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Good grief... Thats it. Just good grief.

payn said:

Good grief... Thats it. Just good grief.

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Did you finally realize Lucy is just never going to let you kick that football?

trappedslider said:

when all else fails...take them all with you throws bag of holding into Portable Hole

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Back in the day, the party was supposed to find a Staff (Staff of the Magi w/ some extra bells and whistles) and a Stone to perform a Ritual to summon the Big Bad. Being a D&D party, of course we completely skipped the section of the quest where we would have gotten the Stone that would have weakened the demon enough for us to beat it.
So now the party's gonna get wiped. Only three of us are still standing - everyone else is down or dead. As our last fighter prepares to make one last suicide run at the demon, the wizard gets pimp-slapped into the wall and falls at my thief's feet.
So my thief grabs the Staff and runs over to the altar, puts his hands through the concealed slots in his cloak to hopefully make it look kind of like a robe, and does his best to chant stuff that sounds like he's completing the Ritual. The DM knows me. He knows my shenanigans. He smiles.
When the demon breaks off slaughterizing the remains of the poor fighter to charge at the thief, I ask the DM if I can make a Use Magic Item roll to break the Staff...
The DM doesn't even hesitate - I don't think he ever actually looked at my roll...
We went out like GODS that day.

trappedslider said:

"Is your cleric running out of healing spells?, No problem...we can come and heal..for a price!"

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Its basically the fantasy version of some of the medical services you see in Shadowrun and Cyberpunk.

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Lost it in a work call. Probably not for the best?

TFW when the temp has gone up 23 degrees since this morning when I took my daughter to daycare, but it still hasn't hit 20 degrees (F).

FrogReaver said:

Why are there no werewolf vampires

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Because they're both plague analogs.

prabe said:

Because they're both plague analogs.

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More specifically, werewolves stand in for our societal discomfort regarding the mentally ill (lunatics) and vampires stand in for our societal discomfort with brazen (often, but not always queer) sexuality

Gradine said:

More specifically, werewolves stand in for our societal discomfort regarding the mentally ill (lunatics) and vampires stand in for our societal discomfort with brazen (often, but not always queer) sexuality

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nah

Gradine said:

More specifically, werewolves stand in for our societal discomfort regarding the mentally ill (lunatics) and vampires stand in for our societal discomfort with brazen (often, but not always queer) sexuality

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I can see those, and I'm not going to argue all that hard, but both of them have deep roots as contagion analogues. (Yes, both mental illness and queerness have been perceived as contagious at points.) I think werewolves as the evil inside us and vampires as the evil outside us work at least as well, at least in horror fiction--though I'm emphatically not saying mental illness or queerness are "evil," here, just that they can do or mean different things.