tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839422865061540962.post9177255879659605532..comments2024-02-13T01:50:46.013-10:00Comments on Seagull Rising: Lessons Learned From King ConanJonMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07705424889025942210noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839422865061540962.post-56997742306233653302016-11-23T17:54:09.440-10:002016-11-23T17:54:09.440-10:00On the gaming side, perhaps something from Leiber&...On the gaming side, perhaps something from Leiber's "Bleak Shore"?<br /><br />"It is said you two came close to death in the Forbidden City of the Black Idols, and in the stone trap of Angarngi, and on the misty island in the Sea of Monsters. It is also said that you have walked with doom on the Cold Waste and through the Mazes of Klesh. But who may be sure of these things, and whether death and doom were truly near? Who knows but what you are both braggarts who have boasted once too often? Now I have heard tell that death sometimes calls to a man in a voice only he can hear. Then he must rise and leave his friends and go to whatever place death shall bid him, and there meet his doom. Has death ever called to you in such a fashion?" <br /><br />Fafhrd might have laughed, but did not. the Mouser had a witty rejoinder on the tip of his tongue, but instead he heard himself saying: "In what words might death call?" <br /><br />"That would depend," said the small man. "He might look at two such as you and say the Bleak Shore. Nothing more than that. The Bleak Shore. And when he said it three times you would have to go."Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03308478013021594958noreply@blogger.com