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Nighthound makes anyone look good by comparison. Except, oddly enough, his sister.

Improper citations. He feared a student who had no idea how to use MLA format. Which is to say, all of them.

I don't think I fancy visiting the bowels of Hell, but thanks anyway.

That was a bit...abrupt. I would've liked a clearer transition between the first paragraph and the second; as is, it almost seems like they're two different stories. And I'm no doctor or even a med student, but I think the process for taking a patient off life support is a bit more...involved?

"Then I ran into Kieth from Kentucky who said he loved my metaphors. Before I could say thank you, Ashley from Portland added, 'In a completely ironic way, of course.'" Yeah, incessant name dropping would make Calamity weird. I would LOVE an article on the Faithful. A description of one of their services, whether or not there are any clandestine communities of them, how their beliefs have changed since the Capitulation Act, how they viewed Calamity when it first rose....I think of all the many fascinsting things in this series, a religion that exists in spite of all evidence contradicting their core beliefs is among the most fascinsting and enigmatic.

Here's another shot in the dark: What if Prof's weakness has something to do with being tricked? He jumped pretty quickly from "Megan pretended to be on our side" to "She is obviously pure evil and needs to die." Granted, that could stem from the fact that one of Steelheart's inner circle infiltrated his team, but what about at the end, where he sees Megan alive and David remarks that he looks terrified--the same way Sourcefield looked when trapped by her weakness? Prof could have assumed Megan tricked him regarding her weakness, or he could have suspected the gun trick. Prof's powers still worked fine, so his weakness obviously isn't as simple as "fool me once," but it seems like there might be something more there.

(She IS an Epic, though. If she thought someone really deserved it....) If only I had access to the pony creator. I could make a comic of David complimenting that metaphor.

No, probably not, no. (Though if you really want to freak me out, write a scene where Möbius traps someone in a room where the phone never stops ringing. And it's always a customer with a complaint. And they're. Never. Satisfied.) Seriously, though, I didn't mean to nerf a character in such a random way. It was partly tongue in cheek, but still.

And in a thread where a deranged necromancer can raise prehistoric creatures from the dead, it seems kind of silly to prohibit the giant snakes or coily-jawed fish of weirdness when pretty much every creature before recorded history was an unholy nightmare. And life is all about facing fears, right? I might need some ice cream after saying this, but....bring on the Old Ones. (And I'm serious.)

If he finds a Titanoboa, a coily-jawed fish of weirdness, or some other Lovecraftian horror, feel free to have him resurrect it. I...well, I didn't even realize it was nerfing until it was pointed out, and I don't want to do that unless there's a good reason. My thinking giant snakes are freaky was pretty Backtrack of me, and in a game about destroying an entire state, Lovecraftian horrors should most definitely be allowed.

....though if it does seem like I'm unfairly nerfing him compared to other characters, I'd be more than willing to change my tune. I'm not opposed to Lightwards gaining powerful creatures at all....it's more the fact that the prehistoric critters he wants to resurrect freak me out personally. If my banning them throws off the game balance or anything like that, I'll reverse it.

It's his fault for being so unstable. If he didn't order his dinosaurs to eat people because he was having a pity party, I might trust him with a giant bird. (Plus, giant snakes are terrifying, and with talk of other prehistoric creatures he can and probably will resurrect? Sorry, but I'm rather fond of sleep. )

Perhaps. For me it's mostly just mortal terror. I can handle snakes up to a point, and that point comes when the snake is made large enough to swallow an entire elementary school class in five minutes flat.

Titanoboa goes in the same category as Möbius: a comically large folder marked "NOPE TOO SCARY NOPE NOPE NOPE." I think this is one of the older articles.

So long as I make it abundantly clear he is not, under ANY circumstances, allowed to find a fossilized Titanoboa. Unless it's a dramatic-betrayal sort of moment where Funtimes turns the fossil into the world's biggest pile of jellybeans. O.o Ah, so you go there too?

Because a comedy/random facts website I visit thought I might like it, and I wanted to see exactly how much I should use my GM powers to forbid Lightwards from acquiring any gigantic sea scorpions or cattle-eating birds.

Extinct gigantic versions of animals we have now, like a 12-foot bear and a bird with a 26-foot wingspan. And an 8-foot long sea scorpion.

Much better than the animals I'm reading about now.

Yes!

Very much so.

Then I'll be honest: adorable animal pictures improve every emotional state.

Which answer will get me more adorable animal pictures: yes or no? They need to happen in EVERY universe.

Awwwww....they're so cute! Please. The universes won't be truly parallel until something similar is happening in each one. Therefore, I will not consider the WTCHF thread a truly parallel universe until Backtrack angers Chimera, who answers his pleas for mercy with a single order: "Bearwhals. Surround him." Why did Chimera combine bears and narwhals, you ask? And why would that event make the universes parallel? Because it would, okay? It just would.

No and no.

Nope.