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HFQ Offical Snippet #18

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by bigrunt   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:21 pm

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Echoing everyone's good wishes for your wife. She is more important than a feeding the kracken's that keep pestering you (of which I am one). Thank you for the snippet. Please take care of Sharon.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by ka8wtk   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:12 pm

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Let me add my best wishes for you and Sharon. I like the snippets very much but know first hand that the health of a memeber of the family comes before all else. Especially if it is my wife, my most prized relatioship of this world. There is no need to be sorry for what you feel is a "late" snippet. Take care of the home front first and the rest will take care of itself.

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Keith_w   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:24 pm

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With everyone else, best wishes for Sharon's recovery. Thank you for the snippet, but as always, first things first.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Highjohn   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:37 pm

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I do believe that everyone understands that dealing with the consequences of a loved one's illness takes priority over a purely voluntary action of giving sneak peaks of your work to fans. So really there is no need to apologizes for being a decent human being.


P.S. If someone doesn't understand that then they need their head looked at as they may actually have brain damage, because even a psychopath should be able to comprehend that other people do care what happens to the people around them.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by kbus888   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:58 pm

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Both you and yours are in my prayers.

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Chev   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:04 pm

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I hope she gets well soon!
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by fallsfromtrees   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:11 pm

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gcomeau wrote:snip


Hmmm... Nitroglycerin? No visual description of the substance itself but the packing into sticks suggests someone just re-invented some variant of dynamite?


Let me add my prayers and good wishes for a speedy recovery for Sharon and all.

In LAMA, Aug 896, Chapter 5, there is a comment that Lywys was about ready to produce dynamite - basically Nobel's original formulation (which used nitro) with diatomaceous earth as a stabilizer. So that is undoubtedly what is being talked about here.

Note that we got not one but two cliff hangers in this snippet - talk about a bonus.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by n7axw   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:28 pm

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Best wishes to David and family. We all hope the sailing for them gets smoother from here.

That was a very nice snippet. We learned a quite a bit. First of all, we learned that the guys in the river got hauled out, a bit worse for wear. We are still waiting on the kerboom, although not much drama there sinse we know it's coming.

More interesting is that Hanth's priority has been downgraded for the moment; this in spite of being in hot pursuit of Rychtyr. The heavy fighting is to be to points north. That is obviously refering to BGV and perhaps to Sympkyns facing Kaitswyth. Those two COG armies need to be engaged and destroyed to clear the way for the confrontation with the Harchongese.

I am wondering if there will still be pursuit of Ahlverez and what resourses will be devoted to that.

All in all, we don't have the complete goods yet, but the picture is starting to emerge.

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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by Chief-CWH   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:36 pm

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Wishing Sharon the best of health.

I am going to Duke because my last back surgery punctured my left lung and it has stop working. I am breathing only on my right lung and its weak from three previous bouts of pneumonia. I hope Sharon is having better luck.

Take good care of her.
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Re: HFQ Offical Snippet #18
Post by SHV   » Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:47 pm

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" and just under a hundred tons of Sahndrah Lywys’ newest brainchild. On a pound-for-pound basis, Lywysite...."
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When I first read that, I read it as "Lewisite" and thought this war just took a very ugly turn.

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