Celestial Healer wrote:
Hmmm... Russet mold growing on cacao plants makes better "brownies"?
Selene Spires wrote: So anymore questions or cat videos for me? Are bodega cats actually tutelaries, like kamis?
David M Mallon wrote:
"Revenge is a sucker's game, which is why octopuseses and squids are so damn good at it." - Me, just now
Drejk wrote: Fantasy Monster: Bee-Killer Dog. A dog that vomits carnivorous bees. BTW, carrion bees are real (at least on Earth-616 anyway). Sadly, they are stingless and their ...but imagine what they could be if they made alchemical "honeys"* from the carrion of various fantastic creatures in a Pathfinder setting? If they retained their stingers, what properties might their venom acquire based on their varied diet of fantastic carrion (similar to animals like milkweed caterpillars absorbing the toxins of the milkweed they consume)? * And what kinds of meads would duerger, duerro, and possibly thirae make from such honeys? What sort of abilities would a mellified mummy made from such honeys have?
CorvusMask wrote: Like at this rate I won't be surprised if we will figure out what they actually sounded like somehow xD Pssh. That's so 2016. The new hotness is figuring out what your mum sounded like.
captain yesterday wrote: The newer neighbors that are afraid of me really smashed the front of their car. {nature documentary voiceover:} That seems a rather unusual and drastic choice of threat displays. But will it be effective at keeping a herd of Yesterday aliases from descending upon them? (The answer is 'no.')
Scintillae wrote:
I would very much like there to be a Plane of Surprise. {flips open Strunk & White's Grammoire, begins drawing sentence diagrams to summon Elemental of Style}
Lord Fyre wrote: You may already find PF 1E difficult to come back to. Nonsense. You just need to homebrew up a new techno-druid archetype.
Limeylongears wrote:
{sips port} Predominantly a deep shade of Anatto'd cheddar, with brackish spots of mozzarella. It's recovered quite a bit now that the SuperFund site has finished cleaning up where Missouri had been illegally dumping provel.
Freehold DM wrote:
Unfortunately for Freehold-kun, we had already replaced his pool of holy water with
The Vagrant Erudite wrote:
...And long, winding trenches dug around the IT dept & server rooms whence you shake your fist at imaginary Sopwith Camels* flying overhead? * Beagle biplane pilots are optional.
Freehold DM wrote:
{documentary voiceover:} If you do the Time Warp dance while singing from the Rocky Horror soundtrack, nothing happens. If you do it while instead singing along with Queen and orbiting around the Sun, you can actually travel through time. The grinding sound of the TARDIS as it (re)materializes is actually the temporal subharmonics of Sir Brian May's guitar amplified through a quantum badger so human ears can hear it.
Vanykrye wrote:
I blame Cosmo that Vany has not considered doing his IT duties while channeling Willem Defoe's Tars Tarkas: Vany: {pats server rack} "You are ugly, but you are beautiful. And you fight like a Thark!" Vany: {every 30 seconds:} "Vor... ginya. Vorginya!" Vany: {gestures to surroundings} "But Vorginya fights for us! He will fight the Torquas in the south. The Warhoons in the north! And he will be called Dotar Sojat!" That should stop you from being dispatched to that particular office. And if that fails to work, start channeling Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn.
Gary Teter wrote: Do we gain and lose fat cells, or do they just inflate and deflate? {narrated in reserved, BBC English tones:} When you're born, your fat cells are quantum entangled with another human who was born at the same time. When you lose fat cells, they are shunted off via quantum tunneling to the other person. Likewise, when they rid themselves of fat cells, the tendency is for you to receive them. This is why it is so hard to lose fat and keep it off. This "fatty action at a distance" entanglement only ends when one of you dies. {drops a knife} Good hunting.
26) Go back in time. Infiltrate the Doctor Who writer's room; load the writers up on LSD, shrooms, good whisky, and Jelly Babies; convince them that The Doctor's 4th incarnation should be portrayed by a whimsical, sarcastic puppet of a monkey with either Tom Baker or Diana Rigg as Monkey Doctor's companion.
captain yesterday wrote:
Which is funny, because drunken Star Trek trivia is one of the three reasons why the Al Gore was invented in the first place. No, there's nothing wrong with drinking bourbon before 11AM. Oh hush.
Drejk wrote:
Just needs a little necromancy to animate as a bezoarombie then, or maybe as a
Drejk wrote: A dire tumbleweed rolls through the thread! Do dragons get "scaleballs"? No, not some kind of draconic STD*, but like cat hairballs except scales? Would they be magical? Semi-sentient? Ooze-like? * I would think kobolds, half-dragons, and draconic bloodline-d humanoids would be STD enough. Edit: Oooo, would dragons get bezoars? What would a dragon with the alchemist parasitic twin or tumor familiar discoveries be like?
Not a question, but a suggestion: Tea Dragons (a 50 pg comic)
thejeff wrote:
So that's where the game "Got Your Nose" came from.
Master Pugwampi wrote: Hey! Who is using the Rysky mind control device on Selene to make her lightly obsessed with answering questions? {muffled:} We're learning stuff. For example, we now know she probably isn't familiar with most 1990s Lou Reed lyrics. {bangs clipboard of "scientific" questions on large peanut butter jar trapping his noggin} Lady Spires, can you recall the last time your head got stuck in a jar?
TOZ wrote:
I still suspect Tensor is an emergent AI. So, Deep Thought Chopra.
You could make a cardboard door prop and go reverse trick or treating.
high G wrote:
A catenary sounds like a PFRPG hybrid critter waiting for Rawr!badger or Drejk to stat up.
Quartz: "An ice shelf in Antartica is making eerie noises" Quote:
American Geophysical Union (AGU): "This is what an Antarctic Ice Shelf sounds like" (Youtube) I'll remember these sounds the next time I watch John Carpenter's The Thing.
KingOfAnything wrote:
I'd like to see at least one Golarion city set aside a "central park"/greenspace area for druids to rest/recuperate in tree shape. If the druids assume tree form when no one is looking (at night), the residents might get used to the idea of a park/greenspace that looks different each morning. It'd be a good place for kids to play, families to picnic, and festivals to be held. Just make sure there are copious signage explaining how harvesting or harming the trees is strictly prohibited and enforced.
Just a Mort wrote: But... But... Vincas are so pretty...and the Madagascar periwinkle is used to treat cancer. Useless trivia: The main bay-side road on Sanibel Island is Periwinkle Way. They used to plant periwinkles all over the island until they figured out how invasive they were. A small sidestreet roughly midway down Periwinkle Way is named Vinca Way. Edit: I'd heard the morning glory seeds are hallucinogenic thing too, so I'd never even considered eating them. Hibiscus blooms are nice in a pitcher of sangria, and squash blossums are tasty. gran rey de los mono wrote: Eating corn is the easiest way to see how fast your digestive system works. Ah, a more modern and personal equivalent to the Dutchman's log (Purely serendipitous punnage)
The Game Hamster wrote: The real victims of the whole affair are the half-elves, who have too many cooling methods, which only helps in desert climes, and everywhere else makes them rather chilled. In dessert climes, though, they have to bundle up even more at night than most. [unsourced "biology"] Half-orcs and humans recognized this "too cool" effect early on, and often employ half-elves to sit in food pantries to cool the perishables. Half-elves make excellent wait staff, with their touch chilling the average beer stein by 5°-7° F just from a few seconds of skin contact. Dwarven brewers would seem to benefit the most from an association with half-elves, but they inherit the dwarven tendency to be dumb. [/"biology"] Edit: I think I have that exothermically backwards, now that I think more about it. I'm beginning to suspect my halfling pipeweed may be spiked with a hallucinogenic adulterant.
Drejk wrote:
[unsourced "biology"] Elves don't sweat out toxins, or even poop very much. However, when they are away from non-elves, they cough up large castings/pellets. If humans knew this, I suspect there'd be far fewer half-elves. [/"biology"] The Game Hamster wrote:
Halflings, being Small, have a larger surface area to volume ratio, so that helps with cooling. [unsourced "biology"] Likewise, they have additional lung gyri, which increases their effective heat exchange during respiration (and interestingly, also increases the effectiveness of substances like halfling pipeweed). The real secret, however, is the hollow hairs on their feets, which act as heat exchange pipes to shed additional heat into the surrounding air. [/"biology"]
Selene Spires wrote:
I assumed that you are like Kirby. You still retain all your own unique talents and abilities, but you've also added all of John's as well. :) So you count all his posts and favorites as yours now too.
master_marshmallow wrote: Misleading title, I see no beards. You should be thankful. That lady dwarf's beard is so lush, so soft, and so lustrous that elves would weep in despair at the sight of it, their own hair feeling like mangy, tangled steel wool in comparison. Upon seeing that lady dwarf's beard, hobgoblins would go mad with envy, as their minds become covetously obsessed with stealing her wondrous hair to make wigs for their own follicly-deprived pates. Upon catching but a glimpse, a halfling would shave themselves entirely bald including their beloved feetsie hairs, and join a monastery after taking a vow of everhairlessness. Upon spying such luxurious locks, a tengu would sell all their baubles, gewgaws, and sparkly gems for but a single hair to line their nest. But woe the innocent tengu hatchlings: upon seeing such a majestic hair, they would know only sorrow at all life's treasures being hopelessly dull and mundane in comparison. If the masterful Wayne Reynolds even sketched the beginnings of such a beard, he would be kidnapped away by some billionaire, chained to an easel, and forced to spend the rest of his life painting masterpieces that would never grace the pages of another Paizo product. That lady's beard is rendered invisible by powerful magics to maintain the peace throughout the multiverse. Be thankful.
EltonJ wrote:
Oops. I clicked through from a Google search results (insects with gears) and didn't get a message from PM about logging in/subscribing. Sorry. I went with that article because it had neat animated GIFs of the gear action. Try one of these links instead: Smithsonian Magazine
Some real world bugs have evolved actual toothed gears in their legs, so I don't find the bantrids that outlandish.
I haven't read the Cluster series, and I only checked out Barlowe's from the library many years ago, but wasn't the polarion's sphere an "egg" or an egg container for future offspring? Maybe the bantrid's sphere starts as an unfertilized egg (eggs?)/ovum (ova?) that the growing bantrid covers up with layers of nacre and necessary trace minerals? Perhaps the nacre contains RNA and epigenetic coding that an individual bantrid "writes" into each layer based upon its life's experiences and environment? When bantrids mate, they exchange spheres, in the process fertilizing the new sphere's ovum. While the growing offspring gestates, the prospective parent build up their fat and carb stores. A baby bantrid dissolves/eats the minerals and ancestral memory/RNA/epigenetics encoded in the nacre sphere. When the baby bantrid is ready, it uses acid to dissolve a plug in the sphere and hatches free. Over the following days, the parent deposits a new ovum in the now hollow sphere, fills it with new food stores and nutrients, and then secrets a plug to repair the hole in the sphere. Edit: OK, this seems to contradict the text in Pact Worlds that says bantrids reproduce by budding. Also, it just now occurs to me the bantrids may have a deity/deities/legendary characters similar to the King of All Cosmos and the Prince from the Katamari video games.
Subparhiggins wrote:
PF2e catfolk's appearances are still variable, as detailed in the Schrödinger ancestry. Tengu, surprisingly, will have two ancestry options available initially: southern fried and karaage.
Mark Seifter wrote:
{pours another shot of Ol' Janx Spirit from the Klein bottle} So... dwarves can take beard familiars*? Or is it a hairy wart familiar*, similar to alchemist tumor familiars? Can dwarves take a feat to gain hair-based cohorts (see Table 5–2: Beardership)? * A dwarf is still limited to one bonded magical creature/coiffure, including familiars, summoners' beardilons, or the intelligent magical blackbeard gained from the beardbound archetype.
Feros wrote:
{wheels out whiteboard, starts attempting to prove Ragnarok Hemsworth is actually made of Wint-O-Green Lifesavers}
lisamarlene wrote: Perhaps other Neil Gaiman fans will understand what I mean when I say that this evening I was driving home through the rain wearing a black leather moto jacket, listening to a Best of Queen mix on the MP3 player in my car, and wondering why my car wasn't magically being transformed into a Bentley. I really hope they use some convincingly expensive CGI in the upcoming adaptation. You must be careful though. MP3 is a lossy compression, and may thusly drop out some of the important bits of the magick. It could transform your vehicle into a Morris Marina (keep an eye out for falling pianos) or something far worse, like a Pontiac Aztek.
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