Real-Life Weirdness

[L.J.Steele]

Was watching a Planet Earth II episode with the young'un that focused on animals in the cities and in particular a troupe of monkeys in an Indian city. PCs would be so paranoid about troupes of monkeys just going in a line from place to place on the balconies and rooftops. Then I was picturing PCs using shape change to try to be monkeys to get somewhere, but blundering into someone's territory and getting into a fight with the local troupe's dominant male.

[David Johnston2]

Russia just banned John McCain from going there. What do they know that we don't?

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Russia just banned John McCain from going there. What do they know that we don't?

Translation error? They meant John McClane, and his punk-CIA kid.

[dcarson]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Russia just banned John McCain from going there. What do they know that we don't?

They also just shelled a cemetery. Does Umbrella have a Russian subsidiary?

[Dr. Beckenstein]

Twenty years after his murder, the victim is brought back to life and asks witnesses to come out:

https://dutchreview.com/news/rotterd...eepfake-video/


Okay, it is a deep-fake video. But I am sure we will see this more often in the future - what will be the consequences?

So, gaming appliances ... what if they start to use better and better AI, so that real ghosts appear that start to hunt their murders?

[dcarson]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

Was watching a Planet Earth II episode with the young'un that focused on animals in the cities and in particular a troupe of monkeys in an Indian city. PCs would be so paranoid about troupes of monkeys just going in a line from place to place on the balconies and rooftops. Then I was picturing PCs using shape change to try to be monkeys to get somewhere, but blundering into someone's territory and getting into a fight with the local troupe's dominant male.

The fact that they are political assassins might get players attention. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indian-...monkey-attack/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oof-death.html

[L.J.Steele]

55 gallon drum shipments from US immigrants to Carribean families.

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/shipping-barrels

Similar logistics might affect all sorts of games. Or the PCs might need to smuggle something or find something in such a shipment.

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

55 gallon drum shipments from US immigrants to Carribean families.

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/shipping-barrels

Similar logistics might affect all sorts of games. Or the PCs might need to smuggle something or find something in such a shipment.

That's an interesting lesson in economics. Could be good for smuggling something small and not time sensitive.

I wonder if something similar happens in the more crowded Pacific regions? I can see the Indonesian archipelago having similar situations.

Might also serve as a good cargo for a space tramp freighter. I can see the Millennium Falcon carrying such a cargo, as or as not, covering a smuggled cargo.

[Luke Bunyip]

Plane violates numerous European countries airspaces, lands at an abandoned Bulgarian airfield, and the pilot "disappears"...

Bulgaria hunts for mystery pilot

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Plane violates numerous European countries airspaces, lands at an abandoned Bulgarian airfield, and the pilot "disappears"...

Bulgaria hunts for mystery pilot

Anybody seen Mathias_Rust lately?