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vintagerpg · 4 months ago

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Don’t forget to bring a mirror! This week on the Vintage RPG podcast, we’re looking at Casket of Souls (1987), a puzzlebook by Ian Livingstone that spins out of the success of the Fighting Fantasy series. You, too, can pore over Iain McCaig’s lush art work, looking for clues to solve the riddle and win the titular, gold-plated casket! Well, you could in 1987, anyway. The contest is long over, but half the fun is the journey right? Well, maybe not…this is one of the hardest puzzlebooks I’ve ever encountered…

#roleplaying game #tabletop rpg #dungeons & dragons #podcast #ttrpg #d&d #rpg #Casket of Souls #Fighting Fantasy

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haveyoureadthisfantasybook · 4 months ago

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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #Casket of Souls #Lynn Flewelling #Nightrunner #poll #l: English #result: no

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smalltownfae · 1 year ago

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Books read in 2023: Casket of Souls by Lynn Flewelling

Rating: 3.5/5

So, I finished Casket of Souls, 5th book in the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling. That means I only have one book left 🥲

The tone of this book was quite different from the previous one and more similar to the very first book in the series. It was more of a fun mystery adventure than everything else and it caught me a bit by surprise.

While I still enjoyed the book, I couldn't help but miss the dark moments and when there were real stakes for the main characters. Yes, some characters die and yet I never feared for the main cast because of the tone of it.

This one felt a bit like a Sherlock Holmes adventure. It even has a Basket Street (Baker Street). There are people dying in the poorer quarters, but then the mysterious sleeping sickness starts to affect the nobles too. There is also talk of replacing the current queen with her sister, princess Klia. The book is full of political intrigue and some fun action moments, but it's one of those where the reader knows who the culprits are and is just waiting for the characters to catch on, which they take too long to do but it was very satisfying when that finally happens.

I can't help it, but this reminded me of the Hunchback of Notre Dame's sequel. Not quite as good as the previous work and there is a mysterious group that shows up and bad stuff starts happening. Artre even reminds me of the bad guy in that movie with his vanity.

In conclusion, I had a fun time, but I wish the unsatisfying resolution to the plot of the White Road was picked up again. Even though the two characters from that book are mentioned here, I can't help but feel like the series did a reset and it's almost like the last two books didn't happen. The main characters even used the Rhiminee Cat name again when in those previous books they were going by another name and the Cat was supposed to be dead. I can make up an explanation for it in my head, but stuff like that is still upsetting.

#casket of souls #nightrunner series #lynn flewelling #book opinions #I decided to do posts like this instead of book reviews #because I also don't have much to say about all the books I read #so I will just make these posts when I do have something to say #2023 reads

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triumviiirate · 3 months ago

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i spend a lot of time thinking about the empty space between jim and bones at spock's funeral

#the empty space is spock. obviously.#with hindsight it's hard to say if the distance jim and bones have put between themselves is more or less tragic #knowing that spock is there in both ways: physically in his casket and spiritually in bones himself. but human perception of death only #accounts for the physical. the idea of a soul being unequivocally present in that moment is one that neither of them really believes in #(jim and bones are both written at least vaguely christian. god and the eternal soul are certainly in their belief systems but neither #of them are deeply religious within canon especially when compared to other characters such as the bajorans in tng/ds9)#have they parted because spock should be there in the center despite how often bones and spock would make jim their fulcrum #or have they parted because passing that threshold is too painful without one of them there. a missing limb with phantom pangs.#they could both survive without spock but i always wonder to what degree; 'how do you feel' 'i feel young'#and a few years later it's spock and bones who must survive without jim #never knowing that he hadn't died but continued on in the nexus until it's too late #and we never know if bones ever learns that jim survived and later dies doing what he always does: serving the greater good #but we do know that spock outlives them both. he survives without either of them for so long. he never marries.#and then he sends himself on a suicide mission -- to serve the greater good.#ultimately to end up in another universe where he sees the two of them again: young and healthy and so full of life #and once again he dies before either of them.#tos #the wrath of khan #mcspirk #triumvirate #triposting

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im-not-buying-it-ether · 11 months ago

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Oh hey @thefantasmarex and all other Cap adopts Kon AU enthusiasts

Fun idea, but Billy has delt with resurrections and spirits before and can visit different afterlives and gods for many a reason. How much you wanna bet he’d go on a huge, months long search across every afterlife and banging on the door of every pantheon looking for Conner after he dies?

Or failing that, Superboy Prime is canonically a prisoner of the Monsterlands in the rebirth comics; so how much you wanna bet Billy is going to make his life hell after taking away a member of his family?

#I want Billy to go full Batman resurrecting Damian levels of insane #I want to see him get more desperate as his searches for Kon’s soul to bring him back remain fruitless #I want him to mourn the thought that Kon may have not been allowed a soul or got lost between afterlives #I want him to be hardly a man and know the full grief of carrying his kids casket #I’m going to make him suffer #mweh hehehhehehe #///////#captain marvel adopts superboy #Captain marvel adopts superboy au #billy batson #shazam #captain marvel dc #kon el superboy #kon el #ao3

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roguecoffeebean · 6 months ago

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Crazy how the moment you unleash your OCs into the public you lose all agency over them. You can be like actually you know what I hate his guts & people would be like didn't ask, don't care, gimme more

#sherlock i'm looking at you #every couple years ACD rolls in his casket #i can hear his soul scratching his face #we love your creation arthur sorry not sorry #sherlock and co #sherlock & co #sherlock holmes #sherlock fandom #bbc sherlock

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iphigeniarising · 2 years ago

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#iphi.post #bookblr #litblr #booklr #shelfie #shelves #nightrunner #lynn flewelling #casket of souls and shards of time are out of order. oops

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laurelwinchester · 2 years ago

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i don’t understand the obsession some parts of the spn fandom have with the bunker.

‘‘it’s their home! they’ve never had a home and now they have the coolest home ever! i love it so much! the show got so much better when they gave them a homebase!’’

motherfucker it DOESN’T HAVE ANY WINDOWS

#i cannot say this enough #THE PLACE DOES NOT HAVE WINDOWS #that's messed up #like you know what most people tend to call a box buried underground with no windows? a casket #i don't hate the bunker #(although it is worth noting that the loss of spn's soul can be traced back to the introduction of the bunker let's be real)#but i certainly don't get the love for it #spn discourse #anyway this rant brought to you by my attempts to find a house for this next fic #and finally realizing why it's so important to me to give dean winchester some windows and natural light #it's because the last decade of his life was spent in a casket before he was even dead #that is - say it with me now - messed up

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solitarysketcher · 2 years ago

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toast experiences Jimmy.

new fun & sexy experiences: annoying piece of shit in your brain 24/7

#taleblr #jimmy casket #johnny toast #sry the way it is in my universe jimmy is attached to ghosts soul not his body so i dont have much to say here

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simply-ecstaticc · 2 years ago

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#so good #drowned in emotion #caskets #lost souls #Spotify