This swift current can lead to standing waves, large whirlpools, and roiling eddies. In 1682 Spencer wrote to London in the wake of the events roiling Virginia. But the roiling abstractions are actually cameraless photographs. Tharizdun was described in "Dragon" #294 as a pitch-black, roiling, amorphous form. The first mission revealed never-before-seen "magnetic braids" of plasma roiling in the Sun's outer layers. It's roiling with stuff in bins, on shelves, on the floor. Even in death, Capt. Levett could not avoid the controversies roiling the age.