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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Wastewater plant here in MD had over a million in 2009. |
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Using high tech to read folded letters -- 17th c letters folded in a way that opening them would destroy internal wax seals. The 17th c techniques might be an interesting touch in a historical game.
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Currently, the Suez Canal is blocked by a giant container ship that got turned sideways and ran aground, which isn't doing global trade any favors. The official story is that this was due to a combination of high winds and poor visibility (it happened during a sandstorm). My bet is PC's needed to stop some cultists transporting dangerous artifacts via the canal.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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In the 1920s, a Soviet scientist kept a dog's severed head alive and responsive to stimuli for several hours. See here for a recap and here for a decidedly creepy video. Now, officially these experiments led to the development of the heart-lung machine but no more advanced techniques for keeping severed heads alive. But who knows?
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Join Date: Sep 2013
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Congratulation, players. You stepped right into the master villains trap. :)
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Eh, I'm not a big fan of Xanatos Gambits. I prefer to think of it as the sort of disaster PC's would tend to leave in their wake when the GM opts for realistic consequences.
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Unfortunately for the cultists, the mummy is in a container six layers down in the middle of the stack. So they need the ship to be unloaded, and are currently trying to keep it from moving.
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Join Date: Sep 2013
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And, of course, this will attract the brother of the great old one (TM) that the pc made a head shorter a few months ago. Like the big bad planned. :-) Man, this thing really write itself.
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Fallen Column?
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Apparently the container ship did a frivolous complex maneuver in the shape of a ...well, let's call it an eldritch symbol... before it got to Suez and ran aground.
(Google "Evergreen GPS route" but be warned you'll likely see crude wall-graffiti-level naughtiness if you do.) Looks like if you vandalize Poseidon's domain, you can find yourself wedged uncomfortably in a narrow channel as karmic retribution. |
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