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'Tis an ill omen to be sure. Quick! Drink this marmsybark tea and spit thrice on a cobbler's bench else ye'll not see Michaelmas sunrise.

CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE!


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My children decided that they were tired of school lunch. It took them the span of me getting a video pulled up to stream to go from "tired of school lunch" to "we found a cheap microwave on Amazon and have crowdsourced half the cost of it to pay back Ringleader, it'll be here next week."

Microwave arrived today, and they're reenacting the opening to 2001: A Space Odyssey as one of the kids sets it up, all chanting "MIC-RO-WAVE. MIC-RO-WAVE."

...they have named the microwave Jeff.


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Fantastic! Now THAT is some youthful initiative.


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Scintillae wrote:

My children decided that they were tired of school lunch. It took them the span of me getting a video pulled up to stream to go from "tired of school lunch" to "we found a cheap microwave on Amazon and have crowdsourced half the cost of it to pay back Ringleader, it'll be here next week."

Microwave arrived today, and they're reenacting the opening to 2001: A Space Odyssey as one of the kids sets it up, all chanting "MIC-RO-WAVE. MIC-RO-WAVE."

...they have named the microwave Jeff.

SQUEEEEEEEE!

{coughs up 2d8 + 4 ⇒ (6, 1) + 4 = 11 spiders of assorted varieties}


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Ah, that takes me back to AD&D's Breakroom of the Spider Queen module...


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quibblemuch wrote:
Ah, that takes me back to AD&D's Breakroom of the Spider Queen module...

Is that the one with the watercooler elemental?


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
quibblemuch wrote:
Ah, that takes me back to AD&D's Breakroom of the Spider Queen module...
Is that the one with the watercooler elemental?

Yes, but also includes the gremlins that microwave 3-day old fish.


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
quibblemuch wrote:
Ah, that takes me back to AD&D's Breakroom of the Spider Queen module...
Is that the one with the watercooler elemental?

Man, I lost more PCs to failed saves vs. small talk...


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And for the sake of all that is holy avoid the Monthly All Birthday traps!


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
And for the sake of all that is holy avoid the Monthly All Birthday traps!

*debeverages flat soda and stale sheet cake*


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I lost more players in the cubicle maze than I care to count!


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The worst!

After that brutal boss fight with the drider Middle Manager, all you got for loot was a stapler. A g%*%~!n stapler.

And it wasn't even Swingline.


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quibblemuch wrote:

The worst!

After that brutal boss fight with the drider Middle Manager, all you got for loot was a stapler. A g@@~*+n stapler.

And it wasn't even Swingline.

And it was puce. The colour makes the stapler.


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Cloud-based subscription model? How would that even work, Monkey Santa? HOW?!


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Feros wrote:
quibblemuch wrote:

The worst!

After that brutal boss fight with the drider Middle Manager, all you got for loot was a stapler. A g@@~*+n stapler.

And it wasn't even Swingline.

And it was puce. The colour makes the stapler.

Yeaaaaah, we lost the newest New Doug to the printer toner grue... so I'm gonna have to ask you to come in to work this morning.

{hangs up before waiting for an answer}


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Fantasy Monster: Crocogyps


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Tonight is the grand conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter when their positions are close enough relative to each that they'll appear as one bright star. Right now is about the best time to see it (just after sundown). It's really pretty cool. If you get a chance take a look!


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In completely unrelated news, if you stand out in your yard, arms raised, yelling TAKE ME HOME at a couple planets in conjunction, no one shows up. And then people show up but they’re the cops and they ask you to keep it down.

Stupid aliens... leaving me here...


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Dude, sorry we missed you. Maybe next conjunction.


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{starts involuntarily humming "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?"}


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*thunderous drums and wailing metal guitars*

HOOKING UP WORDS! AND PHRASES! AND CLAUSES!

*throws horns and bangs head*


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I finally understand what British people feel when they say they're 'chuffed'.


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quibblemuch wrote:
I finally understand what British people feel when they say they're 'chuffed'.

Congrats!!!


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Thanks!


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quibblemuch wrote:
I finally understand what British people feel when they say they're 'chuffed'.

Congratulations! That's fantastic!


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WOOOO!

*waves shirt over head; freeezes to death, but happy*


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It's been said many times, many ways, but you've probably never heard it in Klingon. Merry Christmas, everyone. DaHjaj QeHlIj jay'!


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Joyeux Noël, mes amies!


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HAIL SANTA!

\m/


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Look to the sky


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Yes... yes...


Drejk wrote:
Look to the sky

That was awesome!


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Drejk wrote:
Look to the sky

Feh. I've been down that road before...2012 was a complete bust!


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Fantasy Monster: Thunder Bush


Drejk wrote:
Fantasy Monster: Thunder Bush

This has a terrific AD&D 1e feel to it.


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Fantasy NPC: Elthamiel, the Dancer


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Oh my god I love Mark Hamill.


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quibblemuch wrote:
Oh my god I love Mark Hamill.

That's hysterical.


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quibblemuch wrote:
Oh my god I love Mark Hamill.

I saw this yesterday and giggled throughout the whole freaking day.


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Fantasy NPC: Dagga, The Singer


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Wonder if he got those power converters?


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Fantasy NPC: Vix, The Puppeter


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Mark Hoover 330 wrote:
Wonder if he got those power converters?

I think that's what he holds in his hand.


Drejk wrote:
Fantasy NPC: Elthamiel, the Dancer

So, Elthamiel just dances and Dagga sings? Why build them as NPC classes and invent feats when Bard levels could get them to the same place? I'm just curious, not criticizing or anything. I use Expert NPCs, along with Adepts and Warriors or combos of all three, a lot.

In my own games I do this so that PC-classed characters or NPCs really stand out. I also do this to avoid over-optimization. It's hard to truly grind out a dangerous opponent with levels of Adept and Expert to represent a "druid", but if you just take one less level of Druid on your villain they can get scary, fast!


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Mark Hoover 330 wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Fantasy NPC: Elthamiel, the Dancer
So, Elthamiel just dances and Dagga sings? Why build them as NPC classes and invent feats when Bard levels could get them to the same place? I'm just curious, not criticizing or anything. I use Expert NPCs, along with Adepts and Warriors or combos of all three, a lot.

They are not bards specifically because they just dance/sing. Bard has a lot more going on that using skill - bardic performance, spells, other class abilities. Those are NPCs to be used either in background, or as quest givers, quest subjects, or nuissance. Basically, bard levels would get them further away from where they are intended to be.


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Drejk wrote:
Mark Hoover 330 wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Fantasy NPC: Elthamiel, the Dancer
So, Elthamiel just dances and Dagga sings? Why build them as NPC classes and invent feats when Bard levels could get them to the same place? I'm just curious, not criticizing or anything. I use Expert NPCs, along with Adepts and Warriors or combos of all three, a lot.
They are not bards specifically because they just dance/sing. Bard has a lot more going on that using skill - bardic performance, spells, other class abilities. Those are NPCs to be used either in background, or as quest givers, quest subjects, or nuissance. Basically, bard levels would get them further away from where they are intended to be.

So you're saying bard is too much when you're going for a Skyrim Tavern Singer?

As an aside, there really should be an achievement for assassinating every single one of them.


Except the Orc.


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Fantasy NPC: Goranar, The Pyrotechnician


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Fantasy NPC: Goranar, The Pyrotechnician

I wonder if he had a hand in this:

KISS 2020 Goodbye from Dubai


That doesn't have to do with the (probably apocryphal) story of a pissed-off stage tech turning the codpiece-mounted flamethrowers belonging to a Big Rock 'n'Roll Star so they faced inwards rather than outwards, does it? (Probably not, as I think that was Blackie Lawless from W.A.S.P., and it was a good while ago...)

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