Guy @SirWiseGuy@TheEdVerse
Can you please relate any more tales of Elminster's visits to Earth please? More stories of a vaguely friendly visitor would be soothing in these troubled times.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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Sure. :}
Recently, El wanted a ride in a canoe on a placid northern Ontario lake, and got one.
He now knows that standing up in a canoe and LEANING is a good way to get wet. Luckily for him, he knows a spell that can expel all… 2)
…excess water from clothing, hair, and body. Unluckily for me, the magic just hurls a wet mist out in all directions. Yuck.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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Several visits: El loves lightning storms, and striding over the gently manicured hills of golf courses with his staff held high, getting struck repeatedly by lightning. DON’T TRY THIS; he’s an archwizard and foolhardy to boot. 4)
Some old camping glades survive in some of Toronto’s ravine parks (log seats in a ring, well away from the paved paths and manicured areas). Lots of teenagers discover these, and so, in these COVID times, have some local…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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…fantasy and sf fans and writers, who get together to drink and chat from afternoons until moondown in the wee hours (safely distanced). Far from me, a hundred-some miles east out in the countryside, I’m afraid, but El remembered their moots, … 6)
…and attended. In disguise as, well, me. (!)
He assures me he behaved, and told me he loves the energy, idealism, crazy ideas and passionate discussions of them, and the youthful cynicism, too (“so CUTE,” he deemed it).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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El also confessed to attending—in a different guise—a not-yet-released-TTRPG playtest in a Toronto-area basement.
“Their ideas of magic are so TWISTED,” he told me.
“Cthulhu twisted?” I asked.
“Worse,” he said darkly. 8)
And of course the Old Mage made his usual raids on my larder and wine cellar. No ice cream (I’m being a good diabetic; El did NOT approve), and he found some of the libations I procured for my library ladies (co-workers at the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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…day job) bewildering (as in: “Folk DRINK this cr—stuff? WILLINGLY?”), but enjoyed others (leaving me a heap of empty bottles). He also read some of the novels I’m working on, and found them HILARIOUS.
Some were even meant to be funny. 10)
I’ll add this: having seen many folks wearing masks to guard against the coronavirus, El can’t understand why we don’t all seize the opportunity to wear plague doctor masks or wilder face coverings with snouts and so on.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
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“Folk in your world need to PLAY more,” he told me, “and not just when they’re young. Life is too short to stop having fun.” He then used a spell to conjure up pies and started a pie fight. My cat was NOT impressed.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020
This whole thread, aside from being so entertaining, has me thinking: do El or any other realmsians who visit play video games? Have they faves? Like I’m highly amused imagining the 7, plus El & Khelbem with Animal Crossing. I can’t stop giggling I can tell you: El tends to like storytelling, puzzle-solving games like Myst (and Riven and the other sequels), not spellfighting boss-battle games, which tend to leave him snortingly disgusted ("Wrong! Have these programmers ever even SEEN a wizard cast a spell?").#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020