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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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I say that only half jokingly.
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01-29-2015, 04:59 AM | #862 |
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01-29-2015, 08:47 AM | #863 | |
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02-03-2015, 04:47 AM | #864 |
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If you can't see adventure possibilities in an underground stolen self-mummified monk smuggling ring, perhaps you've taken up the wrong hobby...
Mummified monk is ‘not dead’ and in rare meditative state, says expert And something about the Mummies of Yamagata The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body And the Chinese-Arabian Honey Mummy Mellified Man
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02-07-2015, 08:33 AM | #865 |
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Apparently, 50% of the DNA sequenced from samples in the NYC subway system match no known organism. Sure, in the real world, its just a bunch of previously unsequenced bacteria, but the potential for a scan like that to find evidence of alien or ghoul DNA could make a fun plot point or start to a campaign. "CDC vs. the Mythos!"
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02-07-2015, 11:18 AM | #866 | |
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02-07-2015, 06:58 PM | #867 |
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02-09-2015, 07:08 PM | #868 |
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I learned about this recently and it seemed bizarre enough to be included in this thread... bizarre partly because it was considered normal, public behavior among a population that I can only hope I would have refused to be part of should I have lived in the day, for they were my countrymen, race, and rough economic level.
It is the spectacular lynching. It is something that, in the heat of a plot set any time before the modern day, a group might encounter as the effects of racism, a witch hunt, a red scare, or the equivalent phenomenon in the campaign's culture. Would your PC stand up against it if they saw it? Knowing that the mob might turn on him; that, if he survived, he might be unsafe in his home, exiled and penniless, for showing compassion to the victim? Below are some short snippets from descriptions of a number of such events. Under the spoiler, because the descriptions are incredibly graphic.
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02-11-2015, 11:32 AM | #869 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
During the peace negotiations between Sweden and Denmark 1613, both kings were banned from attending. They had sabotaged previous peace negotiations. However, they both attended anyway - in disguise.
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02-11-2015, 12:59 PM | #870 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
nice ... can I get a link?
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