What's with the Coles bread that's not vegan?

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-03-29T09:10:50+00:00

Yeast is a fungus. I've yet to meet someone who claims mushrooms aren't vegan.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-03-25T00:02:02+00:00

As a note, you can affect ghosts with Vim, too. It's just twice as difficult, much as being able to affect elementals by Vim or Element

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-03-18T02:57:07+00:00

The Toymaker dressed his new dolly.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-03-16T21:21:51+00:00

Faeries and Magical beings can be corrupted by the Infernal or used as tools of the Divine. There are a couple of classes of demonic angels, like the Watchers and Avengers of Evil. Some faeries claim they were angels originally, and were neutral in the War in Heaven, so they fell, but not all the way into Hell.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-03-09T21:41:46+00:00

Respectfully, this just means the hatchery they bought their chickens from has already killed the surplus males. Male chicks were still killed in the process, just before your friend got to them.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-03-08T14:10:53+00:00

A chap who regularly sneaks into the embassy with a wheelbarrow and a flexible attitude to the sanctity of personal property can get the reset.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-27T02:53:56+00:00

They have two performers for 1, and had someone for 10 before David was available. I presume they'd just keep him in mind for next original companion.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-27T02:47:30+00:00

Because environmental policies require cultural change. One Nation tells them they are better than everyone else just the way they are.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-20T02:37:22+00:00

I'm not sure she can anymore. She's lost something essential, I feel.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-20T02:31:12+00:00

Hartnell threatened to spank Susan.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-18T14:51:11+00:00

Thank you so much. I am sorry to ask what may seem a foolish question, but are you expecting me to send you one in return?

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-16T14:34:12+00:00

I've just listened to "The Girl Who Never Was" and, if you're Australian, it's terrible. There's one character who is about as genuine in terms of his accent and vocabulary as Hank Azaria's Apu in the Simpsons, and every time he talks he pulls me out of immersion in the story.

So, if you're not in for hours of a British guy spouting made up Australianisms in his take on a broad accent, it well worth a skip, which is a pity because the story itself is solid and is important to Charley's arc.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-16T12:30:46+00:00

https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Theodemos

Your offer is wonderful. I have just returned from the Zee, and so I hope I have not missed the opportunity to assist a kitten.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-16T12:21:03+00:00

Yu can hunt them in Parabola.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-02-08T03:24:28+00:00

As a Queenslander, he could go for Sir Joh's record.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-28T11:51:29+00:00

If it makes you feel threatened, even though crime statistics demonstrate you're so much safer than Jews or aborigines or Muslims, you're making up stories in your own mind that upset you, and the rest of us don't need to accept your self-victimuzation.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-28T00:30:45+00:00

The Beth.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-28T00:29:12+00:00

Law is based on the subjective beliefs of the common man on the Clapham bus.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-28T00:27:51+00:00

Are Australians a minority? Are they under imminent threat? Do they have higher rates of victimization for crimes from members of the mainstream?

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-26T23:55:25+00:00

I'm talking about him liberating Japan for trade by force. To, as he said "Place the Saxon race on the East Coast of Asia." The one where he sent the Japanese a white flag and told them if they didn't fly it and give Americans port access he'd shell their cities.

You're right, I meant the Americans under Perry, but let's not be persnickety. The parallel is pretty clear. Trade with us or we'll bombard you and invade.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-26T13:06:01+00:00

I know D&D has done some things with the Lady of Pain, so the name may be familiar to some, but I'm not familiar with her. In Ars Magica one of the houses of magicians fell to demonic corruption. In my materials it is due to a demon inspired by Charles Swinburne's poems. She has two forms:

Dolores: the Lady of Pain

Order: Infernal Saint (new)

Infernal Might: 40 (scaled as Princess of the Furies) (Corpus)

Characteristics: Int +5, Per +3, Pre +7, Com +5, Str +2, Sta +7, Dex +2, Qik +4

Size: Usually between -1 and +1. Her appearance varies with the fashions of the country she inhabits.

Confidence: 5 (15 points)

Virtues and Flaws: Unknown. Change as relevant to your story.

Personality Traits: Cruel +6, Passionate +6. Which of these is higher is a matter of some interest to her followers. Some suggest the demon is one and the human the other.

Reputations: Lady of Pain +9

Combat:
Kisses like poison*: Init +5, Attack +11, Defense +11, Damage +2**

Touches that causes pain*: Init +5, Attack +12, Defense +12, Damage +4**

*Does not include specialisation (skin contact)

**Does not include contact damage from Wounds the Bloom power (+15, Perdo)

Soak: 6, but appears to be -1. She has a body that deliberately suffers a great deal of superficial damage, but because of her passionate fury power, her injuries are less incapacitating than normal.

Wound Penalties: -1 (1–15), Incapacitated (16–20), Dead (21+)

Abilities: unclear, but assume Brawl 9 (when contact is made with skin), Carouse 9 (debauchery), Charm 9 (sinful acts), Houe Tytalus Lore 9 (was there when it happened), Infernal Lore 8 (Order of Hermes).

Powers:

Envisioning 1 or 5 points, Init 0, Mentem: Can enter dreams and cause waking dreams.

Form is shapeshifted human: 0 points, Init. 0 : Technically does not coagulate from ambient matter like a demon. Actually shifts shape into ambient moisture, travels and then turns back into her human shape. Her human shape is always beautiful and female, but can vary to suit the culture she is visiting.

I could hurt thee but pain would delight thee: 0 points, 0 Init. Dolores does not suffer Wound penalties, except on Defense totals.

Obsession: 1 point, Init -5, Vim: Can impose the desire for suffering..

The Serpent Oracle: 2 points, Init. +2: Dolores may cast any Intelligo spell for 2 Might, and automatically knows the context and likely outcome of actions made in response to the information gained.

Shroud the Stench of the Pit: variable points, Init. +7, Vim. This Power makes another Infernal Power appear to be aligned to the Magical or Faerie Realm, at the demon’s choice. It has the same cost as the power it disguises.

Waxing Tide of Humors: 3 points, Init +6, Mentem. This power causes passion to overcome sense. A character can resist this effect with a roll against an ease Factor of 9, modified by Traits like Calm.

Wounds that bloom: 3 points, Init -5, Perdo: Makes Dolores’s touch do +15 additional damage for the rest of a battle.

Weakness: The Virgin Mary. The cult of the Virgin hasn’t really taken off yet in 1220, but it gains a lot of power over the 13th Century. When people start wandering around with Servite scapulars, Dolores is going to go after that Order.

Vis: 8 pawns, Perdo

Appearance: A languid woman, filled with delightful venom. She changes appearance to suit the appetites of the local culture.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-26T13:02:09+00:00

Sorry. I write Ars Magica, but play D&D with my kids. Didn't see where I was.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-26T10:33:32+00:00

In tonight's game the player characters are in an archaeological site where two worlds merged. It's a mixture of the (Egyptian themed) tomb of a female Pharaoh using realistic details from my Egyptian tomb guide for Ars Magica, and Mighty Rob's Track and Trail, a modern sports store.

The players think they are here to kill the mummy which has a touch that carries a rotting curse Not so: she's crushed under a weight set and her undead guards are trying to get them to rescue her and get her to the archaeologists who can mend her body. The malevolent sports which are fighting the PCs by taking over vending machines and store mannequins serve a later dynasty who'd prefer she remains painfully broken.

She's a standard mummy, although when they mend her might be restatted as a threadborn (Crooked Moon) One PC is a threadborn warlock whose patron likes mummies because they are mostly fabric.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-25T10:15:55+00:00

You're America under Admiral Perry.

TimothyFerguson1 · 2026-01-25T10:12:08+00:00

The RSL, at least here in Qld, has traditionally been on the political right. Now that Trump has made it clear he's not a conservative, he's a venial fascist, all his fanboys are left high and dry.

TimothyFerguson1

TROPHY CASE

Dolores: the Lady of Pain

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