
Col. Longear's Droopy Dragoons |
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Freehold DM wrote:I'll take Ms. Hendricks off your hands. That's just how nice a guy I am.lisamarlene wrote:see, this is why you just took Christina Hendricks place.Trick-or-treating in my neighborhood is excellent. It's a bit of a hike up and down the hill and the houses are spaced pretty far apart, and only about a third of them have their lights on, so you'd think it wouldn't be worth the bother.
But the people who *do* have their lights on are mostly retired people who've lived here for decades, or recent immigrants/homeowners really excited about celebrating holidays in their new home, so both camps tend to go all out. And if you show up at their door, and remember your manners, you will be rewarded with *handfuls* of loot because no one wants the depression of a bucketful of leftover give-out candy the next morning. It means no one wanted to come to your house and you're going to die alone, your face half-chewed by your cats before someone finds you.Or maybe that's just my brain.
You infernal bounder, I saw her first! I challenge you to a duel!

A Gelatinous Cube |
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gran rey de los mono wrote:You infernal bounder, I saw her first! I challenge you to a duel!Freehold DM wrote:I'll take Ms. Hendricks off your hands. That's just how nice a guy I am.lisamarlene wrote:see, this is why you just took Christina Hendricks place.Trick-or-treating in my neighborhood is excellent. It's a bit of a hike up and down the hill and the houses are spaced pretty far apart, and only about a third of them have their lights on, so you'd think it wouldn't be worth the bother.
But the people who *do* have their lights on are mostly retired people who've lived here for decades, or recent immigrants/homeowners really excited about celebrating holidays in their new home, so both camps tend to go all out. And if you show up at their door, and remember your manners, you will be rewarded with *handfuls* of loot because no one wants the depression of a bucketful of leftover give-out candy the next morning. It means no one wanted to come to your house and you're going to die alone, your face half-chewed by your cats before someone finds you.Or maybe that's just my brain.
*engulfs Col. Longears and his Droopy Drawers*

captain yesterday |
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WTF.
I just got emails from JoAnn fabrics AND Michael's crafts about Christmas sales.
Halloween isn't even OVER yet. Lights are still on in my neighborhood.
And I've got fresh emails in my inbox about artificial Christmas tree sales.
Someone needs to die slowly, bound to a Yule Log, and roasted.
Sprinkled liberally with pumpkin spice.
While being violated by a yule goat.
If it helps, we started putting out Christmas stuff on August 28th.

Scintillae |
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Scintillae wrote:Also, my FF lens tends to default to IX. Vivi > Quina.shudder IX remains awful to me. The character designs fall into my uncanny valley, reaching almost dark crystal proportions(not quite).
sets up life-size models of FFIX characters with Firefly quotes on speaker as part of defense system

Orthos |
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Freehold DM wrote:sets up life-size models of FFIX characters with Firefly quotes on speaker as part of defense systemScintillae wrote:Also, my FF lens tends to default to IX. Vivi > Quina.shudder IX remains awful to me. The character designs fall into my uncanny valley, reaching almost dark crystal proportions(not quite).
Crucifying Quina to the roof like a corpse on a Reaver ship hull was a nice touch.

Scintillae |
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Scintillae wrote:Crucifying Quina to the roof like a corpse on a Reaver ship hull was a nice touch.Freehold DM wrote:sets up life-size models of FFIX characters with Firefly quotes on speaker as part of defense systemScintillae wrote:Also, my FF lens tends to default to IX. Vivi > Quina.shudder IX remains awful to me. The character designs fall into my uncanny valley, reaching almost dark crystal proportions(not quite).
About time I got some benefit out of the useless kumquat.

Orthos |
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So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold - undecided
CH - healer
NPCs
None yet
Villains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassin
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy
Gran Rey - owlbear rancher

Limeylongears |
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So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold - undecided
CH - healerNPCs
None yetVillains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassin
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy
Gran Rey - owlbear rancher
I'll perform NPC duties, if needs be. Failing that, I can do a good Hapless Rogue, or Droopy Dragoon.

Tacticslion |
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Scintillae wrote:Hobby Lobby had tinsel out by Memorial Day.Yet ANOTHER reason not to shop at Hobby Lobby.
It's true. It's the perfect Halloween decoration.
"Nothing - NOTHING! - could be more terrifying, this Halloween, than... CHRISTMAS DISPLAYS~!!"
"NOOOOOLOLOOOO~! YOU MONSTERS!"

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lisamarlene wrote:Scintillae wrote:Hobby Lobby had tinsel out by Memorial Day.Yet ANOTHER reason not to shop at Hobby Lobby.It's true. It's the perfect Halloween decoration.
"Nothing - NOTHING! - could be more terrifying, this Halloween, than... CHRISTMAS DISPLAYS~!!"
"NOOOOOLOLOOOO~! YOU MONSTERS!"
Speaking of, there is a house, like, three down from my culdesac who has (some few) Christmas lights up all year long - the ones further out in their yard. Daggum, but do I love that. Makes everything nicer.

NobodysHome |
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We had a really nice evening last night: Impus Major had a bunch of his friends come over, they watched 'Alien', I treated them to pizza, then all of them except the depressed one went off to go trick-or-treating. He stuck around and we all watched 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (a Halloween tradition).
It wasn't until this morning when I started thinking about putting away the Halloween stuff that I came to the realization that BOTH kids made us get them creepy Halloween costumes, then NEITHER of them went out AT ALL.
So THAT was a waste of time and money; especially my trip to the Halloween store yesterday.
I don't know whether to be irritated or amused. Probably irritated. Now I have to deal with returning an item for which I paid expedited shipping that showed up broken so badly it was unusable. It's easy to get the item refunded, but if I pay $20 to get it by Halloween and it shows up smashed to pieces so I can't use it on Halloween, it's a big, "No, I'm not paying that" moment for me.
(It was a fragile plastic mask and they shipped it in a plastic bag wrapped around a thin cardboard box with no lid. There was no way it was going to survive being shipped like that.)

Freehold DM |
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Freehold DM wrote:sets up life-size models of FFIX characters with Firefly quotes on speaker as part of defense systemScintillae wrote:Also, my FF lens tends to default to IX. Vivi > Quina.shudder IX remains awful to me. The character designs fall into my uncanny valley, reaching almost dark crystal proportions(not quite).
I honestly don't know what would happen in that case. I almost smashed a dark crystal display once because I didn't know what it was at first and then I recognized it and I freaked out. I have tried to expose myself to the characters before to increase my tolerance. But I think of I saw a life sized one, I would go into fight or flight mode.

Freehold DM |
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Scintillae wrote:Crucifying Quina to the roof like a corpse on a Reaver ship hull was a nice touch.Freehold DM wrote:sets up life-size models of FFIX characters with Firefly quotes on speaker as part of defense systemScintillae wrote:Also, my FF lens tends to default to IX. Vivi > Quina.shudder IX remains awful to me. The character designs fall into my uncanny valley, reaching almost dark crystal proportions(not quite).
that i could get behind, almost.

Freehold DM |
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So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold - undecided
CH - healerNPCs
None yetVillains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassin
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy
Gran Rey - owlbear rancher
I could be a trasure hunter or resource allocator or something.
I sat that because mirager was the first limit break i got and it blew my mind.

Orthos |
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So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold -ThiefTreasure Hunter
CH - healer
Nobody - MimicNPCs
Limey - specifics undecided
Vanykyre - dragon with an agendaVillains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassinGran Rey - owlbear rancherUndecided:
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy

Drejk |
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So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold - undecided
CH - healerNPCs
None yetVillains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassin
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy
Gran Rey - owlbear rancher
Dibs on a random unimportant NPC!
Though having a dragon as a random unimportant NPC... Sounds like I should use that one day in a campaign.
"A dragon!"
"Oh, don't mind 'im, he's no one of consequence..."

Captain Yesterday, FaWtL 6 News |
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This is why people make fun of Wisconsin people.
And yes, I've seen this sort of thing before.

Vanykrye |
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This is why people make fun of Wisconsin people.
And yes, I've seen this sort of thing before.
I'm 43 and I can guarantee I've been that 9-year-old kid before.

Orthos |
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Captain Yesterday, FaWtL 6 News wrote:I'm 43 and I can guarantee I've been that 9-year-old kid before.This is why people make fun of Wisconsin people.
And yes, I've seen this sort of thing before.
32. Never been tied to a car top, but I remember a fair number of trips in an open pickup bed or trailer down the country highways at 60+.

Kjeldorn |
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Orthos wrote:So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold -ThiefTreasure Hunter
CH - healer
Nobody - MimicNPCs
Limey - specifics undecided
Vanykyre - dragon with an agendaVillains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassinGran Rey - owlbear rancherUndecided:
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy
Put me in as an Npc in distress.
*Clears throat*
Help! Help! I'm ever in so much distress!
...
*Cricket sounds*
Huh...
Maybe a tavern drunk then?..

captain yesterday |
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I thought Ruins Of Azlant might be a bit more interesting than it is.
It's all good and all, I'm not complaining, just an observation.
Edit: It might also be that as I'm reading it I'm making Zap Branigan as a SFS legal Human Envoy or reading about the doomed planet Ferran-4 and it's dominant species, radioactive pinball dwarves (AKA Ferrans).

Limeylongears |
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Orthos wrote:So the list thus far for FAWTL Fantasy:
Heroes:
Tacs - Blue Mage or Paladin
Freehold -ThiefTreasure Hunter
CH - healer
Nobody - MimicNPCs
Limey - specifics undecided
Vanykyre - dragon with an agendaVillains:
Scint - Lady of Sinister Light
Orthos - immortal recurring henchman
Sharoth - greedy dragon
Syrus - master assassinGran Rey - owlbear rancherUndecided:
Cap - not a "redemption equals death" guy
NPC wise, I can do:
1) Garrulous innkeeper.
2) Cheeky yet adorable urchin
3) Cannon fodder, either town guards or mooky hordes belonging to the villain(s).
4) Saucy wench, possibly with a heart of gold, possibly who is secretly vamplire succlublus luring men to their doom.
5) Sinister midget, with a bucket and a mop.
6) Smelly half-ogre jailor
7) Crazed alchemist.
8) Panicked yokel.
Just roll a d8 and pick whichever one is most/least relevant.