Esses; and Instructions on their Use

Esses

Like a pearl formed in your gullet

Like a heavy heart dragged by many hands

Like a wall of water subsuming swimmers

Like a vast and uncaring land

From a sling shoots a single bullet

And a single word shimmers

From a distance great and vast

Sound from mountaintops echoes right past

Beyond the words is something greater

There is much to be said of making do

So many people serve and cater

But this decision is up to you

HERE THEY ARE!

Listed out below are:

Snowy

Solo

Starvation

Surreal

Scrying

Survival

Summit

Salted

Savior

Sepulchered

Soused

Salvaged

Symbolic

Sacred

Scary

Sexy

Slaying

Stillborn

Structural

Suspenseful

HOW TO USE ESSES

When ideas won't flow, some people go and use random generators. Many artists rely on chance to start what has become stale, to kickoff a thought. Modular Synths, paint splatter, tarot, dice, RNG.

There is significance in dreams, in random chance.

We, as RPG people, love random tables.

This is my take on them.

All that you have to do is open the book or scroll the PDF, and pick two or more pages. Then you pick a word.

The top word on each Ess table/page will always start with an S, and it is intended to be the connecting factor of all the rest of the words on the table/page.

So for example, Starvation is what I chose, and I will pick a word by running my finger over it like an Ouija board. I get Exhausted. Then I flip to Salvaged.

I scan quickly and pick Bodies.

The result is exhausted bodies.

This is how several spells, creatures, ideas, concepts, and many other factors get created by me for my writing and play.

I encourage you to add and subtract, to make your own, to make many until you like their use, to use the to create new things and new places, and above all, to have fun using them.

You can also use them as drop tables with dice, or roll a die, move that many down, and mark where you were, and move from there subsequently. All the overarching words are intended to be linked to the overall concepts and ideas I am trying to present in this book, so hopefully the results fit in the world I have created here.

Snowy

Crevice Mutilated Nursing Prone Mother Frozen Bewitching Slate Peregrine Procreation Serene Godhead Nymph Waif Profile Goat Suckling Skeletonize Slope Groin Gore Massacre Impale Amulet Oracle Fragment Evil Egret Carmine Horse Demon Folds Capsize Totem Urchin Descent Happer Pyre Morn Enchantment Obelisk Depth Crevice Scry Architect Mirror Maze Labyrinthine Ning Rider Hollow Prismatic Hare Listening Ready Surfactant Icicles Bloody Impossible Stacked Familiar Ovulate Dead Cast High-Guard Misinformation Decay Horde Enslave Hail Vault Wander Storm Feminine Outpost Thaw Dim Framing Gates Boreal Cover War Restrain Giant Equipped Crystallize Illuminate Martyr Wastes Bear Crusader Guide Elder Command Balance Yeti Hammer Sharp Whisper Wind Travel Frost Flood Invisible Vex Fallen Snowflake Assassinate Harvest Cairne Gristle Wretch Scourge Plagued Tomb Bones Phantasmal Rime Codex Battle Dogsled Warlord Crevasse Ancient Fury Fur Skiff Spirit Flee Monster Red-Death Finery Ashes Stained Stalk Elven Panther Oxen Centaur Druid Lizard Masculine Intercessor Hibernate North Nobleman Coruscate Otherform Shelter Calling Diamond Queen Range Feast Falls Fiend Ambush Ancestor Inn Shanty Fox Alliance Peace Portent Snowfall Ghoul Ghastly Offering Dance Abjure Drift Gangrene Killing Fetish Potence Frenzied Shaman Glacial Mountain Village Blizzard Dire Circumstances Pines Graveyard Stand Wool Glacier Crown Scepter Hole Archway Chasm Floe River Layer Treasured Eye Oubliette Magic Witch Woes Prance Warren Winter Spell Porthole Maggots Map White Drifting Blood Rapist Pregnant Milk Invader Spider Native Ice

Solo

alone in chamber signature truly lonely an absence sustained dangerous swords mission individual memory chocolate project lost as death dead climbing walking meander esteem pathway hunter clearing stalked investigate um pariah solidarity prayer ib connection intersperse stoic pew dying stiff message orating achievement intricate distance focus imagining flight free confined life end wayward road brass heaven return orange one king wands isolated pilgrim long quarantine peak hibernation singular voice unique chiefly last figure mute unknown woman but focus single stag unescorted unguarded indeterminate snare bedevil widowed vilomah desolate hermit peerless awol piano dearth void staves adrift ringlets ahead detail career particularly missed bottle bereave stalk demise tomb unmarred mourn looting kiss gaunt dead hand and boat river see journey pitch pentacles embers gospel spy knowledge impostor falcon corpse secret city appendage knife carve man teabag elf row guest wall cups hiatus folding grate glitter gate flush style ice flicker flame flurry water soul the sack music sadness minute improvise song vox collection struggle embark

Starvation

Malnutrition Famine Thirst Verge Exhaustion Fasting Ration Hunger Brink Beating Deprivation Starving Hardship Dying Ghetto Extermination Glucose Perished Prolonged Rampant Nutrient Uncontrolled Dying Metabolic Imminent Weakened Amino Iroquois Khmer Deliberate Suffering Diet Nutritional Widespread Humanitarian Eating Drought Torture Misery Carbohydrate Epidemic Blockade Shortage Siege Homelessness Scarcity Disease Deportation Emigration Stave Metabolism Diet Calorie Sickness Exposure Mortality Brutality Drowning Wage Die Freezing Leningrad Cholera Suffering Labourer Depletion Genocide Pang Kazakh Poverty Desertion Diabetes Neglect Food Besiege Civilian Poisoning Million Atrocity Plague Confinement Intake Insulin Diarrhea Obesity Peasantry Surrender Subsistence Peasant Alcoholism Thousand Auschwitz Deficiency Fuel Perish Starve Succumb Avert Alleviate Mass Brutal Gaunt Renal Precarious Surrendered Fatty Appalling Chronic Digestive Wretched Skeletal Urinary Near Inadequate Lingering Winter Fat Dietary Catastrophic Strenuous Harsh Lethal Destitute Miserably Desperate Barren Endocrine Disastrous Reduced Severe Doomed Forced Exhausted Imprisoned Bordering Slow Nutrition Idleness Nitrogen Oxygen Execution Illness Inquest Nutrient Cossack Survival Degradation Anarchy Harvest Electrolyte Cold Feeding Jamestown Crop Begging Liver Unemployment Grain Fever Imbalance Malaria Supply Stalin Nourishment Plenty Toil Toll Tool Repression Cruelty Laborer Prisoner Livestock Ukrainian Livelihood Nazis Anemia Death Fatigue Potato Camp Bread Breakdown Soup Stress Imprisonment Tuberculosis Dread Garrison Appetite Forage Save Endure Scrape Subject Exterminate Dregs Deplete Grounds Deport Face Induce Inflict Villager Armenian Kidney Internment Massacre Chattanooga Inmate Refugee Miracle Serum Killing Coroner Condition Despair Lipid Reindeer Mao Survivor Concentration Dies Ferocity Colonist Prospect Protein Danger Predator Suicide Prostitution Relief Facing Inuit Winter Overrun Provision Vitamin Cambodia Bacterium Wasting Vomiting Save Acid Unrest Fed Desperation Expenditure Catastrophe Holocaust Likelihood Inability Turnover Failure Infection Denial Rape Cattle Smallpox Ate Nimitz Threat Malwa Cannibal Luxury Desolation Systematically Sheer Ragged Hungry Lean Inevitable Extreme Helpless Impending Tens Excessive Scarce Nazi Poor Endogenous Threatened Voluntary Gastrointestinal Terrible Deficient Homeless Thyroid Resulting Acid Weaken Resort Suffer Eat Rescue Deprive Exacerbate Cause Synthesize Estimate Condemn Compel Force

Surreal

Praise Eerie Poetic Fizzle Puzzle Cancer Wound Complexity Inversion Mirrored Upheaval Structured Séance Photographic Tone Poem Animate Math Cinematic Orthodoxy Complexity Lewd Cusp Crux Sequence Developing Gelatin Rhyme Odd Goldfish Stylized What Claptrap Popup Swordfish Color Trapped Dreary Painted Environs Wrapped Plot Transition Portrait Veins Pulse Appear Giant Eclectic Glass Ghoulish Stable Antipathy Eerie Looping Dream Praise Raspberry Files Dealings Looseleaf Extramural Shock Blue Portrait Intersex Pome Cantrip Dome Numerical Lobster Relationship Cairne Biscuits Expansion Decision Alien Diving Viewpoint Nightmare Complimentary Bedeviled Daubed Fearful Visage Prose Intriguing Delicacy Customary Encroach Mysterious Even Heirloom Hope Explore Tesserae Fragments Absurd Minutiae Vision Sherds Courtesies Music Seasilk Swordswallowing Lynchian Consistency Motif Symbol Satire Realistic Emergence Dark Dreamy Created Religious Arcs Flowers Stars Organs Snowflakes

Scrying

Flock Kind Predict Ball Shout Sighted

Approaching Distant Crimson Strange Steaming

Navigator Seer Unseen Inertia Senses Outbound

Vibrant Possible Lime Patrol Flare Pretty Blind

Jet Submerged Projected Drifting Images Light

Casting Astral Indigo Pyre Crystal Glass

Scattering Ray Port Spy Horrible Regretful Forget

Amnesia Joy Dread Dazzling Simulated

Exploding Paraphrasing Perverse Tense

Segmenting Gluing Seer Paraphrase Orange Thrill

Mist Optic Curve Lenses Witness Glory Shrink

Gaze Peer Forebear Mere Bucolic Hazy Sphere

Orb Eye Ghosts Fold-out Foil Spectate

Particularly Observe Essentially Rose Three

Speech Patterns Intuit Dilate Really Widen

Hooded Twitch Lemon Nervous Pretty Cold Facet

Affect Gaunt Violet Vivid White Vigorous Widen

Part Intimate Dividing Peephole Telescope Vivid

Survival

Lean-To Hydration Drying Hunting Foraging Season Trapping Shelter Mentality Music Cooperation Efficiency Fungi Rabbit Sickness Knowledge Path Determination Calories Prevention Smoke Fire Animals Insects Rafts Signal Bow Spear Cave Brush Sprains Tinder Quiet Expansive Tracking Water Meat Insulation Scrape Hide Organs Trail Exposure Self-Care Shoes Jacket Movement Sleep Adrenaline Polar Instinct Bark Tree Leaves Fire-Bundle Vomit Chance Hypothermia Subsistence Regimen Locale Threat Predator Toxic Map Infection Prey Essential Adaptive MacGyverism Miracle Luck Septicemia Determination Estimate Prolong Nutrients Ecology Improve Camp Lifeboat Disaster Rely Harsh Prepare Consider Think First-Aid Altitude Frostbite Preservation Selection Time Fitness Success Individual Bezel Wilderness Fishing Bushcraft Snakebites Burns Fire Stress Panic Light Knife

Summit

Snout Adakite Acclimatization Oolite Mine Trip Basalt Sandstone Traverse Lava Adze Lost Rappelling Carbonatite Anthracite Tarn Mud Airbell Ledge Diorite Gneiss Pitch Peat Belly Gabbro Schist Cornice Pitch Boneyard BacharLadder Granite Marble Bidoigt Sand Moraine Choke Hyaloclastite Bergschrund Slate Sinter Rib Carabiner Buffoon Nephelinite Talc Amberat Cupola Obsidian Verglas Soapstone Karst Sump Porphyry Crevasse Jadeite Soda Terrace Pumice Anchor Butte Flowstone Overhang Window Abalakov-Thread Quartz Crag Avalanche Helictites Cairne Abseil Tuff Gorge Fixed-Rope Ice Crystal Wall Arkose Inselberg Branchwork Bolt Snow-Line Escarpment Free-Climbing Col Ice Belay Breccia Mesa Bail Angular Bollard Serac Chalk Peak Anastomotic Crack Chert Promontory Spongework Crampon Claystone Cliff Bivouac Ramiform Crux Coal Stack Pit DRT Coquina Tor Petroglyph White-Out Dyno Dolomite Stalactite Gendarme Glacier Gap Bollard Ledge Flint Belay Wind-Chill Stalagmite Pitch Knot Greywacke Cave Aspect Squeeze Beta Limestone Butress Gully Spring Scree Hazard Slab Free-Solo Shale Alpine Wind-Slab Wall Bridge Rockfall Ablation-Zone Harness Chockstone

Salted

Curing Salty Honeyed Mead Sausage Bacon Herring Pellicle Smoke Brine Lapsang Rauchbier Paprika Prunes Wumei Pickle Pastrami Ham Bakkwa Jerkey Kippers Gouda Gruyere Stockfish Bacalhau Bitong Beef Proscuitto Harofiskur Reindeer Bresaola Raisins Fig Date Garlic Onion Shitakke Octopus Boullion Noodles Anchovies Halloumi Feta Munster Yeast Carnation Sanka Eggs Kashk Evaporated Creamer Oatmeal Tarhana Tempeh Tarasi Ancho Apple Apricot Black Lime Bannana Chenpi Peppers Cherry Chipotle Coconut Cranberry Goji Gotgam Guajillo Mango Cashew Peanut Almond Pistachio Walnut Candlenut Chestnut Hazelnut Kola Betel Tobacco Pine Macadamia Soybeans Maize Tea Herbs Spices Salt Alcohol Packed Pressed Dried Wrapped Oiled Canned Sealed Jarred Preserved Stored Buried Casked Aged Ristra Tomato Watermelon Wolfberry Blackbean Lima Pinto Broadbean Butter-bean Ghee Stringbean Sugarpea Sugarsnap Black-eyed Cannalini Mung Red Kidney Navy Great-Northern Fava Faygot Chickpeas Lentils Peas Adzuki Coffee Anasazi Wheat Rice Sorghum Molasses Brown White Wild Rice Millet Sunflower Rapeseed Barley Balyk Bokkoms Boknafisk Budu Worcestershire Soy Conpoy Daing Fesikh Gwamegi Juipo Hematogen Katsuobushi Keumamah Kusaya Lefse Lutefisk Maldive Mackrel Mojama Piracui Sanyaa Vobla Apohtin Borts Bresi Bundnerfleisch Cabanossi Capicola Carne-De-Sol Carne-Seca Cecina Chorizo Culatello Droewors Droge-Worst Elenski-but Fenalar Jamon Jinhua Kilishi Kulen Kuivaliha Lahndi Lountza Machaca Pemmican Pinnekjott Pepperoni Pitina Presunto Rousong Salumi Skerpikjot Sopressata Speck Lox Sukuti Tapa Tolkusha Tsamarella Canned Jellied Aspic Pickled Potted Jugged Fermented Apples Cherries Venison Mustard

Savior

salve magic protect solution father

direction magic deescalate elixir

nostrum guardian supplies unarmed

arc prepared fountainhead manna panacea

juice selfless pluck earthen teacher

wind- up sacrament atmosphere skyborne

plowers significance laborers planters

position mother vanguard weavers

defenders lightray porters Quakers

quiverers plodder boatswain firefighter

healer dockers guardsmen spirit

farmers sailors progenitor indemnify

prophet defuse liberator snowmen

potatoes creator salvager faith coats

cradle waiter redeemer sphere gardener

witness document vilomah evidence

aura drainers loyalty soldier advisor

messenger wife husband messiah

beloved manumit preserver survivor

consecrate hero achiever mentor

nurturer optimism dynamo halo sun

saint

Sepulchered

Feet Bodies Chest Gold Food Supplies Symbols Excess Treasure Jewels Tombs Dissenters Corpses Evidence Victims Animals Tunnels Casket Jar Fermented Barrels Salt Coffin Nails Witches Minutiae Dead Plagued Coffer Secrets Emotion Seeds Roots Memories Bones Watch Bell Ring Book Tablet Drugs Paraphernalia Pareidolia Figures Ceramics Vessels Corpus Waterways Boats Travelers Unnamed Mass Glass Trash Forgotten Passages Skulls Letters Maze Pipes Discarded Burial Vault Skulls Phrenology Spine Chromosomes Jacklegs Skull Sepulchers Book Pipes Nailed Coffin Restations Bookshelf Droppings Grounds Snail Colonies Traps Day Basins Web Bearded Cave Fly Hunting Hooks Security Contracts Remains Pottery Glyphs Polyethylene Full Abyss Axe Profanity Stone Runes Soothsayer Underwear Secret Vault Parcels Sick Stomach Gecko Ghoul Den Deceased Niceties Onyx Boxes Gloves Mail Boxes Rot

Soused

Screwdriver Vodka Rum Boilermaker Gin Wine Ale Fizz Gimlet Corn Cobbler Beer Absinthe Brandy Fogking Negus Port Whiskey Punch Straw Moonshine Vampiro Rice Hurricane Old-Fashioned Cognac Dram Michelada Flip Swallow Cider Kombucha Mead Pulque Crown Shrub Grog Ricewine Soju Nemo G&T Horsefeather Tequila Painkiller Loko Yeast Dregs Applejack Palinka Mint-Julep White Russian Mudslide Shot Porchcrawler Schnapps Copper Rickey Jagermeister Sour Grasshopper Stew Swig Pina-Colada Toddy Tepache Mirto Kahlua Midnight Baileys Crème-De Gulp Glass Curacao Jabuticaba Limoncello Daisy Moscow-Mule Barley Bacardi Sloe Fortify Cloister Ferment Triple-Sec Herbsaint Amaro Mojito Daiquiri Chartreuse Fuzzy- Navel Yorsh Menta Shandy Amaretto Drambuie Fireball Blitz Wild-Turkey Wheat Hops Collins Aurum Brew Sangria Campari U-Boot Tuxedo Distill Crusta Fix Swerve Barrel Cask Drunk Bottle Spritzer Wasted

Salvaged

Imprinted Vintage Stones Rusted Intact Broken Gratified Recovered Bricks Scratched Excavated Heirloom Pottery Patina Cracked Blemished Dinged Bodies Kaput Reclaimed Antique Old Lantern Dusty Forgotten Secondhand Stained Discolored Missing Shelled Debris Repaired Door Burnt-Out Creaking Scuttled Sunk Dredged Buried Downed Retrieved Spare Key Ruin Repurposed Rattling Obsolete Surplus Improvised Cairnes Handmade Preserved Headstone Paper Iron Mission Ship Wreck Wreckage Shipwreck Tug Cargo Diving Hulk Diver Vessel Barge Repair Artifact Recycling Scrap Demolition Submarine Junk Battleship Hull Lifeboat Sinking Lumber Crew Harbor Timber Equipment Admiralty Treasure Schooner Overhaul Navy Dump Item Pearl Keel Warship Reef Archaeologist Freighter Unicorn Steamer Salvage Torpedo Compartment Destroyer Yacht Craft Gear Survivor Shipping Remains Fleet Disaster Cruiser Boat Portsmouth Ars Tow

symbolic

rose skull target devil priestess key eye petal hammer chariot leaf crescent salt pretzel hermit wind star city beetle tower lamp sun noose bull world acorn lion cloud crystal fool dove swan flask clay hanging black spider pawn doll moth ladder wolf snow oil door mirror triangle diamond shovel river flag spiral coat pick ring cross rainbow face monster cell moon circle staves rags dots green dragon cups voyage lines silver angel wheel rebirth bones owl tree flower ghost segment ox fish smoky hero vessel bat halo checker mother pi crown tau anchor soap innocent equal raven frog tin mentor pyramid butterfly arch bubble scapegoat lips droplet cat triskelion villain hand cloak arrows snake recycle initiation stag lion rain foot gold fight ram heart ouroboros shell fall crab horse caduceus doppelganger magician mermaid

sacred

altar coven ghetto mra rhema priest cult hadavar martyr rosetta orison deity halloween candelabra wach saint demon heaven messiah rune church deosil hell mihrab sabbath steeple diaspora heptateuch millennium samhadi meditate dogma iching prophet santaria holy doomsday idol nde stigmata pure dowsing immortal necromancy tabernacle divine eightfold incubus soul phylacteries prayer enlightenment succubus olbers temple absolution epiclesis inerracy testament virgin savior equinox star omnibenificent willed miracle solstice judge sin wrath acolyte esoteric kama orthodov zen advent christ koan karma astral sacrifice allegory faith kenosis pagoda funeral besom fasting legalism parable feast heresy fungshui atonement quaker shaker trance divination fatwa liturgy quest preach codex gaia machpela racism sermon catechism gehena nechymaya rapture festival celibate genziah mahayana rede dance ceremony genocide rosary resurrect symbol chalice geomancy mandala reincarnation origin marriage ghost mantra revelation music

scary

boarded speedball tub violence spined

doorway secret scarce intruder dull tunnel

abandoned glass masked acidic shriek foal

blurry hopeless ghoul skeletal ritual

poetry journey gristle thug writhe warlock

control tomb missing butler dread immers

unearthed addiction clues candlelit vile

implication fearful ragged murder flies

harrowing paranoia heinous puppet gurney

green infection liar swollen arachnid

peephole pus ape teeth children destitute

birthed sealed terror looming peril briar

chute terrace pews processed wolf alien

dark boogie rotten falling poison woods

thing trapdoor height strayshot insanity

worms behind rusty stopgap scraps

stagnant veiled puncture canyon hidden

burst stoning trap cold burned eye panic

drunk shit corpse detective archway cruel

liche gruesome moon moving slaver

lichen attic moonlit woman prison pariah

isolation man walk sickness rape

drowning sudden cell prince quiet mad

laced grandmother darkness roach bundle

sexy

busty bra dress pubic butt lacy cleavage bashful lip natural androgynous grin whisper cupping happy spread trio snarl kiss nipples nose arms grip freckles dark duo robed naked clothed brown muscled thin tummy penis eyes vagina feet mouth white shaven nude friend goofy acne hair contrast strong small tall lick mother father pale trust back neck ear foreign dominance short pierced consent bald tan clean brunette youth rough soft choke groped silly pretty caring woman man pain erect aroused tussle mount young old selfless shirtless glasses kneel flash armpit embrace missionary innocent jewelry experienced trans lounging breasts tongue legs smile wink talking walk gaze perched cute punk blonde look ugly dance sing cook cooperate create rebel pink fraction restraint rosy redhead toned bearded tattooed classical black confident

slaying

bleach diabetes cessation inferno stroke

diarrhea passing molasses lead

tuberculosis beheading quietus cyanide

homicide boiled necrosis falling murder

indigestion euthanasia crushed malaria

madness stabbed lightning gasoline

hepatitis stabbing depressurized

termination repose corpsed mushroom

hypothermia dismembered degloved

scalped heroin parasite roulette gunshot

influenza gauntlet fire bees cutting

gangrene frostbite cannibalized

dehydration leprosy bear drowning

leukemia bleeding asphyxiate asthma

trampled electrocution tetanus sepsis

hanging syphilis hypoxia epilepsy seizure

flayed mauling assassinated overdose

scaphism starvation suffocation impaled

explosion mercury amputation age illness

crucified cancer snakes blunt

stillborn

unfairness frostbite malicious eclipse

crushed cropped pain grudge painful

poison deaf flames missing urine injury

drugged crematory filth cripple blue

blindness bombed bomb defecation

hemorrhage dizziness cancer vertigo

fearful maggot drainage death smog

grime excretion coal pimple wound lice

mites swelling gangrene sepsis vomit

scalping rigormortis lockjaw blunted

concussion bruise killing torture

splinters infested moldy rotten rot

ammonia veins offal scat bushmeat

sausage pupae fermented abuse incest

bloated roadkill bile cyanide smoking

tobacco carpet roaches worrying sadism

socket ash radiation burns infected

contagious unmentionable snot murder

mutilate dandruff liver wasps stings

bedsore soiled

structural

abacus chimney lunette scroll aisle sash

clerestory meander sommer apron coffer

mullion spandrel arch coping aereostyle loculus

column soffit spire nave springer arris

corbel niche squinch ashlar cornice oculus

squint attic crypt onion-dome stoop rotunda

ballflower cryptoporticus order sunburst

bartizan cupola paneling systyle basilica

diastyle parapet tracery belfry dormer

pavilion turret cantilever estrade plinth

tympanum cellar façade pediment

voussoir caryatid flushwork moat masonry

ventilation buttress gable pendentive wing

basement gargoyle peristyle window

baluster gazebo phiale balustrade

balconette dome pier bay atrium grotto accolade

portcullis hallway arrowslit vestibule

portico courtyard architrave hyphen

quoin eaves arcade keystone vault rafters

apse light rake frieze ante-choir lintel pillar

suspenseful

anxious abeam absentee test hesitate setting asis fight doubt left estimate question perplexing sounding gavel lie nervous sailing lot chase thrill abaft bid duel dilemma aground provenance escape problem speed broker theft wavering right closing panic wobbly draft contract traitor hanging bow escrow ceremony tenterhook astern preview crash poise anchorage sealed accostment heading lowest caught alarming south highest forbidden pendulous port yep hover fathom prise hidden mystery drift commission trespass stress west chant responsibility epidictic buoy valuation blushing tremble stern auction confessing breathless east paddle suspend darkness eternity tide guarantee flirting agonizing guesswork course market secret planning fix increment cooking suddenly north appraisal waiting climactic