Sorcery @ MindSay

I've been reading A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs for the past several hours for my anthro class today at 10am. I have to admit it's quite an amazing book about the role of mexican witchcraft during a demand for coffee-fields by a corrupt General. His use of witches to kill off his opponents and force them by fear to plant more coffee fields has a huge impact on the lives of those in a small town of San Martin.

It's told by an anthropologist who is studying the town and their practices as healers, sorcerers, and even sorceresses. So far it's actually a good read. It has a lot to do with not so much supernatural deaths, but the witches using concoctions to kill their victims. There have been a few cases of "soul-loss" mentioned in the book, as the anthropologist is apprenticing to be a healer.

I haven't finished it yet, but I would recommend it to anyone willing to hear an interesting story. It deals with a lot of economic struggle of the Mexican Society as well as Mexican Mysticism. I have to admit it's fairly interesting.

tschuess!

So....how did I spend my saturday? Pretty much reading "In Sorcery's Shadow" for my Anthropology class...that pretty much sucked because I'm not liking the book which makes reading it really hard.

I also have to finish my german homework and read more of the anthro book...

However, yesterday was a great day for youtube if you know what I mean....If you were to just so happen to search for a certain person *hint hint* you never know what might pop up...

tschuess!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I present to you screenshots of "Stygian" the working title of the RPG my brother and I are working on.  It is by no means anywhere close to being finished.  Battle isn't even possible yet.  The menu is coming along as you can see.  The worldmap is up and running (although without collision detection for the moment.)  It is a huge worldmap... at least three times the size of Dragon Warrior 3 for NES. 

In the deserts of Aran.

In the snowy wastes of Norien.

Near the Garam Peninsula.  (The city isn't there yet as there are no overlays on the map yet.)

The lich in the sample ice cave.  (with JPEGS the color isn't as vibrant).

You can read the details of an item by hitting the [a] key on the item menu.

Highlighting an item will give you its immediate stats without the detailed description.

The regular menu screen shows your character and his/her vital stats and allows you to navigate where ever you desire to go.

Laura gave me her taro cards ^.^

In return, I'm trying to make an 'Empress' card, one which looks like a stylised version of Laura, but she doesn't know that yet.

So soon, I shall learn how to do taro, and much funness shall be had.

(before anyone flips out, no, I haven't gone insane and started believing in divination, it's just for a bit of fun, much like reading CITSA horoscopes)