Crocodile Ghosts

This was posted in Slate's "Today's Blogs" section yesterday, and I thought it warranted sharing. apparently there's been a serious uptick in mutilated stingray corpses found over the last week.

David Weigel at Reason's Hit & Run runs the headline, "Steve Irwin's Ghost Wreaks Its Bloody Revenge": "Really, did the vast Stingray Empire think it could fell Steve Irwin so easily?" Robert Basler at Reuters Newsblogs figures the killing spree could have been worse: "I'm glad he wasn't killed by a golden retriever or panda or little kitten."

State of the Game: The Russia Campaign

Continuing this series, here's a look at where thing stand in the second oldest setting.

( enter Russia )

That's where things stand. This is the game 16 sessions into Russia, with the first 6 sessions of Arabian Nights being an aside within that. The options I see at this point are 1) trying to get further into the dungeon, 2) doing more adventuring in the deep woods to clear out the Zhilozhiny, or make more deals like the one Grigor made with the Leshy as a way to build alliances in case Era brings a Mongol hoard to your door, assuming she does come back, 3) spend a bunch more time preparing the town for attack and possibly making more mundane connections in Kiev or Chernigov.