Devil Fruits are very rare in the world, enough to be considered myths in much of the Four Blues, but they are much more common in the Grand Line[2] and have been consumed by many prominent figures among the Three Great Powers. The abilities they bestow coupled with their rarity cause ...
A Machine for Pigs also demonstrates the utility of repetition to ingrain certain behavioural patterns into players: while care must be taken for encounters not to become stale, the repetition of certain signs and images, like the flickering of the electric lantern, can be used to evoke powerful...
Christ said: For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall de- ceive the very elect. Matthew 24:24 So, at the end of this age there would be tremendous deception. I, then, quoted verse...
a practice both eerily endemic to Louisiana and perpetually foreign: “Betsy Toledano, the chief priestess of the heathen temple, stoutly defended the ceremonies from any wrong construction; said that its signs and symbols were derived from the mother-land, and that the incantations were harmless”...
He replicated their speech using membranes of brushed silk and cellulose, and he represented the signs in three-dimensional graphics that resembled cuneiforms, scraping them precisely with a brass stylus in beeswax. Entovox or Ento, as he came to call the insect language, became his life passion...
“So far there have been no signs of the real Robin Redcap. But perhaps it might be of benefit for you to have a look around the theatre, just in case.” “Hmm, I think I’ll take up position in the rafters,” Garvin said, eyeing the catwalk above.” ...