I'll have to dig up the Tengu one.
PM me your e-mail addy and I'll send over the Kitsune for sure.I would also like the Tengu writeup .. I may use it and the Kitsune in my RL game. Do you still have my email?
Also, did I drop the ball with the Alys/Keme/Genosuke scene?
Errm, I don't think so...lemme go look...
This is the last post from genosuke on the matter...
Did I miss a post on the scene with Ginni's corpse?
Did I miss a post on the scene with Ginni's corpse?
Just the foot prints of Repp and his companion, which is more of a snail trail, iirc. No others, Lynora said.
RE: Casseus, I accidentally didn't write clearly, the armored guy and his flunkies bailed.
Sorry about that, was late and nearly sleeping.
There'll be fire storms going off against the shadow demons and whatever else is going on. Plus two Gates remain. Seems the combat changed once Casseus did his summoning thing.
Ahh ok. I thought he sent the flunkies off.
Was there a hint of recognition?
Ahh ok. I thought he sent the flunkies off.
Was there a hint of recognition?
Most likely, if not specifically, otherwise they might have stayed. Remember he had a plate helm fused to his head, hard to spot, but a solid guess/probability.
Suffice to say, the fight is over once the guards and summoned things are dropped. Figure some ten to twelve total CR9+ creatures to deal with. Vrocks and the like, demonic theme.
Today we ventured into the wilds of Ikea. And while I normally really enjoy going to Ikea, this was one of those trips. Left late because of husband having work stuff come up (on his day off), had a deadline for when we had to get back by because he had a haircut appt, the boys really, really didn't want to be there, lost the list with the aisle and bin numbers of the things we needed to get partway through the store and had to go back and re-find all the things to rewrite the info down, and of course the fun of getting all the boxes into the car at the end. It's a good thing that my husband is good at what pretty much amounts to real-life tetris. :P
So that's my excuse for not posting earlier today. I may not post much tomorrow either since I now have a pile of Ikea boxes in my living room full of things that need assembling. Which first requires that I get rid of the broken shelves that these things are replacing and get all that crap out of the house...it's going to be a long day. I will at least try to get some posts up now.
Just out of curiosity, are mecha considered magical items or no?
Halo's mecha is more like an animal companion and most of her class features are wrapped up in it. It is a unique creature here and not easily available. She comes from a different plane.
Agarthan mechs are like Gundams. Totally different thing.
To the best of my knowledge the Dragon Empire doesn't employ mechs, although Dalesman can answer that more accurately.
What is Ikea? Well I caught that it is a store, but what kind?
What is Ikea? Well I caught that it is a store, but what kind?
o.O
Ummm....it's basically the ultimate source of cheap ready-to-assemble furniture. And other household goods. This song explains it all.
Did you have any Swedish meatballs? :P
Did you have any Swedish meatballs? :P
No, to the kidlet's great disappointment. We didn't even get any lingonberry juice. We were in too much of a hurry for snacks. Which is a shame, since that's half the fun of going to Ikea. :)
I was asking because any violent attempt upon my tiger would have resulted in me using the druid spell transmute metal to wood, in which case it would have an sr of 20+Caster level
Well, at that point you're in PvP territory and the rules of such apply. Thankfully this is a moo point.
Just out of curiosity, are mecha considered magical items or no?Halo's mecha is more like an animal companion and most of her class features are wrapped up in it. It is a unique creature here and not easily available. She comes from a different plane.
Agarthan mechs are like Gundams. Totally different thing.
To the best of my knowledge the Dragon Empire doesn't employ mechs, although Dalesman can answer that more accurately.
Yep we worked this out v PM
Halo has control implants for Her Mecha, it's what makes her smart and fast, but it also locks Toby to her. The cable in the back of the neck drives it.Local Mechs are as Lynora pointed out not the same to Halo and Toby Mecha.
Difference is tech level, complexity and cybernetic implants done on another plane,
Probably impossible to replicate on this plane. In other words unique as has been said, other pcs from other planes are the same, odd balls that are unique. Think of him as her smart car.
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There is a down side for being such, she has no real def v magic other than basic saves, same with Toby. Because on her plane there is no magic. It's one of the things she's going to have to lean here.
Jess :
As for attack another PC or there PC stuff, [same thing to me] Halo dos not do PVP unless it's to protected herself, but the wards do a much bette job of that, Toby is for protection not for offensive combat. I don't think any of my PCs has ever attack PvP. :)
True I can see how a druid would get a bit freacked by a large mechanical killer robot with a young girl in its belly showing up hehe.
just a she looked at a big tiger by his side and thought OMG!!
She thinks its a Made Bio mechanical Tiger by the way, not knowing anything about Familiars, :) hehe
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My excuse was the kid I'm babysitting, who's normally a handful (Aspergers, serious anger issues, and I think he's bipolar) turned into a freaking monster, that and the end of my day was spent resting to recover from the sickness that I hope to be bronchitis, it's always worst in the evenings, around 6 or later, not sure why and I fell asleep typing this
He was beeting on one of our trees with a stick, tearing the bark off of it
I told him that was wrong and why in a calm but firm voice. He growled at me. I told him that wasn't nice, he shouted, I told him if he didn't stop I'd call to my mom and tell her we wouldn't be able to go to the pool, he then threatened to call his dad and have him kill me (note 1 his dad does not have mob connections, but was in the military years ago, navy I think, note 2 the kid does not have a phone of his own) he also stomped on my foot (didn't really feel it through my shoes, the kid's a little under 8 not even sure he meant to do it)
I told him I was calling his mom
His mom told me he wasn't to go to the pool
That's when he started screaming....
He started chanting at the top of his lungs that he'd kill me
When we got to his house it took forever to get him out of my car, once he got inside he found a bat.....started swinging it
TLDR: I've had a long, stressful day,
Sounds to me like the kid needs help, and probably new parents too.
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Nah the parents are very nice intelegent people, though they have some weird ideas,
I don't think they believe they believe in spankings
They don't believe in behavior altering medication.
This is their first kid (you make mistakes on the first one espically when the kid is.... Different. As an eldest child with Aspergers OCD and ADHD (and depression when I was younger but I'm one of the lucky folk that mostly grew out of it as I got older) my parents made mistakes with me they dodn't make those mistakes with Sam (the next kid))
I've been babysitting the kid for almost a month now, this is the first time he's done anything resembling this
Sure he gets angry at the drop of a hat but never this bad
That kid needs more help than a babysitter. Just because the parents choose to ignore his problems doesn't make them go away. They're raising a sociopath.
Granted I don't know the entire situation, only what I've read here.
Lord Foul, heh, that's a difficult age for a kid on the spectrum. When the kidlet was that age he used to have the most frightening outbursts. He once threatened to kill the principal of his school. I tried not to get too close during tantrums, but sometimes that wasn't an option if I needed to rescue him from himself before he ended up throwing himself into something like a table corner and I ended up with some pretty severe injuries (broken nose, broken rib). There were plenty of people who thought that he was a sociopath, that we were just not disciplining him enough (consequences have never mattered a whit to him), that he should be on medication, etc. They were all wrong.
Kidlet still isn't on medication. He'll be 11 next week. If you met him today you would find a polite, soft-spoken boy who tries very hard to be helpful. He is of course still hyperfocused on his interests, but he really makes an effort to pay attention to the things that interest others as well. The big difference? Cognitive behavioral therapy. It takes time and it's expensive as hell, but it helped him learn how to express his emotions as well as understand the emotions that other people were expressing so that he no longer needs to use frustration tantrums as an outlet. Everyone expects to see those tantrums from a two year old. My kid never had them as a toddler, but they are way, way scarier from a seven year old because they're bigger and can cause real damage. Understanding the real cause of the tantrum and addressing it is so much more effective than layering on another punishment. He probably gets a lot of those already.
I'm going to give you an example of how we would deal with a situation like this so you can kinda see what I mean.
While standing near (but not too near, don't want to get hit with the stick) and speaking in an 'affected' tone (affected tone can be any tone so long as it is recognizably not your normal speaking voice, it gets their attention) "I feel sad when X is hitting the tree. It hurts the tree and I don't like that. I wonder why X is hurting the tree? I think maybe he is hurting the tree because he feels frustrated." pause. If no response, "No, maybe X is hurting the tree because he feels angry." And so on until the kid interrupts to say something like that's right, or no I feel [fill in blank here]. Then you can talk to him directly and talk about finding other ways to express his feelings that don't harm other living things. Empathy takes time to teach and longer for a child who can't understand or express their own emotions, but he'll get there given time.
Speaking of ill, I'm terribly so right now.
The biggest symptom is throwing up just about anything I eat or drink within about 30 minutes of eating or drinking it.
Speaking of ill, I'm terribly so right now.
The biggest symptom is throwing up just about anything I eat or drink within about 30 minutes of eating or drinking it.
So sorry. :(
Hope you feel better soon, icehawk.
Well, you didn't ignore the problem, you got him behavioral therapy, and did not raise a sociopath ;) You had your priorities straight.
Alot of parents today do not have their priorites straight.
@lyn: Afterwards he said he was bored which is why he was doing it
@ice: that really sucks,
What's worse is I have to keep drinking or I'll dehydrate myself, because the thing also game me diarrhea and I go into a cold sweat before I throw up.
@lyn: Afterwards he said he was bored which is why he was doing it
@ice: that really sucks,
Yeah, I doubt that. Kids do dumb stuff when they're bored, I'll grant you, but it's rarely ever that simple. At least that's been my experience. Two neurotypical younger siblings for whom I was the unwilling daycare provider and then later one kid who has aspergers...I have never seen any of them destroy something just because they were bored. It's always because I was bored and I was mad at you/lonely/frustrated/curious/etc. There's always some other motivation propelling things forward.
Well, you didn't ignore the problem, you got him behavioral therapy, and did not raise a sociopath ;) You had your priorities straight.
Alot of parents today do not have their priorites straight.
A lot of them also don't know how to get the help they need. We're really fortunate that we were able to consult one of the leading experts on autism for help. Even if it does cost an arm and a leg. But we had to flounder through a lot of stuff that didn't work before we got to the stuff that did. There are parents who don't really understand how to parent, but I think there are a lot more who just don't know what to do and aren't getting sent in the right direction. If it tells you anything about how bad it can get, my son's godparents are psychologists and they didn't even steer us in the right direction with this stuff because they don't specialize in treating autism and don't really understand how therapy needs to be different for someone on the spectrum. Which isn't to say they weren't helpful. We just needed more help than they knew how to give. Mostly we found someone who could help us through sheer stubborn persistence....I'm good at being stubborn. :)
What's worse is I have to keep drinking or I'll dehydrate myself, because the thing also game me diarrhea and I go into a cold sweat before I throw up.@lyn: Afterwards he said he was bored which is why he was doing it
@ice: that really sucks,
Oh, that sucks. I find plain sugar water, no flavorings, works best for that. It helps things not taste as bad.....I really hate that I know that....
My younger cousin Jackson has autism rather badly and was the same way till probably right around Lyn's son's age as well.
My cousin Alison, his mom, has pretty much devoted her whole life, more or less, to helping him. Including becoming a home school teacher for both him and his younger sister. She doesn't actually need it, but she saw how much it was helping her brother and asked to be taught at home too. Think for her it was only a year or two though
Most of what Lyn says is accurate. Alison has actually written a book I believe on all that she's learned over the years helping her son and dealing with his tantrums, outbursts, etc
Phaez, you may have missed Tyb's post where he said he already has a room. :)
Little bit of hate for you Lyn, for making me tear up at work over that Rodhas and Morrivan scene :p
I almost cried too. :[
I didn't.... The feels cannot penetrate my stony heart
I almost cried too. :[
I was too busy dealing with stomach pains when I read it.
Thankfully, this does help keep me distracted.
I did my catch up reading and realized after that I am doing this a lot lately. So I came to realize I just need to let a few things go. So sorry. I think it's time I fade into the background. I may return some time, but I won't be for awhile. Thanks for all the fun. I will still keep checking in and see how things are going.
:(
We'll miss you.
Dom? Mel without her big brother?
My world is just falling apart...
I need you...your band...
the battle of the bands...
our duet together....
I did my catch up reading and realized after that I am doing this a lot lately. So I came to realize I just need to let a few things go. So sorry. I think it's time I fade into the background. I may return some time, but I won't be for awhile. Thanks for all the fun. I will still keep checking in and see how things are going.
If things didn't work out with Ignace I kinda thought you know Zilla... well, she... I .... ahh who am I kidding she wouldn't go for me anyway
Nah the parents are very nice intelegent people,
Doesn't make them good parents, just means they might be taught to be better parents.
I don't think they believe they believe in spankings
Yep weird, all too common, and very bad. Kids, whether autistic or not can't learn respect for legitimate authority until they learn respect for actual authority, and time out doesn't teach actual authority.
They don't believe in behavior altering medication.
I kinda agree with this one, though to avoid it requires some understanding of how one thinks.
In any case, the whacking at the tree is a simple fix. It is fun to destroy things, just teach him to respect life and give him a box or something like that to destroy instead.
It is the whole "I'm/father's gonna kill you" thing that worries me. There is no call for death threats of any sort, and that is something that needs stamped on quickly and harshly.
The boredom is definitely a thing though. Most people are not able to keep an autistic entertained, and then they try to keep an autistic interacting with other kids. Don't. Introduce an autistic to adults instead, particularly well educated adults, and turn the conversation to science or other topics that require intelligence to understand. The kid will want to know more and learning drives away the boredom.
Most people have a limiter in their brain that prevents excessive thinking. Not only does this help to keep them focused on something, but it has the effect of making someone easier to entertain and be content. Autistics, not so much. No limiter on thinking, and more logical, accurate thinking, and unable to stop thinking, requires constant entertainment, or boredom sets in within seconds.
Not only am I on the spectrum, but this is one of things I am studying.
I take two behavior altering pills, and I can genuinely say I function far better on them.
Though, those are to treat my two other disorders that aren't on the autism spectrum.
I didn't say they don't help, just that needing them can be avoided. At least depending on raising. Brain injuries might be an exception though. But generally, how one is raised affects how one learns certain skills such as discipline and self control (very much not helped by current schools), focus etc, which affect how one thinks, which affects how one feels, all of which affects how one behaves, which in turn affects all those other things in a self-reinforcing feedback loop. And yes, these things can affect which genes get activated and which hormones are released making it physical as well as mental.
In essence, depressed people make themselves more depressed simply by being depressed, until it reaches a point that they are not able to break themselves from that pattern of being depressed. Medications change the "mood" but don't fix the underlying issue of the feedback loop.
I forget the name (cause I can't remember names for some reason), but one psychologist puts it this why, "Depressed people aren't depressed, they are depressing."
Has anyone ever built Vash the Stampede?
I need to redo Gian's half of Lim-Môr so that he effects more like that, incapacitation and area effecting instead of shooting to kill as his stats are now.
I have 7 feats and 8 levels to work with.
I hadn't seen Trigun when I made him, so it hadn't occurred to me that gunslinger doesn't have to shoot stuff.
Make that six feats. One is quick draw now.
Replacing point blank line, weapon focus pistol, and precise shot.
Step one, prepare black tentacles.
Step two, ?
Step three, profit!
That's not really what I was looking for...
I did my catch up reading and realized after that I am doing this a lot lately. So I came to realize I just need to let a few things go. So sorry. I think it's time I fade into the background. I may return some time, but I won't be for awhile. Thanks for all the fun. I will still keep checking in and see how things are going.
This makes me sad. :(
I mean, I understand and all, it just makes me sad. Dom and Hew and Zilla and Salis are all much loved characters and I will miss them. *Puts certan story arcs on back burner*
Please let me know if you decide that you won't be coming back at all because that will certainly change plans for future story arcs rather drastically. Otherwise I am assuming this is just a (hopefully short) hiatus and they are all still there in the background.