Compromise and Conceit
Infernal adventuring…
Category: Fantasy
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Keep slaughter in your heart. A life without it is like a sunlit garden where the flowers are blooming. – From The Epigrams of Warboss Wilde, Alvin Redmane The party were four in number: Aurak the Unborn, Lawful Evil Half-orc monk Nemeia, Chaotic Good Tiefling Witch Kaylee Sparklegem, Chaotic Neutral forest gnome rogue (NPC) Ufgram…
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The fellowship was composed of five members: Tywyl Neidr, a hobbit and the sole survivor of the sacking of Rhosgobel Eisa the Axe, Dunlending, an Eye of Saruman and Neidr’s oldest adventuring companion Simir the Swan, a Wainrider from the East who sought the secret to his people’s troubles with the Shadow Mercy, a Barding…
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The death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way. On the 23rd January Ursula le Guin died at the age of 88, leaving behind a legacy…
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The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin’ thin Engines stop running, but I have no fear ‘Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river London calling to the imitation zone Forget it, brother, you can go it alone London calling to the zombies…
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And another thing I’ve been wondering lately Am I crazy To believe in ideals? I’m a betting man But it’s getting damn lonely. Oh, honey, if only I could be sure what I feel. What’s my scene? (I’m dying to know) I’ll never know. Well, I concede I’ve been caught in someone else’s scene (but…
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Maybe, maybe it’s the clothes we wear, The tasteless bracelets and the dye in our hair, Maybe it’s our kookiness, Or maybe, maybe it’s our nowhere towns, Our nothing places and our cellophane sounds, Maybe it’s our looseness, But we’re trash, you and me, We’re the litter on the breeze, We’re the lovers on the…
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Hey, hey So why should I care If somebody let you down? That’s nothing new I know just what that can mean Hey, hey Well, the way that they talk The talk is all over town And it’s no surprise Little girls hurt sometimes When last we met our heroes they had just blown…
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Gettin’ robbed, Gettin’ stoned Gettin’ beat up, Broken boned Gettin’ had, Gettin’ took I tell you folks It’s harder than it looks It’s a long way to the top If you wanna rock ‘n’ roll Our heroes stood in the smoking ruins of the abandoned railway platform, the two surviving gangbangers on their knees before…
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Hiding from tomorrow and hades wrapped in clouds ride the breeze so cold as ice The faithful, the fallen have faith to the ones with pride the faithful, the fallen and glance of day will never shine We find our heroes at a moment of crisis. They have negotiated their way out of a tense…
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They stand together in our wildest dreams We invoke the Fomori Strangers with the eyes of men And they fall from grace And they fall from light Two hundred angels Black rain from the clouds And they fall from grace And they fall from light Blackened forsaken tears Snake down my face The high order…
Compromise and Conceit 