
The Status Crow |

Just played an open mic at a local tea shop. Some guy came in, ordered his tea, put on a gas mask, and started surfing Facebook on his laptop. Totally normal.
I wonder what he thought he needed protection from? Zee Germans?

NobodysHome |
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I'm composting!!!
Among other yard projects.
Put in a bird bath, installed some stones, we found a mole, adorable little guy, gave him someplace safe and shady to dig.
Put some leaves on the curb, put even more leaves into a gigantic pile in the front yard, these will later be piled up in the garden to compost for the winter :-)
The only moles we find lack heads.
Did I mention we own cats?

Sharoth |

Sharoth |
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King of Compost Cap'n Yesterday wrote:I'm composting!!!
Among other yard projects.
Put in a bird bath, installed some stones, we found a mole, adorable little guy, gave him someplace safe and shady to dig.
Put some leaves on the curb, put even more leaves into a gigantic pile in the front yard, these will later be piled up in the garden to compost for the winter :-)
The only moles we find lack heads.
Did I mention we own cats?
No. Not at all. You mentioned that racoons no longer come into your yard for some strange reason, but nothing about cats.
j/k

aatea |
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The only moles we find lack heads.Did I mention we own cats?
Wait, you have the cat mafia too? We thought we were the only ones receiving heads as gifts!

NobodysHome |
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NobodysHome wrote:Wait, you have the cat mafia too? We thought we were the only ones receiving heads as gifts!
The only moles we find lack heads.Did I mention we own cats?
All I'm going to say is that you haven't had a proper "cat ownership moment" until you open your back door to go out and your calico tries to rush in, dead 9" rat in her mouth.
The "dead rat pajama door dance" will never catch on as a craze, I'm afraid.

captain yesterday |
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aatea wrote:NobodysHome wrote:Wait, you have the cat mafia too? We thought we were the only ones receiving heads as gifts!
The only moles we find lack heads.Did I mention we own cats?
All I'm going to say is that you haven't had a proper "cat ownership moment" until you open your back door to go out and your calico tries to rush in, dead 9" rat in her mouth.
The "dead rat pajama door dance" will never catch on as a craze, I'm afraid.
when I was young we had a big ass hound dog that would disappear into the woods and come back with a random dead animal or limb (she once came back with a cow leg) where she would leave it on the deck where she could watch it inside from the comfort of her sunny spot.
Every once in a while a barn cat would come up and sniff at it, at which point the dog would go crazy barking until the cat left and she could relax.
That went on all day, every day.

Freehold DM |
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aatea wrote:NobodysHome wrote:Wait, you have the cat mafia too? We thought we were the only ones receiving heads as gifts!
The only moles we find lack heads.Did I mention we own cats?
All I'm going to say is that you haven't had a proper "cat ownership moment" until you open your back door to go out and your calico tries to rush in, dead 9" rat in her mouth.
The "dead rat pajama door dance" will never catch on as a craze, I'm afraid.
CATS RULE!

Cap'n Yesterday's Winter Bliss |

captain yesterday wrote:I work tonight, sadly.Me too. 4pm to midnight all week.
ouch! That's a rough shift, I'm just 5:30-9:30 soon tho the hours, snow and a~$~@#$s will come, also I'm seriously thinking of shoveling again this winter, I had last winter off but I miss it, nothing beats bossing around a bunch of college kids at 2 in the morning in blowing snow.
Ah, good times!

NobodysHome |
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SHE GOT IT!!!!!!!!
NobodysWife got her offer letter about 15 minutes ago! The signed PDF has been returned. I'm pretty sure you can't blow the job at this point without running over the CEO's dog...
Our last-ditch effort to get in to Rivoli before the renovation has become a celebration dinner!
Woot!

NobodysHome |

Hey, I have to write up the glory of Hooken's death. My Serpent's Skull fans are waiting. But we're celebrating and I'm teaching Impus Major to cook. Priorities!
(Tonight should be straightforward: White rice in a rice cooker (because we're out of brown), grilled lamb chops, and steamed broccoli. All are simple in and of themselves, but all can suffer horrifically from under- or over-cooking. so a nice lesson in, "Timing is everything." Though it's hard to mess up a rice cooker...)

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SHE GOT IT!!!!!!!!
NobodysWife got her offer letter about 15 minutes ago! The signed PDF has been returned. I'm pretty sure you can't blow the job at this point without running over the CEO's dog...
Our last-ditch effort to get in to Rivoli before the renovation has become a celebration dinner!
Woot!
Congratulations to your wife. :)

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Hey, I have to write up the glory of Hooken's death. My Serpent's Skull fans are waiting. But we're celebrating and I'm teaching Impus Major to cook. Priorities!
(Tonight should be straightforward: White rice in a rice cooker (because we're out of brown), grilled lamb chops, and steamed broccoli. All are simple in and of themselves, but all can suffer horrifically from under- or over-cooking. so a nice lesson in, "Timing is everything." Though it's hard to mess up a rice cooker...)
Yeah, about the worst you can do with a rice cooker is not washing the rice ahead of time. And even then you get edible rice at the end. It just smells awful while it's cooking. :)

GM Umbral Ultimatum |

So my LoF group just had their sorc perform their first Harrowing.
The Paladin (LG, Str) - lawful good card of strength. It represents standing resolutely against trouble, without backing down.
The Queen Mother (LN, Wis) - lawful neutral card of wisdom. This formian is the personification of knowledge, who is fond of the powerless, the underclass, and those who will show her obeisance.
The Betrayal (NE, Cha) - neutral evil card of charisma. It represents selfishness and envy.
Present:
The Idiot (NE, Int) - neutral evil card of intelligence. It represents folly, greed, blackmail, bribery, or hubris.
The Carnival (CN, Wis) - chaotic neutral card of wisdom. It represents illusions and false dreams.
The Snakebite (CE, Int) - chaotic evil card of intelligence. It represents poison, venom, assassination, and discord.
Future:
The Fiend (LE, Str) - lawful evil card of strength. It is a devil that devours the masses of the innocent, and can represent the deaths of many in a disaster.
The Midwife (NG, Wis) - neutral good card of wisdom. It represents the enabler or conduit of new creation, information, or arrivals.
The Demon's Lantern (CE, Dex) - chaotic evil card of dexterity. It represents an impossible situation of traps, mind tricks, and sleight of hand.
The Harrower's interpretation:
[9:20:22 PM] Belladonna: Past: A force standing against trouble, against all odds, attempting to help those weaker than him/it, standing against selfishness. This sounds like someone attempting to stand for the lower classes in Denvushain against a liege that is seen as selfish and abusive in power.
[9:22:23 PM] Belladonna: Present: Greed, folly, blackmail, pride / illusions, false dreams /poison, assassination, discord. Someone, perhaps the paladin from the past?, is deluded by their pride and ends up part of a plot to create discord.
[9:25:54 PM] Belladonna: Future: deaths in a disaster, masses of innocent / new creation, information, arrivals / impossible situation of traps, mind tricks, sleight of hand. This force will cause a great number of deaths and a large disaster, impossible to avoid, however something better may rise from the ruins of the devastation.
Those who have played/DMed LoF: Thoughts? =)

Drejk |

I'm making a list of rpgs I played (pen and paper, not crpg). 31 and counting... Not counting homebrew systems. I am on the fence at some choices, though... Should I count 1st and 2nd editions of Warhammer as single system or two systems? Should I count 1st and 3rd/4th editions of Legend Of Five Rings as one or two editions? At least 3rd, 4th, and 5th edition of D&D are so significantly different that I can honestly count them as separate systems...

Drejk |

I know a guy who GMs Shadowrun - yes, I never played Shadowrun, my group at the time it was published in Poland picked Cyberpunk and then fell apart - so that will be another system to be added to the list in remotely near future. He has Ars Magica but he does not have time to GM it... I need to set up someone to GM it. Or maybe I'll borrow the book and GM it myself. The problem is that Ars Magica deserves a campaign to be fully enjoyable, and not a mere one-shot.

Drejk |

You got me beat by a lot, just DnD up to and including 4th edition, Shadowrun, TMNT, Robotech, Rifts, Nightspawn and Heroes Unlimited.
Except for the wide array of D&D (in my case AD&D 2nd edition and D&D 3rd, 4th, and 5th edition), I haven't played any of the games you listed. I know more or less about Shadowrun and Rifts of those, and watched TMNT animated series (and played the arcade/computer game).

Sharoth |

Sharoth wrote:captain yesterday wrote:I work tonight, sadly.Me too. 4pm to midnight all week.ouch! That's a rough shift, I'm just 5:30-9:30 soon tho the hours, snow and a!&$@@*s will come, also I'm seriously thinking of shoveling again this winter, I had last winter off but I miss it, nothing beats bossing around a bunch of college kids at 2 in the morning in blowing snow.
Ah, good times!
This week is not as bad as December will be. December 8th through the 24th I will be on the midnight to 8 am shift. yay. Someone please put me out of my misery. ~groans~ On the plus side, the extra 10% shift differential will be nice. After it is all through.
Edit - great. The same goes for November 23rd through the 27th. Just great.

captain yesterday |

captain yesterday wrote:You got me beat by a lot, just DnD up to and including 4th edition, Shadowrun, TMNT, Robotech, Rifts, Nightspawn and Heroes Unlimited.Except for the wide array of D&D (in my case AD&D 2nd edition and D&D 3rd, 4th, and 5th edition), I haven't played any of the games you listed. I know more or less about Shadowrun and Rifts of those, and watched TMNT animated series (and played the arcade/computer game).
Nightbane (used to be called Nightspawn, until they were sued by Spawn
What the TMNT RPG becameWhat Robotech became
Rifts
Heroes Unlimited
all by the same guy, all theoretically compatible (they aren't really but parts are, and they have conversion books:-)

Drejk |

Drejk wrote:captain yesterday wrote:You got me beat by a lot, just DnD up to and including 4th edition, Shadowrun, TMNT, Robotech, Rifts, Nightspawn and Heroes Unlimited.Except for the wide array of D&D (in my case AD&D 2nd edition and D&D 3rd, 4th, and 5th edition), I haven't played any of the games you listed. I know more or less about Shadowrun and Rifts of those, and watched TMNT animated series (and played the arcade/computer game).Nightbane (used to be called Nightspawn, until they were sued by Spawn
What the TMNT RPG became
What Robotech became
Rifts
Heroes Unlimitedall by the same guy, all theoretically compatible (they aren't really but parts are, and they have conversion books:-)
Well, I should have said that I was aware that all of those systems were published by Palladium Games and use similar mechanics.

Freehold DM |
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SHE GOT IT!!!!!!!!
NobodysWife got her offer letter about 15 minutes ago! The signed PDF has been returned. I'm pretty sure you can't blow the job at this point without running over the CEO's dog...
Our last-ditch effort to get in to Rivoli before the renovation has become a celebration dinner!
Woot!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO