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Nature Romantic Red Alert!

Mind you, I'm not turning into a fanboy. Not me.
But, aww, you have to see this! It's just pure love.


The band also has a high quality version available for download.
You can get it at their webpage: arkona-russia.com/en/enews/

[edit] Bad news and good news:
ARKONA won't be playing on Ragnarök Festival VI, but the reason is that Masha's second child will be born around that time. I wish her all the best!!!

Mice Sausage For Snakes

A year in retrospective

Taken from die_neun_pfoten  

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Understanding unity. Calling the rain. Excavating in a church. Editing data in ArcheoCAD.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't have any, and I won't.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
A close friend of my mother

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
Czech Republic, France, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
The last missing certificates to apply for my M.A. thesis.

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
No dates, rather phases. May and June, and the feast of Samhain.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Waking up. But then again, it was not only MY achievement.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Being lazy.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A lot of odd looking bruises and nothing more.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
A bus ticket to Prague.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My loyal friends, just for being who they are.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Sometimes my own.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent and traveling.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Performing rituals and seeing how they work.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Muse - Starlight

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Much happier and much more myself again.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Fighting, writing, dancing, painting, sleeping.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Smoking, procrastinating.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With my love, at the Baltic Sea.

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Yes for sure :)

22. How many one-night stands?
Maybe one (I don't know if it really counts as a classical ONS)

23. What was your favourite TV program?
None.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't hate anyone with passion.

25. What was the best book you read?
Donald Kingsbury, "Courtship Rites"

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Arkona, Wolves in the Throne Room, Backworld

27. What did you want and get?
My awareness back.

28. What did you want and not get?
Works written.

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
I went to the cinemy once, and it didn't become a favourite (Indiana Jones 4). The best film I've seen (yet was not published this year) was definitely "Kukushka".

30. What did you do on your birthday?
Shopping, preparing a ceremony, drinking wine with friends.

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More work done.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
My what?? Eh, the ever black and green, maybe wearing even more metal shirts..?

33. What kept you sane?
Smiling insanely

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
*fanboy-mode-on* !!!MASHA!!! *fanboy-mode-off*

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
The overall hypocritical economy-blah.

36. Who did you miss?
My sister.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
My fellow archaeologists from the East, and all the interesting beings from around here

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Magic is a unity of feeling, thinking and acting, as is practiced love.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year

Brendan Perry - Utopia

I feel greater than the sum of all my parts
A domestic beast with a hairy Heart
Trapped within a walled suburbia

I found my taste is somewhat underground
Between the shadows and the cracks
I’m building my Utopia

I need to break free from all that binds
That makes me old before my time
In this world of Dystopia

My love is like a bright guiding light
Shining in the darkness of the night
The star of my Utopia

In the motion of the sea
in the air that we breathe
Can you feel me?

In the stars and in the trees
In the song of the bees
Can you hear me?

Caged, golden memories
Time has come to show your true feelings
I know it’s the only way to be
When the same old feelings come over me

I feel greater than the sum of all my parts
A space jockey from a distant star
Marooned upon Dystopia

I found my taste is somewhat underground
Between the shadows and the cracks
I’m building my Utopia

In the motion of the sea
In the air that we breathe
Can you feel me?

In the stars and in the trees
In the song of the bees
Can you hear me?

Stroke Percent To Survive

What Kind of D & D Character Would You Be?

gesehen bei taoyuan  , xiangyue and lenija

With this result, on the way, nothing is rectified, I can sometimes be very happy at first, and if I have in my Age no diploma in Business Administration with several years of professional experience and savings agreement, am the stats speak for themselves really ... ;) (Even though I still prefer to deduct a point each of Strength and Constitution and spread on Dexterity and Charisma would, but hey, you can not have everything)
The classes are also nice, and frankly even those from the main canon, which have attracted me when browsing by D & DBüchern always the most. Magic, yes please, but not hermetically sealed. Fine fine. And multi-class Characters also are more my thing.
What surprises me is really only the alignment. I do not really alignments.
I did it all filled out truthfully, was already clear to me that it is certainly not lawful (and it was difficult on many issues, of course I respect the laws and customs of my immediate community, but that of the state in which I live by chance? Not necessarily ...), but why am I your GOOD? Hallo???
Ich hab ja schon befürchtet, mich meinen Kapmfgefährten hier gegenüber als verschlagener Assi outen zu müssen, aber anscheinend bin ich ja doch ein Gutmensch, ob ich will oder nicht... hmgrmpf..
taoyuan  , ich beneide dich ein bisschen. Vielleicht bin ich wohl doch noch zu idealistisch.
Gerechnet hab ich mit chaotic neutral oder schlimmstensfalls neutral evil, aber na, dann halt nicht.
Also Gefährten, wann legen wir los? Die göttliche Magie hätten wir ja jetzt.
So, ich tue jetzt was für mein seelisches Balance and go kill some defenseless villagers. During sleep, of course.



I Am A: Neutral Good Human Druid / Sorcerer (2nd/1st Level)

Ability Scores: Strength-
13
Dexterity-11 Constitution-
13
Intelligence - 15
Wisdom-17 Charisma-
13

Alignment: Neutral Good
A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Primary Class:
Druids gain power not by ruling nature but by being at one with it. They hate the unnatural, including aberrations or undead, and destroy them where possible. Druids receive divine spells from nature, not the gods, and can gain an array of powers as they gain experience, including the ability to take the shapes of animals. The weapons and armor of a druid are restricted by their traditional oaths, not simply training. A druid's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that they can cast.


Secondary Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be? , courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)