There, it's a bit overdue, but I've posted. I've had quite a bit of driving between home and various family houses recently, and somehow dealing with certain members of my family and commuting combined seem to drain me quite a bit (much more so than work ever did - I can work from 8 to midnight six to seven days a week, only taking breaks to eat and quickly patrol some of the sites I frequent, maybe going out with friends one day a week, and I'm perfectly fine - I can keep this up for at least three years in a row with no discernible adverse effects, stated so because I've actually pretty much done just that...). In any case, I think I'm just going to stay home until Christmas now...

	It's Mercinus on the Zerul City side, I believe (going by his own words; his character is yet to react to Rhae's, for one). He's been a bit busy with university, but should be posting as soon as possible. 
	Jack by the roadside, I believe (Legion will still post when actually capable of doing so)?

	Also, it occurred to me that it might specifically be the "lord"-part which makes demon lords sound so puny compared to gods. Since "god" can be pretty much whatever, "demon" can be pretty much whatever (there are demons who match the most powerful of gods, at least in some eastern mythology), and "devil" (in the contexts I usually draw from when I think of the word) is quite strictly either a(n evil) deity or [i][b]the[/b][/i] primordial evil and the biggest and baddest that side has to offer ... but "lord" - aside of being quite strictly male, which isn't the case with Prophecy-demons, and "lady" being a term which brings to mind daintiness and frailty rather than than power to the point where my brain wants to interpret it as a derogatory term (fault certain members of my mother's side of family for that impression ... that is probably strictly my and select others' problem and can be discounted as such, though) -, but Lord is ... somehow a middle-tier rank at best? Just a notch more than your typical stock demon, ready to be usurped by any other demon who manages to get close enough to stab them in the back? Doesn't help that the only stories that I've read in which there were specifically demon lords and devils together, the latter could literally (and somewhat amusingly, if you're from the modern west) make the first explode just by sending an angry look at the first. But that's that. I've probably rambled too long on the topic...

	Speaking of old things, a random tidbit I discovered during one of our duiscussions, but somehow neglected to mention: namely, English and Estonian rainbows are different. For me, I've always known the rainbow to be red-orange-yellow-green-[b][i]cyan[/i][/b]-blue-violet, so when you mentioned a person denying there are any colors between blue and green I was in half mind to just link the Wiki page for rainbows ... and for the first time realized that the English rainbow is red-orange-yellow-gree-blue-[b][i]indigo[/i][/b]-violet. [i]Oh.[/i] 
	Which is perhaps especially odd, since I've always considered indigo to be one of those pseudo-colors no one know what or where is. The indigo bird (from who the name comes from) is a kind of iridescent cyan/blue/blueish-violet, and only the last is kind of what the color is defined as. Depending on lighting conditions and the individuals, actual indigos may not have any of the indigo color whatsoever. Nominally, the indigo color is somewhere between violent and blue. As used, it tends to translate to "greenish-cyan to violet," which ... is kind of pretty much useless classification. 
	Oh well. Could always bring out your typical color printer cartridge (CMYK), which is cyan-magenta-yellow-key(black). Magenta is the color you get when blue light mixes with red, for the record. Pink is red combined with violet - which, by the way, means that your RGB monitor screen, being incapable of displaying violet (things called "violet" are [i]always[/i] purple as far as RGB systems are concerned), also cannot display proper pink.

	On a random note, my brain should finally learn that "decimate" means to kill every tenth person, not everyone. I've seen the term "completely decimated" far too often in writing, though... Does this mean making extra certain each unfortunate tenth person is dead, or just confirms that the firing squad did not get bored and wander off three fourths through decimating a particularly large congregation of people?

	And then there was this thing: 
[quote]	Any comments about my thoughts on mind-affecting spells and self-knowledge and awareness? Since, yeah, as long as it's not specifically thought-control or the spell isn't sophisticated enough to separately null your knowledge of self ... I'd say any kind of generic-effect spell or abrupt illusion would actually be consciously rather jarring and immediately identifiable, especially when you're aware that someone was casting a mind-affecting spell. [/quote]	(Just so everything is in one place and you don't have to go perusing several pages' worth of old OoC posts.)