Dr. Anomaly

Re: WWYCD: Dead Enemies are no fun. And besides... someone getting run through by a long, pointy object doesn't necessarily point to a flamboyant, publicity-seeking French playboy with unsavory connections on his mother's side and a signature fighting style using teleporting and a sword, right...?

Re: WWYCD: Ultimate Villian: Planet Earth! Dr. Anomaly would try to get into communication with it, and see if some kind of negotiation can be done. Failing that (or failing a successful negotiation) he'd see about using some contacts of his to get in touch with a few earth-gods and earth-goddesses and see if THEY can help. Failing THAT (for whatever reason), see if there's some way to transfer the conciousness of the planet to another, nearly-identical world, that does not currently HAVE a conciousness. I'm confident he could do the latter... if given enough time. That begs the question then... what if the conciousness of the planet was NECESSARY for the ecosystem and so on to function properly? Sounds like a problem for the NEXT adventure... after the storms and natural disasters stop... but other problems start cropping up...

Re: Worst. Hero. Ever. What. A. Mental. Image. I think I'm in lust. Or traumatized. Or maybe both...

Re: Worst. Hero. Ever. You may be confusing a couple of characters; "Sockamagee!" was the cry of Robbie Reed, the possessor of the original (alien tech) H-Dial, as in "Dial 'H' For Hero". Though, he turned into some pretty odd characters in his time... so he may have turned into one with detachable body parts... that I am just not remembering... thankfully...

Re: That's Easy?? Show me how _you_ did it. Write Mr. Handy up as an automaton or an AI... just don't give him any ability to move, etc. on his own. He has to be worn like a hand puppet by someone else in order to get around...

Re: i Can't Die! No matter How Much I want To! Yeah. That's what I was thinking; if I were going to actually attach a point value to it, I'd do it... probably as a Physical Limitation: 50 Physical Limitation: Cannot Ever Die, Regardless of Condition of Body ...and then a whole passel of Psych Lims to go along with it to represent how truly fubar'd this guy's mind would be...

Re: Measurement in HERO Briefcase full of rule...rs?

Re: Is this really THAT abusive Sounds tailor-made for Karate Kid from the Silver Age Legion of Super-Heroes, who was not only a master of every known fighting style, but every weapon used in every fighting style...

Re: What might a Gliesian be like? Thinking along the lines of having to deal with changes from very hot to very cold and light/dark... the need to shed excess heat quickly or conserve it in the cold... and about possible IR sensors for dealing with the night/cold side... WE are hotter than our environment. So we can dump heat into our environment for cooling. Now, if you're an organism that spends part of your time in an environment that's HOTTER than you are, dumping heat into the environment is something you can't do, so how do you get rid of your excess waste heat? Or is it something you can't do? All you really need to be able to dump heat, is a way for heat to flow from a hotter area to a colder area. If you're cooler than your environment, that's where the problem comes in. Unless. Posit these creatures having a kind of internal heat reservoir... perhaps a container or "bottle" of some kind, insulated, deep inside their bodies that acts as a heat dump. The fluid in this reservoir is at a much higher temperature than the rest of their normal body functions. You could use a kind of organic heat pump to cool the rest of the organism by driving the fluid in the reservoir to a higher temperature than the normal "operating temperature" of the organism. This could have several useful effects. First, it would allow you to vent your waste heat into the environment, even on the hot side... all you have to do is make sure that you concentrate enough waste heat in your reservoir to make sure IT is hotter than the environment, then provide some means to vent the heat into the surroundings. If nothing else, squirting out a stream of high-temperature liquid through an insulated tube could do the trick. Second, that mechanism gives a ready-made method of attack or defense. It probably wouldn't be that physically damaging to something that could survive the heat of the "day" side already... but if used on the night side, it might temporarily "flash blind" a predator's IR vision, perhaps acting a bit like an octopus' ink... splashing high-temperature fluid all over the surroundings, and making it impossible for a predator to "see" anything in the vicinity. Thirdly, it could be used as a way to "tank up" on heat before venturing into the night side, reversing the organic heat pump when in a cold environment to trickle heat away from the reservoir and through the tissues to replace heat lost to the cold nightside environment. And as to the problem of exoskeletons, weight, and so on vs. the benefits of osseous extremities to act as heat insulators (both from ground too cold or too hot) you don't need to have an entire exoskeleton to do that. Just some form of... what we might regard as extremely exaggerated hooves or claws could provide the sort of "dead" osseous material for insulation of the ends of the extremitites, without the need for encasing the entire creature in armor.

Re: The Last Word The First Among the Ascended, though much shrunk in might compared to those who Came After (as is often the case with old gods superceded by newer generations), returns and bestows Blessings upon His First Pope for still keeping the Faith through lo these many long, dark nights on the Forums, unrelieved by the Light of the First Wisdom. Thus he spake, his mouth opening and words issuing forth: "Thanks, Edsel. Good to be back. "

Re: The Last Word No... never even thought about it, Baz; the reviews are a real mixed bag, though...

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Re: The Last Word Thanks... though I don't know how much or how frequently I'll end up being around. There are a lot of factors in that, not the least of which is that my ongoing battle with depression has hit a new low, and led to the need to switch medication. We'll see if the new one does any better. But I just started it, and it's supposed to take around 4 weeks before seeing any benefit. But of course the side-effects are already here...

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Re: My Ravenwood Campaign That's an interesting map there, and not bad at all. The choice of graphics for the faculty and staff, though, is interesting as well... because they're taken from the Ravenswood stuff I posted on my website. The pictures of Rowan and her assistant are, in fact, the EXACT same ones that I located to use. As is the "raven" logo. And the picture of the psychologist is one that I originally used for one of my "non-traditional" faculty. While I am glad to see my time and effort being of use to other people, seeing a bit of "credit where credit is due" would have been nice. Especially from another "doctor". Anyone that's interested should just take a look at the Ravenswood Academy Yearbook link in my sig.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Um. Wow. Thanks for a mental image I did NOT need first thing in the morning, SS...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, I'm not letting Alice's "inadvertant thread kill" power try to claim this thread again, not this time...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... "You know that old expression, 'I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out'?" "Yeah...?" "Well, I think this situation could have been best described as 'I went to an orgy and a role-playing session broke out.' " (sigh) "Gamers..." (shakes head)

Re: Dyson Sphere (shell) - Dysonica Anyone? Farthest Star and Wall Around a Star by Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Now that sounds like fun!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Poorly phrased on my part. I was referring to NGD threads. And I'm afraid I'd forgotten the Catsuit thread had long ago passed that mark. However... how about "currently in existence NGD threads"...?

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER While that might work at least in the short term, it'd likely get the thread closed / locked / deleted, which would rather defeat the purpose. Cancer, why do you hate LRTE?