I used a D6 so often it literally broke. It was my lucky die, and I cried.

It's last roll was a 4.

Feline Intervention?

This is from a few pages back but I came to the thread late and I can't resist using my knowledge of chemistry wherever possible.

There is a substance known as Capsazepine that is a Capsaicin antagonist and stops it from being irritating. So you can have antidote patches even for irritants.

And now you know

And knowing is half the battle.

The other half... Is VIOLENCE!

Can I get this stuff somewhere?
It'd make eating spicy food much easier.
(Also good for handling Blair's 16 Million Reserve).

Holy Hell... Sign me up...

Pure capsaicin? He chemically refined it. That product isn't even technically a "hot sauce" or even a "food additive" by the FDA. A salt sized grain will land you in the hospital if eaten raw (you have to handle the stuff with tweezers).

Also, I'd like to point out for the price (that site having sold them for $600) you get one ounce.

If you look at the site a bit more, you can get it for under $50.00.

Yes, I know, The Ghost Pepper is often more than I can handle. Pure Craziness at the 16 Million Resereve Levels.

Could be worse. Could be saffron.

^ That 16,000,000 stuff + Capsule Rounds.

Pure crystals, yes. A numbered limited edition wax sealed Blair's? No.

Why would you want a Numbered, Limited Edition, Sealed container? I would want to use them, not look at them.

Hey, on super sale price now for under $40 bucks a ML!

My battle cleric over in the Cancer Game used to carry packets of super hot pepper powder, specifically to throw into faces of opponents or down the gullets of monsters.




-k

Also handy when they are using dogs to hunt you down while you're running away wounded.

EDIT: Just be careful if you use one when they have a werewolf hunting you. Angua is not pleased when this happens... And things get messy when she is not pleased.

Well, most places don't have hot blonde vegetarian werewolves with a good working relationship with her peers and a giant man, powerful and simply charismatic as can be, who may or may not be the rightful king, as a boyfriend. Just don't use pepper packets in Ankh-Morpork, and you should be okay.

No, but most Shapechangers in Shadowrun have about the same effect on kidnappers, muggers, and hostage takers as those in Ankh-Morpork as Angua has with the same groups.

*sigh*.... I need to read these Terry Pratchett books, it seems.

You do.

They try to victimize Shadowrun shifters, leading to some very sorry kidnappers, muggers, and hostage takers?

It's kinda like your average bunch of humanis thugs trying to kidnap a seriously cybered up dwarf . . not going to end pretty . .

Just a warning, crack is cheaper. But it's not like we'll see many more out of Sir PTerry.
More like Humanis thugs trying to kidnap an Dwarf or Elven Adept. Or that cute little elven girl that's actually a free spirit.

Basically, they think they're setting up the classic Pretty Girl In Distress scenario. And then they find themselves in distress, because as soon as they're not looking, "hey, where did that dog come from, and where's the girl?"

I heard he's trying to get assisted suicide legalized, because he doesn't want to live through his Alzheimer years and become a vegetable.
(I don't blame him, either)

It's worse than that. He has a rare form that eats away his physical abilities first (He's dictating "Snuff"), so he'll have most of his mental faculties, and be completely unable to move, speak, or do anything.

"And I must scream" indeed.

Then it starts eating his brain.

Oh ew, I didn't know that.

That sucks.

Yep, worse than the typical type.

And this is the man, who suffering from the *START* of it, mined the iron needed for his magic sword. Because, well, he's been knighted, he should have a sword!

Then got pissed off when British Knife Laws prevented him from wearing it. Guy can get the security clearance to meet the QUEEN in person, but can't carry an unconcealable sword. OK, sure, she was armed at the time, but still...

When he does go, he'll be #3 on my Lunch List.

That being, the list of Dead People I'd want to have lunch with.
(It'd probably be easier to book him post-mortem, too)

The other two being Isac Asimov and someone I can't recall at the moment (damn it).

Robert A. Heinlein? L. Ron Hubbard? Albert Einstein? Sir John A. MacDonald?

Author, yes, who I don't remember. They're probably on my bookshelf, though.

Stanislaw Lem?

Don't mean to rant, but the law's there for a reason. Stabbings happen far too much here, it's practically a rite of coming of age, to stab someone.

Makes Sense...

Yeah, how's that law working out? Rate of violence gone down?

I may have to rethink my idea of moving there to open a Texas style BBQ place....

"What the hell is this?!"
"Don't stab me, bro!"

The law didn't target violence. It targeted stabbings.

But don't know, 'cause it's Britain. Maybe should check that new-fangled thing, the "interweb".

I think he asks because he knows it hasn't helped. At all. If you're willing to break the law to stab somebody, you're willing to break the law to carry a knife. In fact, it's awful nice for criminals, knowing that illegal weapons are the only weapons around not carried by people with a response time measured in minutes longer than it takes to commit a crime and then leave.

That resolved, our political commentary segment is concluded. We now return to our regularly scheduled awesome quotes.

One more thing. The word "knife" and related words/verbs above can be easily changed with other words.

In any event: has that author though about willingly infecting himself with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease? First off, he'd lose mental faculties faster than he's losing physical ones; and second, for science!

I think he'd be more interested in doing it "For Magic!" than "For Science!". Same-difference, however.

...

Damn I wish I had a group now. Shadowrun on the Discworld would be... Interesting.

(And, yes, I was making a reference to the fact that criminals that break greater laws will have little to no respect for lesser ones as well. Semi-Political, yes, but I thought also somewhat on topic on a forum dealing with anti-social, borderline-sociopathic, neo-anarchistic mercenaries that shoot people in the face for money.).

There you go, Thinking Again... That is always dangerous CanRay.

Shadowrun Discworld . .
Where dwarves are Dwarves, Trolls are Rocks and Elves are shunned and hunted by everybody as it should be!

Heh...

I agree completely, if you couldn't tell. Just saw a potential weapon control debate brewing, and that's one of those things that gets ugly fast. The thread's actual topic is much more fun.

Wish I had quotes to share of my own, but I submit to you WWW.drmcninja.com. The extremely Pink Mohawk adventures of a doctor who is also a ninja. Of the McNinja family. Recently he used a dead pterodactyl as a kite, towed behind a motorcycle, which then drove through a tunnel. His aerial acrobatics skills let him fly into the tunnel, flying alongside the motorcycle, shouting "SKIIIIIILLZ!"

Also, Thor's lines in Earth's Mightiest Heroes. "I tire of these... geeks."

I am guilty of many, many thoughtcrimes.Read Unseen Academicals to add onto that list.

Thus you are banned from thinking...

oh i have, both the english and the german version are in my book shelf actually . .

well, at least he has to be banned from thinking . . too many people won't ever face that predicament . .

Point Taken...

And come on . . don't tell me you don't enjoy his crazy ideas ^^

I do indeed, though sometimes I need to reach for the Brain Bleach after reading them...

eh, have to take the doubleplusungood with the bad i guess ^^

I'm a rebel. Get the face cage and the rat, still won't stop me.Scary part is: This is the stuff I've edited for public consumption.

I doubt you've gotten up to Ryumyo and Lung slash fiction yet, though. Chrysalis actually did a fairly good job with that.
(I've seen some slashes in my time. *monocule*)