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Artifact: King Tut’s *Scabbard*.

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Artifact: King Tut’s Scabbard

Occultists are amazingly predictable. All you have to say is something like “King Tut was buried with a dagger made from meteoric iron” and suddenly every member of the magical community is suddenly contemplating how to ‘liberate’ the item in question. Not all would fight for it, but some would; and some would even murder for the right to wield King Tut’s Dagger.  And not a man jack of ‘em would give more than a couple of looks at the scabbard.

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Life imitating Larry Niven again?

Be thankful it wasn’t the organ bank thing.

So there’s some evidence that we may have to revise our theories on when North America was first settled again:

At the height of the last ice age, [Smithsonian Institute anthropologist Dennis] Stanford says, mysterious Stone Age European people known as the Solutreans paddled along an ice cap jutting into the North Atlantic. They lived like Inuits, harvesting seals and seabirds.

The Solutreans eventually spread across North America, Stanford says, hauling their distinctive blades with them and giving birth to the later Clovis culture, which emerged some 13,000 years ago.

Glenn Reynolds semi-reasonably asks in response, “So what happened to them?”  I say ‘semi-reasonably’ because I know that Glenn has read a Larry Niven book or two in his time: clearly, what happened was the magic went away. Continue reading Life imitating Larry Niven again?