Juranur

Every year, me and a few friends play Carcassonne. We play a single game, and we use as much tiles as possible. That means every single readily available expansion. The last two years we didn't manage to actually finish, so this year we stopped including double or triple base games. Still, we started with 500+ tiles and playing took us some 16 hours over two days to finish, not counting final tallying and cleanup (an hour extra each).

House rules / amendments:

• we used two dragons, and every dragon movement happened with both of them
• from move 1 we allowed drawing your next tile after your turn finishes, to speed up thinking time. I recommend everyone do this, it saves so much time.
• w

Title. Michael Versteeg talks about it a bit in his Singletrack appearance, is there more in-depth discussion somewhere?

Found some Vlogs on youtube from participants, binging those atm.

We arrive at the beginning of the prologue. Excitement in abundace!

1154th Year of Burns Sleep

96th Year of the Malazan Empire The Last Year of Emperor Kellanved's Reign

So, these numbers don't mean much yet. We can contextualise Felisin's birth year from the opening poem now, she is 8 years old during this prologue.

I like that we're straight away thrown into the fantastical, as we know from the Dramatis Personae that Kellanved is the founder of the Empire. We learn that he is older than would be probable in our world, hence, magic. We also know he'll be ursurped forcefully sometime this year.

The stains of rust seemed to map blood seas on the black, pocked surface of Mock's Vane.

Prose? What's that?

If any of you thought I'd skip the poems I can't help you. I'm not an expert on poetry analysis (my academic background is in philosophy), so forgive me if my approach in this regard is rather basic.

Let's get started with the poem preceding the book as a whole:

*Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words without warmth. The hearth has ebbed, its gleam and life's sparks are but memories against dimming eyes - what cast my mind, what hue my thoughts as I open the Book of the Fallen and breathe deep the scent of history? Listen, then, to these words carried on that breath. These

Hi everyone. I was inspired by u/TRAIANVS and his close reading of the BaKB novel. We'll see how long GotM takes me and if I continue.

Page numbers will refer to the Broken Binding edition, as this is the one I have on hand.

Spoiler scope: I'll keep this as light as possible and will mostly focus on analysis within a scene. I might allude to things later in the novel. For first time readers, I will naturally be drawn to focus on things that become important later. This perception might spoil things indirectly. Be cautious, your safety is not guaranteed.

Preliminary

Gardens of the Moon is the first entry into the Malazan Book of the Fallen. It was published on April 1st, 1999 by Steve

Finally done with the NotME!

Assail took me very long, my life got in the way.

Overall I really liked it, I believe this is the closest that ICE got to emulating SE's style of a long meandering journey coming to a close in an epic meeting of forces. And I must say, I very much liked that this meeting was no battle. On the contrary, the four races agreeing on a peace is monumental, and such a fiercely optimistic end to this series that I very much appreciate it.

The twist with the crimson guard was cool, but I saw it coming from years and years away. Had my suspicions a few books ago and was fairly certain by BaB, not to mention the very clear parallels between the T'Lan and Crimson Guard

Unsure if the NSFW is warranted but better safe than sorry.

We've been dating for almost 5 years now. In the beginning of our relationship, sex was frequent, and good too. Over the months, it grew more and more infrequent. She was rarely initiating and stopped altogether eventually, and reacted to me initiating less and less. We talked about it many times, and eventually I coaxed the following out of her:

1. She doesn't want to have sex anymore.
2. She doesn't want to want sex.

That second bit is very important to me. She insists that the sex we did have was good and I never did anything that caused this. I believe this perspective.

Here's the part many won't believe but is true: I am co

I'm on a run rn which can go on forever I think. Year 625, I lose 1% of my units each fight (if that). Insane scaling through 20 temples.

Now, I have two Overwork decrees. I've went 500 years without seeing another one. And I've rolled pretty significantly for it too, since year 200or so I've been taking and using free rerolls to try and get more overwork.

But it's not showing up. I took feast 12 times. Is this intentional?