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"The sword is the soul of the warrior." It can be literally so. The nodachi does not have to be a Focus. Just a blade that can be manifested as an expression of ki. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary takes a martial artist to go swimming in Scotland

Liquid water on Mars? I'll drink to that! Lucius Alexander I never expected them to find a palindromedary

Cross posted Teflon Don Juan Sex is for Fun: (Total: 4 Active Cost, 2 Real Cost) Change Environment (-1m of any mode of Movement), Area Of Effect (4m Radius; +1/4), Persistent (+1/4), Inherent (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Sticky (+1/2) (3 Active Points); Limited Power Only vs Spermatazoa (-2), No Range (-1/2), Always On (-1/2) (Real Cost: 1) <b>plus</b> Life Support (Immunity: Venereal Disease), Sticky (+1/2) (Real Cost: 1) They Can't Make it Stick: (Total: 5 Active Cost, 2 Real Cost) Fringe Benefit: Diplomatic Immunity (5 Active Points); Limited Power Only as pertains to ethical consensual erotic activities (-1 1/2) (Real Cost: 2) Resist Romantic Entanglements: (Total: 12 Active Cost, 5 Real Cost) +6 with EGO Roll (12 Active Points); Limited Power Only to resist Charm (-1), Conditional Power Only in romantic context (-1/2) (Real Cost: 5) Oh, and Discretion Assured: (Total: 5 Active Cost, 5 Real Cost) Anonymity (Don't kiss and tell your spouse/older sibling/other possessive or protective person) (Real Cost: 3) <b>plus</b> Positive Reputation (A small to medium sized group) 14-, +2/+2d6 (DO tell your friends: For a Good Time, Call....) (Real Cost: 2) Let's invite the whole world to the orgy Free Love Now!: (Total: 5 Active Cost, 1 Real Cost) Life Support (Immunity: Venereal Disease), Area Of Effect (4m Radius; +1/4), Persistent (+1/4), Inherent (+1/4), Affects Desolidified Any form of Desolidification (+1/2), Usable Nearby (+1), MegaScale (1m = 10,000 km; +2), Cannot alter scale (-1/4) (5 Active Points); Extra Time (5 Minutes, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1 1/4), Required Multiple Users (2 people; -1/4), Requires A Roll (in the Hay) (14- roll; -1/4), Concentration (1/2 DCV; -1/4), Incantations ("Free Love Now! Free Love Forever! Free Love for You and Me and for Everyone!"; -1/4) (Real Cost: 1) Lucius Alexander the palindromedary is already immune to sexual diseases by virtue of being immune to sex

Reincarnation: (Total: 165 Active Cost, 15 Real Cost) Summon 275-point creatures, Expanded Class of Beings (Limited Group; +1/2), Difficult To Dispel (x4 Active Points; +1/2), Specific Being (+1) (165 Active Points); Extra Time (6 Hours, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -2), 1 Charge (-2), OAF Bulky (Decedant's reminds; -1 1/2), No Conscious Control (Only Effects cannot be controlled; -1), Concentration (0 DCV; Character is totally unaware of nearby events; -3/4), Arrives Under Own Power (-1/2), Summoned Being Must Inhabit Locale (-1/2), Gestures (Requires both hands; -1/2), Conditional Power Deceased must have followed same pantheon (-1/2), Antagonistic Annoyed (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), Costs Endurance (Only Costs END to Activate; -1/4) (Real Cost: 15) Lucius Alexander Planning to reincarnate as a palindromedary

I bet that whatever we expect it is, it'll be something else. Lucius Alexander I would love it to be a palindromedary, but I don't expect that

You uncover something potentially interesting And promptly forget it. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says I'll probably promptly forget this post too

Or place. Hm. My version can only target a person. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary buys Extra Limbs, to handwave that

San Angelo was a brilliant product, and an update or even a re-issue would be very good news in my opinion. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary thinks it was great as it was and doesn't need much changing to update it.

She killed him? Lucius Alexander A palindromedary in action

I think you're pretty much going to have to compare new monsters to the ones already on the table and decide what seems reasonable. I don't think there's a formula as such. Lucius Alexander No bounty on palindromedaries

Aren't they a little cute to be stormtroopers? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says they're here to rescue me! Oh wait, oops....I'm not the dude they're looking for.

Down from what? If I understand what you're talking about, that can only be a relative measure. There is always a deeper dream that is the foundation for the one you experience at any moment, and always the potential to create a higher dream and awaken into it. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary tries to sink beneath the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beneath this illusion

Let's invite the whole world to the orgy Free Love Now!: (Total: 5 Active Cost, 1 Real Cost) Life Support (Immunity: Venereal Disease), Area Of Effect (4m Radius; +1/4), Persistent (+1/4), Inherent (+1/4), Affects Desolidified Any form of Desolidification (+1/2), Usable Nearby (+1), MegaScale (1m = 10,000 km; +2), Cannot alter scale (-1/4) (5 Active Points); Extra Time (5 Minutes, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1 1/4), Required Multiple Users (2 people; -1/4), Requires A Roll (in the Hay) (14- roll; -1/4), Concentration (1/2 DCV; -1/4), Incantations ("Free Love Now! Free Love Forever! Free Love for You and Me and for Everyone!"; -1/4) (Real Cost: 1) Lucius Alexander the palindromedary is already immune to sexual diseases by virtue of being immune to sex

Plan to honor sex slaves of WWII stirs up furor Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Publication date: 2015-09-21 Arrival time: 2015-09-22 A proposal to erect a memorial in San Francisco to honor an estimated 200,000 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War II has unleashed a torrent of opposition and played into an international drama unfolding across the Pacific. The source of the uproar is legislation by Supervisor Eric Mar to build a memorial to "comfort women," the euphemistic term used by the wartime Japanese military to describe the women forced into sexual servitude for its soldiers. Most of the women were Korean or Chinese. The measure, which the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on Tuesday, also urges Japan to "fully acknowledge and apologize" for enslaving the women and to compensate those who are still alive. The debate has been impassioned and emotional, with two hearings drawing hours of public comment. Backers of Mar's legislation - including a former "comfort woman" who flew from South Korea to testify - say it's a way of drawing attention to a human rights atrocity that is little known in the U.S. Opponents say it fuels anti-Japanese sentiment and unfairly singles out Japan's wartime wrongdoing for public rebuke. No sign of unity The memorial would ensure that "history is not buried," said Mar, a Chinese American who would like it to be built in Chinatown 's Portsmouth Square . He sees it as a first step in a city effort that would eventually include an enhanced public school curriculum on comfort women and annual events honoring them. The idea is "to build new understanding, unity and alliance around (the) common spirit of justice and peace for everyone," Mar said. There's been no such unity around the measure, however. Its opponents include Janice Mirikitani , a co-founder of Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin, who as a young girl was imprisoned in a U.S. internment camp along with other Japanese Americans. She said the memorial would expose an open wound for Japanese Americans. 'Anti-Japanese profiling' "I have seen the consequences of that four-year incarceration and the destruction of property and the confiscation of all our savings, our history, our money, our community and the diaspora that occurred because of the separation from our families," Mirikitani said. "It's not just a monument," she said. "I don't want my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren to again suffer from anti-Japanese profiling." Playing into the debate over Mar's measure is renewed tension in South Korea over Japan's wartime atrocities. No bilateral talks have taken place between Japan and South Korea since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012 . South Korean President Park Geun-hye said that before the two countries can meet, the Japanese government must give an "official" apology for its wartime aggressions, especially its sexual enslavement of Korean women. The Japanese government says it has apologized. In 1995, then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama issued a statement expressing his "deep remorse" and "heartfelt apology" for the suffering Japan caused other Asian countries during the war. Angering Japan Japanese prime ministers have also sent letters of apology to former comfort women who accepted compensation from the Asian Women's Fund , which drew on a mix of Japanese government and private money. The South Korean government says that's insufficient. Korean American activists have successfully pushed for memorials to comfort women in other U.S. cities in recent years. Shihoko Goto , a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program in Washington, D.C. , said such moves invariably anger Japan . The memorials are well-intentioned, she said, but they "seriously hurt" both U.S-Japanese and Japanese-Korean relations. "It becomes a political football," she said. Such tension comes at an especially bad time for the U.S., which is trying to get its Asian allies to counter potential aggression by North Korea , Goto said. Little of that international backdrop, however, was discussed at the hearings on Mar's legislation. One woman's story Yong Soo Lee , 87, who was enslaved by the Japanese army during the war, flew in from South Korea to testify in support of the measure. In an interview, she said she is still haunted by the abuse she suffered. Once, after she refused to enter a Japanese soldier's room, other soldiers punished her by yanking out her hair and subjecting her to electric shocks, Lee said through a translator. She was saved only because a sympathetic Japanese soldier gave her medicine and blood to replace what she had lost in the beating. That and other abuse have left Lee with frequent pain. She can't sleep more than three hours at a time because of nightmares. She hasn't married and doesn't have children. She said she will be satisfied only when the Japanese prime minister goes to Seoul , kneels down and apologizes for the torture she and the other women endured. Even then, she said, "I don't know if I could ever forgive them." Emily Green is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer: E-mail: egreen@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @emilytgreen Lucius Alexander The palindromedary notes that comfort women seems to be an uncomfortable topic

I'm not sure what, if anything, you're asking. Lucius Alexander Dreaming of palindromedaries

All places are strange, when you're a stranger to them. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary claims to find people strange no matter how much time it spends with them.

Don't forget Clinging Lucius Alexander The palindromedary suggests shapechange

And everyone on that balcony has thought that far ahead? Lucius Alexander I don't usually know when I start a post what I'm putting in the palindromedary tagline

Who me? Lucius Alexander Not the palindromedary surely

Whatever happened to Mzimwi? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary denies having eaten him

Well, if you're moving all that tea from China to Australia on my account, you might as well leave it in China. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary explains that Lucius Alexander isn't in the market for tea in China but isn't in the market for tea in Australia either.

"A bodyguard who raises arms against the priest of another God must be put to death." If the fate of the world and the potential death of EVERYONE is at stake, in what way is this a deterrent? I can't believe the bodyguards are ALL Lawful, certainly not so superlawful as not to think "hm, I can sit on my hands and follow the rule and passively allow the destruction of myself and everyone I know and care about, or I can fight to literally save the world and all it can cost me is the life that was ALREADY forfeit? Today is a good day to die as a hero." Lucius Alexander Any day is a great day to live with a palindromedary

But that exports to HTML not to a text document, doesn't it? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary agrees that would be pointless

Perhaps they're not trying to get anyone to avoid him, or to get anyone to avoid any author in particular. Lucius Alexander Unavoidable palindromedary

And why are all the other bodyguards standing idly by? Lucius Alexander Inquiring palindromedaries want to know