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*Volunteers to pull Gran the other way to stretch out that pulled muscle*
This will be fun fun fun!
You're welcome to try.
I'm supposed to be nekkid for this, right?
It just makes the Gravel and debris extra special for you.
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Freehold - can you get a replacement bike for your transportation needs in the meanwhile?
no.
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We need more public transportation especially in rural areas. I can't even get a taxi where I live without waiting half an hour for them to drive out from the city and let me tell you that's expensive.
Need more monorails and monorail type things.
If I could not own a car I would.
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Sorry to hear about your healthcare tsuris, Van.
Sorry to hear about the bike theft, Freehold.
Have a quesadilla each, if it'd help.
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3 hours to go.
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Until you're done for the night or until the play test?
I thought it would be available already but I can't find it anywhere.
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9 am Eastern Time.
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Play test I'm done for the night at 7 and playtest comes out at 8 central Enough time for me to get home get comfortable and then download.
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Curses!
I'll be at work! i hope i'm working somewhere with coverage.
Maybe i can call in...
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Huh. I have the Legend Of Five Rings game today I completely forgot about.
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I'm wondering If I can read enough of this playtest document to be ready for an impromptu game today...
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Freehold - can you get a replacement bike for your transportation needs in the meanwhile?no.
If you start a crowd funding page for a new bike, i'll throw down!
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I suggest vigilantism but I've been told in the past that is the wrong advice so do as you will. (wear a mask.)
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So. Bike was just stolen. Locks clipped. Filing police report.
Sic transit gloria mundi Freehold's ride...
Hope you both find a new ride, and (a bit more doubtfully) get the bike-snatcher feet put to the fire.I wish I could help somehow, but the best I can do is throw a few bucks your way for at replacement...and sorry I know that doesn't replace the sentimentality of the old bike, nor relieve the stress of having it stolen.
Huh…
Well that's one way of getting into TTRPGs, you don't hear about often. Then again I have no idea what your average coven does on ritual days/nights, so maybe its common enough.
Sounds interesting though.
Though, I feel slightly bummed out about the lack of nude-forest-clearing-frolicking and shroom-munching…
;PApparently some covens are into ritual sex, but Mrs Sunrise's is very conventional. So sexy stuff is purely metaphorical, like dancing around the maypole at Beltane.
And some bawdy joking, but that's just people.
** spoiler omitted **
Bawdy jokes, I can do.
Also downright filthy and questionable ones, but I've been holding back on those…different tastes an all that.So, going through Aiymi's medical records, we found something alarming. We were told the wrong information about what she had.
Yes, she had the TIA. Not debatable.
No, she did not have Influenza B. The person on the phone was being sloppy. She tested positive for hemophilus influenzae beta, or Hib, which despite its name, is not actually related to influenza at all. It is a bacteria, hence their augmentin prescription, which is actually the exact right thing, but this stuff is potentially deadly (meningitis is an actual symptom of this crap). It's also considered 99% wiped out in the US. It can cause permanent hearing loss. It can cause permanent cognitive function loss.We're ok, but we're really pissed. This should have been caught much earlier than it was (they did throat swabs, which they did NOT send off for culture...
O_O
*Facepalm Facefists and shakes with anger*
That's terrible!
*Joins in swearing*
I would look into legal recourses if its possible, but I likewise understand I you two want to focus on getting Aiymi back to her health self…
Its just frustrating to hear about muck ups like this.
Give Aiymi a hug from a stranger, and give yourself one while your at it.
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If you start a crowd funding page for a new bike, i'll throw down!Freehold - can you get a replacement bike for your transportation needs in the meanwhile?no.
Me too!
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~cries~ I will miss you all! ~runs off in tears as armageddon approaches~
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Gah I hated the natural disaster movie trend.
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Gah I hated the natural disaster movie trend.
You are right! Why should Mother Nature have all the fun? I say to heck with her, let us do even better!
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Gah I hated the natural disaster movie trend.You are right! Why should Mother Nature have all the fun? I say to heck with her, let us do even better!
You dragons had your movie! (or 2?)
Reign of fire for sure but I feel like their was another one.
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Time to head home! I am guessing that the site will be down soon, so have fun.
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You dragons had your movie! (or 2?)Gah I hated the natural disaster movie trend.You are right! Why should Mother Nature have all the fun? I say to heck with her, let us do even better!
We lost in the end, so I want a redo to get it right this time!
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G#+~%&n it, working in Lake Geneva today.
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You must be very wet.
If it helps I just tried jamming a ten dollar bill into a chip reader at the self checkout and then as I was leaving saw a big burly dude with a man bun and poodle service dog wearing a big pink bow and matching diaper.Did anybody else read this as the big burly dude wearing the big pink bow and matching diaper?
You are not alone.
So. Bike was just stolen. Locks clipped. Filing police report.
I’m so sorry. That is... the worst.
Also…
Impressive setting tinker TL!
Most Impressive.
Glad you liked it!
Tac, I may steal some of that if I ever run WOTR in NWN.
I would be disappointed if someone didn’t! Feel free!
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So, going through Aiymi's medical records, we found something alarming. We were told the wrong information about what she had.
Yes, she had the TIA. Not debatable.
No, she did not have Influenza B. The person on the phone was being sloppy. She tested positive for hemophilus influenzae beta, or Hib, which despite its name, is not actually related to influenza at all. It is a bacteria, hence their augmentin prescription, which is actually the exact right thing, but this stuff is potentially deadly (meningitis is an actual symptom of this crap). It's also considered 99% wiped out in the US. It can cause permanent hearing loss. It can cause permanent cognitive function loss.We're ok, but we're really pissed. This should have been caught much earlier than it was (they did throat swabs, which they did NOT send off for culture...
This is is unbelievably bad. I’m glad it worked out but.. wow.
Board look a little funky to anyone else?
Yup!
Awkward moment. Guy with accent I can barely make out telling me a story and me trying to know when to laugh as I'm pretending to understand him.Smile and nod, bro. Smile and nod.
I do that even with people I can understand.
Even ME?!?
I thought we were friiiieeeennndddssss!!!
We had to stop in Janesville for adhesive so I was able to download the playtest. I
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I would love to develop the ability to travel interstellar distances in a short amount of time, find an alien civilization, and then just make circles in their crops and leave.Wasn't their like a tv special a while back that perfectly explained that crop circles where these two guys with metal poles and ropes pushing the grass down?
Sort of.
Two British guys admitted that they'd been doing it in the U.K., then on video demonstrated creating perfect crop circles including all the stuff that the E.T. conspiracy theorists insisted "couldn't have been done by a human being".
So of course the E.T. conspiracy theorists just switched over to, "They saw the crop circles and mimicked them; they didn't invent them!"
Typical conspiracy theory: Explain away anything that contradicts your narrative.
One of the most frustrating aspects of the human psyche, I must admit.
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Yep, and sadly, this is basically standard practice in American healthcare. Any time you have a major health issue the first thing the insurance company does is a blanket denial of coverage for thinly veiled BS reasons just to see if they can get away with it.I sense they're trying to wiggle out of their responsibility of paying for the whole thing and you really need to fight with them, getting the hospital in question to give the exact reason on why you had Ayimi going to hospital.
Trying to wiggle out of a contract already signed,I seriously disapprove off. Take out your insurance policy and start arguing with them.
State which hospitals were in the contract you signed, then get the hospital to give the correct reason on why you sent Ayimi to hospital and get them to cough up.
Edit: your insurance company is a B@stard.
*claws extend, and growly noise comes out*
I'd go on a long, politically-charged tirade, but the short version is, "Whenever there's a profit motive, people will get hurt."
Whether it's for-profit health care, for-profit prisons, for-profit housing, or what-have-you, greed will win over compassion or duty every single time.
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We had to stop in Janesville for adhesive so I was able to download the playtest. I
My ex-wife is from Janesville. I'm not a big fan of that town.
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Yay! I have cell service!
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Yeesh, you'd think the locals had seen a man with long hair before.
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They have. It was the last guy they threw out of town on vagrancy charges. It's Lake Geneva, after all.
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Waiting for the other Captain to move his trailer so I can dump my gravel.
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Yup, I can still parallel park a truck and trailer.
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The plus side to working on a busy golf course.
I wonder how many games we'll ruin with running all our equipment.
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Its weird to go from feeling nothing to feeling nothing but anger and then feeling nothing again.
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Whoever poured the concrete at our job really screwed us when they measured out where our fire pit is going to go.
Furthermore, if you're living in a gated community in an exclusive golf course, wouldn't you spend the extra few grand and have us put in pavers rather than cement, just saying.
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Got a complaint number. The police aren't going to do anything.
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Got a complaint number. The police aren't going to do anything.
Not surprised unless you had a $4000+ custom racing bike made of carbon fiber and had the serial number.
So of course, since the perp knows that the cops aren't going to do anything over a stolen bike, there's zero reason for the perp to stop stealing bikes.
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Got a complaint number. The police aren't going to do anything.
WTAF?
Do you have renters insurance? I don't even know if it would cover something like this.Maybe the thief is stupid enough to try to Craigslist it?
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Got a complaint number. The police aren't going to do anything.WTAF?
Do you have renters insurance? I don't even know if it would cover something like this.
Maybe the thief is stupid enough to try to Craigslist it?
Wow... you haven't encountered much crime in high-density urban areas, have you?
But your advice is solid. The Portuguese Tornado ran a clothing shop on Piedmont avenue. They were routinely robbed. After each robbery, she'd go to the weekend flea market, spot the person selling her stuff, and call the cops.
She had an amazing return rate; well over 50%.
So yes, Freehold, searching Craigslist (or whatever they use in NY) for your bike, then calling the cops once you have a perp is a great idea, and has a surprisingly good chance of working.
Barring that, however, Vanykrye's description is accurate: The bike wasn't worth enough to merit a full investigation, so the police aren't going to do diddly-squat unless Freehold fingers the perp for them.
In high-density areas, you are your own best investigator.
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The building has cameras. Lets see if we can find anything out that way.
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And in rural areas* nobody steals a bicycle unless it's a kid stealing it from another kid. In those cases it's usually just a matter of the parent calling the other parent and saying, "Hey, did Brad leave his bike over at your place, by chance? He knows he left it a friend's, but just can't remember for sure which one." Then you eventually find the bike, reclaim it, and the kid who stole the bike doesn't get to hang out at your place for 6 months or so.
*Again, actual rural areas. Cities of 100,000 population that happen to be surrounded by corn fields do not qualify for this description.
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Already checking craigslist. We will see what happens.
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It's funny; I actually prefer the police's open-and-honest, "Yeah, we're not going to investigate this, so your bike is just gone," over modern medical care's, "Well, we can't say what you've got 100% for certain, so we're not even going to hypothesize as to what it could possibly be, nor tell you you're going to be OK, or otherwise commit to anything other than a complete lack of information until we can say something we're insured for."
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Oh, and speaking of renter's insurance, it DOES cover such things, but usually if you're a renter you've taken the $1000 to get the nice low rates so unless Freehold had a Pee Wee Herman-class bike, the deductible is more than the value of the bike.