This particular Dark Lord has a nasty habit of not executing subordinates for failure. This is starting to become a problem for the heroes, as their foes are starting to learn what works and what doesn’t.
An independent freighter and three space taxis in orbit above The Grandmother. This ship is a simple chemical fuel design built to utilize the tether network to get around and only light its engines to provide a little extra boost. It's a very common sight in more heavily-developed areas of space. The second image shows the inner layer of containers with the exterior stacks removed.
Darcy in his letter being like, "I suppose if you say so, your sister might have actually loved Bingley. I'm not sure though, it seems unlikely. I did look very hard at her for like, whole minutes at the ball. But whatever, it's already done and I still think I was right. Because your family sucks."
By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord.
Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"
“Time travel paradoxes don’t happen, they just spawn a new timeline you can travel to.” “Wait, does that mean I can go back to caveman times and colonize the fresh earth without consequence?”
Good save
“You fool!” cackled the Dark One, “No man can kill me!” “But I am no man!” bellowed the hero, as he unhinged his jaw. A grotesque sound filled the hall as they hacked up impossibly large balls of cloth. Unfurling, they stand and announce “For we are actually three trench coats in a halfling!”
All intelligent aliens fall into one of two categories for humans: Adorable or Uncanny Valley Horror. This wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that humans are firmly in the Uncanny Valley Horror category for all other intelligent species.
Secret bunkers full of time machine repair equipment are placed throughout history by time travelers just in case someone gets stuck in the wrong time. You are tasked with manning one of these bunkers
I added some extra stuff in the tags that is helpful if you want to be a functional human being. Like having a well rounded education even if you don't use some of it later in life or if it is dated, biased, incomplete, or maybe flawed will still give you a good foundation for thinking and learning vs. if you just focused on biology or literary structure.
"Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
Eat hot peppers
My favorite source of vitamin C :)
scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon