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7:41 PM

The Church Grim, Kirk Grim, Kyrkogrim (Swedish) or Kirkonväki (Finnish) is a figure from English and Scandinavian folklore, said to be an attendant spirit, overseeing the welfare of its particular church. English Church Grims are said to enjoy loudly ringing the bells. They may appear as black dogs or as small, misshapen, dark-skinned people. The Swedish Kyrkogrim are said to be the spirits of animals sacrificed by early Christians at the building of a new church. In parts of Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, it was believed that the first man buried in a new churchyard had to g...

^ This is so gameable.

(Also hilariously pagan for a Christian custom. Which is how a lot of early-for-its-region Christianity works.)

syncretism gets weird

Specifically this bit:

> In parts of Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, it was believed that the first man buried in a new churchyard had to guard it against the Devil. To save a human soul from the duty, a completely black dog would be buried alive on the north side of the churchyard, creating a guardian spirit, the church grim, in order to protect the church

Professor Caprion

/me snags this idea.

/me forgets that doesn't work in this chat, for some reason, dammit.

@ProfessorCaprion install the userscripts

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/me maps to italics in them

Professor Caprion

Oooh... it's not a big deal. I'm just used to it from every other thing I chat in (MMOs, SL, IRC, etc)

7:47 PM

the userscripts have some other cool toys too :)

Professor Caprion

/me takes a peekle!

I did it again!

8:08 PM

So is the wounding enchantment as powerful as I think it is?

1 bleed for every hit

and it stacks with itself

@Aaron which edition is it?

@Zachiel Pathfinder

That was how it worked in 3.0, 3.5 has "1 constitution damage". I'm not surprised Pathfinder went back to the first attempt.

It's not very powerful, since combats usually don't last more than X rounds. It's like a +X to damage for every hit on the first round, a +(X-1) for every hit on the second and so on, unless some magical healing happens. (I guess any magical healing stops the wounding like it did in 3.0, am I wrong?)

8:42 PM

@Zachiel That is correct

It is still good if combined with the character I am building. Perhaps it is only worth it due to my character build though.

Professor Caprion

I actually officially dropped out of my Pathfinder group, this week. :(

4 arms and I plan on enchanting the weapons with speed so that is 8 attacks. If all hit that is +8 dam each round

@ProfessorCaprion Oh? Why is that?

Professor Caprion

@Aaron It was nothing but numbers and stats and builds with them. No roleplaying, no character development... just dice and numbers. It was like accounting with miniatures.

@ProfessorCaprion Sounds horrid. My group does number and stat stuff but that is always outside of the game. On game night we can spend a couple hours rping

@ProfessorCaprion If you have skype I could put you in contact with my DM we need another member or two.

Professor Caprion

@Aaron I do not, sadly! And right now, I have no speakers or mic on my computer, either. Stuff we need to get sorted after the fire.

8:46 PM

@ProfessorCaprion Oh sorry to hear about that. Was anyone hurt?

Professor Caprion

@Aaron Thankfully not! My wife and I are safe, as are our three pets and my $7000 in World of Darkness books.

@ProfessorCaprion Glad to hear that at least.

So on a more common topic. Anyone know what a legendary prestige class in pathfinder is? And where can I find them?

9:27 PM

Blurgh. Awful dreams.

:(

@BESW Morning?

Yeah.

@Aaron For future reference, the term could be any of the following: grandpa, nostalgian, a nostalgic (like a romantic), saudadist (from saudade, though with the wrong suffix) or possibly a Luddite.

grandpa in this case refers to the phrase "In my day..."

@waxeagle I cannot begin to convey how truly horrifying my dreams were, because as usual my brain came up with something totally ludicrous.

9:36 PM

saudadista is probably the 'correct' version of saudadist, but I have only seen it used by non-native Portuguese speakers as a portmanteau pseudo-word.

When trying to explain how terrifying a dream is, needing to include the phrase "twisting the plushie vampires' heads off so the stuffing came out" undermines the goal.

You know there is something that always bugged me about hipsters

There is probably a German word that exactly specifies the nature of what you want, @Aaron. I'm just unaware of it.

@Aaron I was bugged by hipsters before it was cool.

They try to avoid the mainstream which is often referred to as 'Hip' so part of their name is part of what they try to avoid... Am I missing something?

@BESW That's cute. I sometimes wake from completely normal dreams that feature my younger brother in them. He's been dead for 6 years. I don't realize this until I wake up.

9:39 PM

@DampeS8N Oh, wow.

@Aaron Irony is a big part of being a hipster.

@BESW Not to get in a 'my dreams are worse' pissing match. It is just one of those really unexpected aspects of losing an immediate family member you don't think about, ever.

Or sometimes people even say might be a positive thing.

Which it would be, and sometimes is, but is really ruined by that sudden realization on waking.

Sorry... Didn't mean to get all heavy.

No worries, I'm glad you shared that. Thanks.

@Aaron "Hip" originally refers to, like, cutting-edge and "in the know."

I have dreams about bunnies.

@Aaron I think it's really hard to settle on an origin for "hipster," coming as it does from debated roots in a 1940s jazz-fan subculture which was itself building on "hip" and "hep" from the 1920s and '30s. Prior to that, the origins of "hep" are lost in the mists of time.

9:45 PM

Like "I'm hip to that."

And bees stinging my fingers and the only way to counter the poison is to remove the stingers and then put them back in the other fingers.

But yes, as @AlexP says, one alternate definition for it is "in the know," which speaks closely to the hipster idea of knowing what is cool before it is cool.

@Aaron Do the bunnies stick around for that?

@BESW Nope.

So question. How many people here can feel stuff in their dreams?

@Aaron I lucid dream semi-regularly.

@DampeS8N For some reason you being a lucid dreamer doesn't surprise me.

9:48 PM

@Aaron Getting your foot gnawed on by a foot-tall zombie T-Rex hurts quite a bit.

haven't had a dream I remember in over a decade :(

@BESW Fighting in a war against weird aliens does as well.

There are a few of these things you don't know to prepare for, so while we've stopped off here... If I had to rank them, they would go like this: 1) Having to retell the story surrounding the person's death to every person you see who has learned about it. Protip: Don't ask someone this. Talk about literally anything else. 2) Dreaming they are alive and then waking up. 3) The brain's strange ability to totally forget it happened and then make you feel like crap when you remember.

I miss lucid lucid dreaming. Like being 100% aware you are dreaming and being able to control it.

And in bad dreams, I have a kind of semi-lucid thing going on most of the time, where I know I'm dreaming and I can control the dream--but the bits of the dream I don't actively choose to control fight back. (And I can't choose to wake up.)

9:50 PM

@waxeagle Dream tip: write down what you remember the moment you wake up each morning. You'll get better at remembering them. And you'll be surprised just how much you remember in those first few minutes and then forget you remembered.

@BESW I used to be able to close my eyes in a dream and open them and I would be in a different dream. I only did this if I was about to die in dream though.

@DampeS8N [takes notes]

@Aaron I did find a nuclear option that works almost every time, but I use it sparingly in case the dreams get wise.

@waxeagle Also throughout the day look around you and ask yourself. Is this a dream. Look around you and try to find something that would hint this is a dream. Like is every clock upside down or something absolutely impossible. This habit transfers to your subconscious eventually and you ask yourself that in dreams and helps with lucid dreaming.

@BESW Nuclear option? As in wakes you up no matter what?

@Aaron No, I can't force myself to wake up, but it's an almost universal counter to anything the dream can possibly throw at me.

@BESW Ah. So it makes any threats in the dream non threats.

9:54 PM

Pretty much.

@Aaron Things I use: I look at the moon, and know what it should look like. The moon almost always triggers me to lucid dream. I read things, in dreams the text changes. I look at the time on my phone twice. In dreams, the time's are always radically different.

@DampeS8N Yea. I haven't practiced lucid dreaming I used to naturally do it. I know all the steps I just forget to do them throughout the day.

@Aaron The best way is to build off things you already do each day.

Dammit. Why do the interesting conversations always pop up when I have to leave.

@Aaron Because people become less busy at the end of work days.

9:57 PM

@DampeS8N Oh? Like the time thing?

@Aaron yep

@DampeS8N I might do it soon but between meditating and some other stuff I would rather not get in a debate about in my fav chat my mind is quite stretched.

I hear you can write "Wake Up" on your hand (or tattoo it), and that works.

@DampeS8N Hey do you have skype?

@Aaron probably. It is easier to txt/im me though. Facebook? I'm William Brall

Pretty easy to find me

10:00 PM

@DampeS8N Ok. I don't use facebook and my gf always has my phone though.

haha

@DampeS8N I'll look you up though.

I'm all over the internet. :)

10:54 PM

Amusing out-of-context question of the day: Why are eunuchs allowed to ride the cart?

11:19 PM

> Action Cards: each card has a positive [+] version of an action on one side, and its negative [-] version on the other.
> Everypony starts with one copy of each card. Pick one card to be + up and turn all the others [-] up.
> When you have the opportunity to perform an action, you can use any face-up action you like provided it makes sense.

> End of session: when all the goal words are used, or when somepony has eight stones. In either case the session’s trouble is resolved, but whether it was a team effort or the result of one pony helping everyone else is determined as follows:
> If all the goal words were used, everypony worked together to solve the problem. Each player can flip over one [-] card to show its [+] side.
> If somepony hit 8 stones before all the goal words were used, the pony with the fewest stones figured out how to solve the problem. That pony’s player can flip over one [-] card to show its [+] side.

> Cutie Mark: Once per session you can use the down-facing side of a card, provided the action relates to your cutie mark. If you’re doing this to help someone else, you can use one extra goal word.

I'm not sure if this is getting too complex, but I like the feel of it.

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