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Post by The Adventurer's Almanac » Fri May 22, 2020 4:19 pm

More like my 'position was eliminated', but yeah, I was talking about myself. Corporate life has given me a very mercenary attitude towards working. I sure feel fired, though.
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Post by OgreBattle » Fri May 22, 2020 9:56 pm

Birds pooping on my balcony
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Post by Zaranthan » Sat May 23, 2020 3:36 am

> Mord wrote:It's a physical contact thing. Transubstantiation is a touch-range Transmutation spell that requires ritual casting. Holy water blessing is also touch-range but can be done as a full-round action.

I was still a practicing Catholic when I heard somebody tell a joke about blessing the entire ocean. I asked my youth group advisor, my priest, and his backup priest, and was surprised to hear them all give me the same answer as the joke: yes, you CAN turn the entire ocean into holy water with a single ceremony, but then millions of people and fish would be committing sacrilege by swimming in it (the backup priest needed some prompting on this last point, but he agreed).

> Koumei wrote:...is the dead guy posthumously at fault for his own death and, due to the felony murder law, his own murderer?

> hyzmarca wrote:A palace made out of poop is much more impressive than one made out of gold. Stinkier, but more impressive. One is an ostentatious display of wealth. The other is a miraculous engineering feat.

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Post by Prak » Sat May 23, 2020 3:44 am

> Zaranthan wrote:

> > Mord wrote:It's a physical contact thing. Transubstantiation is a touch-range Transmutation spell that requires ritual casting. Holy water blessing is also touch-range but can be done as a full-round action.

> I was still a practicing Catholic when I heard somebody tell a joke about blessing the entire ocean. I asked my youth group advisor, my priest, and his backup priest, and was surprised to hear them all give me the same answer as the joke: yes, you CAN turn the entire ocean into holy water with a single ceremony, but then millions of people and fish would be committing sacrilege by swimming in it (the backup priest needed some prompting on this last point, but he agreed).

I think that last point would be somewhat contentious. Some people consume blessed water and some others regard these people as pious.
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Post by Thaluikhain » Sat May 23, 2020 12:20 pm

If you were in a plane, could you turn a raincloud into holy water? Or fog?
(If I ever write a terrible vampire Jack the Ripper story, the latter might be important to know)
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Post by Foxwarrior » Sat May 23, 2020 5:48 pm

If you turn fog into holy water, and then people cough in the fog, do those people go to hell?
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Post by Stahlseele » Sat May 23, 2020 7:34 pm

Is there a limit to how much you can turn into holy water?
I am now imagining trying to lure vampires into a backyard with a prepared swimming pool or to a fountain or something . .
And eh, if all else fails, there's always Water-Balloons, breakable bottles and super soakers ._.
No, go away, screw your emo vampire cool shit, i wanna burn faces with bright neon coloured weaponry and swimming pools!
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Prak » Sat May 23, 2020 8:08 pm

Or, blessing the water reservoir of a bar's sprinkler system.
Hey, it worked in Constantine with demons.
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> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by erik » Sat May 23, 2020 9:49 pm

> Foxwarrior wrote:If you turn fog into holy water, and then people cough in the fog, do those people go to hell?

They go to Ravenloft.
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Post by Iduno » Sat May 23, 2020 11:06 pm

> Stahlseele wrote:Is there a limit to how much you can turn into holy water?
> I am now imagining trying to lure vampires into a backyard with a prepared swimming pool or to a fountain or something . .
> And eh, if all else fails, there's always Water-Balloons, breakable bottles and super soakers ._.
> No, go away, screw your emo vampire cool shit, i wanna burn faces with bright neon coloured weaponry and swimming pools!

It appears to be one full "thing" of water, if oceans are reasonable. SO I guess you could define it as "everything."
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Post by Thaluikhain » Sun May 24, 2020 2:47 am

Maybe someone did that. Might explain why we don't hear about vampires so much these days.
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Post by Orca » Sun May 24, 2020 3:26 am

I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.
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Post by Meikle641 » Sun May 24, 2020 3:47 am

> Orca wrote:I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.

Bless water, which evaporates and enters the water cycle. Therefore, I suppose one could do that as a(n indirect) way to bless the rains down in Africa.
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Post by Thaluikhain » Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:14 pm

So...at my workplace, they are going to make about 10% of us redundant next week due to covid. Now, they are going to look at stats and numbers and things first, and while it'd be bragging to say I was the best, it'd not be bragging to say I'm not in the worst 10%, so my job should be safe, but still...
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Post by The Adventurer's Almanac » Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:20 pm

They cut 10% of my company, too.
It was not an evenly distributed 10% where each office decimated themselves, though. That probably would have been preferable. They're more likely to just shut down an entire branch site, if your workplace is big enough.
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Post by K » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:43 pm

> Meikle641 wrote:

> > Orca wrote:I bless...the atmosphere. That's one thing isn't it? And a fair bit of it is water.

> Bless water, which evaporates and enters the water cycle. Therefore, I suppose one could do that as a(n indirect) way to bless the rains down in Africa.

Catholic holy water is pure water, ritual, and addition of ingredients. Water and salt for blessings, water and oil for baptisms, and water and ashes for consecrating churches.
So no, you can't bless the water cycle. Probably not the ocean either, because of fish piss.
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Post by Thaluikhain » Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:51 pm

It's next week, and I wasn't one of the people made redundant, so there's that.
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Post by RobbyPants » Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:36 pm

It looks like the Canadian/US border closure has been extended another month. While it’s sad that I’ll have less time to visit my relatives, I honestly have to say I feel safer up here.
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Post by RobbyPants » Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:37 pm

I guess I can take the cardboard to the dump later...
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Post by Stahlseele » Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:43 am

That . . does not look like a legit dumping ground to me . .
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> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Krusk » Thu Jun 18, 2020 3:01 pm

I feel much safer up here // pictures of wild bears.
That's got to say something
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Post by RobbyPants » Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:35 pm

> Krusk wrote:I feel much safer up here // pictures of wild bears.
> That's got to say something

Honestly, I feel safer up here. Once you get out of the big cities, the pandemic has barely spread up here. There have been less than a dozen cases in the "nearby" town in the past three months. Apart from maybe two new cases that might have happened recently, they've all been resolved.
That, and the PM isn't threatening to turn the military on its citizens.
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Post by OgreBattle » Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:32 am

How's the food
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Post by Krusk » Fri Jun 19, 2020 12:42 pm

i get you. I've got bears near me too. And the military marching around cities and a lunatic with nukes in a pandemic hotspot.
So just bears sounds real nice right now
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Post by RobbyPants » Fri Jun 19, 2020 1:58 pm

> OgreBattle wrote:How's the food

Not bad. I've been becoming a better cook since we moved up here in 2018.
The food is a bit more expensive because of how remote the town is. That, and currently, we're not even driving to town (normally 2 1/2 hours each way), so we're having groceries flown up. On the plus side, since the pandemic started, the band has been covering costs for the charter to fly up the groceries. On the downside, I can't easily get booze shipped up here. I think the road to town is currently open, but I don't really feel like a five-hour round trip and making my family self-isolate for 14 days just to get some beer.
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