Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by AsenRG

Kashi seems like the hot property, then! What's the going rate for buying a villa there, did you bother asking?
Also, what is special about the inhabitants?



But does it also have enough N to be breathable?
My players would ask that, funny enough, being trained as biologist does that to people. And they'd only remove their helmets after a full spectral analysis!

The locals on Kashi are all machine intelligences, and don't take kindly to unauthorized visitors. Communicating with them was possible - on the order of talking to your vacuum cleaner - but proved 'difficult'. Gettine a villa was not an option; the moon has no atmosphere, and hard vacuum plays havoc with my asthma.

Helmets? Spectral analysis? Must be nice; all we had was sticking Origo out the hatch to see if he'd turn blue...

Originally Posted by Greentongue

Ooh, the pain! The humiliation! The hemorrhoids!
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And by today's Internet standards, it's both pretty tame and pretty low-key. But, to us fans of Republic serials, it was howlingly funny.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Helmets? Spectral analysis? Must be nice; all we had was sticking Origo out the hatch to see if he'd turn blue...

Which, we must confess, was fairly amusing in its own right...

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

You know, I still don't know if Phil ever saw that romp (where a bunch of SF fans make off with a perfectly legit porn film and turn it into an epic - may of them would go on to do a little confection called "Star Wars") and modeled dear old Turshanmu on Dr. Flexi Jerkoff. We will never know, I think.

I'll betcha, my General, that the youngsters on this forum have never heard of this movie, let alone actually seen it. Ah, the days of our youth, gone like dust on the wind...

If this one is part of said "youngsters", Uncle, don't bet anything you can't easily and remorselessly part with...
If not, well, you might stand a chance, but Flesh Gordon was well-known in my high-school.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

The locals on Kashi are all machine intelligences, and don't take kindly to unauthorized visitors. Communicating with them was possible - on the order of talking to your vacuum cleaner - but proved 'difficult'. Gettine a villa was not an option; the moon has no atmosphere, and hard vacuum plays havoc with my asthma.

Helmets? Spectral analysis? Must be nice; all we had was sticking Origo out the hatch to see if he'd turn blue...

Oh, bad climate and too strict law enforcement, then. Alas, for it sounds like a nice, orderly place with low criminality...

I admit I was talking about more general SF games, though, like Traveller and the like.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Which, we must confess, was fairly amusing in its own right...

Of that, Glorious General, we have no doubt!

Originally Posted by Telarus

Hahaha, maybe not all of them, but the 90s highschool Theater group from Kona Hawaii that I hung out with had some "odd" interests. Also my first long-term gaming group.

You'd appreciate this, then: http://www.oglaf.com

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Which, we must confess, was fairly amusing in its own right...

Mostly, I think, because he was always so eager to be the first one out the hatch, no matter where we were. 'Spirit of Discovery', and all that; then he'd fall back into the cabin asphyxiated or full of sharp pointy objects, and we'd know not to go outside. Happened multiple times over the years; it never seemed to phase him that he was going to take a lot of damage the moment he popped out the hatch...

Originally Posted by AsenRG

If this one is part of said "youngsters", Uncle, don't bet anything you can't easily and remorselessly part with...
If not, well, you might stand a chance, but Flesh Gordon was well-known in my high-school.

Oh, bad climate and too strict law enforcement, then. Alas, for it sounds like a nice, orderly place with low criminality...

I admit I was talking about more general SF games, though, like Traveller and the like.

Of that, Glorious General, we have no doubt!

It was a metaphor; I figured you were educated.

It was quiet and clean, I'll give it that.

I assumed so; I was making a joke.

It really was; you'd have howled with laughter!

The bronchial infection is getting better, thanks to the mighty and powerful antibiotics and the even more powerful cough medicine; I'm feeling almost normal.

Through a series of fortunate events, I would up with what I had been told was an old Panasonic 42" LCD screen, but which turned out to be a pretty-much brand-new Panasonic 42" high-end plasma screen. Spent the day installing it in the game room and integrating it into the room's sound system, and I have to say that I am very pleased with the upgrade. The Sony 40" LCD screen that had been holding the fort has now reverted to the role for which I bought it some three years ago, a replacement for the LCD projector I used for my RPG game at Gary Con three years ago; I did like projecting the map up on the wall, but an active screen was what was needed. The Sony is a far more capable stand-alone 'portable' unit then the Panasonic is, so we come out ahead on all fronts.

Ran the Korda brothers' "Thief of Baghdad" for the test signal, and it looks great - as good as ever, and still a heap of fun and useful information and details for the GM and players. Evil doing at the palace, beautiful princesses, mighty sorcery, ships, flying carpets, the All-Seeing Eye, giant spiders, and genie who steals the show. I can see why Phil liked it...