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Not sure I spelled it right, but I could have sworn back when I was playing with my old group that adding an Eye of Eylor to a weapon doubled the damage the weapon could deal. I can't find where we found that though. Anyone know?

Maybe it isn't, maybe it was something else. I'm sure somewhere there was something that doubled weapon damage. Maybe it was one of the wormwood things.

correct. adding a bloodstone to a weapon will double the damage.

Yeah, too bad it can't leave Wormwood! Or maybe I should be glad as a GM that it can't leave!

U.S.Advanced Recon wrote:Adding an eye of eyelor will add 1D6 M.D. to an energy weapons damage and provide it with an unlimited ammount of energy/ammo.

REALLY what book/page is this?

darkmax wrote:I think it's in the Atlantis book.

Yep found it... 100+ million credits or trade of services and its rarely even offered to minions. Also allows teleportation the owner!

Wicked munchkin if put on an ATL-7

darkmax wrote:that's where a GM should know what not to give a PC.

Yep...instead it should be in an arms dealer's showroom, behind foot-thick armor crystal, several feet tantalizingly out of reach, guarded by nano-second reflex automated blasters, and tagged with a price several times more than the the net worth of the PCs and all their current equipment.

darkmax wrote:Wow! That was excessive!

I was just thinking of putting a realistic dummy set on the shelf..... can you imagine one of them fools running out of the shop with it?!

That was my unwritten comment...fool goes through all the security measures, only to discover he's swiped a hollow plastic model...
Always good for a few laughs for the store owner, watching the external security cam tapes.

darkmax wrote:great minds think alike..... twisted and perverted!

Now imagine, immediately after he got a hold of the "gun", ran straight into a bank and tried to hold it up! It would certainly be funny to see his face when he tries to fire a warning shot at the ceiling... and the reactions on the faces of the staffs in the bank..........

Check the Darwin AWards and Bozo Criminals websites...the best is the guy who holds up a gunshop, with several police officers(their plainly-marked cruiser was parked at the door) and several well-armed customers inside....the sap was outnumbered, outflanked, and outgunned...

Or the two carjackers who carjacked a van in Florida...turned out the van was transporting a martial arts competition team and their instructors...who promptly rolled the two dipsticks into human pretzels and procceeded to press them into the pavement...

THose guys were nearly as lucky as the two who stole a van....an UNMARKED POLICE VAN WITH SURVEILLANCE TEAM STILL IN REAR...

And from Brazil, we have the dumbbar who held up a bus, robbed the passengers, then got off at a crowded town square, planning to disappear into the crowd...problem is, the crowd was there to celebrate 4,000 NEWLY GRADUATED AND AWARDED POLICE OFFICERS.
The police commisioner supposedly couldn't leave the podium fast enough to get the guy cuffed...

Proof that reality will always be stranger than fiction...

Though rubber rune swords do tighten the gap...

darkmax wrote::lol:

Of all the world the fools are made up of!

Remember; most crimes are not solved through brilliant detective work...but through some slip-up of the criminal(typically phrased as 'the stupidity of the crook')

darkmax wrote:yes... which is why if I ever turn criminal, I'll be one of the best. Plan, execute and never look back.

(Ominous Thunder)
"Oh No!....locked the car keys in the escape vehicle!"

taalismn wrote:

darkmax wrote:yes... which is why if I ever turn criminal, I'll be one of the best. Plan, execute and never look back.

(Ominous Thunder)
"Oh No!....locked the car keys in the escape vehicle!"

Cool!

Sounds like a good comedy!

I know a lot of us are like that! I am too!

That is one of those mysteries that is up to the GM. As far as I knoww there is no canon data on it's location. It could always be a pocket dimension.

darkmax wrote:BTW, anyone want to tell me where those Sploogies are keeping the living planet, Eylor?

that's the thing. The splurgoth keep it to themselves. only they and their select minions know.

darkmax wrote:Hmm... do those eyes actually grow back? I mean if one were to poke and dig out my eye, it would have been an extremely painful event..... So why is the planet still sleeping?

because eyes of eylor don't actually feel pain.

darkmax wrote:they don't but what of the planet itself?

It may take a LONG time for it to wake up...
And if it does....THere could be a serious problem for the Splugorth...

darkmax wrote:I'm thinking disaster on a galactic scale.....

The Day the Eyes All Openned....

I'm also wondering if one Splugorth controls the supply, or if the Eyelor planet is one of the few commonly-held and thus 'nuetral' worlds with all Splugorth trading shares in an annual harvest of Eyes...

darkmax wrote:they don't but what of the planet itself?

it dosn't either. duh.

Nekira Sudacne wrote:

darkmax wrote:they don't but what of the planet itself?

it dosn't either. duh.

So far we've only see eyes up to fifty gallon drum size being harvested(or at least made available for sale)...plus perhaps a few larger ones on vehicles...nothing larger than, say a car,...IF we postulate a fully planet-sized organism, losing objects of this size, even a lot of them, would be no more substantial than a person losing a few skin cells every time we move...and the planet may not use the Eyes as primary sensory organs(or they may be vestigal organs)....plus, the Splugorth may have some magical or chemical means of 'numbing' harvest zones(possibly making the loss look like a natural disaster of some sort), then promoting regrowth in the effected area...

Whether the Eylor harvest operation is monopolized by a single Splugorth or managed by a whole consortium of them, they probably are taking very good care of their investment so as not to slay(or rouse) their golden goose.

That could be an Omni News release! About the Planet Eyelor.

Aramanthus wrote:That could be an Omni News release! About the Planet Eyelor.

Probably Cbbysscryth knows all about the Planet Eyelor, but given that he also uses Eyes, he's not likely to jeopardize his source/supply...this applies to either of the aforementioned scenarios of harvest management I mentioned....which gives the ruling overseer Splugorth some incredible immunity from being dissed by other Splugorth.

darkmax wrote:I think the Sploogies must use some kind of numbing agent.

There are some adventures right there!
If the numbing process is magical...could the process be appliedto other species/giant living organisms?

If a chemical process, does it involve rare/hard toget components?(The PCs find a Splugorth operation mining/processing some unknown substance and try following it to find out what it's being used for...)

darkmax wrote:I think the Sploogies must use some kind of numbing agent.

why? nothing at all indicated it feels pain. or even has a sense of touch to begin with.

That is true what Nekira said! And yes there a lot of HLS that could be available with this one.

darkmax wrote:I was just pulling your leg. Can you imagine the size of that bottle of anesthesia...... or for that matter the needle....

Cargo cannisters....big freakin' cargo cannister re-entry vehicles with aerosol spray delivery systems ...it's no small operation...

Or else the Splugorth land enchanted Rune tools to form mystic patterns on the surface, delineating an area to be harvested....

darkmax wrote:I was thinking in terms space station sized containers.....

Dang...that's scary....giant flying lawn sprinker in low orbit...then send battalions of disposable slaves with harvesting tolls(after all, there might be SOME autonomic defensive responses...or maybe parasites/symbiotes living on Eyelor....and slaves are cheap....)

darkmax wrote:Definitely slaves.

Otherwise known as Ablative Labor, Union of Unpaid, Unrepresented, and Underfed Unfreed, and simply Product, to the Splugorth.

Of course, if the Splugorth are 'farming' Eyelor, you can imagine the sort of 'scarecrows' they have to keep off other potential Eye-poachers...

They might have some unknown artifact that is doing that same job. You know keeping the planet eyelor sedated.

darkmax wrote:Or just a bunch of radios playing old Minmei's songs......

That's cruel and unusual....maybe that' the reason why we don't see EARS of Eyelor among biowizardry components...they've all exploded...

Hmmm....maybe there are other, undiscovered, living planets that grow singular populations of other organs...ears, noses, hands...
"Great, the one living planet we find all to ourselves, and it has to be Buttykk...."


Another thought...using slaves and other dispsoable Minions to harvest Eyes has the added bonus of that if any grand sentience IS behind Eyelor and taking note of who's been plucking its baby-blues, all they see for the most part are the underlings...who will be the main focus of any immune response if and when Eyelor comes raging awake...

darkmax wrote:Hmm... pushing the blame on the underling, so very Splurgorth-like...


Wait! I thought those eyes were have golden irises?

I stand corrected...maybe blue eyes are a rare mutation(and thus become more valuable) or signify the effects of overharvesting(defective eye-buds)?

darkmax wrote:mutations are more likely to happen. quick growth rate.

Then we could have the Splugorth deliberately trying to manipulate conditions to produce selected mutations in a step up from just slash-and-dash harvesting(into farming), which raises the threshold for an Awakening event....

Makes sense....there's little else up there that could be considered a delicacy in the long winter months...

Doubt the Splugorth would eat anything as useful as Eyes of Eyelor, though...

Remeber it would be a cultural thing. So they have a right to their cultural identity. Even though we wouldn't eat that same thing if we were betting on it.

Really? Why is that? Forgive my impertience. I would like to know. That is if you aren't being sarcastic.

It doesn't. Just some of those I wouldn't want to eat personally. Please forgive me.

darkmax wrote:no. I do mean it seriously. Have you heard of eating cats (yes, not tigers, but tigers are eaten too), dogs, bears, snakes, locusts, huge spiders, centipedes, earthworms, maggots, scorpions, etc...... Hope I have not turn your stomach.

Not at all...there's something to be said for a varied diet...as long as it doesn't try talking back or emoting in visible fashion...

I mean, scorpion is like a mini-lobster....

And who was the ancient long-ago genuis who decided eating posionous pufferfish (fugu) might be a delicacy?
How many intrepid test-diners wiped out and committed their names to the Great Seating Book before they got THAT one right?

darkmax wrote::lol:

Face it, as interesting and exciting as reading about the 'Right Stuff' pilots who strapped on an X-plane and went screaming into the wild blue, the history of FOOD has many more moments of gripping intensity(unrecorded), moments of discovery, and just plain absurd and inexplicable leaps of logic and intuition(care to explain blue cheese?).
The great kitchens and open hearths of the world are places of such discovery to put the Manhatten Project to shame....(since you can't EAT an atomic bomb).

darkmax wrote:Well... historically Chinese Emporers have an endless number of food tasters each. Apparently the turnover for the job is very high.....

I assume not all of them were from deliberate poisoning attempts....

"Ack!(Groan!) Boil the shellfish more! Ga---"
"Take a note of that...Taster Won #17 passed away at two bells past midday, four bells after ingesting the Boiled Oysters with Mandarin Sauce Formulation #254....Set up the next test and this time boil the shellfish for TWO whole sand-glasses..."

Very interesting. Poor carp. Haven't they heard of catch and release? Just kidding! Every place has it's food that can be traced back thru it's history.

I know, so is cooking lobsters and crabs alive right in the boiling water.

I was just thinking that that could be a very cruel method of torture in the less civilized areas of the 3Gs. Boiling those life forms with an exoskeleton.

darkmax wrote:What an imagination!

Most of them died from poisoning, a few of them for eating too much of the emporers' food, and others.... just lost their heads.

After too much wine....
"You knowshhh, bossthh....for a guyth whoothhb washhhin' hisss diethyth.....you'rth fatta than a sacred cow....bwahhhaahhahahahhhhaha1!!!Dash, but thisyth rice wineth's GOOOD!!!"
"Guards, sober this man up with a long swim in the Yangste..."

I don't. I'm not really a seafood eater. I love land animals. But yeah people do cook those things that way. Pretty nasty. My ex girlfriend loves lobster and other seafoods cooked that way.


But back to my concept..... It'd be a pretty mean way to execute someone of that sort of race.

Aramanthus wrote:I don't. I'm not really a seafood eater. I love land animals. But yeah people do cook those things that way. Pretty nasty. My ex girlfriend loves lobster and other seafoods cooked that way.


But back to my concept..... It'd be a pretty mean way to execute someone of that sort of race.

Yah, but if you're using microwave weaponry against an exoskeletal opponent, it's an unexpected benefit of victory...

"Hmmm...triumph AND dinner! Hope we have an appropriate wine to go with puffed Xiticix!"

LMAO!!!! No kidding maybe the CS should try that. Or else see if they could talk an entire hive to walking into a gigantic microwave.

Aramanthus wrote:LMAO!!!! No kidding maybe the CS should try that. Or else see if they could talk an entire hive to walking into a gigantic microwave.

Actually, in one of the Rifters in an article on Megadamage Cooking, one of the main staples of the COalition Mess-Sarge OCC is Chicken-Fried Xiticix...tastes just like chicken! So they've twigged onto how to feed their exterminators as they crunch and munch across Xiticix territory....

NOw all we need is a Coalition quartermaster named Colonel Sanders....

darkmax wrote:They better be big eaters!

In the CS Army, exercise is a major part of the regimen, in order to fit into your EBA....
Daily schedule..Wake, Drill, Bath, eat like pig, go off slaughter enemies of the State, eat hearty lunch, double fast-time march, slaughter more enemies of the state, east big dinner, after-dinner drill, bath, slug-out, sleep, repeat, repeat....

It's Atkins all-protein diet with guns and ammo....