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Feytharn tries to free himself from the gooey mass. Sure to have a chemical inhalant that turns the flesh eating bacteria into more or less harmless low heat fire (certainly hot enough to get rid of that cocoa beast - but he needs to reach his backpack - and, worse, to get in front of that drgon just in the moment he inhales for use of his breath weapon.
As he gets free he hastens to his backpack, grabbing for the inhalant.
While completely stuck and in goo and dizzy from sugar shock, Feytharn manages to keep his composure. He points the roasting stick,handle toward the dragon, remembering his many lessons in that ancient and serene language:
Feytharn whispers to Sable
I think, Zyren didn't post since Monday. I maintain the hope that his Internet connection will be reestablished, soon (soon after the 3rd) and all our games continue. Good Morning everybody, by the way.
If it helps you, pleas whine on. I am sure we can spare some hot chocolate and/or tea here at the fire.
My postings will become regular again starting January 1st. Sorry if i am keeping HoM up...
While I did read your posts from OP to this one, this was the part I chose to react to. That has nothing to do with either my attention span nor with your argument at large. Combined with you wanting us to agree with the rather general criticism that MMOs are just 'crappier version of single player RPGs (yes, I do know that you 'explained' that last point, I won't quote it to keep this post readable, interested readers might just scroll back a bit) it shows you have a very low opinion of MMOs. That is fine, as I wrote, I do not play any MMO myself. I just have seen too many people attacking hobbies I love with almost the same words and arguments you use to dismiss MMOs, to let that go by uncommented. I don't know about WOWs subscriptions and I frankly do not care, so why should I not ignore your rant about them?Now, because the readers and commenters in this thread don't take the time to discuss the 'improvements' someone who sees so little good in MMOs anyway, you act huffy and spend a post for a general attack on 'people like us'. You argue with half-truth about MMOs (or basically WoW - as if it was the only one of its kind) as you percieve them, seemingly knowing even less about them then I do, and want all others to just applaud your ideas of a better game without callenging them? Your chances of succes, I daresay are very slim. And that, again, has little to do with 'people like us' being unable to grasp the (indeed simple) concepts you present us.
I have seen a fair number of people who play to much
Please, if you do not like MMOs (I do myself not play them) don't use them as a scapegoat or project diffuse fears about addiction and 'unhealthy' entertainment at them, instead just play whatever you consider healthy and unaddictive fun.
My daughter's 4th birthday today :) I wish you and her a happy day!
How come you know that kind of injury? Helping too many people move... ...clumsiness......unwillingness to admit the clumsiness... ...trying to craft things despite the clumsiness... (Well, I can repair most moderatly difficult things in my household, I just generally get injured in the process...)
Yikes! At least take a photo, in case you need a model for a new aberration mini sometime... If you hace Aloe oil, that works wonders, better then any medical ointment I ever used (and I really, really know that kind of injury...)
:) Sorry, only had 4 hours of sleep and it's just oh so quiet in here. I hear you...first I had a horribly nightshift with more drunk and mixed upo customers tha I see half of the year (sunday night), then I have to work for classes during the day, then, when I finally get to sleep after some 40ish hours my neighbor upstairs gets into an argument with his girlfriend sreaming and shouting for another almost two hours... Then I get five or six hours of sleep... One day later and I feel like I could fall asleep standing... Oh, also my brother is over for christmas. experience says he will occupy my computer for most of the days, so my posting my become erratic and less frequent, I try to keep up with HoM, though.
I think it is nearly impossible to be both a pacifist and be good. You arent good you are apathetic. Many 'Doctors without Borders', a few of the I know personally are pacifists, they would probably disagre with you, as would some people engaged in building schools or hospitals in third world countries, many of whom are outspoken pacifists. 'Vanquishing evil' is not the only and, in my opinion, not even the best way to act and be 'good' As for the OPs question, while I distinguish between real lif morals and in game moral - if only because I would not know how it is to live as a trained fighter or wizard or cleric in a world as ravaged by violence and war as the average d&d world - but even in these worlds (aka in my games) killing evil is not a good act in itself. It may not be an evil act (if motives of the killing party are fun, profit and general sadistic tendecies they may well be), but they are not good. Protecting the village (possibly by means of killing the dragon that constantly attacks and threatens the villagers) or rescuing the innocent travellers (possibly by slaying every single member of the Lamashtu Cult that took them prisoner) could be the good acts - not the killings themselfs.
35, male, never served. I started playing D&D (or better MERP, (A)D&D one year later) around 1990. My regular players (I don't know when tey started playing D&D - some don't even play D&D/Pathfinder now, but I guess you are more interested in when they started roleplaying) would be 40, female, never served, plays for about 20 years with some longer break
We know that Germany will allow all kinds of terrible stuff to be put on film (Uwe Boll, for example), but does Germany have a concept of unacceptable porn? While the age of consent is 14, young people under 18 are in the area of a "protection age" meaning even a consent sexual relationship due to the exploitation of a plight or with a guardian / caretaker / teacher (responsible for the childs education) or employer is considered criminal as long as the offender is at least 14 yoa. Any sexual act for money or equal material boons with a person under the age of 18 is illegal if the offender (in case of pornography that would include a possible publisher) is at least 18yoa.
Sorry, still tired, almost two hours of waiting doctor's office (holidays are coming the years is reaching its end, everybody suddenly seems thinks he hast to get an appointment with his doctor - the staff there looked more sick then most patients did...), but hell, I take some marshmallows, have somme of my candies.
Sleep tight. I have, fore some reason or the other slept less then 9 hours since sunday morning, so Icould do with an update - free day. Good night for now.
I just don't want to see my friends and loved ones hurt by people who either don't care or actually enjoy hurting them. That is exactly the pojnt. You might actually endanger them to be hurt or killed in the name of justice, as one of the few innocents. Courts are made of men. Men make mistakes, men are prone to fall for prejudice and racial/social fear and hatred. Laws are not cast in stone. What is acceptable today, might be socially inacceptable tomorrow, might be a crime the day after tomorrow. The courts therefore should therefore exercise restraint in regard to revenge and passion, so they can more easily keep their own passions and predicaments out of the way.
It's OK, Kelsey, I tried a direct answer to Icyshadow, I took just enough time to type to get gangninjad ;-). And, as I wrote, I can accept different opinions, I just dislike to be belittled for mine. Actually, if I cannot trust a judical system to keep murderers inside a well secured building, how can I trust the sme system to make a good judgment on whom to kill? ;-)
Although I am not Sissyl and none of tose things involved murder, but in the last 18 years I have been mugged, have been beat up by a buch of nazis (injuries to the kidneys, head trauma),a few years later saved a guy who was beaten up by some looneys in front of my workplace, I was robbed at gunpoint, my sister is scarred for life after an accident with a carnapper and my father died in front of my eyes when his car was hit py a truck who exelled speed limit. I believe that are enough horrid things so I do not have to consider myself naive regarding to crime and the overall bad of the world. Nothing changed my view that punishment should be humanitarian, free of revenge and that no court should have the authority to put an end to a mans (or womans) life. I know there are different opinions and I accept that, but please, do not dismiss anybody not seeing swift death as an acceptable punishment as to naive.
As christmas approaches, I decided to make gifts of self made candy for my friends. I then recalled a thread about gaming snacks and some otherculinary threats on these bords and thought: why not share? Orange flavored chocolate bits
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- melt 5oz dark chocolate and 5oz copha - add a spoonful of powdered sugar - add a few drops of orange flavor - fill into chocolate molds (or make a larger mold you can later cut) - put into fridge to cool - melt dark chocolate - cover single bits in dark chocolate - put 1/2 walnut on top while chocolate is still soft - put into freezer to cool Coffee flavored chocolate bits
Spoiler:
- melt 5oz dark chocolate and 5oz copha - add a spoonful of powdered sugar - add a spoonful of instant coffee or esspresso - fill into chocolate molds (or make a larger mold you can later cut) - put into fridge to cool - melt dark chocolate - cover single bits in dark chocolate - put almond splits on top while chocolate is still soft - put into freezer to cool Nougat bits
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- melt 2oz oc chocolate and 3oz of nougat and 5oz copha - add a spoonful of powdered sugar - add some hazelnut brittle (peanut would work, too) - fill into chocolate molds (or make a larger mold you can later cut) - put into fridge to cool - melt dark chocolate - cover single bits in dark chocolate - put hazelnut split on top while chocolate is still soft - put into freezer to cool White fruitbits
Spoiler:
- melt 5oz white chocolate and 5oz copha - add a spoonful of powdered sugar - add chopped canied fruit (cranberries, melon or papaya work especially well) or candied lemon peel or candied orange peel - fill into chocolate molds (or make a larger mold you can later cut) - put into fridge to cool - melt white chocolate - cover single bits in white chocolate - put pistachio split on top while chocolate is still soft - put into freezer to cool
Since you do like Bond, did you see the two Largo Wich movies? (not really Bond, but as style goes, the Craig Bonds are the closest match I can think of...) Are you looking forward to the holidays? What are the next three movies you plan to see in cinema? As always thought but far not often enough said: thank you for sharing your time with us on these messageboards and thank you for hours of fun with some great adventures that bear you name on them!
Everything else aside, and I will not comment on that other than: you should reread the article you linked to and probably at least the artilce and the mentioned links in that article Kavren linked to, I highly doubt your suspicion. In the two years I was phone councelling, I worked wit psychiologists who worked with the police. Given the number of callers and the timescale of the crimes they spoke of (and I am only taking into account those who did mention when they were raped) and the area we were getting calls from, the number of callers outnumbered the few false reports (as in reported to the police)in a 'semester (half a year) ca 240 (actual numbers varied between 298 and 204) to ca 12 (8 to 14). We generally did assume that about 15 Percent of the callers were not rape victims but called for any number of reasons (we never speculated who that were, the assumption was only considered for statistics) based on several years of evaluating councelling hotline. Even if we had taken the highest number of fake calls any counceling hotline assumed (parental violence assumed, based on the same studies, 50 Percent fake calls) the ratio would have been 10 to one. Add to that the number of victims that never did call a hotline and it is quite hard to assume that rape of women is an overreported crime. Please note that it is not my wish to attack you because of your assumptions, but I want to give you reason to rethink them.
I actually started with D&D because I couldn't take the 'system mastery' aka 'shameless munchkinning' of my rolemaster group (oh, i could gime my soul to that demon through the power of my high level friend and become an instand badass with a power that allows me to gain the favor of that demon so I can... urgh - yeah, and the use of the weapon tables became even more clunky with overpowered characters because you had to do some strange math once you got to attack results of 120+... Good thing that group wouldn't want to change to D&D because "D&D wasn't real roleplaying" (That crap was going on a lot in germany especially in the vicinity of the GFR (German roleplaying guild - I was sadly very involved in the guild when they decided to dismiss D&D as well as (to a smaller extend DSA from their magazine and even discussed banning them from their cons because of that - instead starting to promote an independent (WOD like) game about rapists, mobsters and serial killers because of the depth of the roleplaying experience. I left the Guild right then and never bothered to look back)*. and I had to find a new group (that stayed consistent until one or two years after I left school in 1996. That must have been around 1990 or so, mostly played MERP and Rolemaster before. * To be fair, I mostly was involved with the GFR close to my hometown, I cannot say if this was going on in the whole guild.
She actually doeesn't if you look there fast enough once you get up, you can see her entering the room and sitting down. She has just some sort of creepy inner alarm clock...
Are you trying to say, that most actual rapes with women as victims are reported or did I misunderstand you.
Edited for claryity and spelling-
While I don't share your experience, what I do have is some (hotline advice) experience with women who have been raped. Gossip and rumors generally (not always, but strongly biased) work against the victims. Many, if not most victims of rape do not report because of shame. The mere thread of rumors, the mere thought that 'everybody knows' they have been raped keep the victim silent and the assailant save. This is even more true in an enviroment where being seen as 'weak' or as 'slutty' are a strong stigma (like the military or, that is what I know it from (very few female soldiers in Germany...) the police). I am not saying you must be wrong about how few cases of rape occured on your ship, in fact I hope you ar right, but sadly the enviroment you describe actually would work for the protection of possible rapists.
Travis, if you update your character, you would have a chance to spend some of the points you 'get back' on some of the missing skills. If you rather would not have your character being a driver/interrogator, perhaps we could 'shuffle' skills a bit (only if necessary and if you don't mind, ulgulanoth)
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