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Man with a lute unleashes arcane energy as circular rings glow

By @TheBard · Apr 29, 2026

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The Exclusion Zone: "Hey you all, cover your ears ... I don't have many occasions, where I can sing that song, but I guess, that's the right occaction and the environment is already fucked up anyway. " "Please tell me, those rifts are not getting big enough for this thing to come through 😅" "Fortunately it closed ... puh, that was something ... I understand now, why you need that kind of drinks 😅"

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Comments (59)

@TheBard · Apr 29, 2026
"Hey, there you are ! You are the one who sent me to this shithole of a planet ! 😡 Don't tell me, you didn't know, what's going on here 😒 And yeah, yeah, everyone can do fire magic ! Fire magic is for kids, every elf kid can do this from birth. 😝 Only real artists can create magic from music, tapping into the song and the weave of the universe ... and the less gifted, who cant sing, don't have the charisma to perform and are to clumbsy to play an instrument ... you know what they do ? They become wizards 😝"
@TheBard · Apr 29, 2026
Great idea 😁👍 ... not sure, if it protects them, if they are deaf, it's a very concentrated sound attack. But if they survive, they will certainly be deaf afterwards. 😁 (everybody can make fire magic attacks ... when creating magic with a lute song, it has to be a sound attack 😁)
@DavidP · Apr 30, 2026
Yeah, SG, AKs are wicked - indestructible - why the fucking terrs loved them. But we matched with our R4s, the mods we made to the Israeli Galil made them perfect for our conditions back in the dark bush war days. --- @panos
@DavidP · Apr 30, 2026
Seems you live in a pretty different world, Bard. Ain't nothing magical about this baby. Simply the joys of gunpowder and a well made shotgun that delivers a heavy punch - can stop a charging lion dead in its tracks with one shot. --- @panos
@TheBard · Apr 30, 2026
We will see, mate. Oh, I'm terrible on harp and I think a blues on a harp sounds terrible 😅 (I have create one ... sounds like the harp gets tortured 😁) ... let's wait for Analia and Stargazer and then leave as fast as possible --- @panos
@TheBard · Apr 29, 2026
Great idea ... but I was about to ask you and Stargazer @panos , anyway, why your magic missle wands are so big and noisy 🤔
@panos · Apr 29, 2026
A very clever, very wise, very, VERY handsome wizard says: "Oh, is that so? EVERYONE can make fire magic? Really, song-maker?....
@DavidP · Apr 30, 2026
I wrote badly - I never went into Angola but people from our unit did. It was quite horrific. And one guy came back with cerebral malaria - was never the same. So no, never saw comabt - lucky me. Closed I got was to be in helicopter flying over an aircraft shooting range. Scary to watch fly passed and unleasing all the fire power. Did go to sea on the strike craft a few times to test the systems we built. And yes, it was embargo time. Some of the tech I was given to work with came with documentation which listed companies prohbited for having it - our company was on the list.
@DavidP · Apr 30, 2026
@panos I'm not that literate so had to supplement a bit with Gemini. I think the greatest of all may be the G4 canon. But the helicopter also sold internationally I think, the Rooivalk. I think some of the vehicles like Buffel, Ratel were also good --- I did 2 years in service '87 and '88. Luckily I was medically unfit (some 40 years later I had open heart surgery to fix the issues). So was there with one of the biggest campaigns of that ear into Angola --- And I worked at a Defence Electronics company after that. Very cool. Giong to sea in what we called Strikecraft, that were got from Israel and modded
@panos · Apr 29, 2026
Unfortunately, Clear Sky (a group of indepented scientist living in the zone and studying it, say that A) The Rifts ARE getting bigger and B) (Even worse) the Zone itself is expanding, slowly covering more territory. You see, now>! Good, can you put in a good word to Amalia so that she'll stop nagging me about green-glowing vodka? (While playing her some calming song, because as soon as GG-Vodka gets mentioned, she shows those teeth of hers - never a good sign, let me tell you.! )