I have discovered that this identi-chip is a small device buried deep in everyone's hands when they are first born. The identi-chip identifies the person in whom it is implanted, hence the name. Everyone has one -- everyone except me, it appears.

Creating one ex nihilo is difficult if not impossible. Modifying an existing one is easier ( Read more... )

Getting this identi-chip will take some planning and not a small amount of cunning, if for no other reason than I have no idea what an identi-chip is.

I have discovered that gaining access to the library is not as easy as I had hoped. I traveled to the library and climbed its impressive staircase. The steps were flanked by large cat-like creatures rendered in stone ( Read more... )

I have made a discovery of startling import. Did you know that this world makes information freely available? That anyone can walk into a building known as a "library," whereupon they can access the knowledge of the ages ( Read more... )

I must learn more about this world I have been thrust into. While I am well bepanted at the moment, I do not yet have a coherent plan for the future.

Do all of the inhabitants of this new world make it a practice to mislead newcomers? I have found out that the woman, whose name turned out to be Sister Margaret, was lying about having actual water that would quench my thirst forever. She was speaking metaphorically, and about a death cult, no less ( Read more... )

My erstwhile friend misled me: Our Lady of Mercy is not a woman, but an organization dedicated to providing food, shelter, and clothing to those in need ( Read more... )

No one takes you seriously if you lack pants. This is not something I had ever had cause to learn in my prior life, but it is a fact I have had ample opportunity to validate in the last few hours ( Read more... )

I have no idea what went wrong with the spell. It was meant to transport me to a world not very unlike the one in which I used to live. Instead, the giant wheel of the multiverse has been spun, depositing me in a world utterly alien to me ( Read more... )

Eeeagh! An iron bird!