Life Stories: November 2014 Archives
My daughters have been watching a lot of "Frozen" recently (of course) and I dreamt an epilogue for the movie last night:
Prime Minister to Queen Elsa: We're all glad you're back, Queen Elsa!Queen Elsa: Yep, everyone is fine again! Better than ever.
PM: Actually we're not... [one of my favorite lines from the movie -- MW]
QE: What's going on now?
PM: Well, we're all going to starve to death. All our crops died when you temporarily cursed the land with eternal winter. Do you think you can use your magic to bring the crops back to life?
QE: I don't think so.
PM: We'll have to dig into the royal treasury then. Maybe we can buy food from our biggest trading partner: Weselton.
QE: Um... actually I just banished that guy and promised we'd never trade with him again.
PM: Ok... what about the Southern Isles? Prince Hans was instrumental in protecting the kingdom while you were... "away". I'm sure his kingdom would help us out.
QE: Right... so, I banished him too. But on the plus side, I met a guy who runs an ice business. He's dating my sister now, so I'm sure he'll give us a discount.
PM: A discount on ice.
Since my wife turned me on to podcasts (yeah, I'm ten years behind) it seems like I've stopped listening to NPR in the car. Thanks to my revived interest in Dungeons and Dragons I'm currently listening through the back episodes of NPC Cast. D&D fifth edition is pretty cool, and I'm having a great time DM-ing two games, one with my wife and one with my brothers. We're playing through the Starter Set adventure, "Lost Mine of Phandelver", and everyone seems to be enjoying it.
