The Adventures of Tulip, Part Four

Tulip spent yesterday evening wandering around the sewers under the castle kitchens.

It turns out that the best equipment for Tulip to wear while slogging through rat-infested wastewater isn't his usual canvas pants with Link-from-Legend-of-Zelda boots, but rather tight black leggings with knee-high fashion boots, which grant a higher immunity to poison. Black leggings worn under tunic-style leather torso armor looks very 2008, and not in a good way. Tulip is a fashion disaster.

If I continue to follow the IGN walkthrough I've been consulting religiously, today Tulip will fight his first dragon. I've already been killed by two dragons elsewhere, and it was pretty much instant death in both cases. We'll see how this goes. Good luck Tulip!

Shaped Like a Friend

"A spider as large as a small dog would be really creepy," you have probably thought at some point in your life. But please consider:

I got a walking bedside lamp. Now I'm not afraid to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom
https://mobile.twitter.com/lanius/status/1533338054014169088

You probably shouldn't click on the link if you're genuinely afraid of spiders, so let me describe what's going on: It's a video of a lamp-sized white glowing cube attached to six black robotic legs that resemble spider legs. The legs move through hydraulic action in a jerky way that resembles a spider. This robot apparently lives in the house of a woman with two young children. The younger boy is a bit frightened of it, but the older girl offers her blanket to the robot and tries to play with it.

This should be uncanny, but it's actually kind of cute.