The weekly Orange inn posts are my way of maintaining momentum in the month(s) between sessions and to act as a recap/reminder of sorts, but they do more than that. They enable me to insert information that I’ve flubbed in-game.
The past description that made Scott chortle was when I was trying to describe the block of floating ground beneath Dulcetta’s magical spinning tower.
‘It’s like an upside down, inverted pyramid.’
Most recently, when writing about Fortu’s slaughter of the spy assassin in the tavern, I desperately wanted to write
‘Bisected into two separate pieces.’
It’s a weird literary tic that I can’t seem to shake. It’s probably connected to my need to use emojis to repeat the thought of the preceding sentence. If I write ‘That’s hilarious’, I’ll almost certainly follow it up with a ‘laughing face’ emoticon.
As the DM, it’s my responsibility to describe the environment, opposition and situations that you, the players, find yourselves in. I’m not the most comfortable communicator and Scott noticed (and found funny) something I do in the pattern of my speech.
I can’t seem to help myself from doubling down in the way I write and speak. I like using alliteration, rhyme and the ‘rule of three’, but my most obvious (dodgy) trait is my need to repeat the thought, despite effectively, often creating double or even triple negatives.
‘No, I didn’t do nothing!’.
In Lord Urdurel’s speech, I used the phrase; ‘Endeavour to try’. I ‘tried to try’. I understood that it was a redundancy but I just liked the ‘shape’ of the sentence.
I can’t seem to help myself from doubling down in the way I write and speak. I like using alliteration, rhyme and the ‘rule of three’, but my most obvious (dodgy) trait is my need to repeat the thought, despite effectively, often creating double or even triple negatives.
‘No, I didn’t do nothing!’.
In Lord Urdurel’s speech, I used the phrase; ‘Endeavour to try’. I ‘tried to try’. I understood that it was a redundancy but I just liked the ‘shape’ of the sentence.
The past description that made Scott chortle was when I was trying to describe the block of floating ground beneath Dulcetta’s magical spinning tower.
‘It’s like an upside down, inverted pyramid.’
Most recently, when writing about Fortu’s slaughter of the spy assassin in the tavern, I desperately wanted to write
‘Bisected into two separate pieces.’
It’s a weird literary tic that I can’t seem to shake. It’s probably connected to my need to use emojis to repeat the thought of the preceding sentence. If I write ‘That’s hilarious’, I’ll almost certainly follow it up with a ‘laughing face’ emoticon.
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