Mara Lynn Johnstone

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

*dramatic announcer voice*

“When space poachers release Earth animals on an alien world, threatening a fragile new alliance, they anger the wrong people. A veterinarian, an accountant, and a furious sign-language-fluent gorilla are coming for them.”

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Robin enjoys being one of the only humans around: an exotic outsider, strange and tall, with no shell and only two arms. Consulting for locals who want to keep Earth pets is a fine job. But when a swarm of rabbits invade town and humanity is blamed, everything unravels.

If Robin wants to save the alliance between two planets — and keep from getting sent home in disgrace — she has to prove that a powerful crime ring is behind the crisis. Luckily for her, she makes friends who are eager to help: from planetside, from the nearby space station, and recently escaped from the poacher’s ship.

Those poachers may be bug aliens with an excellent range of vision, but they won’t see this coming.

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Img ID: the cover of the sci-fi novel “A Swift Kick to the Thorax.” It features a veterinarian’s prescription pad floating in space, with the title written in the prescription area. A pen floats behind it and a chunk has been bitten out of the pad.

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Available everywhere! With many short stories to go with it, here on the good ol’ hellsite. And there’s plenty more where those came from!

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probablyfunrpgideas

Play a warlock character who calls himself Vithimorex or something like that. Always mention how grateful you are to your patron, Frank, for the wondrous powers he gives you.

Slowly reveal that the powers you get from Frank are things like “sense of smell” and “verbal communication”. As it turns out, Vithimorex is an extradimensional Thing possessing the person formerly known as Frank. All the eldritch blasts and shadow conjurations are boring powers according to Vithimorex. He can’t wait for the level 14 ability to understand and appreciate music.

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Also, I realized something about the name I made up, so here’s a song:

When the moon splits in two and your nightmares come true, Vithimorex...

When the world seems to bleed since the dead god was freed, Vithimorex...

marlynnofmany

That is definitely a fun RPG idea

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ralfmaximus
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Your teachers always warned you to never, under any circumstances, cast a resurrection spell on someone still alive, but refused to elaborate why. Today your curiosity got the better of you.

marlynnofmany

Oh, that’s interesting. Aside from outing secret undead people, what would it do? I suppose it depends on how the resurrection spell works.

My vote is it heals anything remotely wrong with the body (by the standards of the person whose body it is, or possibly by the standards of the person casting the spell), and then it also pulls in the closest spirit at hand. Because it assumes that the dead person wants back in.

So hey, have a surprise healing and a new roommate in your head! Depending on the details, you may also look very different from the way you’ve always lived.

ralfmaximus

What if all that, but also: the ‘resurrected’ person enters an enhanced state of life called Alive+ which is exactly like having double their health bar. They’re basically immortal! Can shrug off excessive damage and walk away from what would kill a normal human.

Magic users are warned against this because Alive+ immortals are so annoying and dangerous. It’s how you create problems for society.

marlynnofmany

That’s a great point. Casting resurrect on a living person sounds like exactly the way to get the most irritating of immortals: those that can’t get hurt at all. 

With all the pros, cons, and shenanigans that that entails!

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captaincrusher

I was supposed to be studying today but instead I’m here thinking about Ferengi idioms, like a fool. 

setyourphaserstoslutty

what have you come up with

captaincrusher

I made that whole post about “He’s down to his last finger”.

But also: “You’ve lost your boots” means someone has taken a wrong turn, is out there mentally or in terms of a proposition. It’s originally “You’ve lost your boots in the mud”, which happens when you go off the beaten track on Ferenginar. You will probably get stuck in some mud.

“The pigeon isn’t at my door yet” means there’s still time. It refers to a time where FCA employees wore a uniform with the same shades of grey and black as Ferenginar pigeons, so they were referred to as such. The uniform is long since gone, but the saying remains.

captaincrusher

New idea for a Ferengi idiom: “Two-step man” - someone that you admire or that has an entrepreneurial spirit. Refers to the old, winding stairs in the Tower of Commerce that go up towards the place where the Nagus resides. As such, those stairs (although nowadays most people take the lift) symbolizes closeness to power.

Similarly “(Go) down a step” is something you might say to someone that’s a bit full of themselves. (“Down a step, Quark, you don’t know what you’re talking about”)

captaincrusher

Inspired by this post by @gay-nog about Ferengi covering under giant mushrooms to get away from the rain, I’m adding an idiom:

“Under my [Mushroom] cap” being used as an expression of cover, comfort and protection. Someone will say “He’s under her cap”, meaning he’s under her protection or “Get under cap”, meaning to take cover. Ferengi will say “My cap” and mean the place where they feel comfortable and safe.

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Your teachers always warned you to never, under any circumstances, cast a resurrection spell on someone still alive, but refused to elaborate why. Today your curiosity got the better of you.

marlynnofmany

Oh, that’s interesting. Aside from outing secret undead people, what would it do? I suppose it depends on how the resurrection spell works.

My vote is it heals anything remotely wrong with the body (by the standards of the person whose body it is, or possibly by the standards of the person casting the spell), and then it also pulls in the closest spirit at hand. Because it assumes that the dead person wants back in.

So hey, have a surprise healing and a new roommate in your head! Depending on the details, you may also look very different from the way you’ve always lived.

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