athena_rose922

ElleGray, 3 days ago to random

I'm begging us, as a society, to stop putting lavender in food

athena_rose922, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

So to give you an idea of how the corn maze one shot went we decided it ended on a pastel chalked freeze frame of the party's werewolf, wearing a fancy Victorian dress, sprinting away on all fours with a magic staff clutched in her teeth while the rest of the party, including a necromancer and a hopping scarecrow, chase her through a corn field.

athena_rose922, 1 month ago to random

On the ambulance we once had a guy who walked up to us and asked if we could move the ambulance cuz we were blocking in his car.

As we were all standing around a woman who had broken her hip after falling on the ice and was screaming bloody murder.

When I bluntly told him he had to wait he looked positively offended.

I still think about that incident a lot.

athena_rose922, 7 months ago to ravenloft

Since I'm almost done with the current D&D campaign I'm DMing I've started preliminary work on the next one which is going to be #Ravenloft Darkon. I'm gonna end up taking bits from different editions rather than sticking with 5e canon.

There is a lot of interesting stuff in previous editions like the whole deal with the Necropolis and "Death" but the idea of Azalin being gone and the domain starting to collapse is very interesting to me so I'm doing the "Why not both?" method.

athena_rose922, 1 year ago to random

Holy fuck guys I did it, I passed the medic exam! It's still unreal that I can take the "student" out of my bio and just say Paramedic. 3 years of Hell, finally done.

athena_rose922, 2 months ago to random

When I worked at Barnes & Noble it was peak Hunger Games ripoff years so we invented a Mad Libs for the genre.

It was something like "In a world where [blank] our protagonist [blank] is a conventionally attractive white girl who is special because [blank] and on her 16th birthday must Choose [blank] while caught in a love triangle between a [blank] suitor and another [blank] suitor."

athena_rose922, 9 months ago to random

My favorite refutation of the "The Egyptians were too good at pyramids, they must have had aliens help" argument is how there are multiple pyramids that straight up fell down and the one where they changed the angle halfway up because they realized it wasn't gonna work (the Bent Pyramid).

It was a process to figure out how to do it right filled with multiple failures. Survivorship bias means that only the ones that were built best are still up.

athena_rose922, 4 months ago to Warhammer40K

I bought the first of the #CiaphasCain books on audiobook and as a relative newbie to #Warhammer40k I like that it gives more of a ground level look at the world.

It's also funny to me that chuds in the 40k fandom I have encountered through the genral tabletop community are very "No girls allowed" but the main unit in these books is a mixed gender unit.

athena_rose922, 1 year ago to random

I absolutely love this quote from this #Drachinifel video about the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development in Britain:

Taking a collection of mad scientists, garden shed inventors, young troublemakers, pyromaniacs and cat herders and giving them all a warehouse full of interesting spare parts, and after locking them up in there telling them if they came up with something interesting to help them beat the Nazis there might be a second or possibly even a third warehouse in it for them.

athena_rose922, 1 year ago to random

I just had a Tesla tailgating me and when he finally passed me I saw the license plate said DURACL.

This person probably doesn't know this but "durac" in Russian means idiot.

athena_rose922, 1 month ago to ravenloft

First chapter of this is up, misspellings and all.

#Ravenloft #DND

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55347070/chapters/140418712

athena_rose922, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to DnD

Looking for a Halloween one shot adventure for your #DnD5e party?

Take a trip to the Shadowfell in Samhain Eve: The Masquerade as guests of Queen Mab and meet a variety of unseelie. But watch out, because something out there plans to crash the party.

#DmSGuild #DnD

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/328709/Samhain-Eve-The-Masquerade?affiliate_id=1863677

athena_rose922, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to ravenloft

One concept I'm playing with in the Darkon game I'm running is that reality is a little... squishy in #Ravenloft. So the current plot the players are involved in has the Church of the Overseer (or more accurately their head Derakoth) attempting to manifest their fake God into reality and in the body of Tavelia, the Kargat vampire who enthralled him.

And then later on I'm going to play with the concept when it comes to the Alanik Ray subplot, in particular the fictional-in-universe Adam Worth.

athena_rose922, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

My advice to anybody who wants to #DM is just embrace the chaos. Because some of the funniest bits have been the result of me having to come up with something on the spot.

Which is how we ended up with Tim Gunn as a gnome as a shopkeeper NPC, and he has since made several other appearances and ended up with a family connection to another fairly major NPC.

athena_rose922, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

I told somebody that the first Dunkin' Donuts is basically across the street from the Quincy police station, and they thought I was joking.

I was not.

There is also a second pastry shop even closer to the station.

If I put this in like, a Fallout game, I would be accused of playing into stereotypes, but it is absolutely true.

athena_rose922, 23 days ago to random

I have been looking forward to writing this exact sequence for 5 chapters.

Yes, I just had Rudolph van Richten make a sex joke.

athena_rose922, 8 months ago to random

I just did the #DM cackle. Inspired by something that happened to me while playing Baldur's Gate 3 I decided that the next time the party fights they're going to do so in a cellar that has a bunch of barrels in it and see if they can figure out that they are full of dwarven liquor. Several of them have fire spells, so it's a test to see if they can figure out they should probably not do that in there unless they wanna get blown up.

athena_rose922, 5 months ago to random

Since I now consider it within an acceptable time frame to promote it, my holiday #DnD5e adventure!

Fight holiday monsters, adventure through the snowy land of Midwinter, possibly resolve an HR dispute and more in "Someone's Halls Are Getting Decked" now on #DMsGuild!

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/419372/Someones-Halls-Are-Getting-Decked?affiliate_id=1863677

athena_rose922, 11 months ago to random

I'm listening to something about the history of the Pentagon and during the Cold War the USSR was convinced there was a meeting room or a bunker in the building the middle of the court yard because they always saw high ranking people coming and going from there.

It was a hot dog stand.

athena_rose922, 10 months ago to DnD

A very valuable lesson as a #DM is the party will attempt to adopt random animals, monsters, and NPCs any chance they get. One party I DMed for ending up with four ducklings, a demonic reindeer, a pseudodragon and were trying to adopt some baby alligators but I was like "No, this is getting out of hand."

They also met a young copper dragon and I was like "He has a family, guys!"

#DnD #DnD5e

athena_rose922, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

My most black-pilled opinion on tech is that The Algorithm is to blame for a lot of the ways our world is actively getting worse, as are the people who created and continue to maintain it.

This just reinforces that idea for me.

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-scandal-crisis-era-mark-zuckerberg-lawsuit-child-predator-report-2023-11?utm_campaign=business-sf&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR37ZWdZjJcjcQnnT72J9V_uiPDUSfpMDceMG-KoaMts1_WqFqRXS2rx0GA&utm_content=topbar

athena_rose922, 5 months ago to random

I only recently found out that Crumbl Cookies was founded by tech bros but the one near me is evidently in deep shit because when it first opened it had lines out the door but now it's deserted

Or you could even say it's... desserted.

😄

athena_rose922, 8 days ago to random

Lady at Whole Foods had a petition to put RFK Jr on the ballot. Are you fucking kidding me.

athena_rose922, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Spotify

Doing something I should have done a long time ago and completely shutting down my #Spotify account. They clearly have no interest in reining in Joe Rogan or stopping him from spreading health misinformation so they don't get any of my traffic.

#DeleteSpotify

athena_rose922, 13 hours ago to random

So I brought shorts to change into after work because my work pants are horrible in this heat. And I felt self-conscious for a minute because I realized I forgot to shave my legs but then I was like "you know what fuck it I'm gonna walk around with Wookie legs and nobody can stop me!"