A staff member who works at Canal Park Liquors told me that he
could eat an entire loaf of bread that is made with pistachio spirits and cream. So, I’m going to ask my baker Jane to make
him a special loaf of bread made with pistachio spirits and cream.
If you like strawberry shortcake, you would love eating
a slice or three of my lip-smacking Master of Mixes ® Strawberry bread.
I am looking east on the HRA pedestrian bridge.
I am looking west on the HRA pedestrian bridge.
This is a nice gift that Jane gave me. As someone who loves unicorns, her gift put a
happy smile on my face. I wish that my
family was as thoughtful as Jane.
For my second attempt at making Valentine's Day art at the North Pointe Resource
Center, I choose a topical subject.
This is a much more enjoyable cinematic experience than
I thought it would be. I’m not by and
large a sports movie fan. But, I liked
this one.
The character models are so well constructed that I sometimes
forgot that these characters are digital puppets. I would love to spend an hour or three just
talking to these characters.
I wonder how tasty my bread made with Master of Mixes ®
Strawberry will taste like.
The quality of these posters has had a remarkable
improvement over the years that I have been recording them.
https://www.facebook.com/NorthPointeResourceCenter
These bulletin board posters keep residents up to date on
upcoming events in King Manor and the North Pointe Resource Center.
I found this lost glove on the sidewalk, at the eastbound
bus stop, on the south side of Superior Street, across the street from Essentia
Health Building B.
Inside the ground floor of the pedestrian bridge
between the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center and the Duluth Transit
Center, I found this example of ugly graffiti.
“In a city, relatively minor problems like graffiti,
public disorder, and aggressive panhandling, they write, are all the equivalent
of broken windows, invitations to more serious crimes.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
I wonder how many of these discarded signs are littering
my city’s sidewalks, parking lots, and bus shelters.
As a still interested brony, I based my Valentine's Day art on
the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
episode “Hearts and Hooves Day”.
I love eating my Blood Orange & Cranberry bread.
How can people misplace their gloves in a Minnesota February?
I wonder how much time, money, and effort are spent
making these signs; when homeless people could instead use that time, money,
and effort finding worthwhile employment.
I wonder how this loaf of orange bread will taste like.
This art is between East First Street and East Second
Street.
I like the choice of color
for the art on the black painted, street light.
After eating my scrumptious breakfast for dinner, I
then played bingo; but I didn’t win anything.
I found this construction site on the intersection of
East First Street and North First Avenue East.
Say this to your food before eating:
“We are human beings. Your existence as you know it is over. We will add your vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber to support our bodies. Resistance is futile.”
This free,
community event was held at the Zeitgeist Teatro. Held on Rosa Parks’ birthday, this
event is organized by Zeitgeist and the Duluth Transit Authority with Denfeld
High School and Graduates of the Twin Ports Transportation Academy.
This is the map of suggestions for the Duluth Transit Authority for their
bus routes. Are you able to guess which
suggestion that I posted here. (1)
I found this “be kind to your bus drivers” poster art. Be kind to bus drivers, as they have the duties
and responsibilities of a navigator, engineer, security guard, and medical
officer all in one person.
And, I also included an image of the food table. My loyal readers, you didn’t miss much as there were only fries, dipping sauces, tasty cookies, and a water dispenser.
(1) It is the suggestion for a bus stop at the future
NLX station.
This orange bread is as tasty as the orange bread I remember eating
when I was a child.
These posters have been posted on the edge of this
bulletin board. This makes a pleasant
pattern that was created by pure happenstance.
The residents’ club is having their first meeting, in
many months, on Groundhog Day. I didn’t
know that that groundhogs (Marmota monax), also known as woodchucks, would be
so influential to restart the King Manor Residents’ Club.
Being twenty-seventh on a web site that hosts thousands
of comics is a good place to be, even if it is only for a few minutes.
I saw that in the Duluth Entertainment Convention
Center (DECC), an elevator is also an ashtray.
I found this cheese block on the east side of North
Second Avenue East, between East First Street and East Second Street. Someone could not wait until they arrived
home to start eating their cheese block.
It takes a special type of crazy to throw away edible food on the
sidewalk to feed disease-carrying vermin such as rats.
The map’s brown lines designate the paved (gravel
cemented with lime mortar) roads; while the red lines designate the tramways
made with granite blocks.
This splendid recreation of an
actual play has many good ideas for darker role-playing campaigns.
Note: I prefer playing and
game mastering heroic fantasy and light-hearted campaigns. Thus, while I
sometimes like campaigns with horror elements, I dislike grim and dark
campaigns. There are good reasons why Professor Tolkien started “The Lord
of the Rings” in the Shire, instead of Mordor.
Note: Moreover, Professor DM
created a Kobayashi Maru, a no-win situation or lose–lose situation, with a
real downer ending that might cause the player characters to become, in the
eyes of the national leaders, their most wanted criminals. I promise to
all my current and future players that as a game master that I will never run a
Kobayashi Maru situation.
Note: There is no way that a
community as large as the Keep would not have a building, as well as priests and
priestesses, for worshipping the Lawful gods.
In an earlier episode, not included
here, a “Civil War” is mentioned. Yet,
that Civil War never impacts the player characters in any way. Why not have the chapel remain standing; but
the priests and priestesses of that chapel were recruited by force into the
army of one of the factions fighting for control of the lawful nation? Also, why not have the Civil War wartime
economy alter the lives of the player characters; such as the price of metal
goods and weapons double in price?
Imagine that Iuz the Old,
half-fiend tyrant-god of the land of Iuz killed a lawful god, and then in the
disguise of that lawful god, took over that lawful religion. Iuz declares through his priests and
priestesses that mages are evil and must be killed. Then, Iuz uses devious messages that mages
are welcome in Iuz’s kingdom. Iuz’s subtle
recruitment of mages reduces the combat strength of that lawful nation, while
increasing the combat strength of his nation.
That “Iuz as thoughtful deceiver” is a campaign narrative arc that
player characters can work for or against.
I like the idea of the Caves of
Carnage having Moonstone, an alien stone brought to this world by the impact of
a massive meteorite thousands of years ago. The Moonstone is described as
“The primary ingredient in potions of speed and healing. It's also a
powerful mutagen capable of turning hominids and animals into monsters.
That's why most of the monsters of these caves are mutated Neanderthals
and indigenous wildlife.”
Moonstone solves many problems on
how the Chaos priest keeps his followers busy, while earning money to purchase
food and other supplies from ethically gray merchants who live in the
Keep. My hat is off to Professor DM who has improved upon an already
enjoyable to play module.
Yet, as important as the mine is to
the Professor DM's campaign, the mine itself is not described at all.
Where is the Moonstone mined? Where is the Moonstone separated from the
waste rock?
To remedy this slight oversight, I
would have the ravine become an open-pit mining site. The caves
themselves remain as they are described in the module. The cave’s
inhabitants are the miners, who take great care to pass themselves off to
visitors as “reformed and lawful” humans and humanlike species, working in
harmony to better the Lawful nation.
The mining site has no trees, cut
down long ago for building the ore grinder mill, the mining carts, and other
objects.
Note: If you think about it,
even in a normal campaign, years ago all the trees in the ravine would have
been cut down by the cave’s inhabitants for cooking fires, heating the caves,
and making everyday objects and weapons that use wood, like cudgels and spear
shafts.
The rock, with Moonstone inside of
it, is moved from the mine to the mill’s hammer rock crushers by a 2 track,
granite tramway with grooves cut into granite blocks, shaped to guide the
wheels of horse-drawn wagons. This tramway is based upon the actual Haytor
Granite Tramway; built to convey granite from Haytor Down, Dartmoor, Devon to
the Stover Canal.
“The Haytor Tramway was constructed
to carry the granite 10 miles (16 km) to the canal, which involved a falling
vertical interval of 1,300 feet (400 m) to the basin of the Stover
Canal.” This fictional tramway is much shorter in distance and is almost
level from mine to mill.
The Moonstone mill, with 3 large
and thunderous hammer rock crushers, is powered by three water wheels powered
by the river current. The water wheels power rock crushers that crush the
rocks into fine particles, to separate the Moonstone from the worthless
rock. River water is then used to separate the Moonstone from the
worthless rock that is dumped into the river, to be carried downriver by the
current.
Also, extracted daily is 3d6 gold
coins worth of copper, iron, and nickel. The smithy buys this metal and
then makes metal objects from this metal.
There is a barn that is the home to
sixteen horses, sixteen side-tipping carts, and 4 luxury passenger open-air
coaches, for 9 passengers for each coach (3 bench seats that have seats for 3 passengers
each bench).
There is a visitors’ office where
humans give visitors walking tours of the Moonstone mill and a smooth ride on
the tramway for 1 silver coin per person and 2 silver coins per coach.
The tour loops around in the mine; but the passengers are not allowed to leave
the coaches. There are double tracks, reversing loops at each end of the
tramway.
This visitors’ office keeps the
legal papers for the mining rights to Moonstone in a safe room. Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, the Chaos priest can be found here between the hours of
10 AM and 2 PM. He will interact with visitors, business owners, and
government officers as his professional alter ego of a lawful-aligned business
owner. He wears a white 3 piece business suit on warm days and a black 2
piece business suit on cold days. The Chaos priest uses the profits from
Moonstone to fund the Chaos war on the Lawful nation.
It is possible for the muscular
player characters to get hired as day workers, for educated people to work as
clerks, and for those who can detect magic, to find areas in the mine rich in
Moonstone. Being magical in nature, Moonstone can be detected by the
spell Detect Magic.
Note: The hill here was
leveled, and then a canal was cut into the earth to power the water wheels.
The Achilles' heel of the world’s
only Moonstone mine is that the waste rock is dumped into the river that flows
west to east into the heart of the lawful nation. However, what nobody
knows is that small amounts of Moonstone particles are also being dumped into
the river, and then flow downstream.
As the water flows downstream, the
Moonstone particles are mutating the water plants and fish and those animals,
humans, and allied species that eat any of that river fish. Without water
purification magic, drinking this water will make animals and people
sick. This toxic water is also mutating any crops, such as rice and wheat
into something beneficial 50% chance, and sometimes dangerous 50% chance.
This river combined with other smaller rivers, flow through the national
capital and then into the nearby sea.
Note: The Keep inhabitants
get their water from upstream wells, and thus the Keep’s inhabitants are safe
from the toxic waters.
With more and more toxic water
poisoning cases happening along the nation’s widest river, lawful temple
priests and priestesses or other important persons employ the local
adventurers' guild, who then hires the player characters to put an end to
whatever is making the water toxic. The player characters start their
adventure in the nation’s capital, inside a large and ornate guild hall.
They are loaned a river boat, powered by sail and magic, for transportation
along the river and as a mobile bastion.
Note: Any player character that has a Geology and/or Mining skill has a chance to realize that the open-pit mining site is a meteor impact site. The player character has a double bonus if they have both skills.
I see that it is now – 12 degrees and – 22 real shade
feel.
I found this abandoned walking stick in the bus shelter
in the parking lot of the Super One Foods at 5401 Burning Tree Road, Duluth, Minnesota.
Because the fourth floor is the floor with the bridge
to North Pointe Resource Center / Rainbow Center, more passersby see the posts
on the fourth floor bulletin board, than the fifth floor bulletin board.
I’d happy for HRA residents and visitors that HRA staff
is creating more public events for people.
I wonder if I could make a living wage making and then
selling beverage bread.
Someone on the HRA staff is diligent in taking down the
expired messages.
This is my first plate of food.
This is my second plate of food.
I found this nice hallway art outside of UMD Stores,
upper level.
I love this store because the staff here sells food
that is discounted from 30 percent to 50 percent off.
I am most impressed by how artful, easy-to-read, and educational
these posters are. I wonder if there
will be a King Manor apartment residents’ club Super Bowl watch party.
I found this abandoned scooter near the bus stop across
the street from Essentia Health Building
B.
