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Most civilian craft that escaped the destruction of the Twelve Colonies were at the rally point set by President Roslin. However, out on the fringes of the
colonies, another rally point was broadcast. The smugglers, pirates and fugitives that congregated in and around Hera and the outer reaches of the colonies
maintained a certain 'honour among thieves,' and kept their own broadcast codes, which allowed those outside the law to communicate without the
authorities being able to figure out what they were saying. Sure, the authorities would break every code eventually, but the codes changed every few months,
often in ways that were designed to trick the authorities into believing that a previous code was still being used. It was in this smugglers' code that
the second rally point was broadcast.




I want you to help me build the fleet of ships that responded to this broadcast. I've given a few examples below of the types of suggestions that I'm
looking for, but I'd like to set a few additional guidelines as well:




- This is for a campaign that runs parallel to the main BSG story, but for the most part, won't intersect with it.


- All suggestions should be for the sort of ship that would have been able to decode the broadcast; in other words, ships crewed by people from the
underworld and the fringes of society. Think more Firefly than standard BSG.


- No Battlestars, battleships, hijacked experimental military superships, etc. I want this to be a campaign where the PCs have to survive with only their
wits and don't have the option of going head-to-head with a cylon basestar.

As something that had escaped my notice, I thought it might be wise to make note than next weekend begins another Double XP weekend. Just in case it had escaped you as well:

The time is nigh, begin your planning!
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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

I can't quite recall (nor find a list of) all the (real) rules for the Death Notes; in particular, I'm trying to remember if there were any limits on
the causes of death one can specify. The reason I ask is this: picture a wielder writing any of these as a cause of death for a victim:

•Vaporized by atomic blast

•Airborne Ebola

•Torn apart by zombies (could be a brief crossover with Romero series/Resident Evil/28 Days Later/etc.)

and the one that was the root of the idea:

•Disintegrated by alien invaders

--The Twisted One

Because you can't use the term "black hole" anymore - from The Dallas Morning News:

Quote: Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has
become lost in the office.




Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become
a "white hole."




That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.




Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster's, is perhaps "the invisible remains of a
collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape."

My ISP, Qwest, seems to have a problem with their DNS servers. They say people are having trouble because of a recent microsoft update, but my system
doesn't auto-install updates, and when I changed the other systems on my network to use an open DNS server, things started working properly again.

However, the machine with the internal modem still has problems. I changed the DNS addresses in the appropriate connection's options in Network and Dial-Up
Connections, but when I test with nslookup, it's still using the original server.

Is there some other setting somewhere else that I need to change instead? I'm using Windows 2000.

-Morgan.

"It's 106 AUs to Crystal Tokyo, we've got a full tank of handwavium, half a pack of Pocky, it's dark, and we're wearing fukus."

"Hit it."

Or, what happens when a couple of well-meaning Fen are mistaken for boskonians?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Can I has name for Dark Pooky, pls?

Actually, I want to check with you. I'm at a fork; I can go the "Smoked it like a Havana cigar." route, or I can go a different route. If
you're still interested in having Dark Pook as part of Onyx's backstory, cool beans, just let me know.

(For the record, I'd still like it. The idea of her having her own personal tormentor intrigues me.)

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

If you've run into some kind of weirdness with the board that you can't get around, go to this URL and type in a description of the problem:

http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/help/me]%[link=http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/help/me]http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/help/me]

This fires off a help ticket to my Admin/Support account for the boards which I can then escalate to Yuku support.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Bob... as the topic title says, the forums is eating posts - see Logan's thread asking for build advice in the Legendary Forum. I've noted the behavior
too.

Help!!

Shader

We discussed doing Posi's TF as a 4-man (max) group with our dark characters. That'd be me on Onyx Blast, Ankhani on Ennyn, and Sweno on Smouldering
Decay, I believe.

First off, we need a fourth. I'm willing to attempt it without a tank, but I'll bow to the wisdom of anyone who has completed it before if they say
I'm being stoopid there. Dunno about the rest of ya. So, if anyone wants to volunteer... (hint hint)

Second, we need a time. I'm open most weekends and I don't mind making it a multi-night run; Tuesdays and Thursdays are my best gaming days.

And last: if there's enough interest, I'm willing to do multiple Posi runs IF we keep the team size down. I'm not -- repeat, NOT -- attempting
another 8-man Positron TF. Swear I'll shoot myself first. Ugh.

So, let's hammer it all out. Here's the thread I said I'd start.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs