I suppose this little reflection has some basis on Ensnare's wonderfully-written little fable.

As is often my habit, these past few days I've been spending a good portion of my time on Aelyria. In Pacific Time terms, I'm usually on from 8pm to noon the next morning, with breaks for lunch and dinner my time.

I wasn't on for a good portion of today, and with good reason.

A friend of mine was arrested a couple of days ago. We used to work together, and...

Reunions are said to be nothing more than events where the greater the drink imbibed, the taller the tales told, and the greater the fame, glory, or calumny. It helps that such conversation takes place on hallowed ground, keeper of many a dark secret, with the odd tenured educator still present to add further testimony to such carefully-tended notoriety during an age of semi-innocence.

In these same halls did ideas and ideals form, where Truth was dissected as mercilessly as any ungrammatical...

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, you.

Before the internet, there was a genre called a board game. It was an archaic entertainment device that utilized dice, cards, markers, and a board.

The reason I ask is because I'm trying to get more information about this game I used to play. I 'inherited' it from my uncles. It was pretty old, but it must have been extant in the 60's, 70's, or 80's. It's called Threat, and its concept and gameplay is remarkably similar to Twilight Struggle, except that the...

It's been hypothesized that the reopening of the Aelyrian Stock Exchange will cause about another financial meltdown the likes of which the realm may not recover. It's easy enough to draw parallelisms between now and, say, 1929, except that Wall Street didn't have people in states of clara, and, well, Aelyria is a fantasy world where there's very little use for logic, save for the most fanatical Orodite.

Concerns have been raised that within less than a candlemark of open trading,...