'Yes Liz, I have a lot of black sheep in my bunker but if you want them back, you're gonna have to open a window.
Constructive play.
No ape shit.
We're making a demon, no living burns, just a living magic. Ok?'
'Ok, how about this: "Be my mirror my Sword and Shield, my missionaries in a foreign field."
Right, I'm going to visit my parents and watch the game. Shouldn't give your pieces to much of a fright, right?
Oh, Anna, I have a good one in Flemish.
'Gij zijt vergeten dat Manneke Pis een overwinning monument is van wereldniveau, wat denkt gij dat Manneke Apenkak gaat zijn? En die gaat ge mogen aanraken.'
Can we play with that, find somewhere to put monument. 'Manneke Apenkak.'
Go!
Joppe needs help, you know that. Right
So does the girl from Brussels. Pretty sure that's where the drama started. My bad, I keep forgetting you snatch up my girls whenever you like. Kinda hard to manage a game when you feel like playing hostile. Let's find a new safeword, could we go like.
"Niko, I do not like you playing with that boy or something" that's whata lot of moms used to say...
Like I said, trust issues.
Oh, de slag om Brussel? Hilarisch verhaal. De Brusselaars legde hun riolering over het ontstekings mechanisme aan de poort. Het lukte de graaf niet om de lont aan te steken en dan hebt ge weinig aan vuur, en rammen in een moeras... geestig. Zeker als er padden zitten.'
Euhm, what else, you know by now that magic burns gold, so show it with a golden heart and leave the accounting to a girl who's got your back.
Got that?
Now how much gold do you want to put in that monument?
Try and be as efficient as you can. Time. Gold and a Running Machine infused with care. If you can keep a social machine open, you have a well capable of sustaining itself.
After that, find a good accounting team to manage burner costs. Carefull, they can run up quickly.
If you're both ready figuring that out. Find me for Voodoo training but send a clear signal, that thing is scary even for me.
Alright, are you two studying?
I did feel that signal earlier. It needs to be pretty drie for fire arrows to work in a swamp, even if you have something pretty heavy burning. And lighting siege fires with arrows is a pretty obvious tactic.
You see it coming for miles.
Ones you have a tunnel it's a fight to the death in that tunnel.
In a swamp the tunnel is above ground. The bare land where you lay your fuse.
If the fuse needs to go to the walls, you have to clear a path. At means you control the area where the fire is gonna go.
Either it burns you a gap at you can go through the next morning, or you have waisted a lot of effort in keeping the wood dry.
If you see you have a stand off in long formation, look for a single place where you can change the balance of power holding tension (ether) over the game.
That's the piece you should take out, or better, convert to your side, you have a free hand.
Once you have a free hand, keep it running on the machine.
Just keep your Eyes, your Arrows and your Heavy Armor on watch. For people looking to steal from your machine.
That thing runs expensive and unwanted hand-outs are to be avoided as it lowers efficiëncy.
Trust me you don't want an inefficiënt burner, it can get quiet ugly in there.
What else, you know how to play 'Make Believe?'
Get good at it, it can create ether if it works.
Ether is required for rituals, rituals are cross-secrions of the earth and the machine. They connect when the people performing them understand them.
It is how the visible world is connected to the invisible with the ideas we keep alive at that point on the earth where it is written in stone, in metal and in spirit.
Got that?
Right your assignment is to play with it and see if you can make your machine do something both fun and useful. We'll start from there.
