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[[BRIMSWORTH and CLOMBERT have brought a pair of enormous ornate keys to a forbidding mountainscape.]]

BRIMSWORTH: The keys… they DID fit into the mountain!
CLOMBERT: Hark! A fissure yawns in the stone!

[[A wild-haired figure, HAGATHA, emerges dramatically atop a flying broom. I wouldn’t call her a witch, because I don’t know for sure, but you’d be forgiven for making the assumption.]]

HAGATHA (eerily): Who dares knock at the threshold of our realm?
BRIMSWORTH: We…we return the keys that were lost in the Twilight War!
HAGATHA: What! Be ye sons of the forest? Or sons of Earth?
BRIMSWORTH: Neither! We are heirs from the line of Seahaven!

HAGATHA: Lies from perdition! Seahaven bore no heirs these last centuries!
BRIMSWORTH: So it was thought!

[[Hagatha looms and zooms menacingly as the men shield their faces.]]

BRIMSWORTH: We wish only to return the keys to the Lord of Stone
HAGATHA: The Lord slumbers! He will not be woken to hear lies from men!

CLOMBERT: Ready a spell, brother…this hundred-year-old hag means us only ill!
HAGATHA: Aw, sweetie… do I really look only a hundred

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#1158; One Big Key to Success transcribed by in

[[BRIMSWORTH and CLOMBERT have brought a pair of enormous ornate keys to a forbidding mountainscape.]]

BRIMSWORTH: The keys... they DID fit into the mountain!
CLOMBERT: Hark! A fissure yawns in the stone!

[[A wild-haired figure, HAGATHA, emerges dramatically atop a flying broom. I wouldn’t call her a witch, because I don’t know for sure, but you’d be forgiven for making the assumption.]]

HAGATHA (eerily): Who dares knock at the threshold of our realm?
BRIMSWORTH: We...we return the keys that were lost in the Twilight War!
HAGATHA: What! Be ye sons of the forest? Or sons of Earth?
BRIMSWORTH: Neither! We are heirs from the line of Seahaven!

HAGATHA: Lies from perdition! Seahaven bore no heirs these last centuries!
BRIMSWORTH: So it was thought!

[[Hagatha looms and zooms menacingly as the men shield their faces.]]

BRIMSWORTH: We wish only to return the keys to the Lord of Stone
HAGATHA: The Lord slumbers! He will not be woken to hear lies from men!

CLOMBERT: Ready a spell, brother...this hundred-year-old hag means us only ill!
HAGATHA: Aw, sweetie... do I really look only a hundred

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All the sulfur smoke keeps my skin very luminous!

#1158; One Big Key to Success

  — September 15th, 2015

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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