Whelm

I liked the Hobbit and all, but … Then I played in a pickup game of D&D run in the cars on the way to Boy Scout camp – no dice, just the DM making calls; everyone had Blackrazor or Whelm or a crossbow (oddly, the crossbow was the most powerful) and most scenes ended up with the characters doing each other in to get all the loot.

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Approaching Numenes, the Wispen Argent first passed by Blazon, the next world out in orbit, to be cleared for landing, by the Whelm - a precaution to minimize the danger of an attack from space upon the Connatic's Palace.

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

Glinnes ran out on the verandah to see the Whelm ship arrive-a beautiful stately craft enameled in beige, scarlet and black.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

They grimaced and snarled at the Whelm troops "Ugly Folk" they were indeed.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

We assumed rtiat vrni WPTW matin a a rareer in the Whelm and wouldn't be home.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

When harshness becomes unavoidable he deploys his military agency, the Whelm.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

I am something more than a roving journalist, as I hold the commission of Over-inspector in the Whelm.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

Standard strategy of the Whelm, validated across ten thousand campaigns, was to mass a tremendous force so extravagantly overpowering as to intimidate the enemy and impose upon him the certain conviction of defeat.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

Glay neither enlisted in the Whelm, played hussade, nor be-Shortly after Glinnes joined the Whelm.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

In the end it was Glinnes who went to Port Maheul and there enlisted in the Whelm.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973