ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY
They come slowly, furtively, steps lost in the sounds of your work, though not near so careful as to escape Mouse's ear. He barks once sharply as a pale gaunt face, hair much to dirty to tell the color plastered around it appears around the corner and then snaps back as they notice that they had been seen.
"Are there more of them out there?" you ask Mouse
He taps a single number into Burny's keypad: "Nine"
We saw 1 ghoul, and Mouse detected an additional nine. Total party number of ten.
The ghouls we scared off earlier that Kattrin was employing as guards en route to Cindy's cell numbered 8.
This means one of several things
a)This is a different pack, with the first pack still out there
b)This is the first pack, but it added two additional members in the space of a week or so.
c)The pack we saw was a detachment of a bigger pack
I guess we'll see if Molly recognizes any of them.
As long as you can remember, and if your mother is to be believed, even before that you have always hated schedules, with a passion usually reserved for kale salad and Nickelback and yet once Clippy wakes you,
Call out. Nickelback were very popular in the 2000s, with Billboard calling them the most popular rock band of the 2000s
This of course means that there's probably a Nickelback fan in her family or among her close friends.
Even better if they all are and she's the snob. Bonus points if she gets Dresden working electronics and he buys or is gifted a Nickelback album or five in CD or vinyl. And both he and Bob like it.
I am looking forward to the arguments between her and Bob or Lydia or Daniel or Mathew about good music.
Super duper bonus points if the only person who agrees with her about Nickelback being trash is Charity
We really, really should do a collaborative work with her.
We are not yet at the point where Charity is comfortable with the casual use of magic
Until then, our best option is to use it mundanely around her to habituate her to its existence and its applications in non-dangerous ways.
I disagree mostly because I regularly do construction work. Yes the site might be dangerous if we were making apartment complexes or the like, but most of the dangers of construction work disappear when you get down to small scale of 10 or less people without heavy machinery. Most the dangers are matters of coordination issues. If everyone is doing the same job instead of desperately trying to do everything in parallel to beat a deadline the issues just aren't there.
And yes we do have heavy machinery created by essance, but that isn't the same at all.
I dont agree. At all.
Would these be measured by the quality and material properties of the gem, do you think, or would it be more tied to their having formed naturally? Marinading in the juices of the world over hundreds of millions of years of history, born from forgotten volcanic hellscapes or from the forests that would have called the dinosaurs passing upstarts until they too passed.
If we're dealing with mystical/thematic weight?
I suspect that precious jewels fabricated by a Celestial Exalt are a lot more mystically significant than a naturally occurring stone of the same quality. Certainly a lot more rare.
