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Now, I don't know if this charity runs in the USA, but here in the UK & Australia there is an annual charity event called "Movember" where, at the end of october, men regardless of their facial hairyness, go clean shaven, then, during November grow a Moustache. and get sponsored to raise money for prostate / testicular cancer charities

for the second year, I am taking part, and blimey I look like an idiot, and it's only 1 day in!

anyone else doing this?

I have an idea for a campaign i'm thinking of running with a yet-unnamed system. and I was wondering what people thought of the idea so far

in year 21something-or-other, various bases exist on mars - biotech reaserch, miners, archiologists studying "mysterous ruins" from an alien civilisation - total population in the low 1,000's approx.

Eventually, study of the ruins starts to unlock magic as a workable system - done as long rituals rather than spellslinging

at about the same time, contact is lost with earth. a ship is sent back (6 month trip) to investigate, and contact is lost with that too. The colonists realise they are on their own, so start terraforming as best they can (magic filling in the gaps in technology)

queue campaign start time - 50 years on. the atmosphere is still too cold and too thin for people to live outside, but gene-mod people can (basically, engineered to be shorter but with big chests containing big lungs, and very hairy for insulation). a small percentage of people will be engineered outside-dwellers, as will a small percentage with a "human +" genemod package. magic is still uncommon, but fairly accepted - mainly used in a ritualised magitech/item creation kind of way.

any thoughts on things I would need to add?

I am thinking GURPS as a system, but could be convinced otherwise

My current mobile phone contract expires on tuesday, so i'm going to get a new phone - currently undecided between finally joining the Cult of the iPhone, or getting a windows/android phone. one way or the other, though, I will be getting a smartphone

my question is, are there any usefull "gamer apps" out there - like a dice-roller-type thing?

I dremps last night that I went to buy "Ultimate magic" for pathfinder

and, at my local game-store, it was for sale at £90

which, at current exchange rates would be $140

what a bizzare dream

Now, before i start, my definition of a rubbish christmas present doesn't come from the price, but from a lack of thought or effort

however, this year, the prize goes to my mother, who is never the best at giving presents (I spent my childhood always too embarassed to tell people what i got for christmas). this year, amongst other things, I got a Draft Excluder.

yes, one of those things that you put under a door to keep the wind out.

also, two people got me shaving sets. when I have a beard. Althought i do accept they may have been dropping hints

My computer is fixed

turned out it wasn't Windows-7 that broke my PC, but my hard-drive had died. then the snow prevented a replacement being delivered

but, i'm now back with you

so, what have I missed?

so, my laggy computer from hell got the better of me this week, and I decided to stick Widows 7 on, using a "clean install" option on the upgrade disk

suffice to say, after the install looped round back to the begining for a 4th time, telling me at one point that my computer didn't HAVE a hard-drive, I ran a system restore

it's now slower, buggyer and crashyer than ever - and, being british and a man, I am taking a very typical solution - after trying it once myself, I am, on tuesday, paying someone to take my computer away, format the hard-drive, and return it. His instruction is to bring it back with "any working version of windows, i don't really care"

well, as previously mentioned, I am being sponsored to wear a moustache for the month of november - to raise money for Prostate Cancer Reaserch

god my chin feels cold!

Trucker Tache!

There is a stall in my local food market that sells game and other hunted meat. Anyway, while walking through today, to buy chicken from the stall next door, I noticed he had wild duck fillets for £4 per pack (4 small, 2 large or a combination thereof). fancying something different (and being on my own tonight, Hubby is at a Halloween party, and i'm not invited), i got some

so, tonight, i did as a side-dish, my famous noodles-and-spiced-greens. Then, two small duck fillets got a chinese-style spice rub, and quickly fried so still pink in the middle, with the pan deglazed and flamed, to make a little sauce.

this thread is NOT to make you all hungry however

It is to have a minor complain that i know the duck really WAS wild, as what i bit down on, thinking it was a Setchzwan red peppercorn, a piece of lead shot, i almost broke a tooth!

I have said this before, but today I noticed an ex of mine is friends with one of my friends, so I have just been and had a look through his photos

time has NOT been kind to him

is the whole REASON for facebook to allow us to discover these things?

I have been thinking about this for a while now - i have a handfull of friends who I have games with for YEARS now. and, for a while we have commented how we frequently turn up with similar character ideas to eachother

anyway, yesterday I was chatting with one friend online, and i made a typo (i mentioned a government department called "The Probability Service") when talking about work

a while later he rang me (as i'd sounded "as down as you can when typing") and I made a joke when he mentioned my type "Back in the 90's when you were getting a new GURPS book every 10 min, i bet "the probatility service" would have sold as a setting

within 10 min, we had, spinning off eachother, creating a whole setting

another example is we both recently bought "The Return of the Scarlet Empress" for Exalted. and, totally independantly, we came up with EXACTLY the same plan on how to impliment it and turn it into a campaign (Lytec thinks something dubious is going on, and puts together a crack team consisting of one of each exalt type to investigate & stop the reclamation)

so, the question is, with people you have gamed with for years, do you start thinking the same?

I bought some stuff on ebay a week ago today, with next-day delivery. but it is still to arrive

I emailed the guy this morning (with 100% positive feedback) asking if he had sent it yet, but no reply

so, the quest6ion is, how long till i raise this as an issue with ebay. i paid through paypal, so i should get my money back one way or the other, if i get no item

anyone got experience?

(does this happen in the states?)

Basically, in my work-place, all the men (bar one) have decided to do "movember" this year

this means we all have to either grow a moustache in november (if clean shaven) or grow radically different facial hair (if not clean shaven) which must include a 'tache. ultimatly, you get sponsored to do so, and the money goes to a men's health charity (usually prostate or testicular cancer)

at the end of the month, the women in the work-place judge the resulting moustaches, and we all laugh a lot at how silly we look

the question is, what kind of 'tache should i grow :-)

the hitler-tache has been banned!

Wow another completly empty thread to claim in the name of Acme. And this time I brought a flag.

I'm just leaving the gym, about an hour ago, and get a telephone call from my bank - asking me to ring them back on the number on my statement (so i know it's really them)

I do, and they inform me my credit card has has "suspicious activity" on it - they go through every transaction since my last statement, and sure enough, about 10 min before they called me, someone (not me) bought £30 of mobile phone credit on my card

now, the bank has refunded the £30 to me, and is sending me a full set of replacements - but it has now got me curious as to where this happened, as i'm not exactly a regular card user.

so, booo to crime, buy hooray to the bank for acting so quickly

I have been running a pathfinder campaign for a while now, but one of my players wants to run for a few sessions

so, we have come up with a reason for the party to split (ie, that players character needs to go off to an area in the east to deliver a warning, the rest of the party need to go off to the south, with a vague rendevous set)

I will be playing a sorceror - the Star-theemed one from APG. however, for purely Aesthetic reasons, I fancy going away from the usual choices of weapon, blow a feat, and have some kind of exotic weapon. something big and impressive looking

any suggestions?

Ok, for background, NHS Direct is a part of the NHS where, anyone in the UK can ring (free), 24/7 and speak to a Nurse, who will give you basic health advice on symptoms, medication, home treatment and the like

I remember, a couple of years ago, I slammed my hand in a car door. We phoned, and the nurse first talked my partner how to do some home tests to see if a bone was broken in my finger. she then told him exactly how to bandage it to protect it, and after telling me the right painkillers to take, she destribed the symptoms to look out for as a sign I would need to go to hospital over. As a result, I was saved from needing to do to A&E (Emergency room)

ok, background over

about 4 days ago, the Government announced a plan to poilot an "alternative" scheme, where you could call a number, and someone (after a 2 week training course" would use, in essence, a flow-chart to tell you if you needed an ambulance or not

then, before the trial even starts, they announce that regardless of the result of the trial, they will be abolishing NHS Direct, and replacing it with this "streamlined" system. so, instead of me being able to be given advice from an experienced nurse, I can call a call-centre monkey who can tell me if i need an ambulance or not.

NHS Direct is estimated to save hospitals 200 million a year, by cutting the "worried well" who clog up emergency rooms and acute admissions wards.

way to go, scrapping it!

you all remember the craze a few years ago of "rickrolling" - trying to trick people into looking at rick astley singing "never gonna give you up"

well, after last night, it is no longer funny

while at an open-air music event last night, Rick was the headline act - and he was, shockingly, really good!

While having a walk round this shops this morning, I have discovered something almost too horrible to recount

one of the shops (a card/giftwrap shop) has put out it's christmas display

In the last 4 years, the following have happened to my appartment

the bay-window in my bedroom comming through twice

The kitchen flooded twice (once by the angry man damaging pipes when he did a runner, once by the guy who replaced him messing up the shower)

the central heating system completly dying once - and the whole thing needing replacing

three other leeks into my bedroom arround the bay window

bedroom flooding when the kitchen above bust a leek

and the double-disaster when my toilet was broken, and the first plumber ended up leaving it with a drip

Anyway, today i've got home from work (in fareness, in an all-mighty downpour) to find my bedroom full of water, the the flat roof ABOVE my bay window being as water-tight as a teabag

water just pouring through

now, the water has stopped comming, and once the last few drips have dripped, I'm going to start on the clean-up - my sister is giving me the number of a good roofer/builder to repair the damage up above, and I'm going to ask him to build a false-gable over the bay to keep the water out in future

however, HOW can one small appartment have so many water-related disasters?

barring the supernatural, that is!

Now, to put this into context, in the first adventure the PC's bypassed the part of the dungeon where the "treasure room" of the big bad was, and this week, they went off on a side-adventure, and ended up leveling sooner than expected

however, I am becomming increasingly aware the PC's are low on treasure, and possibly magic items

so, what SHOULD a 4th level party each have for items - i'm planning, next session, to have a "make-up hoard"

When committing a street robbery, a helpful tip

don't do it next to a ninja school

My mother has done "something" to her internet

She felt the need to ring me at 7:30 this morning to tell me that "when i go online it says my server is a poppy type"

a bit of digging, with her telling my all kinds of irelivancies about someone cutting down trees, reveals that she has, somehow, messed up her email client - she wants me to go and "fix it" tonight

I pointed out i last worked with computers TEN YEARS AGO and I probably don't know any more than her, but the put a guilt trip on me

so, guess where I have to go after work tonight.....

What really annoys me is that, only two weeks ago, i was telling her how much it annoyed me when people rang me at inconveniant times asking me about computers, and how it seems people only ever talk to me when they want me to do something

Yes, as I predicted, we have a hung parliment

not only that though, it may be SO hung that neither concervatives or a liberal-labour coalition will have enough votes to form a government

On the news they are even talking about The Queen's "Reserve Powers" being activated to call another election!

Just back home ('im off work this week)

The polling station being on my road does have its advantages - there, voted, home - under 3 min!

The threat title says it all - Iron Chef was just imported from the US to the UK. it is practically played for laughs here, the cooking and judging is run "classically", but with the martial-arts host, and the commentary, it is being played in a high-camp, ironic way

however, from the odd clip of the american version, it seems to actually take itself seriously over there

or have the clips i have seen represented it wrong?

A story made me really angry today

Stories like this are exactly why we need Gay Marrage - nothing to do with religion, but to prevent the state from keeping two elderly men appart

I hope he sues the county government for every penny they have!

Yes, thanks to the Icelanding Death-Cloud, all flights in and out of the UK are banned for another day!

There are even, on some websites, rumors this could last, on and off, for MONTHS, although most people seem to say another week, tops

sadly, we were going to book a holiday this weekend, but we have decided to hold off till the eruption ends

Icelandic Death Cloud

So, the long-suspected election date - may 6th - has just been confirmed

so, on may 7th, we may have a new prime-minister, or possibly a bit longer, if we get the anticipated hung parliment

what's the choice?

Currently sitting Moron - Gordon

Rich Millionaire who wants his cabinet to be all his old school and uni friends - David Cameron

not much hope of actually winning, but potential king-maker - Nick Clegg

this is a r4eal "least bad" option election. really fills you with confidence

as of yet, we have no-one wanting to play a psi in my Scarred Lands campaign, but we have been discussing it from a theoretical perspective. Now, given that in SL Psi is supposed to be

a)Different from magic - it is the legacy of lovecraftian, barkeresque space-gods from another reality afterall!

b)draining to the body as well as the mind

we were considering using the "Green Ronin" feats/skills system. now, this is the stage we have reached

1)no "Base class" - psi is something people come to later, they dont start out as psychics. therefore, most people with psi will just have a couple of feats and skills. this matches the SL flavour text, where most psi's are multi-classed from some other previous classes

2)PrC's - however, some people who do come to psi later in life focus on it. therefore, there will be conversions of PrC's from existing books, and a few ones purely for the SL

3)Psychic Buffer - strain is a big limiting factor for psi (as it should be for a casual user), however it makes it over limiting for someone with actual "levels" in a class. The theoretical plan is for a "buffer" of points that can be used before strain. The advancement, is at present (by level, for a 10 level PrC 1 - 3 - 6 - 10 - 15 - 21 - 28 - 36 - 45 - 55) + con bonus. That advancement would be for a "good" advancement class (equivilent to a primary caster). there would also be a bard-equivilent and paladin-equivilent advancement (at 2/3 and 1/2 resptivley)

the only PrC activley converted so far is the Ghostbreaker. I may post it later

In the interest of science, and a degree of thread parody, I am sharing My Tomato-growing experiment

in 2008, I grew some tomatoes in my back yard. Ignoring all the instructions on the seed packet, I got reasonable results - not great, but reasonable

in 2009, i followed the packet instructions - to the letter - and got not one little tomato. however, 2009 was terrible weather, and almost all of my veg died, but my strawberries did very well

therefore, in 2010, I have started two sets of seeds - one following the 2008 method, one following the 2009 method

thus far, all the seeds have germinated. the "my own method" seeds have come up slower, but look stronger

Former sports-star, now doctor, done for drink driving

you know what worries me about this story?

other than someone who could be seen as a role model committing a crime

other than him attempting to disrupt the test to see if he had been drinking (thus indicating he knew exactly what he had done)

other than someone who could clearly afford a taxi choosing to drink drive

no, the most worrying thing is a DOCTOR thinking sucking a copper penny was a good idea, and would stop him testing positive for alcohol

if you could invent ANYTHING to make your life a bit more simple, what would it be?

I would like to suggest a cream you apply after shaving, that stops you needing to shave again for, say, a month

Our group's current campaign ended last night (very super-heroic - we talked the big bad down, no fighting involved) so someting new is starting - we decided to do a Scarred Lands Campaign, using Pathfinder

now, we are working on the "things we NEED to convert list" at the moment

so far, we have

*any PrC's players want to work towards
*sorceror bloodlines, to reflect the titan's
*a couple of extra cleric domains (mainly rainbows, for a Cleric of Shayana)

can anyone think of any esseltials we may have missed?

5 years ago, i endured the experience of buying my first flat/appartment, and i'm ready to move, as it is slowly turning into a money-pit!

in the last 9 month the following have happened

needing to have my central-heating/water heater replaced

needing all the room-thermostats replacing (took 3 visits due to various complications)

needing the toilet repairing (took 3 visits from the plumber)

having thunderchav above me decide to set up a full night-club-style music system in his living room, and frequently showing it off to his friends at 2am. the vibrations from this have also cracked all my paint-work

and now, my central-heating radiators seem to have a micro-leek somewhere, and another plumber is comming out tuesday to look at that (no water on the floor or anything, but my central-heating loop slowly looses pressure)

oh, and two of my electrical sockets seem to have packed up, so i may need An electrician too!

so, tommorrow i'm off to the book-shop, to buy a book of preparing a property to sell

What started as a conversation about retro-games has got as far as generating characters

that's right, my group is playing ROLEMASTER. i feel slightly dirty, in a good way

it's strange, in a pomo retro-way, its oddly good - and, what you remember as being the bad bits is, in a knowing retro-way, part of the charm!

That, 3 weeks after it "hit" the Uk, I've got utterly addicted to "Glee"

To annoy the loud wannabe-rap-DJ who lives above me, I'm currently playing the campest highlights of their soundtrack at full volume

This is a campaign specific bloodline i'm working on for my campaign - thought i'd post it here for comments & suggestions. i've got two "gaps" for abilities, which i will mark with a questionmark

Background: The Blue Lady is a great legend from ages past. a mighty enchantress and mistress of "the flame arcane" (a varient on spellfire). she bore at least two children, and although the gift of true spellfire is rare in her decendants, its essence sometimes manifests as a talent for sorcery, conjuring a silver-blue fire that both burns and purifies

Class Skill: Knowledge (The Planes)

Bonus spells (note, some of these are campaign home-brews, or non-OGL. others are other elemental-damage spells with the element replaced by fire). also note, in each case, the fire is not its usual colour, but is a blue flame edged in silver
1)Fire Missile (Magic missile, but fire)
2)Nimbus (a damaging fire aura)
3)FireBolt (lightning bolt, but fire)
4)Fireshild (warm only)
5)Cone of Fire (cone of cold, only flame)
6)Chain Firebolt
7) ?
8)Sunburst
9)Metior Swarm (balls of solid silver, trailing blue fire)

Bonus Feats
Empower Spell, Maximise Spell, Endurance, Spell Focus, Weapon Focus (rays), Iron Will, Lighnight Reflexes, Attractive (home-brew, does exactly what it says on the tin)

Bloodline Arcana
by expending a spell-slot one level higher, you can change half the damage of a fire spell to untyped arcane damage, therefore bypassing fire resistance

Bloodline Powers
Healing Flame - at first level, you can fill your hand with a soothing blue-fire. this alows you, by touch, to heal 1d4 + caster level damage to another. you can use this 3/day + charisma modifier

Absorb Magic - at 3rd level, you can use a spell-slot of equivilent level to counter a spell, using the same rules as a dispel magic being used as a counterspell (so, to counter a 2nd level spell, you expend a 2nd level slot, and so on)

Wings of Arcane Flame - at 9th level, you can manifest wings of blue flame (use rules for the equivilent power from celestial bloodline)

Gift of the Blue Lady - the healing-power of the arcane flame blossoms into its true potential. you can expend a spell-slot to heal others. each spell-slot expended heals 1d4+1 damage per level of the slot.

Capstone Ability - ?

I don't know if this highly controvertial show is on where you are in the world, but a new series just started

if it doesn't, i will provide a summary. in essence, it's a VERY dark black-comedy-drama, set on a north Manchester sink estate (the equivalent of "the projects" in an american city)

it doesn't have a "laugh track" - and it contrasts sureel comedy (generally about the central few characters) in an incredebly bleak situation. A lot of the laughs come from either how absurd "the system" is, or from the lengths the characters go to to keep themselves going, and "get one over" on "the system"

the two central families are the Gallaghers (huge tribe of children with an alcoholic father. said father is the show's central character - in D&D terms he would be average int, high wisdom) and the McGuires (married couple, both drug dealers, with two innept sons helping in "the family business"

The show is controvertial as to if it parodies or glamorises the lifestyle of the characters, and the comedy that is there is a classic example of how "comedy is tragedy, just at double-speed"

worth catching if it does show where you are!

My partner and i have done NY and SFO a few times, but both of those cities are "over" for us (short attention span, and all that)

we were discussing our trips for this year, and were wondering where else in the states was worth visiting

we like quirky museums, modern art. small independant shops, and general wierdness!

oh, and the massive difference between east-coast and west-coats flight times is amways worth taking into account (SFO was 5 hours longer to get to than NY)

all suggestions to be gleafully considered

nothing to do with this, but i wanted to get something off my chest

I recently, on a recommendation from several gym friends, registered to use a gym/weightlifting forum, because it had "good motivational" threads - ie, you post your progress towards whatever goal, and people post encouraging advice. i specifically asked if it was in any way "dodgy", and was told not (lots of gym boards are, lets be honest, little more than people selling semi-legal substances)

so, i register, and post my thread

the thread started after mine someone says something like

"I have been using steroids at my gym for a few months now, but some blood-tests i had done showed light liver damage. i know steroids cause liver damage - should i stop using them"

to which I replied

"internet diagnosis is always questionable - this is a conversation you should have with the doctor diagnosing the results of the liver tests. I assume you told him what you were taking, so he had the full picture"

to which i recieved nothing but flames in reply.

even worse, all his OTHER replied were "no, go on using them - but change from oral to injected"

not unsupprisingly, i've deleted my profile!

are there ANY gym/weightlifting forums not full of steroid-users (they are controlled drugs FOR A REASON)

much as i want to gain muscle, liver damage, shrunken "personal" parts, manboobs, mood-swings and, oh, prostate cancer, are a price i'm not willing to pay!

Since september, I have been persuing a dodgy credit-card transaction, trying to get £100 or so refunded to me

anyway, i have been using a particular law to get the bank to deal with it, that requires them to resolve the matter in x many days, unless they need extra information from me

i got a letter today - posted on their final day to resolve the complaint saying, guess what - they need extra information

information that, given how long it is since i made my complaint, i won't be able to obtain

now, they have messed me about through the entire process (sending our incorrect forms, giving me fob-off dates, explaining the process wrong, passing me to the wrong people), so i'm switching to a different bank, lock-stock-and-barrel - two credit cards (both paid off in full each month), two savings accounts and my main current account (which is always in credit), all going to their main competator

obviously, i need to write to them to say "i am unable to provide the information you have requested, because you have made it impossile for me to comply with your process, so i no longer feel i can trust you as my bank, despite having been your customer since my grandmother opened me a savings account with you back when i was five, *mumble* years ago"

how much venom should i put into said letter - i like the phrase "the trust that is required to exist between a bank and its customer is no longer present"

to counter all the political "i miss" threads

1)The pier (UK version of Pier-1). it went bust last year, but given that my whole flat is decorated in a moroccan/indian style, it was aways a good place to get nice things. plus my stock-pile of Asian Spice room scent has run out, and so i need to find a new smell i like. finally, it was a really good place to get high-quality wrapping materials, the HUGE, and always gorgeous, unit they had in my local mall has been empty evr since, other than the odd time its been short-term let for special events

2)it's now 10 years since i had my last KFC. back when i was 90lbs heavier i used to eat them on a regular basis (zinger tower meal, with large fries usually) even typing this thread is making my mouth water. i know its a slippery slope, though!

i've blitzed my christmas shopping today, with only three things left to buy

1)my sister - i was going to adopt a monkey for her at the local zoo, but even though i think she would love that, my mother thinks she will hate it, so i need to reconsider

2)my sisters mother-in-law - she is always at christmas dinner, and gets me something, so i need to get something for her. i'm drawn to the idea of a nigella-lawsonesque little hamper of home-made things.

3)my niece, who is 2, and who will probably end up just playing with the wrapping paper, whatever i get her!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8408760.stm

so, an american sleb gets an injunction in the UK preventing information being disclosed

so, is the information us brits are not allowed all over the media in the rest of the world?

I just felt the need to share, i've been making home-made ginger biscuits tonight

the recipie was supposed to make 12

i've got 25!

I was talking with a friend from another part of the UK yesterday, and he was shocked at the local-to-lancashire "special treat" of a large slice of rich fruit-cake, served with a big wedge of strong cheese, the idea being you eat them together. My friend though tjhis was disgusting, but ask anyone in lancashire, and they will love it

so, thinking on an international scale (and, ignoring "national dishes") what foodstuff is popular local to you, which people in the rest of the world would go "euuuuu" to

the UK General Election is only a matter of months away, and i've still got NO idea how i'm going to vote.

the worse part is, its a negative election - most people are not voting FOR anyone, but against someone. in essence, voting for the "least bad" party. all three big parties are clamouring for the same "middle england" vote.

and the smaller parties are either racist or single issue parties - neither being something i want to fall into

i've always been a big pro-voting person, and i've even been a paid member of a party, but this time, i feel totally disengaged

oh, for a "none of the above" option

Yes, even the 456 couldn't finish him off

He is appearing in Panto, in Preston, where he is second billing to Ted Robbins

based on a few other threads, I though i'd post a few suggestions for offensive soulmealds

Voice of the Dragon
Desciptiors: Sonic
Classes: Incarnate
Chakra: Throat

The Incarnate who shapes this soulmeald can issue a shout of sonic energy, inflicting 1d4 damage in a 10' burst, centred on herself (reflex for half)

Essentia: Each point of essentia invested in this soulmeald increases the damage by 1d4, and the size of the burst by 5'

Chakra Bind (throat) By binding the soulmeald to the throat, the incarnate can shape the blast as a cone, 30' + 5 per essentia, or a line (same length) rather than a burst

Storm-Giant Tattoo's
Descriptors: Electrical
Classes: Incarnate
Chakra: Arms or hands

Apperance: Tattoos in cracking runes form on your arms and hands

This soulmeld gives an incarnates unarmed attacks the "Shocking" power

Essentia: each mote of essentia invested gives your unarmed attacks +1 enhancement bonus

Chakra Bind (hands) "shocking" is replaced by "Shocking burst"

Chakra bind (Arms) you can throw a lightning bolt, as a ranged touch attach, inflicting 1d6 electrical damage per point of essentia invested

I'm also thinking of a fire and a cold attack