To say the fundamentals are strong tempts fate, but the fundamentals are as strong as they have been in over a decade.
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Miraculously, she has managed to fill a big hole in her résumé without putting a big dent in her reputation, and she knows that the longer she stays, the more she tempts fate.
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The Sophocles tale not only comes out of the Western canon but its notion of the headstrong individualist who probes and questions and tempts fate is convenient shorthand for the would-be tradition-killers of Western modernity.
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THE DUNGEON OF UNNECESSARY PERIL: Tempts Fate finds a cool belt and is made to test it in a dungeon crawl. :6. TEMPTS FATE VS. THE MMORPG: Tempts Fate starts trouble in an MMORPG. :7. THE FOUR TESTS OF SHARED DREAD: Tempts Fate explores the land of unfinished DnD campaigns. :8. THE REALLY, REALLY POORLY MADE CHARACTERS: Tempts Fate is attacked by four really, really poorly made characters.
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The money gained was not refunded. Instead, it was rolled over into Tempts Fate 8.5.A discussion on the creation and shelving of Tempts Fate Game. By the time that the program needed to play the self contained Tempts Fate 9 game were completed, Ellipsis was no longer interested in running it, so the game was quietly canceled without an official announcement. Eventually, a new Tempts Fate 9 game was created, and all references to the original version were deleted from the website.
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In order to encourage donations, Ellipsis created a side comic featuring a goblin character named Tempts Fate, who is not connected with the main story.All Tempts Fate Stories At the beginning of each donation drive, Tempts Fate is faced with a series of obstacles and dangers; whether or not he survives, and how skillfully he does so, directly correlates with how much money the donation drive makes. Were the donation goal not met, Ellipsis has promised Tempts Fate will perish, never to be brought back again. Tempts Fate 11 has been implied to be the character's last and most expensive adventure, netting Ellipsis $37,151.67.
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She tempts fate when she carries on her gallantries and her Italian cicisbeism under the eyes of Scone Dacres.
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Donation fees in this adventure were abnormally high and Ellipsis used all the money raised to help purchase a house. After over three years Ellipsis has yet to complete the page the donations were raised for. In 2008, Ellipsis started a donation drive to create an interactive game with Tempts Fate. This was called Tempts Fate 9.
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In 2013, she appeared in Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs Tsunami."Disaster Wars Tempts Fate and Goes Into Production Just in Time" . TomCatFilmsllc.com. Retrieved December 21, 2012. In 2007 Barnes appeared at the annual New York International Fringe Festival as Hillary Clinton in Nick Salamone's play Hillary Agonistes.
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Glaurung utilizes negative logizomai by calling Túrin's ways evil and giving him a list of "bad" names. Túrin finally changes his name to Turambar which in a way tempts fate as it is close to the accursed name Túrin. This change of name, and consequently identity, prevents anyone from finding him. He ends by defiantly mastering his own fate and killing himself.
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A fan comic, made by the user name of Worst Case, was created after being inspired by the original Tempts Fate 9 donation game. Link to fancomic There is also a sequel to this on her photobucket account. Link to second fancomic In July 2013 a further donation drive was funded through Kickstarter raising an additional $177,850 towards the game.
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As of December 2014, after numerous revisions of the game, Ellipsis claimed that Evertide Games "has run away with all the money". In June 2015, Ellipsis made several allusions on her forums that a further donation drive may be necessary to attempt recovery of funds from Evertide Games. This game has been removed from Kickstarter. Kickstarter Page showing the removal of G:AR To date, Tempts Fate has survived eleven donation drives.
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His parents kept the truth of his condition from him, passing the mandatory medication off as supplements for his weak health. He comes to know about his condition and resents his parents for keeping the truth from him and obstinately believes that Tiantian's parents are as selfish as his own. This is why he embarks on a mission to expose the couple's condition to the schools. Ever since he came to know about Bufan's condition, Black Horse no longer tempts fate nor pushes his luck, ceasing his visits to the brothels.
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On October 17, 2019, Ellipsis had an additional fundraiser to help cover costs of her transition to female. Instead of using a Tempts Fate donation drive, she opted to use Go Fund Me. After raising over $21,000 ($6,000 above the original goal), and having the surgery done, she deleted all mentions of the donation drive on her blog. As of May, 2020, her Go Fund Me is still accepting donations. Link to this is not available due to it being blacklisted by Wikipedia, but the title of the drive is "Elli's Transition Surgery".
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When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been raised in a most unconventional manner, with Mona having a much younger lover and the father Ralph keeping his own lover on the side. As Patricia grows older, she attracts the attention of her mother's former lover, the much older (than Patricia, who in the book is in her early to mid teens) Cary Scott. Patricia tempts fate with her wild ways, nearly loses her virtue to a musician aboard an ocean-going boat, and is saved in time by Cary.
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