Real-Life Weirdness

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Now nobody will notice that the plane model doesn't quite match Homeline specs.

First thing I thought when I saw the canopy was "AT-6". It gets used way too often as the generic enemy airplane stand-in in TV and movies.

So, it's really a triple-layer disguise. Those who do notice the difference will easily buy the cosplay line without reaching the obvious conclusion that the conveyor comes from a timeline where the US was taken over or joined the Nazis, and so were happily building AT-6s with their insignia.

[Anaraxes]

A new mega-dungeon has suddenly appeared, just in time for your upcoming TFT adventure Into The Labyrinth. (Now that's a marketing stunt! WTG, Phil.)

https://www.sciencealert.com/hong-ko...e-hall-complex

6.7 million cubic meters is about 150,000 megahexes. I hope you bought extra addon packs. Or if you're more into D&D and OSR, that's around 236,000 10' squares. Those Chinese geologists are going to need a lot of graph paper.

[quarkstomper]

Staff at the U.S. Embassy in Havana are suffering from strange neurological problems with symptoms similar to that of a concussion, only with no physical evidence of trauma. The obvious guess is that this is the result of some secret weapon, maybe using sonic beams or EMPs or something, the Cubans have developed to ... okay, what the purpose of this might be is also mysterious. A lot of theories in this article, but no good answers. Which makes it good gaming material:

The Strange Case of American Diplomats in Cuba

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by William

Those U.S. diplomats in Havana and Guangzhou suffering the mysterious, hard-to-pinpoint neurological issues? Turns out our doctors now think it really was a microwave attack, using something called the Frey effect.

Originally Posted by quarkstomper

Staff at the U.S. Embassy in Havana are suffering from strange neurological problems with symptoms similar to that of a concussion, only with no physical evidence of trauma.

As seen in the quote above, we've already visited that topic a few times in this thread, but that looks like a nice meaty article (which I'll read later).

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

As seen in the quote above, we've already visited that topic a few times in this thread, but that looks like a nice meaty article (which I'll read later).

The article rambles a bit. It does eventually mention that Microwave theory, but points out the controversy over it, then moves on to further speculation.

[quarkstomper]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

As seen in the quote above, we've already visited that topic a few times in this thread, but that looks like a nice meaty article (which I'll read later).

Yeah... I thought that might be the case, but it's been a while since I've visited this thread and I wasn't sure. Thanks.

UPDATE: And another article about the
Mystery of the Havana Syndrome

[thorr-kan]

Poached from the Bujold list:
https://www.boredpanda.com/forest-an...ossi-saarinen/

Photos of Finnish landscape and animals. Fairy creatures, anyone?

[ericthered]

Ok, raccoon dogs in Europe is weird. Maybe I know my bio-geography too well, but I had those things filed away as firmly Asian. I could tell they weren't real coons (which would also be a long ways from home) , but I couldn't tell what they really were.

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Ok, raccoon dogs in Europe is weird. Maybe I know my bio-geography too well, but I had those things filed away as firmly Asian. I could tell they weren't real coons (which would also be a long ways from home) , but I couldn't tell what they really were.

They're an import. So are actual raccoons, over in Estonia and latvia. For fur in both cases

[William]

Two cases of serious impalement I saw recently. Content warning, images of blood and injury -- but both men survived!

https://imgur.com/gallery/2bDFGnG

https://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/imp...ot-long-rebar/

GM: Okay, that's four pi+ hits to the arm and two to the vitals.

GM: <i>rolls damage</i>

GM: Wow... okay. That's a death check....

GM: you passed... unconsciousness at HT 0...

GM: you passed... mortal wound check...

GM: you passed... crippled limb...

GM: ...

GM: ...you passed.

Player: I AM INWINCIBLE!