The English feudal culture was spreading into the clan culture.  "'twas Clavers who spoke/Ere the King's crown go down there are crowns to be broke."  Different war, I think (the Gorious Revolution?) but on point ne'ertheless.

The sovereign has always been accorded latitude.  The sovereign has the job of establishing public order, and stopping the killers and the spoilers is part of that.  If the only means that will stop them is killing them, it's still within the common defence.
Killing in war falls under the rubric of just war.

Not Romance.  Revenge.  She'd seen how civilized men behave; she  never forgot and she never forgave.

Please note comments on the review reply.  Will try to get to your short.

Thanks.  Hope Spamanice didn't get a refund.

You don't say?

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Hmm.  Do I hear The Punting of the Snark?

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Okay, mod complete.  Maybe a little less elegant of its own, but I think it flows better from the previous chapter.

Only to your reputation smile

Yeah.  Database consistency problem.  An entity is removed but ghosts of its relations remain.

Sol, would the processing/storage properties allow the connecion list or count to be re-verified when the user's Connections page is accessed, or would that require too many disk accesses or too much latency?

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I have a mod for the opening of =To Find a Sorcerer=.  Later today.

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His voice was soft,
His manner mild.
He seldom laughed,
But he often smiled.
He'd seen how civilized men behave.
He never forgot and he never forgave,
Not Sweeney,
Not Sweeney Todd—
The demon barber of Fleet Street!

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Don't fear the Harvester?

An Elevation of Elves
A Horn of Unicorns
A Chaste(Horn) of Unicorns
A Taling of Fairies
A Growth of Gillis
A Gruesome of Gillis

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Following this chapter, I will have an action thread and two-to-four discussion threads to interweave.  (Heal patriarch, discuss circumstances, events, plans, show evolution of Shassa and Engalt ... and cross-link.)  (And, as I wrote above, I will have a week of disaster-dodging.)  But I will try to work the individual threads out, starting with the action thread.  I expect two chapters surrounding the patriarch (Maurand, I am thinking) and maybe a short chapter on planning and departure.  And then ... the culturing-cellar of corruption.

And along the way, I expect I'll be renumbering a few existing chapters.

But that's a ways down the road.

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Norm d'Plume wrote:

K appears to be winking in and out of our universe. I find conversations where he is being addressed, but when I look for his posts, they're not there.

The other day upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
He must be with the CIA.

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Okay, short transition chapter up.  The next one may take a while; I've got another disaster to dodge (and I don't mean the next chapter).  But I'm feeling better, and this episode will launch me into the next episode better than anything I thought of before.

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And take your fight out in the parking lot!  Cheez ...

The collective singular is fine.  When you need the particular plural (fishes instead of plural fish) use Gillis plants or Gillis pots.

Geez, some people don't know the proper past tense of sh*t.  English is an irregular language, and whatever you're mapping into it can be just as irregular.

What!ticism

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Not so funny if you're the one who gets it.  Apologize to Amy (grrrrr).

Heck, present-and-past-in-parallel like Dark Shadows, which opened a huge genre door.

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I heard they missed one on the 'flu shot this year.

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I've done that.  It confuses readers and potential reviewers.  Die-hard reviewers are not deterred, but what about new ones?

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Okay, updates to Shogran's Waifs are out.

If you want a repub so you can get the points you deserve, let me know.

Now, where are all those things I need to do today after I get some sleep?