Lucius

Wooden you know it, the personification of the abstract idea of disorder comes lumbering onto the scene.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary is sure we saw that coming

Q: Why don't you see many Half-Troll Ulronai?
 
A: Where do you think Ogres come from? 
 
Lucius Alexander
 
Why can an Ulronai not ride a palindromedary?

Who's Who:
 
My character, Titania Melungeon, a Trollop (female Troll) of assorted talents who usually goes by Fiona (she liked the Shrek movie) or Faerie Princess.
 
Kylie, from Australia, dubbed "Crocodile" by Fiona
 
John Lee Pettimore III, yes based on the character from Copperhead Road, dubbed "Copperhead" or "The Redneck" by Fiona.
 
Dom (not DON!) Gunn owner of Dom's Guns ("we don't want to make money....we just LOOOVE to sell guns") the GMNPC who issues us equipment and missions and supervises us as well as such a group can be supervised, "Big Boomstick" to Fiona.
 
 
A new player showed up for Monster Hunter and I had to whip up a new character. (I'm not the one running this game but as the resident Hero expert I draw up player characters.) I did up THREE actually. The one that got picked I meant to name "Captain Stonebreaker" but I was in a hurry and typed "Capt Stonbraker." I let it ride but called it "Stonebreaker" when showing it to the new player, so she corrected the Game Operations Director when (in character as an NPC) he said "stonn-brakker."
 
My character, who has tagged everyone including herself with nicknames that we also use as radio callsigns, is probably going to go through several for our new addition from the Pentagon: I'm planning to use Gemcutter, StonedBaker, Rockbuster, and probably a few more, before settling on "I'll just call you GI Joe!" But all that's for future sessions.
 
In a past session we found out that our night vision goggles allow us to see in utter dark but also allow us to be SEEN (apparently they do emit visible light.) My character concept originally included "hacker" but has expanded to include "gadgeteer/inventor" (I did start with the Inventor Skill - at 1 pt) as I've been allowed to design a device using ultrasound echolocation
 
Fiona: Yeah, bats will go crazy if they're around when we use this
 
to image the surrounding area and then translate that image into a visual projection onto the inside of a worn pair of (actually opaque) goggles.
 
I was tinkering with this when Capt. Stonbraker was introduced.
 
Fiona: If I could just get someone in from the Pentagon to see these, I could get all the funding I need...(looks up as an officer in uniform walks in) Hey, that was fast! (jumps up and hands the headset to Capt. Stonbraker) Here put this on!
 
The Game Operations Director has the player make a KS: Monsters roll and identifies me as a Troll.
 
Stonbraker:(looks around at the other characters present) Would that be...advisable?
 
Copperhead: It should be safe, captain, we've all done it. She's kind of an inventor.
 
Stonbraker: Pettimore isn't it? I remember you from Afghanistan. (previously discussed by the players, they hadn't been in the same unit but had met in service.)
 
Copperhead: Yes sir, captain, that was me.
 
Stonbraker: The best guy we had with explosives, someone I could count on. Okay, if you say this isn't going to explode....
 
He puts on the set, Fiona hits the lightswitch and proclaims it's dark, and the G.O.D. has me make an Inventor roll to see how well it's working.
 
Stonbraker: I see people and objects in outline but not details.
 
Fiona: I can improve the resolution if you get them to fund my work! Just think what something like this would mean to the special forces!
 
Big Boomstick: Fiona. He's NOT in Procurement.
 
Fiona: He's not?
 
Stonbraker: I'm not.
 
Big Boomstick: He is from the Pentagon, but he's going to be hunting monsters with us.
 
Fiona: Do you know someone in procurement you can get to look into this?
 
Stonbraker (noncommittaly): I'll see what I can do.
 
 
I can't wait to tell the captain about the fight with the smurfs.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
PUFF exempt palindromedary

This week's award goes to Chris, for: "In my experience, Neanderthals *always* attack aliens."
 
This replaces the previous title-holder, from Jason: "I made my INT roll, and I've decided to do it anyway." dw

Recently there have been some items hit the mainstream media about modern human - Neanderthal interbreeding perhaps as far back as 100,000 years BP.
 
Not intending to fall into Rule 34 issues, but in reading such things, and the inevitable artwork that attends pop-level science articles ...
 
Ever notice that in the images that purport to show the two in the same frame, it's almost always a prognathous, heavy-brow-ridged Neanderthal male face paired with the more delicate modern human features on the female face, rather than the other way around?
 
That phenomenon (of one-polarity portrayal, not the interbreeding itself) is loaded with interesting not fully acknowledged societal attitudes -- some taboos, some others -- which provoke some thought.

How many palindromedaries does it take to change a lightbulb?

"I'm old-school. I don't have a GPS. I use a compass and spyglass."

"Never call anyone a Bastard in this industry. With how things work they will turn out to be your timeclone/parent/child/relative of your loved one/thier own father&mother down the road and that just sets you up for a stupid retort"
- Based on the Skullkickers Villain "Thool" (eldritch horror), who upon being called a bastard remarked "How can I be a bastrad if I am my own father and mother?"

And look! There's a Star Wreck Role Playing Game and it's free!
 
http://rpg.starwreck.com/
 
Instead of character abilities, characters have INabilities - apparently the main "Characteristics" are Stupidity, Obliviousness, Clumsiness, Repulsiveness and Weakness.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary says that sounds like it's right up my alley.

This.
 

Stars and stripes the red white and blue speedster.
 
This patriotic pursuer of perfidious perpetrators is as swift as rocket, she is capable of running from sea to shining sea in minutes as she runs a red and white striped trail follows her she dashes around her nation's foes foiling their schemes with flurries of bright white stars that deliver either a stunning shock or a bright flare. Rumour has it that she gained her powers when she was struck by lightning whilst standing on the steps of the Lincoln memorial. A stunning blonde with hair like amber waves of grain she wears a short sleeved blue top with a white star and white Shorts with red strips. Her hands are covered by red fingerless gloves and matching bearers. she wears a blue utility belt with ten pouches with five stars in each. She wears red goggles to disguise her identity.

Invisibility? I'll believe it when I see it
 
Lucius Alexander
 
Hey, where did the palindromedary go?

Persephone
I will keep this brooding brief
for it is fate and not just my belief 
that keeps you coming back to me
 
Persephone
I will smolder in this grief
for time is very fine a thief
but he cannot steal from destiny
 
I will stand and I will fight 
with all my might here on the line between 
the darkness and the light
til at last i have thee in my custody
 
Persephone
 
Persephone
Return the symphony to this drone
the rainbow to the monochrome
and love
to the damned
what we might be to what I am 
Persephone
 
I will stand and I will fight
with all my might here on the line between
the darkness and the light
til at last I have thee in my custody
 
Persephone
 
And should the mortals dare design
to keep you ever theirs and never mine
should they in the name of liberty
enslave you to their needs
your ransom has been paid
with seven pomegranate seeds
 
Persephone
 
Persephone
 
Persephone

Carry on!
You will always remember
Carry on!
Nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely Heaven waits for you

Attempting to merge them is likely to just result in yet another sect.
 
And I think "sect" is a great word to say especially in the plural.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The Temple of the Palindromedary welcomes all denominations - anything from the one to the one hundred dollar bill

Er, this doesn't actually include a treasure hoard, so I'll treat the Bog Beast as still open.
 
The Bog Beast's treasure is... the bog. More precisely, several medicinal mosses, herbs and fungi that grow in the bog; growing in this location, their healing virtue is greater than equivalent plants that grow in other bogs. Local apothecaries value them highly. The Beast makes gathering these plants dangerous, but that is why the gods made apprentices. 
 
Some believe the Bog Beast gains its unnatural resilience from living among the magical herbs, but sages know the truth is the other way around: The herbs gain their virtue from the Beast. The greatest treasure of the Beast is... how to put this delicately... its leavings. To be blunt, its poo. As its droppings dissolve into the muck, the plants they fertilize gain a bit of the supernatural life-force of the Beast itself. If one can collect the Bog Beast's dung fresh, it can be used as a poultice that cures almost any disease. The hazards of collection are extreme.
 
Dean Shomshak

Wow. The Basic Set that came with the module In Search of the Unknown, aka Quasquaton. The reason I tell people I have actually never been to the Keep on the Borderlands because I got into D&D too EARLY for that module.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
That was be ore I had a palindromedary

The strange preponderance of human feet amongst the jetsam of the Salish Sea
 
Since August 20, 2007, several detached human feet have been discovered on the coasts of the Salish Seain British Columbia, Canada. and Washington, United States. The feet belonged to five men, one woman and three other people of unknown sex. Of the ten or 11 feet found, only two have been left feet. Both of those were matched with right feet. As of February 2012, only five feet of four people have been identified; it is not known to whom the rest of the feet belong. In addition, several hoax feet have been planted in the area.
 
Decomposition may separate the foot from the body because the ankle is relatively weak, and the buoyancy caused by air either inside or trapped within a shoe would allow it to float away.[5] According to Simon Fraser University entomologist Gail Anderson, extremities such as the hands, feet, and head often detach as a body decomposes in the water, although they rarely float.[40]
However, finding feet and not the rest of the bodies has been deemed unusual. Finding two feet has been given a "million to one odds" and has thus been described as "an anomaly".[5] The finding of the third foot made it the first time three such discoveries had been made so close to each other.[40] The fourth discovery caused speculation about human interference and, statistically, was called "curious".[41]

When I Quit Cutting My Hair, I Learned How Men Treat Women On American Roads

He needs to re-tire from the world and contemplate the car-ma he has to work out.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary suggests he can do that in custody

He needs to re-tire from the world and contemplate the car-ma he has to work out.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary suggests he can do that in custody

He needs to re-tire from the world and contemplate the car-ma he has to work out.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary suggests he can do that in custody

He needs to re-tire from the world and contemplate the car-ma he has to work out.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary suggests he can do that in custody