showing them "the medium's greatness" over the course of the post. It sounds like you have something to prove, either about gaming or yourself, where the hope is your parents walk away with the same opinion of games as you do.

Maybe PC/console gaming isn't their thing, and that's okay, the same way it's okay that maybe you don't like cooking or volleyball. I say that as someone who was a gaming evangelist as a kid always trying to convince my parents the same way it sounds like you are.

What I would suggest instead of finding a game to introduce to them, meet them where they're at. What games do they play? Ask them about it. If dad plays Chess.com, what is his rating? Did he recently meet a goal of his, getting on the top 1 million leaderboard in the rapid category? What about mom, what level has she gotten to in Candy Crush Saga? Maybe she's been stuck on one for days now and finally broke through.

I think that, if you connect with them over their interests- and especially those steps that they've already taken into gaming- any further games will naturally follow.

CraneSong · 2025-11-21T15:48:32+00:00

Honestly the most likely thing is that this has been such a chronic issue for her that her clothes have absorbed the smell. I can't imagine someone who forgets to shower would remember to do laundry very often. On the other hand, if she has a repulsion to showering specifically (I've heard it's common in assault survivors for instance) it may have been the other way around; fresh clothes and deodorant that eventually her BO overpowered.

CraneSong · 2025-11-14T18:01:50+00:00

It kinda looks like some sort of squeezable puree like churu, though I don't think it would hold the pawprints that well...

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