Haven Walkur

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=643936&postcount=53
 
I this this is the ladyman you recall...

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
PDS

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
This is a cheat, because it didn't happen this week. And it wasn't in the HERO system. But it was a Pulp Superheroes game.
 
Let me set the scene.
 
We have Lawrence, playing snooty, alcoholic and corrupt English archaeologist, Reginald Spencer.
 
We have Charles, playing somewhat noble flying ace Sam Sterling.
 
We have Eric, playing a 'Shadow' type martial artist, The Zephyr. AKA 'Arthur Turlington'.
 
The three PCs were at a black-tie soiree in the 1930's. Reginald Spencer spots his rival archaelogist, vindictive French vixen Marie Belloq (NPC). After a short exchange of quips, the following perfect moment ensued :
 
Marie : Don't go getting yourself killed, Spencer. Your life is mine to end.
Spencer : Don't worry. I'll stay alive for you, Marie.. Professional Courtesy.
Marie : Since When are you professional?
Arthur, Sam (in unison) : Or Courteous?
 

Re: The cranky thread
 

Xmas gets me down, too. I've never had a good Xmas, this one won't be an exception.

Re: The cranky thread
 
Thanks for the condolences, folks. Rosie is not in any pain anymore, but she slept on my wife's pillow for around 18 years.
 
It is going to be rough. The worst part is that she was feeling a little better today, the abcess drained during the night, apparently.
 
two years ago we had to put down my Wife's 17 or so year old Boston Terrier.
 
THis year we lost a new cat (my favorite) to coyotes or some such, had to put down another cat that has slept with my wife for 10 years after he became very ill, and now rosie.
 
It has been rough.
 
Roseshadow, Pukha, Scoop, and Sassy. We miss you.
 
Thanks again, folks.
 
Greg

Re: Your greatest Chmapions moment
 

Hey! That should be my sig! Give it to me or I will fling an enormous rock at your head!

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Urban Dead
 
Low-tech, browser based, zombie apocalypse MMORPG. You can play a zombie or a survivor. There are revivication needles, which means that being zombified isn't permanent, just fairly inconvenient. It's fun. It could just use more zombies. Savinien and others have a cute little group that think they can keep a suburb safe from shamblers like me and Mightybec. They started a thread here on the NGD. We taunt them regularly.
 
Edit: or just listen to Dr. A. I've got to learn to type faster.

Seasonal Haiku
 
I would have written
A haiku about Winter -
The Censor prevents.
 
I would have written
About the snow storm we had -
The Censor prevents.
 
I would have written
About the freezing rain, but -
The Censor prevents.
 
I would have written
Bitter cold, fear, danger, pain -
The Censor prevents.
 
Only ugly words
Mostly those with four letters
Do Winter justice.
 
(Insert expletive)
(Profane and obscene remark)
THAT's for the Censor!
 
Lucius Alexander
 
How many ways can
A palindromedary
Fit in a haiku?

Re: Superhero Images
 
[ATTACH]19838[/ATTACH This is Sea Drake, another member of Force Aquaruius. She is a nautical metamorph who can swim at high speeds and breath underwater in her human form plus she can turn into a watery form when bodily harm is imminent. Frightening abilities for a very frightened and withdrawn young Englishgirl.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Rather than celebrate my birthday Tuesday, I think I'd rather celebrate my last day of being 38.
 
JG

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
All things last a lifetime. Their own lifetime.

Re: Haiku Hero
 
Haiku doesn't die
The thread recedes, then returns
Complete the circle

Re: The cranky thread
 
Thanks to Alice and L. Marcus and other well-wishers who shall remain nameless. Like flowers in a hospital room, your sympathetic notes and encouragement do actually brighten things up, and I appreciate them.
 
I was just venting on the thread...so receiving sympathetic responses was a definite bonus (and believe it or not, unexpected).
 
Depending on how Infusion #3 affects me, I may be absent from the HERO Board for a while, starting tomorrow. No, I won't be avoiding all of you, just busy being sicky-yuck blah.

Re: The cranky thread
 
Best of luck, Haven!
 
As for my predicament, I did see the doctor today. He thinks it may be arthritis, or I've been overdoing it during my workout. I am testing for my 2nd Dan on the 19th of November, and part of the requirement is doing 100 pushups in 3 minutes. I may have overexerted myself.
 
Still, he gave me some medicine just to be safe. You know you're getting old when your doctor prescribes Celebrex!

Re: The cranky thread
 

 
Good luck and God Bless you.
 
 
I hope the treatments do you good, my aunt has had mixed results in the last decade or so with Her MS. She has been coming to the NW yearly from Shreveport, so she is functioning though it is worse some days than others.
 
I wish you only well,
Greg

Re: The cranky thread
 
Feel free to vent here any time at all. Hope the infusion goes better than it might.

Re: The cranky thread
 

 
I'm a bit late on the well wishing, but good luck to you.

Re: The cranky thread
 
Yeah, take care Walkur. We'll keep the flame wars burning for you

Re: The cranky thread
 
Hope you feel better, Haven Walkur, and I'll be leaving the next line in the Story Game thread in your court.

Re: The cranky thread
 
Yeah. All the right in the world to be cranky.
 
Sympathy.

Re: The cranky thread
 
And you're merely cranky, with all that on your plate?
 
Wow.
 
I admit I don't know a whole heck of a lot about MS, but I do know it makes it harder to get out and get moving. So that DOES make it a bit difficult to follow that suggestion. But at its core, the idea of getting up and getting out of your house as a treatment for depression is a good one.
 
My suggestion is to start with small steps. Make a goal, then outline all the little things that need to get done in order to reach that goal. Then take your time fulfilling all the little steps necessary. Don't pay much attention to the end goal; you'll get there eventually. And set very small, realistic goals. It's the old adage about learning to walk before you can run.
 
Um . . . I hope things look better for you tomorrow. Or today, even.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
In Saturday's game, a couple members of the team are meeting with a high-ranking VIPER member, incognito, during a function being held at the Scarab Club in Milennium City. Sentinel, the team's power armor wearer, stations himself on a nearby rooftop "just in case" something goes wrong or VIPER gets any "funny ideas." It turns out that the VIPER member had the same idea, and there's a VIPER aircav agent also stationed on the rooftop. After a bit of "strange cats sizing each other up" behaviors, Sentinel and the VIPER aircav agent come to the conclusion that (a) they're both there to do the same type of job and ( there's nothing to be gained from starting a fight with the other guy just this moment.
 
Sentinel is also moderately infamous inside VIPER circles because, before he was piloting it, the suit of alien power armor he wears was in the hands of VIPER. He's the main reason it's not in their hands any more, and they really do not like him much.
 
So, after some uncomfortable silence, the VIPER aircav agent tries to strike up a conversation with Sentinel, and is rather unsubtle about making a bid to get him to "come back" to VIPER.
 
VIPER: "I really don't understand why you left VIPER in the first place. You put your life on the line every day, and for what? Public adoration? That and two bucks will get you a cup of coffee. The rewards for being a member of VIPER are much higher than veneration by the masses."
 
Sentinel: "I make $300,000 a year. How much are you pulling down?"
 
VIPER: (more silence) "There are a lot of perks for being part of VIPER, the sorts of things that, as a superhero, you just don't get to do. That's a much bigger incentive than mere money."
 
Sentinel: "One of my teammates is the avatar of the goddess of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. How do you think that compares to your perks?"
 
VIPER: (long pause) "I think we should keep our minds on the job were supposed to be doing up here." (lapses into silence)
 
 
----
 
(One of Sentinel's teammates, Scarab, is a multiformer and most of her alternate forms are based on one of the gods of the Egyptian pantheon. One of those forms is that of Hathor. )

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Years ago, we were playing a "space western" -- yup, cowboys in space (and this was long before Firefly was even a gleam in Joss Whedon's eye).
 
In it, there was an alien species that looked like humanoid spiders, who filled a similar niche in the universe as the Chinese immigrants filled in the American west. Some aliens had a little resturant, and we walked in, sat down, and took a look at the menus.
 
Me: Hm... "Flied Lice." God, I hope that's a typo.
 
Bill.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Nah. I just need a bad chap to slice up. Mabye several. Preferrable Sassenachs.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I'm actually closing in on 100 posts.... I'm not really a net/chat board enthusiast, but I _am_ extremely competitive, so this pleases me. I also want more rep, but it looks to me, cynic that I am, like rep goes to them as has it.
 
-----------------Anti-Liberal criticism follows-----------------------
 
I was born English, and lived the first 4 years of my life there. I conceived a vast loyalty and attachment to my own Romanticized notion of England, composed of (amongst other things) King Arthur, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, the English language, heroism and victory in WWII and football.
 
In 1992, after _many_ years of residency, I became a naturalized U.S. citizen...and I have never felt the need to condemn my adopted country for all the evils, real and imagined, of the entire world. That's something many natural-born Liberal U.S. citizens canNOT refrain from doing, whether from naïvety, transference of personal guilt, desire to be fashionable or simple ignorance.
 
I find that Liberal ingratitude and disloyalty digusting! If the Liberals believe that other nations are morally superior to the U.S., that the people of other nations are leading less restricted, freer and more ideal lives than the people of the U.S., then let the Liberals _immigrate_ to those other nations. I'll watch the airports for the vast exodus of Liberals heading for Iraq, Iran, France, Germany, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Korea -- but I think I'll be waiting a looong time for any signs of the American Liberals putting their money where their (big) mouths are.
 
Hypocrisy, thy name is 21st Century Libralism.