Murphy's Law 6: Will we ever stop burning through threads so quickly?

[Maquise]

Scandinavia - so more disgusting than lutefisk?

[Lord Raziere]

Plavaan Lungs and Intestines! served with crunchy cooked starfish and cockroach candy.

[Asta Kask]

Scandinavia - so more disgusting than lutefisk?

Lutefisk gets a bad rap, but it really doesn't taste much of anything. A slight hint of sulfur and that's about it. And it has all the texture of watery porridge.

No, we are talking human bodily fluids are involved here.

[SamBurke]

*Walks into kitchen, grabs brain bleach, opens jar and puts on desk.*

Go ahead.

[Asta Kask]

Why is it a good idea...

...to take a poisonous fish...

...put it in a hole in the ground...

...urinate into the hole...*

...pile a lot of rocks on it...

...let it ferment for six to twelve weeks...

...dig it up again...

...and then eat it?

This part was apparently an urban legend.

[SamBurke]

*Coughs so hard he knocks over brain bleach...*

Wow, really? I don't know why people would think that's a good idea either.

[Asta Kask]

Actually it's quite ingenious.

It's an Icelandic dish called Hakarl. The fish contains a toxin called Trimethylamineoxide. In contact with urea it is converted into ammonia and something else (I couldn't find details, but my guess is carbon dioxide).

So you pile a lot of rocks on it to press the poison out. And the fish contains its own urea.

Now, Scandinavia was a desperately poor part of Europe. So the Icelanders had a very good reason to use all the fish they caught. What really boggles the mind is - how did they figure this out? My guess is that pressing the toxins out came first - it's a rather natural idea.

And it's not done exactly like that anymore. It's done in factories where they have presses.

Edit: Fortunately for Coffee, it's apparently Kosher.

[ForrestFighter]

Wow, good work coffee, i only just started reading and am already hooked, im reall liking it so far!

[CoffeeIncluded]

Update time!

#136: Family Values

I'm not too pleased with this one...

[Draconi Redfir]

i was not expecting that from Serrin XD

[Ninjaman]

isn´t she a mage

[Hiro Protagonest]

isn´t she a mage

Her family doesn't consider her useless.

And it looks like the elves are very supportive of all professions. [/sarcasm]

[CoffeeIncluded]

Her family doesn't consider her useless.

And it looks like the elves are very supportive of all professions. [/sarcasm]

It's the seven major families. If you're from one of the seven major families and you can't even cast a cantrip...It's almost unheard of; scary stories that elven parents tell their children so they'll behave.

[blackjack217]

You would have to be below average in all possible casting stats, which would be odd. Though an outcast mage-slayer type does present intriguing possibilities.

[Hiro Protagonest]

You would have to be below average in all possible casting stats, which would be odd. Though an outcast mage-slayer type does present intriguing possibilities.

Rogue also works for an outcast.

If Coffee ever runs a pbp game in the Murphy's Law world, guess what I'm gonna play.

[SamBurke]

Yeah. I have to say, the idea of being an outcast of the elves would be FUN. And I think a PbP would be FUN, too.

[Draconi Redfir]

Ten bucks says the necromancy family makes an appearance in the future.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Yeah. I have to say, the idea of being an outcast of the elves would be FUN. And I think a PbP would be FUN, too.

Oh, that would be fun. The one thing is that it's got to be in one of the major families, if you're doing an outcast. (And we're talking squib-level lack of magical ability).

[Hiro Protagonest]

Oh, that would be fun. The one thing is that it's got to be in one of the major families, if you're doing an outcast. (And we're talking squib-level lack of magical ability).

I think you shouldn't have to be low intelligence to pull the no casting thing off. It would just be a self imposed penalty that the character can never cast arcane spells.

[blackjack217]

Or a homebrewed flaw of some sort...

[Lord Raziere]

Oh, that would be fun. The one thing is that it's got to be in one of the major families, if you're doing an outcast. (And we're talking squib-level lack of magical ability).

hmmm....I've got a character that could fit that actually.....

[Hiro Protagonest]

Or a homebrewed flaw of some sort...

But then all the munchkins would take the flaw and play a divine caster.

[blackjack217]

But then all the munchkins would take the flaw and play a divine caster.

I meant no divine, arcane or binder ect. no umd either.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I meant no divine, arcane or binder ect. no umd either.

Well, I might play a druid.

[SamBurke]

So I assume a Paladin would be out, then? Snap.

Oh, and Coffee, IS there any chance you'd GM (or let someone else GM) a Murphy's Law PbP?

[Marnath]

Well, I might play a druid.

Druids cast divine magic too, actually.


What about this update don't you like, Coffee?

[Hiro Protagonest]

Druids cast divine magic too, actually.

That's what I mean. I'd only ban myself from arcane casting, not enough to warrant a flaw with the other tier 1 classes out there.

[Lateral]

If I'd have to guess, Marnath, I'd say it'd be the faces in that last panel there.

[CoffeeIncluded]

Well, with the elves of the major families you'd still be okay, if the butt of a few jokes, if you went to be a cleric or druid (remember, the Elvish deity Isarus was a wizard and magic is one of Isarus' domains). But to have no magical ability at all...

I'd love to; I hope I can find the time for a short one. And I don't know how to GM.

[Lycan 01]

Serrin says that too cheerfully.