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[Susano]

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HERO Creature Master.pages

[Clonus]

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They say that all's fair in love and war. Like just about everything "they" say a little context usually helps. A fellow almost never makes use of that old saw unless he's just done something monumentally unfair, usually in neither of those two exalted states

[lemming]

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Had actually copied the picture...

[Susano]

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Eeeee

[Narf the Mouse]

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Had actually copied the picture...

Looks like a bat,...

 

...*Doesn't say it*

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

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She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis

[Ragitsu]

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trunctuated

[Certified]

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"Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error." - George Bernard Shaw

[Clonus]

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> > > > > > Nu, fb fur'f gur "erny" Nyvfba va anzr bayl, ohg abg gur npghny

> > > > > > tvey

> > > > > > gurl xarj. Gunaxf. V jnf nsenvq gurer jnf n fjnc orgjrra jura fur

> > > > > > inavfurq naq gurl sbhaq ure obql. Bs pbhefr, nffhzvat gurl VQ'q

> > > > > > gur

> > > > > > obql jvgu QAN, V'ir orra nsenvq bs na rivy gjva sbe dhvgr n juvyr.

> > > > > Jryy gurl qvq xabj gur erny Nyyvfba. Fur'f gur bar jub znqr sevraqf

> > > > > jvgu gurz. Ohg nsgre ure penml fvfgre fjvgpurq cynprf jvgu ure, vg

> > > > > frrzrq gb gurz gung gung Nyyvfba unq tbggra varkcyvpnoyl ovgpul. Ohg

> > > > > ol gung gvzr gur snxr-Nyyvfba unq npphzhyngrq frpergf nobhg nyy gurz

> > > > > gung znxr gurz nsenvq gb hasevraq ure. Nsgre fur qvrq, gurl sryg

> > > > > thvygl nobhg ubj gurl jrer fgnegvat gb ungr ure naq fb gurl xrcg

> > > > > gnyxvat nobhg ubj terng fur jnf.

> > > > LOL, thanks. We'll see how it plays out here. It would be interesting

> > > > if the went a different direction.

> > > After reading *that*?! Gawd, I hope they *do* go in a different

> > > direction!! Gawd, I hope they do!!! :/

> > Lrf

> "LRF"?...

[Ragitsu]

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[Patriot]

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Some bacteria produce beta-lactamases, which break down and inactivate

[Ragitsu]

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UbiquitousDeux.

[mayapuppies]

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1. What of the standard guard issue of equipment did they take? What do they use? What did they do with the rest?

Everything, but the boots he sold.

 

2. Though they are all new it doesn't take long to get a rep among the guards... A. Are they crooked taking bribes and looking the other way?

So long as no homeless or down on their luck folk are getting abused or robbed as a result of the bribe he could care less and wouldn't be above taking one himself.

 

Should the briber prove to be lying and his actions affect the downtrodden, then he'll abuse the briber and give the bribe to the bribers intended targets along with whatever the briber has on him.

 

B. Do they actually do their job or do they perform the good old guard trick of finding a quiet place and napping?

The oppressed need him and he is there.

 

C. Do they have the other guards backs? If they hear a whistle do they come running or go deaf.

Always has their backs unless they are known for taking advantage of the less fortunate and innocent.

[Certified]

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Glenwood Cemetery

[Cancer]

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EACH DATA FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Column (1) age/yr --> stellar age in yr;

Column (2) logL --> logarithm of surface luminosity (in solar

units), log(L/Lsun);

Column (3) logTef --> logarithm of effective temperature (in K),

log(Teff/K);

Column (4) grav --> logarithm of surface gravity (in cgs units);

Column (5) logTc --> logarithm of central temperature (in K);

Column (6) logrho --> logarithm of central density (in cgs units);

Column (7) Xc,Yc --> mass fraction of either hydrogen (up to the

central H-exhaustion) or helium (later stages) in the

stellar centre;

Column (8) Xc_C --> mass fraction of carbon in the stellar centre;

Column (9) Xc_O --> mass fraction of oxygen in the stellar centre;

Column (10) Q_conv --> fractionary mass of the convective core;

Column (11) Q_disc --> fractionary mass of the first mesh point

where the chemical composition differs from the surface

value;

Column (12) logL_H --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) provided by H-burning reactions;

Column (13) Q1_H --> fractionary mass of the inner boundary of the

H-rich region;

Column (14) Q2_H --> fractionary mass of the outer boundary of the

H-burning region;

Column (15) logL_He --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) provided by He-burning reactions; a null value

indicates negligible energy generation by those reactions;

Column (16) Q1_He --> fractionary mass of the inner boundary of the

He-burning region;

Column (17) Q2_He --> fractionary mass of the outer boundary of the

He-burning region;

Column (18) logL_C --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) provided by C-burning reactions; a null value means

that it is negligible;

Column (19) logL_nu --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) lost by neutrinos; a null value means that it is

negligible;

Column (20) Q_Tmax --> fractionary mass of the point with the highest

temperature inside the star;

Column (21) stage --> label indicating particular evolutionary stages

[Susano]

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EACH DATA FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Column (1) age/yr --> stellar age in yr;

Column (2) logL --> logarithm of surface luminosity (in solar

units), log(L/Lsun);

Column (3) logTef --> logarithm of effective temperature (in K),

log(Teff/K);

Column (4) grav --> logarithm of surface gravity (in cgs units);

Column (5) logTc --> logarithm of central temperature (in K);

Column (6) logrho --> logarithm of central density (in cgs units);

Column (7) Xc,Yc --> mass fraction of either hydrogen (up to the

central H-exhaustion) or helium (later stages) in the

stellar centre;

Column (8) Xc_C --> mass fraction of carbon in the stellar centre;

Column (9) Xc_O --> mass fraction of oxygen in the stellar centre;

Column (10) Q_conv --> fractionary mass of the convective core;

Column (11) Q_disc --> fractionary mass of the first mesh point

where the chemical composition differs from the surface

value;

Column (12) logL_H --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) provided by H-burning reactions;

Column (13) Q1_H --> fractionary mass of the inner boundary of the

H-rich region;

Column (14) Q2_H --> fractionary mass of the outer boundary of the

H-burning region;

Column (15) logL_He --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) provided by He-burning reactions; a null value

indicates negligible energy generation by those reactions;

Column (16) Q1_He --> fractionary mass of the inner boundary of the

He-burning region;

Column (17) Q2_He --> fractionary mass of the outer boundary of the

He-burning region;

Column (18) logL_C --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) provided by C-burning reactions; a null value means

that it is negligible;

Column (19) logL_nu --> logarithm of the total luminosity (in solar

units) lost by neutrinos; a null value means that it is

negligible;

Column (20) Q_Tmax --> fractionary mass of the point with the highest

temperature inside the star;

Column (21) stage --> label indicating particular evolutionary stages

 

Wow, you take your requests for detailed Player Character backgrounds really, really seriously.

[Cancer]

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And there isn't even mass or starting composition data in that yet!

[Susano]

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welloftheworlds@yahoogroups.com, shadowsangelus@yahoogroups.com

[Logan D. Hurricanes]

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And there isn't even mass or starting composition data in that yet!

Slacker.

[Cancer]

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Hmm, I take that back. That's from the Z = 0.019 .gz file (though that doesn't tell you the helium abundance used). Then there's about 50 different masses in the table, each of which has about 50 to 100 age points for the evolutionary track.

[Ragitsu]

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[Certified]

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Tentacle Crush: (Total: 90 Active Cost, 60 Real Cost) Entangle 4d6, 5 DEF (45 Active Points); No Range (-1/2) (Real Cost: 30) plus Killing Attack - Ranged 3d6 (45 Active Points); No Range (-1/2) (Real Cost: 30)

[Ragitsu]

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Chloe stiffened, every muscle going taut. This real, very real pain was overwhelming and her knuckles were bone white from where they gripped the edges of her chair. The alcohol numbed the pain a little and the cream even less. When thinking about it later Chloe wondered why she hadn't just asked one of them to knock her out.

[Certified]

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This is why we nuked ourselves

[Lucius]

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Let me repeat something I’ve been saying for years. Dickens and Dr. Suess both got it wrong. Scrooge never reformed into a Christmas-loving good guy. Scrooge ALWAYS loved Christmas. And the Grinch never gave Christmas back after stealing it. He fenced it to Scrooge, who sold it back to the Whos down in Whoville. That’s why Scrooge loves Christmas, because he loves profits. He probably paid Dickens to write the story. And Scrooge and the Grinch both pull the same scam, year after year.

 

I'll assume you're already familiar with "A Christmas Carol" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." That seems a safe assumption.

 

Dickens' story is of course older. In fact, Dickens has been credited with having invented Christmas as we know it today. I think that's an exaggeration, but with some basis. And while I don't seriously think there was a "Scrooge" who paid him for it, there were plenty of real-life Scroogelike people who were glad he wrote it.

 

To be fair, he wrote it in 1843 - about 3 years after Victoria married Prince Albert, a fact of interest in that it was Albert who introduced the Christmas Tree to the English speaking world - and the commercialization of the holiday did not take off for another 20 years, or at least, it's not until after the Civil War that a proliferation of Christmas oriented advertising in the newspapers is noticed. It was not until 1851 I think that, for example, an American named Mark Carr was the first to make a seasonal business of selling Christmas Trees.

 

But if Scrooge and his ilk ever hated Christmas, they got over it as soon as they saw there was money to be made.

 

I can just hear the dialogue between Scrooge and the ghost of Marley his partner.....

 

"I was a failure, Scrooge!"

 

"But you were a successful man of business! Why, your assets were..."

 

"Were so much less than they could have been! The profits I could have made, if I'd only known the true meaning of Christmas! Don't make the same mistake I did Scrooge - cash in on Christmas!"

 

As for the Grinch - what is the Grinch really? How is it possible for him to "steal Christmas?"

 

For the Grinch, Christmas is something he can steal because he thinks it resides in things like trees and lights, in "boxes and bags, packages and tags." Just as we are all in some sense the Whos down in Whoville, we can think of the Grinch in ourselves as being the part of us that is likely to make the same reductionist mistake, and the Grinch in others as being those people who ENCOURAGE that kind of mistake - what I think would in Christian terms be called the sin of simony, putting a finite monetary price tag on things of infinite spiritual value.

 

This is how the Grinch manages to steal Christmas - and Hanukkah, Yule, and Kwanzaa and the rest - every year. By hoodwinking Whos into thinking he has it wrapped up in a box, a box they don't have. And every year, Scrooge turns around and sells it back to the Whos the Grinch stole it from.

 

They make it very hard not to be accomplices in the crime. My friend Amadan Na Briona has pointed out that winter gift-giving is an honorable old Pagan custom, but I don't think it is possible to practice it in this day and age without feeding into the Santa Claus myth - and Santa Claus (or is it just the disguised Grinch?) is fat enough and doesn't need any more feeding.

 

It is especially hard for parents of children. Whether children have a naive belief in a literal Santa or not, they are like the littlest Who in the Dr. Seuss story - they look right at the disguised Grinch and think HE is Santa. So do most adults actually, but children fall for the scam even harder. That only makes the crime so much more insidious.

 

 

Lucius Alexander

 

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