When:Monday!
Where? Cimerora
Who? Anyone 35+
What? Roman beatings
Why? Because we can! (Also xp/notice/shards.)
 Being back and just having been informed that ITF is the wst I'd like to run at least one on Monday, my times are flexible so jot yer name down and if we have enough intrest try to get one going round 5-6 mountain time.7-8 EST. If that is too late for too many people feel free to give suggestions.
Update:Thus far we have 3 hardy souls for roman beatings. Do we have another 3-5 contestants?

...by stealing a Monster Manual illustration for the cover of his most recent newsletter.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

How goes the "War on Drugs" in Fenspace?
Tobacco, ethanol, and caffeine seem pretty acceptable.
The various 'smart' drugs?  (Modafinil, Methylphenidate (Ritalin), Racetam, even Omega-3)
How about MDMA (Ecstacy), Cannabis, LSD?
We know about Thionite...
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

I really hate batches of ficlets posted as a 'series' instead of an onmibus collection, and that's EXACTLY what the drabble perpetrators will be choking the Latest Stories list with all efting month...

Well, joke's on them since I don't even bother if words
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

I'm seeing ads creeping into text all around the forums here. It looks like a link, but it's got two underlines and when you mouse over it, a little window pops up with some ad or another. This also isn't just limited to post text, too. Just about any text that isn't already a link is viable to be ad-ified. A few examples are the 'online' in the "Who's online" list, "Forum" at the top of the general list, and words in the board descriptions.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

So, for various reasons we know that a lot of old style aircraft have been converted into fen areospace capable.
The Roughriders, even after the war, in fact seem to continue that trend.
Which lead me to thinking.  There seem to be 2 main types of combatants during the war years that appear 'on screen' to date.  Fen vehicles that have been weaponised, or 'large construction' heavy 'warships'.  But almost nothing in between, which is surprising.  Ben Rhoades, in particular, with his manic blue hair adaptation of airfraimes of all sorts seems like the type that might come up with something like this:

Of course I can mostly see it being used during the war, and mostly only as a 'Door Knocker'; designed to strafe and suppress exterior defenses (with extreme predjudice!) while the busses loaded with marines make their ingress?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

I'm posting this here specifically because the subject is sensitive to some people, not because it's particularly political... unless you count the results of sucking up to a BNF when they obviously fucked up to be particularly political.
http://whatever.scalzi.co...eadercon-harassment-etc/
The irony is that the resulting firestorm from them trying to be nice to someone who was "showing remorse" (I'm going to go have a fit of deeply bitter giggles just from typing that) has done far more to his reputation than a permaban would ever have done. Literally half the first page of hits from Google are links to blog postings about the incident, and there's already a significant number of BNFs that have heard about the incident, including obviously one John Scalzi.
ReaderCon is also reaping the "benefits" of their actions, with again literally half the first Google page being links to blog postings regarding the incident. Pretty much all of it for them is that they basically "bent" a policy that was a "one size fits all" at the moment it was supposed to be applied, which anyone with a lick of legal sense can tell you is never, ever, ever a good idea. You apply it, then you amend it for later incidents. You don't amend at the moment. There is a distinct chance that they might very well not have a ReaderCon for Walling to return to in three years.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Issue 24 introduces Martial Combat and Martial Assault as free-to-VIP secondaries for Blasters and Dominators

Quote:Martial Combat (blaster secondary)
•Chi Push (repel followed by knockback (cool new animation)
•Storm Kick (melee)
•Dragon Kick (melee)
•Dragon's Tail (PBAoE melee)
•Burst of Speed (AoE self TP)
•Reach for the Limit (Build up auto power—Chance for +dam and +ToHit on every power)
•Reaction Time (toggle—+absorb over time, +revocery, -move on enemy; 10 seconds of +speed on toggle off)
•Inner Will (self heal and ,ez break—only unsable under 50% end or health or when mezzed)
•Throw Sand (cone foe stun)

Martial Assault (secondary for Dominators)
•Shuriken Throw (has a new animation)
•Thunder Kick (melee—MA port)
•Trick Shot (chain power—shuriken bounces between targets)
•Spin Kick (front facing cone like the incarnate power without the teleport)
•Envenomed Blades (build up power; adds toxic damage to all attacks for a time)
•Dragon's Tail (PBAoE melee)
•Caltrops
•Masterful Throw (snipe; chance for DoT damage)
•Explosive shuriken (single target with chance for splash DoT)

Gore Vidal has passed away.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

KnK / Prototype crossover update.
(Some kind of lion-hybrid gets infected)
http://forums.nrvnqsr.com...K-Prototype-Crossover%29