i think the basic difference between taz and cr is best illustrated by how they both handle zone of truth
in cr you have to tell the truth, but you can choose to not answer
in taz you are compelled to tell as many truths as you can get out, question-relevant or not
question: did you murder that stranger
critical role: i don’t know who that guy is (technically not a lie, since he’s a stranger)
the adventure zone: NOT ONLY DID I MURDER THAT MAN, I WENT INTO HIS CLOSET AND LICKED ALL HIS VESTS BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY STYLISH AND I NEEDED TO MAKE SURE NOBODY ELSE WOULD WANT THEM
there’s something very special about Merle’s brand of Zone of Truth (and I guess Ango’s for that matter)
option 1: taz faerun just has weird zone of truth dynamics and is generally just a little too meta for its own good
option 2: the original two-sun planet employed magic with identical effects but slightly altered results than the magic in use in the rest of d&d canon – which means merle was the one who taught angus zone of truth
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.
The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.
Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.
“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”
The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.
btw – let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.
the minimum marriage age for girls in new hampshire is 13 years old.
child marriage is not an “over there” problem, it happens right here, legally. any one of us might find ourselves called upon to break somebody’s nose if we encounter something like this occurring. we also have a responsibility to support groups and laws trying to end child marriage in this country.
”Archeologist Toby Driver has, unlike his office-bound colleagues, spent much of the current heat wave/drought afflicting the United Kingdom — the seasonal average in Wales is 19 C, while present temperatures are 30-plus — peering down at a rain-starved landscape from a small plane.”
“Driver, a senior investigator for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW), has been on the hunt for crop marks. Rings and whirls and squares and unmistakable marks on the land, visible from the sky, indicating the presence of ancient settlements — Roman forts, Iron Age farms and Medieval castles — buried beneath.”
funeral-biscuit 