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Concept: A mutant elf with bizarre super powers fights an invasion of monstrous dragon-turtle demon sorcerer who are stealing children's wishes for power
Third time I've failed to edit this.
Should be "sorcerer(s)" (ambiguously plural/singular), and should have:
* can be any fantasy race of your choice
Bonus points: if it is a) modern/real-like world, b) a "real"-like "ancient" setting (where said fantasy creatures are rare/absurd/not believed/revered/rock stars/otherwise "not normal" - this may contrast with the elf*'s world view or synch up -, or c) an original setting.
Elf* may or may not be the protagonist.
Of course. *gets dressed*
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Okay, so it's more than halfway through October and I don't have a story idea for NaNoWriMo this year yet....
Suggestions? Crazy is fine. Crazy is good even. Any ideas you can toss my way. Otherwise I'm going to make a table and roll randomly to put story elements together.....
It's been a stressful couple of months because of various things, which isn't the best for getting the creative juices flowing. I know I can do it once I have an idea to begin with, but I just haven't had the brain space to really focus on being creative lately.
I was planning to write 'Barbarian Nun Pirates of Callipgyne vs. Wongo, the Ape Sorcerer', but you can instead, should you rather.
Concept: A mutant elf with bizarre super powers fights an invasion of monstrous dragon-turtle demon sorcerer who are stealing children's wishes for powerI could definitely work with this idea, yes. A strong contender right off the bat! :)
Bissau!
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Bissau!Concept: A mutant elf with bizarre super powers fights an invasion of monstrous dragon-turtle demon sorcerer who are stealing children's wishes for powerI could definitely work with this idea, yes. A strong contender right off the bat! :)
Okay, autocorrect, what the heck is this? What is this word you keep using instead of "huzzah"?!
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Apparently, Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Google is my friend.
Apparently it's a west-African coastal city, according to Google and Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau
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Apparently, Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Google is my friend.
You've never been!
Road trip!!!
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Apparently, Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Google is my friend.
So apparently I can't avoid being ninja'd. And since I can't edit any of my posts today for some reason... XD
Apparently, Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Google is my friend.
You've never been!
Road trip!!!
I don't think you quite understand how "ocean" works...
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So apparently I can't avoid being ninja'd. And since I can't edit any of my posts today for some reason... XDApparently, Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Google is my friend.
To avoid getting ninja'd, one must be the first to pluck the lotus flower.
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So apparently I can't avoid being ninja'd. And since I can't edit any of my posts today for some reason... XDApparently, Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Google is my friend.
i have hundreds of miles to solve the buoyancy problem before I even get to the ocean.
I'm sure I'll figure something out.
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*SIGH*. Sometimes I just don't think my co-workers speak the same English I do.
NobodysHome: OK, I'm compiling a validation document to test the image. Can you give me one or two steps to do a quick verification that your stuff is working?
NobodysCo-Worker: Sure! That's easy!
NCW: Here you go!
NH:
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*SIGH*. Sometimes I just don't think my co-workers speak the same English I do.
NobodysHome: OK, I'm compiling a validation document to test the image. Can you give me one or two steps to do a quick verification that your stuff is working?
NobodysCo-Worker: Sure! That's easy!
NCW: Here you go!
NH:
I don't get it.
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I don't get it.*SIGH*. Sometimes I just don't think my co-workers speak the same English I do.
NobodysHome: OK, I'm compiling a validation document to test the image. Can you give me one or two steps to do a quick verification that your stuff is working?
NobodysCo-Worker: Sure! That's easy!
NCW: Here you go!
NH:
I asked her for "one or two steps".
She sent me 7 pages, including dozens of steps.
That would have been... annoying.
The head-smacking part is that she took 2 days to hand me the document, and it was a document I already had. So, why would I have asked for something I already had in my possession?
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I've got it! A superhero team up between the mutant elf and the guy with the Prius, like an urban fantasy buddy cop kinda thing! Now I just have to figure out how to work in the nun-pirates....gotta have them go to a con, it's the only solution!
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Kinda like that Angel summoner and BMX bandit from the Mitchell and Webb show sketch.
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Hey! We're the same height! (Or close to it!) XDI wear size 12 shoes.
I'm 5'7"
Me too :3
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...or, to ruthlessly steal lynora's idea:
NobodysHome: Lynora, your manuscript is brilliant, I say, brilliant! I don't quite understand this Freehold fellow's shoe fetish, but that's OK! So, for the back cover we'll need a 1-2 paragraph summary of the book. Can you do that?
lynora: Sure can do, NobodysHome!
lynora: Here you go, NobodysHome!
NobodysHome:
So not quite *that* bad, but that's the idea.
She's our newest hire, and she's been a good worker so far, so we figure there was just a miscommunication there somewhere. But going back through my e-mails, the whole, "We need 1-2 steps. Here's a document with examples of what we need," doesn't seem particularly unclear to me.
Ah, well. We'll figure it out tomorrow morning.
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Does anyone have any idea when RWBY Volume 5, episode 1 goes live for us non subscribers?
They offer a free month for the basic first package for those who want to take advantage of it.
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Damn it!
It's new trainee orientation night! And here I am without my eye patch!
And my eyebrow scar isn't nearly as noticeable as it used to be.
The black Friday stories aren't nearly as exciting without the eye patch. :-(
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Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate Halloween. I guess they don't like it when random strangers come to their house.
I tried to switch Jehovah's Witnesses to Linux when they rang the doorbell it did not go so well.
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Maybe, if I knew what the f!$* you were talking about...
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Does anyone have any idea when RWBY Volume 5, episode 1 goes live for us non subscribers?They offer a free month for the basic first package for those who want to take advantage of it.
Can spoiler-free confirm that if you use your free month, you won't be disappointed at least at the first episode. Tons of stuff revealed and/or confirmed, and animation quality is through the roof this time. feels way more fluid and realistic than before.
Meanwhile...Solid start. Tells me to forget what I think I see coming, and to expect the unexpected...
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So, I assume because it was sized for Ant-Man it didn't really take off.
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They probably still use CP/M on their Altair 8800's with the DEC VT100 terminals and a paper tape loader.Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate Halloween. I guess they don't like it when random strangers come to their house.I tried to switch Jehovah's Witnesses to Linux when they rang the doorbell it did not go so well.
Nah DEC is cool and linux was ported to the DEC alpha processors. Jon maddog hall's wiki page is a fun person to be around but he has a bit of trouble hearing.
They don't like to come by my place anymore.
They ask would you like to speak about our lord and savior? My reply was sure what would you like to know. They don't tend to know how to respond.
This is more or less what happened with me (or at least back when I lived at my parents' place). We don't see them around here.
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Going back to previous conversation. We once got two Mormons kicked off their mission thingy they do. We invited them to play DnD and apparently they are not allowed to do that. The guy in charge of them came back to our place and made them apologize (for what exactly I do not know. ) We kept telling him it was fine we enjoyed having them but the guy I don't know wanted us to feel guilty for corrupting them maybe? I would of told him off if I didn't think it would get them into more trouble.
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They don't like to come by my place anymore.
They ask would you like to speak about our lord and savior? My reply was sure what would you like to know. They don't tend to know how to respond.
The reason for this is that they are taught to control the conversation and the bible study. If you turn it around for even a minute, you'll be "black listed" or some such. Unfortunately this usually goes for mormons as well.
Never heard about the D&D thing, though I figure that was more of a regional thing rather than anything officially mandated by their church heads.
I think it was more that they weren't allowed to have fun or something.
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Put thy back into it pretty-boy.
Thy hands shalt be wrinkled and thy floor shalt be clean; and by thy honest labor thine wisdom shall fill to the brim.
Also, it'll make thy days of hoeing with Kunai easier.
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o.O
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Off to work... Three more day this week, four more days next week...
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I think it was more that they weren't allowed to have fun or something.
Probably obvious, but this is most definitively not true.
So, for example, even if, say, Fifty Shades of Gray were a great book (which, you know, it's not), many would refuse to read it because it not only actively encourages a world-view contrary to their own, but does so as a pleasurable experience, which means that it actually changes your mind to have positive emotional responses to that stimuli (i.e. an unwanted world-view). You know: Pavlov*.
This is actually a very good thing, in many cases, because while such conditioning isn't mind-control, it can make various good choices harder to make over time and exposure. Similar styles of guidance are generally considered "good parenting" by pretty much everyone.
The problem that arises is when something that can be fundamentally harmless is successfully demonized. This can create a negative feedback loop, wherein (eventually) mostly only those opposed to the group that now-demonizes the activity are participants therein, and more closely associates both those groups and that activity with the negative concepts involved. Again, this is pretty much classical conditioning* in action.
In the case of D&D, some unscrupulous and some persuasive people (and sometimes both) used it as a convenient scapegoat for things, a couple of natural 20s and natural 1s later, and it's considered something that expressly leans towards corruption. This (in my opinion unfortunate) view has become deeply rooted in US conservative culture, and is propagated within it.
Whether those people were trying to punish you? No. That's silly.
They were trying to be polite, and, more importantly, hoped that by showing that they care, they could, in some small way, help you in life. It's not help you wanted, but it's help they were willing to offer because they don't hate you (or fun) but they are concerned about you (or, maybe, they just want a sweet reward in the afterlife); and sometimes they're just jerks about it, regardless of intentions.
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It was more of an annoyed comment on the situation not to be taken to seriously.
Also I'm actually pretty sure as to how it was described to me that a lot of enjoyable activities (things people do to have fun like go to concerts parties etc.) are in fact not allowed on their missions. Its like fasting but for 2 years and encompasses a lot more. People not on their missions are allowed to play DnD from what I was told just not specifically Mormon missionaries while on duty.
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I don't think I can download it on my work computer to many firewalls that block anything with the word game in it. Same reason I can't hit PFSRD. strangely I can still go to archive of nethys.
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Well aside from that restriction^^