House of Ainsley: Out-of-Character Discussion

Kill em both. I hate cats...

Done and done. I even made it quick and painless, because I'm a nice guy like that. If there's one thing that we redneck sorts can do 'round these parts, it's quick and painless put-downs. But damn...can cats really eat the entire upper half of a three-week-old baby chicken?

I still haven't seen that raccoon yet, though. I just know that he's still out there, mocking me...laughing at me through his little beady eyes. He might even be the large raccoon I released from my trap and permitted to live last December, just because it was Christmas and I was feeling merciful...an act which seems to have been a mistake. But I am patient. Oh, yes. I am patient.

On a side note, raccoons make excellent familiars. If you ever play a wizard or a sorcerer, consider picking a raccoon as your tag-along mystic assistant critter. It's like having a master thief who can ride on your shoulders.

The House of Ainsley wrote:

...can cats really eat the entire upper half of a three-week-old baby chicken?

Yes they can, if the cat is big enough and hungry enough. They also have a tendancy to leave mangled remains around as a sign in marking territory.

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On a side note, raccoons make excellent familiars. If you ever play a wizard or a sorcerer, consider picking a raccoon as your tag-along mystic assistant critter. It's like having a master thief who can ride on your shoulders.

*(Momo flashback)*

GoldenDrakon wrote:

Yes they can, if the cat is big enough and hungry enough. They also have a tendancy to leave mangled remains around as a sign in marking territory.

Hmm. Good points there. It could be that I've already avenged poor Yogurt and Cuddles, then. I also rebuilt and reinforced the gate to the chicken run, so it might actually keep predators out now.

Maybe I'll try buying chicks online this time. The speedy delivery costs are huge, but at least I know what breeds I'm getting that way. I might even shop around for a New Hampshire Red rooster; my prize hen among my flock is a large New Hampshire Red (Squeaky by name), and she's my best layer...one massive and gorgeous brown egg everyday, without fail. If I can find Squeaky a mate and get her to go broody, I can have New Hampshire Red chicks aplenty! Too bad I don't know how to sex them, though...but I could always enlist Google's aid and read up on that.

As a side benefit, a new and larger rooster might actually dominate my little bantam rooster (Munchie) and get him to shut up. Submissive roosters don't crow, after all. But if the new rooster, being bigger than Munchie, starts crowing twice as loudly as Munchie ever did...hmm. I might have to think about this one.

GoldenDrakon wrote:

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On a side note, raccoons make excellent familiars. If you ever play a wizard or a sorcerer, consider picking a raccoon as your tag-along mystic assistant critter. It's like having a master thief who can ride on your shoulders.

*(Momo flashback)*

Oh! I found Karnoz's 110-Gold stealth outfit! You had asked for it in a PM, which is probably why I overlooked it before. So there's that. Now all I have to do is start crunching numbers and figuring out where else I might have dropped a decimal point or whatnot....

Possums? Yeah, they're pretty bad too. They're not nearly as smart as raccoons are, though; I've never had a raccoon get trapped in our trash cans, but I've had about six possum-stuck-in-the-trash incidents.

Hey, GD! Look what I found! It's a blast from our mutual past!



And you know what? I have absolutely no earthly idea why I gave these NPCs Rapid Healing and Absolute Timing, considering that their entire purpose in life was to get torn apart and eaten by ants the size of Volkswagens. I didn't even give them any body armor or jot down their weapon ranges. I must not have had very high expectations for these guys....

Isn't nostalgia great?

Anyhow, my torso's imploding from lack of food, so I'll be back in an hour or two. We'll see what kinds of mayhem I can inflict on these forums then.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!

*wipes eyes*

Ah yes, you know, it has always been with great pride that I can say that one of my true RPing milestones was '"eah, we kept on saving the deadmeat cannon fodder guys so the storyteller couldn't kill them!"

Good times....

*sigh*

Yeah, damn it. I tried so hard to get those grunts killed and messily devoured too.


Staff Sergeant John O'Reilly (or whatever GD's character was named): "Well, our APC's running low on fuel, and here's a conveniently located Texaco station which looks like it has already been picked over by the giant ants. I bet we can still fuel up, though. Someone needs to go inside and turn the pumps on."

Private Fodder Q. Troop: "Ooh! I'll do it, sir!"

McGurk (to Screech's corporal): "Go with him."

Screech's Twinked-Out Combat Munchkin, Corporal "Mad Dog" McGurk: *shoulders a hundred pounds of ammo and an M-60 which he's massively strong enough to carry and fire from a standing position* "Right."

Giant Project: THEM Ants Lurking in Ambush Inside the Gas Station and Helping Themselves to the Cooler's Meaty Contents: "Crap damn it."


It's hard to instill dread in the players through sacrificial NPCs when the players are successfully preventing those NPCs from becoming sacrificial, don't you know?

LOL! They're even called Fodder!!!

HAHAHAHA!

*gurk*

...and, as you can guess from the above exchange, the ant fodder turned out to be...well, not ant fodder. Talk about your misnomers.

(I still can't perfectly recall GD's butt-whoopin' sergeant's name, but it was Irish. Of course, knowing GD, it might have even been Patty O'Furniture or something amusing.... )

Anyhow, I thought I would have time to work on this forum (starting with New Gold for Old Bones) last night, but silly me...a Saturday night, when the local high schools are throwing their proms, not to mention having an RV club in town and First Monday's vendors on their way. I still am not done cleaning up all the glitter strewn all over the place. Maybe today. Friggin' glitter-throwing high school kids and RV people who forget their gate codes....

Also, "gurk"?

Yeah, *gurk*


Also...

*snerkle*

Wraith wrote:

Yeah, *gurk*


Also...

*snerkle*

HEY!!

*Snerkle!* is my thing, I trademarked it!

Okay, I just pulled off a ten-hour shift this morning, and I just started another ten-hour shift, and I have ten- and twelve-hour shifts coming at me all this week. We fired one Second Shift guy for something or other, and our lodge manager just quit without giving anyone notice, so the rest of us have to pick up the slack. And since it's First Monday week here in Canton and I'm the only Third Shift person they have....

It's going to be one long week...especially if those inconsiderate diurnal people keep waking me up while I'm trying to sleep. I also just bought three chicks to replace those two who got killed by the cat: another Rhode Island Red, an (alleged) Araucana and a Dominique. And they're going to take a lot of babysitting over the next month or so.

Man, what have I gotten myself into?

Okay, I brought my books. Let's see if I can catch a break in the dead of night and work on the HoA some more, shall we?

I can sympathize, Seriously, I average a 55 to 60 hour work week... it's a killer sometimes.... *sigh*

But I'll be lurking if your interested in posting.

baby pictures are on my facebook!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs461.ash1/25326_1429312255800_1322642001_31153364_1826810_n.jpg


if you're on facebook look for me there

Sawwy, I'm not on facebook and refuse to go there... but I'm sure he's a cute kid

This past week I've been working long hours at two jobs. So I haven't been around.

Shadow's got work now too and often ends up working all day - so that's why he's absent again.

*sigh* I don't even get good pay.... *sad gerk*

why the facebook hate?

Random thoughts:

A lot of times I'm unable to post for the House of Ainsley campaign because real life insists on getting in the way. And yet sometimes, I may avoid posting simply because I'm in a bit of a foul or sluggish mood...something to balance those times when I'm chomping at the bit for hours of rapid-fire chain posting, I suppose.

In the case of the latter, you know what tends to nudge me back into a posting mood?

Castlevania music.

That's right...Castlevania music.

So I was listening to some to psych myself out of a "blah" mood, and I YouTubed some snazzy tunes from those Castlevania games I've never had the chance to play yet. "An Empty Tome" from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia was leading the list yesterday.