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Re: "Neat" Pictures Sweet! I usually only see those on flights (on clouds, around the plane's shadow). I did see a full circle moonbow once--moon dead overhead on a perfectly clear night, it was about 45 degrees from the horizon. Bright as hell, for midnight! Wish I'd had a camera...

Re: The Future of Small Arms For in-station/in-spaceship use: Why not a paintball gun with explosive rounds that are computer-controlled to only detonate on hitting 'valid' targets? That would seem simpler to me than a rocket projectile: if it's done right, the computer has to actively be sure that what it's hitting is safe to blow up--otherwise, it'd just be like hitting it with an ordinary paintball (more or less; the explosive might be stiffer than an ordinary paintball, but that's probably not too serious). And indoors, the loss of range from a paintball gun v. the real thing isn't a big issue. For more lethal combats, I definitely forsee guided projectiles in small arms: this may come about in a couple decades (they'd be guided bullets rather than missiles, though). They already do this for some artillery weapons.

Re: Villianous/Heroic Powers Resurrection as an evil power: Desty Nova from Battle Angel Alita. He did resurrect people (all the time!)--but he did so to use them in all sorts of inhumane experiments, and frequently brought them back in incomplete or modified bodies to this end. (Now that I think about it, for Iron-age games Desty Nova, Demonic Genius would be a great substitute for Teleios, who is rather bland over all). It is pretty hard to have unequivocably good or evil powers (although 'ripping open your own chest to release a horde of demons' is probably one of them).

Re: Elder Worm Reference Collection The sinister truth: Tentacle Porn fetishes are entirely natural, and not perversion of your true nature in any way.

Re: Conversion - Wraith, the Oblivion Duplication as a Disadvantage, perhaps? Then again, I never really 'got' Wraith. (although any game in which the characters start out even more hopeless than Vampire is an achievement of sorts...)

Re: Your Favorite Fantasy Weapon? The krill of Loric, from the Covenant Chronicles. Which is somewhat amusing, since in 6 books (it wasn't in the first volume) we've never know what the krill actually is for, or what it actually does.

Re: Daily Art Findings Not a bad thought (although I rarely visit DC forum), but alas no joy for me. Man, I'm beginning to think I just hallucinated this image! So frustrating...

Re: Daily Art Findings Darn, darn, darn. I've actually looked at every single link in this thread, save only the handful that no longer work--including all of the artist's sites. And not found it. I was hoping that it was one of the dead links, and someone else had saved it. Thanks anyway, guys.

Re: Daily Art Findings This has been a very cool art thread: but now I have a problem. Earlier, I saw a pic on this thread that would be perfect for my new character--and somehow, I didn't save it! It was a picture of a man in a light-colored robe, seated; he was wearing a leather mask (and a wristwatch). Other than the watch, it looked like a fantasy/mountain scene. Did anyone else save that, or could point me to it again? I looked at every link in this thread and found nothing (well, except for tons of cool art--just not that pic) I'm near certain that it was on one of the art boards (ConceptArt, DeviantArt, etc.) and not on an artist website. Many thanks if you can help!

Re: Holy Killer Angels Actually, Holy Slayers is basically the backstory (what there is of it) for the Diablo 2 Assassins. It's a fairly interesting concept, certainly. On Cleric Weapons: The good ones use blunts to avoid bloodshed, the evil ones use blunts 'cause it hurts more and the neutrals just smoke theirs

Re: Need help with the Gods Peace/Spirituality/Enlightenment/Purity would seem like a good god. Also, that would make the Dark and Light gods into pairs: Battle/Goodness/Defense/Generosity/justice v. War/Slaughter/Undead/Disease Healing/ Natural Beauty /love/Agriculture v. Conspiracies/intrigue/spies/plots/insects/serpents Peace/Spirituality/Enlightenment/Purity v. Lies/Deceit/Jokes/tricks/Wickedness/Greed Hope that helps.

Re: Terrible Thoughts -- Simple Concept, Expensive Build Why yes, I do believe that's Menton...and he appears to be bleeding from his eyes! HKA BOECV was actually my first idea, but the resistant mental defense thing would be excessively nasty. Another thought: would it be legal to buy Continuous a second time for a damage sheild, making the damage continuous? If so, BOECV Transform (loss of SAN from disturbing images) would also be a really nasty one. I'd be really unlikely to allow either of these, of course (I might allow the transform, if the 'cure' for the continuous damage was really easy; even so, it pretty much prevent a mentalist from attacking you).

Re: CHAR: Thor. (Marvel Style) I know of an issue where he's got his goats: It's the last issue in which he's transformed (by Loki, natch) into a frog-man, not long after he was scarred during his battle with Hela (this is when he wore a red cloth to hide his face). That issue also features Volstaag and his daughter Hildy freeing him from his frog-man state. Alas, I packed the issue away just last night and can't tell you the number.

Re: Will the real Jolly Jonah Jameson please stand up? In a similar vein, one What-If? (I think it was 'What If Jonah adopted Peter Parker? or some such) offered that Jonah bangs the drum against *all* masked men, and that that's a legacy of his history of activist journalism in his younger years against the KKK. I also recall (perhaps wrongly) that NY has a law against concealing your face, which I believe was an anti-klan measure.

Re: I just thought of an extremely scary relationship. Always figured him to be the peeping tom type myself...