Sometimes owning a movie about a psychotic pile of shit is enough.......... sometimes

Bah. What's the point of owning movies if you don't watch them? :)

Own it.

Think fast! Do you want to own it, or do you want to watch it?

I need to own this movie

http://www.zombiekeeper.com/reviews/monsturd.html

Jeremy--So movie night is on? I wasn't sure.

*wonders whether Dustin's ever going to post the house rules* Well, we're not allowed to play barbarians, druids, or sorcerors. And obviously not good-aligned chars, especially paladins, although he talked about creating an evil paladinesque class different from the blackguard class. Oh, and we're all from the same house, so our chars will kill eachother offhand due to in-house rivalry rather than interhouse rivalry. *evil grin*

I think we had some rangers (adapted from 3.5), a monk, and Dustin's finally going to have an NPC wizard.

Shatz- Could you bring the DVD for "The House that Dripped Blood..." one more time? I'd like to get a scan of the cover art...

Ok so I forgot that one. Of course, I tend to dislike alignment systems anyhow, so I ignore a lot of that.

Anyone besides Caroline decide what they're playing?

Jeremy--Nuts. I want to kill all those bastards from Malas, they suck monkey balls.

Dustin--Got Net? :-P

Shatzer- I read over those instructions for base-killing one more time. I was wrong. I just talks about Capturing or Destroying NPC Faction Headquarters. Nothing about killing player cities. Sorry...

The exact SRD wording, as I don't have PHB access at the moment, is

"When your character becomes a Cleric, you may choose to have your character serve a specific deity. The cleric's deity influences his alignment, what magic he can perform, his values, and how others see him...the cleric's alignment must be within one step of his deity's, and it may not be neutral unless the deity's alignment is neutral...Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells: A cleric can't cast spells of an alignment opposed to his own or to his deity's."

Well, last time I looked at the rules, it said casting spells against the alignment of your deity was frowned upon. *goes to check exact syntax* I can see the evil clerics casting good spells being rationalized either way, and can definitely see why clerics of good deities aren't allowed to cast evil spells.

Evil Gods/Good Spells: who ever said they didn't? (ok i'm sure a number of DM's have, maybe even Dustin, but IIRC nothing in the rules prohibits it)

As far as rationalization of the ban (if there is one), good and neutral clerics can call on some connection to the powers of holiness which evil clerics lack, without that innate connection, spells such as protection from evil just aren't possible.

John--Go ask Dustin about the "thing" he called a plot. *makes up a better 30-second ending* You wake up Titus; he becomes a god and saves the world from the abyssal dragon; the elves are brought back from the other plane; everyone lives happily ever after. Titus ex machina.

Dustin--Does Cerissa know the low-level spells from the Book of Vile Darkness? *innocent look* Is Knowledge: Monsters a class skill for everyone?

All--You know you have restrictive network admins... when irc is blocked.
I don't really see why evil clerics can't cast any good spells, even spells like "protection from evil". With all the infighting, why wouldn't evil gods allow their followers to use spells that protect followers from eachother? *ponders* Maybe the game designers just did that b/c it was easier...

i keep getting booted too, and I realy dont wanna talk about the game.

Damn I can't stay connected to the server. Guess that means I'm done with Star Wars for tonight

Jeremy--Loot was good.

Caroline and Jeremy--So what happened?

Yeah... :-P at Dustin the "best" part about last night's game was when we started planning the next one. *makes up diabolical plots for her drow character*

Shatz- How was the loot this time through?

The game? Les' just say it would have been better if we'd just not shown up.

No one is posting........ It must be the zombie apocalypse! I'm going home and "shotgun" up. Time for random violence!

So how did the game go last night?

Jeremy & Dustin--I beat Jabba again last night.

You speak from experience?


::suddenly John understands Dustin's employment problems::

Try not wearing them to work one time, and then say that they are overrated.

I think that pants are overrated......

"....zub zub time to work...."

Dustin--I'll ask her first. "....is he dead yet papa Smurf..." Muhahahahahahahahahahaahaha..... read your freakin' email.

John- can u give me Lydda's email adress so i can invite her to the blog?

Dustin--And how exactly are you going to pull that off, without killing the chars or deus ex machina? S k that she can't come, it's been a busy week anyhow. *evil grin* Drow, eh? *digs out old Drow char sheet*

Caroline--I see movie nights continuing. Dusty still has some learning to do....

Dusty--Dude what happened?

Dustin & Jeremy--I'm going to hop a shuttle as soon as I log in tonight and head for my house on Corellia. May stop in Coronet and buy some furniture. Which reminds me Jeremy you need to give me access to your place so I can check out your decorating skillz! If you guys want to run missions or something let me know, otherwise I may just "wander" around a bit.

Well, it comes a time in every campaign when it is time to say goody, this Thursday will be the last session. I would like to keep it to the original characters, no new people are to come this Thursday. Sorry Caroline, that means your friend cant attend this upcoming session. I would like to open up my Thursday slot to anyone who would like to fill it, if I have no takers, then I would like to try and revive my drow campaign, beginning my next available Thursday.

*snickers* So will there even be a movie night when my Tues night class ends next month, or will you three just play StarWars Galaxies 24/7?

S'ok. That should be about the time Dustin shows up anyway... ;)

Jeremy--I have to meet the furnace man tonight. I can still come over, but it won't be until 7:30 or 8:00. Is that okay?

We were owned by Ewoks............. damn

Mmm. Zombie explodination.

Significantly behind in our melodrama and macabre amusement quotas for the day?

Ah Troma.

Where would we be without them?

"If your Wang was a zombie..."

Hey John, say hi to Linda for me. :)

I'm still surprised by how few guys go to the Vagina Monologues, considering the general male obsession with them. ^_^

In honor of me hearing some young ladies practicing for the Vagina Monologes here on campus I pose the following question. "If you Wang was a zombie, what kind of zombie would it be."

Jeremy--Do you really think that they have that many bugs? I mean my expectations are much lower for a MMORPG than it would be for say Temple of Elemental Evil :(

Shats- With all the bugs, if ANYTHING goes wrong it's safe to blame it on SWG.

Jeremy--Cool I was worried that it could be something wrong with my install. So how did it go last night?

Jeremy & Dustin--Call me the crackmeister general. We are going to Best Buy today for lunch so that Matt and Linda (officemate) can buy there copies of Galaxies! ::Droning on:: "one of us...one of us...one of us..."

Shatz- Yeah, I've noticed that about the level-alert system. It tends to get most confused when you've got skills that aren't all leveled at 1,1,1,1. I also advanced in CH during the bantha hunt. I'm at 0, 2,1,1... it ignored be being high enough to level the 0 up to 1, and didn't report till one of my existing L1 skills had enough for L2.

Dustin--Oh yeah before I forget thanks for the rez and the buffs. I have to admit it does make things more fun. So how rich are you now?

Jeremy--So it was more just to say that you have brought one down? The Banthas were fun with such a large group, but I wasn't getting any XP at all, or so I thought. After I logged out and back in all of a sudden I qualified for another level in CH. Odd little bit of programming....

Shatzer - It was neat to see one for the first time, but that was about it. 350k HAM. We finally gor it trapped behind a harvester and just went hammering at it for about 10 minutes or so before it fell. For all the trouble, I got only 2000 Heavy Weapon XP, 200 pistols, and 10 combat. (I got damn near that much from each Bantha we knocked down.)

Nothing impressive at all. Max got the "honor" of looting the kill, for being the team leader and all. (He got nothing.) But he did offer to sell any of us in the group a half-price Kryatt pistol or carbine. (Which are generally way overpriced. You pay +200k on average for a weapon that's only 10% or so better than what a well-experimented job from a Master would be anyway. My 25k Malfunction Pistol does only 20 damage less than a 250k Kryatt Pistol. Rich PvPers go nuts over those last few points, though. Anything for an "edge."

We did get our share of the "harvest." Those who haven't maxed scout got something like 2000xp for harvesting from it, and 450 bone/hide/meat. Unfortunately, the way the resource system works, all resource type on the planet has the same stats, regardless of the creature. So that 450 unit chunk of Kryatt meat was the same low-grade 100-some OQ Carnivore Meat you could harvest off of a Rill.

Jeremy & Dustin-- How did it go last night? Bag any Krayt Dragons? Those things are pretty bad ass! Sorry I had to bail but I wanted to be in NK next time I logged in, and it was getting pretty late.

Nah, he just moved his comp down to uncle Erics and is living there now :P

Hmmmmmmmm............. maybe he is dead. Or maybe he got a job! Nah what am I thinking? He's dead....... :-P

Dustin--Your ass had better be lying dead alongside the road somewhere. I mean leaving Jeremy and I hanging without a phone call or anything again? Time to start looking for my whiffle bat and the rowboat.

Anyone else interested in Feng Shui, the Hong Kong martial arts action-movie roleplaying game? I've heard good things about it from people who've actually played it.

Jeremy--I can't imagine XP giving you issues with cloning. I use ghost here at the College to image all of our systems. Oh yeah the Snipers are the guards. You should see a captain or a warlord go off on someone. It isn't pretty. But when there are 15 or 20 players it can be fun :)

Wow. Dustin can't go a day without SWG. If he looses the use of his only internet connection, he might have to move in early. :)

Shatz- I've visited Fort Tusken before. I saw a few 10k scarry badass "Tusken Snipers" standing at the door, and just turned around and ran.

I probably would have joined you last night, but my hard drive was on the virge of spinning out. The platter skipped three times (hard lock and re-boot) before I could even get into SWG, then it was knocking and freezing up again about every 10 minutes after that. I had the drive out of my case and buried under a stack of cold Mountain Dew cans by the end of the evening. :)

I got the replacement drive in- my first backup didn't take properly, though. Drive just wouldn't boot. So I've got it running another dupe now. If it doesn't take this time, I'm gonna' try a software backup. (Which there is no reason it shouldn't- it's a bit-for-bit cloner. Unless XP is giving me shit with the clone.)

Jeremy--Coolio. There was a lot of smack being thrown back and forth on Saturday, so I'm not surprised. You have to go to Fort Tusken with Dusty and I sometime, it is so much fun. You play until they corner you and you die. Lots of xp and credits to be found.

Jeremy & Dustin--I have Jason vs. Freddy with me for this evening. I also brought Piranaha, just in case.

Dustin--So your mom and dad booting you off the phone lines?

Shatz- No, I'm pretty sure he was talking about the same all-day campaign you were helping to defend against. He jus' didn't really want to admit they got schooled.

As for hacking a city terminal, I dunno. Maybe this is something a Slicer can do.

Wagner has spoken.

:)

Weiss Kreuz is worth watching.

THAT IS ALL.

Jeremy--Last night, being Sunday? Damn I hope they didn't hit us, there was nothing on the guild chat. Plus Dustin and I ran into a couple of our best fighters on Tatooine under Fort Tusken. I'll have to ask tonight and see what happened. A city terminal? Actually Saturday we were just read the names and banning them that way. Can you hack a city terminal? If so that would be fun :) The raid Saturday was supposed to be to kill our Reb NPCs, and they didn't get a one. I would call that a wookie victory (even though there were almost twice as many non-wookie rebs there).

Jeremy & Dustin--So are you guys on Rori still? If so stop by NK, just stay away from the base the turrets may still be up.

freddy vs jason sound good

If I've heard of Weiss Kreuz, I wasn't paying enough attention to remember any details. I may just remember seeing/hearing the name somewhere.

Whee, Pirates.



I get to hear about Streaming Media, Digital Television, Radio Broadcasting, Video Games, eCommerce, Office Tech, VR, and play on the Internet during class Tuesday night.

Movies, yes. Jason v. Freddy is an option. I've got Pirates of the Carribean, and possibly a new Anime series. I need to watch the first episode and see if it's any good first. Weiss Kreuz. I've been told it's a "must see..." but then again, I've heard that about quite a few titles.

Shatz - Kinda funny... we hit Rori for a few minutes after you left last night (before I realized what time it was) and ran into one of the Imps from RLR (or whatever that guild was.) He was trying to recruit for more strikes against New Kashyyk.

It was quite amusing. I asked him how the strike went. He mentioned the fact that his entire city was banned (said you got access to their city terminal and "downloaded" the list of city members. Okay.)

After talking shit for a while, "Yeah... we really whooped on them Wookies in the beginning..." he basically sumed up the raid - "I think we pretty much broke even."

Jeremy & Dustin--Before I forget are we having the movie shindig on Tuesday? If so I have Jason vs. Freddy, plus a couple of other possibilities. Let me know.

Jeremy & Dustin--Holy cow this was a crazy weekend. The player Imps ran wave after wave of attacks at NK this Saturday. They started at 10am an kept it up until after midnight. The mayor spent most of the day city banning every Imp he could see. We city banned over 300 imps, and still they came in big numbers. I don't know who managed to organize such a huge attack, but they must be applauded. Add to that I heard we weren't the only reb city to get hit and it is very impressive. All that being said we didn't loose a single Reb NPC, which was there target, and cleaned out the Imperial NPC base multiple times. We also downed over 20 player ATSTs, as well as several NPC spawned ones. Crazy and way fun.

Jeremy and Dustin--Best Buy at Cuyahoga Falls is hiring Sales Associates. You know you want to work at a place 40 minutes away *snickers*

Wookie Smash?

WOOKIE!

Apparently half the world has decided to write paladin variants, and I didn't even bother to look at the ones on the WoTC boards. Honestly, unless the Dragon variants are really good, I suggest that Dustin has Corellon replace some of Eowyn's abilities with some of the below abilities from The Book of Hallowed Might, lawful spells get changed to chaotic, mount can't be lawful good, etc. After all, the normal paladin abilities and spells still fit with a chaotic good alignment. Maybe Corellon gives Eowyn some kind of vision/dream to account for the changes.

Dragon 310 description that only says it contains alignment-variant paladins. This other page gives the names and alignments of those paladin classes, but I'm having trouble finding the class descriptions on-line. Anarch (Chaotic Neutral), Avenger (Chaotic Good), Enforcer (Lawful Neutral), Incarnate (True Neutral), Sentinel (Neutral Good).

The Book of Hallowed Might suggests some variant paladin abilities that require losing some of the normal paladin abilities (Clerical Domains, Aura of Bless, Summon Good Outsider 1/day, Share Divine Grace with another character, Luck bonus when facing 2+ opponents, followers and cohorts must match alignment)

AEG's Good and Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous also have paladin variants.

Partially 3.5 variant Paladin classes

The worst (and very funny) Paladin/Avenger variant

Jeremy--Tentacles? Bladed chains? The Japenese are some messed up people........

OH GOD CAROLINE INVOKED THE SPIRIT OF DAN!!!!!!!!!!!!


no good can come from this.....

Dustin: And this is why you will FAIL.

Yeah, just go ask Dan. I'm sure he could come up with some D&D rules that no one else ever wanted to know.

Dustin - Magic, Dustin. There are quite a few spells that could pull it off. Anything from the classic Polymorph, to more exotic spells that would result in the Anime-like tentacle-rape with a series of bladed chains that erupt from the shadows. Of course, you have too little experience with spellcasters to know this...

Dustin--Okay first of all there are artifical devices you aren't taking into consideration. Secondly you could also suffer from some awful chaffing. Doofus ;-)

ya know all this talk about skull fucking reminded me of somthing, i realy dont think that leons char would mind getting scullfucked by jeremys character, especially sience jeremy's character is a girl and there would be no damage to the eye or the socket, there would just be a little grinding sensation, and he would wake up with a little pink eye, or should i say red eye.

April? Maybe I could go then... *muses*

Morality is always based on who the person prays to, or whether they pray at all.

Dustin--First weekend of April.

Jeremy--Dark ages? Look at the crusades or the inquisition? Morality was based upon who the person prayed to. So I would have to ask if they worship your diety or not? 300 LG orphans? Hmmmmmmmm......... Neverland ranch, I mean they would already be "damaged" :)

Caroline--Ear Wax does have more "staying" power, but is harder to clean up.

Eyes definitely seem like a better idea than ears. Too much wax otherwise. Somehow I think your character would die if you tried though. :) I spose the orphans could be created by killing all their parents, but there still wouldn't be 300 lawful good ones...

"And what do you do with witches? Burn! *echoed by crowd* And what do you burn apart from witches? More witches!"

Shatz- The eye, of course. Popped eye juice is natures lubricant. And I still say it would be worth two alignment levels- one for each. I understand that in, y'know... MODERN times it's quite common for a respected member of law enforcement, politics, or the clergy to get away with skull-fucking a few hundred people. But this is the dark ages- morality was a bit more black-and-white back then. Dark, and cold. And they used to burn witches just to keep warm.

Besides, where are we going to find three-hundred LG orphans?

John when is the con?

Flesh to Stone->Rock to Mud->Purify Food and Drink. Drink Water. Much better idea, although not originally mine.
No comments on how the literal spell descriptions don't allow that to work.

He doesn't have to fall much; he just has to stop being lawful good. *evil grin*

Jeremy--Okay actually I made a small error in my last post. I need to clarify a few things. Would that be thru the eye hole or the ear hole? It makes a difference :-P

Jeremy--Alright that was out of line. You should never skull fuck anyone until they are dead, not just sleeping. Then to animate a "gooey" corpse, geeze I'm all for using natural resources. Though if you should at least use some portal to the elemental plain of water to "hose" them off first I could agree with that. There are some things that just aren't done! And another thing I don't for a minute agree that skull fucking a party member would neccessarily make you skip two whole alignement levels. I mean maybe skull fucking 2 or 3 hundred lawful good orphans, perhaps....... :)

I wasn't grumbling about Dustin not killing us. I was commenting on his request to John for wizard help and Leon's response.

Leon & Caroline - If you two are so upset that Dustin didn't pull off a Total Party Kill, I'll gladly have my paladin skull-fuck the two of you in your sleep, then animate your corpses to carry my luggage. If it'll really cheer you up. It would be a nice way to really seal the whole "fallen" thing, and that way I don't have to waste time worring about dealing with any of those annoying Chaotic Good and Neutral alignments on the way down.

Honestly, I've never seen a group bitch for this long because they DIDN'T fuckin' die. He only killed 3/4 of the party, and TKOed over half of those with the first spell.

If you're that upset he didn't kill you- fine. Make a new character, or just quit. I'm already tired of hearing about it...


Shatzer & Dustin - I doubt this seminar will last more than an hour. I'll see you in the galaxies around 8.

Cleveland isn't that far from here... *grumblesigh at lack of time* But I have an exam and a paper next Tuesday.
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Preliminary fall schedule's out. One of the courses I have to take is on Thursday nights (Actually two of the courses I have to take are on Th nights. They're trying to move one, but I will have to take a Th course.) Two that I'm practically required to take are on Monday and Wednesday nights. Dustin?

Caroline--It is a monster movie con in Cleveland. Pretty cool stuff.

John--*blinks* Con where/when? Not that I can go anyhow... *sigh*

Dustin--Oh yeah since we have no movie tonight maybe we can go hunting in galaxies.

Jeremy--Good luck at the seminar. I will have to put together another box of stuff for you. If I get a chance I'll drop it by Saturday (normal time 1 ish?). Let me know if this will work for you. I will start to work on the basement again. I need the cash money for my monster movie con.

Dustin--That reminds me does your no job having butt still want to go (irregardless of how that sounded I was looking forward to you going.). You need some more "zombie" education, so that you can maybe someday be as cool as me (I know it is a lot to ask, but I believe in you). :) It looks like about 100 bucks for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. That would cover you portion of the room, con tickets, and food. I eat really cheap at these things. Let me know asap!

Leon--Exactly. Dustin doesn't know (enough of) the spells or the magic feats or anything else magicy. I think he also toned stuff (saves if nothing else) down so he didn't kill us all automatically. About the "hit the cleric first" thingy, that is definitely a default/smart response, but I can see hitting the wizard (and a larger # of the party) too, since he was a wizard himself and understood those capabilities.

Jeremy--Maybe they're boxes of valuable rocks. Ah well, money is money. No luck on Tech4 thingy?

No movie tonight.

The only promising lead off of Woosters pathetic "Job Faire" has some seminar tonight at 6:30p where they explain the position in greater detail. Some expantion of Citi-corp where we fill out investment strategy interviews for people. Sounds about as exciting as box of rocks...


Shatzer- I thought you put your stuff in my apartent? :) (BTW- Most all your stuff is sold.)

Jeremy--Houses are fun. You need to get one, it is somewhere to put your stuff (a la George Carlin).

Jeremy & Dustin--Is tonight on? If so what flicks do we have on the "schedule"?

The Deadlands game went well. The evil beast that was raiding the herds is no more, although the party was quite distressed to note that upon death it seems to have somehow become a normal wolf. (Evil Laughter).


The real problem with Dustin's mage was a lack of magical defenses that should have been prepared. My spells are good. They are not THAT good. Even more important, lack of a serious response after I nuked him the first time. He really should have switched targets, that would most likely have finished the fight right there. I hate to say it, but rule number uno for smart villains is almost always HIT THE CLERIC FIRST, or at least close to it. Admittedly, he'd seen what the paladin can do, and the cleric hadn't really cut loose before except with anti-undead spells. Mostly it's just little tricks of the trade that he was missing. A 34 level wizard can have feats that will allow him to cast a spell of any level up to 9 as a free action (without special preparation) and use at least two of those quickened spells per round. He can easily have free elemental substitution (not that that was a problem) and absurd saving throw DC's (OK, that part Dustin got right) by taking a few levels of archmage.

Shatzer- No problems here.

Caroline--Trogdore has his own bungalow in the scenic town of New Kashykk. Therefore the furniture.

John--Chairs? Huh?

Woo Hoo Trogdore has a pair of chairs in his living room now! They go nicely with the decor :)

Jeremy--Have you been having any problems staying connected to Galaxies. I keep losing connection. Real pain, started yesterday.