tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3540874825508624222024-02-07T22:21:38.644-08:00What fresh hell...?Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-78082944046912907492017-07-28T10:34:00.000-07:002017-08-18T08:30:06.335-07:00Medusa are parasitic Snake Kings.What if I told you a rumour I heard?<br />
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Medusii are not, in fact, snake-haired gorgons, but human limbed snake kings.<br />
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Rat Kings are ditch witch abomination comprised of seething hatred, bitter intelligence and potent magic taking the form of half-score or more rats tethered like the star of chaos around the knot of discord, thus bound and ritualised, a King is born, seven minds become one, in agony and confusion sapience, nay sentience is born and through the center binding magic may flow.<br />
Rat King controls rats, Rat King hates those with hands, Rat King can channel magic.<br />
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What, WHAT!, does Rat King have to do with Medusa and her progeny?<br />
A different witch in a different gutter, more tropical perhaps, more humid.<br />
Imagine me seven snakes and one knot, a new binding.<br />
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But now, as sentience congeals, hear not the squealing bitter fear of the gutter rat, but the reptile-cold acceptance of a patient hunter.<br />
Watch in horror, the confident control of arrogant predator. Biological survivalism that declared evolution obsolete a millennia past.<br />
Reel back in fear, as seven heads dart in turn, and pause to taste new magic in the air.<br />
Before venom reaches the heart, that medusa-core, a new queen, rips stone-form from the strands of the ether and flexes its new instinct.<br />
Fall back in death, shatter, the first victim, the mother of monsters.<br />
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Not a medusa you say? Sure. A medusa wig perhaps, you may joke.<br />
Have you ever seen seven snakes attempt to move in tandem? You haven't and you never will. Perhaps after millennia of smooth undulation, it is time for the snake to feel legs, the queen requires a chariot.<br />
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The answer! A human corpse easily acquired in this wild land, nerve toxin stills it, neither dead nor stone.<br />
An eye socket slowly invaded, a skull cap wrenched free, a jerk of psychic linkage and muscular testing, some stumbling steps and now! Now, in mocking defiance of its creator we have a walking talking magic flinging queen of snakes and men- stony gaze and snapping hair. A thrall for a body and a knot for a core, all hail the queen snake, Medusa of the sweating jungle.<br />
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This is just a rumour, mind. No man nor snake could look a medusa in the eye and live to tell the tale of what he saw there, behind those lids does one see black glistening scales, or the glazed orbs of a human? Truly though, I cannot envisage a human of any type that could house a head of snakes and not die to their fickle whims within a chickens fart of cock-crow. </div>
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Clearly it is the snakes that hold sway- if you MUST look a Medusa in the eyes, look with pity for the thrall of the snake queen, and look with awe for the reptilian mind of an alien creature gifted human locomotion, and ask yourself.... will I be granite, or will I be marble?</div>
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Farewell stranger, but before you go, can I interest you in this fine mirror, 50% gorgon proof, or your sliver back, that's our guarantee!</div>
<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-26640297217812283372017-07-28T09:45:00.002-07:002017-07-28T09:45:15.563-07:00Why are none of the undead just smug?Aside from the not-truly-undead Fallout ghouls, none of the undead seem satisfied with being <b>immortal</b> and <b>free</b>.<br />
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Previous posts and some podcasts have talked about peaceable skeleton communities or ecosystems but I feel like if I was a zombie I would kick back, relax, read a few dozen RPG books, play my Steam back-catalog and chuckle at the suckers who have to sleep, eat and face the black abyss of death.<br />
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Must be the eternal hunger or something, but aren't the living the ones who are truly trapped, having to eat constantly just to function?<br />
I know many undead are necromantically bound to serve others, but given 300 years to guard a tomb you could really work on your reasoning skills. Cut a deal, work a trade! poetry, man.<br />
Or like... mine some precious ores? Create fine and intricate artworks. you want to be a gift-shop so good they forget the main attraction.<br />
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<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-69008116531957390232017-07-28T09:20:00.000-07:002017-07-28T09:20:34.787-07:00Horrible happy health potionsIf health potions existed in a shitty world they would be the brandy of the rich and the heroin of the poor.<br />
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If drunk at full health it makes you warm, contented, swaddled in muffled bliss. This is a place you want to be. As much as possible.<br />
It will heal your rat bites and your barked knuckles, it will salve your soul for an hour or two, and yet your belly remains empty, your muscles waste, your eyes become hollow.<br />
You are free from bodily trauma, but trapped in the rapture of false happiness. Instead, a slow gyre of decay traded for fleeting perfection, initially free but increasingly difficult to obtain. Expensive in many ways, adventurer, there are easier sources of gold than goblinoids and dire beasties.<br />
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The lairds, the barony and the courtiers enjoy a healthful punch after supper. Peeled berries, champagne, a spritz of hartflower oil and an aged bottle of '84 health draught. It soothes a gentleman from the corns of his feet to the tips of his ears, brings back the warm memories of summers past. It is a pity the, '84 draught is almost deplete, good clerics are hard to come by and rarely last long, finding fatal aversions to indenture and servitude as a general rule.<br />
Truly a balance must be found between the volumes a man can produce given local ingredients, and the amount that must be expended healing the reticent do-good back to productivity after applying judicious motivation.<br />
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Indeed, a man begins to wonder, how much of this fine aperitif is even consumed on the battlefield, for a fighter must first battle the noble and then the gutter for a simple expedient field dressing.<br />
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Perhaps, a man considers, he who controls the draught controls muscle, controls the gutter, controls the noble houses.<br />
It is hard to kill a man who controls the only means of rejuvenation, but it is easy to work for him.<br />
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Ok its a hamfisted heroin economy, whatever. Just give me a glass of HP punch and let me on my way. In most games health potions are middling, not too expensive but hard to get, but i assume that is on an adventurer budget which is higher than the average peasant. I do wonder who makes them and how. What if its made of people?<br />
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<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-87989089534663214312017-03-11T22:24:00.002-08:002017-03-11T22:24:48.643-08:00Bad Movie #5 Johnny Mnemonic.<br />
Bad Movie #5 Johnny Mnemonic.<br />
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I am a massive William Gibson fan and fuck-you I will watch ANYTHING for a 3 min scene starring an insane, ageing, military dropout cyber-dolphin hacker in a dirty cyber-warehouse. Also Dolph Lundgren (patron saint of shit movies), Ice T and Keanu acting up.<br />
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The title card on the fade from black is "internet 2021" which only makes me wonder... where do I see myself in 5 years?<br />
The answer is "The flaming husk of a heavily augmented dead masochist Media-Cult leader in Neo-Jersey, Postcode: Internet.'<br />
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Keanu is a cybered up Data Courier, or an emotionless talking USB dongle in a suit if you don't speak cyberpunk.<br />
His head holds almost 160GB (no joke, 160gb of hot throbbing data... imagine that.), This of course is after the illegal and dangerous wetware upgrade.<br />
Keanu is truly deeply terrible at acting, probably because he ran out of internal storage after Bill & Ted or something.<br />
His best hacking gear includes the EyePhone (wtf Steve Jobs) and a Sinologic 16 which.. well, China logic I guess. <br />
Ice T fucking rocks as usual in the role of a primativist ganger with a heart of gold, and by god my next camping trip will certainly involve making arrowheads out of smashed CD's.<br />
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If you dare mention the Virtual Reality scene or compare it to Lawnmower man I will throw my director's cut DVD of Lawnmower man at your head and then force you to watch it with me. Let it be known my tolerance for terrible sci-fi is off the chart.<br />
This scene involves Keanu HACKING HIS OWN BRAIN WITH THE HELP OF A CYBER-DOLPHIN THAT RIDES DATASPACE ON A FIELD OF PINK SPARKLES.<br />
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There is actually some pretty ok subplot stuff about a mind-upload AI construct CEO being rooted out of its own corporation by the living shareholders due to her pesky morals. She combats this by using skype and social engineering to mess with a grieving Cyber-Yakuza boss. Its almost as if its all based on a brilliant plot by an amazing author.<br />
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Less interesting is the robot priest of the Church of Media who likes to dress up like jesus and gut people with his cruciform dagger.<br />
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100% Watch this trailer, if only for the Cyber Fingerguns at 00:54<br />
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Something something a tiny alien UFO releases an alien made out of a crumpled sheet of aluminium foil which stalks wild tribes of Proto-Gaga through the fashion clubs of New York in order to drain their sexual energy. </div>
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Best use of aluminium foil in a feature film, best use of Lady Gaga clones from the future in a feature film. Contains the best synth classical music you will ever find. Graces my alarm clock regularly. </div>
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Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-16573179751270877972017-01-30T07:15:00.002-08:002017-01-30T07:15:43.600-08:00Bad movie #2<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I managed to see Cory McAbee speak some time ago and he is a rotating ball of charisma. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I cant plug this dude enough. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">He makes no-budget musical western operas with his small children and his novelty country (?) band. His commitment to stark black and white and dead-pan delivery adds some gravitas to the absurd and undeniably silly universe he inhabits. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">He uses Gilliam style animated interstitials to great effect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Low budget sets and silly space props are pretty well done considering. My favourite example is a series of laser shootings where cowering sillouhettes are flashbulb projected from offstage and someone just throws a bucket of wet sand into the scene as the vapourised corpse-dust stand-in. It makes a nice wet thud. Some of the more demented characters are quite memorable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just discovered this movie has Jeff Goldblum in it and thought this might have added some credibility. Shortly thereafter I discovered that he plays the cartoonish cowboy-surgeon-rockstar in red chaps. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This movie was whole-heartedly banking on spawning a media empire. They threw in a bunch of conspicuous references to not-yet-existing comic books and sequels they planned to build out the universe with. It flopped and now there are just 30 unexplained plot hooks and lines of reference hanging off this movie like a cenobite slumber party (eeeeh!). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kevin Smith wanted to reboot the series recently and got sued for no particular reason. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMDB also sucks at explaining this movie </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fun Fact: The credits music to this movie is infuckingcredible and I use it for my morning alarm regularly. If that theme doesn't make you want to strut down a flood-way dressed as a cowboy you are dead inside.</span></span></span></div>
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Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-10356047304055900282017-01-04T10:20:00.003-08:002017-01-04T10:20:50.860-08:00Dali made some seriously lovecraftian Jewelery. Also Red Coral!Playing mostly online, I like to image dump in d&d so I can quickly communicate an idea or a vibe without neccicarly *preparing* or *doing any work*, and magic items can be hard because they are typically "an amulet", rings, whatever. Not very evocative and hard to find nonstandard images.<br />
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Anyway I visited Dali's castle in Figueres Spain a long time ago, and while I truly love his attitude, artworks, architecture and home decor I mostly remember the side gallery featuring his little publicized jewelry creations.<br />
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Primarily made of Precious Coral, or Red Coral they are horrifying and opulent and dark and organic.<br />
Also featuring exotic flowers, pomegranates, angels and demons, severed fingers, bees, all of my favourite things.<br />
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These are certainly things I would show to elaborate on the strangeness of finding an exquisite and delicate golden flower in the midden heap of an ogre cavern.<br />
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A blasphemous vivisected relic made of blood red wood (?) atop a lustorous blue sphere in the deacons secret study.<br />
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A gemstone pomegranate heart locket tangled in the ribcage of a long dead blonde warrior. The seeds nestle in soft golden honeycomb<br />
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Pearls, lustrous and large, but melted like wax, a beautiful horror. Extracted from fleshy dungeon pool clams, they come out like pulled teeth.<br />
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Red coral, forking like mangled fingers of a ghastly red hand. Rumoured to be the severed members (on of uncountable frills) of a shoggoth.<br />
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A severed finger in jade, real bone juts from the cut end. The nail (golden) needs trimming every few days and is pure gold.<br />
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<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-80592054967523732002017-01-04T09:00:00.001-08:002017-01-04T09:00:11.041-08:00Bad Obscure Movie Reviews of Bad Movies.In a shocking development I have stumbled upon a new years resolution more achievable than my standing "Try to be less baleful" (trickled through my mind when I scared a passing tweenager by absentmindedly glowering at him) and slightly more productive that making up a barefaced lie about exercise or travel to make people stop asking.<br />
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I'm going to post a terrible movie every week until I run out, complete with uninformative and smug 'reviews'.<br />
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Smuggling fantastic D movies into parties and projecting them on the roof just isn't disappointing people at the rate I need if I'm ever going to summon a mutant rat Zodiac killer before London sinks beneath the sea.<br />
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I have a long and sordid history of making my friends sit through bad bad bad movies and oftentimes they don't necessarily share my exquisite taste in film.<br />
As we become more embroiled in real-life this became harder as we discovered "better" things to do and had to sacrifice large portions of prime movie time to "productive members of society".<br />
Drinking til two and mainlining a mix of subtitled art films and 90s action garbage fell to The Office reruns until 9 and only occasionally throwing popcorn at the screen.<br />
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From there I started carrying an old and noisy projector with a MediaPlayer loaded rasperryPi microcomputer to parties and LAN events and pointing it at the roof so people could look up for ambient glimpses of trashy 60s scifi and fellini classics on the way to the toilet.<br />
I boner-killed goss gatecrashers making out in our living room by projecting Ren and Stimpy, and chased them out entirely with Mondo Trasho's opening five mins of chicken decapitations. Harsh but fair, and they were theater folk too so there's some vague enmity there too..<br />
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That projector now has so many dead pixels it looks like that windows 98 starfield screensaver, so I carry a USB on my keyring loaded with a revolving cast three or four terrible movies so I don't have to watch Friends again, ever.<br />
I push them on people if they open a laptop in front of me, I cant help it.<br />
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Finally, and most depressing of all, I discovered IMDB's watchlist caps out at 394 and wont let me add more (fuck you!)<br />
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Basically, I need to get this out of my system for my own gratification, and the safety of the general public.<br />
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Welcome to 2017 suckas. I hope you like Rutger Hauer. (Patron Saint of Awesome Shit Movies)<br />
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<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-52104142404269299222016-12-21T10:29:00.001-08:002017-01-04T10:02:27.666-08:00PRIME CUTS: The Black Arion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Colours range from Ivory, Ochre to Black according to latitude.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">As big and heavy as a severed thumb. Mature at 2.5cm, Grown at 15cm. Fifteen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They eat meat (esp. carrion and feces) but also fungi lichen and decaying matter. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They exhibit significantly more bacteria and enzymes in their stomachs than other slugs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Nocturnal by choice but out on overcast days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Their mantle looks like a dead rat dipped in tar. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They have a fucking mantle. Like John Snow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They do not run or hide, they rear up and arch their shoulders like a bear and try to intimidate you. This is unique in the Arionidae family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They produce three types of mucous one of which is described as "vile" to ward off predators.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They have calciferous granules in their mantle that acts as armor or "a resilient protective structure"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">.They have been found to crossbreed with northern European slugs and to have gained frost resistance. Roll for fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hermaphroditic, but can self-fertilise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Lays eggs, 5mm diameter in moss and topsoil. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Four clutches of eggs a year in up to one hundred and fifty egg batches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They have a genital Ligula (*see cuts) suggesting copulation is a stimulating act for them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The "genital pore" is below the "right upper tentacle" on the head. Asymmetry.. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">They find and track mucous trails to find a mate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Motherfuck they were first found as an invasive species in Australia, 2001. We are done for. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The Swedish traditionally used Arion Ater as grease to lubricate wooden axles since the 18th C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>...Thin, more viscous mucus coats the animal laterally, and thicker mucus is secreted along the length of the slug—facilitating wave like contractions of the foot that propel the animal forward. Finally, vile-tasting mucus deters predation. All this mucus prevents the slug from dying from dehydration, and the slugs follow others’ mucus trails in order to mate (or predate)...</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>... high assimilation rates might result from abundant enzymes in slug digestive systems: amylase,</i></span></span> <i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">invertase, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulase">cellulase</a>, xylanase, and chitinase...</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">...black slug threatens lilies and orchids</i>...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>... A recent study further explored Arion ater’s gut microbiome and discovered the black slug to have far more bacteria within its gut than did neighboring...</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>...its mating with the non-native (at northern latitudes) pest species <b>Arion vulgaris</b> (or Spanish slug) has resulted in a more resilient hybrid exhibiting increased tolerance to cold...</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>... Arion ater’s biology awarded it its highest risk factor...</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>...When picked up or touched, the black slug will <b>contract to a hemispherical shape and begin to rock from side to side.</b> This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_behaviour">defensive behavior</a> <b>confuses predators</b>, and is unique in the Arionidae family...</i></span></blockquote>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">...Slugs are common agricultural and horticultural pests. They consume abundant vegetative matter, especially seedlings. <b>Additionally, many people find slugs to be unsightly</b>...</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>...natural predators, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog">hedgehog</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger">badger</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrew">shrew</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(animal)">mole</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse">mouse</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog">frog</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad">toad</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake">snake</a>, carnivorous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle">beetle</a>, and some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird">birds</a>...</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent;">...Arion Ater</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> was <b>used as </b></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(lubricant)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" title="Grease (lubricant)">grease</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> to lubricate wooden </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axle" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;" title="Axle">axle</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">-trees or carts in Sweden.</span></b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Svanberg_2006_23-0" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_slug#cite_note-Svanberg_2006-23" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">[23]</a></sup><span style="background-color: transparent;"> This use is documented since at least the 18th century...</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>...In recent years, as its dominance has increased, it has been nicknamed "killer slug", perhaps due to its tendency to<b> eat dead or weaker individuals of the species</b>...</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">...Finally, the atrium opens through the genital pore. The genital pore is located on the animal slightly behind an</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">d below the right upper tentacle on the head....</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">This is how caterpillars and some leeches and larvae combine to move faster and move over large obstacles. No slugs I could find but it is definite nightmare fuel. Shoggoths, be aware, not afraid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Perhaps a queen or a Jabba the Hutt sized beast inhabits the depths, involved in idiotic subterranean politicks with other petty and spiteful slug LadyLords. </span></div>
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Oboy have I been reading about Fungi and the Bible over at " Answers in Genesis" and did you know that "The Curse" is the reason disease and evolution exist? </div>
<br />I just wanted to see if there were mushrooms in the Bible, honest. <br />There's a bit where an apostle cries about a chicken and everything.<br /><br />Get ready for more Capitalisations than Usual.<br /><br />So when Adam got all sassy around the time of The Fall, God simply let creation off the leash to show that newly mortal sap what happens when divinity does not guide the way of nature. Corruption ensues! <br /><br />Perfectly harmless nutrient recycling mechanisms like fungi and virus' got all corrupt and started eating our faces off and bible-acceptable Evolution started ruining shit for errbody all the time since that point. (6000 years mind you!) .<br /><br />Apparently God bound nature (Circa Creation thru. Fall Of Man) can murder itself horribly all day because it has no immortal soul, but by heck humans are above that kind of degradation. That is until the Curse of Evolution corrupted their defined roles and all that replication got a bit wonky and oh god thats ebola what the hell dog!<br /><br />By the way fossil strata merely represents the specific order in which The Deluge murdered things, one smack-down at a time as sediment, not the plodding layers of deep geological time. <br /><br />I think that's a pretty bad ass mass grave. He METHODICALLY LINED THE ENTIRE SURFACE OF THE EARTH METERS DEEP WITH THE PILED CORPSES OF HIS FAILED CREATION. <br /><br />Think about that. What took brutal nature billions of years to kill, God KO'ed in 40days/150days/about-a-year (depending on your interpretation, which I guess is the crux of this post). Not only that but he presumably phoned them one era at a time and gave them the old "I will find you and I will kill you" speech because he killed individual ecosystems world-over on different layers, almost like they were epochs or something. Like, if he had reaped them East to West or continent by continent there would be a layer of fossil (or... oil? not a geologist!) everywhere but like alphabet soup fossils from Alpha to Omega all jumbled.<br /><br />EDIT: for the purposes of this blog I do not seek to be anti-religion or pro-evolution but simply "is it badass RPG fodder" and by the gods yes it is. Not to say I ain't heavily biased, but that's pretty obvious. <br /><br />Lifeforms that don't evolve are called Baramin (Bara-Created Min-Kind) and everything else is just ruined garbage like sinful humans which I think is cool. <br /><br />Lichen is Baramin, perfection in perpetuity, probably crocodiles too, but its an article about fungi. <br /><br />Any natural thing that does not respect the manifest primacy of humans has had the sass to evolve (Read: Corruption) and therefore is not Baramin. Then again, it IS a Curse, so like, we deserve it.<br /><br />All these creationist articles are like science fiction written by wizards. I keep forgetting that biblical language inspired fantasy and not the other way around. <div>
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PRIME CUTS: Fungi from the Biblical Perspective Design and Purpose in the Original Creation. Ira Loucks, 2009</h3>
"In the biblical creation worldview, fungi were created by God during the Creation Week approximately 6,000 years ago as a variety of different reproductively isolated kinds or baramin (bara = created, min = kind; Marsh 1941). The Bible does not describe precisely when these organisms were created, but we can logically deduce when they were likely created based on the reasoning that each created system at the end of each day was complete or “good” (Genesis 1; Gillen 2008)). In this way, we can deduce that the mycorrhizal, endophytic, and land-dwelling, saprophytic fungi were likely created on Day 3 along with plants, while other fungi (that is, animal-associated Candida spp. and the aquatic Chytridiomycetes) were created on Days 5 and 6. Alternatively, all of the fungi may have been created on Day 3 with the other “plants,” given the traditional Hebrew inclusion of fungi and bacteria in the plant kingdom (Gillen 2008; Kennard 2008). Irrespective of their day(s) of creation, discerning the individual baramin of fungi may be possible based on their mode(s) of reproduction and physical characteristics.."<br /><br /><br /> "...It is possible that the loss of mycorrhizal associations by these plants is part of the original Curse (Genesis 3:17–18), and may be part of the reason these weed species devolved from their original created state.."<br /><br />"..Heat tolerance was conferred on tomatoes upon infection with the virus-containing endophyte, demonstrating the broadness of these higher-order interactions and suggesting that this kind of interaction was likely present during Creation Week. Indeed, these symbioses appear to have been designed to enable re-colonization of the varied soil types found in the post-Flood world..."<br /><br />"..Presumably, these insects were originally designed to use leaf litter as compost for growing fungi, with recent corruption of this purpose resulting in the destruction of living plant tissue (Mueller and Rabeling 2008). The beetle-fungus and wood wasp mutualisms seem to have been created for a different purpose. These mutualisms take advantage of dead or damaged trees and may have been originally created to exploit nutrient recycling in completing their life cycles. These symbioses have also been corrupted since the Fall, resulting in damage to living trees and causing significant economic loss (Anonymous 2006, 2009)..."<br /><br />"...These interactions are testaments to design. The relatively small number of pathogenic interactions compared to the total number of fungi allude to the original created order. Experimental evidence showing the effects of gene mutation in numerous systems demonstrate the ease by which these complex interactions can be corrupted. Future research in plant pathology and medical mycology may further illuminate the impact of the Curse on fungal mutualistic processes, and may help us better understand how different the current world is from the original, perfect creation..."<br /><br /><div>
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So my good friend and RPG Monster over at <a href="http://renfieldscat.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Renfield's Cat</a> is running<a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/188535/Perdition" target="_blank"> Perdition the RPG</a> by <a href="http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">HackSlash</a>, a game set in what appears to me to be the fallen earth, a baroque medieval fantasy setting invaded and overrun by literal demons who now happily preside on earth doing demon things and stuff.<br />
Perdition means something like "complete ruin" I believe.<br />
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There are remnants of the old world and the wars they lost- towns and artifacts, base humans trying to live on as base humans do. There are bastard races such as the Hobgoblins who served well in the war and reap their rewards as wealthy citizens, there are corpses of the Titans and old gods who were slain, a scarce few Paladins survive in the badlands, free agents hardened by defeat.<br />
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Demons operate in a pleasingly feudal way, it seems they are Machiavellian vicious and fallible as any human Laird. It is simply that they hold demonic power and can tear a giant in two that distinguishes them from the previous landed gentry, curse their blasted corpses.<br />
They fear only the Vile Conclave, enforcers of demon law and etiquette, for the branching pathways cruelty and violence are so old in this culture that they have become ritualised and what good is a system if it cannot be taxed.<br />
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For an adventurer this changes almost nothing.<br />
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There are multiple currencies, ceramic shells, souls, gold and silver. Souls have been devalued to the point where they can barely be traded for anything except the being they were taken from, what use is another soul when you own the world it lives in. Still, they have their uses.<br />
Fuck knows what shells are for, I assume they are fossilised and found in shale? Things dead and ancient hold some power here. I rolled so much gold I was generated as encumbered and had to go find a Platinum dealer.<br />
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As a party of three to five depending on the day we have a spectrum of comedic players, chaotic nihilists, Shakespearean demons and muscle bros all of whom seem to be quite happy with the place they find themselves. We also have number crunchers and newbies- Minmaxers find the unusual rules alluring and disconcerting and newbies enjoy the theatrics and don't realise the rules are weird, after a little help at character creation combat and skill checks are simple.<br />
Can't wait for an arraignment at the Vile Conclave though! Daemon Bureaucracy, devilish decorum what could possibly go wrong.<br />
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Classes are heavily modified variations aligning to Wizards (about 7 variants.), Paladin, Fighters (about 4 variants), Cleric, Thief, Ranger.<br />
Gods and summons are incredible- just imagine what a DEMON would summon when it wanted something bizarre and evil.<br />
Races are batshit crazy and will break you if you bring prior knowledge. Trolls are cored out servitor golems, Hobgoblins are the new money bourgeois of Perdition, there are gentle forest yeti and giants suck at being giant.<br />
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Evil is an interesting concept in this game, many players have assumed it to be an evil campaign because y'know "deamons". I feel however that demons <i>in power</i> are too petty and selfish to be serious about capital e Evil and in a world owned by demons its kind of a "does a fish feel wet" question.<br />
The fact is that shit need doing and that base people are boring and pragmatic. Most powerful entities are obsessed with a single facet of evil in a sort of autistic fashion of course but that simply means they probably forget to pay proper homage to other sins.<br />
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I am playing a sort of apathetic destructive nihilism spawned from an fungal hate and the god of mathematical entropy (ok... its a sentient comet made from history, maths and the desire to smash the planet) which probably makes me pretty bad for everything around me.<br />
Most of our party enjoys the freedom that "Evil-land" allows for in terms of general assholery but are unconsciously saving each-other, building fortunes and being team players in a way that undermines any true Evil so far. Which is fine, conscienceless selfish mercenary is a popular and productive role in RPGs everywhere.<br />
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The only other thing I want to mention is the Stress stat. As you get more stress points from KO's encounters & fatigue you get strung out and twitchy (initiative and combat bonus.) but also run the risk of snapping under pressure (straight up nervous breakdown in the form of formidable psy damage, probably other things I don't have the rule-book).<br />
This is cool as you space your rest and rations according to your confidence, need for bonuses and gamble against death, not the normal factors of HP. Its nice to see rations do something useful too I hate those bastards.<br />
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Great game! God I missed terrible magic.<br />
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<b>THIS IS MY CHARACTERS MELODRAMATIC BACKSTORY.</b><br />
(Red Troll Inheritor read: regenerating golem + mutant cleric,<br />
Example of my Char Sheet from Roll20.com 5th ed OGL, modified to Perdition by Mr Renfields Cat- that guy sure can Roll20)<br />
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Igads, a heavy slow oxen of a man torn from his family for service the house of Naazluth Heralds of the Light during the height of the Devil Wars.<br />
He was forged in the roaring hellfires of that house, soul and memories stripped from him, boiling pink blood forced through in his veins. Hardy, regenerative, sullen, obedient, a soulless flame.<br />
A tool. A chimera, Cockatrice head crudely sewn upon his shoulders, jawbones fused to the jagged and ossified beak, a brutal joke and a symbol of the House.<br />
Igads is not a man, Igads is a Red Troll. Igads is a red troll for decades uncounted.<br />
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When Naazluth Heralds of the Light fell to the Crimson Baron Sailor of the Ocean of Blood in a masterful display of treachery and deceit all of the Red Trolls fell to his whims. Spoils of war but also spoiled of image- the Cockatrice motif being of stark aesthetic contrast to the pink-weeping eunuch Trolls of House Sailor of the Ocean of Blood.<br />
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The flock were sent to the Black Swamps, told by their terrible new owner to walk west and eat dirt in perpetuity, pecking the muck like so many cowed cockerels.<br />
Igads is not a Red Troll, Igads is a broken Cog, nothing, and not nearly sentient enough to realise it.<br />
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Somewhere deep in the swamp the unthinking Cog met the unthinking Scarbinger, fungal god, The End of Sentience, devouring the gargantuan corpse of the last titan.<br />
Obeying his directive Igads fed on the god of change, the god of nihilism.<br />
His empty body the tool, filled with spores and muck and pallid fungi intelligence. Intelligence well pleased by the corruption of meat-sentience it found therein, a thing changed and changed again, stripped of animal desires and commanded only to eat filth and grow. A rare meat-thinker with which it could commune.<br />
Scarbringer gave the Cog life of a sort, this Red Troll is a drifting spore of Sarbringer End of Sentience floating through the turbulent world of Thinking Meat.<br />
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Igads scarred and burned husk of a meat brain, sparked to brief life at this rebirth screamed out decades of unremitting torture, toil and bloodboil in the single beat of a heart, a psychic gong heard clearly by those borne of hate, and driven by the unstoppable unraveling of the universe, motivated by the desire to pull and tear at those thrashing threads.<br />
Igads the Plougman, last of his line flared one brief and monstrous prayer in an instant of lucidity and died hating.<br />
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As the Rot Queen gave a Cog life, Grandfather the Apocalypse Star, the ticking clock of entropic mathematics, reaches across space and time and gives Igads a gift. In an unspeakably rare act of creation he gifts the burden of Purpose, knowing that in this taboo creation lies the mathematical certainty of destruction, desecration and the end of things old and beautiful. A null sum at worst, a catastrophic ender of days and best.<br />
Grandfather Count-the-days rests. He counts the days and watches the world he must sunder as it drifts closer through space with the pleasing certainty of physics in motion.<br />
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A horror that you dont understand. It is well documented that even the wealthy, those with physicians and warmth and food suffered a huge range of gnarly ailments. I still like to feel smug about toilets and soap, for all their wealth Cesar had no shitter and Cleopatra had to rub oils &etc all over her because who even showers?<br />
Now think about travellers, pesants and doctors. Germ theory was not even a whisper of a thought.<br />
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In cities and towns water was an unwholesome alternative to ale and wine, both of terrible quality but at least sort of sterile. Offering a guest water was socially rude because of fun things like cholera, and diahreea that could in all likelyhood kill you. Hygine consisted of a protective crust of dirt, and clothes were basically rusted on all winter. Poops happened. Everywhere.<br />
Kate Beaton is a fucking boss history nerd and I <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=397" target="_blank">ALWAYS </a>think of her <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=255" target="_blank">Pesant series</a> when I get <a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=332" target="_blank">medieval</a>.<br />
Also shoutout to those on <a href="https://tsojcanth.wordpress.com/category/burgs-bailiffs/" target="_blank">Burgs and Bailiffs</a> for the raddest ever quasi historical medical knowhow and also charts.<br />
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Show your players a different paradigm of medicine- Humours (blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile), Miasmas (lit. 'Bad air') were the prevalent mode for most of medieval times, along with a little mystical alchemy and the practical approach of animal doctors+bonesaws.<br />
Im thinking a world on the cusp of medicine haunted by the spectre of illness and widespread plague, that is your everpresent, your setting is a miasma of illnes: spurring religion, influenceing politics, killing friends.<br />
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Barber Surgeons, this is not a joke, only barbers had the tools and would treat a commoner.<br />
Some farmers and butchers had knowlege of animal ailments and anatomy but no such tools.<br />
Salves and poltuces are pulped plant and fat.<br />
Clysters are medidical enemas, live animal enemas were a thing cos why the fuck not. Release the tadpoles.<br />
Leeches and blood drainings (doctors used sanguination as an anaesthetic cos if they are too wacked to scream they are technically fine. Oterwise its hemlock is good- a deadly poison.)<br />
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Diorhea lets out black bile, vomit is yellow. These are all linked to elements eath fire water ether.<br />
Throwback to the<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/renfields-cast/id1156867278" target="_blank"> Skeleton Podcast-</a> bones are clearly made of compacted semen and they are cold so like obviously earth, read it and weep suckas.<br />
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Sometimes you just pump in some cow urine or feces or whatever to balance out the element ratio in that ol patient. He lost a lot of blood.<br />
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Thats a dungeon I want- Early medicine in a world of fading magic. A quack charlatan sends you on miasmatic quests, you may never learn his alignment or intent.<br />
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Forgotten Hospitallier vaults containing long lost plague cures must be opened with offerings of Bile Yellow and Black, Blood and Phlegm.<br />
Yes you must indeed shit in the stone bowl while your paladin retches yellow bile into the Chalice. Now we find a phlegmatic pilgrim for snot and blood and praise-be-lord-saviour the portal shall open!<br />
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Stimulants and surgery do strange and unexpected things, no matter what the intent of the surgeon... The quack accidentally nicks the wrong nerve trying to paralyse your facial muscles (its all a complex scam you see) and dulls your pain nerves instead, the goodly Spirit healer Hospitaller removes the pike but leaves your intestines knotted and plugged with a thick "healing" salve of rendered fat and opiates, a recipe recently arrived from the eastern Yarusalem Holy City and a dodgy translation at best.<br />
The good news is that you are bodily strong, and the plug will provide sustenance, pain dulling, sleep quelling miasmas for three days before your inability to eat starts to sap your strength. And your breath smells like rotting and sweet eastern spices.. The doctors last orders, whispered in shame and darkness- whatever you do, do not sneeze or commune with woman.<br />
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Quacks offer free trepanning to fix the mentally unstable, but only if they can keep the circle of curved bone he will bore out of your skull. He is hired, only to immobilise you with heavy bloodletting, produce a frogs liver from the hole via slight of hand, declare you fixed and then leave with your money before you recover from your lobotimised torpor enough to cry foul.<br />
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Barber Veterinarians are the plumbers of the body, there is a lower risk of mystical Humorous (pun intended) side effects (good or bad) but less actual healing. The rough, pragmatic scarring is a badge of honour and integrity to the lower classes.<br />
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The Barber is the only man with sharp, fine tools and via livestock, a blood smeared knowledge of an animal's insides and where they should reside. To bear those scars and survive is a rejection of the cloisters and towers of academia where the pesant patients are chewed up and spat out, sometimes healed, but always, always changed. Those scars bear a different pattern, baroque and haunting and not all visible.<br />
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The Court Physicians and Kept Alchemists spurn them, the butcher-menders they cannot even afford a decent plague mask. Superior alchemy and the application of Kabbalisthtic scarring, Mussleman chaemical salts and Vadic rhyming polemics provide superior healing.<br />
Proper re-routing of the bile ducts and application of alchemic false-humors can stir even the old magics.<br />
Magics thought lost to the world with the unholy evisceration of GodsMartyr and the Crusade to bury the taint of Gods-Brother.<br />
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Why, the last patient even turned wine to blood!<br />
The thoracic shunt delivered sacramental red directly to the spleen, and behold he urinates fresh blood.<br />
Martyr bless my work, as I write it clots before my eyes: too pure for the ether of the open air.<br />
We know there could be no native blood, for the patient was properly exsanguinated previous to sanctification, and thus the spleen, holy engine of transmutation has clearly been induced to miracles bless out Father I shall have this specimen duly arrayed before the reliquary.<br />
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I'm thinking the Crusades in a world where the death of Christ brought magic and the taken-for-granted magic healing to an end, throwing society into disarray.<br />
Pestilence hangs over centres of civilisation, as in history. War is bloody and life is cheap.<br />
We do not know whether God died with the Martyr-vassal and his epoch of magic. We know not to debase ourselves for forgiveness, curse magic or claw it back, earn forgiveness through self reliance, penetance or glory? Unified western faith is fractured into dozens of sharp edged splinters. There are rumours that there is a Second Messiah, one overlooked, an antivassal? Perhaps an angel, one thought to be also the devil, a two sided coin is still worth the same is it not. Rumors also he is here to save us, destroy us or reform us, all that is consistent is that he too is made in Gods image, and also in ours.<br />
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The scramble to revivify the faded arts of medicine, alchemy and other knowledge lost in the shadow of "wizards did it" reliance of magic has compressed our history- we have Holy Wars, Religious Reform, Alchemy, Foerign Mytsticism, Occultism, Witchhunts, Empire building, Plague and Politics all going on at once.<br />
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Gods-brother is a Lucifer figure, think Mr Morningstar of Neil Gaimans Lucifer comic (really good, don't watch the TV show). Far more complex and ambiguous than the christian devil.<br />
In a twisted way he is Gods favourite angel, as he was given both autonomy (pride, expulsion, self determination) and a kingdom, unlike anyone else in heaven.<br />
He is said to have abandoned his kingdom to walk this earth in human guise after the GodsMartyr was killed and magic fled.<br />
More of a suave trickster and courtesan than a tailed violent redman.<br />
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Gods-Brother (stole the name from Peter F Hamilton) worshippers range from basic Chaos and/or Satan devotees to those of Second Coming who think HE is the Second Messiah, (not the dead GodMartyr), who is currently being tested and ultimately groomed to replace God in heaven- functioning both as nemesis and heir. Note: Not necessarily evil!<br />
(kinda like how Muslims rejected Christ as messiah and kept on keeping on.)<br />
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The church of course demonises him and he is the number one wicked devil Satan in their eyes, but thats propaganda for you.<br />
The reality is up to you. If you want a destroyer standin there is Abaddon who is THE great destroyer but actually works for God cos sometimes shit just needs destroying. Dont forget you fucked up the Christ arc and pissed God off so the danger is real..<br />
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Anyway religion aside, the vacuum left by the magical arts is being filled with mad science, tricksters, politics and ADVENTURERS.<br />
Charlatans have a plethora of opportunities, fanatics, true believers, thieves, scholars also.<br />
I forgot engineering..<br />
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I mentioned previously that medical and technical knowledge is faded, but not new.<br />
Like how europeans leveraged themselves out of the Dark Ages with a little help from eastern Golden Age mathematics and so on. Civilisations rise and fall, and magic caused science to fall a long time ago.<br />
That means there are lost vaults, unsullied libraries, mothballed research projects and secret societies to plunder. There are other civilisations out there too, an exotic Jerusalem analog, asia maybe. False gods etc. never even had magic perhaps. That means diplomats, saboteurs, exiles and spies in the mix too.<br />
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Your employers are insane alchemists, wealthy collectors, market speculators, monarchs, politicians and priestly scholar sects, whose budget just went from "pfft not even a wizard" to "help me Obi Wan Kanobi you're my only hope".<br />
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You are not the only party of adventurers, and not everyone was caught unprepared by the loss of magic. The pragmatic and hardheaded, the unions, the poor, many people lived without magic and some doomsday prophets even prepared for life without it.<br />
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Many town gates and village trees are hung with High Magisters and others who lost their powers at inconvenient times. Others are penitent flaggelators. Others were probably stage magicians all along. Some made sure that their status was cemented with state secrets, politics or other indispensable roles and struggle to maintain their more earthly power.<br />
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To make medicine and alchemy pack more punch I would say the more arcane it is the more it stirs the remanants of deep magic left behind. Players can favour the Barber for a crude but reliable patchup, or go to the far side for a risky treatment- leading to side effects, I would probably do a Gamma World 2e style mutation table with a wide range of positive and negative effects ranging from myopia to full spells or positive mutations.<br />
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Check out Gammaworld 2e mutation charts, Burgs & Baliffs superb medical charts, or any number of great blogs featuring magical and wyrd ailments.<br />
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Im feeling my love of Pillars of Eternity coming through a lot here too, especially the is-god-dead angst. check out their art. <br />
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While mutant/magic tainted ones get random unerthly powers and taints and less physical attributes unless their subsequent mutations happen to negate that. (Chaocite Godkiller, Warmended, an Alchemists Grist, Reconstituted Leper-Monk, Psychopomp Trepanee)<br />
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Death by Raving- rabies, seizures, madness of all kinds.<br />
Wandering sickness- Likely dementia syphillis etc<br />
Wasting- cholera, worms, basically everything etc<br />
Broken Heart/ Grief- severe depression, torpitude, parasites, cancer etc<br />
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DEAR HISTORY NERDS, NONE OF THIS IS RESEARCHED BEYOND WIKIPEDIA AND MOST OF IT NOT EVEN THAT, THIS JUST FELL OUT OF MY HEAD ALL AT ONCE<br />
I would be more than happy to hear your comments, but refuse to reference my historical/hysterical claims (its all a made-up consensus fanfic anyway rite? hehe)<br />
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Seriously though I havent thought about the crusades since high school I dont know what happened here.<br />
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<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-37714589730424073032016-09-18T11:12:00.002-07:002016-09-20T09:40:36.442-07:00Link dump! PRIME CUTS AND NOTHING MUCH ELSEAfter scrolling through my backlog of rambling unedited, unformatted, unlinked long-format posts I decided that some things I have cued don't particularly need disassembling, they just need a big glowing neon hand pointing at them and y'alls can just ruin them yourselves with your own bad brains.<br />
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Mostly these are "reality worse than fiction" cases so a wiki just lays it all out for you.<br />
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Bam! PRIME CUTS AND NOTHING MUCH ELSE<br />
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GARDEN HERMITS<br />
Pay a creep (read: poor person) to live like a dirty, insane hermit inside your tailored garden estate. Mock both nature and basic humanity, for the lols.<br />
Never let him out, or break character even though he knows that soap and taverns exist.<br />
Extra points if he is a blood relative. or if he looks like yoda.<br />
This is why garden gnomes exist. Horror. Horror. Horror.<br />
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit</a><br />
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INSERTNAMES FOLLY<br />
What says "i'm richer than god, exquisitely cultured and deeply committed to madness" like building a palace or fortress as a monument to Palaces and Fortresses everywhere that does not function as either a place nor a fortress? (or, like, anything?).<br />
TRICK QUESTION! the answer is "Victorian social welfare", didn't see that coming huh?<br />
A 'Folly' is an extravagant architectural endevour that is designed to showcase wealth and taste at the cost of logic and or utility. Usually impossible Disney inspiring castles and towering monuments, they do sometimes appear as faux ruins or rustic shrines, all tailored for visual appreciation (on top of sheer mountains, rolling fields etc) with no regard for interior architecture and other inane nonsense of that ilk.<br />
Before you curse their affluent bones, it should be noted that often these were raised as a mechanism to provide jobs and purpose during famines &etc especially the Potatoless Irish and their protestant work ethic. They didn't want to take practical workmen off their USEFUL jobs however, so they just took untrained farmers and overqualified (unemployed) architects and poured money on it until the pitchforks went away! Presumably while sitting alone in their chambers thinking "oh god when will they invent RPG's with which to vent off my fantastical delusions and wads of money."<br />
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly</a><br />
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WAR PIGZ<br />
Not only a great Black Sabbath song, but a great way to win a war and make terrible bacon.<br />
I went a bit long on the whole Follies thing so lets keep this simple:<br />
1. Pigs or equivalent<br />
2. War<br />
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4. Profit<br />
*fire, straw + tar, warpaint, siege elephants, pots + pans,<br />
The wiki is short and does not mention the passages in S.Tzu's groundbreaking exposé "art of war" in which they really get into tarring pigs, rolling them in hay, applying demonic red warpaint and driving them, on fire, with pots and pans into the enemy camp at 3AM.<br />
Imagine waking up, tent on fire, hells bells clanging, screams, and a freaking literal flaming demon boar comes at you. Pink pork piggies are a very modern invention if you are interested, we got rid of the matted fur, hard muscle and tusks.<br />
I'm more of a goat man myself, imagine the vertical space a wave of 12 to 18 flaming enraged goats would fill in a long winding dungeon passage. imagine.<br />
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A REALLY GREAT LIST OF SICFI WEAPONS<br />
Love the stunners. the first stun weapon in Scifi only appeared in 1941... that took a while!<br />
Later..."Ms. Bujold points out a drawback to stunners: if that is all you are armed with, you can be killed by an unarmed mob. The mob will figure that the worst you can do is put them to sleep. So they will swarm you and eventually stomp you into the dirt. The mob would be more hesitant if you were' armed with something lethal."<br />
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A Congealer just fries a a few blobs of blood and lets you stroke out a few hours later when they clog up your brain.<br />
I have something like this in Gamma World, but it just jellies up your blood a little causing initiative loss, some stat negatives and some damage as you cough up blood and your heard freaks out.<br />
That and a defoliator which is basically a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLaBFkeHG0A" target="_blank">sandblaster</a> laser that strips half a mill of everything- like most of your skin and you bleed out for a few rounds. Extra comedic on feathers and fur!<br />
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There are a few rail-gun type things but nothing as cool as my patented Gamma Gauss Blunderbuss which is just a 'dirty' railgun that you can stuff with any old metal garbage and point at something you want metal garbage embedded all over. Gauss can elicit magnetic fields even in non ferrous metals which is cool. Also its a freakin space blunderbuss that shoots anything metal!<br />
In all honesty I found this site trying to locate a tract on a Ringworld by Larry Niven concerning a sliver gun. His world had a lot of hi tech multi use, sustainable "survival" gear like a flashlight that you could keep focusing through torchlight, sunburn, blister etc until it was a straight up laser.<br />
My favorite, a flechette gun, just shaved and propelled slivers of whatever old garbage you threw in it which seemed practical and also hack-able (shoot wood- nonleathal, durasteel- lethal, bananna skins- hilarious.).<br />
Also an addictive orgasm gun used to subdue violents and subjugate the masses!<br />
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Speaking of survival, there is a nice section on <i>primitive </i>scifi weapons such as blow-darts (Innocuous weapon with a silent strike. Couple this with hitech chemicals, piano wire darts, flachettes etc. possible compressed gas upgrades, must i go on...)<br />
Again leveraging chemical weapons is the vortex cannon which fires directed smoke rings. This can be bought as a childrens toy today and requires nothing more than a diaphragm, a container with a hinged end and a very toxic gas to put in it. That and no wind, but this is space station territory.<br />
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It is so creepy I could really see telling this around a campfire as a ghost story (then watching for sattelittes! woooOOoooOO )<br />
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Thats right, these are not simple spoopy ghosts, but the sad ghosts of lost opportunies, or maybe the hopeful grandsires of the past observing their creation?<br />
Probably just boring ol Space Oddessy "we wish you to evolve and join us as a spacetime fetus" type ghosts.<br />
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Remember this is set <i>and written</i> before spaceflight, or the moonlanding.<br />
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Imagine the public's pent up apprehension during the burgeoning space-race, and its implications both existential and spiritual.<br />
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There are some interesting articles about the writing and conceptualisation 2001: Space Odyssey, which inhabited a similar time and space- a space movie predicting space faring humanity and its technological, social and spiritual future. No hindsight there!<br />
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Here you have the stored knowlege of millions, but it is not searchable and is definately hung up on wishy washy emotions, this is nicely summed up by the storyline in which the epic ramifications are ignored in favour of national security and fucking with the Ruskis.<br />
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The ghosts can seek you out with great accuracy. Or is it only that he was the only spark of life? Could the Cold War spread to the heavens as nations vie for the attentions of dead genius', commanders and philosophers. Space is definately paywalled, and spiritual emanations do not pick up on microphones apparently.<br />
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Religion is either super wrong, or really specific about heaven. Correct about souls though? Its gonna get heated thats for sure.<br />
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So are these spirits 'revenents' with business to attend to or is all of space packed with detatched souls?<br />
Is it a timed purgatory for closure purposes? Watch your legacy for a generation or two, then fade away?<br />
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Imagine the funding NASA could get for manned space flights if you could visit your dead wife?<br />
Whats on the moon then? Dead ancient alien ghosts?<br />
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Alien blockade, a sham? In Marvels comic universe the Gaurdians of the Galaxy (and 'dead' Nick Fury I think) are basically there to <i>quarantine </i>the pre-cosmic Earth from the Cosmic community.<br />
This is because our island home has a baffling but unbroken history of KO'ing every sun eating, civilisation destroying culture or super-being that goes anywhere near them.<br />
The Cosmic govt is <i>scared </i>of that track record and the Gaurdians dont want people to keep trying to eat Earth, so they hide and protect the planet... for now. I dont think anyone but Iron Man really knows about Cosmic level stuff, and GoG make fun of his tech.<br />
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Maybe necromancers (there is nanite space magic AND eldrich lovecraftian horror magic!) throw ghosts at sattelites?</div>
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In one game (<a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/131801/Deep-Carbon-Observatory" target="_blank">Carbon Observatory</a> ) we found some abandoned artefacts, amongst them evidence of entire strata in the crust of the world made from bent and compacted swords. Also there was crystal hearts of vampires, suspicious Aboleth shaped things, arcane devices &etc. </div>
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The only celebrity death that ever came close to affecting me that emotionally was Douglas Adams' passing.<br />
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Anyway, Pratchett is a renowned comedy author and funny man, but as Neil Gaiman has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman" target="_blank">publicly attested</a> to he was deadly sharp, a serious and a driven man. Which is terrifying!<br />
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There really is a line of dark and bitter humour to Discworld, but he steers clear of following the implied catastrophes in favour of a continued universe to write in. I have no such ambitions.<br />
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Capital T,<b> The Gonne.</b><br />
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<b></b>Discworld has ONE human usable firearm. It was invented by Mr Gonne. It is sentient and has a One-Ring effect on people (its meant as an ironic riff off the whole "Guns dont kill people, people kill people") so you end up with homicidal gollums with a blunderbuss being encouraged to shoot up schools etc.<br />
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In-game I would secret message players during combat and offer them i-choose a target, you-choose a target type deals with massive stat boosts (hoping they forget they owe you one at the end of the battle for catastrophic use later mwahahaha)<br />
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In a classic fuck-you-i'm-Pratchett-get-on-my -level fashion I just discovered that even the Gonne thing was not only a pun but a historical reference to "<i>A hand cannon or gonne (also spelled handgonne to distinguish the device from modern handguns)" </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_cannon">-here </a> which is defined as such because you could spark the firing mechanism <b>by hand </b>and also move it by the judicious application of<b> four or five sets of hands</b>.<br />
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Then there is <b>Detritus' crossbow</b>, Piecemaker: a turbocharged ballista that doesn't fire a log sized arrow (aaaaawww...) but flings a log sized arrow at such rapid acceleration that it splinters into a thousand flaming arrow sized arrows (YESSSSSSS!!) for a cone shaped shotgun style effect that apparently will leave buildings standing but kill people real good.<br />
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The <b>Sonky</b> is the Discworld condom. The head of the watch considered the inventor a saint as it curtailed housing problems and lowered the population of idiots and criminals in his city.<br />
Tell that to a religion who's priests can fling righteous fireballs AND educational pamphlets.<br />
Introducing non blood magic contraception to Baldurs gate? have fun!<br />
Pre rubber condoms did exist, I have had the dubious pleasure of making intestinal-sheath-soaked-in-milk condoms but honestly they did not look like much fun to use.<br />
These politicks and social bombs seem like great and perilous treasure for the right band of adventurers. Its like looting paintings, they are useless until brought to the correct venue, and then they are even stranger as you get paid but you also have to live in the world you made with the consequences it entails. When was the last time trouble followed you out of the dungeon and moved in with your family?<br />
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FUCKING EVERYTHING, get a-hold of "<b>The Science of Discworld</b>" cowritten with a bunch physicists and biologists and so on, I used to feel smug because I caught a few references but it goes scary deep, almost everything and everyone is a crazy throwback reference to history and its all built into a coherent universe with consistent internal rules ("<b>Narrative Imperative</b>" being a strong one- a 10000000:1 chance will always succeed, but only if exactly that ratio, otherwise it wouldn't be important.)<br />
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<b>Axles </b>are two six-inch-edge cubes joined perfectly on one face.they rotate 5.9 times a minute, but have apparently infinite torque. I love that the mention of the annoyingly uneven RPM implies that it was not built for or by a culture that measures the same way we do.<br />
They need no fuel and the use of a series of gears allows them to power the mechanics and industries of entire dwarf cities.<br />
An infinitely powerful, but boring and sedate device, honestly a group of adventurers would use it to <b>open cans</b> or winch a car or something, maybe sell it as junk to a clued up tinkerer for a sharp pokey thing.<br />
A single device like this on our earth could power a continent. flywheels on flywheels on generators foreverrrr.<br />
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I feel like giving adventurers god level devices that are boring and non-combative is great. How does an adventurer test the torque on an Axle?<br />
A Gamma World engineer would sell their mothers for such a thing, it could spin a flywheel to run entire industrial city states, all you need is a <b>durasteel 6-inch coupling gear! </b><br />
An adventurer can merely say "i have STR 16 and cannot stop the cubes. so where is all the gold again?"<br />
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Another Discworld object of unfathomable but almost useless power is <b>The Procrastinator</b>, described on the wiki as a <b>Flywheel Energy Storage Device (Probably quantum) </b>it stores time and can release it. Perhaps you have to meditate to charge it with loose time?<br />
If i remember correctly they look like prayer wheels (real, mechanical, word-covered devices intended to spin and recite automated prayers for Nepalese Buddhists, similar to christian Rosaries).<br />
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Personally I would hobble it so it stops electrons electrons, freezing everything, but "quantum" processes continue, so characters may stop time and yet still *think* for a while (because quantum... lol) but not go all <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LIcOFvWqjk">Quicksilver </a>on stuff. Probably everyone can think during the hiatus, but only you and yours know what is going on. Maybe magic continues to work in this limbo?<br />
Maybe it can <b>give quantum computers massively increased processing time</b>, and despite looking archaic is sought by AI for that perfect science-magic exploit. HAX!<br />
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<b>HEX </b>is the next generation in magical computing (Druids and their stone circles were the first computer scientists, along with that guy and the chickens.) </div>
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Hex is a network of glass tubes in which ants run, <b>punchcards can block or redirect ants</b>, performing mathematics.</div>
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A few books later Hex is self-improving and Ponder Stibbons the IT wizard is working on the wizard equivalent of data compression, code optimisation and data retrieval. "these spells must be cast rapidly, and each one can only be <b>used once before the universe notices they shouldn't work</b>" and <b>pulling the underlying meta-spells out of larger spells.</b></div>
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Later than that the computer appears to be bending time and asking about electricity, we assume it is <b>too smart to let the wizards understand its mechanations at this point. </b></div>
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All this is riffing off the weird hard physics and theoretical mathematics corners of universities where no-one could possibly know what the hell is going on, but that its real deep and important so please just get out and let me work *lightning+cackle*.</div>
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What are those utility spells in later D&D? I feel like metaspells are going to be cantrips, takes all the fun out of wresting power from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_dimensions_of_the_Discworld#Dungeon_Dimensions" target="_blank">Dungeon Realms</a> (also a thing!)</div>
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It contains any book that could possibly be written in any format, the whole phase-space of literature. However "writing" is different to knowledge, truth or even meaning, so how would you distinguish the "correct" books from the "incorrect" ones? </div>
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Its like books at garage sales, they are 95% John Grisham or back issues of WHO magazines, but every now and then there is a rare scifi classic.</div>
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As the titular Mr Nobel, inventor of dynamite proclaimed: war would be impossible because no one would dare use it offensively.</div>
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The fact that his inventions often worked (doing sundry business fairly well) was offset by the side effects of bending reality to make them do so- his mail sorters could sort and deliver unwritten letters for instance. </div>
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His architecture achieved the opposite of ley lines, <b>powerfully averse to universal harmony.</b></div>
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The politics behind his patronage verged on the Victorian mania, <b>Anyone commissioning this wasteful, epic insanity must, by inference, be incredibly wealthy and powerful!</b> In fact there was a wave of the idle rich who got their house Johnson-ed which allows for in-game crazy mansions with trick mirrors and trapdoors and just trapped-doors!</div>
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The Unseen University (a riff on the '<b>Invisible College' of 'natural philosophers</b>' that evolved into peer-review and THATS RIGHT THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE!) has a B.S. Johnson organ that can be set to <b>Terrae Motus,</b> or Earth Quake that has in the past moved the university and made a <b>quarter of the population immediately shit themselves.</b> The <b>remaining 14 stops are marked "?"</b>. </div>
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The organ is coupled (shares plumbing) to the "Patent 'Typhoon' Superior Indoor Ablutorium with Automatic Soap Dish" toilet facility, and although mostly harmless can cause issues when the Organ <b>afterburner </b>or brown note is engaged.</div>
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This reminds me of the<b> Ooze communication apparatus</b> featured in <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/131801/Deep-Carbon-Observatory">Deep Carbon Observatory</a> by Patrick Baker and Scrap Princess (look em up) in which the otherworldly intellect of the Oozes, often thought of as insentient have created a intricate glass tube machine to communicate with humans. It is huge and you have to clamber inside it as it fills with a rainbow of deadly ooze types and speaks at you mechanically. You have no way of knowing this of course, but if it was a trap why wouldn't they hide it? :D</div>
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The Haha (a<b> gargantuan pigeon infested beehive designed for 3m bees which don't exist yet,</b> we hope.)</div>
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A Trout lake: a <b>150 yard water filled slot wide enough to comfortably fit one trout </b></div>
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If I were using this I would include a small pool at the end so the fish may turn around, i'm not a monster, ok. It would be a magical fish tho tbh, or at least an <b>automaton</b>.</div>
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This is perhaps a fishing joke akin to fish in a barrel and the notabilities obsession with things like "the hunt", sports hunting with dogs and men in ranger patrolled, wildlife stocked, artificial forest estates (real life again unfortunately.) </div>
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There is a <a href="http://www.hermitary.com/lore/ornamental_hermits.html" target="_blank">fascinating book</a> I want to read about the history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit" target="_blank">Ornamental Hermits</a>, the hermit and the garden gnome are quaint echos of a time when Victorian lords would allow a peasant to life scot free in their gardens if they promised to <b>act </b>like crazy wizard recluses and dress in leaves and twigs and <b>never betray that they weren't actually legit hermits.</b> For what lends a sculpted parkland that 'wild' <b>authenticity </b>but a legit crazy man that you own?</div>
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All mechanical devices previous to the Watch story arc were literally<b> enslaved imps in boxes</b>, always rambunctious but at least the commoners knew how they worked :D <b>Iconographs </b>were common, a lens focused the light so that an imp could paint a fast portrait of a scene.</div>
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<b>Golems are distinct to Trolls</b> who are also solid rock but are born naturally. Golems are immensely powerful living statues powered by script, it is implied they are created by a dead civilisation.</div>
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They discover they can <b>replace their directives with *freedom*</b> or somesuch to become sentient and "living" and become <b>emancipated</b>. I love the golem mythology as they are so ripe for life and so vulnerable to "directives", <b>hacking </b>or misapplication. I mean, like genies, thats what they were created for, go nuts player characters.</div>
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Trolls too are interesting because they are<b> silicone life, and like electronics overheat</b> at human norms. A frosty troll is as smart as anyone, but in the yeasty streets of Ankh-Morpork they are slow witted. They have<b> diamond teeth</b>, and sometimes are composed of <b>precious minerals</b>. </div>
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<b>The Printing Press,</b> Imagine this in a world of working magic Grimoires and scrolls..</div>
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<b>Living Steam</b> locomotives, the old living train trope. Go watch Snow Piercer for a real living train arcology *drool*.</div>
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They <b>forge hardened bread </b>for war purposes which is cool. </div>
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Some games like <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/98800/" target="_blank">Dungeons of Dredmor </a>(squee) let you<b> mine plastic ore as if it is sequestered there in mineral sediments like our garbage dumps will be in a millenia</b>. This sounds funny but I have visited Austrian salt mines days from the sea where they pick-axed out tons and tons of precious <b>preserving salt </b>from a goddamn mountain made from prehistoric dried seabeds. Deep Carbon Observatory cut through inexplicable sedimentary layers of millions of compacted swords and black ash and so on, if I remember correctly. Dungeons of Dredmor also let you find weapons "studded with woven reeds" and Marshmellows.</div>
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Speaking of breaking game mechanics, one character <b>usurps the Tooth fairy</b> to gain the <b>teeth of every person alive</b> in order to use them as <b>biological spell components</b> to turn humanity en-masse <b>against Santa Claus</b>, removing his base of believers (gods are directly powered and created by belief) and <b>reducing him to his primal</b>, vulnerable form as a <b>prehistoric deer riding traveler.</b></div>
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He was an assassin hired to kill Santa as a joke to shuffle his creepy ass out of assassin school...</div>
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I would love to have a Nobby character as a human raised by goblins. For those new to Pratchett, <b>Nobby Nobbs is a horrid, lumpy, cheerful creature</b> employed by the Watch. He claims to be human and this has never been disproven, however widespread suspicions remain. He is despicable, lazy, amoral and generally harmless. He probably has a good heart.<br />
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<b>THE LUGGAGE</b>, erase encumbrance from your game, you have an ambulant, unkillable bag of holding that will eat aggressors for you!<br />
Seriously, <b>Sapient Pearwood</b> is a material that is <b>magically immune,</b> <b>sapient </b>(can think but is not self aware) and <b>rare</b>, a very cool resource.<br />
The luggage was obtained from a "Tabernae Vagrantes" a wandering shop that sells odd items with flaws and then disappears. We need a table for that.<br />
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Devils in the details, the Soul-eater Bel-Shamharoth lives in a temple where:<br />
The floor is covered with <b>eight-sided tiles (impossible with regular octagons, which do not tessellate, </b>but possible for some irregular eight-sided figures, and hyperbolic octagons). Even the stones can sometimes be seen to have eight sides.<br />
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I just re-read the plot arc of Nomes, (Diggers, Truckers and something else) which I only half read and it turns into a scifi epic in which they are space aliens with a<b> mothership embedded in the moon</b>! wow.<br />
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PRIME CUTS: GAMMA WORLD D20 Machines And Mutants (6th ED.)</h3>
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SLEMBAITH: The aforementioned Nano-Ooze. It references one of my favorite tropes that in less affluent times fat was awesome and a sign of wealth and leisure.<br />
A Gamma resident would be horrified by the measures used to slim down in ancient times.<br />
In this book it is a 5000 pound behemoth that eats entire towns (the blob..) and was created as a slimming nano treatment before it was corrupted.<br />
Attacks if survived leave massive bruising and gauntness that takes weeks to heal (con points lost)<br />
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MIRACLE GOO: is the answer to Grey Goo the dissemblers, it <b>increases </b>complexity! A concrete wall will be reshaped into a fractal, bubbled multicoloured plane. A broken spear will be mended, but the filler material may be taken from the hand holding it.<br />
If poured onto a a disassembled computer it may make a computing device but its interface will be alien and its complexity unnecessary.<br />
It hates and attacks Grey Goo.<br />
It detects life as being structurally coherent and complex enough to be left alone, however if wounded or recently deceased it my "fix" it or create chimeras.<br />
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CLOUD EATERS, sky drifters continue to eat polluted smog and manufacture sundry items, without harvester drones this results in sudden rains of simple tools, snowdrifts of sustenance-packs, dust-storms of mineral salts followed by bricks of super-ceramics and steel bearings. Tribes spring up to follow these cornucopias.<br />
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NEWFLESH: A viral AI biotech weapon that grows inside a human mind and slowly overtakes it. Using its superior control of the biomass it converts flesh into bioware, demanding more processing time in exchange as the host needs more bio-work to keep up with the enhanced metabolism, it is a calculated spiral ending in a strong and complete Newflesh AI, raised and taught by a human in a strong body. They blend in, preferring parasitism to their own company. They do not hate humans and are usually benevolent or friendly, they did not ask to be born and yet they are. They often respect their dead host as a mother or father figure. Hosts are typically dependent and addicted to bio so are happy right up until their consciousness is erased. They can live for years as an internal voice with no bodily control.<br />
New-flesh infoseed is transferred via bodily fluids, many Newflesh try not to bleed on people or engage in intercourse.<br />
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TURING PALADINS: Hardened AI created to prevent rogue AI from becoming "weakly godlike" as Charles Stross puts it. They had legions of EMP robot troops slaved to them and were the first to fall in the Final War, some AI survived downloaded into scattered troops and now wander as Paladins seeking redemption be destroying rogue and insane machines. They are designed as robot slayers and many of their weapons are purposefully inadequate against flesh.<br />
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FREE CARS Intelligent nuclear powered Free Cars have wants and needs but lack hands and tools. They are very useful but fiercely independent. They have a caste system and utility vehicles are at the pinnacle.<br />
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METROVORES: Small stealth drones that land lightly like butterflies in nooks and crannies of powered constructs and eat energy until entire townships or war machines grind to a standstill. Insidious.<br />
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OCHTOFUS A race of uplifted tool using octopus, now cyborgs.<br />
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CUTE ROBOT FAMILIARS: robot puppies containing nanofab factories and simple AI.<br />
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SKYSHARKSOliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-8573898860023938212016-08-21T11:10:00.000-07:002016-08-21T11:10:07.252-07:00Lypo-Ooze a nanotech nightmare!Today I got to loose my Lypo-Ooze on the party.<br />
I read it in passing over at Headinjurytheatre, and it stuck. I think it may be from 6th ed Gamma World.<br />
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Oozes, like skeletons are a d&d trope that are under analysed, problematic and quite boring usually. (actually, find Patrick Stuart's ooze powered interface in the Deep Carbon Observatory...)<br />
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Trudging along a leafy suburb of Pitz Burg we see a shopfront displaying a burned and shredded display of hot-bods.<br />
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Out of the holes ooze five silvery Oozes, they open with the Allure mutation convincing anyone who fails a hard-INT check that they are generally a good idea to be around.<br />
Mental damage attacks will fail although you can sense a cold ghost of intelligence if not sentience.<br />
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They move in suspiciously precise unison (they surrounded my characters and remained exactly evenly spaced, they move too efficiently).<br />
When one unit is dealt a heavy hit they will falter in unison implying their linked stats.<br />
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They leave a faint yellow snail-trail and weep murky yellow fluid when concussed. Energy or diffuse attacks provoke a ripple of blue static sparks as nanites die off.<br />
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You may notice 'preserved' desiccated bodies around the place, well preserved but shrunken. Around the bodies lie scavenger animals, likewise. They have been leeched of only fat and since dried out.<br />
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Inspecting the sign a literate scholar my descipher "Lyp'O'S-" or "New Nan--Tec--Ly--suc---"<br />
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While attacking they will pin a character to the ground, but once tasting (ie: any damaging hit) a low-fat character they will lose interest. This includes insectoids, robots, jellies, plants etc.<br />
Lipids are their panacea.<br />
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Their weaknesses include electricity and magnetism, solvents and things like washing liquids that dissolve fats.<br />
They can be stabbed, concussed and mental attacks that do other damage types will effect them (ours were killed by sonic blasts.)<br />
They are easily distracted by snacks and may stop attacking a character to chase an easy fat meal like a doughnut or butter.<br />
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These guys really messed up my party, they were horrified when their lasers AND mental stabs were ineffective.<br />
They loosed a lot of primitive bullets and did very minor damage before I pulled out the lifeleech which again horrified them and bumped back to full health.<br />
The pin dissuaded escape and flying and their fat-sense meant the healthier low-fat characters could not distract them when the meatsticks were getting dismantled.<br />
They figured out the shared health pool very fast.<br />
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I dropped the hot bods, silvery appearance and yellowy substrate and had them take a mid battle int test to drop the "-suction" label on sign as well as having them doggedly chase the meaty characters and hurting them by burrowing in and extracting something from under their skin.<br />
Sound attacks led to a visual display of blue static shimmers trying to convey the electrical nature of the beasts.<br />
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I feel like mentioning a caduceus on the store would have helped or Fat/Thin before-and-afters or something.<br />
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Once they realised Doritos were distracting and clicked on the "-suction" thing they saw they were robots and shut them down almost instantly with .<br />
No-one on that night had standard magnetic, electrical or solvent attacks so they didn't find the critical weaknesses.<br />
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There were questions about the multiplicity aspect- lifeleech hit them all but leeched it back to themselves, so that worked out ok as a tactic.<br />
HOWEVER enemy Area-of-effect damage is five-troupled (?) if you can hit, making 100hp a minor effort.<br />
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I statted it out as Horl Choo plants, adding the machine weaknesses, pin attack and group health of 100hp.<br />
Mutations were Lifeleech and Dissolving juices (did not use..). Normal attacks were a minor 1d6.<br />
They definitely had the party of four on the ropes although they were a little battered from a Zeethh and Obb encounter.<br />
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Creepy real articles!<br />
http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i24/Liposuction-Goes-Nano.html<br />
http://gizmodo.com/gold-nanoparticles-are-coming-to-melt-your-fat-for-lipo-1592723371<br />
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EDIT: I found the origin in 6th ed.<br />
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<b>SLEMBAITH</b>: The aforementioned Nano-Ooze. It references one of my favorite tropes that in less affluent times fat was awesome and a sign of wealth and leisure and that a Gamma resident would be horrified by the measures used to slim down in ancient times.<br />
In this book it is a 5000 pound bohemoth that eats entire towns (the blob..) and was created as a slimming nano treatment before it was corrupted.<br />
Attacks, if survived leave massive bruising and gauntness that takes weeks to heal (temporary con points lost)<br />
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Planescape Torment<br />
Elder Scrolls<br />
Icewind Dale<br />
Neverwinter<br />
Baldurs Gate<br />
Arcanum<br />
Temple of Elemental Evil<br />
Fallout<br />
Dark Messiah<br />
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The Nameless Mod for Deus Ex<br />
Deus Ex<br />
E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy<br />
Gemini Rue<br />
Beneath a Steel Sky<br />
Another World<br />
Sysetem Shock<br />
HeXen<br />
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Zeno Clash<br />
Amnesia: a machine for pigs<br />
Bioshock<br />
Dungeons of Dredmor<br />
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Wizardry 8<br />
Little Big Adventure<br />
Loom<br />
Ultima<br />
Myst and The Witness<br />
Sanatorium<br />
Inqisitor<br />
Avernum<br />
Odyssey series as in Abe<br />
Overgrowth + Lugaru<br />
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<br />Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-64216150440268786562016-08-18T07:29:00.002-07:002016-08-21T23:57:20.658-07:00Renfield's Cat Podcast ShoutoutI forgot to mention, I do a podcast with Robin Zink over at <a href="http://renfieldscat.blogspot.com.au/">Renfieldscat.blogger.com.au</a>,<br />
Episode 3 just out find it here!<br />
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The gauntlet pings when aligned with the moon so while fighting at night you can place an enemy between you and the moon and it focus' the moonlight into a beam that will hurt enemies. a very weird fps mechanic. The game has a pretty day night cycle.<br />
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Instead of enemies being frustratingly invincible while they stand up from a ragdoll hit you are encouraged to "tactically" kick them while they are down. it has its own contextual animations.<br />
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Ok jawbone crowns are definitely IN!<br />
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Stained golden statues of a one armed sledgehammer wielding dwarf adorn all prominent seaside cliffs. all facing the ocean. Note the tethered raven marker.<br />
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Many dwellings and settlements are adorned with crudely painted cutouts of pink mutants. Scarecrows i guess, i haven't met his likeness.<br />
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When you complete the final moth pigment quest the final treasure you were promised is... moth pigment.<br />
Which he tries to eat so his *precious* does not fall into your hands. I realised he is wearing a lion head cloak and the lower half of that lion is stuffed and mounted in the wall of his house.<br />
Also... um. he has no arms so I guess its a mouth painting effort?<br />
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The next town mission was a cripple asking for vengeance on the cruel bastard that tore off his leg a pig like thing. (he is also rocking a janky metal arm, but seems cool with it.)<br />
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I guess this is a testament to the complete lack of organised industry and civilization in Zenozoik.<br />
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"I don't think they will be angry. I think they will just think its alright to hurt us"<br />
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Brawling seems to be commonplace in this world, but like many low density, isolated cultures (i'm thinking Maori and Micronesian communities) combat is about beating down and dominating the opponent, rarely culminating in death. In Maori culture killing an enemy, even an enemy clan member was punished by paying their family with your land. Islanders often made swords from palm spines and shark teeth which would cause horribly bloody but <b>superficial </b>wounds in combat ensuring convincing victory without death. This is because blood feuds and the loss of labor were recognised as harmful. Christianity offered killing weapons and eye-for-an-eye as a culpability escape clause, so missionary efforts were very effective and destructive.<br />
(<a href="https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/BBCollabSupport/An+Ethnographic+Analysis+of+a+Kiribati+Shark-Toothed+Sword" target="_blank">Link</a>)<br />
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I say this because in Zeno Clash defeated enemies and unique characters are constantly returning both in the storyline and encounters. This makes Ghat seem like slightly less of a loose cannon psychopath soliphist. He mentions collecting mementos from opponents is his hobby which is preferable to collecting eyes or feet (both are present).<br />
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The world is Zenozoik<br />
I think the Golem is bringing law to Zenozoik, a place previously ruled by each creatures innate nature and the benevolent strongarm of fathermother.<br />
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this guy is a reference to medieval quacks or perhaps the ol dunce. "the stone of madness" is a famous painting documenting a classic scam in which the skull is bored into -trepanning- and through slight of hand a water chestnut is produced and deemed the cause of the problem. The victim is drugged or lobotomised and the quack is richer.</div>
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(this is mother-father your parent/kidnapper who was the enemy for the first game, now your motherfather again and a broken husk of an ally)<br />
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Oliverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03953242428871306732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354087482550862422.post-46637327349325575582016-08-15T02:03:00.004-07:002016-08-25T05:43:23.862-07:00Zeno Clash II, at it again.Every few months I drop back into one of the Zeno Clash games to see if i can get anything done.<br />
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I never can because it requires Mortal Kombat style combos to really progress and the SETTING IS TOO DAMN DISTRACTING.<br />
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Zeno Clash is a hand to hand first person combat game in an open world that lies somewhere between Heironomous Bosch, Planescape Torment, and that terrible 90s Sandman tv show.<br />
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Yes there are guns that fire teeth, yes all grenades are skull molotovs wearing jawbone crowns.<br />
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Yes you are rescuing the BabaYag-esque andgrogonous FatherMother who was your creator and nemesis in the first title from laser space Golems.<br />
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-Leashed blackbirds serve as line of sight markers to map travel-points<br />
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-An outrigger raft made by lashing the bloated corpses of half a dozen walrus' together with wood and furs.<br />
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-A 12 foot predatory flamingo beast<br />
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-A man with a palette grafted in place of a jawbone who desires large moths to grind into pigment for his artworks. In constant fear of not being able to create.<br />
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-The entire city is home to small packs of baby pigs, the only clean and naturally proportioned creatures in this universe..<br />
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-Scifi laser mandalas placed by a mysterious authority, assumedly by the musclebound Orwellian space dandy that makes MotherFather seem like family again. (I found out you can blast them away with your moon-beam focus gauntlet)<br />
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-I have a cool cyber/bronze gauntlet grafted to my forearm and I cannot remember why or how (its been months since I played last.) edit: if aligned with the sun or moon it focuses a deadly beam that can blast enemies between you and the solar source. Thats right, you pull energy from the sun. With your fists.<br />
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-Better tooth guns than ExistenZ yes you heard me right. two of them. Fish skulls. Bone shards. Lots of teeth.<br />
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-an area full of camels that have pockets sewn on their humps and wrought iron cupholders on their harnesses.<br />
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All of these things I would like to see in an RPG. Its like a Slavic influenced, orwellian garden of earthly delights in which you murder lifelong friends with your bare fists because of mythical daddymommy issues.<br />
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Pity as a video game it is mediocre at best. I would kill for a graphical remaster or an art book to be released.<br />
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It reminds me of all the No Mans Sky screen-caps going around.<br />
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Oh and then there is the dark undertones of fate and purpose to these twisted beings. Destiny is cruel in this world and everyone has a purpose to play.<br />
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