My mind somehow meshes the ideas from butcher's dresden books, where your belief in an icon as a symbol of the faith matters more than its actual connection to the religion, and lackey's high magic (compared to the wild magic) where the collective energy of the populace can be collected and stored to be used. So I end up with this idea where the catholic church has collected a vast amount of energy to be used, and the utterance of latin is the individual's (in this case constantine's) personal symbolic link to the catholic church to harness that energy.
That always made me do a double take in hades. Everytime he was called 'prince zed' by sisyphus I had to take a second to think about what was being said.
I once thought the females of the species had one opening for both. Growing up on a farm means you have some wicked advanced knowledge compared to other kids your age, but can introduce some really hilarious beliefs...
I never thought about why I thought women were more like our chickens than our horses/cows, but eh, some things just pan out.
...that seems like it must have been faked. Even if the nerves had been burned off, that's serious damage. Nerves are in the dermis, and if that gets burned seriously enough to make all the nerve endings dead, you're going to have a bad time. Just because the pain isn't being felt also doesn't prevent further damage.
The globe? Sure. A region, or even a country? It's more common than you think. Sales, 'professionals' with conferences, and people that work for large companies that have people meeting.... these all move large amounts of folks around for work, and hotels are easy to book, invoice to the company, and are generally next to a conference center or have it in the same building.
If you really want to be an inconvenience, DON'T give them the plate numbers. Those will almost certainly come back to some entity or person that will clue the dispatchers in on them being government owned.
That's amazing. How did you build the vertical space? I built about 300 observation towers into a lovely platform to 'skydive' from, and then my game lagged out. I have a really old comp, so it was expected, but still grumbling worthy. I couldn't really get the hang of the vertical building without stacking and deleting platforms.
If I remember correctly, most of the modern aging processes try to mimic natural caves, since we just don't have enough of the real thing to age all of our cheese.
Yamaha is definitely in tune with the music. I never remember which is which, but their logo is tuning forks and depending on the product the tuning forks can extend past the circle. I think their motorcycles have it extending past.
I mean, just look at their example. Level 17+ for the math? Holy shiiiiiit. At levels 15+, you're basically living legends that are about to start conquering kingdoms singlehandedly and fighting gods. That's not "a talented musician," that's the dude who leads month long rave parties that brings in all the nobility's children and starts a religion that is then used with said children to start coups in the continental region.
The real answer to your unstated question is that they can (hopefully) get away with the murder and not be discovered. It would be nearly impossible to divorce without the entire community knowing.
Most christians (conveniently) forget the little jesus parable about comparing the priest publicly donating and praying in the street to the woman quietly putting a much smaller amount in the donation coffers. To the modern christian, being a part of the 'in-group' by publicly making everything about their religion IS the way they engage with their religion. If they were to be rejected by the 'religious community' ONLY THEN would they care.
And we're all jealous of woody the woodpecker on this glorious summer day.