![]() ![]() The phrase “paint the town red” most likely owes its origin to one legendary night of drunkenness. ![]() In the midst of the fight, a wounded British officer named William Inglis supposedly urged his unit forward by bellowing “Stand your ground and die hard … make the enemy pay dear for each of us!” Inglis’ 57th Regiment suffered 75 percent casualties during the battle, and went on to earn the nickname “the Die Hards.” The phrase later became even more popular after 1811’s Battle of Albuera during the Napoleonic Wars. In its earliest incarnation in the 1700s, the expression described condemned men who struggled the longest when they were executed by hanging. I AM A LEAF ON THE WIND ORIGIN SERIESWhile it typically refers to someone with a strong dedication to a particular set of beliefs, the term “diehard” originally had a series of much more literal meanings. Among its many fabrications, the book includes a description of crocodiles that notes, “These serpents sley men, and eate them weeping, and they have no tongue.” While factually inaccurate, Mandeville’s account of weeping reptiles later found its way into the works of Shakespeare, and “crocodile tears” became an idiom as early as the 16th century. The myth dates back as far as the 14th century and comes from a book called “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.” Wildly popular upon its release, the tome recounts a brave knight’s adventures during his supposed travels through Asia. Can't win them all.Modern English speakers use the phrase “crocodile tears” to describe a display of superficial or false sorrow, but the saying actually derives from a medieval belief that crocodiles shed tears of sadness while they killed and consumed their prey. They still didn't manage to save Moctezuma, though, so the timeline was still messed up somewhat. One of the PCs captured his soul in a magical shard, but after a little while, they decided to break the shard and release it after all. By the time the other PCs could get to him, he was dead. The PCs had been fought back to a standstill, and Moctezuma had taken a likely fatal wound, when Delan declared, "I am a leaf on the wind." After some OOC discussion and negotiation with me, we played out him running forward through a series of dodges and parries, pushing his way to the alien (disguised as a Catholic priest), and running him through, only to have the slave girl, in shock at seeing him do this and in grief at seeing Moctezuma dying, took one of Delan's daggers from him and stabbed him in the lung. I AM A LEAF ON THE WIND ORIGIN PCMoctezuma was surrounded by three of his slave girls, one of which had tried to cover an earlier getaway attempt on his part by trying to seduce Delan, a ne'er-do-well PC who has had a history of bad luck with women. They weren't doing that well because of an alien using telepathic attacks on them. Only a few of the PCs were there on the causeway, while others were trying to deal with things back in the city. The time-travelling PCs were trying to stop some time-travelling aliens from stealing Moctezuma out from Tenochtitlan before his time. The rule goes like this: by declaring "I am a leaf on the wind," and then presenting a suitably dramatic and interesting depiction of subsequent events, you can succeed at any action or short series of actions - as long as the sequence of events ends with your character's death. This week's game session was the first use of this new rule. ![]()
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