Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 "It's not dead yet." --- obligatory parody of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Usually a topic has to be "dead" for a few months to be considered dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 You people are far too iffy about calling things dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: People You people are far too iffy about calling things dead. It's not dead, it's just... pining for the fjords! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer "It's not dead yet." --- obligatory parody of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Usually a topic has to be "dead" for a few months to be considered dead. Could we say that this topic just has a flesh wound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Too bad that's not any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Well, this aeon is already pretty strange, so at least we're doing our part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 If death dies, do you think I could have its stuff? —Alorael, who's pretty sure it has all the best souvenirs. And, to be honest, it's got millennia of loot from killing just about everything. Some of that has to be better equipment than he's using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slariton Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 I killed Death on a MUD sometime in the early 90's. It didn't drop anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2 arcade video games allowed you to fight deaths which sucked health from your characters. One time the guy emptying the change from the machine left in 40 free game lifes for us and we went after the deaths on one level to be rewarded with the line, "I've never seen such valor." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 According to the first edition Dungeon Master's Guide, a Deck of Many Things contains a magical card that may summon a hostile "minor death". The rules up to that point had never mentioned "deaths" of any kind as monsters, but I felt that this detail went beyond mere editorial oversight, and partook of failure to grasp a basic concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Well, the French might disagree with you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 It's not a deck of that many things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slariton Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Also, it's a deck of many things, not a d-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 A major death is like a minor death, but it can kill you twice. —Alorael, who cannot resist the compulsion: "Decked 'em? Damn near killed 'em!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slariton Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 ``PEOPLE ARE CHEAP and their memories are full of holes they can never mend. How many things must be done that we forget forever, to sustain the little we remember forever. We all forget our everyday lives. In my case it was all the furniture I've dusted, day in day out, all the dishes that had to be washed. Like everyone else I sat down to eat every day, and like everyone else I know all this without really remembering it, as if it had happened in a space without weather, either good or bad. Even the pleasure I've had became a space without weather, and though my gratitude for what was alive is still with me, the names and features that once meant pleasure and even love to me have faded more and more, vanished into a glass gratitude that has lost its content. Empty glasses, empty glasses. And yet, if not for the emptiness and all that I've forgotten, the unforgettable could not have come into being... With the forgotten we feed time, we feed death, but the unforgettable is death's gift to us. In the moment of receiving it we are still here where we happen to be, but at the same time we are there, where the world falls headlong into darkness. For the unforgettable is a piece of the future, a piece of timelessness given to us in advance...'' -- Hermann Broch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 "Fortunately, your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. With All dead, there's generally only one thing to do..." -- Miracle Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Deaths for deaths sake. Wait a minute...If some one kills death, does that mean since hes not here to take us away, we cant die?!? --Jumps out the top of 70 storie building...and lives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton --Jumps out the top of 70 storie building...and lives? You'll want to make sure you're immune to injury before you do that, otherwise ouch. Dikiyoba would rather Death take out Injury and Pain so that insane stunts ensue. But only for a few days, and then Resurrection or Rebirth should bring them back. We wouldn't want to get too used to living without them, since they probably serve some vital purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton Uchiha, rebel servile. Deaths for deaths sake. Wait a minute...If some one kills death, does that mean since hes not here to take us away, we cant die?!? --Jumps out the top of 70 storie building...and lives? You should read Pratchett's Reaper man, that should answer that question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 There have been people who've survived falls at terminal velocity before, and ~200m probably isn't enough to get you there. I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to survive a 70 story fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 It's very easy, actually. Just jump off a 71-story building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing. That's why Douglas Adams explained flying as falling and missing the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing. That's why Douglas Adams explained flying as falling and missing the ground. Douglas Adams' explanation doesn't have anything to do with avoiding death, as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to survive a 70 story fall. I'm going to jump. If I don't survive, I'm blaming it on you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton Uchiha, rebel servile. Wait a minute...If some one kills death, does that mean since hes not here to take us away, we cant die?!? You can't kill death. Something like this would happen. Not pretty when death is on the line. Never mess with a Sicilian when death is on the line! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Originally Posted By: Master1 Not pretty when death is on the line. Never mess with a Sicilian when death is on the line! That's almost as bad as getting involved in a land war in Asia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 No more rhyming now, I mean it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Anybody want a peanut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Oh come on! this thread is going to go dead! if we keep spamming, and keep on ramming, Its not going to end so well mel! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Sure, another person trying to claim spam leads to topic locking. You know what? I ain't buying it. Sure, it's what the mods want you to think, but they've got they're own reasons for locking. I've figured it out. I can't say it here, man, but don't fall for it. Don't eat the Kool-Aid! —Alorael, who does not trust that the setup was worth the payoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I'm positive I already made a kool-aid drinker joke earlier in the thread. The setup hardly counts if the payoff was already used... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slariton Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 In before the crock. Of too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 15, 2011 Author Share Posted July 15, 2011 To lock or not to lock, that is the question. Whether tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous posters, or to take up arms against a sea of spammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Et tu, Slarte? Thus fall Kool-Aid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Wait what? Are we talking about shakespear now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Beware the Aids of March. ... Wait, that didn't come out like I meant it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slariton Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton Uchiha, rebel servile. Wait what? Are we talking about shakespear now? http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/slartyvsdesk/342173 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 You should bring that comic back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slariton Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 I may, someday, but if I do, that will truly be a harbinger of the end times. Retrioactivity is in the air for UBB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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