Tres cool. Looking forward to getting back on track!
Yup yup
Quite frankly I've never been the party scout before. I feel like we're holding things up.
What is it I'm supposed to do up here, guys? :P
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Trigger traps, vanish in a pink mist, serve as an example/morality tale for others. Occasionally pick yourself up 100' int he air and scatter yourself in a wide radius.
Isn't the scout's motto "Information is ammunition"? Or is it "A crisis skirted is a crisis averted"?
... or maybe Elghund's right. :)
Unsleepy baby tonight with a birthday party tomorrow! Updates hopefully Sat night my time.
Or maybe Monday morning tomorrow :) - unsleepy baby and full weekend. Party was good though... much mutton biryani was eaten.
Gonna be out-of-pocket today. Unlikely to be able to post. Tomorrow should be normal.
DM is still here - just going through a small real life loss of creative focus. Issue will rectify soon I am sure and I shall return to form. Patience is appreciated and please enjoy a cookie while you wait.
I will accept that cookie in exchange for patience. :D
Might be too brain dead to post much the next couple of days. Have some early appointments and tons of school work. Not getting much sleep. Take over for me as needed.
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It seems like just yesterday that I was letting everyone know I had tests coming up. Well, it's that time again.
Pathology Test 2 - 5/13
Microbiology Final - 5/17
I need at least a 60 on the Micro final which should be doable.
I'd like to get at least a 70 on the Path test. Class average is usually right around there and I am usually 3-4 points below that. I'll be okay as long as I make a 63.
I study every day, but I'm going to be studying even more until these tests, and especially starting the 11th. I will still post once a day, but they won't be long rhyming posts. 8)
I've made As and Bs my whole life and now I'm hoping for at least a low D. Medical school sucks.
P's make degrees. :)
I'm doing some easy study before going back in and topping up to a Masters... glad it isn't medicine :p
Good luck again, Hilde. I'm in finals now too, though nothing nearly as strenuous as med school!
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Good luck to you Twilightrose. Nothing is easy and you don't just jump into medical school ready to go. My undergrad tests were plenty tough as I'm sure yours are. Mine got tougher and tougher as I advanced through college and then have gotten progressively tougher again through med school. Now my tests are 150 questions, 3 hours long. Next term there is supposed to be an 8 hour test. Supposedly, they are trying to push us to see if we can make good decisions when exhausted. I suspect that they are simply sadists. 8)
Recessions and times of high unemployment like this are great times to grab a degree or advance one. I encourage everyone to invest in themselves when times are like this - a lot of states are offering grants and "retraining" money.
I wish you the best on your test. 8)
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I'm hoping that my brain will get me back into gear and I'll have posts for you before close of business my time today.
Good luck with the tests Hilde - I remember my Uni days, though physical sciences tend to actually get easier as you go through the years so I was lucky. Plus I was down to a two day Uni week by fourth year. Med is just plain hard from all accounts I've heard.
In first year my 3 hour exams took me 2-3 hours to complete. By fourth year my 3 hour exams took 1/2 - 1 hour to complete. Good thing about hard sciences is you either know the right answer or you're absolutely screwed ;)
Thanks, Hilde. An 8 hour test, damn that bites. Reminds me of those standardized tests we had to take in middle school and high school. Ugh.
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Just a quick update - almost but not quite today. Big work meeting followed by restless kiddo in the eve destroyed spare time for the day. However the next three days I will be on a short roadtrip - getting put into a fake helicopter that they'll repeatedly drop into water upside down while I'm in it. As long as I get out without drowning I pass...
I'm hoping there will be interwebbage in the evenings... but I'm not certain.
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...getting put into a fake helicopter that they'll repeatedly drop into water upside down while I'm in it. As long as I get out without drowning I pass...
This sounds like both the best and worst job ever.
I'm also hoping you're some kind of bean-counter accountant with a whack-job boss. :D
Break a leg, Mark. Don't die. That would suck. :D
Tip: Check rebreather (if they use em) and channel The Abyss if you start sucking water lol...
Regardless its serious fun - are you doing the S-Cape training as well??
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I hope you are a witch.....or a duck......or a very small pebble.....or made of wood.
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We'll build a bridge out of you.
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Not too exciting, just a Petroleum Engineer that needs to get training to be able to fly helicopters offshore to burn stuff... no really, part of my job is setting oil on fire :) Just don't get to do it that often.
I took this photo during one of said occasions. Nothing like getting a sunburn in the middle of the night.
Net turns out to be very limited, so I'm going to write up the posts offline and chuck them up as soon as I'm back in civilization.
Thanks yet again for putting up with my suckiness.
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That photo made every evoker I've ever played feel inadequate.
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Not too exciting, just a Petroleum Engineer
Natural Gas pays my med school tuition to the tune of about $120k a year. Long live fossil fuels!
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I live at the edge of the North Dakota oil patch. Given the rise in crime and hard drugs I'd like to put in my vote for renewable energy or at least more responsible oil companies. ;)
Hey guys, sorry for my scant posts. Work and life are slamming me right now. Feel free to bot me as needed. I'll try to jump in when I can.
I normally live in Atlanta, GA. I'm in the Caribbean now. Marijuana is omni-present here and cocaine is pretty common. The locals don't seem to need the drugs for crime however.
I am constantly amazed at how acceptable it is to commit crime against the students. The locals are very open about it and blame us even when we are the victims of violent crime. I try to be open-minded, but after a year here, I have an absolutely horrible opinion of the locals.
One of our neighbors deliberately ran over another's dog the other day because it barked. This is the third dog he's run over since we've been here. This last one belonged to the area minister. Everyone just lowered their heads and went about their lives. No amount of sensitivity training can help me overlook things like that. It is pure barbarism.
Wow. I'm glad we don't put up with that sort of thing here in 'Straya!
If my wife gets a job offer in that region Shifty I told her to jump on it.
Wow. I'm glad we don't put up with that sort of thing here in 'Straya!
Bloody oath!
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Oilfield towns can be pretty rough and ready - especially when they're homes for the land based drillers. Offshore is a little bit more streamlined and removed from the nasty bits.
Back up and running both sides - so lets show these bandits whose boss ;)
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Bastagar - found this on TVTropes:
The code of combat between masters of Irish stick-fighting includes the standard stuff - never back down, announce the name of your clan without fear, and so on - but the real chilling line is how a shillelagh fighter explains his intent to avoid mortal injury.
"The only fear I have is the fear of killing you."
Brilliant! I actually brought a shillelagh back from Cork with me (I doubt it's real blackthorn or anything, but it still packs a wallop). First thing I did with it was to put a dent in my ceiling fan and sprain my wrist teaching myself stick-fighting techniques off of youtube. My research into it more or less stopped there. :P
You need really strong wrists for stick fighting, on the upside I ended up with forearms like Popeye from the Bo, Jo, and Hanbo.
Out o' curiosity DMVoV will you be (or plan to use) the Reputation Points system of the North (as presented in Land of the Linnorm Kings)?
Just think it might be apt for this AP, but not sure if its a workable system or if anyone else has used it??
Also on the same thread can we create Effigies? I've a hankering for Skane to perform the Blod-ǫrn or perhaps see a Wickerman holding the fey group (our Black Hus "sleeper" Olaf will see it done ;)
Skane - unfortunately not. It would definitely be in theme - but once you start jumping around later in the AP you won't be in one place long enough to get too well known.
Effigies I would be open to though.
Yeah did wonder if it would work later on...
Cool - might see if Elghund is up for a spot of body part sculpture or flying the blood eagle on any unfortunate prisoners we get our hands on...
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I will be attending my brother's wedding over a 4-day weekend in Nashville. My internet and sobriety may be sketchy.
I am sorry that I've been gone for a few days. I've had a bit of a stress breakdown from school and am just starting to get my legs underneath me. I did not do well on my Pathology midterm. While the class average is usually a 70, and I was hoping for a 60 or so, I don't think I made it. I will find out tomorrow or Monday how bad the damage is. As I believe I've said, every one of these tests are make or break and so you can imagine how hard I've been hit. 125 people were dismissed last year because of this class and I'm struggling not to be one of them.
Please bot Hilde for a couple of days while I get my bearings back. I'll make it through this, I just need your indulgence for a couple more days.
Oof. Take care of yourself.
Also, does Entangle work indoors?
Nope - unless there were significant amounts of plants.
Hilde - no problems. Here's hoping that the midterm results turn out ok for you.
Also, does Entangle work indoors?Nope - unless there were significant amounts of plants.
Dang... grumble grumble. i was totally gonna plant these dudes up!
Hey, I just realized something.
I know a handful of us are playing PFS now. We can actually get PFS credit for playing Reign of Winter (and DMVoV can get GM credit as well).
This doesn't require anything special outside of some paperwork for Mark.
Basically we're doing the AP with our own non-PFS characters and as we complete certain parts, we get credit as if we played "pre-gens" through that part of the AP.
Once we complete area "P5" (wherever that may be), there's a L1-2 chronicle available that can effectively give +3XP (a full level) to any level 1 or 2 PFS character.
In order to qualify, we'd need at least 3 registered PFS characters per game.
The chronicle is here, if Mark wanted to take a look and possibly get credit for himself and some of us. :)
I would be interested in this. I've never done PFS stuff before but Mike who runs it for Paizo used to be my DM. I'd like to support his efforts and who knows, maybe I will get to play PFS one day.
I don't know who programmed the die rolling app for this site, but I'm interested in knowing how they made it so that only MY rolls never top a 5. 8(
Yeah I had thought about that point too, the paperwork means Mark just needs to have a registered PFS number, and then register the game with our PFS numbers I believe.
I have a PFS number obviously :p
*Raises an eyebrow*
Really Shifty? I thought GM Shifty was some other bloke ;-)
Well... for those not embroiled in the fast paced and cracking adventure elsewhere as run by a masked man, they might need the information :p
I'll look into it, I've downloaded the rules and all - just need to make sure I'm reading it right. You're actually half way through (at the letter H) the section of the AP that is sanctioned for credit.
Who has a PFS character then?
From the Sidhe:
Olaf, Kelgar and Hilde... and Bastagar has one too?
From the Dubha:
Shifty, Katherson, Annalisa and Skane?