Guess you'll just have to settle back and enjoy the greatest game of D&D ever. I assume someone brought the dice. ;D
Actually, while The Others (as I now refer to the treacherous flesh-hungry hordes who are all conspiring to eat me) went on a "grocery run", I set up Descent in the Paizo conference room. WHen they returned with great heaping mountains of junk food that was promptly cooked and devoured (along with this bottle of plum wine that mysteriously appeared and just as mysteriously disappeared into glasses) I was the DM of a quite rousing game while we watched all the chumps below on Richards Road slip and slide.
What's REALLY freaky weird is that leaving our office area...deserted. I-90 eastbouhd the first five miles or so, nothing. Then I hit SNOW. And I'm from Ohio, so to me "snow" begins once about four or five inches has begun to stick - anything less just isn't worth writing home about. On the last ten miles of my drive over the mountains to get home,I counted 116 cars and 41 trucks off the side of the road. I am not making this up.
What's even MORE freaky weird is that up here, just a few miles from Snoqualmie Pass? Nothing. Just a few flurries. We're the ones who SHOULD be getting hammered, and yet the lowlands are being beaten like redheaded stepchildren at a West Virginia family reunion.
Either way, I escaped with my hide intact. FOR NOW....
Director of Game Design
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So cold here now.. Me and the pile of bones are the only ones left. As it turns out, they probably should have eaten me first. Only in numbers would they have stood a chance of taking me down. Once it was down to four, we all knew how it would work out.
Hmm.. delicious.
Jason Bulmahn
Hungry King of Paizo... now accepting applications for many positions on the menu.. err.. staff.
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I'm making this post from Jason's belly. He made the mistake of swallowing me whole, along with a few computers with wireless capacity. I think he's in a Starbucks now, cause the internets just turned on. OH! Look there! A light slashing or piercing weapon! Let's see your muscular action close THIS hole, you ravenous menace!
(begins cutting way out of Editor Gizzard)
SEND... MORE... EDITORS.
...and I was involved in Theatre earlier in life, which helps explain... why I don't have a career...Oh wait...never mind.
Can I get an Amen!
Sing it brother...sing it.
Nick
still looking for a real job
I'm making this post from Jason's belly. He made the mistake of swallowing me whole, along with a few computers with wireless capacity. I think he's in a Starbucks now, cause the internets just turned on. OH! Look there! A light slashing or piercing weapon! Let's see your muscular action close THIS hole, you ravenous menace!
(begins cutting way out of Editor Gizzard)
LOL!!!
I seem to be having a bit of indigestion right now. Fortunately, damage to my stomach does not come off my total HP and when I reswallow you, you will have to cut your way out again.
Jason
I knew eating that laptop was a bad idea
Even more LOL!
Freak weather all over, it seems. What was that news bit with New York having spring-like temperatures (22°C or so, should be about 72° F)and people ice skating in T-shirts ? It just looked so wrong.
When I was in Barcelona two years ago in March, there fell a bit of snow (just enough to cover the ground - barely), and people there really freaked out over it. It was the top news that day, and a lot of car accidents happened, as the Spanish are of course not used to driving on snow.
Ah, and I fondly remember the olden times when it really snowed in winter in Germany, back when there was a winter. You call that a winter ? Well, back in my day, we had real winters, with snow covering everything for weeks. (Yeah, and we actually had to walk to school - uphill, both ways, of course.)
Today, we expect about 10°C (about 42°F) top temp, the last few days we had up to 16°C daily top (about 61°F). But we had higher than average temperatures in the last few months anyway... Talk about climatic changes...
Stefan
...and indeed, weather in Europe, pretty much everywhere, has been unusually warm. People in southern Finland have been complaining that they haven't got "proper winter" so far...
I would need to see your pictures and bit of your behaviour to see the order you would meet your fate. Indeed being the only woman is the winning card, and of the men...the whiner is second to go, the macho is approximately fourth and the black guy is second to last. Calculate the odds. You don't happen to have a dog there?
Oh, and definitely do not cast a longing glance to a picture of your loved one(s) or mention that it will be only three days until the retirement or marrying your sweetheart or something like that...
And I do remember it being suggested that flesh of vegetarians would be better tasting than that of carnivores since metabolism products of meat proteins taste worse than all those delicious fructoses etc.
People in southern Finland have been complaining that they haven't got "proper winter" so far...
(shameless_product_placement)
Speaking of southern Finland (Turku specifically), I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nokian Tyres, the makers of my favorite rubber in the whole world. Every Saab I own (and I own a bunch) are shod with Nokians, and they are directly responsible for allowing me and our art director Sean Glenn to get home safely tonite through all the slush and deep snow and raving loonies driving SUVs. (Sean bought one of my Saabs a couple months ago, and it has the same Nokian WRs on it that my others do.)
If you live anywhere in the world where you stand the slightest chance of ever getting any kind of snow, buy yourselves a set of Nokian WRs. That is all. Kiitos! Söisin mieluummin salmiakkia. Onko totta, että suomalaisessa jouluperinteessä joulupukki oli lapsia syövä villisika?
(/shameless_product_placement)
What is this "snow" you speak of?
It's t-shirt weather down here in L.A. Behold, the power of smog!
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Hey if most of your staff has been eaten ,can I have there job? You guys steal all my ideas with mindflayers anyways.I mean come on ,3 years ago I wrote an Isle of Dread updated game and guess where I put the Isle? ( In the Pearl Sea) and oh yeah Demogorgon was my main bad guy. Whats up with that......
Hmm... stuck all night with a group of fellow gamers in the Paizo offices, which are bound to be loaded with gaming supplies. Lots of snack food from QFC. Am I the only one that's failing to see a problem here? I'd love to be there right now! But there's no way I'm driving from Auburn to Bellevue in this crap. You'll have to take Maure Castle without me, I'm afraid. Enjoy!
If you've got to eat people, it's good you have plenty of barbecue sauce on hand. I'll put barbecue sauce on anything and enjoy it. Chicken, pizza, tax returns, that Silent Hill movie...anything.
Except chocolate ice cream. That one didn't work out so well, I have to admit.
(shameless_product_placement)
Speaking of southern Finland (Turku specifically), I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nokian Tyres, the makers of my favorite rubber in the whole world. Every Saab I own (and I own a bunch) are shod with Nokians, and they are directly responsible for allowing me and our art director Sean Glenn to get home safely tonite through all the slush and deep snow and raving loonies driving SUVs. (Sean bought one of my Saabs a couple months ago, and it has the same Nokian WRs on it that my others do.)
If you live anywhere in the world where you stand the slightest chance of ever getting any kind of snow, buy yourselves a set of Nokian WRs. That is all. Kiitos! Söisin mieluummin salmiakkia. Onko totta, että suomalaisessa jouluperinteessä joulupukki oli lapsia syövä villisika?
(/shameless_product_placement)
Nokia tyres are indeed made to work in typical winter conditions in Finland, which can be pretty dismal. (and for the curious, company is indeed the same as the cell phone manufacturer). Just like Saabs and Volvos (and some Russian models too) are much better winter cars than that snappy Italian GT.
Minullekin kelpaisi nyt salmiakki. Joulupukki ei suoranaisesti syönyt lapsia mutta oli kyllä perinteisesti pelottavampi hahmo kuin vaikkapa amerikkalaisen tradition Coca-Cola-pukki. Thank you!
...and I was involved in Theatre earlier in life, which helps explain... why I don't have a career...Oh wait...never mind.
Can I get an Amen!
Sing it brother...sing it.
Nick
still looking for a real job
Amen! Preach it high and low. And send me any extra want ads you find.
It is good to know that because of your geographical isolation, despite the Donner-esque events of the last 24 hours, there will still be character killing mods featuring demented actors, inspectors and savage monkeys being lovingly crafted.
Unfortunately without the rest of the staff they will probably arrive handwritten, bound in grocery store bags with stick figure illustrations, but who can complain?
-Nick Logue's secret fanboy
Minullekin kelpaisi nyt salmiakki. Joulupukki ei suoranaisesti syönyt lapsia mutta oli kyllä perinteisesti pelottavampi hahmo kuin vaikkapa amerikkalaisen tradition Coca-Cola-pukki. Thank you!
Mielestäni teillä on söpö presidentti. Voitteko kirjoittaa reseptin jotain piristävää varten? Kippis!
(yes, the cold has sufficiently rotted my brain that I've resorted to speaking Finnish. Which is odd, because I normally speak Norwegian when drunk and delirious...)
I'm still thinking this 'snow' is a myth and we're talking code for "Got in on the Dark Portal beta".
Wow. I thought the Philadelphia area was bad for basically shutting down with 3 to 4 inches. Who knew Seattle had bigger wimps?
Wow. I thought the Philadelphia area was bad for basically shutting down with 3 to 4 inches. Who knew Seattle had bigger wimps?
Pshft. If we were wimps, there wouldn't be anybody left in the city at this point, after the rain and the snow and the rain and the wind and the rain and the snow . . . and it's only early January. :P
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Wow. I thought the Philadelphia area was bad for basically shutting down with 3 to 4 inches. Who knew Seattle had bigger wimps?
Hey! I am a Wisconsin girl who also spent 7 years in Minnesota. I have driven for hours through 3 feet of snow. I know my winter driving. But yesterday we had almost a foot of 3 inch diameter ice balls. Try driving on a road of slippery ball bearings. It wasn't pretty. Then try it on a 50º incline. Then surround yourself with a bunch of cars that are equipped to drive in Florida with drivers that have driven in snowy conditions maybe twice in their lifetime. It was like playing some sort of wacky video game. I wasn't worried about the driving with my 4 wheel drive. I was worried about the other drivers swerving, crossing over lanes, etc.
-Lisa
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Chief Creative Officer, Publisher
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I wasn't worried about the driving with my 4 wheel drive. I was worried about the other drivers swerving, crossing over lanes, etc.
Amen. The I-90 entrance ramp was like Frogger. I kept worrying about other cars sliding into mine, which handled perfectly. I honked at two or three drivers for exactly this reason.
--Erik
Forest fires too, James! Can't forget the forest fires!
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 6
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Hey! I am a Wisconsin girl who also spent 7 years in Minnesota. I have driven for hours through 3 feet of snow. I know my winter driving. But yesterday we had almost a foot of 3 inch diameter ice balls. Try driving on a road of slippery ball bearings. It wasn't pretty. Then try it on a 50º incline. Then surround yourself with a bunch of cars that are equipped to drive in Florida with drivers that have driven in snowy conditions maybe twice in their lifetime. It was like playing some sort of wacky video game. I wasn't worried about the driving with my 4 wheel drive. I was worried about the other drivers swerving, crossing over lanes, etc.
Although you obviously know your winter driving, this reminds me of a friend's gag about northwest drivers in the winter:
"Remember, four wheel drive is not four wheel STOP":)
Glad my wife has the Outbak while I'm gone - she's getting more snow in Oregon than I am in Ohio!
Russ
Forest fires too, James! Can't forget the forest fires!
And mudslides!
Oh yeah, and the tsunamis!
Yep, the Pacific Northwest is a pretty exciting place to live.
You Seattle people, make sure you stay off that darn Viaduct. That thing is unsafe at any speed (of earthquake). None of the local geologists and folks who monitor for earthquakes will go near that thing, and they're the people in the know. That road gives me the willies.
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The cold has sufficiently rotted my brain that I've resorted to speaking Finnish. Which is odd, because I normally speak Norwegian when drunk and delirious...
Du store allverden… det var ukjent for meg at kulde var en faktor i valg av språk. Uansett er det er godt å se at du unngikk de sultne medkontoristene og overlevde det vesle snøfallet. Ha en fortsatt god jul og godt nytt år fritt for kannibaler og tynt amerikansk øl. Skål!
(shameless_product_placement) Speaking of southern Finland (Turku specifically), I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nokian Tyres, the makers of my favorite rubber in the whole world.
And all this time I though you were the Sales Manager for Paizo. ;-)
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I'm pretty sure everyone made it home OK finally.
Today only three people showed up for work. Michelle, because she takes the bus and the busses all have giant pavement-destroying chains on today. Warehouse Jeff, because he walks to work.
And me, because I loves driving on the slip-and-slide.
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Funny story.
So, there I am, running through the streets of Bellevue, dodging this wacky looking guy with a chainsaw and BBQ stained hands, when I duck into this non-descript office building. The place is more or less empty, with a few piles of bones here or there and a six foot tall stack of manuscripts. I'm take the top one down and realize that it's by Nick Logue. I dig through the stack some more, and count four hundred eleven adventures in all. I realize that I am in the Paizo office, that I have enough material from Nick Logue to publish for eleven years without running out of material.
I creep upstairs, find a door that says Lisa Stevens President, CEO, and Chief Waffle Inspector (?). The keys to the magical machine that prints and delivers Dungeon and Dragon are sitting on her desk. Since there's no one around, I swipe them.
And with that, I proclaim myself:
SEBASTIAN: PRESIDENT, CEO, AND CHIEF WAFFLE INSPECTOR OF PAIZO!!!
As an FYI, I am hiring able bodies (or those capable of animating large piles of bones) to hang out, drink coffee, and change the names on Nick's manuscripts to make it seem like the whole operation is not on the shoulders of one guy in Hawaii (an oddly large number already appear to have Pett written on them with a sharpie, but we can work around those).
Anyone need a job?
Don't forget earthquakes! Oh! Or the fact that we've got volcanoes!And don't forget the multi-day power outages, Michelle!
At least this snow time they didn't close some of the freeways. It only took me 30 minutes to get home last night, rather than 7.5 hours. ;D
...and all those random monster encounters. >_>;
;D
Du store allverden… det var ukjent for meg at kulde var en faktor i valg av språk. Uansett er det er godt å se at du unngikk de sultne medkontoristene og overlevde det vesle snøfallet. Ha en fortsatt god jul og godt nytt år fritt for kannibaler og tynt amerikansk øl. Skål!
Yeah, well, you hang around THIS crowd long enough, you'd be amazed allt he skill points you'd pick up :-)
Tusen takk skal du ha! Hei Skål!
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Funny story.
So, there I am, running through the streets of Bellevue, dodging this wacky looking guy with a chainsaw and BBQ stained hands, when I duck into this non-descript office building. The place is more or less empty, with a few piles of bones here or there and a six foot tall stack of manuscripts. I'm take the top one down and realize that it's by Nick Logue. I dig through the stack some more, and count four hundred eleven adventures in all. I realize that I am in the Paizo office, that I have enough material from Nick Logue to publish for eleven years without running out of material.
I creep upstairs, find a door that says Lisa Stevens President, CEO, and Chief Waffle Inspector (?). The keys to the magical machine that prints and delivers Dungeon and Dragon are sitting on her desk. Since there's no one around, I swipe them.
And with that, I proclaim myself:
SEBASTIAN: PRESIDENT, CEO, AND CHIEF WAFFLE INSPECTOR OF PAIZO!!!
As an FYI, I am hiring able bodies (or those capable of animating large piles of bones) to hang out, drink coffee, and change the names on Nick's manuscripts to make it seem like the whole operation is not on the shoulders of one guy in Hawaii (an oddly large number already appear to have Pett written on them with a sharpie, but we can work around those).
Anyone need a job?
I had a funny idea for a cartoon about a drow elf.
Don't forget earthquakes! Oh! Or the fact that we've got volcanoes!
Oh yeah...if you call those sleepy old dormies volcanoes, I guess so. ;-)
Random non-sequitor: I went to the new science attachment of the Bishop Museum and watched them make lava right in front of us!!! Awesome! Almost as awesome as hiking up to where its free-flowing from the source on the Big Island!!! Lava rules!
It is good to know that because of your geographical isolation, despite the Donner-esque events of the last 24 hours, there will still be character killing mods featuring demented actors, inspectors and savage monkeys being lovingly crafted.
Unfortunately without the rest of the staff they will probably arrive handwritten, bound in grocery store bags with stick figure illustrations, but who can complain?
-Nick Logue's secret fanboy
It's good to know Sebastian is all over that!
and change the names on Nick's manuscripts to make it seem like the whole operation is not on the shoulders of one guy in Hawaii (an oddly large number already appear to have Pett written on them with a sharpie, but we can work around those).
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Well, it may still be warm downstate, but upstate NY is cold, at least temporarily. As in snow drifts blowing across the road on my way home from work. Very glad for my new AWD vehicle, which doesn't stop quicker (I don't expect it to, despite being an ignorant Californian), but does tend to stay on the road better than my old pickup. *avoids shameless plug for Subaru*
Hope all dogs and editors survived the snow--I got to enjoy a nice long power outage on Whidbey Island last week, so I know what all you Washingtonians are going through.
Oh yeah...if you call those sleepy old dormies volcanoes, I guess so. ;-)
Since you're in Hawaii, you are allowed to say that. :D The rest of use Pacific Northwesterners look at the Cascades and go "Huh - wonder when the next one is?"
*walks out to front porch and looks at Mt Bachelor, the Three Sisters to the west, looks to the south and sees Newberry Volcanic Monument and Lava Butte, looks to the northeast and sees Pilot Butte*
Well, it may still be warm downstate, but upstate NY is cold, at least temporarily. As in snow drifts blowing across the road on my way home from work. Very glad for my new AWD vehicle, which doesn't stop quicker (I don't expect it to, despite being an ignorant Californian), but does tend to stay on the road better than my old pickup. *avoids shameless plug for Subaru*
Hope all dogs and editors survived the snow--I got to enjoy a nice long power outage on Whidbey Island last week, so I know what all you Washingtonians are going through.
Where in Upstate NY? I'm born and raised in Rochester with a brief hiatus in Chicago for my bachelor's. My wife and I still live in Rochester and if it wasn't for the up-to-now weak winter we've had (minus the horrible blizzard in Buffalo in October) I'd call all of you Pacific Northwester's wimps.
Although a funny anecdote... when my wife and I honeymooned in San Francisco we both agreed that if it snowed in San Francisco the way it does in Rochester there would be no San Francisco. Try walking/driving up those inclines with three feet of snow.
Mielestäni teillä on söpö presidentti. Voitteko kirjoittaa reseptin jotain piristävää varten? Kippis!
(yes, the cold has sufficiently rotted my brain that I've resorted to speaking Finnish. Which is odd, because I normally speak Norwegian when drunk and delirious...)
Teidän presidenttinne voisi olla söpömpi...ja huku-tai-ui-periaatteella tarjoan piristäväksi reseptiksi seuraavaa:
4 cl vodka (ice cold). Repeat as necessary. Kippis!Personally, I sometimes speak Norwegian too when I am drunk and delirious ("speaking Norwegian" is local euphemism for throwing up...my apologies to Vattnisse :) )
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I envy the stranded staff at Paizo. I'm in denver. During the first blizzard, my boss rented 4 wheel drives and took the office staff home, we never got a chance to get the menu arranged. The second blizzard, and we had learned our lesson, everybody left the office early. I was stuck at home, with no hope of even getting an online game going, I was too busy shoveling 36 inches of snow off my driveway. Now here I sit, it's a whopping 3 degrees outside, and I'm facing the possibility of another 10 inches by monday, and the return to office. There are many tasty looking entrees, errr I mean people at my office, and I shall be sad to see the this recent blizzard season come to an end. After all, so many people, so little charcoal....Did I mention that I make a really nice sweet BBQ sauce?
Random non-sequitor: I went to the new science attachment of the Bishop Museum and watched them make lava right in front of us!!! Awesome! Almost as awesome as hiking up to where its free-flowing from the source on the Big Island!!! Lava rules!
Oooh the Bishop! That was a pretty fun place. I loved the tsunami making tank, but my absolute favorite was the shield volcano model using hot wax. I raised whole empires with that thing.
You know, this thread reminds of the time when I was sitting by the computer (working on a query, of course...) when suddenly I felt very hungry. Now, I didn't want to busy my hands or to leave the computer so I ate my own face - everything except one eye (because you can't write without eyes).
Then I printed me a a copy of the query, made a little hole for the eye and stitched it to my exposed skull with my teeth even as I was proof-reading it.
At the end it was rejected... go figure...