Found this little guy having a munch a while back and thought I’d share him

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A bit of exploration in southern Spain on the final leg of the drive to Algeciras.

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thinking about the Winged Boots in dnd 5e.

While you wear these boots, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can use the boots to fly for up to 4 hours, all at once or in several shorter flights, each one using a minimum of 1 minute from the duration. If you are flying when the duration expires, you descend at a rate of 30 feet per round until you land.

The boots regain 2 hours of flying capability for every 12 hours they aren't in use

what the hell is this game design? you have 4 hours of flying, and yet you count it off in minutes, meaning that if you want to accurately track your flying, you will need a counter on your character sheet that goes up to 240. but, for every 12 hours they aren't in use you get 120 'charges' back, so for all intents and purposes, as long as you aren't using them for long term overland travel and you take a long rest each night, you have a functionally infinite fly speed, making these boots more powerful than the flying speed you can get from being a 20th level wizard. this is an uncommon magical item.

additionally, the recharge mechanic isn't like anything else in 5e, it doesnt have charges (except it does, it just doesn't tell you that), and it doesn't regain those charges on any mechanical trigger except not being used for a while. this wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't pretty much the only item that did this, breaking 5e's unspoken design principle of magic items having X number of charges and regaining a dice roll's worth of charges every long rest (or, less often, dawn)

weird fuckin game design from, presumably, long before the designers figured out a unified voice for what 5e was.

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What's your underland cat conspiracy?????

OKAY so it's less of a conspiracy and more of a theory. It's quite simple, because the only piece of evidence I have is the poem Ripred makes up about Twirltongue:

"Twirltongue the gnawer believes she's a clawer, but Twirltongue is more of a pup, for she can't fight a cutter, although with some butter, she'd happily eat one for supper."

Um hello?? A clawer???? What is that!! Obviously it's an animal that has claws, but that applies to lots of Underland creatures. So I think we have to do some poetic analysis!

Ripred is trying to make fun of Twirltongue in this poem, basically telling her, "you ain't shit, you're not as cool or as dangerous as you think you are." So when he says she's NOT a clawer, we can assume that a clawer is an animal that is cool and slick and dangerous and predatory. And I think those adjectives apply very stereotypically to cats!!

So that's my very weak reasoning for why I think there could be cats in the Underland called clawers! (Or maybe the gnawers just use the word clawer to refer to Overland cats, since they are buddies with the Overland rats who have to deal with cats...)

What do you think? Does my logic track? What else could clawers be??

Dicking about beneath the mountains.

i've been thinking a lot about jonathan's pre-written june letters, & started wondering about travel times. if jonathan writes in a letter dated june 19th that he's setting out the next day, how long would hawkins expect it to take for him to show up back in london? it seemed from the earliest journal entries that the trip there probably took less than a week, i assume you wouldn't expect the trip back to take much longer. even when the follow-up letter dated june 29th implies that he's somehow been delayed in bistritz for quite some time, surely him not materializing by the end of the first week of july is cause for concern? mina receives the june 19th letter, forwarded by hawkins, on july 26th, surely by this point jonathan is absolutely ages overdue already, even taking into account the follow-up letter & the possibility of unexpected delays. surely the train fiend knows this! is she just not writing it down for "cannot engage with the horrors" reasons? or am i totally off the mark about how long this journey would be expected to take?

feel free not to answer this ask until mina gets the june 19th letter btw i know we're trying to avoid spoiling first-timers. i just wanted to send it while it was on my mind.

I am bad at tracking the dates, but so far as I can see, you're absolutely right. It is weird. A letter could make it from Budapest to London in two days in the 1890s, and from Bucharest to London in two and a half.

True, people travel more slowly overland than letters, then and now - there was a fun episode of Top Gear once where they raced a first class letter from the Isles of Scilly to Orkney in a sports car, and the letter won. And there's the less well-connected bit through Transylvania to contend with.

But even if Jonathan's journey has been beset by every conceivable delay, if he has sent a letter on the 19th of June saying he's leaving Castle Dracula and updated from Bistritz on the 29th, he should be home before the 26th of July. And if something has gone wrong, in most conceivable circumstances he should have written or telegraphed or something on the way. And Mina would know that.

So why does she not seem more worried about him? I think the most logical explanation is the one that you suggest - she doesn't want to engage with the horrors.

She admits it a little. She says in today's entry, "I am anxious" and "I am unhappy about Jonathan" and his letter "makes me uneasy". That all seems pretty mild, but we've already seen how much Jonathan downplays his emotions in his writing, and it seems possible that Mina does the same. (How much of this is their individual characters, and how much is just that Victorians were Like That, I'm not sure).

Maybe if she were to be entirely honest, she would write "I am scared shitless that my fiancé is dead", but she doesn't do that because a) she's a proper Victorian lady, b) she doesn't want to admit it to herself and c) the word "shitless" isn't attested before 1936 anyway. So she's putting a brave face on her considerable fears.

(There's the separate question of what the hell Mr Hawkins is doing at this point. He should be worried as well, though I think it would be entirely in keeping with typical Victorian male treatment of women not to share those concerns with Mina. Maybe there's a whole additional novel happening in parallel where he's playing @wheresjonno from his offices in Exeter, trying desperately to track down his lost clerk.)

Sorry if you've been asked this before, but where was Princess Elia and her entourage headed when Ulmer of the Kingswood Brotherhood stole a kiss from her? Was it around the time that Prince Rhaegar unhorsed Simon Toyne? Also, was this before or during her pregnancy with Rhaenys?

In my headcanon, the tourney at Storm’s End referenced here happened in about 277 AC. It obviously had to have occurred before Steffon died in 278 AC, but it also likely happened after Rhaegar became a knight, which happened circa 276 AC (because both Cersei and Yandel affirm that the 17-year-old Rhaegar was newly knighted at the tourney held to celebrate the birth of Prince Viserys). 277 AC seems as likely a date as any, given that Steffon would have had a plausible reason to hold a grand tourney - that is, the birth of his son Renly. (There is an amusing potential historical irony here, if Renly really had been conceived with the intent of producing a girl who could eventually marry Rhaegar; where Henry VIII, embarrassed enough in 1533 at the birth of the daughter he was convinced would be a male heir that he cancelled the jousts planned to celebrate her birth, perhaps Steffon had been planning a grand event hoping that the end result would be a daughter for his childhood friend … only to have to go through with the celebrations when he got the patriarchy-approved son instead of “only” a daughter.) This timing also tracks with Barristan’s memory that Rhaegar entered this tourney as a “young man” (not that Rhaegar was particularly old at the time of his death, of course, but relatively speaking and in a Westerosi context Rhaegar might have seemed more like a “young man” at, say, 18 as opposed to 26). (We’ll put aside the timeline confusion that GRRM has somewhat addressed regarding Barristan’s memory of this particular tourney.)

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because I also tend to headcanon that Elia’s encounter with the Kingswood Brotherhood took place when she came north to marry Rhaegar, sometime in 280 AC. We know that this encounter had to have happened prior to the final battle (such as it was) for the Kingswood Brotherhood, which took place in 281 AC. More to the point, I feel like Elia’s journey to her wedding in King’s Landing provides the simplest, most reasonable explanation as to why Elia would have been in the kingswood. Oberyn notes that Elia’s “delicate health had never permitted her much travel“ (apart from that journey through the Reach to Casterly Rock as a girl), so I doubt Elia was taking frequent trips through the kingswood prior to her marriage - but obviously, if she came overland from Dorne to King's Landing, she would have traveled directly through the kingswood to get to the capital. So if indeed Elia came through the kingswood in approximately 280 AC to be married to Rhaegar, and if indeed this was the moment her party was assaulted by Ulmer and his fellow outlaws, then this event would obviously have happened after the tourney when, so Barristan reports, Rhaegar tilted against Simon Toyne. 

(Now, it may have been that this second demonstration, such as it was, by the Kingswood Brotherhood against a soon-to-be member of the royal family and her royally affiliated party stir King Aerys II to consider putting an end to the Brotherhood once and for all. Much as he feared and hated Rhaegar, and would extend that hatred (mixed with racism) to Elia, Aerys may have nevertheless considered that he couldn’t allow royal persons to be confronted by mere outlaws in such public spectacles. This sort of erratic defensive reasoning would, then, have prefigured Aerys’ own response in the prelude of Robert’s Rebellion - violently retaliating against Brandon Stark and his companions, not out of great love for his heir, but out of a horror at the effrontery demonstrated in Brandon challenging a prince of the royal family.)

Now, is this for sure the only explanation? Of course not. GRRM has not provided much detail at all on this incident (indeed, Ulmer never even names the princess from whom he supposedly stole a kiss, though the context really narrows the possibilities down to just Elia). Could Elia have been traveling in the kingswood for any reason after her marriage? Possibly (although I do tend to think she spent most of her married life, at least prior to Robert’s Rebellion, on Dragonstone with Rhaegar, and certainly I doubt she was doing much traveling of any kind, the tourney of Harrenhal notwithstanding, after the birth of Rhaenys). Could she have come to King’s Landing at any point prior to her marriage? Also possibly. We simply don’t have enough information to say for now.

I do wonder if we’ll hear any more about this event with Arianne in TWOW. As the (I think almost certainly) future spouse of the would-be King Aegon VI - that is to say, ostensibly Rhaegar’s son - Arianne will be almost literally walking in her aunt’s footsteps as she makes her way to King’s Landing either to marry a Targaryen prince/king and/or to take up her place there as his queen. In that sense, I think it likely that Arianne will be riding through the kingswood, since (as I noted above) it covers part of the most direct overland route from the Stormlands to King’s Landing. This moment would be a good opportunity for Arianne to muse on her fate and compare herself to her unfortunate aunt Elia - including, perhaps, thinking about that geographically appropriate anecdote. It’s also worth noting that the kingswood currently has its own band of quasi-outlaws: Shagga and his Vale clansmen, in self-imposed exile following the battle of the Blackwater. I don’t know if Arianne’s party will similarly be attacked by these men (though note that their presence in the kingswood provided inspiration for Cersei’s cover story for the planned murder of Trystane - to have purported outlaws in the kingswood, shouting “Halfman!”, to slay the prince), much less if Shagga would demand a kiss from her, but it is a potential parallel.