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Nice heal roll.

Gypsy - A creature caught in a Web spell is considered to be "Restrained". That means all attacks against it have advantage so you get to make a second attack roll and keep the higher of your two rolls. It's attacks have disadvantage and it also has disadvantage on any Dexterity check it needs to make.

Citation for smoking out a cave to kill the occupants: https://thelibrary.org/lochist/turnbo/V6/ST177.html

Hey peeps, I'm on holiday in Salcombe in Devon for the week. I know I know, what am I, seventy!? But the quiet and sea air should mean some good sleeps and a recharge of the batteries--- Hoping to get a week in Ibiza shortly

I'll still be posting, but I don't have a desk to sit at.

I love Devon!

Nep - Path indicated for Lingo is impossible. He has no choice but to skirt the edge of the woods along the path. The woods themselves are a tangle of impassable briers. If he chooses to not explore once he sees he cannot sneak through the woods we can assume he chooses not to explore. Just let me know.

Right, sorry about that, I'm back. Would've posted but realised I needed the scans saved on my NAS to work out my next move. I should really setup remote access (or just sync to the cloud).

Free storage like gmail/dropbox etc... is your friend.

Yeah, it's pure laziness that I haven't set it up yet. But hey, gives me something to do this week!

Well keep in mind that there are 'risks' with 'free' storage. It is free for a reason!!!! And the reasons are to =THEIR= benefit, not yours.

For game books and or game maps? I see no risk. I wouldn't make it my sole copy, but for easy of transfer between machines...

For more important stuff... depends.

Yeah, it =is= convenient <g> But they want to get 'info' about you so that they can either sell it ... or use it for targeted ads (depending on whose storage it is). Some folks really worry about that sort of thing. I don't have much to 'hide', so all the 'data collection' isn't something that I am particularly worried about ... although I =do= take steps to protect my passwords, my financial stuff and the like <g>

The key is to be 'informed' enough that you can make the right decision for your needs <wink>

Not to mention it's like the heroin dealer who gives it away to get you hooked and then suddenly, once you're dependent on it, it's no longer free.....

Absolutely, look at the growth in the mini-storage industry. It seems it is almost required to have a storage unit to go with your house and garage and ... We wouldn't want to actually get rid of stuff... would we?

I have been doing =just= that (getting rid of stuff) in association with my latest move ... I got rid of over 1,000 books, loads of other 'crap' I had been holding on to ... partly because this place is smaller, but also because I realized that I was just holding on to it to have it <g> Now I am divesting myself of all my worldly possessions (well a lot of them anyway <g>)

When I moved from CA to OR, I donated 32 cases of books to the library because I couldn't sell them, people just don't buy them at flea markets anymore. Believe me I tried, hard bounds for .25, paper backs for .10. I ended up giving away two books to kids in four flea market days. Gave up.

I also found four boxes in my garage that hadn't been opened in the 15 years I lived in that house. Moved in and set down. I opened them to make sure there wasn't anything valuable in them. When there wasn't and I had lived without them for 15 years, I donated all of them.

I still have way too much stuff. Trying to thin out my own stuff herd, but it is work. It is so much easier to accumulate than it is to discern away the excess.

I have tried. Wife is a pack rat. We still have the boys cribs and baby toys in the attic (they're 25 and 23 respectively). But I did sell about a dozen boxes of books to the local used book store. Got about $100 for them.

Just FYI, Dugan is moving, thought he might be back around now but that depends on connectivity.

Thanks. I was wondering about Dugan.

Re: getting rid of stuff. There's a whole section on Craig's list called "Free stuff". Put it out on the curb and watch it disappear.

The library will get the books I can't sell or give to friends <g> I already took one load of things there <g>

He's gone but I'll never forget him... Posted in honor of George Carlin but without anyone's permission.

Just a Place for My Stuff

Actually, this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That's all; a little place for my stuff. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there.

That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is- a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. You could just walk around all the time. A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane. You look down, you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff. All the little piles of stuff. And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. They always take the good stuff. They never bother with that crap you're saving. All they want is the shiny stuff. That's what your house is, a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get...more stuff! Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff anymore.

Did you ever notice when you go to somebody else's house, you never quite feel a hundred percent at home? You know why? No room for your stuff. Somebody else's stuff is all over the damn place! And if you stay overnight, unexpectedly, they give you a little bedroom to sleep in. Bedroom they haven't used in about eleven years. Someone died in it, eleven years ago. And they haven't moved any of his stuff! Right next to the bed there's usually a dresser or a bureau of some kind, and there's no room for your stuff on it. Somebody else's s*** is on the dresser. Have you noticed that their stuff is s*** and your s*** is stuff? God! And you say, "Get that s*** off of there and let me put my stuff down!"

Sometimes you leave your house to go on vacation. And you gotta take some of your stuff with you. Gotta take about two big suitcases full of stuff, when you go on vacation. You gotta take a smaller version of your house. It's the second version of your stuff. And you're gonna fly all the way to Honolulu. Gonna go across the continent, across half an ocean to Honolulu. You get down to the hotel room in Honolulu and you open up your suitcase and you put away all your stuff. "Here's a place here, put a little bit of stuff there, put some stuff here, put some stuff- you put your stuff there, I'll put some stuff- here's another place for stuff, look at this, I'll put some stuff here." And even though you're far away from home, you start to get used to it, you start to feel okay, because after all, you do have some of your stuff with you.

That's when your friend calls up from Maui, and says, "Hey, why don'tcha come over to Maui for the weekend and spend a couple of nights over here." Oh, no! Now what do I pack? Right, you've gotta pack an even smaller version of your stuff. The third version of your house. Just enough stuff to take to Maui for a coupla days. You get over to Maui- I mean you're really getting extended now, when you think about it. You got stuff all the way back on the mainland, you got stuff on another island, you got stuff on this island. I mean, supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

You get over to your friend's house on Maui and he gives you a little place to sleep, a little bed right next to his windowsill or something. You put some of your stuff up there. You put your stuff up there. You got your Visine, you got your nail clippers, and you put everything up. It takes about an hour and a half, but after a while you finally feel okay, say, "All right, I got my nail clippers, I must be okay." That's when your friend says, "Aaaaay, I think tonight we'll go over the other side of the island, visit a pal of mine and maybe stay over." Aww, no. NOW what do you pack? Right- you gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The fourth version of your house. Only the stuff you know you're gonna need. Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hanky, pen, smokes, rubber and change. Well, only the stuff you HOPE you're gonna need.

Gone but not forgotten <g> I have always enjoyed Carlin's sense of humor. This one, in particular, really 'connected'. I remember hearing it many years ago <sigh> Sad to think that we won't hear anything new from him ... till after we join him 'over there'.

Yes a good one. But I use c*** for it, not s***.

Back on-line, but took another day to sort through my own stuff and get my pc put back together. Books and pictures still laying about the floors, but happy my main system came on without a burp.

Welcome back!