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What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:43 pm
by Lenwen
What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information , in the entire game or if you have multiples .. what are they ?
Do you have 1 favorite passage in each book ? What is it ?
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:05 pm
by Killer Cyborg
People use those MDC bugs from England as bowling balls.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:43 pm
by The Galactus Kid
That the right eye of Osiris is in a box in New York.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 5:41 pm
by Lenwen
hehe those are great obscure peices of information.
One of my many favorites (I forget which book its in now atm hehe) Is where Lady Hel , has a mirrior in which she can travel to the nightlands .. but has the mirrior mystically covered or something like that . hehe
Love the Nightbane tie in .
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 5:54 pm
by GlitterKnight
People believe that John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were real Old West figures, along with the likes of Wild Bill Hickock and Doc Holliday.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 6:19 pm
by Pepsi Jedi
You saying they're not?
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 7:00 pm
by Mack
Killer Cyborg wrote:People use those MDC bugs from England as bowling balls.
KC, you own the internet for the day.
My humble submission: that some Dog Boys have a completely human appearance.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 7:35 pm
by drewkitty ~..~
That astral projected beings can not go past lunar orbit.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 8:33 pm
by Incriptus
Lenwen wrote:One of my many favorites (I forget which book its in now atm hehe) Is where Lady Hel , has a mirrior in which she can travel to the nightlands .. but has the mirrior mystically covered or something like that . hehe
I am intrigued with by this one, I would like evidence
I was going to mention Yolanda the 15th! level Nightbane Sorceror of the Kingsdale Magic Guild. [Juicer's Uprising p108]
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:59 pm
by Faceless Dude
That there is awesome Chinese food in MercTown due to a portal behind the shop that leads to the Yin Caverns
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 10:39 pm
by Nightmask
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:That astral projected beings can not go past lunar orbit.
You'll have to point out where it says that, as I've never seen it and I've most of the Palladium books up until the Tolkeen war.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 11:11 pm
by Faceless Dude
Nightmask wrote:drewkitty ~..~ wrote:That astral projected beings can not go past lunar orbit.
You'll have to point out where it says that, as I've never seen it and I've most of the Palladium books up until the Tolkeen war.
I remember reading that in Mutants in Orbit I think. I can't quote pages and might just be wrong. Its been years since I opened that. But I want to say that's where I saw it.
It's also a common theme in other games. Shadowrun particularly said this, to the point that a Mage taking a suborbital flight needed to be careful trying to access the astral plane in flight or risk insanity.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:23 am
by The Beast
Incriptus wrote:I was going to mention Yolanda the 15th! level Nightbane Sorceror of the Kingsdale Magic Guild. [Juicer's Uprising p108]
That's not very obscure...
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 12:47 am
by Nightmask
Faceless Dude wrote:Nightmask wrote:drewkitty ~..~ wrote:That astral projected beings can not go past lunar orbit.
You'll have to point out where it says that, as I've never seen it and I've most of the Palladium books up until the Tolkeen war.
I remember reading that in Mutants in Orbit I think. I can't quote pages and might just be wrong. Its been years since I opened that. But I want to say that's where I saw it.
It's also a common theme in other games. Shadowrun particularly said this, to the point that a Mage taking a suborbital flight needed to be careful trying to access the astral plane in flight or risk insanity.
I can't find it in Mutants in Orbit, if such a limitation exists it's so obscure to be pretty much non-existent.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 2:16 am
by Dr. Doom III
People in Center on Phase World watch holographic versions of 90's music video's.
The example being "Free Your Mind" by En Vogue.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:37 pm
by The Galactus Kid
Faceless Dude wrote:That there is awesome Chinese food in MercTown due to a portal behind the shop that leads to the Yin Caverns
WHAT!?! REALLY!?! Man, I have to read that book again.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 7:16 pm
by Faceless Dude
The Galactus Kid wrote:Faceless Dude wrote:That there is awesome Chinese food in MercTown due to a portal behind the shop that leads to the Yin Caverns
WHAT!?! REALLY!?! Man, I have to read that book again.
Yep. On page 53. The Celestial Dragon. Named just like every other hole in the wall Chinese place you've eaten at.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:31 pm
by The Galactus Kid
Faceless Dude wrote:The Galactus Kid wrote:Faceless Dude wrote:That there is awesome Chinese food in MercTown due to a portal behind the shop that leads to the Yin Caverns
WHAT!?! REALLY!?! Man, I have to read that book again.
Yep. On page 53. The Celestial Dragon. Named just like every other hole in the wall Chinese place you've eaten at.
This wins hands down.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:41 pm
by drewkitty ~..~
Here is something I found in MiO while looking for my other reference.
That black holes are really massively powerful super space Ley Line Nexuses.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:26 pm
by The Galactus Kid
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:Here is something I found in MiO while looking for my other reference.
That black holes are really massively powerful super space Ley Line Nexuses.
I don't buy it. Its a trap.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:43 am
by Gamer
The Galactus Kid wrote:drewkitty ~..~ wrote:Here is something I found in MiO while looking for my other reference.
That black holes are really massively powerful super space Ley Line Nexuses.
I don't buy it. Its a trap.
And if it isn't you'll turn it into one is that it?
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 2:18 am
by Nether
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:Here is something I found in MiO while looking for my other reference.
That black holes are really massively powerful super space Ley Line Nexuses.
Haha, i wonder how many stupid mages went off thinking, omg, it is a free nexus that no one has claimed and it is alll miiiinnnnneee... Wait, what issss haappppeeeeennnii......
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 7:41 am
by sHaka
Not particularly obscure, but isn't discussed too often - The Republicans arranged the death of "The" Dunscon.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:01 am
by Braden Campbell
Erin Tarn is from Missouri.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 8:42 am
by The Beast
You can earn negative experience points.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:00 am
by MADMANMIKE
Rifts Underseas pg. 203: Kevin Siembieda goes for a cruise in the observation bubble of a Triax Sub.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:37 pm
by cornholioprime
MADMANMIKE wrote:Rifts Underseas pg. 203: Kevin Siembieda goes for a cruise in the observation bubble of a Triax Sub.
NOTHING that I can think of will come even close to matching that tidbit in terms of obscurity. Not even the suspiciously SDF-1 -looking building in Atlantis.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 10:57 pm
by Killer Cyborg
The Beast wrote:You can earn negative experience points.
Where's it say that?
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:17 pm
by The Beast
Killer Cyborg wrote:The Beast wrote:You can earn negative experience points.
Where's it say that?
In the RDF Accelerated Training course. They have a demerit system in it that causes you to lose xp should you violate it. IIRC, the biggest penalty is -100 points, and technically it only applies to characters undergoing the training, but you can still earn those negative points.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:23 pm
by Killer Cyborg
The Beast wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:The Beast wrote:You can earn negative experience points.
Where's it say that?
In the RDF Accelerated Training course. They have a demerit system in it that causes you to lose xp should you violate it. IIRC, the biggest penalty is -100 points, and technically it only applies to characters undergoing the training, but you can still earn those negative points.
Nice!
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 12:05 am
by Xar
Braden Campbell wrote:Erin Tarn is from Missouri.
Where does it say that?
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:05 am
by Braden Campbell
RUE, page 13.
Some Coalition guys are talking to a bunch a locals about how twisted her world view is, and how they shouldn't trust her. They claim she's just some hick from back-water Missouri, whose family was killed when she was young, and who was raised by aliens.
Given the source, it could be nothing but lies... but it's all we have to go on.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 9:07 am
by Josh Sinsapaugh
MADMANMIKE wrote:Rifts Underseas pg. 203: Kevin Siembieda goes for a cruise in the observation bubble of a Triax Sub.
This verified? That could be anybody.
~ Josh
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 6:57 pm
by The Beast
torkair wrote:My favorite obscure bit of info is the XP tables from Chaos Earth: Rise of magic. It's so obscure as to be considered unobtanium!
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 1:14 am
by Xar
Braden Campbell wrote:RUE, page 13.
Some Coalition guys are talking to a bunch a locals about how twisted her world view is, and how they shouldn't trust her. They claim she's just some hick from back-water Missouri, whose family was killed when she was young, and who was raised by aliens.
Given the source, it could be nothing but lies... but it's all we have to go on.
Heh, cool.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 5:10 pm
by Chronicle
The lack of Detail on the Supposed Alien technology Triax has been reverse engineering. (Their gear looks very CCW like)
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 6:40 pm
by glitterboy2098
2_Gun_Sally wrote:cornholioprime wrote:MADMANMIKE wrote:Rifts Underseas pg. 203: Kevin Siembieda goes for a cruise in the observation bubble of a Triax Sub.
NOTHING that I can think of will come even close to matching that tidbit in terms of obscurity. Not even the suspiciously SDF-1 -looking building in Atlantis.
Only being partially familiar with the combined Robotech universe timeline these days, it could be the SDF-2 which was sent out to colonize with 80,000+ people onboard and was never found again (Not the Harmony Gold version mind you I believe). Also Atlantis has transformable mecha ... hmmmm
not in robotech or original macross, actually. in robotech the SDF-2 is specifically said to have been destroyed (although where this unseen starship was parked remains a point of debate)
in macross the SDF-2 was built to look
way different from what the Splynn artwork resembles.
Macross Frontier gave us some
SDF-1 looking ships that probably could be used if you really wanted to, and of course the DoYouRememberLove/Macross II timeline had the ship it's SDF-1 was built from as a
semi-common meltran warship..
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:16 am
by MADMANMIKE
Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:MADMANMIKE wrote:Rifts Underseas pg. 203: Kevin Siembieda goes for a cruise in the observation bubble of a Triax Sub.
This verified? That could be anybody.
~ Josh
Not long after the book came out Kev and I were talking about artists paying homage to people in the art, and I pointed it out to him; it was one of the last pieces of art Long did for him and he remembered Long hinting at doing something like that, but he had never noticed it himself before I pointed it out.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:10 pm
by drewkitty ~..~
It was MegaRoad colony fleet (w/notables aboard as command crew and passengers) that went missing.
Side note: the megaroad fleet was shown departing earth in the music video album "flashback 2012".
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:19 pm
by glitterboy2098
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:It was MegaRoad colony fleet (w/notables aboard as command crew and passengers) that went missing.
Side note: the megaroad fleet was shown departing earth in the music video album "flashback 2012".
canon supplimentary material for macross details how the unfinished earth built copy of the SDF-1 macross was finished as the SDF-2 Megaroad colony vessel.
macross frontier shows us the SDF-4
Global, which was a copy of the SDF-1 macross... i assume the writers for macross intentional avoided using the designation "SDF-3" in any show to avoid even indirect connection to robotech.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:44 am
by ShadowLogan
glitterboy2098 wrote:drewkitty ~..~ wrote:It was MegaRoad colony fleet (w/notables aboard as command crew and passengers) that went missing.
Side note: the megaroad fleet was shown departing earth in the music video album "flashback 2012".
canon supplimentary material for macross details how the unfinished earth built copy of the SDF-1 macross was finished as the SDF-2 Megaroad colony vessel.
macross frontier shows us the SDF-4
Global, which was a copy of the SDF-1 macross... i assume the writers for macross intentional avoided using the designation "SDF-3" in any show to avoid even indirect connection to robotech.
Then wouldn't they avoid the SDF-4 use also since it's in the 85ep dialogue IIRC (the old timers episode) and IINM it's also in TSC (granted TSC may be "newer" than M:F in release). It was also connected with RT in older materials to (that aren't part of canon anymore).
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:47 am
by Nightmask
glitterboy2098 wrote:drewkitty ~..~ wrote:It was MegaRoad colony fleet (w/notables aboard as command crew and passengers) that went missing.
Side note: the megaroad fleet was shown departing earth in the music video album "flashback 2012".
canon supplimentary material for macross details how the unfinished earth built copy of the SDF-1 macross was finished as the SDF-2 Megaroad colony vessel.
macross frontier shows us the SDF-4
Global, which was a copy of the SDF-1 macross... i assume the writers for macross intentional avoided using the designation "SDF-3" in any show to avoid even indirect connection to robotech.
Considering the shape the world was in and how they didn't have a full understanding of the technology in the first place I've always wondered how they could build a complete copy of the SDF-1 let alone several.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:30 pm
by cornholioprime
Okay....maybe this one counts as an obscure piece of information:
In one of the Books, there is actually a picture of XY, the Great Old One.
(And as soon as I find out which Book it is, I'll let you know; I can't remember right now.)
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 7:10 pm
by Killer Cyborg
cornholioprime wrote:Okay....maybe this one counts as an obscure piece of information:
In one of the Books, there is actually a picture of XY, the Great Old One.
(And as soon as I find out which Book it is, I'll let you know; I can't remember right now.)
The one with the binding made from human flesh.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 7:29 pm
by The Beast
Killer Cyborg wrote:cornholioprime wrote:Okay....maybe this one counts as an obscure piece of information:
In one of the Books, there is actually a picture of XY, the Great Old One.
(And as soon as I find out which Book it is, I'll let you know; I can't remember right now.)
The one with the binding made from human flesh.
Tell me you didn't actually read that one...
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:07 pm
by Killer Cyborg
The Beast wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:cornholioprime wrote:Okay....maybe this one counts as an obscure piece of information:
In one of the Books, there is actually a picture of XY, the Great Old One.
(And as soon as I find out which Book it is, I'll let you know; I can't remember right now.)
The one with the binding made from human flesh.
Tell me you didn't actually read that one...
It.
Read.
ME.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:08 pm
by Lenwen
Killer Cyborg wrote:The Beast wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:cornholioprime wrote:Okay....maybe this one counts as an obscure piece of information:
In one of the Books, there is actually a picture of XY, the Great Old One.
(And as soon as I find out which Book it is, I'll let you know; I can't remember right now.)
The one with the binding made from human flesh.
Tell me you didn't actually read that one...
It.
Read.
ME.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:14 pm
by cornholioprime
Dang it, I can't find the picture of Xy.
IIRC, it's in one of the Books, on one of the very first pages (as in, the List of Credits).
It's a small picture of a vaguely humanoid, multi-eyed and multi-tentacled......thing....and at the bottom of the small, rectangular picture, in even smaller print below it is the word "Xy."
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:16 pm
by The Beast
cornholioprime wrote:Dang it, I can't find the picture of Xy.
IIRC, it's in one of the Books, on one of the very first pages (as in, the List of Credits).
It's a small picture of a vaguely humanoid, multi-eyed and multi-tentacled......thing....and at the bottom of the small, rectangular picture, in even smaller print below it is the word "Xy."
Page 6,
Old Ones.
Re: What is your personal favorite obscure piece of information?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:19 pm
by The Beast
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:That astral projected beings can not go past lunar orbit.
Have you found the source yet? I went through
MiO but didn't see it in there.