Not sure if this a true coincidence or just my knowledge of Classical history bleeding through my subconscious, but while reading about medieval Byzantine emperors, I recently discovered (while following a chain of wiki links) that the name "Alessia" is the feminine Italian version of the Greek name "Alexios," which means "defending warrior." This was 100% not planned--the name came from a random generator.
Not sure if this a true coincidence or just my knowledge of Classical history bleeding through my subconscious, but while reading about medieval Byzantine emperors, I recently discovered (while following a chain of wiki links) that the name "Alessia" is the feminine Italian version of the Greek name "Alexios," which means "defending warrior." This was 100% not planned--the name came from a random generator.
Nice! :-)
Original call-out was at 10 AM on Monday, but when we realized a storm was coming, we all got sent home around 4 PM, then sent back out around 2 AM on Tuesday. Ended up being out until around 9 PM on Tuesday, then back out at 1 AM yesterday. Ended up getting home around 5 PM, went to bed at 8 PM, then slept for 16 hours straight.Have fun plowing the castle!Ended up working 38 hours straight, with a 4-hour break for sleep somewhere in the middle.Wheeee! ;-(
That sucks.
Had a buddy who works for DPW who had the unfortunate luck to be working at the recycling center on Sunday staring at 630 am and did not get home again until 3 pm on Tuesday!
Yeah. I don’t miss those days. Not one bit.
Ok I lied. There was the certain alien/godlike perspective of driving a plow truck at 3am through a wild blizzard with just you and the snow demons for company. That is a feeling you don’t get anywhere else.
LOL,
Yeah that sounds,... 'Fun'. Yeah,... we'll stick with that. :)
Hey I do NOT miss the (overly) long hours. (I still have to work SOME long hours)
But I DO miss the nice hourly paychecks that came from them!
I'm salary now. (A SMALL salary. I work for a university)
Until Covid I griped about that a lot.
Now,... not so much. :)
Ok I lied. There was the certain alien/godlike perspective of driving a plow truck at 3am through a wild blizzard with just you and the snow demons for company. That is a feeling you don’t get anywhere else.
Not doing a whole lot of actual plowing-- right now, I'm doing about 90% hand-shoveling walkways for our commercial properties, mostly because I'm the only one who doesn't b$&#~ constantly about having to do it.
Yeah the shovel outs aren’t particularly fun. I was mostly spared that, but on my side gigs I’d have to shovel the walkways. The commercial stuff I was in my truck
I've shoveled snow.
It's FUN, when
A)You have never/rarely had to do it,
and
B)when you don't have to do it too long.
Once you cross either of those points,...
Please teach me how to drive a snowplow?!? ;)
It’s better to remember it fondly.
Agreed! :)
WHERE'S a pesky 'Shrink Item' spell when you NEED one huh?!?
O_o
Just to help things along OOC,
does anyone (besides Justin, who always thinks 'new toys' are cool) want to deal with trying to 'claim' the armored wagon and draw-beasts? Or just cram all of the $$$ into our various magical carrying bags? :)
Hamar would not. Especially considering where we have to go next!
LOL, yeah, agreed.
Although showing up in an amored wagon might impress the Drow better than as lowly merchants?
Meh. Too much 'work' for a future archmage. ;P
SORRY!
Meh. ok, not really.
I just couldn't resist the 'Hulk' reference! :)
(Which, now that I think about it, she has the magic 'fun-size' belt, so she really CAN go 'big and angry' when she wants to!) ;P
SORRY!
Meh. ok, not really.
I just couldn't resist the 'Hulk' reference! :)
(Which, now that I think about it, she has the magic 'fun-size' belt, so she really CAN go 'big and angry' when she wants to!) ;P
This Hulk reference?SORRY!
Meh. ok, not really.
I just couldn't resist the 'Hulk' reference! :)
(Which, now that I think about it, she has the magic 'fun-size' belt, so she really CAN go 'big and angry' when she wants to!) ;P
Justin's eyes widen for a brief, terrified, moment. The wizard leans in to Alessia and murmurs,...
"Let the tiefling eat. Don't make her hungry,..."
Honestly, with this line, all I could think of was this.
This Hulk reference?SORRY!
Meh. ok, not really.
I just couldn't resist the 'Hulk' reference! :)
(Which, now that I think about it, she has the magic 'fun-size' belt, so she really CAN go 'big and angry' when she wants to!) ;P
Yep! THAT'S the one! :)
Although the 'let the Wookie win!' line works as well,... ;P
Hey all,
I know that we are all scattered all over the place, but I'm curious where everyone is in relation to the snowpocalypse.
(I'm sure you've all mentioned whereabouts you live previously, but aged wizzie has bad memory. Need magical Ginko Bilboa or something) ;P
I mean, I'm in south Lousy-Anna, and even WE are feeling the icy fingers of the Winter Witch down here.
My friends in Texas are dealing with power outages and frozen pipes,...
My Mom in Oklahoma has been trapped under a sheet of ice for a week BEFORE the snowpocalypse rolled through,...
Can whichever dipstick p!$$#% off ELSA just APOLOGIZE already?!? ;P
Seriously, hope everyone is well.
Please stay safe, and stay WARM! :)
Have a friend in Lafayette Louisiana, 60 last week, 16 this week, 70 again next week, not a bad deal.
I am in New Jersey, have had snow on the ground for weeks. A bit cold today but second day in a row of sunshine so I cannot complain.
It’s been cold here for a while, and we have the storm that shellacked the South rolling in tonight. But our temps are headed up over the next week until near 60, which is pretty warm by my standards for late February
OK that's just,....
Shadow, I'M in Lafayette Lousy-Anna! O_o
Does this friend of yours also work at the University in town? ;)
Yeah compared to Texas, Oklahoma, and farther eastern/northern states, we doing pretty well, but you have to remember, The people form down south Lousy-Anna are NOT used to this crud! At all!
(I'm a transplant, I can talk smack about them) ;)
Louisiana does not have the equipment (trucks, etc) or supplies (Salt, sand, etc) to deal with this. And the idjits who are from here still haven't figured out how to drive in the rain, much less how to drive on ice. (And yes, My wife is one of those idjits. but SHE admits it!) :)
OK that's just,....
Shadow, I'M in Lafayette Lousy-Anna! O_o
Does this friend of yours also work at the University in town? ;)
He was complaining about things being shut down over a little ice storm just a few days ago ;-)
He works at the University of Louisiana in the Office of Distance Learning.
Syracuse, NY, USA-- we've been getting fairly typical snowfall for this time of year, though it feels like temperatures have been unusually warm (a couple days ago, we got 8 inches of snow, then it spent the rest of the day raining on and off).
On a related note, I've been getting call-outs at weird hours, hence why my posting has been spotty, and probably will be for a little while.
Louisiana does not have the equipment (trucks, etc) or supplies (Salt, sand, etc) to deal with this. And the idjits who are from here still haven't figured out how to drive in the rain, much less how to drive on ice. (And yes, My wife is one of those idjits. but SHE admits it!) :)
I remember one time when I was living in Savannah, GA, we got a quarter of an inch of snow (in March). Sirens all night long.
Then again, up in central New York, it snows many feet every winter, and people still haven't figured out that it's not a good idea to try and cut off a plow truck on the highway.
OK that's just,....
Shadow, I'M in Lafayette Lousy-Anna! O_o
Does this friend of yours also work at the University in town? ;)
He was complaining about things being shut down over a little ice storm just a few days ago ;-)
He works at the University of Louisiana in the Office of Distance Learning.
OK, THAT is just,...
I run the auditorium on that campus. (Angelle Hall)Small world, isn't it? :)
Yep, Ice storms they do NOT know how to deal with. So they just shut everything down. (Usually)
On the other hand, My daughter is currently irate.
Due to the continuing cold, and bridges being shut down, etc every public school and university in Louisiana has shut down for tomorrow as well.
Except ULL. THEY are still open.
Oh, and they sent an email to the students saying 'When you go and get food from the cafeteria be careful not to slip on the ice and bust your @$$, and we have very low water pressure, so you will have trouble flushing the toilet, or washing your hands, and the laundry rooms are closed, but we're still open!'
;P
Hey Pat, I finally found my OLD level up for Justin on my home pc. (It was well-hidden. Dont know how THAT happened) ;P
I am now leveling him up properly. Again. So soon I will have an ACTUAL readable PC sheet posted for this toon. :P
Of course WORK keeps distracting me,...;P
Lol. No worries, I am easily distracted, as the past few months illustrated...
Hah!
Speaking of easily distracted!,....
Wait, what were we talking about ?!? O_o
;P
My Forgotten Realm campaign is going to be converted to a Planescape campaign once we hit level 18 or 19. Pretty excited about it ;-)
Though I have now split my table top game between D&D and Vampire these days. Getting a bit burned out on D&D after almost 20 years straight running it.
Vampire is fun, but I’ve really forgotten the rules. I couldn’t even do combat properly.
Vampire is fun, but I’ve really forgotten the rules. I couldn’t even do combat properly.
Tis alright, you might get a brush up on combat quite soon in the Venice game ;-)
Yeah the combat is something that I didn’t do much of even when I was heavily into vampire in the Nineties.
Going on 9 years we have only had a handful of combats in the online game, mostly when they were Mortals or against Mortals.
I think two fights in the table top game I currently running over the course of about 2 years.
More fighting when I ran it in the nineties but then we were younger and my PCs sought more bloodshed and Diablerie back in the day ;-)
FYI- I ACTUALLY remembered to copy/paste and save this loot list onto my home PC. :)
Posting is going to be spotty for a few days-- heading out of town on a side job.
Job is good! :)
May your pull down much dinero!
Did someone say DINO?!?
Oops sorry, wrong scene.
(STILL chuckling over the flying Anklyosaurus bit!) :)
The ice turtle roars and a spreading cloud of blue vapor engulfs the party.
The thing I was confused about was the entanglement effect-- since the cold damage is a spell effect, not an environmental condition (I think?), she takes the damage regardless, but she's immune to physical effects that require Fortitude saves... unless the effect "also works on objects or is harmless," whatever that means. This kind of confusion is why I don't run games...
Can we do that? I thought it was basically quicksand, only in snow form.
Yeah I thought so too. :)
Or at least, I figure I don't wanna step in there and find out it only takes one wrong step? ;P
I think Karrin is talking about flying. The snow will act as quicksand if entered
Right. i knew that,...
<Whistles tunelessly>
;P
Put on your climbing shoes!
By the way, Sarastra has some potent s@+! in her spell lists :O
Much more fun than blah what he heard no? ;-)
Yeah I had a post even longer set up, and it got eaten :(
Yeah I had a post even longer set up, and it got eaten :(
Ugh, I hate when that happens.