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Incremental%20Perturbation. Literary or Genre, It’s the Plot That Counts. Colombian necktie. A Colombian necktie (Spanish: corbata colombiana or corte corbata) was a form of post-mortem mutilation consisting of a deep incision under the victim's chin, through which the tongue is pulled out and left hanging down in grisly resemblance to a necktie.

A male victim's genitals are sometimes also severed and put in the mouth. It originated in Colombia during the period of political violence known as La Violencia, as a method of psychological warfare, meant to scare and intimidate.[1][2] The invention of the Colombian necktie is sometimes wrongly attributed to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.[3] O. J. Blood eagle. A section from the Stora Hammars I stone from Gotland, Sweden.

The illustration may show a man lying prone with another man using a weapon on his back. There is a Valknut above him, and two eagles, one of which is held by a man to the right. The blood eagle is a ritualized method of execution, detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Sagas, the victim (always a member of a royal family) was placed prone, the skin was cut parallel and adjacent to the spine (usually with a knife), the flesh was ripped/peeled outwards towards the arms the ribs severed from the vertebral column with a sharp implement (usually with an axe) and the lungs pulled through the opening and laid upon the shoulders to create a pair of folded “wings”. There is a continuing debate about whether the ritual was a literary invention, a mistranslation of the original texts or an actual historical practice.[1][2][3] Accounts[edit] Einarr and Halfdan[edit] Ivar and King Ælla[edit]

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You are either a virgin or a sad and lovely widow whose husband was lost at sea. You are spirited, but still passing ladylike. Dan Cox's Blog - Learning Twine: Part 3. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.

The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. [Before proceeding too far into this post, I recommend checking out Part 1 and Part 2 first. From beginning at the Start passage to changing styles using CSS, I have covered a large amount of material before getting to this part. I highly encourage you not to jump into this post without reading the other two or having a good familiarity with how Twine works.] So far, passages have been the results of static text that was written and then read afterwards. Start [Twine Wiki] Twine 2 Twine 2 is the most recent release series of Twine.

If you've never used Twine before, this version is recommended. Twine 1 Twine 1 was the original version of Twine, and is still available to download for Windows and Mac. Story Formats Story formats are separate from the Twine editor, and determine the markup and code you use to write your stories. Harlowe Harlowe is the default story format for Twine 2. Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games. When I was analysing the structures of CYOA works a few years back, I began to recognise some strong recurring design patterns. I came up with some home-brewed terminology, but didn’t ever lay it out in a nice clear way.

Dan Cox's Blog - Learning Twine: Part 2. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.

The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. [Before proceeding too far into this post, I recommend checking out Part 1 first. In it, I cover introducing Twine, creating Links, and changing Story Formats. I also start the story I will be working with for this post.] Previously, connecting one passage to another was shown using Links. Function [Twine Wiki] ← About Expressions ——— Printing Variables and Functions → When writing code in your stories, functions are special devices that can be used in expressions in place of variables or values.

Syntactically, they consist of: a name, which is subject to the same rules that variable names are under, followed by a ( left bracket, followed by zero or more other expressions separated by commas, followed by a ) right bracket. Technically speaking, any Javascript built-in function is available to the Twine author: parseInt(), JSON.stringify(), document.createElement() and all the rest are accessible, as are any functions that have been added by scripts. However, you should find the most commonly useful functions are among these Twine exclusives and basic browser functions: