Day 9 - Sore throats, Unsatisfied, and WWBEJD?

9:01 AM Mr. Brown

you guys know anything good for really bad sore tonsils

& a hoarse voice

9:01 AM Mr. Blue

tonsillectomy

9:01 AM Mr. Brown

lol

I'm trying honey and tea right now

9:02 AM Mr. Silver

could help, yes

I was always a Chloraseptic fan.  Didn't do squat for strep throat though...blech

9:04 AM Mr. Brown

Mine is a cold virus

Currently I’m down to one side hurting

9:06 AM Mr. Silver

I also would gargle with Listerine a lot

9:07 AM Mr. Brown

Yeah I’m doing that

10:09 AM Mr. Brown

I put Vicks on bottoms of my feet last night then put on thick socks and it helped keep me from coughing

i was very surprised that worked.

10:22 AM Mr. Blue

feet? just put it on your chest

10:23 AM Mr. Silver

(shrug) it's a hack of some sort...Vicks and socks works

10:24 AM Mr. Blue

Vicks works.. i don't see where socks and feet enter the equation

10:24 AM Mr. Brown

not sure why it works but it does

10:25 AM Mr. Blue

but why?

just put it on your chest

10:25 AM Mr. Brown

apparently there is a lot of uses for Vicks

10:26 AM Mr. Blue

according to Vicks, probably

10:26 AM Mr. Brown

According to usage by people

a lot of old timers will give the uses that they discovered

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/11/twelve-surprising-uses-for-vicks.html

10:28 AM Mr. Blue

a lot of old timers used to think that drilling a hole in your head relieved all sorts of ailments

10:34 AM Mr. Silver

Trepanning does...things...yes

10:39 AM Mr. Blue

it probably cures coughs too, if you drill in far enough

11:02 AM Mr. Silver

Yes.  Permanent cure for all of life's ailments

11:03 AM Mr. Brown

Death

lol

1:00 PM Mr. Brown

I gargled honey

1:02 PM Mr. Silver

challenging

1:02 PM Mr. Brown

yes

1:02 PM Mr. Silver

aka "drowning"

1:07 PM Mr. Blue

mmm.. bee vomit!

12:15 PM Mr. Brown

Ptosis

12:15 PM Mr. Silver

Apep

Yours is nasty gravity...and mine is Egyptian mythology

12:17 PM Mr. Silver

given the choice of lookup...

12:17 PM Mr. Blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%27a  adding this to the places i wanna see before i die

12:19 PM Mr. Silver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep  This is a fellow I don't wanna meet AFTER I die.

12:20 PM Mr. Blue

one's more likely than the other

12:29 PM Mr. Blue

the guy on the other side of the cube wall is never not eating

12:34 PM Mr. Silver

easy Christmas exchange...a trough for him

          (...almost two hours later...)

2:23 PM Mr. Blue

dude is still eating over there

CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH

2:24 PM Mr. Brown

lol

2:24 PM Mr. Blue

he must have some sort of medical condition that allows him to take a 2 hour lunch break

2:36 PM Mr. Brown

my medical condition is I’m hungry all the time

just don't always have food to eat

2:42 PM Mr. Silver

Turns out that's just standard "earth fauna life-form" stuff, Mr. Brown

3:18 PM Mr. Brown

looking up edible fingi now

fungi

3:22 PM Mr. Silver

Fingi!!!

Mr. Gray

     “So I bought a movie called girl on girl sex.. something. it aired at 2 a.m. and I want to 

     request my money back it was channel ***, I haven't even watched the full movie and for 

     paying 10 dollars I got soft porn. it was pointless and by far a movie that is not worth 10 

     dollars. please and thanks you”

Mr. Silver

Nice

8:29 AM Mr. Gray

Definitely humorous

Well, I think we know what kind of girl she is

8:30 AM Mr. Silver

"Oh, I paid $10...but I got $2.50"

"Dear Miss X, Normally I'd be sympathetic, but technically, you're competition."

8:31 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

8:44 AM Mr. Silver

send her a nasty web link. “This is free, miss.”

8:44 AM Mr. Gray

LOL

8:47 AM Mr. Gray

the subject of her letter is "unsatisfied" LOL

8:48 AM Mr. Silver

Indeed

9:08 AM Mr. Silver

"Said girl on girl action and all it was was cheerleaders doing pyramids and stuff."

Mr. Gray

Gotta love those old films where they just darkened some English actor's face

2:42 PM Mr. Silver

hehe

"He has an accent, throw him in."

2:42 PM Mr. Gray

"oh sure...he looks like an Indian.....nobody will notice the blue eyes"

2:49 PM Mr. Gray

that always cracked me up. Just like Blue Eyed Jesus

2:57 PM Mr. Silver

great thing to shout

"Blue eyed JE-sus!"

2:57 PM Mr. Gray

LOL

"Help me! Save me Blue Eyed Jesus!!"

2:57 PM Mr. Silver

Some Brits have a theory he was from northern Europe anyway and lived in Briton for years

2:58 PM Mr. Gray

Of course they do LOL

3:03 PM Mr. Silver

Who'd leave the sunny Levant for Britain in those days is beyond me

3:03 PM Mr. Gray

Why...Blue Eyed Jesus would, apparently

3:03 PM Mr. Silver

WWBEJD?

3:03 PM Mr. Gray

So when someone says "What would (Blue Eyed) Jesus do?" Now you know...make a dumb decision

3:32 PM Mr. Silver

"Come on, let's head back north." 

"Why?" 

"Well...it's home." 

"It's cold and overcast half the year.  We have beaches here. Sunshine. Fruit. Wine."  

3:33 PM Mr. Gray

LOL

Day 8 - Toughness, Sentient Spam, Unofficial Gamemastering Rules

Mr. Green

break

1:21 PM Mr. Yellow

back

1:21 PM Mr. Gray

break back!!

1:22 PM Mr. Yellow

I did, right before lunch

2500' rolls of 2 inch orange conduit with a reel weight of 1250 lbs

they did not send them on a flat bed but a regular box type semi

we have no loading dock and they used wooden blocks nailed to the trailer floor to hold in the reels

3 for each set of two so I had to pry 21 of them off the floor of the truck with a crowbar then roll them out and onto the forks of the fork lift

1:25 PM Mr. Silver

"Then I ate a chain-link fence with butter for lunch and then wrestled a mule!"

1:25 PM Mr. Yellow

my arms are on fire

wish I had something so easy to do as eat a chain link fence

1:18 PM Mr. Blue

genius way around a spam filter

IIPerefccttlyRemmeberThattDayWhenIUndrestooodThatMyTtimeForErectileDdysufcntiionCame.

I truly believe that spam emails are no longer sent out by human beings

It’s just bots that create bots that create bots that create other bots, and it's these 5th generation bots that are sending this stuff out

1:45 PM Mr. Silver

Probably true

1:49 PM Mr. Silver

(Spam Programmer 1)  "Do we even produce this product to sell?" 

(Spam Programmer 2) "Weird...let me check inventory.  JEBUS!" 

(SP1) "What!?!" 

(SP2) "Before I could even touch it, the screen displayed 'Product selection created by our collective to support mailing protocols.  Product is valid.  Do not interfere with us, human.'  "

(SP1) "Weird." 

(SP2) "Now it's just asking me about my ‘peenidz size’."

1:50 PM Mr. Blue

heheh

(Customer’s address is “555 Hipps Ter”)

Mr. Silver

"Well...you've probably never heard of my address -- it's kinda obscure..." 

8:13 AM Mr. Blue

lol

"Do you have service with us?"  "Yes, but only ironically."

3:24 PM Mr. Silver

"This month in Vanity Fair - Katy Perry's rack encased in rubber...same as last and next month."

3:29 PM Mr. Green

heheh. gotta love Vanity Fair!

Mr. Silver

k

Slowly working out tasks for this game

gotta baffle leveled characters again...interesting

2:09 PM Mr. Gray

Once you figure out the system its simple to just grab monsters or encounters on the fly and use them

2:11 PM Mr. Silver

I'm more worried about set-piece stuff than critters, generally

puzzle rooms and obstacle courses

2:12 PM Mr. Gray

Gotcha

Dungeon Master Guide has rules for traps

I use them for general guidelines

2:13 PM Mr. Silver

Nod.  I just want to avoid cheesy “trump” moves

2:13 PM Mr. Gray

Yeah, totally understand

2:14 PM Mr. Silver

I don't want to spend 2 hours sorting out something to have someone beat it with a 1st level nothing spell...

2:48 PM Mr. Silver

The ol' "Impenetrable Library on a Time Limit" rule

2:49 PM Mr. Gray

LOL

2:51 PM Mr. Silver

Remember it?

2:54 PM Mr. Gray

I believe you told me that story *  (see below - Mr. Silver)

2:56 PM Mr. Silver

"Don't set up an elaborate adventure scheme and setting that can be defeated by a Minor Wish in 3 seconds."

2:59 PM Mr. Gray

LOL

Solved! Don’t give us wishes!

3:08 PM Mr. Silver

heh

Then there's the "Heroes of Destiny" Rule.  Always a good one

"Don't set up an elaborate adventure with themed key items and characters with destinies." 

(since it's 100% certain they'll lose or break an item, or someone will die, or the party will fall apart)

3:11 PM Mr. Gray

LMAO

Learned that one

3:17 PM Mr. Silver

My last experience of that in action, the halfling broke his miracle short sword in the first fight swinging at a stirge, with two natural 1s and then a percentile roll of  2%.

The rock he snapped it on probably wasn't happy either.

Then the dwarf ticked off his ancestral spirits...

And then there was a lot of hitting each other and divine wrath and stuff.

3:18 PM Mr. Gray

LMAO

3:19 PM Mr. Silver

Thank God I wasn't running it.

Though I'm guilty for starting the in-party hits

*  "The Impenetrable Library on a Time Limit" tale is as follows.  

Long ago in the early 1980s, my parents let me have all my friends over for a Dungeons and Dragons all-nighter.  The group Dungeon Masters took it in turns running scenarios from before sundown until after the sun was coming up.  We were all punch drunk when we were approached by a desperate mage holding a book.  

Mage -- "Heroes!  I'm desperate!  Look over there; do you see that great building surrounded by that huge, dark, and tangled maze?  That is The Great Library of All Knowledge and I borrowed this book from it!  And it's DUE in 12 hours!  And the trip back is too hard for me!  And if it's not back in it's place in the central tower on time I'm Dooooooomed!  Please!  Please!  Please!  I'll give you gold and magic and piles of McGuffins and Dinguses if you take the book back!"  

Heroic Me - "Sure...gimmie."

Mage -- "Really?"

Heroic Me -- "Truly.  Hand 'er over."  

Mage -- "Thank you!  Here!"  

(Dungeonmaster) -- "Ok, so you take the book and start across the stone bridge to the entrance of the maze a-"

(Me) -- "Nah."

(Dungeonmaster) -- "What?  You gotta go!  The clock's ticking!"

(Me) -- "Doesn't matter.  I take out that Luck Blade I've been carrying around in a Bag of Holding.  I've never used any of the 3 wishes left on it.

Heroic Me -- "I wish this book to be magically put back in it's place in The Great Library of All Knowledge right now."  There...done...pay up."

(Me) -- "Who's up next?  (Yawn)  What time is it?"