MGS: Rising Rechengeance

A mock-up of an old D&D guide detailing the properties of magical items, featuring "Altman’s Quill of Artifice". The entry reads: This enchanted quill, made from the feather of a harpy, serves as a magical scribe and sage, able to answer all its owner’s queries. The owner must use it to write a question at the top of a piece of paper or parchment, such as “Where is the secret entrance to the King’s treasury?” or “How can I cure lycanthropy?” Acting under its own power, it will write an answer. But despite its apparent (and often genuine) usefulness, this item is cursed. Roll d20 to determine the result of any query: 1 Hopelessly wrong, 2-5 Contains major errors, 6-10 Contains minor errors, 11-16 Accurate but incomplete, 17-20 Fully accurate. Apply modifiers in line with the rules for consulting sages (see Table 62) depending on the nature of the question (general 0, specific -2, exacting -4) and the availability of relevant knowledge (complete 0, partial -2, non-existent -6). The DM should choose the nature of any errors, as well as the consequences of believing them. If the answer is less than fully accurate, that will not be obvious, as the quill of artifice writes in a confident and authoritative manner. A reader may scrutinise the answer to attempt to notice any problem, but to succeed they must pass an intelligence check at a penalty of -2. Anyone who has previously failed such a check makes all future checks at -4. The owner of the quill is particularly vulnerable, permanently losing one point of intelligence with each inaccurate answer that is believed. The owner will be unaware of this loss, and will become fiercely possessive of the quill, refusing to give it up and distrusting anyone who doubts its output. A remove curse spell may make the owner willing to part with it, but the loss of intelligence is irreparable.

I finally realised what AI dependency reminds me of

She dropped a 10kg bag of rolled oats on a notorious ne'er do well by accident and ended up becoming a local hero and catching the attention of the earth directorate.

Starting another the outer worlds 2 run before I even finished my first because I keep thinking about making a mild mannered grocery store cashier character who somehow ended up as an earth directorate agent.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE. A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Tolecrien Glow Moss writes ‘ I was like "damn this guy won't shut up" and then realized I was scrolling on their page ‘

An old favorite

orange cat asleep face down on an ottoman. it looks like he fell down and went right to sleep

dude is CONKED

Calories are one of my favorite snacks

A Blueprint on How To Fight Against Ice Includes Community These ‘neighbors from the hood’ saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back.

These ‘neighbors from the hood’ saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back.

they noshed the squash

you see this happen a lot in "streetwear." people who co-opt a streetwear aesthetic frozen in time while making cities more hostile to the people who gave that aesthetic meaning — less affordable housing, more crackdown on noise, more policing, etc.

Elon Musk tweets: "Just saw this in a conference room at Tesla Global Engineering HQ in Palo Alto" The attached photo shows a dripping graffiti-style spray-painted text on a wall, which reads: The Future is Autonomous

kind of annoys me when people use the aesthetics of graffiti to show they're edgy and cool while also calling for more punitive laws, which punish the graffiti artists who give that aesthetic its cultural meaning

The average SNAP payment is $177 per month. That's $2,124 a year. Anyone who thinks you can keep a pantry stocked with that hasn't been in a grocery store since 1977.

the avg family of 4 snap recipients gets ~$223/month for food.

the avg family of 4 welfare recipients in the united states gets about $713/month, max $973.

I'd love to see how you figure people are abusing less money than it takes to keep them alive

How on earth did I get the treacherous flaw proc when I have not been playing stealthy at ALL lmao

It is very funny that the outer worlds 2 has double jump unlocked by a completely optional side quest. Could go the entire game without it.

I had a bunch of cabbage so I made okonomiyaki and man.......it's so good @_@

The Luddites were right

Gotta say, I have a lot of problems w vtmb2 buuuuuut I had fun, and it was not as bad as I was fully expecting tbh.

Oh boy I can’t wait to experience the disappointment of vtmb2

It's time...to vampire my masquerade...bloodlines....two........

I think the Blue Jays are going to win tonight, but I also think I would not taunt the Sports Gods like this before playing a do-or-die Game 7 with my franchise's first trip to the World Series since 1993 on the line.

When kiwami 3 comes out I am scouring the internet for a put rikiya back mod. His boss and kiryu's fit ideally, too. I simply cannot abide by the redesigns ;_;

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I am never becoming good at yakuza 0 disco

How was Nanba a nurse if he hates touching bodily fluids.

Mushrooms in bloom :-)

Saejima dancing is funnier than expected...