Quote:But Doug said in the story what it was:
I'm also particularly interested in the Circle of Warding or whatever it was Skuld was working on.
Quote:Maybe it's because I knew about that sort of thing even before I read GURPS Arabian Nights, but calling something not-far-off from a Seal of Solomon tells me what it is pretty clearly. (And now I think I understand why you aren't commenting on that particular song over on The Game Everybody Loves to Play. In case I'm right, I'll shut up about it now.)
... I probably would have said it looked like a Seal of Solomon as laid out by M.C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller, with helpful kibitzing by Kernighan, Ritchie and Linus Torvalds.
I wouldn't have been far off, either.
As for the rest of the story...
Yes, Doug really needs to find a friend or two. I'd suggest one from the canonical supporting cast, but I suspect Bob and Chris may be tired of my mentioning Sora at any decent opportunity...
I completely missed the "devil in a blue dress" riff until I read the Concordance...
Did Doug have trouble with "Homeward Bound" because he didn't think of the temple as "home", or because the wards were up? If the latter, this could foreshadow some other problems Doug might have with wards (whether you planned it that way or not)...
Is Belldandy going to get into trouble for entering into a contract with a mortal on her own initiative? (And as long as I'm talking about the blood-oath, I may as well addres the question in the concordance - the Vikings had a goddess of contracts because they were a highly honourable and law-abiding people. (Stop laughing - going a-viking wasn't against Viking law in most times, as long as you didn't raid your own people.) The Icelandic Eddas have almost as many stories about lawsuits as they have about battles.)
BTW, Bob, the second-last concordance entry currently has a typo; you've used "diety" for "deity".
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
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