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Let the nightmares begin . . .

Started by Black Vulmea, March 04, 2014, 09:10:57 PM

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Black Vulmea

March 04, 2014, 09:10:57 PM
Well, I know how my next post-apocalypse setting will come about: "A 30,000-Year-Old Virus Has Been Revived from Its Icy Tomb".

Searching for pre-historic viruses for which no one alive has immunity - what could possibly go worng?
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Doughdee222

#1
March 04, 2014, 11:01:38 PM
One of the conceits of the Nephilim game is that all these ancient spiritual beings have their souls connected to common items. Could be anything really: jewelry, pottery, furniture, whatever. So I thought about all these old tombs and shipwrecks we are finding in the past century. How many contain items with ancient, dangerous souls attached to them? Maybe that's why there is a resurgence of evil deeds and oddball events happening in the Player Character's world.

Exploring old tombs: what could possibly go wrong?

Omega

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March 05, 2014, 10:03:53 AM
Quote from: Doughdee222;734678One of the conceits of the Nephilim game is that all these ancient spiritual beings have their souls connected to common items. Could be anything really: jewelry, pottery, furniture, whatever. So I thought about all these old tombs and shipwrecks we are finding in the past century. How many contain items with ancient, dangerous souls attached to them? Maybe that's why there is a resurgence of evil deeds and oddball events happening in the Player Character's world.

Exploring old tombs: what could possibly go wrong?

Maybee it can team up with the radiation feeding slime found living inside the Chernoble reaotor.

Bill

#3
March 05, 2014, 11:49:42 AM
I saw that headline today and we are all doomed.


The Thing!!!!

Sacrosanct

#4
March 05, 2014, 12:02:47 PM
Stock up ;)

D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Bill

#5
March 05, 2014, 12:11:17 PM
Is that type of food cost effective for regular non end of the world use?

Sacrosanct

#6
March 05, 2014, 12:17:15 PM
Quote from: Bill;734778Is that type of food cost effective for regular non end of the world use?

Not really, but not too bad.  Recommended service sizes means about $2000 a year for one person.  So $167 a month per person might sound cheap, but their recommended 3 servings a day is really only 800 calories.  So for me it would be about $325 a month to maintain weight.  So you'd want to up that a bit.  Also, it can't be healthy to eat only that and not raw fresh food.  But it doesn't taste that bad, to be honest.
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Exploderwizard

#7
March 05, 2014, 12:31:42 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;734780Not really, but not too bad.  Recommended service sizes means about $2000 a year for one person.  So $167 a month per person might sound cheap, but their recommended 3 servings a day is really only 800 calories.  So for me it would be about $325 a month to maintain weight.  So you'd want to up that a bit.  Also, it can't be healthy to eat only that and not raw fresh food.  But it doesn't taste that bad, to be honest.

Not that it actually matters. When the apocalypse comes 90% or more of us will be eating brains anyway.

Brains. Its whats for dinner. :p
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March 05, 2014, 12:33:51 PM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;734652Well, I know how my next post-apocalypse setting will come about: "A 30,000-Year-Old Virus Has Been Revived from Its Icy Tomb".

Searching for pre-historic viruses for which no one alive has immunity - what could possibly go worng?

We're immune to it. (thankfully)

But yeah - it has all kinds of possibilities that are scary, doesn't it? Like what if we they find some ancient bacteria that formed but was locked away from the rest of life on earth which developed in parallel?

scary shit indeed.

dragoner

#9
March 05, 2014, 01:00:40 PM
The most beautiful peonies I ever saw ... were grown in almost pure cat excrement.
-Vonnegut

jeff37923

#10
March 05, 2014, 01:06:22 PM
Quote from: Omega;734754Maybee it can team up with the radiation feeding slime found living inside the Chernoble reaotor.

We had some of that growing in the Trident submarine reactor prototype I trained on. Nobody wanted to mess with it because it could survive inside the reactor compartment while it was at power - about 50,000 REM or Instant Death, No Saving Throw levels of radiation.
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yabaziou

#11
March 05, 2014, 03:08:50 PM
Does the Ur-virus drain a level before killing your PC ?
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Sacrosanct

#12
March 05, 2014, 03:10:01 PM
Quote from: yabaziou;734819Does the Ur-virus drain a level before killing your PC ?

No.  Save or die ;)
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Shawn Driscoll

#13
March 06, 2014, 03:06:46 AM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;734652Well, I know how my next post-apocalypse setting will come about: "A 30,000-Year-Old Virus Has Been Revived from Its Icy Tomb".

Who's been eating 30,000-year-old yellow snow again?

The Butcher

#14
March 06, 2014, 05:42:34 AM
Quote from: jeff37923;734794We had some of that growing in the Trident submarine reactor prototype I trained on. Nobody wanted to mess with it because it could survive inside the reactor compartment while it was at power - about 50,000 REM or Instant Death, No Saving Throw levels of radiation.

It's actually Cryptococcus neoformans. Usually harmless but may cause severe disease such as meningitis in people with a severely compromised immune system, such as advanced AIDS patients, people on more toxic chemo such as the one used for bone marrow transplants, or people who have their bone marrow smoked away by the rare radiation accident with very high, acute doses of ionizing radiation.
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