So we're not supposed to vote on it then? Go to Comment

As someone who finds amphibians, and espcially toads, to be foul and repulsive in the extreme, being trapped in a filthy inn infested with ravenous were-toads would be my personal idea of hell. I find it interesting that the Jesks possess a trap-door that takes them directly to the vast lake beneath Awangis. Is their condition linked in some way to the mysterious amphibians that dwell in the lake? Go to Comment

Not a bad sub. I can see them inflicting a terrible punishment on any arrogant mercenary or adventurer who thinks he can amuse himself by trying to catch one. As for their penchant for eating human eyeballs, do they just attack anyone at random or do they only eat the eyeballs of those who try to kill or capture them? If they were to go around attacking just anyone for their eyeballs, I imagine that most humans would declare open war against them. Go to Comment

A creepy and somewhat unsettling individual. This skulking marauder really reminds me of Gollum. Might he indeed have been the inspiration for Baugl? Go to Comment

I like these guys! They would fit seamlessly into the most post-scop settings that have been overrun with the infectious undead. However, I do have a couple of questions. Firstly, how are fresh recruits obtained? You mentioned that the knights are trained from infancy onwards for the roles that they will evantually play. Can I take this to mean that the currently existing Knights are the descendents of the original group of survivors that made it to the Himalayas? Secondly, why is the Plague decimating their numbers? Is it due to the Knights becoming infected after coming into contact with the undead? Go to Comment

Both gruesome and comical. I guess that fact that Anima has to rely on them for his sole source of conversation, speaks volumes about his lack of a proper social life. I want to know why they have been enchanted to petrify the people they bump into. Are they intended as guardians who protect the mage's stuff from would-be thieves? Go to Comment

One of the better thirties. The entry about the unemployed slave is the most chilling, especially in light of the current economic down-turn. :) Why are the unemployed instantly enslaved though? Is this to prevent them from becoming a potentially subversive force? Go to Comment

These are rather whimsical, charming little beings as the others have described, but I do have a question. You mentioned that they project feelings of happiness in order to ''To save themselves from inter-faerie strife'', but what do you mean by that exactly? It's a bit vague. Thank. Go to Comment

Not bad at all, but as Val pointed out, it could do with some proper punctuation. Other than that, this anti-social mage would fit well into the setting of a small but prosperous town. Go to Comment

Cheka raised a good point. After absorbing countless recordings of mundane discoveries, you'd expect the pages within the book to get so numerous as to make the book a cumbersome and heavy affair. Will that be the case evantually? Go to Comment

Repellent to the eyes, sinister in appearance and far from welcome to the average villager and yet the bards are obssessed with it. Is there any explanation for this? I'm just curious. Thanks. Go to Comment

That's true, now that you mention it. I guess that as long as he has the good sense to stay away from the transcendants, he would have a very fulfilling career as the personal chef of some noble who would allow him to butcher and cook pretty much anything he wanted. And on the subject of Rephatia, have I ever mentioned that it's easily the most disturbing fictional culture that I've ever had the pleasure of reading about? Go to Comment

You raised a valid point Muro and I amended that part. Only the bones are now given to the dogs. Go to Comment

Val, I imagine that Jimmy would be thrilled to find himself in the country of the Rephatians where there would be so many different varities of humanoids for him to cook and feast on. However, if he allowed temptation to get the better of him and tried to murder and eat a member of the soldier or elite caste, I have no doubt that he would meet with a swift and savage end. Go to Comment

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It's not a bad sub, actually. And considering that it is derived from Cheka's own world of Acqua which incorporates certain modern elements, he can call it pretty much whatever he thinks is suitable as long as it has some basis in Acqua. Nothing wrong with the explantion either. It's supposed to stop under-cover agents from exposing their true identities or turning traitor. Sounds pretty straight forward to me. Go to Comment

Not a bad item. It would certainly make for a lot of amusing scenarios, I imagine. Go to Comment

This is quite succintly written and I like the sardonic, wry sense of humour that pervades the story. But is there some hidden reason as to why Thorne's spells keep causing damage that he has no intention of inflicting? Surely a competant mage like him would able to prevent such disasters. Go to Comment

I must agree with Muro. The idea of a gigantic, sun-phobic humanoid race that practiced mysterious rituals and underwent bizzare phsyical transformations within the confines of cacoons, really adds to the overall atmopshere of the city of the brooding bizzare city of Stoneholt. As your narative seems to imply, do feral bands of Caretakers indeed guard these places against inturders? Go to Comment

Exceptionally well written, although as Val pointed out there are a couple of weaker entries among this particular collection of weres. Nevertheless, it is still overwhelmingly an amazing collection of critters and for this reason deserves a HOH. By far and large, I have to say that the Were-Scorpion and Were-Jackal are my favourites. Go to Comment