And here is my results for the twelve character meme. Caught this one by way of chaypeta and jeriendhal. I picked twelve current and past RP characters of mine.

1. Pithani Uro: Mars Academy's resident reformed juvenile delinquent


2. Kaleth 'LilFluff' Lilandren: Who lucked into roaming the multiverse at his government's request


3. Verdi: Rescued servant and Mars Academy student


4. Talyeth Riverbend: Remember, if the guy comes from a well-to-do family you call him accentric, not weird.


5. Simon 'Fifteen Griffon years old' Pepelu: Crazy underage pulp space pirate/mad scientist


6. Tomasso: Secret agent and cyborg wrangler. Slowly admitting to caring about the girl put in his care


7. Ricardo Nuncio: expat from the Southern Confederation's perfectly safe and pacifist city of Innsmouth


8. Takahashi Tomi: Catboy? Who? Me? Um, stay there while I remember the amnesia spell?


9. Veronica: The 'slightly' paranoid cyborg (slightly, like Trinity was a 'small' boom)


10. Monty: the innocent cyborg assassin boy


11. Liou Siete-Vosom: Genius by birth and genetic engineering, orphan by choice


12. Edward Françoise Li: Exo Engineer, Technician, and Tinkerer

( And now the answers )

It's the story of a group of Goblins who decide to take player classes so they can eventually defend their clan from adventurers. Or course gaining character levels will require doing some adventuring. Much like OotS there are jokes about D&D rules and oddities. Here we have two guards commenting on economic absurdities of the Players Handbook price lists. (As for the goblin hidden under the cart at the bottom of the page, he's sneaking into the city on a quest to do a good deed.)

Everyone seems to be doing this, and I was curious enough to go look. I understand it's based on some books, may have to check them out...





So, anyone around here read the books and have an opinion?

The above, which seems to be translated as The Familiar of Zero, is the title of another series I think I shall be keeping watch for. Zero is apparently the worst student at her academy of magic. When a new teacher asks for a volunteer among the second year students to try out, "The most basic of alchemy spells" Louise the Zero's volunteering causes quite a deal of fright (with the quiet bookworm student simply walking out into the hall while another student's pleas for a different volunteer provides a distraction).

Poor Louise, she avoids punishment for the damage caused to the classroom only because it's ruled that the teacher was partially at fault for ignoring the warnings of her incompetence from the other students. Unfortunately when some of her classmates taunt her later she declares that she will summon the greatest of all the familiars at the next day's ceremonial familiar summoning. What she gets is a Japanese high school student named Saito. Who only reluctantly agrees to be her familiar after first trying to run away, then spending a night chained up on a pile of straw facing the choice of, "Do my menial chores or I won't bother feeding you."

You know, let's stop feeling sorry for Louise. How about Saito? Pulled from home, a slave in all but name since this fantasy world's laws now only see him as a familiar, with a sorcerer who is more than happy to pass on all the bullying she's received as a master.

This looks like it could be an amusing comic fantasy. Apparently it has been picked up by Geneon, but it doesn't seem to be on the release schedule yet.

Whee, another meme quiz. This time to see what kind of fae you are. Grabbed from khromat's journal.





What type of Fae are you?

The Changling picture is really cute. =^.^=

The promo commercial for the Dresden Files television program on SciFi has been put on YouTube by some kind soul...

Dresden Files TV

Most nifty!