DnD Redux. Again.

Remember when my D&D character died and I was excited about making a new one?

Yeah, it died last week. In fact, DH's character killed my poor Tiefling swordmage, Khol.

So, I've made yet another character, who debuted last night: a Pixie fire elementalist named Teaberry, who has a pet displacer beast called Damnyou, which she insists is just a harmless kitten.

Isn't he precious?!

She may be my favorite character yet. I just hope she lives longer than a month... The entire party almost died last night! Most of the party made a run for it and barely escaped. Luckily for me, Teaberry can fly - she just flitted away at ceiling height. Hurrah!


Links!

• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• Net neutrality update! ALA voice to join FCC Open Internet roundtable 
• International Day Of The Girl: Nonprofit Aims To Educate 10,000 Girls Across The Globe Related: International Day of the Girl is October 11!
• Will Self and the Plight of the Pearl-Clutching “Serious” Reader 
• 10 Best Literary TED Talks of the Year 
• School Libraries Make the Difference Yes, they do! 
• Reading should be one of life’s joys, not a duty 
• Graphic Novels, Graphic Schmovels: It's All Just Comics Very good point. I'm guilty of this; I need to rethink my vocabulary. 
• Net & Tech
• Facebook apologizes for manipulating news feeds in psychology experiment 
• Man Shoots Down Drone, Lawyers Scratch Their Heads 
• Podcast: Your Privacy for a Sweet Treat That's...frightening. "...Does the younger generation simply not value its privacy? Beckett says the opposite may be true. 'A lot of it is that people already feel like their data has been taken from them, that without their knowledge, it’s suddenly all out here,' she says. 'And so why not get something out of it?' Something like, say, a delicious cookie."
• The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech 
• Man jailed after killing pal who 'poked' his girlfriend on Facebook 
• Twitter Sues the Government for Violating Its First Amendment Rights 
• Science
• In the Outback, Insects Build Little Houses to Keep From Drying Out 
• Cheetahs and Pumas Have Hunting Down to a Science Related: Humans, Not Larger Predators, To Blame For Cheetah Decline 
• Nobel Prize Awarded To Scientists Who Identified The Brain's "GPS System" 
• New Data Suggests Global Ocean Warming Rates May Have Been Severely Underestimated 
• HIV Reappears In Second Baby Thought To Be Cured 
• Dallas Ebola Patient Treated With Experimental Drug 
• Firestone Did What Governments Have Not: Stopped Ebola In Its Tracks 
• Authority Issues
• Ferguson Police's '5 Second Rule' Is Unconstitutional, Court Finds 
• Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial 
• No charges for Georgia officers who maimed toddler during no-knock drug raid "The toddler's nose was detached from his face, and the blast ripped a hole in his chest and caused serious burns....The boy will likely need...surgeries every two years until he is 20 years old to repair badly damaged nerve endings in his face and additional plastic surgery throughout his life, the attorney said.  The county has said it would not pay for the child’s medical bills, arguing that the board of commissioners was not legally permitted to pay for them."
• VIDEO: NYPD Officer Hits Unarmed Teen in the Face With His Gun 
• Watch: Ind. Cops Break Car Window, Use Taser on Man in Front of Children 
• Lawsuit: State trooper preached about Jesus during traffic stop As a Christian, I'd just like to say, I'm appalled at the idea of misusing one's civic position to intimidate someone like this and saying it has anything to do with Christianity. 
• Cops aren't all bad, of course: ‘I’d do it over again': Officer speaks out about giving mom car seat, instead of ticket 
• There are good schools, too: This Teacher Gives Money From His Own Pocket To Feed His Hungry First-Graders 
• Other
• The Rules : Making sense of race and privilege "I knew the day would come, but I didn't know how it would happen, where I would be, or how I would respond. It is the moment that every black parent fears: the day their child is called a nigger....I was certain that my Princeton degree and economic privilege not only would empower me to navigate the mostly white neighborhoods and institutions that my kids inhabited, but would provide a cocoon to protect them from the bias I had encountered growing up. My wife and I used our knowledge of white upper-class life to envelop our sons and daughter in a social armor that we felt would repel discriminatory attacks." 
• Speaking of racism: Cardinals Fans Get Ugly In Clash With Ferguson Protesters 
• Poverty Point's New Status Fascinating!
• Great advice - but probably preaching to the choir....Reading Stuff Will Eliminate 90 Percent of Your Stupid Questions