Today marks the release of Kwame Nkrumah from prison in 1951, following his party's victory in Ghana's first general election, so naturally, the office was festooned with so many hearts that it looked like a butcher's dumpster, the day was soundtracked by the gloopiest playlist imaginable, holding its own against the toddler's disco downstairs, and the supervisor ladies were both dressed up as vampires.
Also, fencing was cancelled, to allow for the performance of Romantical activities, and also possibly because the toilets had flooded.
Are Valentines Vampires a British thing, or am I missing something?
And can we be sure that the "Romantical activities" are not related to the flooded toilets?A) No, you're not missing anything. As to why they were dressed that way, I can't tell you
B) Correlation is not causation, gran.
But how can we know for sure without making sure, it's the only way.
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Let us get to work with gaffe and plunger, in that case. Gas masks on!!!
H'mm, let's see.
3 x combination PVC corsets/piano accordions/elk spears
15 x brightly coloured personal massage devices, of sizes Tiny to Colossal, and all points in between
8 x sets of Sexy Centurion armour, lightly stained
The Sword of Omens
A half-empty tub of mayonnaise, with extra (we hope) raisins
Inflatable Marjorie Taylor Greene
A damp bear
11 1/2 roses.
Well, looks like gran was right. Now it's up to all of us to dry that bear; please consider supporting us on Patreon, or with a one-time donation.
I made it without turning on the heat, but it was cold in the living room this morning (around 56°F, which isn't good pajama weather). But it's back up to 65°F now, the house is open and airing out, and highs are supposed to stay in the 60s for the foreseeable future.
45 degrees tomorrow!!
The boss is having me come in tomorrow to put our trailer together and put together a list of tools, saw blades, and heavy equipment we're going to need this year.
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Why it's nice to have a manager where I don't have to mince words:
"So just sent you the email sans obscenities, but that training is useless, and the tool itself is solely for simple line diagrams. But I was at least polite enough that if you forward it on I won't make anyone cry. I figure that's an achievement, considering its quality."
Yeah, I can be honest with her...
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John Seed has been deposed. I'm not sure why they had us fighting each other in air planes (I'm seriously not sure how we got to that point, it was a bunch of confusing cut scenes) but after a few times of almost throwing up and crashing into the ground I figured out the controls and was able to shoot him down and liberated the first region.
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John Seed has been deposed. I'm not sure why they had us fighting each other in air planes (I'm seriously not sure how we got to that point, it was a bunch of confusing cut scenes) but after a few times of almost throwing up and crashing into the ground I figured out the controls and was able to shoot him down and liberated the first region.
That quest was such an enormous big pain in the donkey...
John Seed has been deposed. I'm not sure why they had us fighting each other in air planes (I'm seriously not sure how we got to that point, it was a bunch of confusing cut scenes) but after a few times of almost throwing up and crashing into the ground I figured out the controls and was able to shoot him down and liberated the first region.
You saw the infamous "kids and the shovel" solution to that, right?
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John Seed has been deposed. I'm not sure why they had us fighting each other in air planes (I'm seriously not sure how we got to that point, it was a bunch of confusing cut scenes) but after a few times of almost throwing up and crashing into the ground I figured out the controls and was able to shoot him down and liberated the first region.You saw the infamous "kids and the shovel" solution to that, right?Is it a variation on the peasant cannon, using kids throwing a shovel?
I have no idea what y'all are even talking about.
At the end of Far Cry 5, you're in a plane chase that CY mentions. The kids were playing two-player. As Impus Major disabled BBEG's plane, Impus Minor jumped out of their plane. BBEG tried to parachute to safety. Impus Minor hurled a shovel, hit him cleanly, severed the parachute, and send BBEG plummeting thousands of feet to the ground. They were giggling for the minute or two it took them to get to his corpse.
Hilarity ensued when the climactic cut scene scene showed BBEG somehow alive on the ground.
John Seed has been deposed. I'm not sure why they had us fighting each other in air planes (I'm seriously not sure how we got to that point, it was a bunch of confusing cut scenes) but after a few times of almost throwing up and crashing into the ground I figured out the controls and was able to shoot him down and liberated the first region.You saw the infamous "kids and the shovel" solution to that, right?Is it a variation on the peasant cannon, using kids throwing a shovel?
I have no idea what y'all are even talking about.
At the end of Far Cry 5, you're in a plane chase that CY mentions. The kids were playing two-player. As Impus Major disabled BBEG's plane, Impus Minor jumped out of their plane. BBEG tried to parachute to safety. Impus Minor hurled a shovel, hit him cleanly, severed the parachute, and send BBEG plummeting thousands of feet to the ground. They were giggling for the minute or two it took them to get to his corpse.
Hilarity ensued when the climactic cut scene scene showed BBEG somehow alive on the ground.
My first kill I was supposed to sneak up on this guy and bash him with a shovel. Well I accidentally threw the shovel past his head then ended up beating him to death with my bare hands.
John Seed has been deposed. I'm not sure why they had us fighting each other in air planes (I'm seriously not sure how we got to that point, it was a bunch of confusing cut scenes) but after a few times of almost throwing up and crashing into the ground I figured out the controls and was able to shoot him down and liberated the first region.You saw the infamous "kids and the shovel" solution to that, right?
I just ran into him with my plane propeller.
I'm still not sure how I survived because I was pitched directly at the ground and I wasn't pulling up until I was sure he was dead.
The bald eagle nest next to the lake over by my school fell out of its tree in high winds today. The egg was destroyed.
=(
Yup. That was 4.
And once you do that, you can actually go shot some guns!
Oh, I see now. The only thing I know about Farcry is that in one of them (4, I think) it's possible to finish the game without doing anything. You just sit at the dinner table and listen to the BBEG torture someone off-screen for a while. Then he comes back, makes a joke, and takes you to do the thing you came to do (bury your mom's ashes, maybe). Can't really say you "beat" the game, but you did finish it.
As far as I know, every Far Cry has the, "I don't feel like playing," ending where you choose to be a putz and the game ends. Far Cry 5 has the same thing.
Between today and tomorrow we're being told to expect a lot of rain on snow covered frozen ground, followed by sleet, freezing rain and anywhere from 0-8" of snow within a 12ish hour period.
This is going to suck.
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Yay, session!
Apparently I'll have a full party today, though yesterday the number still veered around three out of five. Then fourth declared he is ok and can play, and then the fifth noted that some kind of rehearsal he was supposed to be participating in was canceled so he is free.
First game of this year (for me to GM).
Hmpf. It seems that my hair dryer stopped working permanently. I don't think I will try to repair it...
Ah, I see that one of the cables is loose... And I have no idea only a vague idea where it should go and no way to solder it back there.
It was an old crap anyway.
*sigh* Another 100 złoty or so of expenses.
The bald eagle nest next to the lake over by my school fell out of its tree in high winds today. The egg was destroyed.
It's tragic, but it's also symbolic.
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Looking for some short stories or poems for a quick figurative language skill check has reminded me that I am apparently just drawn to depressing things.
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I swear, the party in the homebrew game is a swarm of juggling monkey trapeze artists.
They decided they were going to take on the BBEG, plus her minions, plus everything else, in a CR+4 or CR+5 encounter. I wasn't looking forward to the cataclysm. The CR is hard to calculate, because it was 6 8th-level PCs plus a harionago against a CR 11 daughter of Urgathoa with 8 or so levels of cleric (enough to have Harm and Blade Barrier prepped), 3 mohrgs, and 8 fast zombies.
So Impus Minor spent half an hour diagramming an elaborate scheme involving half the party rolling ridiculously high initiatives, the other half rolling ridiculously low initiatives, and everyone else making their rolls on round 1.
And of course it all worked and was a curb stomp with several party members sitting around doing nothing because it was such a done deal.
I love my party.
New round. Cad blinded BBEG and trapped her in a corner, oracle's Silence went off and I was now trying to fight a fighter one-on-one with a blind, cornered, silenced, entangled cleric. The mohrgs had to decide whether to take the bait (the harionago they'd been tormenting for the last 400 years) or protect the cleric. A series of appalling Will saves later, two of the three took the bait and attacked the harionago.
And it was over. The daughter of Urgathoa never got a spell off. The mohrgs were dealing with a harionago who'd been buffed with everything the party could think of: Protection from Evil, Barkskin, bardic performance, Heroism. Her job was to take up space as the three downstairs party members mopped up the trash and she performed admirably.
In a fitting end, the harionago scored a crit with one of her hair barbs (a x4 crit weapon) to finish off the last of her murderers.
When she refused a True Resurrection because "this world is too horrible for me to return to it. I prefer to move on," there were tears at the table.
Good session.
EDIT: And honestly, with the 2 NPC party members never even entering the room, I think it would have been a curb stomp without the harionago. Boosting her AC to 30 and hiding behind her just made it even more satisfying for everyone. It was her revenge. They'd just volunteered to help her achieve it.
Oh...also...since we needed more bad news in our lives...Aiymi lost her job yesterday.
=( =(
Oh...also...since we needed more bad news in our lives...Aiymi lost her job yesterday.
Ach! Sorry to hear that, and hope she finds something else quickly.
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Storm Dudley is here, possibly the least intimidating name for a storm out there, at least until Storm Rupert comes along.
Another adventure closed within a single session!
After half a year of pause because reasons (mostly COVID and lack of time by players at the same time).
To everyone's surprise, the boy won - the duel was to "knockdown", i.e. the first one to fall loses. The Crane had noticeable (to those who paid attention) problem with combat, lost control, and then stumbled when charging the evading Lion.
Even before the duel started, the party was suspicious of the boy's mother - Bayushi Michiru. She was clearly afraid of her son's life, abating somehow the party's musings she might tamper with the duel somehow.
After Yoritomo Saifu—who weaseled his way into being the master of ceremony during the duel before the session—trying to score some extra brownie points in the presence of the governor, the party heard cries of "murder". Doji, who left the dueling field disgraced and angry was found dead in the gardens, with some sweet smelling liquid spilled from his canteen. Yoritomo quickly offered the party's skills to governor and the investigation begun.
There were no signs of another person meeting with Doji, nor wounds, though Igarashi had pale lips, so poison was quickly established as potential method of killing the victim. His adjutant was missing, apparently leaving the dueling arena after its end but before the body was found. A cat was brought and feed with the liquid to check if the contents of the bottle were poisoned (we had to check if cinnamon or ginger are harmful to cats), to no effect.
The party (and the cat rolled in a shirt and carried in a basket) then traveled to Doji's house in the city where the adjutant supposedly went after duel. They found him there, unaware of Doji's death - though he behaved slightly weirdly to the party's successful Investigation checks - he was surprised but also showed signs of guilt when he learned of his master's demise. He revealed that Doji was suffering from ill heart, and the canteen contained his extremally bitter medicine, sweetened with spices to make it palatable.
It all started falling into pieces now, though there were still some unknowns. After asking multiple questions the party went to see Doji's physician not far from there.
More and more questioning finally, after some hang up reveled that the mixture in the canteen misses the actual medicine, being only water and spices that were supposed to mask the bitterness.
Aha! So not a poisoning but a crime nonetheless!
The party went back to Doji's house to learn who prepared the mixture (the physician provided the pure medicine in vials with instructions how to prepare the mixture that can be actually swallowed)... Only to discover that the servants are missing and something terribly wrong is going on!
Suddenly, Doji Igarashi, now a vengeful gaki assaulted the party - targeting Yoritomo Saifu (who has Cursed By Gaki-Do, Realm Of Hungry Dead disadvantage, which makes him favored target of malicious spirits). Despite partial resistance to mundane weapons, the entity was defeated and banished from the mortal realms.
They found Doji's adjutant in the garden preparing to commit seppuku - and before his death he revealed that he withheld the medicine from his master (and feeding him harmless mixture of water, sugar, and seasoning) because he felt Doji was unjust toward the young man he was going to duel and didn't want the boy to die for what he perceived as condemnable act of his master, though he had not expected Igarashi to actually die.
The party allowed the adjutant to commit seppuku (with Tsuruchi Reiko acting as his assistant, the second time she helped the criminal with seppuku), and made an official report that Doji Igarashi died of natural causes because of his heart disease.
And then they returned home only to find that their master, Otomo Okami was visited by Daigotsu Kanpeki, lord of the Spider clan and son of Kami Daigotsu.
There was a lot of funny references to the ghost of a dead and forgotten Spider currently residing in the party's Phoenix and the sole shugenja's head. And he had some comments on his own regarding the circumstances.
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Oh...also...since we needed more bad news in our lives...Aiymi lost her job yesterday.
Aw crap.
Here's hoping she finds something good quickly.
Oh...also...since we needed more bad news in our lives...Aiymi lost her job yesterday.Aw crap.
Here's hoping she finds something good quickly.
Indeed! Fortunately for her it's a robust job market.
I am so sorry to hear about the bald eagle and the loss of job.
Off tomorrow due to snow day.
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At the beginning of the salt run former coworker jokingly said "Alright, last run with Yesterday we shaved off a half hour of what we typically do, so I'd like to shave another half hour off our run this time!"
At the end of the run "Well, I'll be!".
Off tomorrow due to snow day.
That is no longer an option for me.
Off tomorrow due to snow day.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Apparently they fixed Cyberpunk 2077 so I'm downloading that. I expect it to take most of the day.
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It's SOOOOOOOO funny/baffling/frustrating dealing with high school/college-aged kids and their poor decisionmaking abilities.
NobodysHome: Impus Major, you have 8 hours from now until your normal bedtime. Set aside 90 minutes for homework.
Impus Major: OK.
NobodysHome: It's down to 4 hours. You should get started.
Impus Major: OK. Right after this game.
Impus Major: I can't believe how much homework my instructors assign! I can't possibly do all this in a single day!!
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NobodysHome: Impus Minor, you have to wake up at 7:00 am every morning. You should make sure you're in bed by 11:00 pm.
Impus Minor: I do.
Impus Minor: I'm SO tired today.
NobodysHome: What time did you get to bed?
Impus Minor: Around 3:00 am...
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Our gas stove was not heating up properly so I opened it up and fiddled with a couple of things and now it's working properly again.
I have no idea what I did but you're goddamn right I'm taking credit for it.