Monday LOL Book

[jimhines]

LOL books like to color with an octarine marker. Previous LOL books are available at http://jimhines.livejournal.com/tag/lol.

Today's book is The Magic Toybox [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], edited by Denise Little. This is another of the DAW anthologies, and is actually a collector's item -- if you visit the Amazon link, you'll see that this book

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[controuble]

Ack - cleaning up keyboard - had a mouth full of coffee when I hit the refresh button!

Too funny!

[jimhines]

And my work here is done :-)

[jaylake]

Hah! I actually have a story in that one...

[jimhines]

Didn't you do a caveman-style story for this one? I seem to remember you blogging about that, talking about finding an unusual angle when writing for themed anthologies.

[jaylake]

Precisely. "Little Pig, Berry Brown and the Hard Moon." It's about a Neanderthal baby with a stick-toy.

[antonstrout]

All I am reminded of are my countless encounters in RPGs with Mimics, and in Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance on the XBox...

My DM was an evil ass.

[jimhines]

You know, I don't think any of my DMs have ever tossed a mimic at us. I fought them in Nethack all the time, but that's about it.

And now I feel like I should screen this thread, just in case my current DM reads my LiveJournal...

[antonstrout]

Hmm.. we can test out your longetvity at gencon with new 4th edition rules!

[jimhines]

Oof. I've barely wrapped my brain around 3.5!

[mroctober]

That's no toybox... it's a mimic!

[jimhines]

You and Anton seem to be on the same page this morning :-)

[darkelf105]

Lol!

Yay, Terry Pratchett, unless I missed the reference and in that case I'll just think of it as a mimic. I got eaten by one of those last night in The Granstream Sage.

[jimhines]

Old school Pratchett, but yes. I hadn't even considered the mimic possibilities until they were pointed out in the comments.