Jun. 18th, 2003 02:11 pm
Game-related nonsense
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muckefuckIt's now summer and the Info Desk is dead. Deadly dead. On the plus side, the means I should have the time and concentration to write less half-assed boring posts! Not today, though.
Note that there is still time to respond to the Wilgame Romantic Subplot Survey. Personally, I'm surprised there aren't more write-ins. I'm even more surprised that "Korgrim and the Succubi" trails "Davis and the Talking Sword" in popularity. This does, however, confirm something I've long maintained: Davis needs to Get Some more often. (Ah, l'art, elle imite la vie!)
It is a source of pain to me that, once a poll is generated, it's not possible to edit it. The misspellings in this one fix me in their sights with hostile reproach. Yes, I know it's really Ysgard, not Isgard. Speaking of which,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spookyfruit suggested this might be the name of some actual Norse paradise as opposed to a laughable attempt to file the serial numbers off of "Asgard". My research hints at the latter, but Old Norse is such a rich and complex tongue that it yields an acceptable meaning anyway. Yss is defined as "the noise made by a crowd or swarm". This makes Ysgard not a bad name for a dimension where fighting and partying are practically the only pursuits.
It wouldn't sound like a plane that would hold much appeal to Owlet, but his first day there was rather enjoyable--except for the seeing-all-his-friend-brutally-slain-and-then-dying-painfully part. Due to the fact that he was (a) invisible most of the time and (b) did nothing to piss off the indestructable masterwork-rock-flinging giants, he ended up being the last man standing in knock-down drag-out free-for-all involving doughty souls with unpronounceable Welsh names (twenty years of interest in Welsh and I still can't nail Culhwch) and evil, gargantuan redheads. His coup, though, was not felling an ettin with a well-placed stab to the vitals, it was ripping the necklace of fireballs right off the collarbone of an irritating imp familiar. Go Owlet! Olidammara, were you watching?
Note that there is still time to respond to the Wilgame Romantic Subplot Survey. Personally, I'm surprised there aren't more write-ins. I'm even more surprised that "Korgrim and the Succubi" trails "Davis and the Talking Sword" in popularity. This does, however, confirm something I've long maintained: Davis needs to Get Some more often. (Ah, l'art, elle imite la vie!)
It is a source of pain to me that, once a poll is generated, it's not possible to edit it. The misspellings in this one fix me in their sights with hostile reproach. Yes, I know it's really Ysgard, not Isgard. Speaking of which,
spookyfruit suggested this might be the name of some actual Norse paradise as opposed to a laughable attempt to file the serial numbers off of "Asgard". My research hints at the latter, but Old Norse is such a rich and complex tongue that it yields an acceptable meaning anyway. Yss is defined as "the noise made by a crowd or swarm". This makes Ysgard not a bad name for a dimension where fighting and partying are practically the only pursuits.It wouldn't sound like a plane that would hold much appeal to Owlet, but his first day there was rather enjoyable--except for the seeing-all-his-friend-brutally-slain-and-then-dying-painfully part. Due to the fact that he was (a) invisible most of the time and (b) did nothing to piss off the indestructable masterwork-rock-flinging giants, he ended up being the last man standing in knock-down drag-out free-for-all involving doughty souls with unpronounceable Welsh names (twenty years of interest in Welsh and I still can't nail Culhwch) and evil, gargantuan redheads. His coup, though, was not felling an ettin with a well-placed stab to the vitals, it was ripping the necklace of fireballs right off the collarbone of an irritating imp familiar. Go Owlet! Olidammara, were you watching?