Small arms? Fire!

[Squeaky Bunny]

It looks like there's a full compliment of dwarves here. Jebediah being Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, and could probably use a Doc.

[Wallaroo_Blacke]

Sayyyyy...

Is Greycloak a chipmunk or a sugar glider?

[The JAM]

Who's Lydia?

[Chaser617]

Scaring/Traumatizing the contact!!! I love it!!!! Classic DnD foul up number 23!!!!!

[Wayfarer]

Is Greycloak a chipmunk or a sugar glider?

She looks like a chipmunk to me.

Yay, chipmunks!

But as for hitting the contact,
"Awww, dagnabbit...!"

[RHJunior]

In our D+D game "Joyous Roguery," Jebediah is a recurring NPC character--- a rather dullwitted member of "the thug's guild", the stupid muscle associated with the thieve's guild ( Or "Middleman's Guild," as we euphemise it.)

He had quite a string of showing up unexpectedly on a mission-- unfortunately for him Honest McGillicuddy has hairtrigger reaction time and a pistol crossbow of sleep. more than once Honest has seen something moving in the shadows, spun around and fired off a shot--- and dropped Jebediah on the spot.

[Narnian]

Who's Lydia?

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
She has eyes that folks adore so,
and a torso even more so.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of Tattoo.
On her back is The Battle of Waterloo.
Beside it, The Wreck of the Hesperus too.
And proudly above waves the red, white, and blue.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!

When her robe is unfurled she will show you the world,
if you step up and tell her where.
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree,
or Washington crossing The Delaware.

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
When her muscles start relaxin',
up the hill comes Andrew Jackson.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of them all.
For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz,
with a view of Niagara that nobody has.
And on a clear day you can see Alcatraz.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!

Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso.
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso.
Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon.
Here's Godiva, but with her pajamas on.

Here is Grover Whelan unveilin' The Trilon.
Over on the west coast we have Treasure Isle-on.
Here's Nijinsky a-doin' the rhumba.
Here's her social security numba.

Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Champ of them all.
She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet.
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat.
And now the old boy's in command of the fleet,
for he went and married Lydia!

I said Lydia...
(He said Lydia...)
They said Lydia...
We said Lydia, la, la!

[Squeaky Bunny]

Narnian, I was terribly tempted to do that several posts back but was afraid no one would get the reference. I give you high Marx for your effort.

One thing bothers me about the knife thrower. If it is poisoned, why is he holding it by the blade?

[DracoDei]

One thing bothers me about the knife thrower. If it is poisoned, why is he holding it by the blade?

Because he is confident in his own abilities and that is how knives are usually thrown?


Incidently, I think that any contact who is both disorganized enough to not give more specific meeting instructions, AND not enough better than the lower ranking people he is supposed to be breifing to NOT be able to sneak up on them deserves what he gets... well... maybe not the poison...

[Atarlost]

Knives can be thrown by either the handle or the blade. It actually depends on the distance to the target, how the knife is thrown, and the rotational moment of the knife. Usually you want to give the blade as much velocity as you can and as little spin as possible without losing stability.

Generally at short or long range you will throw from the handle and from middling ranges you will throw from the blade. At even longer ranges you would throw from the blade again and then the handle again and so on. At ong ranges you would miss.

Most cinematic knife throws are done at blade held distances. This is usually going to be the way you hold the knife to throw at a target across a room.

[Squeaky Bunny]

One thing bothers me about the knife thrower. If it is poisoned, why is he holding it by the blade?

Because he is confident in his own abilities and that is how knives are usually thrown?


Incidently, I think that any contact who is both disorganized enough to not give more specific meeting instructions, AND not enough better than the lower ranking people he is supposed to be breifing to NOT be able to sneak up on them deserves what he gets... well... maybe not the poison...

Uh, I don't think that it would be too wise to hold the poisoned part of any sharp object.

[Chaser617]

Easy way to explain it, a guantlet designed for throwing poisoned items, IE, extra leather to prevent the blade from cutting you, yet supple enough to not cause any penalties for throwing. Our rogue actually had a friend, who was a leatherworker, design him up one to prove to us that it could be done.

[Squeaky Bunny]

Easy way to explain it, a guantlet designed for throwing poisoned items, IE, extra leather to prevent the blade from cutting you, yet supple enough to not cause any penalties for throwing. Our rogue actually had a friend, who was a leatherworker, design him up one to prove to us that it could be done.

Understandable. But our Gully Dwarf friend is throwing barehanded and. . . Oooooh, balloons!

[Squeaky Bunny]

Who's Lydia?

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
She has eyes that folks adore so,
and a torso even more so.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of Tattoo.
On her back is The Battle of Waterloo.
Beside it, The Wreck of the Hesperus too.
And proudly above waves the red, white, and blue.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!

When her robe is unfurled she will show you the world,
if you step up and tell her where.
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree,
or Washington crossing The Delaware.

Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia?
Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
When her muscles start relaxin',
up the hill comes Andrew Jackson.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of them all.
For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz,
with a view of Niagara that nobody has.
And on a clear day you can see Alcatraz.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!

Come along and see Buffalo Bill with his lasso.
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso.
Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon.
Here's Godiva, but with her pajamas on.

Here is Grover Whelan unveilin' The Trilon.
Over on the west coast we have Treasure Isle-on.
Here's Nijinsky a-doin' the rhumba.
Here's her social security numba.

Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Champ of them all.
She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet.
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat.
And now the old boy's in command of the fleet,
for he went and married Lydia!

I said Lydia...
(He said Lydia...)
They said Lydia...
We said Lydia, la, la!

But you forgot to add:

[Earl McClaw]

But you forgot to add:
lydia20050905.gif

That's a drawing that begs to be colored.

[Manta]

I can hear my old D.I. now... " You lame &*^, miserable little ^%*(&^%#s! Always ID the Target!

[Manta]

and yeah... that pic really begs to be colored...

[Wanderwolf]

Um, Narnian, are you sure of your lyrics? Because I could've sworn the line was "She'll show you the perisphere down at La Paz", not "For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz".

Hm, but everyone has your version. Nuts.

Yours truly,

The confuzzled,

Wanderer