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2016-08-21, 02:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
I thought Vader was using telekinesis to control his victims' hands so that they move to their owners' necks and squeeze really hard, aka choke themselves.
I just pretend that my characters, almost literal superhero adventurers who encounter much more horrifying things on a daily basis and just go home every night with little consequence, would find a vampire's kiss adorable. Especially if both parties have put in effort to set the romantic mood.
Doesn't work for all genres, though.Last edited by goto124; 2016-08-21 at 02:19 AM.
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2016-08-21, 03:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 03:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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It'd be even greater if ANY life lesson was enough to break the power, leading to magical duels that pretty much sound like rejected episodes of Dragon Tales.
"Oh no, I'm bleeding out of my eyes...it's only now that I see that the delivery fee isn't a substitute for tipping your pizza guy!"
"My heart...I can feel it slowing to a stop. I'll never steal my roommate's Poptarts again!"
"I've been rendered infertile! If only I'd remembered to look both ways before crossing the street..."
"Begone accursed imp! I banish thee with the power of improved personal hygiene!"
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2016-08-21, 03:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 04:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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It has grooves, not tubes - which help facilitate it - but the lapping is what does the work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_vampire_batMarut-2 Avatar by Serpentine
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2016-08-21, 04:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Bearenstæin.
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2016-08-21, 05:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hollow-toothed vampires:
It was actually Twilight that convinced me there were vampires who didn't have hollow teeth (I remember reading stories about vampires that specified they had hollow teeth; I can't remember where or which, though), and I thought the entire outrage about them not being "real vampires" was because they didn't have hollow teeth.Favorite sports:
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(and basically everything else that starts with 'f')ALSO! Come roleplay FFRPG in the Nexus!Nexus Characters.
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2016-08-21, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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As a child, I thought that Baba Yaga was a Jack and Jill Magazine character, like Superman is a DC Comics character.
Well, it was the only place I'd ever encountered her.
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2016-08-21, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by halfeye; 2016-08-21 at 12:35 PM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2016-08-21, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Boytoy of the -Fan-Club
What? It's not my fault we don't get a good-aligned female paragon of promiscuity!
I heard Blue is the color of irony on the internet.
I once fought against a dozen people defending a lady - until the mods took me down in the end.
Want to see my prison tatoo?
*Branded for double posting*
Sometimes, being bad feels so good.
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2016-08-21, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Boytoy of the -Fan-Club
What? It's not my fault we don't get a good-aligned female paragon of promiscuity!
I heard Blue is the color of irony on the internet.
I once fought against a dozen people defending a lady - until the mods took me down in the end.
Want to see my prison tatoo?
*Branded for double posting*
Sometimes, being bad feels so good.
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2016-08-21, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
For a long time I was convinced that zombies where fictional creatures.
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2016-08-21, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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I once, long ago, ran across a couple of kids who believed that invisible people could see other invisible people and that it was only visible people who could not see invisible people. That never made any sense to me.
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2016-08-21, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Syringe Vampires, for sure.
I used to wonder why people didn't just stab a hydra's head, and concluded that a hydras brain must be in it's chest.
I also used to think that all wizards knew how to make fireworks.
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2016-08-21, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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This is the first I'm ever hearing of syringe vampires.... and I've heard of vampires that scrap and lick rather than suck.
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2016-08-21, 09:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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... that makes a disturbing amount of sense.
Although I have to admit that my favourite method of dealing with a hydra popped up in Groo the Wanderer- the titular idiot barbarian just lopped off heads so fast that the bloody thing ended up looking like broccoli with teeth and falling over under the weight of its own heads!
And I'm fairly sure I've seen the 'invisible people can see other invisible people' thing pop up somewhere in fiction, now that it's been mentioned...
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2016-08-21, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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That does make a certain amount of sense from a physics standpoint; invisible retinas shouldn't be able to see light that passes literally through them, so 'invisible' creatures should be reflecting a color we can't pick up, so eyes that are also thusly shifted seeing shades of light normally invisible.
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2016-08-21, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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That seems perfectly logical. The heads never bicker with each other or act separately from one another, because the beast isn't controlled from the head. (Also makes sense from a 5e standpoint, where you can kill a hydra through simple hit-point attrition irrespective of current or original head count).
Planck length = 1.524e+0 m, Planck time = 6.000e+0 s. Mass quantum ~ 9.072e-3 kg because "50 coins weigh a pound" is the smallest weight mentioned. And light has five quantum states.
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2016-08-21, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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I used to play a lot of D&D with my little brother when I was twelve or thirteen, which means he couldn't have been older than nine or ten. It was mostly just collective story-telling at that age, with me as the DM telling him what to roll, and we had a good time with it. At one point, though, he decided he'd create a dungeon for me to run through, and the lack of pictures in the old Rules Cyclopedia started to show when he described my character walking into an ambush laid by a pack of short, mostly-naked little humanoids with big eyes and wild multicolored hair streaming above their heads....
Spoiler: Trolls!
Of course he hadn't adjusted the stats, either, just assumed that they were scrawny little fairies, and was kind of suprised that they murdered my 3rd level fighter so quickly.
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2016-08-21, 10:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 10:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-21, 11:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 03:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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I used to think pirates wore eyepatches because of injury to the eye, much like how they had peg-legs and other prostheses. It wasn't until later I learned about how it helps the covered eye adapt to darkness.
I thought Merry was a girl for the longest. Same with wondering how creatures with poisonous blood don't poison themselves.
Well, using someone else's eyeball isn't so far-fetched in that tale, since Odin could still see out of his while digesting it. That implies you don't really need a connection to the brain for it to work.
I feel some plots brewing in my new-DM mind. Missing kid, turns out the mean old witch-teacher keeps her lair under the schoolhouse, took him there because he saw her do magic during detention. Normally wouldn't be a problem because that's the kind of thing a mischievous kid would say, but along with previous reports of witchery, that could have brought the inquisitor down on her head. Either that, or it's a witch making children do her bidding (namely stealing important things from their parents) in preparation for a nasty demon-conjuring that could wipe out the whole town.Last edited by Slipperychicken; 2016-08-22 at 03:08 AM.
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2016-08-22, 01:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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I always believed the suction vampire as well. A big part of the problem is how fast (in many versions) the vampire drains a human. Especially Buffy/Angel (and I KNEW better by then).
Seriously. Your average vampire on that show kills a human (unless it is a main character) with about 5 seconds of feeding through two tiny holes. They must have industrial strength vacuums hooked up to those fangs!
The pirates wearing eye patches for night vision is plausible, except they wear the eye patch during the day as well. So it's either injury or a fashion statement.
Not a misconception, but i always wondered how Midas went to the bathroom..."That's a horrible idea! What time?"
T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".
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2016-08-22, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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