This poster on the last post is hard to read. Thus, I reposted this poster here.
By the way, I didn’t realize that my King Manor has just one resident! Or, do you think that every King Manor resident is a Star Trek Borg? That sign should read, “King Manor Residents Club Meeting”.
I hope all my readers are having a Happy Earth Day 2024!
I wonder why that MOW equipment is here.
The Plymouth dealership sign is still standing!
I made my pizza toast
using buttered Super One Foods ® Wheat - Rustic Ciabatta Buns, with VIP Pizza
and Dipping Sauce, Kraft® Signature Restaurant Style Melt – Mozzarella Blend,
and then Sugardale ® Pepperoni for toppings.
I made my pizza toast
using buttered Super One Foods ® Hearth Baked French Bread, with VIP Pizza and
Dipping Sauce, Kraft® Signature Restaurant Style Melt – Mozzarella Blend, and
then Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.
Are you able to find the two ponies on the April calendar?
I made my pizza bagels
using 1st National Bagel Company ® Egg bagels, with VIP Pizza and
Dipping Sauce, Kraft® Signature Restaurant Style Melt – Mozzarella Blend, and
then Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.
Similar to March, some old
posters have disappeared, while new posters have taken their place.
Did you find the bunny and pony on the North
Pointe Resource Center/Rainbow Center calendar poster?
As the Voyageur Lakewalk Inn was built in 1960, local
author Paul Lundgren’s best guess is that the sign was painted for a Plymouth
dealership in use during the 1950’s. The
first line on that sign is “The BIGGEST DEAL IN TOWN”. According to Duluth Freelance writer Michael
Creger the second line is “Come in and look us over”.
I made my pizza toast
using Super One Foods San Francisco Bay – Sour Dough Bread, with VIP Pizza and
Dipping Sauce, Crystal Farms ® Mozzarella, and Armour ® Pepperoni for toppings.
This is the Lakeview Apartments tower crane base.
This is the entire crane. The crane is located in the area for a future
Lakeview Apartments elevator shaft.
I made my pizza toast using
Super One Foods San Francisco Bay – Sour Dough Bread, with Classico ®
Traditional Pizza Sauce, Crystal Farms ® Mozzarella, and Armour ® Pepperoni for
toppings.
My two dollars got me good food at an honest price.
National Unicorn
Day on April 9th each year celebrates the mythical horse-like creature with a
single, pointed horn growing from the center of its forehead.
According to the author, “Monster girls are trying to
kill me! I’ve been thrown into a fantasy world, bonded to a magical weapon, and
now a holy warrior wolf girl is demanding I hunt demons, or die! The sexy
succubi want the weapon, and my soul!”
For a number of beneficial reasons, for myself and my fellow
residents; I hope our North Pointe Resource Center has more events for both residents
and visitors alike!
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| Master of Aomoda |
According to the author, “After finding an old, illegal
fantasy book within a hidden, walled-off nursery in a university's library, a
middle-schooler named Kevin, his newly-freed talpa-like horse friend named
Ecco, and the former's delinquent gang must plot the overthrow of Colossus
Belga and his global regime. Inspired by the many works of Osamu Tezuka.” Master of Aomoda needs to become an animated
series! ( ͡° ͜Ê– ͡°)
The wall, this mystery hand painted sign is on, is
being reinforced with tie-back anchors.
Decades from now, an archaeologist will find this mystery sign, and then
wonder why it was painted on this wall.
I encourage Duluth and Superior citizens as well as visitors
to purchase their pancakes & waffles on April 8th, 9th,
and 10th, 2024.
On this All Fools' Day, I made my pleasing pizza
using Super One Foods Hearth Baked Italian Bread, with Classico ® Traditional
Pizza Sauce, Crystal Farms ® 6 Cheese Italian, and Hormel ® Pepperoni Minis for
toppings.
Spell Name: Magic Mark
School: Enchantment
Casting Time: 1 Minute (Ritual)
Range: 60 feet
Duration: Until dispelled
Component: V, S
You gesture at a number of
objects you can see within range that fit within a 15-foot radius sphere. This
spell puts an invisible mark upon the objects that reveals itself when in the
area of a detect magic spell. You choose the design of the mark, and can
mark up to 30 Tiny objects, 20 Small objects, 10 Medium objects, or 2 Large
objects.
At Higher
Levels: Whenever you cast this
spell using a spell slot of 2nd-level or higher you can mark up to 15
additional Tiny objects, 10 additional Small objects, 5 additional Medium
objects, or 1 additional Large object for every slot level above 1st.
An example of this spell happened in my D&D
campaign. The Mayor of a large seaport city
was suspected of treasonous collaboration with a Lawful Evil Queen Goldstein Maul
that ruled an oppressed land named “Iron Isle”, so named for the profitable
iron mines on the island. By deceit and
treachery, she gained ownership of these iron mines; selling refined iron to
evil aligned nations to create useful tools, armor, and weapons. Queen Goldstein Maul would not sell iron to
any good aligned nations.
Harper agents found out that the Lord Mayor was getting
richer far faster than his income would normally allow him to be. Harper agents already knew from the evidence
they collected that the Mayor is a smooth-talking liar whose name is “Goodheart
Truesdale”.
Thus, the Harpers sent my PCs disguised as tax
collectors who sneaked into the Iron Isle.
With tax collector uniforms and believable appearing, yet faked
documents; they found a caravan of wagons used by national Queen Maul’s tax
collectors. They were given permission
by the caravan guards and low ranking tax collectors to inspect the tax money that
they had collected. In the wagons, my
PCs marked many of the gold coins collected with the coin marking spell.
After a few months, in the PCs home nation, they asked
to see the Mayor’s private home vault; with an excuse to find counterfeit
coins. When they cast detect magic on
the coins, a few lit up with the now visible symbol.
The Mayor, without a logical excuse as to why he had
the marked coins from the Iron Isle, confessed that he was working with thieves,
along with the evil queen, to sell his city’s citizens into slavery to work the
mines of the Iron Isle. After the Mayor
was sent to prison, the nearby good aligned nations invaded the Iron Isle. The night before the invasion, my PCs burned
six large catapults that guarded the island’s only harbor, Maritime City. The invasion successfully liberated the
island from Queen Goldstein Maul.
These successful adventures gave my player characters a
great deal of fun, experience points and money, while gaining much positive
fame (useful for charisma [persuasion] checks) from good people and their
leaders; while gaining infamy with evil people and their rulers.
As a D&D player, I’ll call Larry to find out where
his home is, and if I can get to his home, sometime soon.
This map of peak-period congestion proves why both
Federal and State governments need to expand new Amtrak routes, while putting more
trains on existing routes. We can’t
solve peak-period traffic congestion simply by building new highways, while widening
existing highways.
If you like the Ghostbusters franchise, you will take
pleasure in seeing this movie.
I took this beautiful image of my bicycle at the
intersection of North 45 Street East and East Superior Street.
I’m reminded of an old saying that goes, “Fools names
and fools faces often appear in public places.”
I improved upon your unsolicited graffiti that you
wrote on my Dungeons and Dragons sign-up sheet.
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| Magic Marked Coin |
Spell Name: Magic marking spell
School: First level Abjuration
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: 30 feet
Duration: Until dispelled
Component: V
This spell marks any type of coin or other object with
a one inch tall, invisible “X” symbol, of up to ten objects per level of the spell
caster. These symbols will glow softly in the range of a Detect
Magic spell.
An example of this spell happened in my D&D
campaign. The Mayor of a large seaport city
was suspected of treasonous collaboration with a Lawful Evil Queen Goldstein Maul
that ruled an oppressed land named “Iron Isle”, so named for the profitable
iron mines on the island. By deceit and
treachery, she gained ownership of these iron mines; selling refined iron to
evil aligned nations to create useful tools, armor, and weapons. Queen Goldstein Maul would not sell iron to
any good aligned nations.
Harper agents found out that the Lord Mayor was getting
richer far faster than his income would normally allow him to be. Harper agents already knew from the evidence
they collected that the Mayor is a smooth-talking liar whose name is “Goodheart
Truesdale”.
Thus, the Harpers sent my PCs disguised as tax
collectors who sneaked into the Iron Isle.
With tax collector uniforms and believable appearing, yet faked
documents; they found a caravan of wagons used by national Queen Maul’s tax
collectors. They were given permission
by the caravan guards and low ranking tax collectors to inspect the tax money that
they had collected. In the wagons, my
PCs marked many of the gold coins collected with the coin marking spell.
After a few months, in the PCs home nation, they asked
to see the Mayor’s private home vault; with an excuse to find counterfeit
coins. When they cast detect magic on
the coins, a few lit up with the now visible symbol.
The Mayor, without a logical excuse as to why he had
the marked coins from the Iron Isle, confessed that he was working with thieves,
along with the evil queen, to sell his city’s citizens into slavery to work the
mines of the Iron Isle. After the Mayor
was sent to prison, the nearby good aligned nations invaded the Iron Isle. The night before the invasion, my PCs burned
six large catapults that guarded the island’s only harbor, Maritime City. The invasion successfully liberated the
island from Queen Goldstein Maul.
These successful adventures gave my player characters a
great deal of fun, experience points and money, while gaining much positive
fame (useful for charisma [persuasion] checks) from good people and their
leaders; while gaining infamy with evil people and their rulers.
What is that graffiti on this poster?
There are many useful
story ideas in this one page, Living City article; including a way to turn a
benevolent magical item into a malevolent magical item.
This is also is a much better
scan of my article page.
Cost freight boat: 200gp
Cost passenger, modest basic accommodations boat: 250gp
Cost passenger,
middle-range accommodations boat: 300gp
Cost passenger, luxury
accommodations creating a positive impression with most visiting, non-player
characters boat: 350gp
These numbers are for
wooden hulled boats. Add an additional
100gp for metal hulled boats. Add an
additional 100gp for double hulled boats.
Weight: 6600lbs
Freight boat carrying capacity:
66000 / 66500lbs*
Passenger boat, freight carrying
capacity: 6000 / 6500lbs*
Specialized boats built to
carry vehicles such as chariots, wagons, or caravans and their pulling animals determined by DMs
discretion.
*At the DMs discretion the flat roof can in safety give
a freight or passenger boat an extra 500lbs worth of external storage space. A roof load of more than 500lbs gives a
slight change of overturning the boat during stormy weather.
Narrow boats have an AC of 30 and 40 damage will
penetrate the walls. You should double AC and damage threshold numbers to
penetrate if the boat is made of metal.
For double hulled boats, an enemy must have two successful attacks on
the same area to break through both hulls.
Freight canal boats have a large cargo hold, with a
common room for the crew. Passenger
canal boats provide 6 cramped, yet comfortable cabins for character parties. A cabin can be made to be a small
workshop. Access to the cabins is a
narrow hallway on one side of the boat. Canal
boats give the party members the comforts of home, out in the unforgiving
wilderness.
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| Modest Cabin |
Passenger canal boat cabins have 2 bunk beds, chair and
table, a chest and 2 pull out drawers under the bottom bunk bed for personal storage
space*, as well as a three gallon barrel, with a spigot, for safe to drink
water, or alcoholic drinks, kept fresh and cold by a preservation spell. There is also a wall-mounted lantern for
light, while bolted to the floor is a wood, coal, or dried peat burning
stove, or a magically heated stove - for heating and cooking. A bed roll can be rolled out on the floor to
accommodate a second guest.
In the common language,
one drawer has a brass nameplate label “upper”, while the other is labeled
“lower”.
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| Horse pulling narrow boat |
Before the internal combustion
engine, moving freight and passengers by water was far less expensive than moving
the same freight and passengers by draft animals, wagons, and seldom paved rural
roads. For example, a typical Conestoga
wagon is four feet wide and 18 feet long.
These wagons needed two draft animals to transport about six tons of cargo. On the other hand, the United Kingdom’s
narrow-boats are seven feet wide and 70 feet long. These need one draft animal to pull a boat
that can carry about 30 tons of cargo.
By using canal boats you save a significant amount of money
by using one draft animal, while transporting five times the cargo. A narrow boat can also tow a second narrow
boat without a loss of travel speed. This is why the Industrial Revolution started on canal
boats and ships.
Narrow boats move at the walking pace of the average draft animal. However, some parties have installed steam
engines fueled by wood, coal, or other combustible materials. Some higher skilled parties create magically
powered engines for their narrow boats.
Because narrow boats were pulled by draft animals, few narrow boats used
folding masts. Yet, some narrow boats used sails to cross
rivers and lakes.
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| 3 narrow boats with stone walls |
In my home campaign, my players usually use one freight boat
to move their equipment and one passenger boat as their mobile bastion. They have in storage a boat designed to
transport their passenger caravan and freight wagon. My player characters have also installed on
their boats two bullseye lanterns in front, and two additional lanterns in the
rear that are lit during night or stormy weather.
I used Colon’s Cheesy Garlic Bread, with Classico ®
Traditional Pizza Sauce, Crystal Farms ® Whole Milk Mozzarella, and Hormel ®
Pepperoni Minis for toppings.
I found this small packet on the King Manor parking lot. At
first, I looked at the cute pictures of tacos and then thought I had found a
packet of taco sauce.
Then, when I turned it over I had in fact fond a condom. After realizing my mistake, I clapped my
hands.
Are you able to find the two ponies on the March calendar?
Similar to February, old
posters have disappeared, while new posters have taken their place.
Did you find the 2 ponies on a calendar
poster?
Located within Duluth’s Medical District, this
construction site is across the street from my apartment.
I found this box on the street corner of West Third
Street and North Third Avenue West. I do
believe that someone wrote down a license plate number and a bumper sticker
that reads: “I love raw milk”. I will never
know who wrote this message, when it was written, and why this message was
written.
By reading my blog and published newspaper articles,
you already know which political candidate who is nicknamed, "Amtrak Joe" I voted for and will again this November.
The first is a Voyager
Lakewalk Inn sign. That sign is
still there, despite the fact that the Voyager Lakewalk Inn has been gone for
years.
The second is a mystery sign that I don’t know what it
was advertising for.
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| Shafted and polished axe found in the Sigerslev Bog near
Præstø. This axe is exhibited in
the exhibition about Danish Prehistory. |
Our Stone Age ancestors used bones and rocks like
volcanic glass, known as obsidian, to craft tools and weapons. Such weapons are hand-crafted axe, arrowhead,
and spear blades, as well as knife and macuahuitl blades. Mesoamerican macuahuitl is a weapon, which is
a wooden club embedded with several embedded obsidian blades on 2 sides, like a
double-edged sword. While made of wood,
stone or Dragon’s Teeth, those are weapons that could be used by wizards.
Imagine using magical Dragon’s Teeth, and the teeth of other
types of monsters, as cutting blades for D&D tools and weapons. For combat, Dragon’s Teeth blades are considered
magical weapons. Thus, those blades
become an inexpensive way to equip magical weapons to henchmen and hirelings. During my past campaigns as a player, I
remember several times when my party’s henchmen and hirelings, as well as
player characters, fled or died in combat, because they didn’t have magical
weapons to fight monsters that can only take damage by magical weapons.
The peaceful way to obtain sharp dragon’s teeth happens
when dragons grow new teeth while pushing out their old teeth from their jaws in
each stage of their lives. The violent
way is to take them from dead dragons.
Dragons selling their old teeth could create a new source of tools and
weapons for the party, to be used by them or sold to NPCs.
I saw this locomotive in the Lake Superior Railroad
Museum. A visiting man, upon seeing this
locomotive said out loud, “I’ve never before seen a locomotive wear a body
condom.”
I wonder how the Depot workers wrapped this locomotive
with a plastic wrapper.
